In a mystery that has captured national attention, Washington father Travis Decker picked up his three young daughters on May 30 for a "planned visitation," and never came back. The three girls -- Paityn Decker, 9; Evelyn Decker, 8; and Olivia Decker, 5 -- were found dead near a Washington state campground on June 2. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that has one of the most shocking crime scenes of all time. Professor Morgan explains the forensic evidence left behind inside the bags and the bloody handprint on the truck. As of today, Travis Decker is still on the run, the lone suspect in the murder of his three little girls. Officials say anyone who sees Decker or knows of his whereabouts should call 911.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.88 Introduction

02:06.17 The Murder of the Decker Sisters

05:11.48 Decker picked up his girls for visitation

10:08.63 Help is a two-way street

15:08.46 Search for Decker began June 2nd

20:04.96 Bloody handprint on tailgate of truck

24:56.48 Bags don't breathe

30:55.64 Passive Homicide

34:47.96 Decker has a decent level of training

40:04.66 Decker DNA found on the bags

45:24.15 Eric Robert Rudolph

49:27.37 Conclusion

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Andrew Tate and brother, Tristan file lawsuits in California suing Meta and TikTok for kicking the pair off their platforms in 2022. The lawsuits allege defamation and unlawful deplatforming. They clailm the banning of their accounts was a politically motivated, campaign to suppress, and destroy" their reputations and livelihoods, not a neutral enforcement of platform rules. They also claim Meta and TikTok defamed them by making "reckless, and inflammatory statements portraying Tate as a sex trafficker—without evidence, without trial, and without due process". The brothers are seeking over $50 million in compensatory damages from each company.

This in the midst of new assault claims against the Tate brothers. Lauren Southern, a right-wing Canadian political influencer, writes in her Substack that she met Andrew Tate on a trip to Bucharest.

At 22, Southern approached Tate with a business proposition. She says on that 2018 trip, Tate choked and assaulted her while she was intoxicated. The self-published memoir is titled “This Is Not Real Life.”

Kickboxer and media influencer Andrew Tate is charged with rape, human trafficking, and more. He's now facing three sex abuse legal battles in two countries.

Tate and his brother were taken into custody in Romania, where they live. Prosecutors say the Tates and two associates formed an organized criminal group to groom and sexually traffic women in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Romania.

The indictment names seven women who say the Tate brothers recruited them with false promises, including love and marriage, but instead took them to buildings where they intimidated them, watched over them constantly, forcing them into debt and pornography.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

• Greg Ahlgren – International Attorney-at-Law at the US-MX Law Group, Ltd. & DRT Alliance/Diaz Reus International Law Firm
• Dr. Joni Johnston – Forensic Psychologist and Private Investigator (performs risk and threat assessments on violent offenders); Author: “Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask”
• Sheryl McCollum – Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder & Host of New Podcast: “Zone 7;" X: @149Zone7
• Lee Reiber – Mobile Device Forensic Expert, COO: Oxygen Forensics, Inc., Author: “Mobile Forensic Investigations: A Guide to Evidence Collection, Analysis, and Presentation”
• Dawn Schiller (Los Angeles, CA)- Training Director for the L.A. County Project at Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), Lived Experience Expert Consultant, and Best-selling Author: “The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes;" Also a National Speaker, Educator and Mentor; Twitter: @DawnSchiller, Instagram: DawnSchiller55, Facebook: Author Dawn Schiller
• Caitlyn Becker (Los Angeles, CA) - Senior Reporter for Dailymail.com; Twitter: @caitlynbecker

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Luigi Mangione has been indicted on first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism. He is also charged with two counts of murder in the second degree, with one of those counts also denoting Mangione murder of CEO Brian Thompson as an act of terrorism. Now the Federal government is seeking the death penalty.

Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty which marks the first such directive by the Trump administration. New York, where the murder occurred, has abolished the death penalty, and Mangione's lawyers are attempting to block the federal death penalty pursuit, arguing the move is a political stunt.

Police questioned Mangione's mom the day before he was captured. She told officers that the shooting 'might be something that she could see him doing.'

JOINING NANCY GRACE TODAY:

• Matt Mangino - Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County), Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States"
• Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker," featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock www.drbethanymarshall.com/ , Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
• Tom Smith - Former NYPD Detective, former member FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force. Co-Host of the GOLD SHIELDS Podcast, https://thegoldshieldshow.com, FB & Instagram: @thegoldshieldshow
• Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, ColdCaseCrimes.org, Host: Zone 7, Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
• Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", @JoScottForensic
• Christina Aguayo - National News Anchor, Salem News Channel, website: www.ChristinaAguayoNews.Com, Facebook: @ChristinaAguayoNews, Instagram: @Christina.AguayoNews

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A California mom's husband pleaded for her safe return and now he faces charges months after her disappearance. Nikki Saelee-McCain, 39, vanishes in May 2024, after texting family members she was heading home, she never arrives, has not been heard from since, and her husband, Tyler McCain, is arrested as a suspect in her murder.

Nikki's Chevy Avalanche is located near the Shasta and Tehama County line a week after she vanishes. The truck's bed enclosed cover was opened and had an overwhelming odor of decomposition. Inside the vehicle more evidence is recovered providing strong evidence her husband, Tyler McCain, is the primary source of the DNA on items.

McCain previously faced felony domestic violence charges, but the case was dismissed when Nikki disappeared because she couldn’t testify.

Based on the evidence gathered, information learned from interviews, and fact no one in Nikki's family has seen or heard from Nikki since her disappearance, the detectives determined Nikki is a victim of homicide. Detectives also further conclude Nikki's husband, Tyler Scott McCain, is responsible for Nikki's death and disappearance. Detectives recently obtained a murder arrest warrant for McCain.

McCain was booked into Shasta County Jail and prosecutors allege he killed Nikki to prevent her from testifying in the domestic violence case

Joining Nancy Grace today,

• Kaye Ford - Nikki's sister
• Chloe Saelee - Nikki's sister
• Franz Borghardt - Criminal Defense Attorney, Founder of Borghardt Law Firm, Former Prosecutor, Adjust Professor at Louisiana State University teaching Criminal Litigation, website: www.borghardtlawfirm.com, Instagram and Facebook: BorghardtLawFirm
• Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker: When to work on a relationship and when to walk away” Also featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock, www.drbethanymarshall.com , Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
• Brian Fitzgibbons - Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security, Leads a team of investigators specializing in locating missing persons, website: www.uspasecurity.com, Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security, former Marine and Iraq war veteran
• Matt Mangino - Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County), Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words & Executions of 46 Persons in the United States”
• Lauren Conlin - Podcaster/Reporter/Host- Co-Host of "PopCrimeTV" on YouTube, Website: www.popcrime.tv and primetimecrimeshow.com, X- @Conlin_Lauren, Instagram: @LaurenEmilyConlin, YouTube: @PopCrimeTV EMAIL: lauren@popcrime.tv

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The father of 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro said in a lengthy jailhouse interview denied prosecutors’ contention that the boy suffered long-term abuse before his presumed death and said his wife, who reported the infant missing, was innocent.

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Donna Adelson is accused of masterminding the shooting death of her former son-in-law, Dan Markel.

Adelson was arrested at Miami International Airport in an alleged attempt to flee to a non-extradition country. Investigators believe Adelson had Markel killed following the divorce from her daughter, Wendi, after a judge and Dan denied her request to move herself and the two children to South Florida, closer to her family.

Donna Adelson is the fifth person charged in the murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a Florida State University law professor and well-known throughout Tallahassee. The first person brought to justice, Luis Rivera, agreed to a plea deal.

Rivera testifies he and his lifelong friend, Sigfredo Garcia, drove from Miami to Tallahassee to carry out the hit, and Garcia was the triggerman. Rivera, once a Latin Kings gang leader, accepted a 19-year prison sentence in exchange for flipping on his close friend.

This week, in Donna Adelson's trial, some of the most dynamic pieces of evidence are the money changing hands and the wiretaps. Mary Hull, from the Florida Department of Financial Services, breaks down financial records before and after the murder of Dan Markel.

Rivera admits on the stand he received over $33,000 for the hit. Also, the jury hears the feds' wiretaps, Charlie and Donna Adelson talk in code, and the bump, which was orchestrated to trap the co-conspirators into a phone frenzy.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

• Eric Faddis - Partner at Varner Faddis Elite Legal, Former Felony Prosecutor and Current Criminal Defense and Civil Litigation Attorney; Instagram: @e_fad @varnerfaddis; TikTok: @varnerfaddis
• Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy), Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology;" X @TrialDoc
• Ron Bateman - Former Sheriff for Anne Arundel County, Maryland - Former Homicide and Undercover Narcotics Detective, Author of Crime Trilogy "Silent Blue Tears" (and currently directing and producing a film documentary on the murders at the Capital Gazette Newspaper in Annapolis); TikTok: @Ron.Bateman.655
• Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), NEW Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue” (launched last week);Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
• Gigi McKelvey - Journalist and Host of Podcast “Pretty Lies and Alibis;" Facebook, IG, TikTok: @PrettyLiesAndAlibis, TX: @PrettiesLiesAlibi
• Dave Mack - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter

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A chilling bombshell confession allegedly made by the father of missing 7mo old baby Emmanuel. He allegedly admitted to killing his infant son and disposing his little body in the trash; this reported revelation comes as investigators say the tot was dead days before his "abduction" was reported. A Florida woman's acid ambush kills her sleeping husband...Plus, a pepper spray melee at steak joint. Jennifer Gould reports.

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