Aug. 21, 2025

"TikTok Teen CRIES After Killing Parents | 'Devil in Ozarks' Cop ESCAPES Prison in Guard Disguise | Waffle House Killer Blames Taylor Swift

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Reid Carter exposes the most disturbing TikTok scandal ever: 17-year-old Sarah Grace Patrick shot her parents in their sleep, then spent MONTHS posting tearful tribute videos and begging true crime influencers to "solve" the murders she committed. She even commented on theories about her own crime! Then, the unbelievable incompetence in Arkansas where ex-police chief Grant Hardin - the "Devil in the Ozarks" convicted of murder and rape - literally dressed as a guard and walked out the front door. It took TWO WEEKS and Border Patrol to catch him just 1.5 miles away. Finally, Waffle House mass shooter Travis Reinking is back in court claiming Taylor Swift and the CIA controlled his mind when he murdered four people. But prosecutors reveal he planned his "insanity defense" a year in advance and packed silver bars for his escape. Three killers, three shocking deceptions.

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Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Celebrity Trials Podcast" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Reid Carter's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.

But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.

We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Reid's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

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Callarogus shark media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Thursday, August

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twenty first, twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, a

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seventeen year old Georgia girl shoots her parents in their sleep,

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then spends months on TikTok crying about their deaths and

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begging true crime influencers to raise awareness about the case.

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Spoiler alert, she's the one who pulled the trigger. Then,

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a former police chief and convicted killer they call the

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Devil in the Ozarks dresses up like a corrections officer

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and literally walks out of prison. It took them two

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weeks to catch him, and he was only a mile

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and a half away. Your tax dollars at work, Arkansas.

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And we'll close with the waffle house shooter, who's back

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in court claiming he was too crazy to understand that

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opening fire in a restaurant with an AR fifteen was wrong.

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His lawyers say Taylor Swift and the CIA made him

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do it. I'm not making this up. All that and

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more on today's Celebrity Trials. Let's start in Georgia, where

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we have a new contender for the most disturbing use

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of TikTok. I've ever seen. Sarah Grace Patrick, seventeen, was

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charged with two counts of murder and two counts of

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aggravated assault in connection to the slayings of Kristen Brock,

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forty one and James Brock, forty five. The couple was

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found dead inside their home on February twenty with apparent

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gunshot wounds. But here's where this gets truly twisted. For months,

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Patrick took to social media crying over the deaths of

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her mother, Kristin Brock, and stepfather James Brock. In one

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post captioned please send prayers for healing, Patrick added, I

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should prob delete later. She never did think about that.

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This girl allegedly shoots her parents while they sleep, then

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goes on TikTok playing the grieving daughter. One TikTok video

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posted by then sixteen year old Sarah Grace Patrick may

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seem like a heart it felt plea for support, but

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it was uploaded just over a week after she allegedly

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shot and killed her mother and stepfather while they slept.

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And it gets worse. She didn't just post crying videos.

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Patrick reached out to multiple TikTok influencers to bring attention

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to the case. Screenshots shared by content creator allegedly reportedly

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show that a user named Sarah Grace contacted her in June,

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writing search up brockcase. They're my parents and out of

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nowhere a random Thursday night in February, someone came in

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my house with me and my five year old sister

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and shot my parents brutally. In one message, Patrick reportedly

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said media coverage of the murder would be a really

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big hit, a really big hit. Your parents are dead,

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allegedly by your hand, and you're thinking about going viral.

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The TikTok creator, allegedly reportedly with one hundred twenty thousand followers,

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later said why would you ask me to cover a

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case where you are going to get arrested for taking

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your parents' lives? And Sarah was interactive with the comments.

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When one TikTok user wrote, from an investigative standpoint, it

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would seem that it was someone who knew them, hoping

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for answers and swift justice, Patrick responded, most definitely was

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since they knew the house. She's literally commenting on theories

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about her own crime. Kelly Brown, a family friend of

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the Brons, claims Patrick told her she didn't hear anything

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unusual the night her mother and stepfather were killed, except

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she did hear James's LVAD machine, which is his heart

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machine that kept his heart pumping. She did hear that

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alarm going off throughout the night. James Brock had an LVAD,

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a mechanical heart pump. This man was waiting for a

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heart transplant, and his stepdaughter allegedly shot him in his sleep.

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At her bond hearing, several friends and church associates spoke

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on her behalf, some of them wearing I Stand with sarahs.

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Her friends contended she just doesn't have this in her

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and is not the evil person the Brock family is

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making her out to be. Well, the judge wasn't buying it.

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A judge denied bail for the teen, and prosecutors say

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they have mountains of evidence against Patrick. Patrick herself made

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the nine to one one call to report that her

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parents were injured. The saddest victim in this case is

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the Brox toddler, who is now parentless. A five year

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old little girl who was in the home and discovered

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the bodies. Ashley Holsey, a spokesperson for the Carroll County

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Sheriff's Office, said We don't know what goes through the

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mind of a child that wants to harm her parents.

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She's seventeen, she's kind of been out on her own.

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She's lived with different family members and moved all over

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the place. Here's my take. This is what happens when

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true crime becomes entertainment and everyone thinks they're the main character.

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This girl allegedly murdered her parents and then tried to

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crowdsource her own investigation on TikTok. She wanted to be

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both the victim and the detective in her own true

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crime story. The narcissism is staggering, the calculation is chilling,

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and somewhere out there, a five year old has to

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grow up knowing her sister killed their parents for TikTok fame. Now,

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let's talk about Arkansas, where they apparently hand out prison

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guard uniforms at the gift shop. Grant Harden, fifty six,

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escaped from a state prison in northern Arkansas on Sunday afternoon,

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May twenty fifth, after he appears to have tried to

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imitate law enforcement to break out. Harden escaped by impersonating

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a corrections officer in dress and manner, causing the corrections

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officer operating the gate to open the gate and allow

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inmate Harden to walk away. Let me repeat that, this

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convicted murderer and rapist put on a fake uniform and

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a guard just opened the door for him. Who is

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Grant Harden? Oh, just your typical small town police chief

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turned serial predator. Previously served as a police officer in Fayetteville, Huntsville,

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and Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He was fired from the Fayetteville

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Police Department and was allowed to resign instead of being

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fired from the Eureka Springs Police Department after being accused

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of falsifying information in a report. Harden was in prison

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for killing Gateway City Water employee James Appleton in twenty

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seventeen and raping teacher Amy Harrison in nineteen ninety seven.

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He was sentenced to thirty years for Appleton's murder and

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fifty years for the sexual assault. Both cases were featured

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in the twenty twenty three Max documentary Devil in the Ozarks.

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The sister of one of his victims, Cheryl Tillman, said,

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we were there at his trial when all that went down,

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and he's seen us there. He knows these families had

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to live in fear for two weeks. Former Benton County

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Prosecutor Nathan Smith told CNN He's a sociopath. He's extremely dangerous.

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He's already proven that he has no moral core or

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center that would prevent him from doing anything. And where

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did they find this mastermind criminal? After a massive two

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week man hunt with drones, helicopters, and tracking dogs, he

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was captured Friday afternoon, just one point five miles west

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of the prison grounds. Harden briefly attempted to run from

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officers when he saw them approach, but he was quickly

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tackled to the ground. He'd been on the run for

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a week and a half and probably didn't have any

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energy left in him. A mile and a half, this

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dangerous sociopath was basically camping in the prisons backyard for

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two weeks. The rugged northern Arkansas terrain, with plentiful caves

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and old outbuildings, offered a fugitive many places to hide.

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But here's the kicker. Hardin had six different law enforcement

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jobs across northwest Arkansas from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety

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one at Fayetteville PD. His termination letter said his efforts

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fall short of the average probationary officer, and his tendency

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to not accept constructive criticism along within decisiveness under stressful

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situations led to his dismissal. Former Chief Earl Hyatt said

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Harden resigned from Eureka Springs PD because Hyatt was going

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to fire him over incidents that included the use of

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excessive force. He did not need to be a police

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officer at all, Hyatt told television station KNWA. Yet somehow

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this guy kept getting hired as a cop town after town,

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badge after badge, until he finally became a killer. Arkansas

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Governor Sarah Sanders thanked everyone for catching him, especially and

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I quote Secretary Christy Noam, who sent a team from

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Border Patrol that was instrumental in tracking and apprehending Harden.

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Border Patrol to catch an escaped prisoner in Arkansas. Make

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it make sense. We'll be right back with the waffle

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house shooter, who thinks the CIA and Taylor Swift made

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him do it. We closed today with Travis Ranking, the

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waffle house shooter who's back in court this week with

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a bold new strategy. Blame it on Taylor Swift. Travis Ranking,

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the convicted shooter was sentenced to four life sentences. In

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twenty twenty two, Judge Mark Fishburn is hearing the appeal

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for a new trial. Quick Refresher Ranking walked into a

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waffle House restaurant in Antioch on April twenty second, twenty eighteen,

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and opened fire on the patrons, killing four of them,

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Torrean C. Sanderland twenty nine, Joe R. Perez twenty, Aquila

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Da Silva twenty three, and d Ebony Groves. Hero James

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Shaw Junior tackled Ranking while he was reloading and saved

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countless lives, but now seven years later, Ranking wants a

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do over. Ranking's current defense attorneys filed a one hundred

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and ninety three page amended moste, arguing his previous lawyers

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never brought in their own mental health experts. According to

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the new filing, recent psychiatric evaluations suggest Ranking was suffering

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from intense delusions in paranoia. One psychiatrist noted that Ranking

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believed Taylor Swift and the CIA were hacking his mind

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and claimed God had commanded him to kill three people

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that night. Doctor Shawn A. Garkar testified Monday with what

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he called a very clear schizophrenia diagnosis before twenty eighteen

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He mentioned Ranking's countless delusions, including that he and Taylor

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Swift were a couple and that the CIA was trying

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to kill him. He believed he was acting in self defense.

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He said he had been tormented and tortured by the

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CIA for a long time. A Garkar added when asked

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if Ranking understood what he was doing, the doctor said, no,

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not at all. I mean, it's very clear he truly believed,

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still believes that these things were happening. So no, it's

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very clear his reality is not the rest of ours reality.

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But here's what the prosecution pointed out, and pay attention

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to this. In twenty seventeen, Ranking had said he wanted

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to commit a mass shooting and that when he did

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the shooting, he was planning to make people think he

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was insane. At the time, before he drove to the

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waffle house, he had packed an escape bag that not

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only included a gun and more ammunition, but also included

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some silver bars that he would be able to exchange

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for cash on the road so he wouldn't have a

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trace of a credit card silver bars. This insane man

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packed untraceable currency for his escape. After he got done,

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he went home. He took a shower, he changed clothes.

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That's not insanity, that's calculation. Among those in attendance was

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Shandel Brooks, whose son Aquila da Silva, was killed by Ranking.

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She described being re traumatized by having to sit through

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this hearing. Regardless of Judge Mark Fishburne's decision on the

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request for a new trial, Ranking will never be released

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from custody due to the undisputed evidence of his guilt

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in the murders. Look, I'm not saying mental illness isn't real.

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But when you plan your insanity defense a year in advance,

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pack silver bars for your getaway, and then take a

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shower to wash off the evidence, that's not schizophrenia. That's murder.

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One four young people are dead. Their families have to

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relive this nightmare because some lawyer thinks they can. Monday

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Morning Quarterback a conviction. The jury got it right the

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first time. Life without parole. End of story. That's celebrity

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trials for Thursday, August twenty first. Tomorrow we'll have updates

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on the Menendez brothers' parole hearings. Eric went before the

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board today, Lyle goes tomorrow. Will thirty five years be enough?

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extraordinarily evil things. I'm read Carter. Remember in America, you

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can shoot your parents, cry about it on TikTok, and

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still get people wearing I Stand with Sarah t shirts

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to your bond hearing. God bless social media until tomorrow