Crime Alert 11.13.24 | Mom Beats 5yo with 20LB Kettlebell

Mom tells ex, "We don't have a son anymore," after beating 5yo to death with an exercise weight. Disney menu manager will not have a magical time behind bars. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime is now. Cedar
Sartan calls Robert Gagner the biodad or five year old
little boy Body to tell him something bad has happened.
Gagner the biodad doesn't pick up, so Sartain leaves a
voicemail stating, please don't freak out, we don't have a
son anymore. Sartan then calls nine one one. Alaska paramedics

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find a bloody twenty pound kettlebell weight with little body
beaten and stabbed dead Nancy.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Investigators say Certain stabbed Body's body after beating him to
death with the kettlebell. Certain sliced her arms, neck and
face after the attack in an attempt to take her
own life, but was found still conscious at the horrific
crime scene. Bodie's father, Robert Gagner, shared custody of the
boy with Certain, and says Certain's demeanor was off when

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he dropped body off with her, but not enough to
make him uncomfortable, leaving him. Sartain was previously charged with
child endangerment after roughly twisting Bodie's head when he was
sixteen months old.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Mom, if you can collar that, Cedar, Sartin forty three,
charged with murder one. Michael Schuer extremely upset Disney removes
him from his role creating menus for the park's restaurants.
His passwords still work, so he makes several edits to
every menu. He changes the font to wingdings, adds profanity

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to the listings, and marks dishes with peanuts as allerge
and safe. He also accesses employees' personal information and eggs
one of their homes. Michael Schuer now facing a federal
charge for his hack job. That jail sale is not
going to be much of a Disney fantasy. Enjoy Schuer.

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More crime and justice news after this Now with the
latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
John Limley, attorneys for Brianburger, charged in the fatal stabbings
of four University of Idaho students, have asked an Idaho
judge to remove the death penalty as a possible sentence
for the latest returned to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Brian Coberger is accused in the murders of Ethanshepen, Xana Kernodle,
Madison Mogen, and Kigley Gonsolves. On November thirteenth, twenty twenty two.
Prosecutors say DNA evidence, surveillance footage, and sell data link Coberger,
a former graduate student at Washington State University, to the crime.
In the latest pre trial hearing, Coberger's defense argued that

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capital punishment violates federal, state, and international law, calling it
cruel due to the prolonged weight inmates' face on death row.
They cited international treaties claiming the prohibit execution under such conditions. However,
Fourth District Judge Stephen Hipler questioned whether these treaties are relevant,
noting they are primarily meant to ensure fair trials. Prosecutors

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countered that Idaho Supreme Court has previously upheld the death penalty.
Coberger's defense is preserving these arguments for a potential appeal
if necessary. Judge Hitler will rule on the motions later.
Kilelygansolvez's parents, Christy and Steve, attended the hearing. They continue
to support the death penalty, with Christie citing knowledge of
the case's disturbing details. Kober's attorneys have claimed he was

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on a late night drive during the killings.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Coberger's trial is set for next August and could last
up to three months. Now to a disturbing story out
of Colorado. John and Carrie Halford, owners of Return to
Nature funeral Home, are expected to plead guilty to hundreds
of charges, including corpse abuse. Prosecutors say the couple deceived
families by storing one hundred and ninety bodies in a

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run down facility while giving loved ones fate ashes, often
substituting dry concrete. Authorities discovered the bodies last year after
neighbours reported a foul odour coming from a building in Penrose,
southwest of Colorado's Springs. Inside, they found bodies stacked on
top of each other in horrific conditions, so hazardous that

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has MATT teams needed full protective gear for entry. According
to prosecutors, the Halford's misused customer payments and nearly nine
hundred thousand dollars in COVID relief funds to finance luxury
items like cars, vacations, and cryptocurrency. The Halford's previously pleaded
guilty to federal fraud charges, admitting to defrauding customers and

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the government. The cases led to tighter regulations in Colorado's
funeral industry, which had some of the nation's weakest oversight.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Thanks John. Melanie Ballinger forty six, spending a lot of
time resting in preparation for upcoming heart surgery. Leans on
her husband Daniel for help keeping up with their two
young daughters and chores and their Wiley, Texas home. Sunday night,
Daniel joins Melanie in bad TENPN when you gets something.
Next morning, six am, Melanie gone her phone, wallet and

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med's still inside. Her car still parked outside. There's no
sign of mom. Intense foot searches turn up nothing. Police
working to retrace her steps. The last confirmed signing is
on surveillance video at Walmart with her family Saturday afternoon.
It's extremely dangerous for Melanie to go without her meds.
Her family desperate to bring her home. She's five seven,

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one hundred and thirty five pounds, chestlink, black hair, brown eyes.
Last scene wearing unspecified pajamas. If you have NFO on
Melanie Ballinger now missing ten days, called Wiley, Texas PD
nine seven two four two nine eight zero one four.
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