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Nick Brady and Haile Kifer | The (Self?) Defense of Byron David Smith

Crimelines True Crime

Crimelines True Crime

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Two teens broke into a home and what happened next would ignite a nationwide debate on a homeowners right to stand their ground. 

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0:00.0

Two teens broke into a home, and what happened next would ignite a nationwide debate on a homeowner's right to stand their ground.

0:18.2

But some say that is a far too simplistic way to look at this case, and there is

0:22.5

more to the story. I'm Charlie, and welcome to crime lines.

0:33.6

Welcome to crime lines. Today we're going to dive into a case that I have thought a lot about over

0:39.0

the years since I first heard it. I decided it was a good time to dive into it because I remember

0:45.0

feeling very torn on it and it feels like time to just sit down, dig into the details and figure

0:51.8

out what really happened, or at least my opinion of what really

0:56.2

happened. As always, I will give you the information that I learned, both sides equally, and then

1:02.9

we can get into my opinion at the end. And feel free to disagree with me. This is a divisive case,

1:09.2

and I don't take it personally when my listeners don't agree with

1:12.3

my opinions. I prefer to engage with people who accept one principle, and that is that you don't have

1:19.2

to be wrong for me to be right and vice versa. We can disagree with far more nuance than right

1:24.8

versus wrong, and with giving ourselves room to not have to be right.

1:30.7

But I mean, feel free to disagree with me on whatever terms you feel comfortable with, but if we're

1:35.6

going to have a back and forth, I think if we leave room for nuance, we're going to be at a better

1:41.1

place. So with that, let's go ahead and get into the case that will probably get me more emails than any other case I have covered in recent time.

1:49.6

And to do that, we need to start at the beginning with two teenagers, 17-year-old Nick Brady and his 18-year-old cousin, Haley Kiefer.

1:58.1

They both grew up in the Little Falls, Minnesota area, which is about an hour and a half

2:02.9

northwest of Minneapolis. In the fall of 2012, Haley was 18, and she was back in school after having

2:11.6

left at some point to seek treatment for substance abuse. She was a senior and working on getting things back on track.

2:20.9

Even though that was a bumpy road, Haley's family said that she was always bubbly and vivacious

2:28.4

through all of it. Haley was best friends with her cousin Rachel, and she was also very close to Rachel's younger brother, Nick Brady.

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