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Find out how to protect your 18 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: child when you're out of the mall or the store, 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: or the grocery, in the parking lot at home. Find 20 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: out about protection regarding babysitters, in daycare, even online. I'd 21 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: rather have that any day of the week than a 22 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: plastic toy or God forbid a toy gun. Join Justice Nation, 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: go to crime stops here dot com Crime Stories with 24 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. That's right. That affidavit details what happened in 25 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: the days leading up to Barrett's death. Phrasie's former girlfriend 26 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: and Twin Falls woman Crystal Kenny, made a plea deal 27 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: in exchange for the information outlined in that report. An 28 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: affidavid from the murder case of Kelsey Barrett, revealing more 29 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: graphic details about her death and the months leading up 30 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: to her legend murder. In court Tuesday, prosecutors revealed Barrett's fiance, 31 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: Patrick Fray, blindfolded Bareth on Thanksgiving Day before hitting and 32 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: killing her with a baseball bat. The information stemming from 33 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: Frazie's former girlfriend and Idaho woman, Crystal Lee Kenny. Kenny 34 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: agreed to testify against Frasie as part of a plea 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 1: deal for tampering with evidence. On Wednesday. The affidavit revealed 36 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: Kenny told investigators that she traveled to Colorado after Phrasie 37 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: said she needed to clean the murder scene in Bareth's home, 38 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,679 Speaker 1: removing any traces of blood left on the walls, couch, television, 39 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: and even on the stuffed animals. Belonging to the couple's 40 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: one year old daughter. Kenny also told investigators that Phrasie 41 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: was concerned that one of Bareth's teeth were left behind. 42 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: Kenny says she later found it and got rid of it. 43 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: The affidavit also shows Phrasie wanted Kenny to bring Bareth's 44 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: body to Idaho, but she says she refused, and instead 45 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: Phrasie burned the body. Our friends at din verse seven 46 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: reporting the very latest out of a Colorado courtroom. I'm 47 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. This is crime Stories. Thank you for being 48 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: with us. This is what we are learning. We are 49 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: learning that Patrick Phrasy tricks his fiance, the mother of 50 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: his little girl, Killey, into blindfolding her and asking her 51 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: to smell different scented candles, then rearing back with a 52 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: baseball bat is striking her in the head and face 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: that he hits her so hard. His big concern he 54 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: didn't find all of her teeth that he knocked out 55 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: of her head. We go on in this affidavit, if 56 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: you come over it very very carefully, we learn that 57 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: his mistress, Rodeo Queen, finds the tooth with the root 58 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: still attached, and disposes of it. She is in the 59 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: thick of this, on her hands and knees, after traveling 60 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: thirteen hours overnight to come to Patrick, yet his becking call. 61 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: Nobody had a gun to her head driving through the night, 62 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: leaving her two daughters. She claims to be so worried 63 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: about so she could clean up. Phrasie calls her and says, 64 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: a girl, you got a mess to clean up, and 65 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: she comes running, complete with a hairnet, a surgeon smock, 66 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: surgeon booty's worn in ears, surgical gloves, bleach wendex and 67 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: she spends the next four to six hours on her 68 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: hands and knees scrubbing. You know what, I'm not buying 69 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: it with me an all star panel forensics expert, Professor Forensics, 70 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: Jacksonville State University, an author of Blood Beneath My Feet 71 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: on Amazon, Joseph Scott Morgan, California prosecutor, Wendy Patrick, renowned 72 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,799 Speaker 1: forensics psychiatrist, doctor Daniel Bober, judge lawyer, anchor Ashley Willcott 73 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: at ashe wilcott Com and Crime online dot Com investigative 74 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: reporter Ellen Killurin First You, Ashley Willcot when she says 75 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: she did all of this cleaned. Kelsey Bearris condo scrubbing. 76 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: There was blood on the bath mat that had to 77 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: be thrown away, blood on the commode, blood on the ceiling, 78 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: blood in the kitchen, blood on the oven mints, blood 79 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: on the baby's toys. Who ps was in the next 80 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: room in a playpin while Phrasy murdered Kelsey Bearrett, the 81 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,559 Speaker 1: baby's mother. Blood on toys, blood on stuffed animals, blood 82 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: on the sofa, blood on pillows, blood on books, blood 83 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: everywhere on the rock face of Kelsey's fireplace, everything soaked 84 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: in blood on oven mits, on kelsey Beris purse. She 85 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: cleaned it all up. And then while he after killing Kelsey, 86 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: goes and sits down to Thanksgiving dinner with his family. 87 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: Certainly didn't hurt his appetite. Then after she goes with 88 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: him an arm in arm, they watched the body burn 89 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: on a bonfire. Help me out, Ashley, Yeah, I didn't 90 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: mean to interrupt you, but two things. The first says, 91 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: let's talk about him and the fact that such a brutal, 92 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: hannous murder. Of course, there's blood on every inch of 93 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: everything in that home. Of course there is. He beat 94 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: her with a baseball bat. Number two, she's complicit in 95 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: this crime. You don't go clean it up. You don't 96 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: have information that, oh, we've tried and talked about killing 97 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: her in the past. These are crimes that you report 98 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: to the police immediately. She's complicit in this murder. Well, 99 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: you know, Ashley, you really hit the nail on the 100 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: head and let me go to you. Wendy Patrick, California Prosecutor. 101 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: When you see an attack like this that is so bloody, 102 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: it's just chaos, many experts say, oh, that was a 103 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: crime of passion bs Wendy. That's a technical legal term. 104 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: Because he had approached her I believe, four times to 105 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: beat Kelsey with a baseball bat. Once he gave her 106 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: a metal pipe, according to her, Once he wanted her 107 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: to poison Kelsey is caramel machiato with ambient and valium. 108 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: And once they tried to get her to come do 109 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: the day but she was in Reno and couldn't get 110 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: a ticket. This is well planned. This is no spur 111 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: of the moment murder, that's right. And it's that chronology 112 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: of sophisticated attempts, prior attempts that really will just blow 113 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: out of the water. 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The 154 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: two also had an affair in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. 155 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: Prosecutors say Phrasey asked her to kill Kelsey Barrett three 156 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: different times. She sat and said I can't do this 157 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: and tells Patrick I can't do this. We also from 158 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: court documents, Lee says Phrasey told her to lie to 159 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: the FBI in addition to help make it look like 160 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: Barrett was in Idaho and may have killed herself. Crystal 161 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: cleans up blood but leaves behind some telltale evidence for 162 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: our investigators to find. Investigators spoke to three other people 163 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: besides Lee about this case. Each had details revealing the 164 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: plan prosecutors say Phrasey had all along to kill Barrett. 165 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: It's still unclear exactly why any of them did not 166 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: come forward sooner and if they could have saved Barrett's life. 167 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: That was a question that was asked today. Did she 168 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: call police? It's not one that was answered on the record. 169 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: You know, we are constrained that we can only talk 170 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: about what was put on the record on any particular day. 171 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: You're hearing CBS divers Shaun Chitness talking the very latest 172 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: after coming through an arrest half of David and we 173 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: got out of the courtroom. You know, now she's saying 174 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: that she left blood behind. I'm talking about the girlfriend 175 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: Crystal Lee left blood behind on the face of Kelsey's fireplace. 176 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: The murder occurred in the living room for cops to find. 177 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: You know, why not just call the cops when he 178 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: first asked her to commit murder? Straight out to crime 179 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: online dot Com, Ellen Klorin, Ellen, I'm not really buying 180 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: it this She intentionally left blood behind for inspecters or 181 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: detectives to find me neither, Nancy. That's one of my 182 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: biggest problems with her testimony. I'm really really struggling with 183 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: her claims that she said after the fact that she 184 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: did all of these things to help investigators, that she 185 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: left the blood on the fireplace, but clean the rest 186 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: of it up. If you really wanted to help investigators, 187 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: maybe don't dispose of the tooth that was dislodged when 188 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 1: Patrick Crazy allegedly beat Kelsey Bareth over the head. If 189 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: you really wanted to help investigators, you would leave something 190 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: more obvious. We're also learning some things in the arrest 191 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: appidevit that was released yesterday that I'm a lawyer and 192 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: I'm interested in what you all would legal experience believe. 193 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: But I'm worried that the defense is going to go 194 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: after a lot of things that were learning, including the 195 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: fact that she lied to police. Initially they went to 196 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: meet her out in Las Vegas where she was on 197 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: a trip, and she said that she didn't have a 198 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: relationship with Patrick Crazy. She said she'd never heard of 199 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: Kelsey Barris. And now the prosecution's case seems to be 200 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: hinging so much on her testimony, and there's nobody. Well, 201 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I think that the state is going 202 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: to have to put her on the stand and hold 203 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: their nose at the time. I mean, Joseph Scott, Morgan, 204 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University. J Scott, what about forensics, Well, 205 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: they carry the day. Because here's where I'm coming from, 206 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: jo Scott, this is not what I believe happened. But 207 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: Chrystal Lee, the rodeo queen, his other lover, has really 208 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: set herself up for a claim that she's the killer. 209 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: She's there on the scene, she cleans the blood, she 210 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: gets rid of evidence, she knows where the body is, 211 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: she knows what happened to it, and he can easily 212 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: claim she did it. Will forensic cabinets carry the day? 213 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: Joe Scott let it go? Yeah, Hey, I gotta tell you, Nancy, 214 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: I think that that the defense is really going to 215 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: drill down on this where they're going to try to 216 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: pin it to her more than likely. And look, I 217 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: would if we could have it in a perfect world, 218 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: I'd love to have this woman's body because I think 219 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 1: that you're going to find out a lot more information 220 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: relative to these injuries she sustained in the power that 221 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: was involved in bludgeoning her to death with this alleged 222 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: baseball bat. And you know, yeah, it's gonna be very 223 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: powerful at the scene relative to what kind of testing 224 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: they did there this blood that was allegedly cleaned up 225 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: in an attempt to, you know, cover this whole thing up. 226 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: Did they get this to luminess with something like luminol 227 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: out there? Oh? I know why they use It's in 228 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: the affidavit they used the blue Star regent. Yeah. Yeah, 229 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: And what's really great about this do you remember just 230 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: a few moments ago you were talking about how what 231 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: was that amount of time that she drove to get there. 232 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,719 Speaker 1: You said something like thirteen hours overnight. Yeah, hey, get this. 233 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: Did you know that the longer you allow these things 234 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: to set in place, it's just like anything else, Nancy, 235 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: a piece of clothing, the harder it is to wipe away, 236 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: to wipe away, even using bleach, any of trace elements 237 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: of blood. So they waited a long time before they 238 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: clean this mess up. What does that say to you? 239 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: Let's go to our forensic psychiatrists joining us today at 240 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: the Florida Jurisdiction, doctor Daniel Bober. Doctor Bober, it just 241 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: is beyond me how he can beat her head in 242 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: with a baseball bat while she's smelling a candle he 243 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: gave her, with the baby in a playpen in the 244 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: next room, have a horribly bloody crime scene, I mean soaked, 245 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: soaked in blood, and just fold her body up and 246 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: put it in a tote bag, put it in his 247 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: pickup truck, drive to his family's house with the baby, 248 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: I guess, wash his hands of the blood like Poncho's pilot, 249 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: and sit down to a turkey and dressing in cranberry 250 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: sauce like nothing's wrong, leaving the crime scene sitting there 251 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: too decompose for two full days for his mistress to 252 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: come clean it up. What is that, doctor bober cruis psychopathy, nancy, 253 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: zero remorse, zero empathy, zero connection with other human beings. 254 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: But Crystal Lee is very interesting because you know, she's 255 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: claiming to be this clueless, hapless victim that was unwittingly 256 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: led down the path, and clearly she's complicit. Clearly she's involved. 257 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: She lied, she tried to conceal evidence, she tampered with 258 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,239 Speaker 1: the scene, and I think she's, you know, truly responsible. 259 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: I think she knew exactly what she was doing and 260 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: she was intimately involved. Straight out to Alan Kalauria and 261 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com, investigative reporter at crime online dot Com, 262 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: we have this and all other breaking news and crime 263 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: and justice to ak. Let me ask you a question. 264 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: Let's talk about Crystal having a gun in her car. 265 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: I saw that in the affidavit, especially as it relates 266 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: to her best friend Meghan Garrison. That's right, there's a 267 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: new item in the affidavit that shows not that Crystel 268 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: did a lot to cover up what she was doing. 269 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: She switched cars with her friend Megan, apparently because she 270 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: didn't want her very recent ex husband to know what 271 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: was going on, so she switched cards with her friend 272 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: and the FBI interviewed the friend later in the investigation 273 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: and the friend said that she has a gun. We 274 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: don't know what type of weapon, but she hadn't gone 275 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: in her car, and the friend Megan told investigators that 276 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: there was It does not sound like it's a gun 277 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: that she uses very often. She said that there was 278 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: a bullet missing last night. I called Spencer Kerson, a 279 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: friend of Crime Online and Crime Stories who's a security expert, 280 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,199 Speaker 1: and he explained to me that it's possible for a 281 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: bullet to discharge from a gun without it being fired. 282 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: But again, this is something that I'm worried that the 283 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: defense is going to look out. It's say, wait a second, 284 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: what happened with this gun and is it too late 285 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: to get any kind of ballistics from it? To Wendy Patrick, 286 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: California Prosecutor, Wendy, where does this leave? Chrystal Lee, the 287 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 1: Rodeo Queen, divorced mother of two, has been dating Patrick 288 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: Frasey since college. They reignited their love according to this affidavit, 289 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: and around twenty seventeen or eighteen, I think that's according 290 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 1: to the ex husband who's living with her on the 291 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: same roof. Where does this leave her credibility? Because if 292 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: you carefully read the affidavit, you see that she lied 293 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: to her best friend, Megan Garrison. She told her best 294 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: friend that she was going somewhere different. She set up 295 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 1: a fake email message that she had to stay that 296 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: night and that would be the night she was cleaning 297 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: up the murder scene with Megan because she was quote 298 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: too drunk to drive something some bs like that in 299 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: case her ex husband read the emails. Okay, so she's 300 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: setting up a fake email. She goes and gets a 301 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: new phone to get rid of all the cell phone evidence. 302 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 1: She cleans the crime scene. She's been solicited three or 303 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: four times to commit murderer and never calls the police. 304 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: She stands there arm in arm with Patrick Frazy while 305 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: they watch the black toadbag with silver handles melt with 306 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: a heap. As she describes it inside, she won't she 307 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: won't say it to cops, but she knew that was 308 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: Kiltsy's body and cash this you got the mom too, 309 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: Phrasie's mom, Sheila, who was home at the time of 310 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: the bonfire. So what's her credibility? What is Crystal Lees credibility. Yeah, Nancy, 311 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:20,719 Speaker 1: it leaves her in a really bad spot when it 312 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: comes to being a credible witness. And when we discussed 313 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: the relationship she had with the defendant in this case, 314 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: the killer, you know, I know that it sounds like, oh, 315 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: it was an affair. They used to be sweethearts back 316 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: in the day. It's a relationship of power and control 317 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: to commit a murder and then insist she come over 318 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: and clean up the mess, No doubt. These are the 319 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: kinds of cases where a woman that's involved often says, 320 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: I was under the influence of the perpetrator and I 321 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: didn't I feared what would happen if I didn't comply 322 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: with his requests. If you were to look at it 323 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: through that lens, she might have more credibility than not. 324 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: But again, Nancy, like you just pointed out this long 325 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: list of inconsistencies and dishonest statements that are listed in 326 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: the app and David, that's got an amount to a 327 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: huge blow to her credibility, notwithstanding the fact that she 328 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: was involved in a very sick relationship. Crystaland tells us 329 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: that on October I'm sorry. November twenty second, Thanksgiving, Patrick 330 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: kills Kelsey in a horrific manner with a bat in 331 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 1: the back of the head as Kelsey is sniffing candles 332 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: with a blindfold over her eyes. Crystal tells us that 333 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 1: Patrick then calls her after he has put Kelsey in 334 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,479 Speaker 1: a black plastic tote, calls Crystal to come out and 335 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: help him clean up. She does not come out that day. 336 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 1: She cannot come out that day, but she does come 337 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: out on October twenty fourth, and as Crystal describes, when 338 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 1: she walks into Kelsey's condo, the scene is horrific. There's 339 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: blood everywhere, there are footprints everywhere, and Crystal cleans up 340 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: blood but leaves behind some telltale evidence for our investigators 341 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: to find. Climb stories with Nancy Grace brothers Ola and 342 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: abel Osandaro, the duo spent several hours testifying before a 343 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: grand jury. The results in indictment actor Jose Smilette, charged 344 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: with disorderly conduct, a class four felony. The brother's attorney, 345 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: Gloria Schmidt, there was a point where this story needed 346 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: to be told, and they manned up and they said, 347 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: you know what, We're going to correct this. That story 348 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: told in part through the surveillance video. CBS two first 349 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: obtained the brothers seen at a beauty supply store buying item. 350 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: Sources say we're used just a day later in a 351 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 1: staged attack on smilette. A plane, red hat, ski masks, 352 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,400 Speaker 1: and gloves are among the items. Ivan in touch mom, 353 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: I've been in touch with older brother. I've been in 354 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: touch with the family. This has been very traumatizing to 355 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: them as well as everyone who knows this story. Yet 356 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: raid of the brothers home turned up some of the 357 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: same props the brothers purchased, like that red hat and 358 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: black face mask. I think Jesse Smollett should come clear 359 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: because the truth will set him for you. Okay, don't 360 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen, because at this hour, Jesse Smollett 361 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: has just been arrested for faking racist homophobic attack, a 362 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,479 Speaker 1: racist homophobic attack on himself, then lying to police and 363 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: creating a police report. He now says he is going 364 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: to fight the charges. Welcome back, everybody. I mean, it'sy grace. 365 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: This is crime stories, you know, in the big scheme 366 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: of things. When we Jess finished talking about Kelsey Barrett, 367 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: who is dead, who has been brutally murdered in a 368 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: long standing scheme, leaving behind a baby girl to grow 369 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: up without her mother, a family having their daughter wrenched 370 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: away from them in a brutal, brutal way. Now we've 371 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 1: got a deal with let me just say, a spoiled 372 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: Brighte that wanted more attention. According to police, when his 373 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: fa the fake letters he wrote to himself didn't generate 374 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: enough publicity, allegedly, he decided to stage an attack on himself. 375 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: I mean, really, Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor, have you seen 376 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: the video of these two brothers. Their faces are in 377 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 1: the video, they're looking right at the camera. Basically, this 378 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: is right before the attack. They're buying the ski masks 379 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: they wore to cover their face, a black a red 380 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: hat to look like a make a Girl America Great 381 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: Again hat to kind of like suggest this had something 382 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 1: to do with Trump. Long story short, they're buying all 383 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: of these items right down the street from where the 384 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: attack happened. And what is significant is they're friends with 385 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: Jesse Smillett, the star of the TV hit Empire. There 386 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: is friends. One is like his personal trainer. Well it 387 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: was an extra on the set of Empire. They're even 388 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: caught on video getting a ride chair to the attack. Wendy. Yeah, 389 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: I gotta say, Nancy, it doesn't seem like it was 390 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: very well planned given all of those facts. Let me 391 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: add to those facts, this occurred during the height of 392 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: the polar vortex, with those plummeting temperatures, in the middle 393 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: of the night, with allegedly screaming out this is mega country. 394 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: That area is Chicago. That is not mega country, far 395 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: from it. So you look at all of the I 396 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: don't want to see mistakes. You know, We're always happy 397 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 1: when please find out who really did and who really 398 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: did a crime so we can solve it. But this 399 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: appears to be very poorly planned. What'll be interesting now 400 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 1: is seeing given the statements that Jesse already gave very 401 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: publicly during that Good Morning America interview, and the statements 402 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: that the lawyer may, how that how the backpedal from here, 403 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: and how this proceeds given that there's already basically been 404 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 1: a position taken by now I'm glad you brought up 405 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: the GMA interview with my friend Robin Roberts, because she 406 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: was just looking at him as he was just talking. 407 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,239 Speaker 1: I mean, she didn't come out right and call him 408 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: a liar. She you know, gave him a shred of 409 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: dignity for Pete's sake. But take a listen to Smilet 410 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 1: going on and on about how he decides to go 411 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: out at t a m and subzero temperature. I believe 412 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: Alan Duke told me it was nine below with the 413 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: windshill factor to get what a meatball sandwich? You know, 414 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: at that time of the night with that temperature, I 415 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: would have just eaten something out of the fridge. I 416 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 1: don't care what it was. But he goes out, and 417 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: we're supposed to believe that these people that have been 418 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: sending him threatening letters to his set an empire, this 419 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 1: person who's targeting him just happened to know he was 420 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: going to get the thungrees at two am and go 421 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: to subway in there waiting by the subway with the 422 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: bleach and the rope. Okay, take a listen to our 423 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: friend Robin Roberts. What happened that night, Chelsea. When I 424 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: landed in Chicago and Frank Gatson, who's like my uncle 425 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 1: and he's also my creative director, and he picked me 426 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: up and then we got back to the apartment. There 427 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: was no food, and so I went out to Walgreens, 428 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: thinking that they were twenty four hours then to have 429 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: a smoke. Walgreens was closed, so I called him up 430 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: and I said, hey, I'm going to run the subway, 431 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: which was across the street, and I'm gonna get a salad. 432 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: Do you want anything. I went to the subway and 433 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: got the order. During that time, I texted my manager, 434 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: thinking that he was still in Australia because he was 435 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: on an Australian tour with one of his other clients, 436 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: and I said, y'll call me when you can. He 437 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 1: called me immediately, and while he was on the phone, 438 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: I heard As I was crossing the intersection, I heard 439 00:26:54,680 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: Empire and I don't answer to Empire. Empire and I 440 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: didn't answer. I kept walking and then I heard Empire. 441 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: So I turned around and I said, did you just 442 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: say to me? And I see the attacker masked and 443 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: he said this maga country punches me right in the face. 444 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: So I punched through the ass back and then we 445 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: started tussling. You know, it was very icy, and we 446 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: ended up tustling by the stairs, fighting, fighting, fighting. There 447 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: was a second person involved who was kicking me in 448 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: my back and then it just stopped. MM that's what 449 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: he told Robin and Roberts to Alan Glauran, Crime Online 450 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: got comm investigative reporter who's been following in the case. 451 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: It's the very beginning. Okay, what can you tell me 452 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 1: about those letters? We know that there was a letter 453 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: sent to the studio where Empire films just a week 454 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: before the purported hate crime attack on January twenty ninth. 455 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: It was written, it was created like someone like had 456 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: like a ransom letter with letters cut out of a magazine, 457 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: and that only doesn't look now more and more likely 458 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: that this hate crime was orchestrated on January twenty ninth. 459 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: There is a lot of suspicion that that letter also 460 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: may have been something that was fabricated. And as we've 461 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: mentioned before, people who work with Smallette on the show 462 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: have said to reporters that they thought he wasn't happy 463 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: with the reaction to the letter, so he upped the 464 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: ante and orchestrated this so called hate crime against himself. Well, 465 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: when you the two brothers who were involved in this, 466 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 1: and they've already spoken to police, they've been interrogated, and 467 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: they were released with no charges. According to reports, they 468 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: were paid thirty five hundred dollars in another five hundred. 469 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: When they got back to attack their friend Jesse Smilette, 470 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: the Star of Empire, they conveniently leave town to fly 471 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: to visit family in Nigeria. They are American born, they're 472 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: American citizens. The day after the attack attacks at two am, 473 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: they head out of the country. The next day, when 474 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: they get back, they're met by cops. They are the ones. 475 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: The two brothers, Abel and Ola Osendaro are the ones 476 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: saying that Smilett wrote the letter to himself. And when 477 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: you look at it, I mean, Joe Scott Morgan, please 478 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: help me. It looks like a fifth grader was trying 479 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: to write a crime novel where you cut out the 480 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: letters from a magazine. And then of course I think 481 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: they found magazines in somebody's apartment that they're looking at. 482 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: And then they've got in red. It's got somebody getting 483 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: hung with a gun shooting them very it's like stick figures. Yeah, 484 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: and you know they're talking about this, this faux hate 485 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: crime that took place. Uh, that doesn't that doesn't hold 486 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: my attention as much as this letter does. Nancy, remember 487 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: the faux hate crime reporting and all that. As a 488 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: fourth fourth class felony. Uh, what you're talking about with 489 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: this letter. The FBI is involved in this investigation, Nancy. 490 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: And from what I'm reading, they have that envelope, they 491 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: have the letter, they have everything, they're analyzing it, and 492 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: this is this is a kicker. Not only did this 493 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: contain this homemade you know, whatever this thing was, it 494 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: looks like some kind of child's rendering, as you put it, 495 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: but there was crushed, white, unidentified powder in this thing. 496 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: This kicks this up to another level. What's going to 497 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: be really interesting moving forward is to see how the 498 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: US Attorney and the FBI and the Postal Inspector pursue 499 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: this thing, because you know, you look at these charges 500 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: that people have been convicted on these cases where they're 501 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: sending these letters in the mail, Nancy, some of these 502 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: people are getting up to fifteen and sixteen years on 503 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 1: a single count for these things. So that's going to 504 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: be really interesting. They ran off, and I saw where 505 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: they ran, and the phone was in my pocket but 506 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 1: it had fallen out and it was sitting there, and 507 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: my manager was still on phone. So I picked up 508 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: the phone and I said, Brandon, and he's Lef's going on? 509 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: And I said I was just jumped, and then I 510 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: looked down and I see that there's a rope around 511 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: my neck, which I hadn't I had noticed it before 512 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: you because it was so fast, you know what I'm saying. 513 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: It was so fast. How long did this all? It 514 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: felt like minutes, but it probably was like thirty seconds. Honestly, 515 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: I can't tell you. Honestly, I noticed the rope around 516 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: my neck and I started screaming, and I said, there's 517 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: a rope around my neck. And did you get any 518 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: kind of description of the attack. I gave a body description, 519 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: and I, you know, because I saw this, but and 520 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: you know, right here or whatever. But I didn't see 521 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: I can't tell you what color their eyes were. I 522 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: can't tell you. And I did not see anything except 523 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: the second person I saw running away and the first person, yeah, 524 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: I saw, saw his stature. I gave the description as 525 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: best as I could. You have to understand also that 526 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: it's Chicago in winter. People can wear ski masks, and 527 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: nobody's going to question that. You're hearing our friend at 528 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: ABC's GMA, Robin Roberts talking to Empire or star Jesse Smilett. 529 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: He's just been formally charged. He has been taken to 530 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: the station and booked on charges basically a false report. 531 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 1: In that jurisdiction, that's considered a disorderly conduct charge. It's 532 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: a class for felony. You get one to three years 533 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: behind bars, unless it's kicked up to another charge because 534 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: of the white substance that he allegedly mailed himself in 535 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: his fake threats to doctor Daniel Bober. We're getting ready 536 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: to take into a presser by the District Attorney to 537 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: doctor Daniel Bober forensic psychi is doctor Biber. Do you 538 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: hear Smolette's voice and the way he tells dramatically tells 539 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: Robin Roberts the story. It gets down very low and 540 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: then it springs back up and he seems to have 541 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: an answer for everything. What is that, Nancy? Remember Morton 542 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: Downey Jr. The attack on him. Anyway, No, you know 543 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: this is he needs acting lessons because this is deeply 544 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: compromising on so many levels. The fact that you know, 545 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: he's a celebrity and we're in the B two movement 546 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: and we have all this identity politics going on, and 547 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: the fact that he had twelve detectives working on his 548 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: case when they could have been out doing something else. 549 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: There is actually a disorder called a factitious disorder imposed 550 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: on self, where people do these sorts of things. And 551 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: I've seen patients in my practice who have claimed to 552 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: have had cancer and never had it, or they claimed 553 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: to be victims of the nine to eleven attack, but 554 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: they were never there. They just sound like a pack 555 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: of liars to me, doctor Daniel Biber, Why are you 556 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: putting it on the big and the pig and pretending 557 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: they have some kind of personality disorder. They're just lying. Well, 558 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm not saying they don't know the difference between right 559 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: and wrong. Obviously, they're volitional, they're wilful, they know what 560 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: they're doing. But the motivation is because purely for attention. 561 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 1: There are people that feel very invalidated. They get enough 562 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: attention and this is the only way they could get, 563 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: you know, recognition. And this is especially prominent in people 564 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 1: in the acting profession who were, you know, sort of 565 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: insecure by nature. Well, this is interesting, Wendy Patrick. I 566 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,919 Speaker 1: want your take on this. We're gonna take you straight 567 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: into the press room just a moment, Wendy. He's got 568 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: a high power team of defense lawyers, including Mark Garrigos, 569 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,720 Speaker 1: my sparring partner, and I was baiting Garrigos by texts 570 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,720 Speaker 1: last night. He did not take the bait. By the way, 571 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: it was very respectful about his new client, Jesse Smollett, 572 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: and did not let me egg him on at all. 573 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: Long story short, I hope Garrigos does not take the 574 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: route of Winona Ryder that he famously presented for shoplifting. 575 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: And she fought it the whole tooth and nail, and 576 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: the people saw her going in there with the items. 577 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 1: They go in there, the items are gone except for 578 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 1: all the tags cut off, and she leaves and is 579 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,759 Speaker 1: caught with the items, and they fight it in court. Here, 580 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 1: I think a great thing first of all that to 581 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 1: do is okay, you know what, I was afraid I 582 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: was going to lose my job. I tried to drum 583 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,839 Speaker 1: up pr I tried to bring attention to attacks on 584 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: gay people, on black people. And I was wrong and 585 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 1: I was stupid, and I'm a big idiot. Please forgive me, 586 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 1: and don't let what I did reflect on real crime victims. 587 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 1: I'm just a big idiot. That's what I would do. 588 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: I would get out there, get in front of it, 589 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,240 Speaker 1: admit it, and take a plea go pick up trash 590 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 1: on the side of the road and be done with it. Yeah, Nancy, 591 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: I actually started my career as a criminal defense attorney. 592 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: And you're writing that part of adequate and competent representation 593 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,800 Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily always mean fighting a case in court. It 594 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: off and means expressing guilt early on in the process 595 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: and throwing yourself on the mercy of the court. It 596 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 1: might be a sentencing issue. And why do I say that, 597 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 1: had Smolett not gone so public in his denials and 598 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: given that long interview with your friend Robin, who I thought, 599 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: I agree with you. She was very nice, she smiled. 600 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: She basically gave him a platform to lay out exactly 601 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: what happened. It's hard to detract from that. It's hard 602 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: to take that away. So maybe the best offense right 603 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: now is like you, like you suggested, admitting guilt, professing 604 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: to move on, making a mistake, being an example to others. However, 605 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: we've all seen that that is not always what happens, 606 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: even when there's initially And what about this Eka Ellen 607 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: Killaura and Crime online dot Com investigative reporter. You know 608 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:49,760 Speaker 1: a Chicago mom Kenyatta Jones is angry because she says 609 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: the Smollett investigation diverted police attention and resources that should 610 00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: be being used to solve her daughter's murder. Her daughter, 611 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,960 Speaker 1: her Oceanica, was shot in the back running from four men, 612 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 1: and there's one detective on the case. And let me 613 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,959 Speaker 1: tell you, I know the deal, because I've been there. 614 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,360 Speaker 1: You get one hundred and fifty new cases a week, 615 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,399 Speaker 1: and you're choking, you're drowning in cases. You're trying your 616 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,479 Speaker 1: best to give your all to every case. So while 617 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:22,800 Speaker 1: everybody's out chasing this non attack on Jesse Jesse Smillette, 618 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,839 Speaker 1: real victims are suffering. That's right, Nancy, And that's one 619 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,839 Speaker 1: of the really infuriating things about this if in fact 620 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,760 Speaker 1: the charges are true. When the allegations are correct, this 621 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,399 Speaker 1: desperate mother, whose daughter was twenty one year old daughter 622 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 1: was murdered months ago, has been working around the clock 623 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 1: to help solve her case because she's not getting the 624 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 1: resources that she needs. And since this purported hate attack happened, 625 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 1: she has found leaves herself that she has tried to 626 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 1: bring to law enforcement and she hasn't been able to 627 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 1: get anywhere. And she believes that part of the reason 628 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,919 Speaker 1: for that is because so many resources have been directed 629 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: to a crime that may not have happened at all. 630 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: I can I'm looking at a picture of Oceania right now. 631 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 1: She's just absolutely beautiful. And to think of a mother 632 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: out there beating the streets to find witnesses because cops 633 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: are busy on Jesse's smell, Let's shame, shame, shame on him. Guys. 634 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 1: Let's go to that presser right now. Take a listen 635 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,319 Speaker 1: to the Chicago Police before I get started on why 636 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 1: we're here. You know, as I look out into the crowd, 637 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,840 Speaker 1: I just wish that the families of gun violence in 638 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,080 Speaker 1: this city got this much attention, because that's who really 639 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: deserves the amount of intention that we're giving to this 640 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,920 Speaker 1: particular incident. But this morning, I come to you not 641 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: only as the superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, but 642 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,840 Speaker 1: also as a black man who spent his entire life 643 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 1: living in the city of Chicago. I know the racial 644 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,879 Speaker 1: divide that exists here. I know how hard it's been 645 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: for our city and our nation to come together, and 646 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 1: I also know the disparities, and I know the history. 647 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 1: This announcement today recognizes that Empire actor Jesse Smilett took 648 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,360 Speaker 1: advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote 649 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 1: his career. I'm left hanging my head and asking why 650 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,239 Speaker 1: why would anyone, especially an African American man, use the 651 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: symbolism of a noose to make false accusations. How could 652 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: someone look at the hatred and suffering associated with that 653 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 1: symbol and see an opportunity to manipulate that symbol to 654 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:44,400 Speaker 1: further his own public profile, who's been embraced by the 655 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 1: city of Chicago, turn around and slap everyone in this 656 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,520 Speaker 1: city in the face by making these false chart claims, 657 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 1: bogus police reports calls real harm. They do harm that 658 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,400 Speaker 1: every legitimate victim who's in need of support by police 659 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,840 Speaker 1: and investigators, as well as the citizens of this city. 660 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: Chicago hosts one of the largest pride parades in the world, 661 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:15,640 Speaker 1: and we're proud of that. As a police department and 662 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 1: also as a city, we do not, nor will we 663 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 1: ever tolerate hate in our city, whether that hate is 664 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: based on an individual, sexual orientation, race, or anything else. 665 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,520 Speaker 1: So I'm offended by what's happened, and I'm also angry. 666 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: I love the city of Chicago and the Chicago Police 667 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:42,840 Speaker 1: Department warts in all, but this publicity stunt was a 668 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:48,000 Speaker 1: scar that Chicago didn't earn and certainly didn't deserve. To 669 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,920 Speaker 1: make things worse, the accusations within this phony attack received 670 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:59,040 Speaker 1: national attention for weeks. Celebrities, news commentators, and even presidential 671 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:04,680 Speaker 1: candidates weighed in on something that was choreographed by an actor. First, 672 00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,800 Speaker 1: Smilett attempted to gain attention by sending a false letter 673 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:14,640 Speaker 1: that relied on racial, homophobic, and political language. When that 674 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:20,480 Speaker 1: didn't work, Smilette pay thirty five hundred dollars to stage 675 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:24,000 Speaker 1: this attack and drag Chicago's reputation through the mud in 676 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: the process. And why this stunt was orchestrated by Smilette 677 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,360 Speaker 1: because he was dissatisfied with his salary so he can 678 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:39,000 Speaker 1: coqued a story about being attacked. Now, our city has problems. 679 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:44,759 Speaker 1: We know that we have problems that have affected people 680 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,719 Speaker 1: from all walks of life, and we know that. But 681 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,279 Speaker 1: to put the national spotlight on Chicago for something that 682 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:57,560 Speaker 1: is both egregious and untrue, it's simply shameful. I'm also 683 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 1: concerned about what this means moving forward for hate crimes. Now. 684 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,560 Speaker 1: Of course, the Chicago Police Department would continue to investigate 685 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,319 Speaker 1: all reports of these types of incidents with the same 686 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,640 Speaker 1: amount of vigor that we did with this. One of 687 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,400 Speaker 1: my concern is that hate crimes will now publicly be 688 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,320 Speaker 1: met with a level of skepticism that previously didn't happen. 689 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,680 Speaker 1: That said Smilette was treated as a victim throughout this 690 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,240 Speaker 1: investigation until we received evidence that led detectives in another direction. 691 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,080 Speaker 1: I couldn't be more proud of the unrelenting detective work 692 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,839 Speaker 1: that went into this investigation, and I couldn't be more 693 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,040 Speaker 1: proud of every investigator that played a part in it. 694 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,360 Speaker 1: The detective work that we saw in this case is 695 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,959 Speaker 1: indicative of the work that our detectives do every day 696 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:51,239 Speaker 1: in this city. This case, in particular involved hours of 697 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 1: video evidence, which, when combined with old fashioned police work, 698 00:42:55,480 --> 00:43:00,080 Speaker 1: uncovered the truth. These detectives deserve all the credit the 699 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,400 Speaker 1: world for carefully analyzing the leads and the evidence for 700 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,759 Speaker 1: weeks before coming to their conclusion. I'd also like to 701 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,640 Speaker 1: thank the FBI for their helping this investigation. The FBI's 702 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,040 Speaker 1: partnership with CPD has been pivotal in this particular case. 703 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,520 Speaker 1: I only hope that the truth about what happened receives 704 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,799 Speaker 1: the same amount of attention that the hoax did. I'll 705 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,480 Speaker 1: continue to pray for this troubled young man who resorted 706 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:32,719 Speaker 1: to both drastic and illegal tactics to gain attention. I'll 707 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,200 Speaker 1: also continue to pray for our city, asking that we 708 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,200 Speaker 1: can move forward from this and begin to heal. Heard 709 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,280 Speaker 1: it from the horse's mouth. We'll see as justice unfolds. 710 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,359 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace crime story, signing off Goodbye Thing,