Cops & court files reveal a son bludgeoned his mom to death with a garden tool to get ahold of his trust fund. A monster mom's grisly murder & Google searches lead her to cop a plea in the killing of her own daughter. Plus, a big-time heist lands a notorious crook in cuffs. Jennifer Gould reports.
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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
An entitled Missouri son is accused of committing a savage murder,
bludgeoning his own mother to death with a gardening tool,
official say. Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole spoke to Ozark's
First News.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
For all intentsive, perfect purposes, we believe that it could
possibly have something to do with money.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Christian County deputies were dispatched to the Ozark home of
Carolyn Awling, sixty five, after her husband requested a well
being check, concerned she hadn't returned his calls all day.
Officers were met by her son, Derek Awling. Upon arrival,
the thirty nine year old's bizarre behavior and conflicting answers
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immediately put the deputies on high alert. Sheriff Brad Coles
stated his deputies had quote a gut feeling that something
wasn't quite right end quote. That feeling was brutally confirmed.
When officers pressed Derek about his mom's condition, he remained silent.
Asked if she was still alive, the son delivered a
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chilling reply of quote, he didn't think so. Alling then
told deputies his mom was in the guest house where
they found Carolyn Awlling's bloodied and beaten body. Authorities say
she had been bludgeoned repeatedly in the head and face
with a scraping or gardening tool, an attack so gruesome
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it caused multiple school fractures. Prosecutors described Alling's alleged actions
as quote violent and gruesome. According to court documents, Alling
was the beneficiary of his mother's trust, Anne had been
aggressively demanding access to the money. Carolyn even had been
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secretly recording her son acting aggressively in the weeks leading
up to her murder, a pattern corroborated by her husband.
Derek Holling has been charged with first degree murder and
armed criminal action. He was booked into Christian County and
is being held without bond. He pleaded not guilty. His
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next court appearance is set for October fourteenth in Christian
County Circuit Court. For the latest crime and justice news,
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crime and justice news. After this, a brutal sentence has
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finally closed the door on a year's long Georgia House
of Whores, where a mother admitted to a monstrous act
killing her own eight year old daughter by cramming toilet
paper down her throat until she's suffocated. Britney Hall, thirty one,
of Lawrenceville, pleaded guilty to felony murder, eleven counts of
(02:58):
cruelty to children and concealing a death in Gwinnett County
Superior Court, immediately drawing a sentence of life without parole.
The plea exposed the gut wrenching details of the relentless
abuse suffered by her daughter, Amari Maya Hall, who was autistic.
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The sickening murder unfolded on January eighteenth of twenty twenty one.
Prosecutors detailed the crime, stating Hall and her then girlfriend,
Celeste Owens, both high on drugs, turned their rage on
Amari after the girl simply went the bed. The punishment
was utterly barbaric. Owens held the child down while Hall
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forced wads of toilet paper into Amari's mouth and throat,
ignoring her desperate please. The pair then continued the torment,
submerging Amari's head and a bathtub filled with water and
ice until the child stopped breathing. Amari's younger sister, now nine,
tragically testified that her mom had placed the paper in
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Amari's mouth so she quote would not wake up.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
This is her in court listen.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Let me tried to wake her up, and then after
that she got put in a container with the lead
it and that put in a trink.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Of a car. In the days that followed, Hall engaged
in a cruel deception, posting frantic Facebook please claiming Amari
was missing, even detailing the girl's blue tweetybird jacket and
rainbow light up shoes. But the charade quickly crumbled. Amari's
body was found in a wooded area near the Stone
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Mountain Freeway, wrapped in a blanket, three white colored trash bags,
and duct tape. The mom's guilt was sealed by her
own actions post killing. Prosecutors revealed Hal's shocking Google searches
on the day Amari was reported missing, including quote lakes
near me end quote quote ways to dispose of a
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body end quote, end quote you haul customer account end quote.
Surveillance footage later showed Owen's renting a U haul van
and driving it towards the shallow grave where little Amari
was found. Court records revealed the murder was the climax
of a pattern of torment dating back to twenty eighteen.
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Paul and Owens repeatedly beat Amari and her younger sibling,
then three, who suffered over thirty bruises and required emergency
surgery for a ruptured ear drum. Amari's two younger siblings
were put into state custody following the incidents. Owens is
already serving life plus twenty years and finally talk about
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a date javu. A Miami date for one unlucky fellow
turned into a big time luxury heist. Angela Tina Chanelle
Etsy twenty five is known for allegedly giving men a
sleeping beauty potion before swiping their pricey Rolex watches. Her
latest alleged heist followed a familiar plot. Meet the victims
(06:12):
at a bar, head back to a Brickell apartment, and
then the men hit the snooze button. One victim woke
up to find his twenty thousand dollars Rolex and four
thousand dollars in cash all gone, all thanks to this
bad date bait. Cops say this known offender faces multiple
charges of grand theft in three separate cases across South Florida.
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With a history of snatch and grab dates, it looks
like this brickle bandit though, just bought herself a very
long time out in a concrete cell. For the latest
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