Mom Finds Tot Dead After Leaving Children Home Alone Nearly 24/7 | Crime Alert 04.15.25

A mom who leaves her children alone nearly 24/7 to live with her boyfriend finds two-year-old girl dead. Sisters brawl at father's funeral, just feet from his casket!

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Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes now.

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Chantel Gardner has two children, ages two and four, at home,
but she lives with her boyfriend. Gardner leaves the toddlers
unattended practically twenty four to seven, only coming home a
few hours and what's a day to feed them. When
Gardner returns home for a feeding, her four year old
son comes to greet her, but the taut girl, Skyler

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does not. Gardner finds the little girl under a dresser,
cold and stiff, she runs outside calls nine one one.
First Responders say Skyler died from a large puncture wound
on her neck, the rest of her body covered in bruises.

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Nancy first responders have to wade through trash, rotting food,
soiled items, and even things like steak knights to get
to Skyler. Gardner admits the children are neglected and tells
belief she only bathes them about every two weeks, often
finding them covered in feces when she returns home to
feed them. The neglected mission. Gardner denies physically abusing the

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toddlers and has no explanation for Skuyler's injuries.

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Chantel Gardner, thirty three, now charged with child neglect causing death.
Florida CoP's called when a fight breaks out at a funeral.
Officers five Marine and Kathleen Degan, sixty and sixty six,
locked in a brawl just feet from their father's casket.
After breaking up the fight, family explains the younger Deagan

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was upset that her daughter was left out of Kathleen's eulogy.
The older sister, Maureene, reportedly chest bumped Kathleen, who responded
by yanking her sister's hair. Maureene then began throwing punches
at Kathleen until both women fall to the.

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Floor full on wrestling.

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The deacon's sisters both booked into Clearwater County Jail on
battery in order to have no contact.

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Well Rest in peace, Dad. More crime and justice news
after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
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John Lemley, a former Colorado Sheriff's deputy, will serve three
years in prison for the shooting death of a twenty
two year old man in the midst of a mental
health crisis. Andrew Bwen, formerly of the Clear Creek County
Sheriff's Office, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the
twenty twenty two death of Christian Glass. Glass had called

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nine to one one for help after getting stuck near
silver Plume, but refused to leave. His suv prosecutor Say
Bwen escalated the situation. The defense argued Glass had a
knife and posed a threat. It was Bwen's second trial.
A previous jury convicted him of only reckless endangerment. Glass's

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family supported the retrial and later reached a nineteen million
dollar settlement with law enforcement agencies, one that also led
to changes in police response to mental health calls. Convictions
like this are rare experts. Juries often give officers the
benefit of the doubt during crisis situations. A Kansas City

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man who was falsely accused in the twenty twenty four
Kansas City Super Bowl rally shooting has died. Crime Online
Sidney Sumner has more.

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Denton Ludermill, Junior, a forty nine year old resident of Oletha, Kansas,
passed away recently, as confirmed by his attorney, Lronda Lasseter Saunders.
Details surrounding his death have not been disclosed. Luder Mill's
life took a tragic turn on February fourteenth, twenty twenty four,
during the Kansas City Chief super Bowl Victory rally, a
shooting outside Union Station left forty three year old DJ

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Lisa Lopez Galvan dead and over twenty others injured, many
of them children. In the chaos, Lutermill was briefly detained
by police, but was never charged. Despite his innocence, images
of Ludermill and handcuffs circulated online, leading to false accusations
labeling him as a shooter and an illegal alien. He
subsequently filed defamation lawsuits against three Missouri state senators and

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a Tennessee congressman who shared these misleading posts. However, the
cases were dismissed due to jurisdictional issues. Attorney Saunders stated
that luder Mill spend his final days under immense stress
striving to clear his name. She emphasized that efforts to
restore his reputation will continue posthumously. Three men have been
charged in connection with the rally shooting, Dominic Miller, Lindel Mays,

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and Terry Young. Authorities believe the violence stem from a
dispute between two groups.

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Denton Loudermilk Junior's death underscores the.

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Profound consequences of misinformation, are the challenges individuals face and
reclimbing their identities after being falsely accused, His family is
request in privacy.

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During this difficult.

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Time, says he wants to run away and find mommy.
Patrick's foster mom gets distracted by a phone call while
Patrick helps her take out trash. Moments later, Patrick disappears.
Police use caneyes to track the boy, but they lose
his sin after day just a few blocks. Police knock
on nine thousand doors, interview fourteen thousand people, search over

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two hundred buildings. There's no sign of Patrick. If you
have info on Patrick Alfred, please contact New York Crime
Stoppers eight hundred five seven seven tips. That's eight hundred
five seven seven eight four seven seven.

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