Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Former luxury real estate brokers Oren, Tal, and Alon Alexander each receive 30-year federal prison sentences following their convictions for orchestrating a violent sex trafficking operation. In Florida, a mother stands accused of leaving four young children home alone to travel to Las Vegas. In Southern California, a rabbi intentionally drives into a worker painting lines in a Camarillo Costco parking lot. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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In 1995, 18-year-old Job Corps student Christa Pike carried out one of the most savage murders in Tennessee history, luring 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer into the Knoxville woods before stabbing her, carving a pentagram into her chest, and smashing her skull with an asphalt paving brick—keeping a fragment of Colleen's bone as a trophy to dance with at her dorm. Pike became the youngest woman sentenced to death in modern U.S. history, but tonight, justice remains stalled after an execution attempt went catastrophically wrong. Executioners spent over an hour sticking Pike with at least ten needles without establishing venous access due to severely collapsed veins. Now, Pike's defense attorneys have taken the unprecedented step of filing legal challenges demanding the hangman's noose or a surgical central line, while citing new cognitive damage and past trauma to block a second execution. Nancy Grace and her panel of medical, legal, and investigative experts—joined by Colleen's close friend Rita Morris—break down the botched lethal injection, the gruesome reality of alternate execution methods, and the ongoing anguish of Colleen’s mother, May Martinez, as Tennessee Governor Bill Lee refuses to act.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
Rita Morris - Friend of Colleen Slemmer
Marie Pereira (Los Angeles, CA) - Criminal Defense Attorney, Domestic Violence Expert (Domestic violence expert certified advocate, batterers prevention), Registered Nurse

Dr. Bethany Marshall (Beverly Hills, CA) - Psychoanalyst, Watch Dr. Marshall on hit shows "Paris in Love" on Peacock and "The Valley, Persian Style" on Bravo. You can also catch her on Netflix and Hulu as well. Host of "On the Couch with Dr. Bethany Marshall" podcast, Instagram, Facebook & TikTok: @drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
Dr William Morrone (Michigan) - Medical Examiner, Toxicologist, Pathologist, opioid treatment expert, Author: “American Narcan”
Keith Sharon (Nashville, TN) - Reporter, "The Tennessean", Host of the “Murder on Music Row” podcast, Social Media: @kssharontn
Dave Mack (AL) - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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Convicted child predator Thomas Kendall Jr. faces new scrutiny after authorities discover a contraband cell phone containing thousands of abusive images inside his Florida prison cell. In California, Cedric von Ferdinand stands accused of fatally poisoning his cancer-stricken foster mother with fentanyl before burying her remains and stealing over half a million dollars in assets. Meanwhile in Alabama, forty-seven-year-old Thomas Henry Steele faces capital murder charges for allegedly decapitating his aunt and grandmother with a chainsaw inside their Mobile home. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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In January 2023, Massachusetts mother and labor-and-delivery nurse Lindsay Clancy allegedly strangled her three young children—5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan—inside their Duxbury home before attempting suicide by jumping from a second-story window. Following a deadlocked criminal jury and mistrial, Clancy has now filed a massive civil malpractice lawsuit against the medical professionals, hospitals, and emergency responders who treated her, claiming overmedication and postpartum psychosis caused her actions. Nancy Grace and her panel of forensic, legal, and psychiatric experts scrutinize the startling new civil filings, exposing how Clancy’s own legal claims contain explicit, written admissions that detail the planning, timing, and execution of the murders—damning confessions that could reshape the prosecution’s case ahead of an anticipated retrial.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
Josh Kolsrud (Phoenix, AZ) - Criminal Defense Attorney and Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Founder of Kolsrud Law Offices, New Book: The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Immigration Law, Facebook and YouTube @KolsrudLawOffices
Dr. Bethany Marshall (Beverly Hills, CA) - Psychoanalyst, Watch Dr. Marshall on hit shows "Paris in Love" on Peacock and "The Valley, Persian Style" on Bravo. You can also catch her on Netflix and Hulu as well. Host of "The Dr. Bethany Marshall Podcast", Instagram, Facebook & TikTok: @drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
Robert Fried (Long Island, NY) - Certified Forensics Analyst, EVP of Forensics and Chief Investigative Officer @ Page One, IncAuthor of 5 books including: "Forensics Data Collections 2.0" book series, Linkedln: Robert B Fried
Dr. Jessica Dwyer (Dallas, TX) - Director and Chief Medical Examiner, Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences (SWIFS), Social Media: @jessbdwyer
Dave Mack (AL) - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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The Archdiocese of New York agrees to a historic, eight-hundred-million-dollar settlement with thirteen hundred survivors of clergy sexual abuse following years of intense litigation under the Child Victims Act. In California, an alleged drunken driver faces gross vehicular manslaughter charges after plowing his vehicle into a crowd of cyclists during a nighttime Halloween ride in Montclair, leaving two dead and two others injured. Meanwhile in Florida, Tallahassee police arrest a fifteen-year-old boy on attempted murder charges after a chaotic mass shooting near Florida A&M University's football stadium leaves twelve people wounded. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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