11 yr-old girl kidnapped, murdered at slumber party; killer to walk free? Plus, exercise mom killer still at large

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Smith was sentenced to death for raping and murdering Carlie Brucia after kidnapping the 11-year-old girl from a Florida car wash in 2004. Florida's high court has overturned the death sentence and ordered a new sentencing trial for Smith. Nancy Grace is outraged and discusses the case with Marc Klaas, criminal lawyer Brian Claypool, lawyer and psychologist Dr. Brian Russell, and WFLA-TV reporter Meredyth Censullo. Two years have passed since Texas mom Missy Bevers was beaten to death inside a church by a killer dressed in makeshift SWAT gear. Midlothian, Texas, police have no suspect despite security camera video of the killer at the crime scene. Grace updates the probe with radio host David Mack and Crime Stories co-host Alan Duke.

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 132
0:16.0	A little girl, just 11 years old, goes to a spin-the-night party with her little best friend
0:22.7	girl just about a block and a half from home.
0:27.0	She's walking home the next morning to her family home to her mom and dad and goes
0:34.1	caddy corner.
0:35.1	She cuts that going all the way to the corner and turning right.
0:38.8	She cuts across the lot of a local car wash and she is never seen alive again.
0:49.5	I'm Nancy Grace.
0:50.5	This is Crime Stories.
0:51.5	Thank you for being with us.
0:53.3	In a bizarre and very upsetting turn of events, the murderer, the man that approached 11-year-old
1:05.1	Carly in that car wash parking lot and takes her away brutally rapes, beats and kills.
1:16.4	Her body is found half naked, naked from the waist down.
1:20.3	She's wearing one sock and her body has been thrown into a wooded area behind a local
1:26.2	church.
1:28.5	He may very well walk free.
1:31.8	Why?
1:34.1	Because appellate courts have ruled that when a jury in Florida sentenced him to the death
1:39.4	penalty and a 10-to-2 vote, that wasn't good enough.
1:43.4	They had found unanimously that he was guilty and Carly's murder.
1:47.6	But two people held out on the death penalty, 10 voted for it and he was sentenced to death.
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