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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter, and welcome
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back to Celebrity Trials. I hope you enjoyed our weekend
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detour into the world of Lindsay Lohan from eighty four
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minute jail Sentences to Dubai Redemption. It was nice to
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tell a story where nobody died and the defendant actually
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got their life together. But now it's Monday, and we're
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back to reality. Back to murder, back to dismemberment, back
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to teenagers who allegedly shoot their parents and call nine
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to one one like they're ordering pizza. Let's start with
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updates from the Nicholas Casotis trial in Liberty County, Georgia.
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When we left off last week, the former Navy jag
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officer was on trial for cutting his wife, Mindy into
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pieces and scattering her remains across two counties. The defense
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was claiming a mysterious CIA operative named Jim McIntyre made
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them do it well. Days three and four of testimony
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have given us a clearer picture of exactly what kind
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of monster we're dealing with. Day three brought us the
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parents Mindy's parents, Betsy and Frank McBain, who had to
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sit in that courtroom and hear how their daughter's killer
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lied to their faces about how she died. Betsy Mabain
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revealed that she was told by Nicholas that her daughter
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died in a hospital. She wasn't told which hospital or doctor.
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Think about that. Your son in law shows up at
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your door, tells you your daughter is dead, says she
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died in a hospital, but can't tell you which one,
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can't name a doctor, and you're so grief stricken you
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don't even think to question it. At first December first,
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twenty twenty two, one day before hunters would find Mindy's
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dismembered remains, Nicholas Casotis drives to the Mebanese house. He
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just started bawling hysterically and talking. I really couldn't even
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understand what he was saying, so I said, please come
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out and sit in the den and tell us what's wrong.
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And that's when all I can really understand was she's
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not coming home. Betsy testified, she's not coming home. That's
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all he could manage through his fake tears. Not she's dead,
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not there was an accident, just she's not coming home,
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like she ran away, like she left on her own.
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The next day, hunters would find out exactly why she
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wasn't coming home because her husband had cut her into
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pieces and dumped her like garbage. But here's where it
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gets even more disturbing. Day four brought us testimony from
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someone I'm going to call wife number three. Her name
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is Samantha Colesmith, and she might be the luckiest woman alive.
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Interaction started through tweets, transitioned to private messaging, and eventually
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to phone calls in November twenty twenty two. November twenty
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twenty two, the same month prosecutors say Kesodis murdered Mindy,
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this psychopath was already shopping for his next victim while
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his current wife's blood was literally still fresh. Nicholas Stark
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presented himself as a widower who lost his wife an
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unborn child. He shared that his wife had passed away
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in October twenty twenty two due to medical complications. October.
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He told wife number three that Mindy died in October,
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but forensic entomologist doctor Edward Mondor testified that based on
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insect activity on the remains, time of death as November
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twenty seventh to November twenty ninth, twenty twenty two. So
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either Castis can't keep his lies straight, or he was
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planning this murder so far in advance that he got
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his timeline confused. Either way, he was trolling for a
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replacement wife before he'd even finished disposing of the current one.
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And the shopping list, my god, the shopping list. Prosecutors
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laid out his purchases like a how to guide for murder.
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November twenty ninth, Cassotis was seen buying a Milwaukee knife
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much like the one recovered near the torso. On November
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twenty eighth, the receipt bearing his name revealed he purchased
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a seven piece knife set from Bass pro shop. On
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November fourth, he bought a shovel and a hammer. Prosecutors
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suggest a shovel was used to bury his wife's severed head.
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On August sixteenth, Casotis made a home depot purchase that
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included Clorox wipes, latex gloves, and folding raisers. The Clorox wipes,
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remember what I told you last week. Those wipes were everywhere.
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There were lots of them that were recovered because the
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killer didn't want to leave behind evidence. A former prosecutor
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who knew exactly what evidence to destroy, who knew exactly
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how to clean a crime scene, who thought he was
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smarter than everyone else. The defense is still pushing this
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Jim McIntyre story, this shadowy figure who supposedly controlled their finances,
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made them run, made them lie to everyone. In the
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defense's opening statement, he had asserted that both Mindy and
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Nicholas lied to a countless times sure counselor. They both lied,
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but only one of them ended up in pieces scattered
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across a hunting ground. Seven women and five men on
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that jury, twelve people who have to look at photos
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of Mindy's remains, who have to hear how her parents
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were lied to, who have to process that this man
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was already dating while his wife's body was decomposing in
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the Georgia woods. If they don't convict, there's no justice
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left in this world. Back in a moment, Welcome back
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to celebrity trials. I'm read Carter. Before we get to
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our main story about a Georgia teenager charged with murdering
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her parents, I need to tell you about the strangest
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prison sentence I've seen in a while, and it involves
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a chimp named Tonka and a woman who loved him
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more than the law. The chimp conspiracy. Tan Jah Haddocks,
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fifty six years old, just got sentenced to forty six
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months in federal prison, not for drugs, not for fraud,
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for lying about a chimpanzee, Tonka, who appeared in the
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nineteen ninety seven movies Buddy and George of the Jungle. Yeah,
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that Tonka, the chimp who acted alongside Alan Cumming. A
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legitimate movie star if you're into that sort of thing.
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Peta had been after Hattocks for years, saying she was
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keeping chimps in terrible conditions. A judge ordered her to
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send the chimps to a sanctuary. She complied with most
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of them, but when authorities came for Tonka in twenty
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twenty one, she had a story ready. I wanted to
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keep trying to save Tanka if elle could, but then
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he just died on his own, so there was no
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saving him, she told them. Said she cremated the remains,
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except Tonka wasn't dead. In twenty twenty two, Peta removed
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him from a cage in the basement of her home
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in Sunrise Beach, Missouri, near the Lake of the Ozarks.
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She'd been hiding a chimpanzee in her basement for a year,
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a full grown chimpanzee in her basement. She even admitted
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it on HBO's Chimp Crazy documentary Tonka was literally on
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the run with me, on the run like he was
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some kind of furry fugitive from justice. But here's the kicker.
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Just last month, investigators found another chimp locked up in
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the basement of her home in Sunrise Beach in violation
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of court orders. Another one after she'd already been caught
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once after she was already facing federal charges she had
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another chimp in the basement. Her lawyer tried the abuse excuse.
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This life taught her a clear lesson. Humans are unpredictable
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and are not frequently safe or trustworthy, so she trusted
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chimps instead and lied to federal judges about it and
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hid them in basements like some kind of primate underground railroad.
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Four years in federal prison for lying about a chimp. Meanwhile,
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Lindsay Lohan served eighty four minutes for seven mists the
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justice system. Folks, it's a mystery wrapped in an enigma,
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wrapped in a basement full of illegal primates. Now let's
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talk about Sarah Grace Patrick, seventeen years old Carol County, Georgia,
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and charged with murdering both her mother and stepfather February twentieth,
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twenty twenty five, seven thirty in the morning. Usually my
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daughter called me or texted me around seven thirty in
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the morning, and she would tell me to have a
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good day, her father, Doniel Patrick told Newsweek the call dropped.
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He thought it was a butt dial. We've all been there,
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except this wasn't a butt dial. This was his daughter calling.
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Moments after James Brock forty five and Kristin Brock, forty
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one were shot to death in their home. Ashley Halsey
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confirmed Patrick was the one who placed the nine to
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one point one call after Patrick's half sister found their bodies.
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Read that again, the half sister found the bodies, Sarah
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Grace made the call. Why wasn't Sarah Grace the one
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who found them? Where was she when her half sister
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made the discovery? Five months that's how long it took
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for authorities to arrest her. From the very moment the
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nine to one to one call was received, a relentless
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investigation began, one that would span months consume thousands of hours.
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And require the full weight of local and federal law
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enforcement partnerships. The sheriff's office said the FBI got involved,
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the GBI crime Lab, private forensic laboratories, all for a
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seventeen year old girl who called nine one one after
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her parents were shot. What did they find that took
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five months to build a case? Her father, Doniel, is
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in complete denial. I know one hundred percent of my
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heart that Sarah's innocent. She's a typical seventeen year old
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that lived like a teenager, and she would never do
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this a typical seventeen year old, right. Typical seventeen year
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olds don't don't get charged with double homicide. Typical seventeen
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year olds don't require FBI involvement. Typical seventeen year olds
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don't have criminologists on court TV discussing their case. Doctor
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Debbie Goodman laid out the usual factors in parricide cases
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mental health issues, substance abuse, a history of abuse in
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the home, and conflicts over dating relationships. But here's what's
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really interesting, Doctor Sue Cornbluff pointed to the girl's TikTok activity,
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a need for excessive attention, and serious mental health issues.
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There was a contentious divorce going on with her parents,
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drugs and alcohol involved. Cornbluth noted the biological parents were
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in the middle of an ugly divorce, there were substance
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abuse issues, the kid was bouncing between homes, but none
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of that explains murder. Millions of kids deal with divorced parents,
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millions deal with substance abuse in the family. They don't
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shoot their parents and call nine to one one. Doniel
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Patrick has a theory though she had told us about,
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you know, other friends of the family and stuff, and
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she suspected they could have done it other friends of
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the family. Sure, because it's always mysterious friends of the
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family who show up at seven thirty am to commit
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double homicides while the teenage daughter just happens to be
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in position to call nine to one one. The Sheriff's
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office is hedging their bets. This case remains an active
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and ongoing investigation, and additional arrests are possible as new
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evidence comes to light. Additional arrests meaning they think Sarah
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Grace didn't act alone, or they're covering their bases in
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case their case against a seventeen year old girl falls apart.
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Here's what gets me the father says. By the time
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I came back in, they had her in the room,
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interrogating her without my permission. By the way, she was
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sixteen years old at the time. Sixteen. They interrogated a
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sixteen year old without parental permission, right after her mother
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was murdered. Whatever she said in that room, it must
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have been damning. You don't charge a teenager with double
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homicide five months later unless you've got something solid. The
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girl's got a bond hearing on August nineteenth. Her father
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thinks she's coming home. The experts think she needs to
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stay locked up. This is a young lady who has
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had tremendous trauma. It appears in her life she was
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on the move a lot, going from home to home.
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Cornbluff said. It seems to me she was just living
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inside of her head. She probably had no one to
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talk to about what was going on in her world,
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living inside her head, no one to talk to, parents
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dealing with divorce and substance abuse, a contentious home life,
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and then one morning in February, two people are dead
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and a seventeen year old is calling nine one one.
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You know what this reminds me of the Menendez brothers,
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different era, same story, parents, dead kids, claiming innocence or
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a use or mysterious circumstances, except the Menendez brothers were
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in their twenties. Sarah Grace Patrick was sixteen when this happened. Sixteen.
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Three stories today, three different kinds of evil if the
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charges are true. Nicholas cassodis a calculated killer who dismembered
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his wife and went shopping for condoms on his way
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to meet his next victim, A former prosecutor who thought
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he could outsmart the system. Tonia Haddocks not a killer,
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but someone so obsessed with keeping illegal chimps that she
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lied to federal judges and hid primates in her basement
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like some kind of underground ape railroad. And Sarah Grace Patrick,
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a teenager charged with the ultimate betrayal, killing the people
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who gave you life at seventeen years old. But today,
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Remember this evil comes in all forms. Sometimes it's a
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Navy officer with a shopping list from home depot. Sometimes
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it's a woman who loves chimps more than the law,
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And sometimes, allegedly, it's a seventeen year old girl who
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calls nine one one after her parents are shot. The
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one thing they all have in common. They thought they'd
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get away with it. Casotis thought his prosecutor knowledge would
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save him. Haddocks thought her basement was a safe haven.
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And Sarah Grace Patrick, we don't know what she thought yet,
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but we'll find out. I'm read Carter, and this is
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celebrity trials. Lock your doors, watch your teenager's tiktoks, and
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for God's sake, don't hide chimps in your basement. See
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you tomorrow,