Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

911 received a call from Patrick "Ted" Barnett telling the dispatcher that his wife, Lindsey, "cut herself and her throat". First responders found Lindsey in the shower, dead, with a large laceration across the front of her neck and a serrated knife nearby. "Ted" claims his wife, Lindsey, had postpartum depression and killed herself. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the facts of the case including an unusual request for a welfare check. A woman asks police to do a welfare check on her boyfriend. She is worried because they talk all the time and today he hasn't answered calls or replied to texts. Police ask her the name of the man they need to check up on and the caller says "Ted Barnett".
Highlights
00:01.400 Welcome to Body Bags

00:10.630 The Challenges of Sharp Force Injuries

03:50.310 A Disturbing Discovery in the Shower

09:59.460 The Importance of Scene Reconstruction

14:51.210 The Husband's Suspicious Story

21:11.109 Unraveling the Mystery

35:12.420 The Girlfriend's Alarming Call

40:45.210 Closing Thoughts on the Case



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A Texas man faces capital murder charges after a five-year-old girl was killed in a roadway shooting in Harris County. A Northern Virginia real estate agent was shot to death inside her home, triggering a multi-state manhunt that ended with her husband's arrest in Pennsylvania. Officials in Oxford, Mississippi, are investigating after two Ole Miss students were found dead in separate incidents where packaged Kratom was discovered. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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Federal authorities, including the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI, have stepped in to review the controversial 2011 death of Ellen Greenberg. Federal agencies requested and subpoenaed documents and investigative records from the Philadelphia Police Department and other local entities. Philadelphia's chief medical examiner reaffirmed the manner of death as suicide following an independent autopsy review mandated by a civil settlement, but now federal law enforcement have opened a broader inquiry into how local authorities and the medical examiner handled the investigation.
In the moments before a civil case was to get underway, the family of Ellen Greenberg and Philadelphia officials come to an agreement to reopen the death investigation of the young teacher. The settlement means that after 14 years, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's office will reopen and reinvestigate Greenberg's manner of death. Ellen Greenberg was found stabbed 20 times in the head, back, neck and chest. Then her death was ruled a suicide.
The attorney for the Greenberg's, Joseph Padraza, Jr says the settlement includes an agreement that the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office will conduct an “expeditious” review of the manner of Greenberg’s 2011 death. The settlement is reached days after Doctor Marlon Osbourne, who conducted the autopsy, as the former assistant medical examiner with the ME's office, signed a sworn verification statement in which he says he now believes Ellen's manner of death should be designated as something other than suicide. Doctor Osbourne initially ruled Ellen Greenberg's death a homicide then changed the ruling to suicide.
In a public statement, Doctor Marlon Osbourne said after reviewing additional information in the Ellen Greenberg case file obtained from the Philadelphia Police Department as well as a consult with Doctor Lucy Rorke-Adams, a pediatric neuropathologist, he decided to make the change. In his verification, Osbourne writes that he is now unsure of the series of events that happened that day. He also says he doesn't know "whether the door was forced open as reported; whether Ellen's body was moved by someone else inside the apartment with her at or near the time of her death, and the findings of Lindsey Emery, M.D., from her neuropathological evaluation of Ellen's cervical segment sample."

Joining Nancy Grace Today:
Sandee and Josh Greenberg - Ellen Greenberg's Parents, Twitter: @justice4ellentw, Facebook: @justice4ellenFB, GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/920af299
Benee Knauer - Author, "What Happened To Ellen?: An American Miscarriage of Justice"
Joseph R. Podraza, Jr. - Attorney for Ellen Greenberg Family, Partner with Lamb McErlane
Caryn Stark - Psychologist, renowned TV and Radio trauma expert and consultant, www.carynstark.com, Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
Tom Brennan - PI Consultant for Ellen Greenberg's family
Guy D’Andrea - Former Prosecutor in Ellen Greenberg Case, Attorney at Laffey Bucci D’Andrea Reich & Ryan
Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", @JoScottForensic
John Luciew - Journalist for PennLive.com and The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., Author: “Kill the Story”, Twitter: @JohnLuciew

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Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a second murder suspect and issued a warrant for a third in connection with the death of 29-year-old mother Tasia Fortune. In Washington state, a mother faces multiple manslaughter charges after her nonverbal, epileptic 8-year-old daughter was found dead in an overflowing bathtub. Meanwhile, DNA testing has confirmed human remains found in Caldwell County belong to missing Texas State University student Jason Landry, ending a nearly six-year search. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington is asking the trial judge to question holdout juror Michael Desronvi and review his phone records. Desronvil was the only juror who publicly stated that he “didn’t have any doubts” about Clancy’s criminal responsibility for her three children's deaths. With no unanimous verdict, a mistrial was declared following seven days of deliberation. He is currently in a secure location due to public backlash.
Jurors and media reports confirm that Desronvil’s refusal to acquit Clancy by reason of insanity was based on his personal judgment of the evidence, not any illegal action.
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