March 24, 2026

SAVANNAH'S MOM MISSING 50 DAYS, TIMBERLAKE'S DWI BODY CAM DROPS & BACHELORETTE AXED OVER CHAIR ATTACK VIDEO

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Garret Fisher covers three celebrity-adjacent cases unraveling in real time. Nancy Guthrie has been missing for fifty days — the family of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie begs Tucson for renewed attention while the sheriff's department faces mounting criticism for early blunders. Then: Justin Timberlake's DWI body cam footage is finally public after he tried to block it — he called the sobriety tests 'really hard' and complained about being treated 'like a criminal.' And ABC axes The Bachelorette three days before premiere after footage surfaces of star Taylor Frankie Paul attacking her ex with a metal chair — with her five-year-old daughter in the room.

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Callaroga Shark Media, Good morning, I'm Garrett Fisher. Tuesday, March

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twenty fourth, twenty twenty six. Fifty days. That's how long

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Nancy Guthrie has been gone. Fifty days since she was

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last seen being dropped off at her home near Tucson, Arizona.

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Fifty days since a masked man appeared on her doorbell camera,

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disconnected it, and vanished into the desert night with an

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eighty four year old woman. Fifty days, no arrest, no suspect,

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no proof of life. Today her family is back in

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front of cameras. Not because there's a break in the case,

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because there isn't one, and they need you to care again.

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Let me walk you through this. Over the weekend, Tucson's

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local news station KVOA aired a special broadcast called Bring

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Her Home, The Disappearance of Nancy Guy. The family released

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a statement during the broadcast, and it is one of

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the most quietly devastating things I have read in a

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long time. We miss our mom with every breath, and

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we cannot be in peace until she is home. We

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cannot grieve, We can only ache in wonder. They can't

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grieve because grieving requires knowing, and they don't know anything.

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They thank Tucson told the community we are all family now,

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and then they made a direct ask, go back to

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January thirty first. Search your memories, check your camera footage,

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look at your journal notes, your text messages, your observations,

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anything from the night of January thirty first and the

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early hours of February first. Someone knows something. They said,

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It's possible a member of this community has information that

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they do not even realize is significant. That's the ask.

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Not a dramatic press conference, not a new lead. Just

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please look again. Please remember there's another piece of this

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story worth noting. Savannah Guthrie, the Today Show anchor Nancy's daughter,

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broke nearly three weeks of social media silence over the weekend.

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She didn't post about the case. She reposted a clip

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from Friday's Today Show about Best Buddies International, a nonprofit

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she's been involved with for years. The clip showed Savannah's

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best buddy, a woman named Tara who has down syndrome,

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standing outside the Today Show studio holding a sign that

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said we love you Savannah. Three yellowheart emojis. That's what

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Savannah added to the post. That's all she said. She

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visited the studio on March fifth, got a warm welcome

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from colleagues. NBC has confirmed she doesn't plan to stay

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away permanently, but she hasn't come back to air. And honestly,

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how do you sit across from a camera and talk

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about the news when your mother is missing and every

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day without an answer is another day of not knowing

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whether she's alive. I don't know how you do that.

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I genuinely don't. Now let me talk about where the

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investigation stands, because the picture is not flattering. Pima County

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Sheriff Chris Nanos is leading this case. On March twelfth,

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he told NBC News he believes he knows the motive

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behind Nancy's kidnapping, but wouldn't share what that motive is.

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That's an extraordinary claim to make and then sit on.

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The family is begging for answers, the public is waiting,

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and the sheriff says he knows why this happened and

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is keeping it to himself. Of course he did. There's

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also the matter of what happened in the first hours

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after Nancy was reported missing. According to reporting from The

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Daily Mail, the Sheriff's department failed to deploy their fixed

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wing Cessna aircraft equipped with high resolution thermal imaging for

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roughly half a day after she went missing, half a

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day in the Arizona Desert, thermal imaging cameras that could

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have scanned vast areas of terrain on the tarmac because

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there weren't enough qualified pilots, a staffing shortage that sources

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close to the department blamed directly on Nanos. And then

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there's the crime scene tape. Nanos himself acknowledged it was

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put up and taken down around Nancy's house multiple times.

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When a reporter asked about contamination, he said, I'll let

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the court worry about it. We follow the rules of law.

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Someone should have said something. Someone should have said something

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a long time ago about how this department has been run.

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Investigators are now asking Nancy's neighbors for surveillance footage from

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two specific dates before she disappeared, January eleventh and January

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twenty fourth. Nobody has explained why those dates matter. The

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FBI is offering one hundred thousand dollars reward. Savannah's family

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has put up one million dollars of their own money

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and donated another five hundred thousand the National Center for

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Missing and Exploited Children. The money is there, the attention

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is there. What there isn't is Nancy. Nancy Guthrie is

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eighty four years old. She has a pacemaker. She needs medication.

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She was taken from her home in the middle of

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the night by a mask stranger, and fifty days later,

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the Sheriff's department is still getting the basics of this

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investigation sorted out, while her family is on local television

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in Arizona asking strangers to search their memories remember her.

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Welcome back. I'm Garrett Fisher. I've spent enough time around

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the entertainment industry to know this. There are two kinds

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of celebrity scandals, the kind of good PR team can manage,

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and the kind where there's video. Justin Timberlake now has

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the second kind again. Let's go back to June twenty

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twenty four. Timberlake is in the Hampton Sagarbor, New York.

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He gets pulled over in his twenty twenty five bmw

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X seven after midnight. The officers observe signs of impairment.

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They ask him to perform field sobriety tests. The bodycam footage,

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which was released on March twentieth, after Timberlake tried to

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block it shows what happened next, and it is something.

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He stumbles through the tests, calls them really hard, says

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his heart is racing. When officers explain that between their

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observations and his performance on the test, they've decided to

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place him under arrest, his response is, you boys are

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treating me like a criminal. He told police he had

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one martini and was following his friends home when they

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handcuffed him at the station. He tried to stay respectful,

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thank the officers for doing their job, then spotted the

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race field on his arrest paperwork white and made a

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joke about it, laughing handcuffed at his own DWI arrest. Look, look,

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I understand nerves. I understand people do strange things under pressure,

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but I'm justin Timberlake as an explanation for why you're

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in the Hampton's at midnight is not the vibe you

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want on bodycam footage. He refused the breathalyzer, was placed

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into custody, then reached a plea deal. In September twenty

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twenty four, less than three months after the arrest, he

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stood outside the courthouse and delivered what I will generously

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describe as a teachable moment. I try to hold myself

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to a very high standard for myself, and this was

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not that. He told reporters, even if you've had one drink,

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don't get behind the wheel of a car. He listed alternatives,

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a friend, a taxi uber, travel apps. He called them

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travel apps. Fine lesson delivered, case closed, or so it seemed.

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The reason we're talking about this now is that Timberlake

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went to court to try to block the bodycam footage

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from being made public. He argued he had been in

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an acutely vulnerable state during a roadside encounter with law enforcement.

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The court disagreed. He reached a settlement with the sag

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Harbor Village Police Department, and the footage went public on

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March twentieth, And now his wife has feelings about it.

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Jessica Biel, actress, mother of their two sons, wife since

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twenty twelve, is reportedly not happy about the footage being released.

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According to a source who spoke to People magazine, she

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is supportive of justin she finds the incident stressful she

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would prefer to move past it. The source added that

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she is not afraid to express when she's disappointed in

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certain decisions. This was one of those moments. Following what

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the source called several challenging moments, Beale is focused on

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moving forward and on family life, his Forget Tomorrow World tour,

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the Britney Spears memoir, fallout, now this footage. There have

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been a lot of moments. Here's what matters beyond them,

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celebrity gossip. He got behind the wheel of a car

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after drinking. He refused a breathalyzer. A man with the

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resources to call any car service in the world at

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any hour, decided to drive himself home through the Hamptons

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after midnight on a Saturday. The roads are shared, the

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risk is shared. The legal system worked eventually, but it

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took nearly three months to reach a plea deal on

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what should have been a straightforward case, and then he

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spent additional time and money trying to keep the bodycam

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footage private. This is a mistake that I made, but

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I'm hoping that whoever is watching and listening right now

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can learn from this mistake. That's what he said outside

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the courthouse. Whoever is watching is watching justin They just.

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Got a lot more to watch. Welcome back.

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I'm Garrett Fisher and I want to start this segment

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with a word about what we are and are not

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going to do here. This is a crime and justice show.

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Taylor Frankie Paul is a reality television personality. Normally those

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two worlds don't meet, but they've met here in a

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way that involves assault charges, a child witness, domestic violence

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in front of a toddler, and the biggest network cancelation

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of the television season. So we're covering it. Let me

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walk you through this. Taylor Frankie Paul is thirty one

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years old. She rose to fame as one of the

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stars of Hulu's reality series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

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She was announced as the lead of season twenty two

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of ABC's The Bachelorette back in September. Filming wrapped. The

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season was set to premiere this past Sunday. It did

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not premiere. It was canceled, and the reason it was

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canceled is now a matter of public record, a criminal

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case and a restraining order. Last Thursday, TMZ published surveillance

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footage from twenty three previously sealed as part of a

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criminal case, showing Taylor Frankie Paul in a physical altercation

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with her then boyfriend Dakota Mortenson. She attempts to put

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him in a headlock. She then picks up a metal

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barstool and attacks him with it. Her daughter, Indy, who

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is five years old at the time and is now eight,

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is visible in the footage. She is on the sofa.

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She is sobbing. According to the police report from that night,

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Indy was struck during the altercation. She had what the

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report described as a goose egg on her head. I

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need to sit with that for a second. A five

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year old curled up on a sofa crying while her

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mother attacks someone with a metal barstool. This is what

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was on the tape that formed part of a felony prosecution.

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Paul was charged with aggravated assault, a felony. She entered

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a plea deal three years probation expiring this August.

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Four.

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Additional charges, including domestic violence in the presence of a

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child and child abuse were dropped as part of the agreement.

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On Friday, Mortensen went to a Utah court and was

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granted a temporary restraining order against Paul. He told the

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court she posed an immediate threat to his physical safety.

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The order bans any contact with Mortensen and their two

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year old son, ever until a hearing scheduled for April seventh.

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Let me be clear, Paul was not acquitted. She did

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not fight these charges and win. She entered a plea,

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she accepted probation. The footage of what she did exists.

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Her daughter was in the room. ABC and Disney moved fast.

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Three days before The Bachelorette was supposed to air, they

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pulled the entire season. Their statement, in light of the

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newly released video just surface today, we have made the

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decision to not move forward with the new season of

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The Bachelorette at this time, and our focus is on

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supporting the family. The cancelation is estimated to cost AB

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up to twenty eight million dollars. Paul was in New

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York promoting the season when it was pulled. One of

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the men cast as a contestant, Doug Mason, who according

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to reality television insider Steve Carbone, was reportedly the season winner,

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posted a message saying he was sending prayers to Taylor

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because that was her moment and her moment was blocked.

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Paul responded, writing, oh my heart goes out to him

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so sweet. I understand the instinct to be gracious in

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a bad moment.

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I do.

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But her moment was not blocked by the footage. Her

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moment was blocked by what happened in twenty twenty three.

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Those are different things. A child was in that room,

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a child was struck. A child is now eight years old,

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and that footage is public, and her name is in

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every article about this story. I'm not gonna tell you

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what to think about Taylor Frankie Paul's public career or

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whether she deserves a second chance in the spotlight. What

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I can tell you is that a little girl named

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Indy was on a sofa sobbing while her mother swung

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a metal barstool, and nobody stopped it before it started.

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That child deserved better remember her. That's Tuesday, March twenty fourth.

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Three stories a missing grandmother, the system is failing, a

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pop star who thought bodycam footage would stay private, and

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a little girl who deserved better than what she got.

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If you have any information about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie,

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call the Pima County Sheriff's Department or the FBI tip line.

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The reward stands at one.

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Million dollars from the family and one hundred thousand from

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the FBI. Someone in Tucson knows something. I'm Garrett Fisher.

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Do better.