"GROPER, KILLER, STRANGLERS: Busey's Confession, Life for Dismemberment & Honor Killing Shocker"

Gary Busey finally admits he's guilty – the 81-year-old actor pleads to groping women at a horror convention while appearing via Zoom. Reid Carter exposes how this Oscar nominee became a convention creeper facing only probation. Plus, Maxwell Anderson gets life in prison for the brutal murder and dismemberment of Shahday Robinson, but still claims innocence while her mother demands justice. And a Washington jury delivers a shocking verdict in the attempted honor killing case – how is strangling your teenage daughter until she passes out NOT attempted murder? Reid breaks down why these verdicts matter and what they say about justice in America.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome
to Celebrity Trials. You know what I love about covering
Hollywood crime. Just when you think celebrities can't sink any lower,
one of them proves you wrong. Today's show features an

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eighty one year old Oscar nominee who finally admitted he's
a groper, a monster who got exactly what he deserved
for dismembering a nineteen year old woman, and a jury
that somehow decided attempted strangulation in broad daylight isn't attempted murder.
Let's start with Gary Busey, because nothing says fallen star
quite like pleading guilty to sexual assault via zoom while

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wearing a hearing aid turned up as loud as it
will go. Gary Busey from Buddy Holly to horror show
Picture This. It's August twenty twenty two and Gary Busey
is at the Monster Mania convention in Camden, New Jersey.
He's there to meet fans, sign autographs, take photos, you know,

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the usual washed up celebrity convention circuit stuff. But apparently
Busey thought the photo ops came with groping privileges. On Thursday,
July thirty first, the eighty one year old actor finally
admitted what multiple women have been saying for three years.
He inappropriately touched them, and folks, we're not talking about
accidental contact during a crowded meet and greet. When Judge

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Gwendolen Blue asked him directly, Busey admitted it was not
an accidental touching. Let me repeat that for those in
the back, not accidental. This is the same Gary Busey
who was nominated for an OSCAR for playing Buddy Holly,
the same guy who was in Lethal Weapon, Point Break
and under Siege. Now he's reduced to appearing on zoom

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from California because he can't even show up to court
in person to admit he's a predator and here's what
kills me. His defense attorney tried to get the indictment
dismissed just before the guilty plea, claiming police didn't interview
certain witnesses. The judge shot that down real quick, confirming
all witness testimony was properly gathered and presented to the

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grand jury. Nice try, counselor, but your client's a creep
and everyone knows it. Bucy was originally facing four counts
of fourth degree criminal sexual contact and one count of
attempted criminal sexual contact, but in a plea deal that
makes my skin crawl, prosecutors agreed to drop everything except
one count, so this serial groper gets to walk away

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with probation and some fines. His sentencing is scheduled for
September eighteenth via zoom because apparently we can't even make
sexual predators show up in person for their punishment anymore.
He's facing one to five years of probation and hefty fines.
His attorney is pushing for just the fines, because God
forbid an eighty one year old millionaire actually face real

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consequences for assaulting multiple women. Oh and get this, during
the hearing, Busey got scolded by the judge for cracking
open a drink while on camera. The man can't even
take his own guilty Please seriously, it's like he thinks
this is just another reality show appearance. You know what.
This case proves fame might fade, but entitlement is forever.

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Gary Busey went from Oscar nominee to convention creeper, and
even at eighty one, he thought he could put his
hands on women without consequence. Well, guess what, Gary, your
buddy Holly days are long gone and now you're just
another name on the sex offender registry. Justice for Shade Robinson, Now,

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let's talk about real justice. On Friday, August first, Maxwell
Anderson was sentenced to life in prison for the murder
and dismemberment of nineteen year old Shade Robinson. And, unlike
Gary Busey's slap on the wrist, this is what accountability
actually looks like. Remember we told you about this case
back on July tenth. When the jury found Andrew guilty

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on all counts, it took them less than an hour
to see through his pathetic defense. But what happened at
Friday sentencing shows you exactly what kind of monster we're
dealing with. Even as the judge handed down the mandatory
life sentence, Anderson continued to claim he was innocent. That's right,
after being convicted of first degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse,

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hiding a corpse, and arson. This demon still won't admit
what he did. But Shade's mother, Sheena Scarborough, wasn't having
any of it. And let me tell you, this woman
said what we're all thinking quote that mfor needs to
burn in hell, Amen, Sheena Amen. Scarborough is also asking

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Milwaukee to paint the city pink, Shade's favorite color, in
her honor, because while Maxwell Anderson took her daughter's life
in the most brutal way imaginable, he can't take away
her memory. Let me remind you what this monster did.
On April first, twenty twenty four, Anderson took Shade on

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a first date to Twisted Fisherman Restaurant. There's video of
them having dinner and drinks. Then they went to a
bar downtown, then to Anderson's house, and that's where this
beautiful nineteen year old woman's life ended. The prosecution showed
photos Anderson took of Shadey incapacitated on his couch, face down,

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face buried in the cushions, with Anderson groping her exposed breast,
the same breast he would later cut from her body.
In the days and weeks that followed. Chadet's remains were
found scattered across Milwaukee County, her severed leg in Warnamont Park,
other body parts along the lake shore. Some remains made
it all the way to walk again Illinois. Her car

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was found torched. And here's what breaks my heart. Shadey's
mother still doesn't have all of her daughter. As Scarborough
said before sentencing, we still don't have my daughter's crown,
her head. This demon scattered a young woman across two states,
and he has the audacity to claim innocence. There's video evidence,

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there's DNA evidence, there's phone records, and still Maxwell Anderson
wants us to believe he didn't do it. Well, the
jury didn't buy it, the judge didn't buy it, and
now Anderson gets to spend the rest of his miserable
life in a cage. Good riddance. Scarborough had one more
message for other young women. Dating is not the same.

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We need to background check every individual that we are
going on any type of date with. She mentioned Wisconsin's
CCAP system. That's their free online court records database. Use it.
Check these men out before you go anywhere with them,
because monsters like Maxwell Anderson look normal until it's too late.
Back in a moment, Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm

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read Carter, and I'm about to tell you about a
verdict that proves sometimes juries get it completely spectacularly wrong.
On Thursday, after three days of deliberations, a jury in
Washington State found Isan and Zara Ali not guilty of
attempting to murder their teenage daughter, Fatima. Let me say
that again. Not guilty of attempted murder, despite multiple witnesses

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watching Isan Ali strangle his daughter until she lost consciousness
outside Timberline High School. Here's what the jury did find
them guilty of. Isan was convicted of assault and unlawful imprisonment.
Zara was convicted only of violating a court order. That's it.
That's the justice for a girl whose own father tried

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to choke the life out of her in broad daylight.
Let me paint you the picture of what happened. On
October eighteenth, twenty twenty four. Fatima Ali, seventeen years old,
had run away from home that morning because she didn't
want to travel to Iraq. Court documents indicated her father
had threatened her with an honor killing for refusing an

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arranged marriage, though prosecutors later said there was no express
evidence of that motive. She went to Timberline High School
for help. School counselors were getting her set up at
a safe house. All she had to do was catch
a city bus from school to get there. That's when
her parents showed up. Multiple witnesses, students, adults, a bus

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driver all saw the same thing. Issan Ali put his
daughter in a chokehold and wouldn't let go. Witnesses said
her lips turned purple, her eyes rolled back, she lost
consciousness multiple times. This wasn't discipline, This wasn't a father
trying to take his daughter home. This was attempted murder.

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Josh Wagner, a good Samaritan who intervened, testified that he
had to physically remove Isan's arm from Fatima's neck. He
said if he hadn't stepped in, Isan wouldn't have stopped.
Other witnesses, including bought him. A sixteen year old boyfriend,
had to punch Issan repeatedly to get him to release
his daughter. The medical evidence backed this up. A pediatrician

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testified that Fatimah had air trapped outside her trachea, a
sign of severe strangulation. She told medical personnel she thought
she was going to die and what was mom doing?
During all this? According to witnesses, Zara Ali was grabbing
at her daughter, trying to help her husband, and doing
absolutely nothing to save her child. When police arrived. She

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didn't ask about Fatima's condition, She just kept screaming about
wanting to talk to her husband. But somehow, somehow, this
jury decided that strangling your teenage daughter until she passes
out isn't attempted murder. The defense attorneys actually had the
nerve to argue there was no nefarious intent, just a
father trying to take his daughter home. Really, since wendes

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taking your kid home involve crushing their windpipe until their
lips turn blue, this verdict is a slap in the
to every domestic violence victim, every child trying to escape
an abusive home, every person who's ever been told family
business stays in the family. Fatima Ali had the courage
to run, she had the wisdom to seek help, She

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had the strength to testify against her own parents, and
the jury basically told her it wasn't that bad. The
only silver lining here is that Fatimah is safe. She's
alive no thanks to her parents or this jury, and
at least Isan Ali will face some jail time for
assault and unlawful imprisonment when sentencing happens in mid August.

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But attempted murder apparently choking your child unconscious in front
of multiple witnesses doesn't qualify anymore. You know what message
this sends That parents can do almost anything to their
children and call it discipline. That as long as you
claim you were just trying to take your kid home,
you can strangle them nearly to death. That family matters

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get a different kind of justice. Well, I call bs.
Those jurors saw the same video everyone else saw, they
heard the same testimony, they saw the medical evidence, and
they chose to give these parents a pass on the
most serious charges. Fatimah Ali deserved better. Every child trying
to escape an abusive home deserves better. And if this

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is what passes for justice in Washington State, then God
help every kid who's thinking about running to their school
counselor for help. You know what connects all three of
today's cases, Power and its abuse. Gary Busey thought his
fading celebrity gave him the right to grope women at

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a horror convention. Maxwell Anderson thought he could take a
young woman's life and scatter her across two states. And
is On Ali thought he owned his daughter so completely
that he could strangle her for disobeying. Two out of
three got what they deserved. Sort of Bucy's get probation
when he should be in jail, Anderson's getting life in

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prison where he belongs. And the alleys they're getting away
with attempted murder because a jury couldn't call strangling what
it is. But here's what gives me hope. The victims
in all three cases stood up. The women at that
convention reported Busy. Shade Robinson's family is making sure her
story is heard, and fatimah Ali had the incredible courage

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to testify against the parents who tried to kill her.
That's the thread that runs through every case we cover here,
brave people refusing to let criminals get away with it.
Sometimes the system works, sometimes it fails spectacularly. But as
long as victims keep speaking up, as long as families
like Shade Robinson's keep demanding justice, as long as young

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women like fatimah Ali keep fighting for their freedom, there's hope.
Tomorrow we're diving into new developments in the Brian Coburger case,
plus updates on Ditty's conditions behind bars at Brooklyn's MDC.
Because trust me, folks, the celebrity crime never stops, and
neither do we. I'm read Carter with celebrity trials. Paint
your city pink for Shade Robinson. Check those CCAP records

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before you date, and remember justice isn't always fast, but
it's always worth fighting for. See you tomorrow,