Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Ohio Parents Charged In Death of 2-Month-Old Baby Boy

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

Olivia Palmer, 24, and Daniel Brose, 37, each face a child endangering charge in the death of their two-month-old son. Palmer called 911 in April to report the baby was not responsive and had blood on his nose. The sheriff in Clermont County, Ohio said Palmer was not honest about what happened that night and later admitted to being intoxicated and sleeping with the infant in bed with Brose. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy breaks down body-worn camera video of the charge each faces in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW:Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code CRIMEFIX at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/crimefixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Guest:James Bogen https://x.com/attorneybogenProducer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. All right, come on. A mother taken to jail and charged after her baby boy dies, but it may not be what you think. The baby's father is also picked up by deputies. I'm assuming that's living is not more than a high. I go through the allegations made against Olivia Palmer and Daniel Brose and where the case stands now. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. A mom and dad in Ohio, they're each facing a felony charge after their two-month-old baby boy died in their home. The couple isn't accused of intentionally killing the baby.

I want to be very clear about that. But they are accused of violating their duties as parents to care for that baby and to give him a safe place to live. Jasper Miles Bros. was a little more than two months old when he died on April 9th. This photo is from his obituary, which was posted online. Now, one of the things about this case that is so disturbing and so sad is that it was entirely preventable given the facts we know about what happened. This case, faces out of Claremont County, Ohio. It begins in the Highview Estates, a mobile home park about 26 miles east of Cincinnati. An incident report states that Olivia Palmer called 911 and said that her child was unresponsive and had blood coming out of his nose. The baby was rushed to Claremont Mercy Hospital, but nothing could be done to save him. Little baby Jasper died. Part of the incident report is blacked out. It's redacted. It likely includes what Olivia Palmer and the baby's father told deputies and detectives. Now, this all happened, as I mentioned, back on April 9th, the parents, mother Olivia

Palmer and the father, Daniel Broz, they weren't charged until this month. The sheriff said in a news release, detectives executed a search warrant and seized multiple items to include drug paraphernalia and electronics. Detectives interviewed both parents as well as others that lived within the home. Further investigation performed by detectives included subsequent. search warrants on both the seized electronics and social media accounts. Detectives discovered Palmer was not truthful with the offense transpiring the night before the incident and also located videos of her appearing to be impaired.

Palmer admitted she was impaired while co-sleeping with the infant Ambrose in their bed. So the grand jury heard evidence in the case and returned an indictment charging each with child endangering. That's a third degree felony. not another charge related to baby Jasper's death. That child endangering statute states, no person who is the parent, guardian, custodian, person having custody or control or person in loco parentis of a child under 18 years of age or a child with a mental or physical disability under 21 years of age shall create a substantial risk to the health or safety of the child

by violating a duty of care, protection, or support. It is not a violation of, of a duty of care, protection, or support under this division when the parent guardian custodian or person having custody or control of a child treats the physical or mental illness or disability of the child by spiritual means through prayer alone in accordance with the tenants of a recognized religious body. So that doesn't seem to apply here. Olivia Palmer was picked up by deputies at another home, not the mobile home where the baby died. Put her in your car? Yeah, I got it.

She has not been that's out of that does she have 15s already? Yeah. We have confirmed them already? No, we have not.

I want. You know what you want it for? I'm trying to abandon it. I don't know. It was only, I don't know, when I say warrants, it's just a general

term. Sometimes there's more than one. I'm just going to kind of make sure you don't have anything in your pockets. Okay, so you do have a vape. We're going to put that up front here with me, okay? Okay, how you do it? So anything on you before we take you to jail that's going to get you in trouble when we get in there. They will patch you down. That's probably Is it either a lighter or 20 maybe in my roll? I'm not worried about. I'm saying it's going to get you in trouble. Oh, no.

Okay. No drugs, no weapons. No. Okay. No, we're good. I can, yeah. I'm going to change out cuffs and put you in mine, okay? So Olivia Palmer, she looks a little confused there as she looked into the back of the

cruiser. The deputy is changing the handcuffs. Now, back to the video. All right, so I've got to get the other cups off now, okay? If you're hands up, they're going to be at the bottom. Okay. Perfect tree, the short request, we've received another call. Run the bus drive. We have a fire in the street bonding or white SUV. The driver here to be passed out, back to the ground fix.

So, right there. Okay. Go ahead, have a seat in there. Sit butt first, okay? Yeah. That way you don't fall down. Ooh, do you just have her, like, I'll have to unlock my phone for her. 6.14.

I'll be a check on the welfare. For who? For actually or whoever can. Whoever can. You need that number? Yeah, I need to get numbers out of it. I want to say, you know, I got to confirm your warrant as well, so. We just ask them to bring me my phone, or one of them, or maybe her kid.

What, what, not? number are you looking for? I need my mom and my dad. Okay. So we'll get that for you. Do you have a passcode? Yeah. Okay. So we'll bring the phone back here. We're not going to let you use the phone because you're in handcuffs. But I can manipulate the phone to do whatever it is you want me to do, but you're going to have to hang tight for me for a second. Can you let one of them come do the phone right here, like in front of you? Why would I do that? Just so they can. It's probably going to be me that does it. I cover a lot of really, really scary crime stories here on crime fix. And if it's taught me anything, it's that privacy and personal safety absolutely cannot be compromised. Especially

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I'll fall to the door right there. Have you ever been here before? You walk in this door trying to right face that window? Can't please be. Uh, uh, okay, let's go. No more. Face the window here. Walk up all the way to the window, thank you. So you have a lot of the light of the window, thank you. So you have a lighter in a... a $20 million. I just want to make sure that they know that there might be something in that.

I just want to make sure that they know that there might be something in that. Yeah, I'm doing that. A female? It is Olivia Palmer. I'm filming three in touch, and dangerous. Do you feel this mangrove about the left issue to meet this tension? You've used to the consent of it so far? You want to hurt yourself?

Does it have to be joking to get hands on it? I'm sorry. Are you turning to take anything? substance are you on the opioid therapist? Craig condition of? Written over your child lost the child in last six weeks. She thought she might have had a chemotherapy for last six months.

She thought she might have had a $20 bill in a lighter in her brawl. I'm obviously I'm not checking that. I'm not checking that, but. Hi, how are you? I'm good. We probably picked the wrong salary. You should have got here, though.

Yeah. I don't know. I should have already. I mean, I'm going to find it. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't have a baby. Just it.

Over the two. The baby. All right. All right. Here you're going to this camera here. The baby's father, Daniel Brose, was also arrested, but it appears he and Palmer are no longer a couple based on what he said. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. He's got to call you. You have her boyfriend's name? All right, he's going to read the indictment to you, right?

Once you get to the jail. Watch your head. Hey, Rachel. See. Good job. Can you have to marry 30 and Mary 18's detail? You can't. Come from it.

No, best. You know what I guess? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. Palmer and Brose posted bail after appearing in court and pleading not guilty.

So I want to bring in James Bogan. He is a defense attorney who practices in Ohio in the greater Cincinnati area. So James, I find this case a little perplexing because we're dealing with a baby who died while sleeping with his parents. The parents are charged now with child and dangerous. but the baby died and we don't see any charge for manslaughter or something like that why what what what's you're feeling on that i find that unusual but keep in mind stuff that's always heard at grand jury that the public doesn't see and i'm sure that if i read the grand jury transcript which is not available to the public i would probably be able to answer the question why you didn't have that kind of

charge just that grand jury proceedings are done in secret and it takes a lot for those to be made public the defense attorney though will get the grand jury transcript i would assume he's not entitled to it what he's actually not entitled to it he uh he's in if he shows a very particularized need to put it in layman's terms then sure he could get it but but generally not even in the defense is entitled to it. That's very interesting because in other states, they do get the testimony, but they have to file a motion to get it, obviously.

They may not get all of it, but they may get portions of it. And it just depends on the case, I think, too, on the severity of the charges, the seriousness of the charges. But we had a little baby, a two-month-old baby, mom calls 911 and says,

my baby is not breathing, and there's blood coming out of the, the baby's nose according to the sheriff's incident report the sheriff in his news release basically says hey the story we were told did not jibe with the evidence you know we looked at the electronics there are videos of her she is intoxicated and then was sleeping with the baby in the bed with the father of the baby daniel bros so olivia and daniel are the parents they're sleeping in the bed with the baby and the baby ends up dead with a bloody nose so i i'm just kind of at a loss here i'm thinking to myself what on earth you know besides co-sleeping could have caused this we know

that you're not supposed to sleep with babies in a bed when they're newborns like that up until like they're a year old you're not supposed to be doing that because they can be easily smothered Yeah, again, I definitely have questions my own, and I think the only way those could be answered is if I did see what was presented at the grand jury proceeding. So what do you do with this case if you get it? Both parents are charged with child endangering, and basically that just means they violated their duty to provide care to this child. They did not provide a safe environment. The child was under 21 years of age. Obviously, a two-month-old baby can't do anything to care for himself.

So if you're the defense attorney, request everything, obviously, in discovery, autopsy reports, investigation, the interviews, all of that stuff. Where do you go from there? Do some legal research because with a child endangering it is you have to show, it basically has to show more than just a speculative danger. However, in a situation like this, with child endangering, with smothering, this is something that's a warning that's all over to place to the public in like big flashing lights, basically. Don't sleep with your infant. And so I don't think the speculative danger put in layman's terms, line of case law would help as much here.

Or, you know, you basically just got to go through everything and see if there's something that is, how shall I say, missing from the investigation or if there's something that shows that things are not the way they look on the surface. And you know when you see it. I mean, I've had child endanger in cases where I do a deep dive and I end up finding things that help substantially, but each case is different. Well, each case is different, but I don't know if I've ever seen a case where a parent or both parents are sleeping in the bed with the baby and the baby passes away and the parents end up being charged. Maybe it's happened. I just don't recall seeing one. Yeah, I don't recall that either. I mean, I always keep in mind there's a lot of cases that happen that don't make the news where things that might be considered unusual happen, but don't. Maybe the prosecutor's way to

on, you know, doing a new indictment on the death. I don't know. I can only speculate. I know Mark Chalvee, he runs a very good office, and I know they look at things very thoroughly. I just find it interesting that, you know, this was a two-month-old baby, obviously, completely helpless. They're sleeping in the bed together.

There's a lot we don't know because of the redactions in the police report. But sleeping in the bed with two people, the baby passes away horrific. I just can't even imagine discovering that and just the poor little baby. All you had to do is put him in the crib. But it just seems like there might be more there there. And if your story doesn't jive with what you're telling the police, I mean, I'm thinking to myself, well, that's obstruction. I mean, if you told a fib and, you know, you're intoxicated and, you're, you're, you

You're not revealing that. I mean, isn't that obstructing the investigation as well? Yeah, that kind of charge would really be the least of their problems, though. It's something that would look terrible to a jury, though. So if you're trying this case to a jury and there's, they lied, which is a lower level offense, yeah, then you, the jury's definitely not going to like your client. well it seems like just a really awful awful tragedy as far as i'm concerned the fact that a two-month-old baby is no longer here and and just died sleeping in bed with his parents just awful i mean just a

sweet little baby and now they're facing charges i mean they child endangering you can go to prison yes uh that carries nine to 36 months yeah felony of the third degree in the state of Ohio. Both of them are free on bail. We'll see what happens. James Bogan, thank you so much. I appreciate your time. You're certainly welcome. Thank you for having me. Both Olivia Palmer and Daniel Brose are scheduled to appear in court next month where a trial date could be set for each one of them. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time. Thank you.