Sept. 29, 2026
(Tuesday) Morning Run: Big Day for Clancy, NYTimes Exec Killed, Closings in American Idol Trial, Possible Guthrie Note, Cornell Rape Investigation, Death Row Inmate Freed, RIP Principal Belding, & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Morning Run. It's Tuesday, September 29th. I'm Amy Robach.
00:00:11
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the year is flying by. Hey there, I'm TJ Holmes, right? We got through the summer, and all of a sudden, we're in October.
00:00:17
Speaker 2: Right? Damn. That happened fast. It's like almost Halloween.
00:00:21
Speaker 1: It's that time. Damn, the year is over. We just lost 2026. No, we did not.
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Speaker 2: You're hilarious. No, we have the best of the year yet to come. This is my favorite season, fall season, holiday season. Yay.
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Speaker 1: We just blinked, and all of a sudden, September's gone. That is true. That is true. Hello, everybody, wherever you may be on this Tuesday morning. I hope you are getting off to a good start. We're making a number of stops on the run, including in Tennessee, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, and the Bay Area. And Rose, I guess the place we're stopping by most this morning seems to be a courtroom. We just have a number... of significant stories, significant cases, and significant updates, Robes, on a couple of crime stories that somehow we've been watching for a long time.
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Speaker 2: It's true, and we'll begin with, this was a little bit of a shocker, in an Ohio courtroom because both the prosecution and the defense rested in the so-called American Idol murder trial. Former contestant, 40-year-old Caleb Flynn, is accused of killing his wife of 15 years and then staging the crime scene. Prosecutors say all to be with his mistress, Aaliyah Botner.
00:01:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, 40 witnesses called by the prosecution over the past seven days. And we have, I guess, robes. It always makes your eyebrow go up a little bit. And it's a little jarring, but the defense didn't call anybody.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: Not a single witness.
00:01:45
Speaker 1: Prosecution gets done. We've rested our case. Defense gets up. We rest as well. And that is it. We got closing arguments this morning. We were all, we were prepared for what's next. What case are they going to put on? They're not putting one on.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of remarkable because the prosecution put on a hell of a case, including the aforementioned mistress, Aaliyah Botner, who was clearly their star witness. She read hundreds of texts between the two where Caleb Flynn repeatedly said he wanted to kill his wife. Of course, we heard from his neighbor. The cameras picked up no one leaving or coming into his home that night. His 911 call, the body cam footage, the interrogation tapes, all looked pretty damning, at least from our vantage point. The only thing the defense has going for them, there was no weapon, there was no physical evidence tying Caleb Flynn to the murder, but closing arguments, as you mentioned, babe, this morning.
00:02:41
Speaker 1: Also this morning, a really significant day in the Lindsay area. Well, it's not the Lindsay Clancy trial anymore because the trial is actually over, but the case continues. Her attorney will be back in the court this morning making an argument that the holdout juror refused to follow the law and the court's instructions, and therefore, Robes, a mistrial was improperly declared.
00:03:03
Speaker 2: That's right. Kevin Reddington's motion also argues that a retrial would violate double jeopardy protection, so he's doing his best to try to make sure Lindsay Clancy... does not go to jail. In addition, yes, Reddington has asked the court to investigate the holdout juror looking into his confidential questionnaire and his cell phone usage during deliberations. Right now, we don't know if the DA is going to conduct or is going to pursue a second trial.
00:03:34
Speaker 1: We should mention here, Rose, we did hear from the holdout juror's attorney a lot yesterday that We also heard from the holdout juror, Michael Desronville, and what I thought was a little strange message to put out and a strange outlet to give it to exclusively. I didn't really understand fully why Michael Desronville put out a statement only to Fox News talking to camera with a very short message.
00:04:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little bizarre. I don't know if he's willing to sit down with a journalist at some point, but it's the first time we heard his voice. It's the first time we actually saw him. But maybe there is more to come.
00:04:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't say much, only to say the focus should be back on the kids and that he is a man of faith and just didn't say much. We heard from his attorney a lot yesterday. We had some choice words for Kevin Reddington saying he's essentially lost his mind. I'm not actually paraphrasing. He said that he lost his mind because he lost this case, which... This attorney at least claims was supposed to be a capstone of Reddington's career, and he just can't take it.
00:04:39
Speaker 2: That's right. All right, next up on the run, police in Mississippi say to expect more arrests in the death of Tasia Fortune. She's the 29-year-old black woman. Mother of four found hanging from a tree last month. So far, three men have already been charged in her murder.
00:05:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the last to be arrested, Eric Clark, made his first court appearance yesterday. Jackson police say Clark, Jarquez, Ratliff, and Ernest Lloyd Jr. were seen with Fortune around the time she disappeared, but they haven't given us a whole lot of details. She was killed somewhere else, they do believe, and that the hanging was a staged scene.
00:05:23
Speaker 2: This is a hell of a story up next that you almost do kind of have to read to believe. And we're going to need some more details on this one because a New York Times executive has been shot and killed. And you won't believe who's been charged with his murder. His elderly in-laws. We're talking about 40-year-old Jonathan Kingsley. Yes, he served as the director of the games department. At the New York Times.
00:05:49
Speaker 1: Now, police say his body was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of a sports complex. This was over the weekend in Dublin, California. This is in the Bay Area. Police have arrested the parents of Kingsley's wife, his in-laws. Xiong Zhang and Xili Chen are the names. Both of them are 76 years old. No motive, at least, announced by police. But, Robes, this is a complicated case. Story, family, backstory. This is one you can look for on the feed. We will need to talk about this one, but it's just not something you hear every day, but there are some significant... family dynamics going on in this one.
00:06:33
Speaker 2: Yes, that will require a lot more explanation, so look for that. But next up on the run, more than a year after a former Cornell University student told police she was drugged and gang-raped inside a frat house, she filed a civil lawsuit. Well, now, after she filed the lawsuit, police have decided to reopen their criminal investigation into the alleged incident.
00:06:57
Speaker 1: Now... Yes. Now you want to look into the crime.
00:07:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a little bit of an outcry online about what happened, or more importantly, what didn't happen in this case.
00:07:07
Speaker 1: So this renewed investigation comes after, yes, pressure from the community. The DA has been out there talking and not saying stuff that people appreciate hearing, quite frankly. Now, the woman is identified as Jane Doe, says that in October of 2024, she was raped for hours by seven fraternity members of Chi Phi. Now, Cornell conducted... an internal review, and according to the victim's attorney, two of the fraternity brothers were actually expelled. Five received sanctions, including suspensions, robes, that would suggest they found some wrongdoing.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
00:07:38
Speaker 1: That even the school found enough to go, yeah, y'all get the hell off campus and you all are going to be suspended. Rose? Yeah.
00:07:46
Speaker 2: By the way, the fraternity chapter was closed in that year and remains barred from campus. So, yes, I have chills from head to toe.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: There's a there there.
00:07:55
Speaker 2: Obviously, the campus discovered this. And when you start to hear about the details about what happened to this young lady, it is absolutely horrific. And so, yes, a grand jury... is now going to hear that evidence. They say this is going to happen quickly within the next 45 days to determine whether or not to bring any criminal charges against these seven former fraternity members.
00:08:17
Speaker 1: Already, I've seen some lawyers for these seven out there talking. A couple of them said wasn't even there, wasn't even, didn't touch this person at all. So We shall see.
00:08:29
Speaker 2: We shall see, in fact. All right, next up on the run, the governor of Tennessee is saying publicly he will not step in to spare the life of Krista Pike. She is set to become the first woman executed in that state in more than 200 years.
00:08:44
Speaker 1: Scheduled to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer, who Pike believed was a romantic rival. Pike? was 18 at the time. She, along with her boyfriend, beat Slimmer and carved a pentagram into her chest, cut her throat, smashed her head in with a rock.
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Speaker 2: Pike has a long and documented history of sexual abuse dating back to when she was just a toddler. And so dozens of women advocacy groups have been calling on the governor to consider that history as they ask for her death sentence to be commuted to life. And yes, she was also just 18 at the time. So a couple of reasons why folks are saying She should be spared, but we just heard from the governor, it does not look like he is going to do that, and he is the only person who can stop the execution.
00:09:34
Speaker 1: All right, we continue on the run here now and head to Florida, where they continue their nation-leading pace of executions. It will continue tonight when Curtis Wilkie Beasley is scheduled to become the 16th person executed in the state of Florida this year.
00:09:49
Speaker 2: Beasley, who is 77 years old now, was convicted for the 1995 murder. of Carolyn Monfort. He beat her to death with a hammer. This will be the seventh death row inmate who will be executed, who was over the age of 70, and he'll be the 29th execution of 2026.
00:10:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, just this year in Florida. They have, yeah, executed. This will be the seventh guy over 70 years. Like some of them in 75, 76, 77.
00:10:17
Speaker 2: We had an 80-year-old, correct, I believe.
00:10:19
Speaker 1: Was that the guy I was on for 50 years? Yes. Was that the guy? Yes. All right, we'll continue on the run here now. Different type of death row story. A Utah man spent decades on death row. He walked out of prison yesterday. Douglas Stewart Carter convicted for the 1985 murder of Eva Olesen. Well, last year, a court ordered he get a new trial because of police misconduct and new DNA tests. determined that Carter Robes is not a match for blood found at the scene of the crime. This is essentially, they say, excludes him as a possibility of being a suspect.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. And he spent, what, nearly 40 years behind bars for this crime that they've now determined? He did not commit. So, yes, the judge yesterday granted him bail. He was allowed to leave prison with an ankle monitor. And we await word from the prosecutors whether or not they'll retry him given this new DNA evidence.
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Speaker 1: Isn't this crazy? Don't know what we're going to do. Don't know what they're going to do here. It doesn't look like it's going in the direction of retrying him. But, Robes, this is the problem with the death penalty.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
00:11:23
Speaker 1: We got close to killing the guy who we're now saying is innocent.
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Speaker 2: Just now was exonerated.
00:11:28
Speaker 1: We can't have that. All right, stay with us on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, a familiar face name from one of, what would you call this, Rose? Put it into the right terms. What does Saved by the Bell represent for folks of our generation?
00:11:45
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a coming-of-age 1990s. If you were.
00:11:50
Speaker 2: Anywhere near our ages, in the 80s and 90s, you know Saved by the Bell. Oh, my goodness.
00:11:55
Speaker 1: Well, the beloved principal of that show has passed away. We'll speak on that. Also coming up, a hell of a headline to see that there's been another possible Nancy Guthrie note. Yes, ransom note discovered. Stay here.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: Welcome back to your Tuesday morning run, everyone. And, yes, this was a big headline to see, to wake up to. The Pima County Sheriff's Department is acknowledging, yes, it's looking into a possible new ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie case. Both the Sheriff's Department and the FBI say they are working right now to determine its credibility.
00:12:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, no details released from the note, having said how it was discovered. But, Robes, I guess this got going really online.
00:12:50
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: Yesterday to the point that they had to at least acknowledge. So clearly they started getting questions. But this was not something that the sheriff's department themselves or the FBI announced, hey, we got this thing. They should start going online.
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Speaker 2: Those internet sleuths.
00:13:07
Speaker 1: Here we go. We got to acknowledge it. So that's what happened in this one, Rose.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'll remember she's been missing. Nancy Guthrie went missing nearly eight months ago. It was February 1st. Yeah, October 1st will bring that search to eight months. And for the final leg of our run on this Tuesday morning, say it ain't so. Actor Dennis Haskins has passed away at the age of 75. And yes, Haskins was best known for playing the beloved principal, Mr. Belding, on the hit sitcom Saved by the Bell.
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Speaker 1: His agent made the announcement saying, quote, it's a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr. Belding. And those of us who got to know Dennis loved him. him even more. He was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely loved, his fans. He always had time for them, no matter what. That's cool to hear.
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Speaker 2: I loved hearing that, that he just leaned into the fact that he was Mr. Building for so many people. I don't know about you, but my brother was obsessed with the show. It was always playing in the background. But if you were a fan... It ran from 1989 to 1993. I didn't realize it only had four seasons, but yeah, Tiffany Amber Thiessen, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, just to name a few of the stars, and of course, Mr. Belding's catchphrase. Do you remember this?
00:14:21
Speaker 1: I did not.
00:14:21
Speaker 2: I looked it up. There's all these YouTube memes on it, but it's like, hey, hey, hey, what's going on in here? But he said it different ways each time. He had fun with it, and that was his thing. Hey, hey, hey, what is going on in here?
00:14:34
Speaker 1: I cannot believe a show that's deemed, I guess it had just a Such a place in culture.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:14:40
Speaker 1: But four years is a short run.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. Now, there was a spinoff, and Haskins also starred in that, Saved by the Bell, The New Class, which I did not watch. That ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000. But it's funny, that original cast that we all remember so, so well only ran for four seasons. So, yes, he had other roles in Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl, Hot in Cleveland, but he will always forever be remembered as... Principal Haskins. So rest in peace. We appreciate you listening to us, but we have our quote of the day on this Tuesday. Thought this was a cool one from Mr. Benjamin Franklin. Small improvements made every day eventually become extraordinary achievements. Yeah. I thought that was good just to remind everyone, even if you're just doing small incremental changes and you're working on something a little by little, it can amount to something massive. Thank you, Mr. Franklin. Small improvements made every day eventually become extraordinary achievements. And with that, everyone, thank you for listening to us. Thanks for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Morning Run. It's Tuesday, September 29th. I'm Amy Robach.
00:00:11
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the year is flying by. Hey there, I'm TJ Holmes, right? We got through the summer, and all of a sudden, we're in October.
00:00:17
Speaker 2: Right? Damn. That happened fast. It's like almost Halloween.
00:00:21
Speaker 1: It's that time. Damn, the year is over. We just lost 2026. No, we did not.
00:00:27
Speaker 2: You're hilarious. No, we have the best of the year yet to come. This is my favorite season, fall season, holiday season. Yay.
00:00:36
Speaker 1: We just blinked, and all of a sudden, September's gone. That is true. That is true. Hello, everybody, wherever you may be on this Tuesday morning. I hope you are getting off to a good start. We're making a number of stops on the run, including in Tennessee, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, and the Bay Area. And Rose, I guess the place we're stopping by most this morning seems to be a courtroom. We just have a number... of significant stories, significant cases, and significant updates, Robes, on a couple of crime stories that somehow we've been watching for a long time.
00:01:07
Speaker 2: It's true, and we'll begin with, this was a little bit of a shocker, in an Ohio courtroom because both the prosecution and the defense rested in the so-called American Idol murder trial. Former contestant, 40-year-old Caleb Flynn, is accused of killing his wife of 15 years and then staging the crime scene. Prosecutors say all to be with his mistress, Aaliyah Botner.
00:01:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, 40 witnesses called by the prosecution over the past seven days. And we have, I guess, robes. It always makes your eyebrow go up a little bit. And it's a little jarring, but the defense didn't call anybody.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: Not a single witness.
00:01:45
Speaker 1: Prosecution gets done. We've rested our case. Defense gets up. We rest as well. And that is it. We got closing arguments this morning. We were all, we were prepared for what's next. What case are they going to put on? They're not putting one on.
00:02:00
Speaker 2: It's kind of remarkable because the prosecution put on a hell of a case, including the aforementioned mistress, Aaliyah Botner, who was clearly their star witness. She read hundreds of texts between the two where Caleb Flynn repeatedly said he wanted to kill his wife. Of course, we heard from his neighbor. The cameras picked up no one leaving or coming into his home that night. His 911 call, the body cam footage, the interrogation tapes, all looked pretty damning, at least from our vantage point. The only thing the defense has going for them, there was no weapon, there was no physical evidence tying Caleb Flynn to the murder, but closing arguments, as you mentioned, babe, this morning.
00:02:41
Speaker 1: Also this morning, a really significant day in the Lindsay area. Well, it's not the Lindsay Clancy trial anymore because the trial is actually over, but the case continues. Her attorney will be back in the court this morning making an argument that the holdout juror refused to follow the law and the court's instructions, and therefore, Robes, a mistrial was improperly declared.
00:03:03
Speaker 2: That's right. Kevin Reddington's motion also argues that a retrial would violate double jeopardy protection, so he's doing his best to try to make sure Lindsay Clancy... does not go to jail. In addition, yes, Reddington has asked the court to investigate the holdout juror looking into his confidential questionnaire and his cell phone usage during deliberations. Right now, we don't know if the DA is going to conduct or is going to pursue a second trial.
00:03:34
Speaker 1: We should mention here, Rose, we did hear from the holdout juror's attorney a lot yesterday that We also heard from the holdout juror, Michael Desronville, and what I thought was a little strange message to put out and a strange outlet to give it to exclusively. I didn't really understand fully why Michael Desronville put out a statement only to Fox News talking to camera with a very short message.
00:04:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little bizarre. I don't know if he's willing to sit down with a journalist at some point, but it's the first time we heard his voice. It's the first time we actually saw him. But maybe there is more to come.
00:04:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't say much, only to say the focus should be back on the kids and that he is a man of faith and just didn't say much. We heard from his attorney a lot yesterday. We had some choice words for Kevin Reddington saying he's essentially lost his mind. I'm not actually paraphrasing. He said that he lost his mind because he lost this case, which... This attorney at least claims was supposed to be a capstone of Reddington's career, and he just can't take it.
00:04:39
Speaker 2: That's right. All right, next up on the run, police in Mississippi say to expect more arrests in the death of Tasia Fortune. She's the 29-year-old black woman. Mother of four found hanging from a tree last month. So far, three men have already been charged in her murder.
00:05:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the last to be arrested, Eric Clark, made his first court appearance yesterday. Jackson police say Clark, Jarquez, Ratliff, and Ernest Lloyd Jr. were seen with Fortune around the time she disappeared, but they haven't given us a whole lot of details. She was killed somewhere else, they do believe, and that the hanging was a staged scene.
00:05:23
Speaker 2: This is a hell of a story up next that you almost do kind of have to read to believe. And we're going to need some more details on this one because a New York Times executive has been shot and killed. And you won't believe who's been charged with his murder. His elderly in-laws. We're talking about 40-year-old Jonathan Kingsley. Yes, he served as the director of the games department. At the New York Times.
00:05:49
Speaker 1: Now, police say his body was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of a sports complex. This was over the weekend in Dublin, California. This is in the Bay Area. Police have arrested the parents of Kingsley's wife, his in-laws. Xiong Zhang and Xili Chen are the names. Both of them are 76 years old. No motive, at least, announced by police. But, Robes, this is a complicated case. Story, family, backstory. This is one you can look for on the feed. We will need to talk about this one, but it's just not something you hear every day, but there are some significant... family dynamics going on in this one.
00:06:33
Speaker 2: Yes, that will require a lot more explanation, so look for that. But next up on the run, more than a year after a former Cornell University student told police she was drugged and gang-raped inside a frat house, she filed a civil lawsuit. Well, now, after she filed the lawsuit, police have decided to reopen their criminal investigation into the alleged incident.
00:06:57
Speaker 1: Now... Yes. Now you want to look into the crime.
00:07:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a little bit of an outcry online about what happened, or more importantly, what didn't happen in this case.
00:07:07
Speaker 1: So this renewed investigation comes after, yes, pressure from the community. The DA has been out there talking and not saying stuff that people appreciate hearing, quite frankly. Now, the woman is identified as Jane Doe, says that in October of 2024, she was raped for hours by seven fraternity members of Chi Phi. Now, Cornell conducted... an internal review, and according to the victim's attorney, two of the fraternity brothers were actually expelled. Five received sanctions, including suspensions, robes, that would suggest they found some wrongdoing.
00:07:38
Speaker 2: Correct.
00:07:38
Speaker 1: That even the school found enough to go, yeah, y'all get the hell off campus and you all are going to be suspended. Rose? Yeah.
00:07:46
Speaker 2: By the way, the fraternity chapter was closed in that year and remains barred from campus. So, yes, I have chills from head to toe.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: There's a there there.
00:07:55
Speaker 2: Obviously, the campus discovered this. And when you start to hear about the details about what happened to this young lady, it is absolutely horrific. And so, yes, a grand jury... is now going to hear that evidence. They say this is going to happen quickly within the next 45 days to determine whether or not to bring any criminal charges against these seven former fraternity members.
00:08:17
Speaker 1: Already, I've seen some lawyers for these seven out there talking. A couple of them said wasn't even there, wasn't even, didn't touch this person at all. So We shall see.
00:08:29
Speaker 2: We shall see, in fact. All right, next up on the run, the governor of Tennessee is saying publicly he will not step in to spare the life of Krista Pike. She is set to become the first woman executed in that state in more than 200 years.
00:08:44
Speaker 1: Scheduled to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer, who Pike believed was a romantic rival. Pike? was 18 at the time. She, along with her boyfriend, beat Slimmer and carved a pentagram into her chest, cut her throat, smashed her head in with a rock.
00:09:06
Speaker 2: Pike has a long and documented history of sexual abuse dating back to when she was just a toddler. And so dozens of women advocacy groups have been calling on the governor to consider that history as they ask for her death sentence to be commuted to life. And yes, she was also just 18 at the time. So a couple of reasons why folks are saying She should be spared, but we just heard from the governor, it does not look like he is going to do that, and he is the only person who can stop the execution.
00:09:34
Speaker 1: All right, we continue on the run here now and head to Florida, where they continue their nation-leading pace of executions. It will continue tonight when Curtis Wilkie Beasley is scheduled to become the 16th person executed in the state of Florida this year.
00:09:49
Speaker 2: Beasley, who is 77 years old now, was convicted for the 1995 murder. of Carolyn Monfort. He beat her to death with a hammer. This will be the seventh death row inmate who will be executed, who was over the age of 70, and he'll be the 29th execution of 2026.
00:10:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, just this year in Florida. They have, yeah, executed. This will be the seventh guy over 70 years. Like some of them in 75, 76, 77.
00:10:17
Speaker 2: We had an 80-year-old, correct, I believe.
00:10:19
Speaker 1: Was that the guy I was on for 50 years? Yes. Was that the guy? Yes. All right, we'll continue on the run here now. Different type of death row story. A Utah man spent decades on death row. He walked out of prison yesterday. Douglas Stewart Carter convicted for the 1985 murder of Eva Olesen. Well, last year, a court ordered he get a new trial because of police misconduct and new DNA tests. determined that Carter Robes is not a match for blood found at the scene of the crime. This is essentially, they say, excludes him as a possibility of being a suspect.
00:10:51
Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. And he spent, what, nearly 40 years behind bars for this crime that they've now determined? He did not commit. So, yes, the judge yesterday granted him bail. He was allowed to leave prison with an ankle monitor. And we await word from the prosecutors whether or not they'll retry him given this new DNA evidence.
00:11:12
Speaker 1: Isn't this crazy? Don't know what we're going to do. Don't know what they're going to do here. It doesn't look like it's going in the direction of retrying him. But, Robes, this is the problem with the death penalty.
00:11:22
Speaker 2: Exactly.
00:11:23
Speaker 1: We got close to killing the guy who we're now saying is innocent.
00:11:26
Speaker 2: Just now was exonerated.
00:11:28
Speaker 1: We can't have that. All right, stay with us on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, a familiar face name from one of, what would you call this, Rose? Put it into the right terms. What does Saved by the Bell represent for folks of our generation?
00:11:45
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a coming-of-age 1990s. If you were.
00:11:50
Speaker 2: Anywhere near our ages, in the 80s and 90s, you know Saved by the Bell. Oh, my goodness.
00:11:55
Speaker 1: Well, the beloved principal of that show has passed away. We'll speak on that. Also coming up, a hell of a headline to see that there's been another possible Nancy Guthrie note. Yes, ransom note discovered. Stay here.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: Welcome back to your Tuesday morning run, everyone. And, yes, this was a big headline to see, to wake up to. The Pima County Sheriff's Department is acknowledging, yes, it's looking into a possible new ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie case. Both the Sheriff's Department and the FBI say they are working right now to determine its credibility.
00:12:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, no details released from the note, having said how it was discovered. But, Robes, I guess this got going really online.
00:12:50
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: Yesterday to the point that they had to at least acknowledge. So clearly they started getting questions. But this was not something that the sheriff's department themselves or the FBI announced, hey, we got this thing. They should start going online.
00:13:06
Speaker 2: Those internet sleuths.
00:13:07
Speaker 1: Here we go. We got to acknowledge it. So that's what happened in this one, Rose.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'll remember she's been missing. Nancy Guthrie went missing nearly eight months ago. It was February 1st. Yeah, October 1st will bring that search to eight months. And for the final leg of our run on this Tuesday morning, say it ain't so. Actor Dennis Haskins has passed away at the age of 75. And yes, Haskins was best known for playing the beloved principal, Mr. Belding, on the hit sitcom Saved by the Bell.
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Speaker 1: His agent made the announcement saying, quote, it's a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr. Belding. And those of us who got to know Dennis loved him. him even more. He was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely loved, his fans. He always had time for them, no matter what. That's cool to hear.
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Speaker 2: I loved hearing that, that he just leaned into the fact that he was Mr. Building for so many people. I don't know about you, but my brother was obsessed with the show. It was always playing in the background. But if you were a fan... It ran from 1989 to 1993. I didn't realize it only had four seasons, but yeah, Tiffany Amber Thiessen, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, just to name a few of the stars, and of course, Mr. Belding's catchphrase. Do you remember this?
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Speaker 1: I did not.
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Speaker 2: I looked it up. There's all these YouTube memes on it, but it's like, hey, hey, hey, what's going on in here? But he said it different ways each time. He had fun with it, and that was his thing. Hey, hey, hey, what is going on in here?
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Speaker 1: I cannot believe a show that's deemed, I guess it had just a Such a place in culture.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But four years is a short run.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. Now, there was a spinoff, and Haskins also starred in that, Saved by the Bell, The New Class, which I did not watch. That ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000. But it's funny, that original cast that we all remember so, so well only ran for four seasons. So, yes, he had other roles in Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl, Hot in Cleveland, but he will always forever be remembered as... Principal Haskins. So rest in peace. We appreciate you listening to us, but we have our quote of the day on this Tuesday. Thought this was a cool one from Mr. Benjamin Franklin. Small improvements made every day eventually become extraordinary achievements. Yeah. I thought that was good just to remind everyone, even if you're just doing small incremental changes and you're working on something a little by little, it can amount to something massive. Thank you, Mr. Franklin. Small improvements made every day eventually become extraordinary achievements. And with that, everyone, thank you for listening to us. Thanks for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.