Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

As Bryan Kohberger’s defense team tries again to get a judge to toss out the indictment against Kohberger, the home where the four murders took place is now gone. The clapboard house located at 1122 King Road, Moscow has been torn down, with the entire front of the building razed from sight in roughly 15 minutes. According to school officials, demolition was set for during the school's winter break, when fewer students would be in the area. It took just 90 minutes in total, for the home to become a pile of rubble. The debris, loaded up by two contractors, was taken to a secret area for disposal. The site was combed for not a single item to be left behind for the curious to find and keep as a macabre souvenir. One local who wished to remain anonymous said 'They want nothing left for ghouls to plunder.' Some, however, are still concerned that the best evidence in this case is now gone.  The home was scanned using 3D imaging to allow the jury to be brought into the home and take a virtual tour where they wouldn't have been able to go. The families of the four students killed in the house on King Road were not in agreement on the demolition. The Goncalves and Kernodle families issued a statement before the demolition, asking the university to wait to tear the building down until Kohberger's trial is completed. The Goncalves' family said through their attorney, that the house “has evidentiary and emotional value." In the statement, Goncalves wrote, "The family has stressed tirelessly to the Prosecution and the University of Idaho the importance (evidentiary and emotionally) that the King Road house carries but nobody seems to care enough." She adds that the “families' opinion isn't a priority.” The family of Ethan Chapin, who did not live there, offered its support for the demolition. In their statement, the Chapins said the demolition was needed  "for the good of the University, its students (including our own kids), and the community of Moscow." Joining Nancy Grace Today: Dale Carson – High-profile Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent & Former Police Officer (Miami-Dade County); Author: “Arrest-Proof Yourself” Dr. Bethany Marshall – Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills); Twitter: @DrBethanyLive/ Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall; Appearing in the new show, “Paris in Love” on Peacock Chris McDonough – Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective; Host of YouTube channel: “The Interview Room” Dr. Cyril Wecht - Forensic Pathologist, Medical-legal consultant, Author of many books including “The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht: Memoirs of America’s Most Controversial Forensic Pathologist”  Andy Kahan - Director of Victim Services and Advocacy at Crime Stoppers of Houston Rachel Schilke- Breaking News Reporter for The Washington Examiner; Twitter: @rachel_schilke See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A woman calls police saying that she has been held prisoner for five years, by a man who offered to help her at a time when she was panhandling. Police first made contact with her in April of 2023. Using the texting app TextNow, she called 911. According to KPRC, police rescued the woman from the garage. Reportedly, the approximately 30-year-old victim weighed about 70 pounds and according to officers, looked extremely malnourished and filthy. She stated she had not showered in two months. I Investigators went inside the garage and found a broken toilet, a dirty mattress covered in fresh vomit, a box of chips, a few Twinkies, clothes, and diapers. The woman told police there was no shower in the garage, so she would be taken inside the home from time to time. Police took the woman to the hospital for treatment, but reports say the man showed up and took her back to his home. The suspect has been identified as Lee Carter, a Houston rapper known as "The Viper." His 2008 song, “You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack,” garnered over 4 million views on YouTube. Reportedly he is also a real estate broker. According to corporate records and the Texas Real Estate Commission, he owns and operates a moving company in Houston. That company is registered to the address where he allegedly held the woman. Fox News reports a warrant was filed against Carter in April, but his arrest at a local motel did not happen until the last few days. Carter, 52, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping. Officials have not given a reason for the nine-month gap between the April incident and the arrest. It is unknown what happened with the victim's pregnancy while she was held captive. Joining Nancy Grace Today: Shaunna Burn - Hailey Burn's mother (daughter was lured by an online predator when she was 16 and held captive for 13 months)  Alan Bennett – Former Assistant District Attorney; Partner at Gunter, Bennett, and Anthes Caryn L. Stark – NYC Psychologist, Trauma and Crime Expert; Twitter: @carynpsych, Facebook: “Caryn Stark” Fil Waters - Former Homicide Detective for the Houston Police Department, President & CEO of Kindred Spirits Investigations & Security, Inc. Rachel D. Fischer  – Registered Nurse; Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE); Expert Witness, Private Investigator, and Author: “Taking Back the Pen;” Forensic Nursing Consulting and Education LLC William Slater - Cybersecurity Expert and Chief Information Security Officer at Slater Technologies. Inc. Dave Mack - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Woman attacked on California college campus. Pastor husband assaults wife's trouble McDonald's employee.  For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

June 16, 2008: the last day 2-year-old Caylee Anthony is seen alive. One month later, her grandmother Cindy Anthony franticly calls 911 to report her granddaughter is missing. Casey Anthony claims that a babysitter kidnapped her daughter. By October, when nothing Casey tells police turns out to be true, she is arrested and charged with Caylee's death, even though Caylee is still missing. On December 11, Caylee's remains are found in a garbage bag, dumped in a wooded area near the Anthony home. Eight days later, Caylee's death is ruled a homicide. Prosecutors announce they will seek the death penalty against her. At Casey Anthony's trial, her lawyer first made claims that George Anthony was molesting his daughter and that he staged Caylee's death to look like a drowning to cover up that he may have been abusing his granddaughter as well.  Those claims, made again after Casey Anthony is acquitted of the death, have haunted the Anthonys for years.  Now, George and Cindy Anthony agree to take a lie detector test in front of cameras for the A&E network special "Casey Anthony's Parents: The Lie Detector Test." What happened when he is asked if he had anything to do with Caylee's death? Joining Nancy Grace Today: Tony Harris - Award-winning Journalist, Host of A&E’s “Casey Anthony’s Parents: The Lie Detector Test;" Catch-up Viewing: “Casey Anthony’s Parents: The Lie Detector Test” is available on demand and to stream on the A&E App and across major television providers’ VOD platforms, IG: @TonyHarrismm John W. Dill - Personal Injury Lawyer, Winter Park, Florida; Author: "The Method: Proven Techniques for Winning Jury Trials;" Twitter/IG @JohnWDillESQ; Represented Zenaida Gonzalez in Defamation Suit against Casey Anthony Dr. Bethany Marshall – Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills); Twitter: @DrBethanyLive/ Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall; Appearing in the new show, “Paris in Love” on Peacock George Olivo - Former FBI Special Agent; Administered the polygraph test for “Casey Anthony’s Parents: The Lie Detector Test” on A&E oe Scott Morgan – Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, “Blood Beneath My Feet,” and Host: “Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;” Twitter: @JoScottForensic Alexis Tereszcuk  - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter; Writer/Fact Checker, Lead Stories; Twitter: @swimmie2009  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Missing teen found by police responding to domestic violence call. Customer chucks spicy chicken at convenience store employee.  For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Timothy Ferguson's mother calls police. Her son is unresponsive. Timothy Ferguson is also 15-years-old weighing just 69 pounds when he died of malnutrition and hypothermia.  Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they detail -Timothy Ferguson's painful life at the hands of his evil mother and brother. The teen lives on a diet of water and bread soaked in hot sauce,  followed by ice baths.    Subscribe to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan : Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeart   Transcript Highlights 00:00:00 Joseph Scott Morgan shares memories of Grandmother cooking chicken  00:04:15 Discussion of Timothy Ferguson, 15, starved to death by his mother 00:05:37 Discussion of food being used as mechanism for torture 00:06:52 Talk about Shanda Vander Ark fled Oklahoma with children 00:08:56 Explanation of how using food as a ‘kindness’  00:11:05 Talk about dark choices made by Shanda Vander Ark regarding her son  00:13:05 Discussion of Timothy’s older brother Paul being involved in the abuse 00:14:51 Joseph Scott Morgan describes “impact: injury – slapped, punched. 00:15:28 Talk about how common that one child will be chosen for abuse while other siblings abuse victim as well  00:16:14 Discussion about abuse,  malnutrition impossible to hide 00:17:15 How to determine how long Timothy was abused 00:18:35 Description - malnutrition can “stunt growth”.  00:20:40 Discussion of Shanda Vander Ark Defense, claims she had PTSD 00:21:51 Joseph Scott Morgan explains how Timothy Ferguson was digesting his own fat cells due to malnutrition  00:22:58 Timothy Ferguson’s body already compromised  00:26:41 Timothy Ferguson was given bread and water, and hot sauce for torture  00:27:56 Talk about hot sauce “Carolina Reaper” being placed on bread for Ferguson to eat  00:29:00 Discussion of Timothy Ferguson being kept in tiny room under stairs, developing bed sores  00:30:56 Description of Timothy Ferguson breathing out of his mouth like fish out of water  00:32:09 Discussion of Ice Bath’s used to punish Timothy Ferguson  00:33:28 Timothy Ferguson never recovered from last Ice Bath, cause of death – hypothermia and malnutrition  00:36:02 Discussion of food – mother chained refrigerator and cabinets in kitchen  00:38:00 Verdict - Shanda Vander Ark, guilty of murder, son Paul guilty of Child Abuse See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More than two years shy of her 10-year sentence, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is free. Blanchard was convicted of second-degree murder after she admitted to having her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Now she is out from behind bars at the Chillicothe Correctional Center.   Dee Dee Blanchard is believed to have suffered from Munchausen by proxy — which caused forcing her daughter to use a wheelchair and subjecting her to unnecessary medical treatments, all to foster attention to Dee Dee herself. Before the murder, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother allegedly isolated her and tied her to a bed to stop her from escaping.     Gypsy Rose Blanchard is now married and picked up from prison by her husband. Her book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom," is expected to come out on January 9. Joining Nancy Grace today: Joe Scott Morgan – Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, “Blood Beneath My Feet,” and Host: “Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;” Twitter: @JoScottForensic Dr. Daniel Bober – Forensic Psychiatrist, Chief of Psychiatry Memorial Regional Healthcare Systems, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine; Instagram at drdanielbober Kathleen Murphy – North Carolina Family Attorney; Twitter: @RalDivorceLaw John Lemley - CrimeStories Investigative Reporter  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones, an 81-year-old woman, was found dead in a chest freezer two days before Christmas. The body was identified as Haxby-Jones, who may have been missing or dead for up to nine years. No missing report was filed for her. The guests discuss the challenges of investigating a murder in a smaller population and the potential evidence provided by modern technology. They also speculate about scenarios involving missing family members and frozen bodies.

14-year-old fabricates story about 'burglar' that killed his parents and sister. This girlfriend is a grinch! For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.