"SPEEDING COP KILLS TEEN, KAYAKER FAKES DEATH FOR EUROPEAN GIRLFRIEND & FATHER DUMPS DAUGHTER ON HIGHWAY"

0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Red Carter. Thursday August twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, a Georgia state trooper doing ninety and a sixty five kills a teenager and wants you to believe it was just an accident, because apparently wearing a badge means the laws of physics don't apply to you. Then a Wisconsin man fakes his own death kayaking, flees to Eastern Europe for another woman, and now wants mercy from the court. His wife and three kids thought he was dead. He was actually living his best life in Uzbekistan. And the story that will break your heart and enrage you. Ten year old Rebecca Baptiste found dead on an Arizona highway. Her father claims she ran away. Surveillance video shows him dumping her body like trash. All that and more on today's Celebrity Trials. Let's start in Georgia, where state trooper aj Scott is on trial for killing seventeen year old Sabriel Powell.

1:05 And folks, this isn't about a high speed chase or a dangerous pursuit. This is about a cop who thought speed limits were for civilians. October twenty eighth, twenty twenty two. Trooper Scott is responding to a call. Not an active shooter, not a hostage situation, not even a violent crime in progress, just a regular call that required no emergency response. But Scott decided to go ninety miles per hour anyway in a sixty five zone, without emergency lights, without a siren, just flying down US Highway twenty seven in Carroll County because he could. Sabriel Powell, seventeen years old, was a passenger in a Nissan CenTra that was making a left turn.

1:48 She never saw Scott coming. How could she No lights, no siren, just a state patrol car doing ninety miles an hour for no reason. The impact killed her instantly. Now Scott's on trial for homicide by vehicle and violating his oath of office. His defense, he was responding to a call. That's it. That's the whole defense. He had somewhere to be, so the teenager had to die. Prosecutor John Fowler isn't buying it. There was no emergency, no pursuit, no reason to be traveling at that rate of speed. This was reckless disregard for human life. The Georgia State Patrol's own policy says, you can't speed without lights and siren unless there's an immediate threat to life. What was the immediate threat here? That Scott might be five minutes late to a non emergency. Here's what really happened. Aj Scott thought his badge made him invincible, thought the rules didn't apply, thought his time was more valuable than everyone else's safety. Defense attorney William White tried to argue that Scott was doing his duty, his duty to what kill teenagers, because that's what he did. His duty was to protect and serve, not to turn his patrol car into a missile.

3:02 The prosecution presented Scott's driving record from that day multiple instances of excessive speed. This wasn't an isolated incident, This was a pattern Scott regularly drove like the highway was his personal NASCAR track. They also showed that after the crash, Scott immediately started trying to justify his speed, not checking on victims, not calling for help, covering his ass I was responding to a call. He kept saying, like that's a magic phrase that brings back the dead. Sabriel Powell was seventeen, a senior in high school, had her whole life ahead of her college applications, probably sitting on her desk, prom dressed, shopping with friends, planning her future. Instead, she's dead because AJ Scott couldn't be bothered to follow the same laws he was sworn to enforce. You know what's really sick. If any of us did ninety and a sixty five and killed someone, we'd already be in prison.

3:57 But Scott wore a badge, so he gets a trial where his lawyer argues he was doing his duty. The jury has to decide if wearing a uniform gives you the right to kill through negligence, if having a badge means the laws of physics don't apply, if being a cop means never having to say you're sorry for destroying a family. Sabriel Powell's parents have to sit in that courtroom watching the man who killed their daughter argue it was justified because he had somewhere to be. This is why people don't trust cops, not because they're all bad, but because when one of them kills a teenager through pure recklessness, the system bends over backwards to excuse it. AJ Scott is guilty of homicide. He drove ninety miles an hour without emergency indicators and killed a child. That's not duty, that's murder with a badge. Now let's talk about Ryan Borgwart, who pulled off one of the most selfish acts I've ever covered on this show. August eleventh, twenty twenty four, goes kayaking on Green Lake in Wisconsin.

5:03 His family expects him home for dinner. He never shows up. They find his kayak overturned, his car at the boat launch, his fishing rod floating in the water for fifty four days. Fifty four days, his wife, Emily, and their three children thought he was dead, drowned in that lake, gone forever. Search teams spent thirty five thousand dollars of taxpayer money looking for his body, divers, sonar equipment, boats, helicopters, the works. The community rallied around his widow and orphans. But Ryan Borgwart wasn't dead. He was in Eastern Europe living with another woman, a woman he'd met online and decided was worth abandoning his entire family for. Here's how this sociopath did it. He got a new passport, transferred money to foreign accounts, bought a one way ticket, then staged his own death and fled. Then, while his family planned his funeral, Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podol explained how they cracked it.

6:06 We found he'd been communicating with a woman in Uzbekistan. He'd cleaned out accounts, he'd researched how to fake your own death. This man literally googled how to fake your own death, just like Christopher Wolfenbarger googled how to kill someone. Apparently, criminals think search history disappears when you clear your browser. November eleventh, after fifty four days of his family's agony, Borgwart finally contacted authorities from Eastern Europe safe and sound and shacked up with his new girlfriend. His explanation he was going through a hard time a hard time, so instead of therapy or divorce, he chose to traumatize his children by making them think daddy drowned. Those kids went to bed every night for two months thinking their father was dead, probably had nightmares about him drowning, Probably blamed themselves wondering if they could have saved him. Meanwhile, daddy was having sex with some woman he met online in Uzbekistan.

7:06 Now he's back in custody do for plea and sentencing. This week, he's charged with obstruction for the fake death scheme. His lawyer, Josiah Reeves, says Borgwart is remorseful. Remorseful. He had fifty four days to feel remorse while his family mourned him. He felt nothing. He only came back because authorities figured out he was alive. The prosecutors asking for jail time and full restitution of the thirty five thousand dollars search cost. That's not enough. This man tortured his family, made his wife a widow, made his children orphans, made an entire community mourn all for what some online romance a midlife crisis, the thrill of starting over. Emily Borgwart has filed for divorce, obviously, but those kids can't divorce their father. They have to live with the knowledge that daddy loved some stranger in Eastern Europe more than them, that he was willing to let them think he was dead rather than be their father. The judge should throw the book at him, not just for the fraud and the wasted resources, but for the psychological torture of three innocent children who will need therapy for the rest of their lives. Ryan Borgwart wanted to disappear. Fine, make him disappear into prison. Let him explain to his cellmates how he faked his death to abandon his kids for some European side piece. This isn't a crime of passion. This is calculated cruelty. He planned this for months. Every day he looked at his children, knowing he was going to

8:37 fake his death and leave them forever. That's not a father, that's a monster with a kayak. We'll be right back with the most horrific story of the day. A father who killed his ten year old daughter and dumped her body on a highway like garbage. This last case is going to haunt you. I'm warning you now, if you have kids, if you have a heart, if you have any faith in humanity, this will destroy it. Ten year old Rebecca Baptiste is dead. Her father, Richard Baptiste, is charged with her murder, and the way her body was discovered will make you question everything about parental love. December ninth, twenty twenty four, a driver on Interstate ten near Tanapah, Arizona, sees what looks like a body on the side of the highway. They call nine to one one, deputies arrive to find a little girl dead, dumped like trash on the side of the road. The bodycam footage, which Court TV obtained shows deputies approaching what they initially think might be a mannequin, because who dumps a child on a highway.

9:54 Then the horrible realization it's a little girl. It's real, she's dead. One deputy can be heard saying, oh my god, it's a kid. It's a real kid. For days, she was Jane Doe. No identification, no missing person report matching her description, just a dead child on the side of a highway in the middle of nowhere. Then investigators got a break. Surveillance footage from the area showed a vehicle stopping near where the body was found. License plate leads to Richard Baptiste Phoenix address. They go to question him. Baptiste's story his ten year old daughter, Rebecca ran away a few days earlier, ran away a ten year old, and he didn't report it to police because well, he doesn't have a good reason. Police show him a photo of the dead child found on the highway. It's Rebecca, his daughter, the one who supposedly ran away. His reaction, according to detectives, almost no emotion, like they were showing him a picture of a stranger, not his murdered child.

11:00 The medical examiner determined Rebecca died from blunt force trauma. She was beaten to death. Then her father, the man who was supposed to protect her, drove her body out to the desert and dumped her on the side of the road. Rebecca's grandmother, Annie Willie, is devastated. Something needs to be done. This was a baby, a ten year old baby. How do you do that to your own child? How? Indeed, how do you beat your ten year old daughter to death? How do you load her body into your car? How do you drive for miles with your dead child? How do you pull over, drag her out and leave her on the highway like roadkill? Then how do you go home and tell people she ran away? Richard Baptiste has been charged with first degree murder and child abuse. He's being held on one million dollar bail. His public defender hasn't commented what could they possibly say? But here's what really gets me the timeline. Rebecca was killed days before her body was found owned days where Richard Baptiste walked around free, telling anyone who asked that his daughter ran away, days where he slept in his bed while his daughter's body lay in the desert. Did he think about her?

12:13 Did he have moments of regret? Or was he just relieved she was gone? This wasn't a moment of rage that went too far. This was sustained abuse that ended in murder. The medical examiner found evidence of prior injuries, healing, bruises, old fractures. This child had been suffering for who knows how long, and nobody saved her. Not family, not teachers, not neighbors. Nobody noticed, or nobody cared enough to act. Now Rebecca's grandmother is asking the question, we're all asking, how does this happen? How does a father kill his baby? I'll tell you how, because Richard Baptiste never saw Rebecca as his daughter. He saw her as property, as a burden, as something he could beat when he was angry, and dispose of when he went too far. The surveillance video that caught him dumping her body, he didn't even try to hide broad Daylight, Main Highway, like he was throwing out trash, because to him, that's all she was. Rebecca Baptiste was ten years old. She probably still believed in magic, still played with dolls, still thought her daddy would protect her from monsters. She never realized the monster was the one tucking her in at night. Richard Baptiste will face trial for murder. His lawyers will make excuses, maybe claim mental illness, maybe claim accident, maybe claim she provoked him, as if anything a ten year old could do would justify beating her to death and dumping her body on

13:43 a highway. But here's the truth. Some people are just evil. Some people have children and feel nothing for them. Some people can look at their own flesh and blood and feel only rage. Richard Baptiste is one of those people, and Rebecca Baptiste paid the price for being born to a monster. She deserved birthday parties and sleepovers and first days of school. She deserved to grow up, fall in love, have her own children someday. She deserved a father who loved her. Instead, she got Richard Baptiste, and now she's dead. Rest in peace, Rebecca. The system failed you in life. Let's hope it doesn't fail you in death. That's celebrity trials for Thursday, August twenty eighth. Three cases today. Three men who violated the ultimate trusts, a cop who killed through recklessness, a father who abandoned his children through fraud, and a father who murdered his daughter through evil. I'm read Carter. Sometimes I wonder why I do this show.

14:47 Then I remember, someone has to say their names. Sabriel Powell, the Borgward Children, Rebecca Baptiste. Someone has to remember. See you tomorrow,