Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Female softball coach lures teen girls to MURDER!

Episode Date: January 15, 2021

A body is found along a dirt road. Shea Briar, 31, a former dog handler for the Navy, is found shot in the back. Who killed the new father?Joining Nancy Grace today; Ken Belkin – NY Criminal Defense Attorney  Caryn Stark – NYC Psychologist, www.carynstark.com  Chris Byers - former Police Chief Johns Creek Georgia, 25 years as Police Officer, now Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner, www.chrisbyersinvestigationsandpolygraph.com  Dr. Kendall Crowns – Deputy Medical Examiner Travis County, Texas (Austin) Ray Caputo - Lead News Anchor for Orlando's Morning News, 96.5 WDBO Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. How does a 31-year-old loving dad end up dead off a dirt road. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. So how does it happen? Take a listen to our friend Corinne Rose at ABC 21. A driver on this stretch of dirt road in rural northern Jay County early Sunday morning called 911 to report seeing what looked like a body. When investigators got there, they found 31-year-old Shea Breyer, who was alive, but just barely. He was flown to a Fort Wayne hospital, but died before doctors could get him into surgery. Multiple lives possibly ruined in a situation like this so you just your heart goes out to everybody involved. Jay County Prosecutor Wes Schemenauer says detectives worked around the

clock to trace Breyer's final hours. Joining me an all-star panel to break it down and put it back together again. First of all Ken Belkin, New York criminal defense attorney. You can find him at BelkinLaw.com. Also with me, psychologist Karen Stark, joining me out of Manhattan at KarenStark.com. Former police chief John Skrieg, 25 years on the force, now PI and polygrapher at Chris ByersInvestigations and Polygraphs.com. Deputy Medical Examiner for Travis County. That's Austin, Texas. Dr. Kendall Crowns. But first, Trey Caputo, lead news anchor for WDBO.

Man, that is a tough way to die off a dirt road. A driver happens to go by and see a body. And the cops, the EMTs, he gets to the hospital in the nick of time, still alive, but then dies. They couldn't save him. Tell me what you know. Where did this happen?

Tell me about the dirt road, the bridge, everything. Yeah, Nancy, this is in northern Jay County, Indiana. And that's like right next to the Ohio border. And, I mean, it's as rural as it comes. There aren't a lot of big cities around. I mean, Dayton, Ohio is hours away. Other big cities are far away. So this was a very lonely place.

Yeah, and I'm looking at it on a map. There's a lot of farmland. And this happened right where a bridge goes over a little creek. So, yeah, I mean, this guy's final hours, Nancy, I just couldn't imagine, you know, laying there on this by a dirt road with nobody around with a gunshot wound. You know, just from what I know right now to you, Chief Byers, I'm learning a lot just from that small amount of information. I know that this guy was driven there and dumped. He was shot and dumped by a bridge off a dirt road, very secluded.

It was intentional. Either he was lured there and shot or he was shot and dumped. This bridge is a small bridge, but then you can go under and it looks very grown up. Lots of bushes, lots of tall grass. Somebody dumped him there so his body would not be found. This is at least a secondary crime scene, Chief Byers. I think he was killed somewhere else and dumped. And we don't have any report that his car was stolen. So he had to be taken there somehow. Little green man from Mars didn't just drop him there. Somebody transported him there and dumped him. And that

tells me this is not a carjacking. This is targeted. Yeah, absolutely. And that's what investigators are doing at this point on that scene is retracing how did he get there. Where the crime scene is is just a huge indicator of what you're looking for. Just like you said, is it a secondary crime scene? If there's no car there, he got there somehow. So from everything I'm hearing, it sounds like that's one of the two things that you said. Either he was lured there or he was dumped there and was shot somewhere else. You know, Kieran Stark, when I start this story, I know you're going to think it's not connected, but you and I covered a case a while back of Shantae Mallard. She was out driving.

She ran over a man and instead of immediately getting out of her car and calling 9-1-1 she drove home with a man impaled on her hood goes in her garage shuts the garage door and goes inside to try to figure out what to do and passes, the guy finally dies in her garage on her car. So I wonder what goes through people's minds. You dump somebody and leave them literally under a bridge to die off a dirt road. The act itself is bad enough. The hitting the homeless guy with your car or the shooting this dad, this Navy vet, a loving dad, shooting him, but then throwing out his body or leaving him somewhere to die and just driving away. That's a whole nother mindset, Karen Stark. It certainly is, Nancy. And there's nothing that's positive about that mindset. But people do get in that situation,

hit and run, just leaving bodies because they don't know what to do. They get paralyzed. Karen Stewart, you know that they know to call 911 to try to save the person's life. Even my twins who just turned 13 know that. They've known that since they were three years old. 9-1-1.

But when they are faced, and I'm not saying this is correct, Nancy, but when people are faced with that kind of a shocking event, they sometimes, not mostly, but sometimes just right off, or as that woman did in that case that recovery they they go home to try and think about what's my next step because they're terrified as the person bleeds out you know ken belkin a renowned new york criminal defense attorney at belkinlaw.com if i had this case, I would have a field day describing not only the act, but leaving the guy still alive, just driving away and washing your hands of it, letting him die, going about your business, going to work, going to wherever the killer went and leaving the guy there. Not just minutes, but as hours hours pass they get him all the way to the hospital and then he dies at any point ken belkin they could have changed their mind

and save the guy's life but they didn't yeah but nancy let's be clear they were probably severely traumatized and people are not always their best in situations like that you can't expect them they're traumatized because they the killer commits murder is that what you're saying did you say that well look i think it's a terrible situation it's a tense situation they're not operating at full mental capacity and they're not thinking clearly and i think like a lot of us when we're not thinking clearly we don't make rational decisions and we don't make decisions that benefit ourselves in the long run. OK, Kim Belkin, to shoot somebody, you have to get a gun. You have to load it.

You have to aim it. You got to find your victim. You got to aim it and pull the trigger. And unless the perp shot this person in the car, you got to get the victim in the car, drive him to the dump site, push, you know, dead bodies are heavy. Push the body out and then drive off and wait for the guy to die.

Intent under the law can be formed in the blink of an eye, much less all the time i just it took me two minutes to recount it for pete's sake that's time to form intent i don't know what you're talking about where did you go to law school kim because you've got a pretty good reputation may i ask where you went to law school new york law all right did somebody tell you there? Because I want to look up your professor that not thinking clearly is some kind of a defense because it's not. I'm not saying it's a total defense. I'm just saying that maybe it strikes to the element of intent.

I think what you're really saying, Kim Belkin, is that you would try to argue it at trial. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we are talking about a 31-year-old father loving dad. Every picture I look at of this guy, Shea Breyer, he's holding a baby with love in his eyes. Why does this guy end up dead, shot dead off the side of a dirt road? And what's so upsetting is that he could have been saved at any point. The killer could have turned back. A motorist comes along, sees the body, calls 911.

He gets all the way to the hospital and dies. He could have been saved. It's the icing on a poisonous cake. It's insult to injury. What happened to this guy? Who is this guy? Take a listen to this. Shea Breyer grew up in Kailua and moved to Indiana after serving in the military. His mother tells me the family still cannot wrap their head around what happened. 31-year-old Shea Breyer moved to Kailua with his mother from Indiana when he was five years old. He graduated from the Academy of the Pacific in 2006 with honors. He served in the Navy from 2008 to 2012 as a canine handler because he loved animals. His mother tells me he moved to Indiana after serving in the military because he also loved the farm life. My family turned him on to tractors, and he loved tractors and dirt and farming.

And actually, he likes the farm life. I like the island life. You're hearing our friend Manolo Morales at KHON and just hearing about this guy, a dog handler in the Navy, served honorably, super smart, and then gets turned on to the farm life. I can't tell you how many times when we would come home from school, driving home, we'd pass farm after farm after farm and everybody in our community would be out there on their tractors farming that land. And it gets in your blood growing up in farmland and loving farmland. And this quiet and simple life is the life the victim chose. Little did he know that violent crime would find him no matter where he went. Take a listen now to our friends at KHON. He met and got engaged to

31-year-old Esther Stephen. Breyer and Stephen have a one-year-old daughter. His mother tells me he was trying to get partial custody of the child who he has not seen since Stephen broke the engagement in September. The only thing he wanted was visitation to see his daughter and his name on the birth certificate. That's all that he wanted. He wanted a family. He wanted them to all be a family. And so for this to happen, it's just heartbreaking. His mother says Breyer was also active with the church and had been volunteering there Saturday, the day before he was killed. He had all day, you know, help this church, basically serving the Lord. And then that night, a little bit after 12, is when our life changed forever. You know, hearing about this guy's life,

it's just heartbreaking. The guy goes and serves his country. He comes home to work on a farm. He has a baby with his fiance. All he wants is some kind of life with that baby. Even if it's just weekends, anything he can get. Working for free at the church. I mean, the guy sounds like a saint. So how does he end up dead? How and why? Take a listen to Sierra Tufts. The last moment was giving him a hug and preparing for the next day and telling him I loved him, thanked him for everything. 31-year-old Shea Breyer served four years in the Navy as a canine

handler. He had a love for his daughter, his dogs, and serving others. We serve in a church we think we're there to help people right but in this case it became him being the one to help us. His family didn't want to go on camera but say he had a big heart, lived and breathed the military, was religious, and loved his daughter so much. I want to remember the man for who he was and who he is and the impact that he's made on so many lives. You know, when violent crime enters your life, it's a game changer. Nobody is ever the same. You know, Karen Stark, you've dealt with so many crime victims.

It changes your life for the rest of your life. How you grow up, how you see the world, how you raise your children, how you live your life day to day. Did you hear this woman? And, you know, I think, Nancy, if anybody would know what that's like, it would be you. Because when you're exposed to that kind of violent crime, you even make decisions that have to do with the career that you choose, because it never really leaves you. It's something that you can't get over. And it influences, just as you said, every aspect of what you do next. Well, you're right. Karen, you and I have talked about it many, many times in a dark studio at

Court TV. I had planned to teach Shakespearean literature. And when my fiance was murdered before our wedding, I dropped out of school and ultimately went back to law school to put bad guys in jail. That was the big plan. It changed how long it took me to ever try to remarry. It changed the way I raised the children. I almost couldn't have children because I'd waited so long after the trauma of Keith being murdered before our wedding. And it changes everything. The other day, I've told you this story. My daughter said, Mom, can I ever go on a walk through the neighborhood alone?

And I told her, of course, yes. And do you know how much I had to duck and dive to follow that child while she was walking and her not see me? I'm telling you, it changes everything for the rest of your life. And I got to ask you, Dr. Kendall Crowns, Deputy Medical Examiner, Travis County, Texas. That's Austin, which I love. You guys have some awesome barbecue in Austin, Dr. Crowns. But that aside, with what you do as a medical examiner and you see so many violent crime victims, does that affect the way you live? To some degree. I mean, when you see

stuff that people do that results in their sudden untimely demise, it does make you a lot more cautious. I would say as far as homicides go, you know, it is so random how a lot of homicides happen that really that hasn't really changed how my life is. But accidents, on the other hand, standing on top of ladders, venturing out in deep water that you can't see the bottom of, things of that nature. It has changed how I approach things, for sure. But homicides, you can't predict them unless you're somebody's spouse that you're agitating. But other than that, you really can't predict homicides. They're very random.

I hear you. It changes you, you know, to Chief Byers, Chris Byers, former police chief, Johns Creek, 25 years. Has it changed the way you live, the way you raise your children, how you go about your life every day? Absolutely. My poor 20-year-old son, all through his middle school, high school time, would want to do something. And I would say no. And he'd give me the, but all my other friends' parents are letting them do it. And I'm like, they don't know what I know. They don't know where the dangers lurk.

So absolutely everything you do from, you know, coming home and being aware of your surroundings and closing your garage and make sure it closes before somebody sneaks into it to, you know, being at restaurants and making sure your back's against the wall because you want to see the door. You want to know where the exits are. Constantly pulling up to a red light, looking around and thinking, hey, if the guy in front of me jumps out with a gun, what am I going to do? Just plan those what ifs. And I've beat it into my children's head, my wife's head.

So it absolutely changes everything about your life. You know, the other day we pulled up to a red light and my husband was driving. I said, don't get so close to the car in front of you. He said, why? I'm not too close. And I said, because if the guy gets out with a gun, where are you going to go? You can't back up. You can't move forward. Think about it. And he looked at me like I was crazy to even think that might happen. I'm glad I'm not the only crazy one, Chief Byers. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. So how does this dad, who's never been in trouble in his life, end up dead at the end of a dirt road? How does that happen?

Take a listen to Jay County Sheriff Dwayne Ford and Caleb Saylor, WFFT Fox. Our Sheriff's Department was contacted through 911, referenced a person that was injured. Our guys responded along with the MS. The person was taken to the hospital and then transported on up to Lutheran. Jay County Sheriff Dwayne Ford says it was at Lutheran Hospital where Blair was pronounced dead. The news of the murder took people, even the sheriff, by surprise. We did have a homicide about six months ago, but that's very rare in Jay County that anything like this ever happens. Did you hear what the sheriff said? He said, we did have a homicide a few years ago.

Man, you were right, Ray Caputo, when you told me it was a low crime area. God bless him. I understand, Ray Caputo, that the victim was shot in the back. Is that right? He was shot in the back with Is that right? He was shot in the back with a.22 rifle, Nancy. Let's talk about that. Shot in the back. So what that means to me, right off the bat, Ken Belkin, nobody's going to be able to claim self-defense. If you shoot somebody in the back, they're not coming for you. Absolutely. A shot in the back is clearly not self-defense. It's clearly evidence of something way more malicious.

And you said, Ray Caputo, WDBO, a.22 caliber rifle. To you, Dr. Kendall Crowns, what's that? .22 caliber rifle is a small caliber rifle. It doesn't have a lot of force to it. In fact, the bullets sometimes when they enter your body will bounce off your bones and ricochet around within your internal organs. You know, Chief Byers, I often hear of a.22. Had a lot of cases with a.22. It's a small weapon.

They were usually a handgun. How common is a.22 caliber rifle? It's the first gun I ever owned. It's normally what you take your, you buy your kids to learn to shoot. It's what my dad bought me to learn to shoot. I was going to say, it sounds like a daisy shotgun you give your child to go learn how to shoot at a tree somewhere. My husband, he knows how I feel about guns. His parents gave him, I think it was called a daisy or something a little shotgun

when he was little and he said maybe it was even a bb gun or a pellet gun but it would shoot off to one side it wouldn't even shoot straight needless to say he's not a marksman so i've never even seen a 22 caliber rifle so it's like a a training rifle yeah it's a very22 caliber rifle, so it's like a training rifle? Yeah, it's very much, like I said, it's what my dad bought me. It's what I bought my son to teach him to shoot on. It's very much an entry-level thing. It's not something that a professional criminal would normally use. It's just usually if you've got kids, you've got one around the house

because it's what you wanted to shoot on. I do not have one around the house. You make it sound like a box of Kleenex. Yeah, you've got one around the house because it's what you wanted to shoot on. I do not have one around the house. You make it sound like a box of Kleenex. Yeah, you probably have one around the house. No, I don't. But I can tell you a funny story, Chief Byers. You know how I feel about guns. I don't want one.

I don't want the children to be around one. So I take them to scout camp where, of course, because if I hear sleep away, I think murder and molestation. So I then sign me and my husband up to be volunteers for a week at scout camp so I can make sure the children are not murdered or molested. They can pick whatever they want. I have guarded them against guns, against violence in every way I can. Guess who turns into a sharpshooter? My son, John David Lynch. He goes, he picks getting a rifle, I guess, merit badge.

I freak out. And one day I had 36,000 steps on my Fitbit because I was going back and forth to that shooting range to watch and to make sure he didn't get hurt. Yes, I was the only mother there. I don't care what you think. I was so tired by the time it was done. I fell asleep with my head down on a table watching John David. And he didn't just get the merit badge, I'd like to say. First, he got his quarter, which is you shoot, I think, at 50 feet, five times into a quarter, the coin. Then, to further agitate me, he gets his dime. You shoot 10 times into a dime at however many feet. So my son, against everything I've tried to do, has turned into a little sharpshooter.

We still do not have guns. But, you know, it happens. I'm thinking about what I'm learning. Think about it, Ken Belkin. He's got this low-powered weapon, a.22. Who would have a.22? You have a guy, unarmed, shot in the back and dumped. What is that telling you about the crime scene and the crime itself?

It's telling me that this might not have been the most planned-out situation, that this could have been spur of the moment, you know, heat of the moment, a crime in the middle of some sort of passions that were aroused. Heat of the moment, but yet shot in the back. Well, you, I hope you're all sitting down. Take a listen to John Bedell, W-H-I-O-T-V, Dayton. We're here in Portland, Indiana. It's about 11 miles from Fort Recovery. Court documents filed here at the Jay County Courthouse and obtained by News Center 7 show there was an active custody battle

between one of the suspects and the victim when he was killed. We're a small town, so everybody knows everybody. Everybody knows everything. And in small-town Portland, Indiana, Morgan Frazier says it's hard to believe Esther Stephen and Shelby Heistand are accused of murder. Oh, I was like, oh, no. I was like, no way. It could have been them. There's no way they could have done it. Like, I've known them for too long. They're too gentle of people. They're too nice.

But Jay County prosecutors say the two Fort Recovery High School softball coaches worked together to pull off a violent crime. In fact, investigators say the pair admitted to it. Let me understand this to you, Ray Caputo. It's not just a woman, which statistically is unheard of. I mean, it does happen, but very rarely for a woman to commit a violent crime by shooting a guy in the back and dumping the body. Yeah, we've all seen the movie, I think it was called Monster, about the female serial killer. Few and far between.

So it's not just one woman, but two women who are known for being meek and mild. As a matter of fact, they're the local softball coaches. Seriously? Yeah, Nancy. I mean, how uncommon is that? But also, there is a child that is involved that is shared between the victim and Esther, one of those softball coaches. And when you add children into the mix, you know, you got that mama bear thing going on. So although women don't commonly do this sort of thing, there is a child involved, which does that, you know, makes a little more sense. But protect the child against what? This dad was a loving dad. He just wanted to see his daughter have his name as father listed on the birth certificate.

There is no suggestion he ever hurt the child. He just wanted him and his mom to get to be around the baby. So what was it? She just did not want him to get to see his baby? That's what it sounds like because you're right. He was simply trying to become part of this little girl's life. I mean, he barely saw the baby. He last seen the baby in November. He was just simply a dad who was doing what a lot of dads don't want to do, be involved in their child's life, be on the birth certificate. And the bio mom wanted to have nothing to do with that. You know, that's amazing to me, Karen Stark.

We've covered so many cases where the dad wants nothing to do with the baby. They don't even want to admit it is their baby. You've got to track them down, lasso them, pull them in with a rope like you'd lasso a steer, make them take a DNA test to prove they're the dad. Then their dad beat dad's. You're lucky if they'll throw a box of pampers at the front door as they drive by. Here's a dad that wants, he's not trying to get the child away from the mom. He just wants partial custody to have visitation with the little girl. You know, Nancy, we don't really understand what was going on with this couple, especially the mother. I mean, why would she be so overprotective and not want to allow him near her child? What was going on that happened?

Because he sounds exactly like that kind of dad well i don't know that overprotective is the right word karen stark because there's no even a suggestion he ever hurt the baby in any way it sounds more like spite anger just something that she did not want him to even get to visit she did not want his name on the birth certificate yeah like she wanted a sperm bank and not a real person now that that's a thought guys take a listen to this steven apparently said she was angry that briar had petitioned the court for custody rights and to change their baby's last name police say both women admitted they drove briar to the remote site

and that while Stephen distracted him on the bridge, Highstand shot him in the back with a.22 caliber rifle. An autopsy found the bullet hit his heart. The prosecutor says the case is a tragedy all around. Certainly in a small community, you do feel the impact of a case like this because it's a small community. Folks know one another. Families are interconnected like in most small communities.

So it's very difficult. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Stephen apparently said she was angry that Breyer had petitioned the court for custody rights and to change their baby's last name. Police say both women admitted they drove Breyer to the remote site and that while Stephen distracted him on the bridge, high stand shot him in the back with a.22 caliber rifle. An autopsy found the bullet hit his heart. The prosecutor says the case is a tragedy all around. Certainly in a small community, you do feel the impact of a case like this because it's a small community. Folks

know one another. Families are interconnected like in most small communities, So it's very difficult. So there's the motive. She was, quote, angry. He wanted any custody rights at all, even partial custody, even visitation. And she really went over the edge because he wanted to change the baby's last name, I guess, to his, Shea Breyer. Question, Dr. Kendall Crowns, Deputy Medical Examiner, Austin. This.22 caliber bullet, which is very small, hit his heart. How did he keep living? So once the bullet hits the heart, you don't necessarily instantaneously die, but it does take a few seconds for you to, with the heart to bleed out. So you can still have purposeful movement for probably about 15 to 30 seconds. This guy was still alive

well after the shooting that leaves him there on a dirt road at a bridge. I'm not, I'm a little confused. You've got the mother of the baby, the fiance, Esther Steven, and then you've got another teen girl involved. One of them lured him and the other shot him. Who is the teen, Ray Caputo? The teen is Shelby Heistand, Nancy. She's an assistant softball coach for a former one, too, at Fort Recovery High School where Esther worked. And I did see a report that said that they were girlfriends. And I don't know if that was his friendship or they were romantically involved, but certainly someone who had worked alongside Esther at Fort Recovery High School. So Esther Stephen, the 29-year-old bio mom, is actually a high school softball coach, I guess for the girls' softball team.

And then she recruits Shelby Highstand to help her commit murder. You just heard Corinne Rose, ABC 21 WPTA, but now take a listen to John Bedell, WHIO-TV. Jay County deputies found Shea Breyer dead along a road Sunday. He had a child with Stephen. When investigators interviewed her Tuesday, court documents say Stephen admitted she was angry Breyer had filed a custody lawsuit involving their child in November. They were due in court for a hearing in the case in February. Investigators wrote in court documents Stephen and Heiston got a.22 caliber rifle from Heiston's house Saturday night. Then they called Breyer right after midnight to see if he wanted to, quote, hang out. The two coaches picked up Breyer at his house and drove to a bridge along a county

road where all three got out of the car. Court documents say Stephen admitted she distracted Breyer so Heiston could get the rifle out of the car. Investigators say if Stephen and Breyer walked away from the car, Heiston shot Breyer once in the back. The bullet tore through his heart and killed him. Well, I don't care who pulled the trigger. They're all responsible for murder, not just murder, but murder one. You've heard about two women, high school softball coaches for the girls team embroiled in this murder. That's not the end of the story. Take a listen to WHIO TV's Molly Kowik. Police arrested a third person from Fort Recovery in connection with the murder of an Indiana man. According to media outlets in Indiana, investigators believe 18-year-old

Hannah Kanapke loaned her car to former Fort Recovery softball coaches Esther Stephen and Shelby Highstand because her car would not be recognized if anyone spotted them. Investigators say Stephen and Highstand admitted to working together to kill Shea Breyer. Court records show Stephen said she was angry with Breyer because he recently filed a custody lawsuit involving their child. Detectives found Kanapke in Iowa. You know, when you said sperm donor, that's all they wanted him for, you may have been right karen stark because

this woman wanted nothing to do with the dad of her child her former fiance as soon as she had the baby he was history and went so far as to not only kill him but drag two teen girls in on it uh ray caputo wdbo who's the third teen? She was just simply a former softball player that knew Shelby and Esther. And this girl was a volleyball, recruited a local college, so she had moved on. But I think that she just got caught up with a couple people who got her involved in something that she shouldn't have. She consented to having her car be used in? Because they thought that no one would recognize it. But now she's just in a whole heap of trouble along with the other two.

Yeah, if you loan your car to further a murder because, you know, your car won't be recognized, you're up for felony murder, even though this teen girl was in another state. Take a listen to Stacey Horst, KCCI 8, our cut 13. Now, former Iowa college athlete is charged with being involved in a murder in Indiana. 18-year-old Hannah Kanapke was a volleyball player at Marshalltown Community College. The school tells KCCI her scholarship has been revoked and she is no longer enrolled. Kanapke is originally from Ohio. She is charged in connection with the death of Shea Breyer in Jay County, Indiana earlier this month. The criminal complaint says she helped a friend in the murder of Breyer over a child custody dispute. Scholarship, smallership. Who

cares about that when you're looking down the wrong end of a barrel of felony murder leveled right at your head because that's what she's looking at. Ken Belkin, this last, this third woman, Hannah Kanapke, is in another state, loans her car for them to commit a shooting, a murder, so they would not be recognized. She's in it. She's in it up to her eyeballs for felony murder. She certainly is. I mean, if she loaned them this car with the express purpose that they would evade detection and avoid capture by using this car, then she can be liable for any of the crimes committed while they had that car.

It's classic felony murder rule. If you're co-felons, if during the commission of a felony, loss of life occurs, even if you did not expressly take that life, you can be liable for felony murder. Take a listen to Dirk Rowley, WANE 15. The Fort Recovery Ohio School District plans to fire two softball coaches facing murder charges. Indiana prosecutors filed formal charges earlier this month against 29-year-old Esther Stephen the state of South Dakota. The state of South Dakota has been charged with murder and assault. The state of South Dakota plans to fire 2 softball coaches facing murder charges. Indiana

prosecutors filed formal charges earlier this month against 29 year-old Esther Stephen and 18 year-old Shelby high state. He stand excuse me, both from Portland. They're accused of killing 31 year-old shave briar court

documents indicate Stephen was angry at briar for opening a custody case over a child. They share she and he stand then allegedly conspired to kill Breyer along a rural road. The Fort Recovery School District announced they plan to fire both tomorrow. Both suspects are in jail without bond and they're scheduled to be back in court in March. I guess they do plan to fire them. What's the holdup? Guys, now the little girl, the baby they were fighting over, has neither a mother or a father. We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace, Crime Story, signing off. Goodbye, friend.

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