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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm miss Grace breaking crime news now. A

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Speaker 1: wealthy Texas woman blames her pricey Lubaton heels for killing

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Speaker 1: a pedestrian. Okay, Joseph McMullin, thirty three on his date

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Speaker 1: walking from a donut shop when Christina Chambers hits a curb,

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Speaker 1: sending her Porsche careening into the couple. Joseph thrown thirty

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Speaker 1: feet in the air dead. Police say Christina Chambers had

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Speaker 1: a blood alcohol content of point three zero one, and

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Speaker 1: that's an hour after the crash, time for the blood

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Speaker 1: alcohol to dissipate. Charged with second degree manslaughter, she pleads

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Speaker 1: not guilty and blames the shoes. I hope their estate's witness,

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Gould has the details.

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Speaker 2: Nancy, this alleged fatal fashion fail argument did not work

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Speaker 2: at all. Houston socialite Christina Chambers was not only found guilty,

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Speaker 2: she was slammed with a symbolic prison turn for turning

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Speaker 2: her high life drama into a death sentence for thirty

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Speaker 2: three year old Joseph McMullen as he walked on that

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Speaker 2: first date on April nineteenth, twenty twenty three. Her ludicrous

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Speaker 2: defense that her expensive Christian lubiton high heels jammed the

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Speaker 2: gas pedal of her Porsche. Was utterly rejected by the jury,

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Speaker 2: who agreed with prosecutors that the claim itself proved her

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Speaker 2: wanton disregard for safety. Here's Harris County DA Andrew Figliuzi

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Speaker 2: talking to Inside Edition. If you're drunk going seventy eighty

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Speaker 2: ninety miles per hour in a sports car and you're

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Speaker 2: wearing high heels, I mean, that doesn't absolve you. That

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Speaker 2: makes it even worse. Chamber's own friends delivered devastating testimony

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Speaker 2: confirming she was intentionally speeding and showing off the luxury car,

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Speaker 2: a Porsche, a flashy toy gifted by her rich husband.

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Speaker 2: By the way, that husband filed for divorce right after

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Speaker 2: the incident. The socialite's fatal ride, though, wasn't just about booze,

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Speaker 2: to testimony, exposed chambers coke fueled antics as well. She

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Speaker 2: followed heavy drinking at the upscale Blue Doorn restaurant with

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Speaker 2: a stop at a drug dealer's house to buy cocaine

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Speaker 2: and adderall. She tested positive for the drugs hours after

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Speaker 2: the rack, a crucial detail she weakly tried to blame

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Speaker 2: on quote day's earlier use end quote. Then came the

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Speaker 2: biggest bombshell. Chambers is four months pregnant by her ex husband,

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Speaker 2: prompting speculation the pregnancy was a calculated sympathy play. The

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Speaker 2: jury ignored her plea for probation, and she is now

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Speaker 2: destined to give birth behind bars in the Texas Department

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Speaker 2: of Criminal Justice custody. The judge handed down a sentence

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Speaker 2: of eleven years and fourteen days, a precise duration chosen

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Speaker 2: to mimic Mark McMullen's November fourteenth birthday eleven fourteen. Chambers

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Speaker 2: apologized on the stand during the trial, but when asked

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Speaker 2: for a final statement before sentencing, she went stone cold,

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Speaker 2: whispering no, she had nothing to say. McMullen's family, though,

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Speaker 2: had plenty to say in their powerful impact statements. They

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Speaker 2: also embraced prosecutors for trying to achieve a measure of

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Speaker 2: justice for their loved ones. The family is also continuing

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Speaker 2: their fight, actively pursuing a wrongful death civil lawsuit to

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Speaker 2: ensure the punishment continues long after her time is served.

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Speaker 2: By the way, no Pricey heels in prison. For the

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Speaker 2: latest crime and justice news, follow crime stories with Nancy

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Speaker 2: Grace on your favorite podcast app and you can also

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Speaker 1: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer more crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: In a stunning cold blooded maneuver from behind bars, Susan Larnz,

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Speaker 2: the Ocala Florida woman serving twenty five years for the

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Speaker 2: ruthless shooting of her neighbor Adja k a j Owens,

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Speaker 2: has fired a shocking handwritten threat to sue the victim's

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Speaker 2: grieving children and mother for defamation. The development deepens the

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Speaker 2: wounds of a nationally publicized tragedy detailed in the Netflix

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Speaker 2: documentary The Perfect Neighbor. Lawnz, sixty, was convicted of manslaughter

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Speaker 2: in August twenty twenty four after fatally shooting Owens, thirty five,

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Speaker 2: through her locked front door in June of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: The confrontation began after Owens, a mother of four, went

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Speaker 2: to Lawrence's apartment in the Silver Road Quadplex to confront

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Speaker 2: her after Lawrence allegedly through a roller skate at one

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Speaker 2: of Owens's young sons during a playground spat. Lawrence, barricaded inside,

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Speaker 2: fired a single three to eighty bullet through the front door,

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Speaker 2: striking and killing Owens. In the chest as the victim

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Speaker 2: stood with her child nearby. Here's Lorenz talking to deputies

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Speaker 2: after the shooting. I just remembered being terrified that she

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Speaker 2: was banging and screaming, and I just remember hearing her

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Speaker 2: say I'm going to kill you. I wasn't feared for

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Speaker 2: by my side, I mean, honest to god.

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Speaker 1: I just feared that she was going to come through

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Speaker 1: that door. I'm sorry, That's how I felt. Now.

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Speaker 2: Responding to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Owens's mother,

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Speaker 2: Pamela Diaz, Lawrence has panned a four page handwritten letter

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Speaker 2: to the Marion County Circuit Court. In it, she lashes

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Speaker 2: out at the family, reiterating her desperate trial claim that

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Speaker 2: she was the true victim of harassment from Owen's and

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Speaker 2: her kids, who allegedly played ding dong ditch and ignored

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Speaker 2: her no trespassing signs. Lawrence is not just defending the lawsuit,

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Speaker 2: she is flipping the script. She vows to quote counter

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Speaker 2: super slander, libel, and defamation of character end quote against Dias, Owens,

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Speaker 2: his minor children, and the property owner, Charles Gabbard. Lorence

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Speaker 2: demands damages that exceed fifty thousand dollars, accusing the children

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Speaker 2: of quote unquote lying in depositions about the skate incident

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Speaker 2: and demanding money from the family she destroyed. Diaz's original

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Speaker 2: suit accuses Lawrenceus's former landlord Gabbard of negligence for ignoring

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Speaker 2: Lawrenceus's alleged quote propensity for gross negligence and or intentional

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Speaker 2: harm end quote. Meanwhile, Lawrence, who declined to testify at

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Speaker 2: her own trial, is using her prison sentence at Homestead

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Speaker 2: Correctional Institution to continue her relentless campaign of victimhood. The

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Speaker 2: audacious letter is also now a matter of public record.

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Speaker 2: Court records do not list any attorney for Lawrence in

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Speaker 2: the civil case, and no hearing dates have been set.

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Speaker 2: And finally, this he is officially the ultimut hero story.

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Speaker 2: An adorable little escape artist named Moose decided he'd had

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Speaker 2: enough of daycare and went on a little walk about

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Speaker 2: on the wild side. Unfortunately, his big city tail ended

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Speaker 2: when he found himself pawking ride under the Number two

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Speaker 2: train at Fourteenth Street, forcing a major subway pause. Luckily,

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Speaker 2: Detective Frank Sarrow arrived ready for the rescue and proved

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Speaker 2: he is the finest in the new York Pause. Instead

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Speaker 2: of a net, Sarah used whistles and sweet talk, literally

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Speaker 2: crawling on the tracks to coax the terrified pup into safety.

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Speaker 2: The moment he emerged clutching the little dog, the whole

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Speaker 2: precinct fond moose, who looked like a furry felon, caught

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Speaker 2: red handed, was quickly scooped up for cuddles before being

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Speaker 2: waggingly reunited with his owner, a dogne happy ending. If

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Speaker 2: you ask me Nancy.

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