5.24.24 CRU with Nancy Grace: Kansas Moms, Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley Bodies Found in Chest Freezer
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
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4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s CRU, Sheryl McCollum and Nancy Grace discuss the gruesome details regarding the Kansas moms, Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, whose bodies were found in a chest freezer buried in a cow pasture. They discuss the chilling details, suspect behaviors, and the meticulous investigation that followed.
Show Notes:
- (0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup with a ‘toast to crown royal’
- (2:00) Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Watch For Free on Merit Street Media
- (2:50) Latest on Kansas moms - bodies found in a chest freezer
- (7:00) Analysis of suspects' behavior before and after the crime
- (11:00) Evidence used is discussed
- (20:30) Possible stereotypes during trial
- (25:00) “That was not hot blood. They were not angry in the moment about custody of a child. They weren't angry. They were cool, calculated, cold when they dug that hole when they got that freezer chest and put it down in there. To put these two mothers leaving six children behind with a life sentence of life without mommy.”
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Nancy Grace is an outspoken, tireless advocate for victims’ rights and one of television's most respected legal analysts. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor. She is the founder and publisher of CrimeOnline.com, a crime- fighting digital platform that investigates breaking crime news, spreads awareness of missing people and shines a light on cold cases.
In addition, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a daily show hosted by Grace, airs on SIRIUS XM’s Triumph Channel 111 and is downloadable as a podcast on all audio platforms - https://www.crimeonline.com/
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Crime Roundup. Y'all, I was on Merritt Street crime stories with Nancy Grace Wednesday night. I about had a full-blown laughing attack. |
| 0:22.2 | Let me take what happened. |
| 0:24.0 | Another guest was talking, very intellectual, very clear, very concise. |
| 0:29.9 | And then I hear him say, Nancy, I'm talking about the C word. |
| 0:35.1 | I was like a fifth grader. |
| 0:36.4 | I almost just started cracking up. |
| 0:39.7 | And Nancy, her face was so classic. |
| 0:44.0 | She just went deadpaned and was looking like, are you kidding me? |
| 0:48.2 | And then he said, I'm talking about cannabis. |
| 0:52.5 | And she went, well, that ain't where I thought you were going well then I did |
| 0:58.8 | I just lost it I just cracked up that was so awesome Nancy it was hilarious and your face |
| 1:07.3 | if I could have captured it that would be my screensaver for you. |
| 1:11.6 | Because you were like, I know he is not fixing to bust out with the C word of all people. |
| 1:17.4 | I believe it says something like, well, that when you said the C word, that's not the word that |
| 1:21.8 | immediately came to mind. |
| 1:24.3 | But that said. |
| 1:25.8 | But that said. |
| 1:27.1 | We're going to move on. |
| 1:28.6 | And you know what, Cheryl, what's so funny about it is when I started prosecuting, I did not curse. |
| 1:36.2 | But I had to say so many, you know, repeat what defendant said in statements on location |
| 1:42.6 | that pretty soon I was saying it all Cheryl |
| 1:45.7 | saying it all it's a very bad habit so now you know when I had the twins which is 16 years |
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