WEBVTT - Reddington’s Next Case: Kelsie Cote 0:00:01.890 --> 0:00:04.189 Hi guys, welcome to an episode of Legally Brunette. I'll 0:00:04.210 --> 0:00:06.309 be your host today, Emily Simpson with. 0:00:06.750 --> 0:00:06.950 Shane. 0:00:07.650 --> 0:00:11.170 Shane. Okay, today we are going to get into a 0:00:11.310 --> 0:00:14.110 case that is going to go to trial soon. So 0:00:14.130 --> 0:00:15.710 I'm glad that we're doing an episode on it because 0:00:15.750 --> 0:00:17.350 I feel like once it goes to trial, we're going 0:00:17.370 --> 0:00:21.370 to follow it. It is the case of Kelsey Cote. 0:00:21.790 --> 0:00:26.450 So on Halloween night of 2022, 74-year-old Doris Cote was 0:00:26.540 --> 0:00:29.410 found dead at the bottom of her basement stairs in 0:00:29.500 --> 0:00:33.940 North Adams, Massachusetts. What looked like a tragic accident quickly 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.590 unraveled into something much darker. Prosecutors say the murder was 0:00:38.790 --> 0:00:43.320 not impulsive. They allege it was planned, motivated by money, 0:00:43.460 --> 0:00:46.280 and followed by a deliberate attempt to cover it up. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.600 Kevin Reddington, one of Massachusetts' most prominent defense attorneys, is 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.720 representing Kelsey, and after four years, the trial is finally 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.860 going to make headway. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.840 It's going to start soon. This is another Massachusetts case? 0:00:58.090 --> 0:01:01.490 This is another Massachusetts case, and this is Kevin Reddington. 0:01:01.530 --> 0:01:05.830 He's representing Kelsey Cote. You know Kevin Reddington is... Lindsey 0:01:05.870 --> 0:01:08.869 Clancy's attorney. And this case was actually supposed to go 0:01:08.910 --> 0:01:12.420 to trial, I don't know, maybe a year ago, but 0:01:12.450 --> 0:01:17.259 it was postponed because he was trying the Lindsey Clancy case. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.640 So now that the Lindsey Clancy case is, well, I mean, 0:01:22.060 --> 0:01:24.440 that first trial is now over, ended in a mistrial, 0:01:24.459 --> 0:01:27.630 but we know that's over. It is over. He now 0:01:27.709 --> 0:01:30.990 can move forward with the Kelsey Cody case. So that's 0:01:31.010 --> 0:01:32.410 what we're going to talk about today. 0:01:32.650 --> 0:01:35.050 What if Kelsey Cody's like, wait, what was the verdict? 0:01:35.860 --> 0:01:38.559 She's like, no, thanks. I'll find a new attorney. Well, 0:01:38.620 --> 0:01:39.000 I don't know. 0:01:39.020 --> 0:01:42.020 Kelsey Cody, based upon what I know from this case, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.340 she'd be very lucky with this trial. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:47.400 All right. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.960 So Doris Cody is 74 and lived in a small 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.620 city in Western Massachusetts near the Vermont border. She and 0:01:53.660 --> 0:01:55.960 her husband Ray had lived in their home for decades. 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.490 In February of 2022, Ray Cody, this is Doris's husband, 0:02:00.770 --> 0:02:05.100 passed away, leaving Doris living alone. Then we get to 0:02:05.140 --> 0:02:09.880 the summer of 2022. Kelsey Cody is Doris's granddaughter, and 0:02:09.940 --> 0:02:13.560 she returns to the area from Connecticut. She suffers a 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.980 foot injury and an ATV accident, and Doris begins helping 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.060 drive her around. All right, so we've got a grandmother 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.600 and a grandfather, but the grandfather dies, so the grandmother's 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.980 living alone. And then we've got Kelsey that's returning to 0:02:28.020 --> 0:02:30.440 her grandmother's house, and she's getting help from her grandmother. 0:02:31.020 --> 0:02:33.440 In the fall of 2022, Kelsey is staying at her 0:02:33.500 --> 0:02:39.019 father's house. So Doris is Kelsey's father's mother. So it's 0:02:39.060 --> 0:02:40.280 her paternal grandmother. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:40.620 Okay. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.540 So Kelsey is staying at her father's house, but continues 0:02:43.580 --> 0:02:48.860 spending significant amount of time at her grandmother's home. Prosecutors, 0:02:48.900 --> 0:02:52.300 this is later, allege that Kelsey was addicted to oxy... 0:02:52.060 --> 0:02:54.320 How do you say? Is it oxycodone? 0:02:54.810 --> 0:02:55.670 Oxycontin? 0:02:55.810 --> 0:02:58.010 I always hear people say oxycontin, but is it like oxy. 0:02:58.950 --> 0:03:00.210 In the streets, we say oxy. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:01.500 Oh, just, okay, I'm sorry. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:02.220 We just go with Oxy. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:03.160 I'm sorry. 0:03:03.180 --> 0:03:03.300 Yes. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:04.100 I'm glad you know that. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:04.230 Yes. 0:03:04.460 --> 0:03:07.210 In the streets, it's Oxy. Okay, so she was addicted 0:03:07.250 --> 0:03:10.150 to Oxy and had been stealing money from Doris's safe 0:03:10.350 --> 0:03:13.290 and her accounts. We're going to talk about motive in 0:03:13.310 --> 0:03:15.870 a little bit, but maybe that was something that Doris, 0:03:16.210 --> 0:03:18.829 the grandmother, started to figure out. 0:03:18.910 --> 0:03:19.489 Yeah, okay. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.840 All right, now let's get to the actual murder. Okay. 0:03:25.500 --> 0:03:26.700 Or alleged murder. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:28.220 Well, someone's murdered. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.200 Well, someone dies. Yeah. So we'll just go with that. 0:03:31.260 --> 0:03:32.940 While it dies at the hands of another? 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.540 Well, she tries to stage, like, allegedly tries to stage 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.910 a crime scene. So we're going to get into that. 0:03:40.110 --> 0:03:44.950 So allegedly she stages a crime scene. 0:03:45.090 --> 0:03:47.350 I'm just saying allegedly because she hasn't been convicted of 0:03:47.430 --> 0:03:48.030 anything yet. 0:03:48.170 --> 0:03:49.940 So you anticipate she will be? 0:03:50.190 --> 0:03:53.270 I anticipate she will be. That would be my anticipation. 0:03:53.330 --> 0:03:55.450 But I'm just saying allegedly because she has not been 0:03:55.490 --> 0:03:58.670 convicted of anything yet. On Halloween night of, so this 0:03:58.690 --> 0:04:00.940 is October 31st, 2022. 0:04:00.930 --> 0:04:01.650 Halloween. 0:04:02.270 --> 0:04:06.230 A relative visits Doris's home that afternoon. I don't know 0:04:06.250 --> 0:04:08.230 who the relative is. I don't give information on that. 0:04:08.250 --> 0:04:11.110 They just say a relative. So this relative told investigators 0:04:11.150 --> 0:04:14.070 that Doris appeared to be in good spirits, was very mobile, 0:04:14.470 --> 0:04:18.710 and showed no significant physical limitations. That relative leaves around 0:04:18.710 --> 0:04:22.200 4.30 p.m. and Kelsey remains at her grandmother's house. So 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.600 she's there on Halloween night. Kelsey initially told police that 0:04:26.660 --> 0:04:31.630 she left her grandmother's home at approximately 7.30 p.m., but 0:04:31.710 --> 0:04:35.770 prosecutors later alleged that Kelsey actually stayed well past that time. 0:04:36.230 --> 0:04:38.770 That's because they ended up finding, when they're investigating, right, 0:04:38.810 --> 0:04:40.290 they find surveillance video of her. 0:04:40.339 --> 0:04:41.500 Is that ring footage or something? 0:04:41.540 --> 0:04:43.960 Well, they find surveillance video of her arriving back home 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.360 at her dad's house around 12.40 a.m. on November 1st. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.750 So surveillance evidence reportedly showed a woman matching Kelsey's description 0:04:52.770 --> 0:04:57.070 of returning to her father's residence at approximately 12.40 a.m. 0:04:57.190 --> 0:05:01.310 on November 1st, leaving several hours unaccounted for. So she's 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.360 claiming she left her grandmother's house at 7.30 p.m., which 0:05:04.420 --> 0:05:05.920 I guess would probably be the right time frame. 0:05:05.940 --> 0:05:07.740 But they don't have her showing up at home until 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:08.640 five hours later. 0:05:08.820 --> 0:05:09.020 Right. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.400 That's a long stretch of time. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:16.160 Exactly. Prosecutors also alleged that during that window, Kelsey attacked 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.380 Doris using an open pair of scissors and a paperweight, 0:05:19.940 --> 0:05:24.520 Stabbing and striking her primarily in the head. So that's 0:05:24.540 --> 0:05:27.420 how her body. So she was found at the bottom 0:05:27.540 --> 0:05:29.979 of some stairs. So that's what we're going to get 0:05:30.020 --> 0:05:32.619 into a little bit later is the fact that she. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.349 They think that they got into some kind of argument 0:05:36.550 --> 0:05:40.630 or disagreement or fight. There was a physical fight up 0:05:40.710 --> 0:05:41.810 in a bedroom somewhere. 0:05:42.070 --> 0:05:42.370 Okay. 0:05:43.070 --> 0:05:45.190 And that she used scissors and a paperweight. 0:05:45.330 --> 0:05:45.729 Okay. 0:05:45.790 --> 0:05:46.370 Allegedly. 0:05:46.390 --> 0:05:47.930 All right. And a paperclip. 0:05:48.290 --> 0:05:50.500 Not a paperclip, but no, no paperclip. 0:05:50.510 --> 0:05:51.240 Just paperweight. 0:05:51.270 --> 0:05:51.799 Paperweight. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:52.460 Scissors. 0:05:52.500 --> 0:05:56.460 Scissors. All right, the Commonwealth's theory is that Doris was attacked, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.659 then dragged through her home where her body was eventually 0:05:59.740 --> 0:06:02.120 placed near the bottom of the stairs to make the 0:06:02.180 --> 0:06:06.800 death appear accidental. Oh, yeah. All right, we get to 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.220 November 1st of 2022. So this is the day after 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.700 the crime occurs. This is the discovery of the body. 0:06:13.380 --> 0:06:16.700 Kelsey told investigators that she returned to Doris's home the 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.560 following morning and found her grandmother at the bottom of 0:06:19.580 --> 0:06:23.740 the basement stairs at approximately 10 a.m. So she returns 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.830 to the crime scene. Yeah. And is like, oh my gosh, 0:06:28.610 --> 0:06:32.670 my grandmother is at the bottom of the stairs. She 0:06:32.730 --> 0:06:35.560 claims that she freaked out and could not accept that 0:06:35.620 --> 0:06:39.560 Doris was dead and spent time lying beside her. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:41.300 Lying? 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.140 Lying, like lying down. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:43.880 Oh, with a Y? 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.040 Yeah, with a Y. Lying with a Y. Lying down 0:06:47.140 --> 0:06:48.000 beside her grandmother. 0:06:48.020 --> 0:06:48.980 Why was she doing that? 0:06:49.700 --> 0:06:51.300 Because she didn't call 911 until 4 p.m. that day. 0:06:53.610 --> 0:06:54.750 And I don't even think she was the one that 0:06:54.770 --> 0:06:57.990 called 911. I think she eventually called her dad. 0:06:58.029 --> 0:07:00.630 So she's claiming to have laid down by her grandmother 0:07:00.650 --> 0:07:02.289 for seven hours or so? 0:07:02.330 --> 0:07:04.730 Yes, because there's a huge gap of time between her 0:07:04.770 --> 0:07:08.029 discovering the body of her grandmother dead at the bottom 0:07:08.050 --> 0:07:10.590 of the stairs and the time that 911 gets called. 0:07:10.970 --> 0:07:12.790 So in order for her to account. 0:07:12.850 --> 0:07:18.850 No, she spent that time cleaning upstairs. Right. 0:07:18.970 --> 0:07:19.370 Yes. 0:07:19.450 --> 0:07:24.170 She had some bleach... Luminol? No, Luminol is for the detectives. Oh, 0:07:24.230 --> 0:07:26.810 that's right. She was cleaning the crime scene. 0:07:27.370 --> 0:07:31.110 It wasn't until approximately 4 p.m., this is roughly six 0:07:31.170 --> 0:07:34.530 hours after she claims to have found Doris, that Kelsey 0:07:34.610 --> 0:07:38.430 contacted her father, Toby Cody, and then he was the 0:07:38.490 --> 0:07:42.070 one that actually called 911. She claims that she was 0:07:42.130 --> 0:07:44.800 just so distraught by the death of her grandmother that 0:07:44.860 --> 0:07:46.580 she was freaking out and that she just had to 0:07:46.620 --> 0:07:50.000 lay down next to her grandmother and cuddle, spoon. 0:07:50.020 --> 0:07:52.610 Yeah. Yeah, the grandmother lived alone? Yes. 0:07:53.650 --> 0:07:55.390 She had lived with her husband, Ray, and then Ray 0:07:55.430 --> 0:07:56.830 had died previously. 0:07:56.910 --> 0:08:01.190 It's scissors and a paperweight. Yes. I imagine there's going 0:08:01.210 --> 0:08:05.250 to be lots of evidence to go against the she 0:08:05.300 --> 0:08:07.000 fell down the stairs. Probably. 0:08:07.740 --> 0:08:10.480 So when investigators arrive, this is what they found. 0:08:10.500 --> 0:08:13.140 Like the stab wounds, probably, from the scissors. Or the 0:08:13.180 --> 0:08:13.800 stab wounds. 0:08:14.540 --> 0:08:18.680 When investigators arrive, this is what they found. Bloody footprints 0:08:18.820 --> 0:08:22.060 and drag marks extending from the main living room hallway 0:08:22.260 --> 0:08:25.340 through the kitchen and down the basement stairs, suggesting that 0:08:25.380 --> 0:08:28.440 Doris's body had been moved and that she had not 0:08:28.540 --> 0:08:29.560 fallen down the stairs. 0:08:29.580 --> 0:08:30.900 Yeah, yeah. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.440 Also, there was evidence found of a violent assault in 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.500 an upstairs room away from where the body was actually found. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.309 And there were also signs that portions of the scene 0:08:43.570 --> 0:08:44.590 had been cleaned. 0:08:46.230 --> 0:08:46.390 What? 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.620 This is open and shut for you, right? 0:08:49.670 --> 0:08:54.280 Well, yeah. I mean, what's her defense now? She's going 0:08:54.300 --> 0:08:58.579 to claim her grandmother was running with scissors, got hurt. Maybe. Bleeding, 0:08:58.920 --> 0:08:59.760 fell down the stairs. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.360 Okay, but then what do you say about the paperweight? 0:09:02.500 --> 0:09:05.839 I don't know. I don't know. She was carrying a paperweight, 0:09:06.460 --> 0:09:10.120 running with scissors. I don't know. She drops paperweight. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:11.720 And then stabs herself with the scissors. 0:09:11.740 --> 0:09:14.220 And hit her head on the paperweight on the stairs, 0:09:14.300 --> 0:09:16.720 stabbing her way downstairs. I don't know. 0:09:16.980 --> 0:09:19.490 You'd be a great defense attorney. 0:09:19.510 --> 0:09:24.370 No, because I'd be laughing the whole time. I'd be like, jury, 0:09:25.050 --> 0:09:27.170 please believe me when I tell you she ran with scissors. 0:09:28.380 --> 0:09:29.140 All right. 0:09:29.179 --> 0:09:30.720 The nerve that people have. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.840 To try and stage something after the fact? 0:09:34.500 --> 0:09:36.750 Just like, yeah, you're really going to get away with this? 0:09:37.270 --> 0:09:39.819 Well, she doesn't deny cleaning up the crime scene. She 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.760 claims that she was cleaning because she found blood when 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.820 she arrived back in the morning and that she was 0:09:44.860 --> 0:09:47.160 cleaning it because her grandmother was a neat freak and. 0:09:47.179 --> 0:09:50.000 She wanted to clean it. Her grandmother was also alive 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.990 and she liked to live. Should you think about that? No. 0:09:53.510 --> 0:09:56.449 Kelsey did not deny cleaning. She told investigators that she 0:09:56.530 --> 0:09:59.470 noticed blood in different areas. Some of it was dark 0:09:59.570 --> 0:10:03.660 or crustacean. and cleaned it because Doris was very particular 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.140 about keeping her home clean. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:06.000 Coagulated. 0:10:06.980 --> 0:10:11.020 Investigators also searched Kelsey's vehicle and reportedly found trash bags 0:10:11.100 --> 0:10:15.189 containing bloody clothing and items believed to be potential weapons. 0:10:15.630 --> 0:10:18.010 Here's what I don't understand. She was cleaning her grandmother's house. 0:10:19.100 --> 0:10:19.400 Right. 0:10:19.580 --> 0:10:20.569 And she put it all in her car. 0:10:20.590 --> 0:10:21.210 She cleaned it. 0:10:21.250 --> 0:10:24.650 Yeah. My grandmother doesn't like DNA everywhere. And fingerprints. 0:10:25.190 --> 0:10:27.050 Why would she? First of all, this girl's young. I 0:10:27.070 --> 0:10:30.190 think she's only 26 when this crime occurred. 0:10:30.490 --> 0:10:32.670 It's early in her murder career. Yeah. 0:10:32.690 --> 0:10:34.479 She's very early. This is her first murder. 0:10:35.540 --> 0:10:36.260 That we know of. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:37.130 That we know of. 0:10:37.179 --> 0:10:37.359 Yes. 0:10:37.380 --> 0:10:41.460 You're right. Here's what I don't understand. She's clearly trying 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.620 to clean up the scene. Allegedly. Again, she hasn't been convicted. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:44.720 Yeah. 0:10:45.980 --> 0:10:46.720 But then when you take. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.340 No, she admitted she was cleaning the scene. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:49.079 Right. Okay. 0:10:49.460 --> 0:10:50.400 You don't need to allege that. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.280 Okay. But then when she takes the bloody clothing and 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.939 puts it in a trash bag and then potential weapons 0:10:56.020 --> 0:10:58.750 possibly that were used in this attack and then puts 0:10:58.780 --> 0:11:01.429 them in her car, why does she not get rid 0:11:01.450 --> 0:11:03.470 of them before returning to the scene of the crime? 0:11:03.490 --> 0:11:05.190 She comes back at 10 o'clock in the morning. 0:11:04.970 --> 0:11:07.849 And cleans up. No, I think that was the next morning. 0:11:07.910 --> 0:11:09.449 She probably cleaned up that morning and put it in 0:11:09.490 --> 0:11:12.380 her car that morning. Like she didn't come back with it. 0:11:13.179 --> 0:11:16.910 She probably killed her grandma, left... Came back the next day. 0:11:17.790 --> 0:11:18.140 Cleaned up. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.260 And then cleaned up and put everything in her car. 0:11:20.380 --> 0:11:20.960 And then, I don't know. 0:11:20.980 --> 0:11:22.640 And then calls her dad. I don't know. And says 0:11:22.660 --> 0:11:24.760 the grandmother was dead. And then he calls 911. And 0:11:24.780 --> 0:11:26.969 then 911 comes. And then she doesn't get rid of what. 0:11:27.290 --> 0:11:27.610 She takes. 0:11:27.630 --> 0:11:29.110 She didn't think they were going to search the car, clearly. 0:11:29.130 --> 0:11:30.830 I'm just saying, she takes the time to clean up 0:11:31.010 --> 0:11:33.990 the scene. But then leaves all the evidence in her car. 0:11:34.010 --> 0:11:37.200 Right. She's going to mail it to the detective office. 0:11:39.059 --> 0:11:41.780 What's to even discuss about this case? She clearly did it. 0:11:42.500 --> 0:11:43.079 Kevin Reddington. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.460 The five hour. I know. Why is Reddington taking this case? 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:45.980 She has money? 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.280 Well, her grandmother had a significant estate and she was 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.360 the beneficiary. But again, we've always talked about with Slayer 0:11:52.380 --> 0:11:56.059 statues and things, if you can't access that money. So 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.930 I don't know who's paying Kevin Reddington unless maybe her 0:11:59.190 --> 0:12:01.750 family has money. I don't know. But he's not doing 0:12:01.790 --> 0:12:04.750 it pro bono. Are you kidding me? So I don't 0:12:04.790 --> 0:12:07.000 know who's paying him. That was one of my questions. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.000 Do we know if she's in custody during the year 0:12:09.059 --> 0:12:11.820 that she had to wait for her attorney to be available? 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.200 She's in custody, yes. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.520 She's in custody. Yeah. 0:12:15.460 --> 0:12:17.319 But Kevin Reddington hasn't had time to visit her or 0:12:17.380 --> 0:12:18.319 discuss strategy. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.699 He's been very... I don't know if you've seen the 0:12:20.740 --> 0:12:23.380 news lately, but I'm on a very big case right now. 0:12:23.500 --> 0:12:25.360 Very busy right now. So you are going to have 0:12:25.380 --> 0:12:25.859 to wait. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:26.140 Yes. 0:12:27.330 --> 0:12:31.809 The medical examiner's findings shifted the investigation significantly. The autopsy 0:12:31.910 --> 0:12:37.800 documented seven wounds primarily to the head, four sharp force 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.500 injuries to the back of the skull, which the medical 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.770 examiner told police would have required a sharp object. Not stairs, 0:12:44.950 --> 0:12:45.270 by the way. 0:12:45.390 --> 0:12:45.970 Or a paperweight. 0:12:47.010 --> 0:12:50.770 Bruising around the neck. forehead, face, and ear, and a 0:12:50.870 --> 0:12:54.270 sharp force injury to her thumb, which prosecutors said was 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.540 consistent with a defensive wound, indicating that Doris tried to 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.660 protect herself. On November 4th, 2022, this is only three days, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.670 or three to four days. Four days. I can do math. 0:13:06.850 --> 0:13:07.130 Math. 0:13:07.750 --> 0:13:11.949 Math. Four days later. Just four days after Doris's death, 0:13:12.179 --> 0:13:13.920 Kelsey Cote is single digit math. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:14.650 Yeah. 0:13:14.730 --> 0:13:18.069 Thank you. Is arrested and charged with her grandmother's murder. 0:13:18.990 --> 0:13:22.850 November 7th, 2022 is her first court appearance. She appears 0:13:22.950 --> 0:13:27.250 in Northern Berkshire district court and pleads not guilty. Kevin 0:13:27.290 --> 0:13:30.470 Reddington is present as her defense attorney. So she hires 0:13:30.510 --> 0:13:33.630 Kevin Reddington or her family or whoever hired him immediately. 0:13:33.690 --> 0:13:37.209 Like he's there for her very first court hearing. So 0:13:37.309 --> 0:13:39.130 I don't know where the money's coming from to pay 0:13:39.170 --> 0:13:42.780 for him again. the prosecutors do believe that the possible 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.500 motive could have been financial because I did read that 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.469 the grandmother had assets and well over a million dollars 0:13:48.870 --> 0:13:51.410 as far as investments, accounts, her home. 0:13:51.450 --> 0:13:54.970 She was addicted to drugs. Then clearly money was and 0:13:55.490 --> 0:13:56.809 also necessary for her. 0:13:57.470 --> 0:13:59.650 I guess the grandma, and I don't know what the 0:13:59.690 --> 0:14:01.380 timing is on this because there's not a lot of 0:14:01.410 --> 0:14:04.460 details because obviously this is going to trial soon. So 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.929 there's not a lot of details. But I don't know 0:14:08.050 --> 0:14:11.160 how she ended up becoming the beneficiary to her grandmother's 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:12.320 estate and when. 0:14:20.740 --> 0:14:20.920 All right. 0:14:20.940 --> 0:14:23.240 The case is presented to a grand jury, which returns 0:14:23.340 --> 0:14:26.920 an indictment. The case is elevated to Berkshire superior court. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.350 Kelsey faces three charges, first degree murder, assault with intent 0:14:31.390 --> 0:14:33.250 to murder and destruction of evidence. 0:14:33.670 --> 0:14:33.850 Okay. 0:14:33.870 --> 0:14:37.070 We know Kevin Reddington is representing her and we know 0:14:37.110 --> 0:14:40.470 she pleaded not guilty. So I'm very interested in what 0:14:40.490 --> 0:14:41.530 the defense is. 0:14:41.550 --> 0:14:43.270 She doesn't have a defense. 0:14:44.710 --> 0:14:46.190 I mean, is the defense really going to be the 0:14:46.210 --> 0:14:47.350 grandmother fell down the stairs? 0:14:47.790 --> 0:14:50.720 Well, it can't be anymore. There's too much evidence against that. 0:14:50.940 --> 0:14:53.180 Well, I mean, you could go with that. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.820 It would be malpractice. It would be terrible. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.160 All right. Kelsey is arraigned in Berkshire Superior Court and 0:15:00.180 --> 0:15:03.350 again pleads not guilty. She appears in court in a 0:15:03.370 --> 0:15:07.110 wheelchair due to lingering effects of her prior ATV foot 0:15:07.170 --> 0:15:11.030 injury and is seen mouthing, I love you to family 0:15:11.070 --> 0:15:14.290 members in the courtroom. I wonder what her family thinks 0:15:14.350 --> 0:15:18.140 because it's her dad's mother. So I wonder, I wonder 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.980 who's paying for the defense, why she's pleading not guilty, 0:15:22.380 --> 0:15:24.420 what the defense is going to be. I mean, she's 0:15:24.460 --> 0:15:25.100 pleading not guilty. 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.960 What would you think? What would you think if it 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:31.070 was your family member that was dead as a result? 0:15:31.090 --> 0:15:34.210 And then, and then they investigate another family member. And 0:15:34.230 --> 0:15:37.850 then you have the same thing. You have blood traces everywhere. 0:15:37.870 --> 0:15:42.190 You have all these scissor wounds, a paperweight at issue, uh, 0:15:42.740 --> 0:15:45.740 And it doesn't look like she fell down the stairs 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.400 and she was claiming to be there for four hours 0:15:48.460 --> 0:15:51.500 or seven hours and all the evidence is in the car. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.550 Her grandma's a neat freak, so she cleaned it up. 0:15:53.770 --> 0:15:56.770 What would you think? Would you think, yeah, you're probably 0:15:56.810 --> 0:15:59.170 not guilty. Okay, let's get a defense attorney. Or do 0:15:59.190 --> 0:16:00.110 you think that they're guilty? 0:16:00.170 --> 0:16:01.790 No, I would think that they were guilty. 0:16:01.950 --> 0:16:03.950 So how in the heck could this family think that 0:16:03.990 --> 0:16:04.609 she's not guilty? 0:16:05.050 --> 0:16:08.180 Maybe they do. Maybe she's convinced them that it was 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.359 somebody else. An intruder. 0:16:10.380 --> 0:16:13.670 That's crazy. That's crazy. I wouldn't believe it. 0:16:14.470 --> 0:16:19.530 At the hearing, DA Timothy Chagrou publicly details the prosecution's 0:16:19.650 --> 0:16:24.140 evidence and alleged motive telling the Berkshire Eagle, this is 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.380 a publication, that we have a lot of significant information 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.140 from the Google searches that she was planning out how 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:35.050 to kill her grandmother. Those searches allegedly included questions about, 0:16:35.370 --> 0:16:37.810 this is a quote, this is one of her Google searches. 0:16:37.890 --> 0:16:38.450 Here we go. 0:16:38.890 --> 0:16:42.609 The soft parts of the head. And the role of 0:16:42.670 --> 0:16:43.720 a medical examiner. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.960 How big does a paperweight need to be to murder 0:16:46.980 --> 0:16:48.220 someone with blunt force trauma? 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.080 The DA also alleges that Kelsey's father had installed ring 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.780 cameras inside Doris's home and that Kelsey turned them on 0:16:55.820 --> 0:16:58.750 and off and moved them around during the time of 0:16:58.780 --> 0:17:03.190 the killing. So there's some evidence. I'm sure there's a 0:17:03.270 --> 0:17:05.670 lot more evidence. It's just not released at this time 0:17:05.690 --> 0:17:08.230 because they're going to go to trial. But I would assume... 0:17:08.230 --> 0:17:10.670 If she has defensive wounds and there's a lot of 0:17:10.710 --> 0:17:12.590 blood and she was cleaning up the scene, they're going 0:17:12.609 --> 0:17:15.030 to find Kelsey's DNA. Well, I mean, she did go 0:17:15.090 --> 0:17:16.639 to the house, so obviously her DNA is going to 0:17:16.650 --> 0:17:18.600 be there, but they're probably going to find blood DNA 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.520 mixed with the grandmother's DNA, I would assume. Maybe there's 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.699 DNA under the fingernails because there's defensive wounds. 0:17:26.859 --> 0:17:28.699 Maybe so. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.939 It'll be interesting to follow this case, this trial, because one, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.450 I want to know what her defense is. And two, 0:17:35.630 --> 0:17:38.300 I want to know what all the evidence is besides 0:17:38.380 --> 0:17:41.020 just the little bit of information that's been released about 0:17:41.060 --> 0:17:43.460 the autopsy, possible motive. 0:17:43.540 --> 0:17:46.619 Right. The blood found. Maybe scissors they found. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:48.619 Were the scissors on the car? 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:48.920 Yeah. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:50.760 Were the scissors found in the car? 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.190 I wonder. I don't know. You know, when I was 0:17:54.230 --> 0:18:00.270 a store investigator and we suspected the manager of stealing cash. 0:18:00.770 --> 0:18:02.230 Oh, wait, at Target? Yeah. 0:18:02.850 --> 0:18:06.310 Cash. Like, Tens of thousands, right? Like, I think at 0:18:06.350 --> 0:18:10.290 this point, he had like 30,000 was missing. So he 0:18:10.350 --> 0:18:13.730 knew where the cameras were. So when we weren't there, 0:18:13.750 --> 0:18:16.050 because you're not there the whole time, he knew where 0:18:16.090 --> 0:18:18.750 the cameras were. He could, one, go around the cameras 0:18:18.790 --> 0:18:21.830 and avoid them if he needed to. And two, he 0:18:21.850 --> 0:18:24.990 would actually come into our camera room, our office. He 0:18:25.020 --> 0:18:26.720 was the only one that had a key besides us. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.870 And he would turn off a camera or he would 0:18:30.010 --> 0:18:34.310 delete or something. And this is all old school cassette tapes. Anyway, 0:18:34.390 --> 0:18:38.729