Self-Declared Evil Stepmom GUILTY in freezing death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Emergency services are called to a New York home after reports of an unresponsive 8-year-old boy. His father says he fell in the driveway. Medical technicians and cops are suspicious considering the boy's body temperature is just 76 degrees. Thomas Valva dies and his policeman father and the stepmother are charged. Investigators say the couple left him overnight in a cold garage. The outside temperature was 19 degrees.
Former NYPD Officer Michael Valva was convicted in his son's death and sentenced to 25 years to life. It took just five hours of deliberation for a jury to also find Angela Pollina. guilty of all counts: second-degree murder and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
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| 0:10.0 | Accused murder, George Wagner faces a judge and jury. |
| 0:14.0 | No Wagner family DNA was found at a crime scene. |
| 0:17.0 | Will he face the death penalty or will he walk free? |
| 0:21.0 | Mark my words. This case is about to blow wide open. |
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| 0:30.0 | Apple podcasts are wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:43.0 | Bonshell in the last days a self-declared evil stepmom is convicted of murder. |
| 0:56.0 | After she helps her NYPD cop fiance, |
| 1:01.0 | shove his son an eight year old autistic boy out into the garage floor where he froze to death. |
| 1:12.0 | She admits quote, I was evil. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, I don't know if that would come into evidence, but it certainly should have. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. |
| 1:22.0 | Thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation in Series XM 111. |
| 1:26.0 | Making Bonson's Anthony and Thomas sleep on the cement floor of the garage |
| 1:34.0 | until little Thomas an autistic child just eight years old freezes to death. |
| 1:42.0 | What was the nail in the coffin? |
| 1:44.0 | The death nail for this evil duo text messages proving they were in on it together. |
| 1:53.0 | Again, thanks for being with us. |
| 1:55.0 | How did this whole horrible story begin? |
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