Law&Crime Sidebar - 11 Chilling Claims in Florida Teen Dismemberment Case

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

In St. Petersburg, Florida, a horrifying nightmare unfolded after 16-year-old Miranda Corsette disappeared. Shocking police interrogation footage reveals how prime suspect Steven Gress casually detailed the teenager's final days while attempting to shift the ultimate blame onto his girlfriend and co-defendant, Michelle Brandes. Law&Crime's Jesse Weber breaks down the chilling confession, the disturbing alleged motive behind the crime, and how these revelations could impact the upcoming capital murder trials.HOST:Jesse Weber: https://twitter.com/jessecordweberLAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokeVideo Editing - Michael Deininger, Christina O'Shea, Alex Ciccarone, & Jay CruzScript Writing & Producing - Savannah Williamson & Juliana BattagliaGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinSTAY 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/lawandcrimeTwitter: 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.

This girl was never supposed to be in the situation. Police in Florida believe a 16-year-old girl met a horrific end at the hands of convicted felon Stephen Gress and his girlfriend, reportedly suffering a week of torture and abuse before she was reportedly killed and dismembered. And the alleged killer's reasoning? I just wanted my ring back. That's it. Okay. Yeah, we got our hands on Gress's interview with. where he allegedly revealed sickening details about the teen mothers' last days. I'm telling her this will be a learning experience for everybody.

I want to take you through this disturbing conversation and look at how this apparent confession could impact the ongoing legal cases. Welcome to Sidebar, presented by law and crime. I'm Jesse Weber. February 2025, police in Florida received a report of a missing teen mom. We're talking about 16-year-old Miranda Corset. Police soon learn that Miranda's parents were both deceased, that she had been living with her grandmother in Gulfport, and that she had an 11-month-old baby. Apparently wasn't out of the ordinary for Miranda to be away for days at a time, but when her grandmother hadn't seen or heard from her in more than a week, that's when she called the police.

And his officers in Gulfport and the surrounding areas began an investigation. This is when a witness reportedly came forward with a tip about what might have happened to Miranda. and it was that tip that led investigators to St. Petersburg and to these two suspects, Stephen Gress and Michelle Brandis. So according to a news release, Miranda apparently met Gress through a dating app and apparently spend Valentine's Day with him. She goes home that night, but then the following day reportedly returns. So we're talking February 15th returns to his duplex. And that is when she was never seen again. Police claim she died sometime between February 20th and February 24th after days of abuse. That's the allegation. And when it came to their prime suspect, Stephen Gress, police knew exactly where he was,

the jail. He had been arrested for allegedly pointing a harpoon at his girlfriend. So then you go to March 7, 2025. And detectives brought him from the jail to an interview room to try to figure out what it happened to Miranda. And from the very beginning, Gress kind of seemed eager to tell them everything. Now, I'm going to warn you, okay, before we play this interrogation, I got to warn you. Even though, by the way, he and Brandis are innocent unless proven guilty. And despite the horrific details that he's allegedly relating to the investigators, I got to say, Gress kind of seems incredibly casual about it all. It is very disturbing to witness this.

All right, no, hold on, hold on. Before you talk, okay, before you say anything, you know, you went to first appearance and did they appoint an attorney to you? I don't care about an attorney, man. Okay. I really don't care about it. But I do because it's the law. So you're initiating this request to talk to me. Yes, sir. Even though you have an attorney. I don't care about it. I don't care about it. Okay. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to read. read you your rights okay because I've never read your rights when I come in before because I didn't have any charges on you before I talked to you okay so I'm gonna read your rights to you we're gonna get through this form before anything

else happens okay all right I got I got questions I gotta go through here it may seem mundane to you but they're very important to the attorneys okay are you under the influence of any prescription drugs no sir any alcohol no sir any illegal drugs no sir What's the last grade he completed in school? Got a GED, but I read is 10. Okay. Okay.

Okay. And can you read? Yes, sir. Can you write? Yes, sir. Can you hear okay? Yes, sir. You have the right to remain silent.

Do you understand? Yes, sir. Anything you say can always against you in a court of law? Do you understand? Yes, sir. You have the right to talk to a lawyer? right to talk to a lawyer or have him and her present with you while you're being questioned. Do you understand? Yes, sir.

If you cannot afford to hire an lawyer, one will be appointed to represent you. Do you understand? Yes, sir. You can decide at any time to exercise these rights and not answer any questions or making statements. Do you understand? Yes, sir. Okay. Do you understand each of these rights that I just explained to you? Yes, sir. And having these rights in mind, do you wish to talk to us now? Yes, sir.

Okay. So the detectives make sure that he knows his Miranda rights, but then Gress launches right into it. And he's kind of insistent that his involvement in this whole situation is minimal. This was never supposed to happen. Never was supposed to happen. What wasn't supposed to happen? This girl was never supposed to be in this situation. This girl was never supposed to be.

So I met her off the grinder at, which is like a gay hookup sight. And I don't know what a 16 year old girl is doing on an adult hookup sites. I guess it's your other than. She told me she was 20 at first and then later came out afterwards that she was 16, which really had nothing. It didn't mean anything to me. Her age meant nothing. There's one thing that she did to me and that was just one thing I was trying to resolve.

She stole a gold ring of mine. What about overdoses? That must be Michelle's way of trying to cover her part up in something. Because there was no overdose in any. There was nothing like that was involved. So I've been picked the girl up the date of my certainness is this is all this is very recently with them within the last month And so I picked the girl up for a Hookup on the ground rep her name was Randa on there

You know what about that might have been? I mean everything's on the cell phone if you can pull up cell phone information that everything you want on the cell phone Is that on your cell phone on my cell phone? I find it all. Yes, sir. Well hold on a second. So her name was Randa her name was Miranda her name was Miranda But she went by her profile name was Randa. R-A-N-D-A. Right. Okay. And that's on Grindr. Right.

Okay. And this, we'll be able to see this on your phone? Yes, sir. What's the passcode for your phone? It's just a Z. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, but that phone is no longer here. I spazzed out after what happened. You know what I'm saying? I'll take you through the whole thing to what happened. Okay. So you met Randap? Okay. So you met Randap?

Right. Only Grindrath. Okay. You don't know what day that was, though? Uh, it was, I want to say it was a Sunday. It was a step. All right. So it's a Sunday that this happened.

And then I seen her the day, two days prior to that, I seen her for the first time. I picked her up. We went home, hung out. I dropped her back off. It was fine. Nothing. No issues. Two days past five.

She used me up and says, don't want to hang out. Okay, cool. I picked her up. This is where the issue starts. Where did you pick her up? I picked her up in front of, not in front of her grandma's house, but I didn't know exactly which house was your grandmother's house. I just knew that, you know, if you put a GPA, you put an address in GPS, it's, like, before you get to the actual spot, it'll be like you arrive to your destination, but you're, like another house or two away from it. That's hot.

So where was that out? In golf port. You know what? The address was. It's, I don't remember what the address was. I know it was off of 58th, 58th street in Gulfport. There's a, there's a school there. Yeah.

Is a school in the area? Big high school? Yeah, I don't know what kind of school is. It's just a school without me. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. So I picked her up from there.

I'm sure you can see my car coming to a stop somewhere near her, her house. And whenever she came to my car, it was always at an angle, so I know I didn't stop right in front of the grandmother's house. But I stopped in front of, in the area for her to pick up. So I picked her up, we went back home. We're chilling. I bought her some food. She's real picky eater, I guess, so I bought her a smoothie from the Wawaawe. wall wall and uh my ring which is in property right now was given back to me by michelle this

michelle you know where michelle is you need to pick michelle after the off you pick michel up the michelle that gress is referring to is likely his girlfriend domestic partner now co-defendant michelle brandis she would be arrested the day after this interview that's according to a police news release reportedly she turns herself in by the way gress also mentions another woman in this. Pam, this is his apparent roommate on their side of the duplex. So when you hear that name, you have a better idea about who we're talking about. And Gress seems to claim that everything was going great until he lost his ring. And apparently he became convinced that it was Miranda who had taken it. So my ring comes up missing. And on the same day you picked her on the same

I picked her up. It was just us two in the room. Pam was in the other room. She, Pam's got her own room in there. And us too who, you and Miranda and Miranda, but only two in the room. Which room? The linear room, which I made my bedroom and of that house. The downstairs apartment? Yes. That 27? Yes, sir.

Oh, 8, 27. Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, sir. So, in the process of me ordering food for her, my ring comes up missing. It was a little bit too big for my pinky so it could slide off if, if, if whatever, it could just slide off. And I know, I remember when I went to get off the bed, I supported my way on the bed to go get the doors for the food. And that's when my ring slid off.

My ring slid off on the bed. Right. So as I'm eating my food, I'm realizing my ring's not on my finger. So I'm like, I go, I search the whole immediate area. My ring's not there. She stole, Miranda stole my ring. Miranda stole my ring. So I'm telling her, man, like, look, there's nobody else here.

I know, you know, it's nice. It's a nice ring. You might want it, but it's not yours. Just give it back. If everything was bravado with this part of time, it's like, I'm just, I'm telling her, and I'm hoping that I'm able to just scare her to get any more ring back. So I call it Michelle. to help me, to see if Michelle will help me get the ring back from her.

Like, they have a female, a female connection or something that anything I can use to try to get her to give me my ring back. So all this is on text messages as well. So I text Michelle on Facebook Messenger. I'm like, hey, man, this girl over here stole my ring, will you please help me get my ring back? So she agrees and comes over, you know, she comes over there and stuff. And the first thing she does when she gets there was looks for my ring in the house. And I'm cool with that because I just want my ring back. So the sooner I get my ring back, this is you can just be done.

So she, she finds my ring and she doesn't tell me she finds my ring. And how I know that is because she gave me my ring back after it's all this is said and done. And Pam was there when she found my ring in my car. My ring was never in my car. It never was in my car. She never went to outside to put it in my car. Michelle found my ring that she stole. That's right.

Seemingly according to Gress, after this entire, unhinged scenario played out, the alleged beating, the killing, the dismemberment, he realized that Brandis had his ring the whole time, which is unthinkable. It is unthinkable. If that's true, it would essentially mean if these allegations are true that Brandis witnessed and took part in all of this, even though she could have stopped it from happening. That's the allegation. And then you go back to the interrogation.

Gress explains to the detectives why this ring is so important to him. Like pleading with her, telling her, man, like, this stuff is important to me. I just got out of prison for doing 13 years. I've just started having my own stuff for myself. This stuff means something to me, man. I just started having my own shit. It means something to me. I was not willing to take a loss on my ring when she stole it,

and you can get it back to me. And I'm telling her, like, please, let's use this as a learning experience. Does you power grounds? Yes. So she's wearing clothes and you patted her down? You couldn't find the ring? I even bought a metal detector. Well, where do you think she was hiding that?

I thought she either swallowed it or put it up inside of her or she had it hidden somewhere else. Okay. I knew she had it. And she was, she was disrespecting me and mocking me the whole time. Miranda is to me. Miranda is. Yeah, like, I just couldn't, I couldn't fathom. Why would you steal somebody?

What was she doing to mock you? She's just like this. She said she got it from her grandma. She said she'd be like, man, please, please, please, man. She'd be like, she'll just do like this to me like this. She went to this. She like this. She should like...

Wait, you mean like, she might have been shaking in fear? No. Because that's what you look like when you do that for me. But she... When I think of a 16-year-old girl shaking like that, that's fear. Michelle. Michelle wouldn't be whispering to her, and I'd be like, why are you guys whispering? What are you trying to hide for you?

What is... Why would you possibly be whispering amongst yourselves to not want to be heard by me? There's something that they had going on. And Michelle also has the girl's iPhone. The grad iPhone, I told Michelle, I said, hey man, go hide this underneath a trash can at a gas station somewhere just so it doesn't, okay, somebody came looking for it wouldn't lead her to my house and it would prevent me from getting my ring back. That's my fault is my greed for my ring, okay? Another important information is I've seen Miranda on Valentine's Day.

That's the, that's, that will be able to give you a date. The first time I see Miranda was on Valentine's Day. Michelle was upset that I chose Miranda over her on Valentine's Day. So I think that's where her motive came from. To have her spite for Miranda that came from this. And so they're having secret conversations. I don't know what they're saying. She took her rank.

She said she threw it in a gutter. She said she threw it in a gutter down the street. I asked her afterwards if she would have able to take us to the gutter. Michelle, Michelle, I believe that she did not throw it in the gutter. I believe that she kept her eye home because Michelle has a long history of stealing. Okay. She's not a little. We're good.

We're kind of running out of trash. So let's talk about, let's talk about Miranda. And you thought that she was mocking you by shaking. It wasn't just shaking that she would be doing. She would also be saying stuff to me. Like what? Like she would be saying, she was saying she never seen it. And then she said, oh, I know it's outside for a fact.

it's over here outside and then she'd say that she hadn't seen it again and then she'd say oh wait i remember it's in the kitchen over here and then she'd say it was in the bathroom over there and then she told me it was behind the behind the mirror over here she led me through this like i don't know why i don't know why somebody in this position would would disrespect how else did you search her i searched with a metal detector telling you the truth my man i'm telling you the truth all right i was i was dedicated to get my ring back i just i i just i i i I called the St. Pete Police Department. And I said, hey, man, this girl has my ring, man.

She stole my ring, man. Can you guys please come assist me to get my ring back? They told me that I was in no position. I was not legally allowed to search her, and the police was not going to come over there and search her, and all I could do was file a police report. So she was going to be here. A police officer came to your house and closed that?

I called the police department, and that's what the operator dispatch told me. When did you call the police? A day or two or three after, I already had it. I called the same people's part. Yeah. So somebody. And a dispatcher told you.

They told me, I told her that my, my metal detector is going off in her, in her private area. And then I think the girl I had my ring up her privates. And could somebody please come out here to, to help retrieve my ring? Is what I told me. And the lady told me that I had no legal right to search her. You don't? I'm just, I'm, I'm just, I'm just, yeah. But I mean, I'm surprised that we would tell you something like that.

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She scared of me, too. How can she not be scared of you? Right. She's 90 pounds. But yeah, but she's still talking me. Was she really? Yes, sir. Are you sure you weren't just imagining now?

No, because what was she saying to she talking to you? She's telling me that she doesn't care. I said, I had rent coming up. I had one week left to get my rent up. She says she doesn't care. I said, you don't care if I'm going to be going on the streets? Like, you don't care about, like, my house, everything that I have going for me. You don't care that this is going to be lost because I'm over here focusing on you trying to get my ring back.

Yeah. And she would tell me no. She doesn't care. And she'd do it like this to me. She'd do like this. It's not a shake. It's a it's a taunt. She would talk me like this. I don't know what that is she said she got her grandma It doesn't taunt me. I don't understand me because she's not giving me my ring back. It's a taunt. You know what I'm saying? So you think that this 16 year old girl who 16 is taunting you. I just don't get it, but okay, well let's keep going ahead. So then Michelle already over there. Michelle was already over there for for the whole time. I called Michelle you need you. Okay. So Michelle was

been over there. Where was Pam? In her room. Pam's aware what's going on to. Pam's, Pam, if anything, Pam's guilty because Pam could have reported this before it got to this point, whether this was being going on. Pam, Pam's a sweetheart. Pam does not deserve to be in any trouble for this. She doesn't. It's unfortunate for him. Okay. All right. Yeah, I'm going to say this again. Gras seems to be remarkably calm, as he explains to the investigators, that yes, he allegedly beat and assaulted Miranda multiple times, but he also had. He also help tend to her wounds. Any injury that I caused her, I'm going to CVS and I'm buying her medication for.

What kind of medication? Whatever. She needs some sore throat medication, some, uh... Why does she have a sore throat? Some high... Why would she stick something down on her throat? No. Why would she need sore throat medication then from whatever injuries you...

Man, I just told you, I just told you some files like I'm being 100 with you, man. I'm not trying to deflect blame on anybody else. I'm not trying to pin anything on anybody else. I own up to what I did. I'm not trying to defend or deflect on anybody else. Michelle has more this than I. I'm not letting anything bad enough happen to the girl that I can't just let her go home

after a couple days healing up. I just wanted my ring back. I just wanted my ring back. That's it. Okay? Michelle's got some other shit going on. Nothing's happened to the girl to where she can't heal up in a couple days and go home.

that's on meat. I'm making sure it. You know what I'm saying? But the girl had, she said she had some kind of a disease where she bruised really easy and she was really thin. She was delicate.

So with that in mind, like I'm making sure I don't do anything to the girl that's going to make sure that she can't give me my shit back and she can't just go home in a couple days after healing up. That was my goal.

Was to do whatever until she gave me my back, let her heal up, go home. I'm telling her, this will be a learning experience for everybody. You shouldn't be going to talk

people's house. don't know stealing their sh-in. That's my whole thing was. That was my whole thing. Michelle, it was more her spite for not taking her out for Valentine's Day. As petty as it sounds, man. That's what I bring from it. So Michelle, Michelle had my ring the whole time. She said she found it in my car after the fact. So there are parts of this interrogation that were muted by authorities before they sent it to us. This is likely to protect certain aspects of their investigation. common. We see this many times. But while Gress explains what, quote, after the fact means, the audio drops out. But here's what an affidavit filed against Gress says. And I think this might be

the connective tissue here. Quote, the defendant and co-defendant held the victim against her will for over seven days and tortured her by repeatedly beating the victim and eventually stuffing a billiard ball into her mouth and wrapping her face with plastic wrap, causing her to suffocate. giving her CPR, blowing her nose, blowing her mouth, hold her nose, giving her behind, like, all this shit. Like, I'm doing everything I possibly can. This girl was not supposed to die, man. She was not supposed to die, but she did. I can't possibly move forward without this, without my ring.

Like, I just could not take a hell off my ring like that. I just couldn't. So according to what Gress allegedly told the detectives, both his mom and Brandis' mom knew about Miranda and that she was dead. He says he, Brandis, and Pam went to stay at Brandis's mother's house for several days after Miranda died. He claimed she was out of town in Puerto Rico at the time. So they had the house to themselves. However, according to a warrant, Pam would apparently later state that Brandis's mother was home, along with a home health aid. Again, let me just be clear about something.

We don't know if this is true. This is coming from Gress that these two women knew about this, okay? I just want to make that clear. But that home in Largo is reportedly where Gress, according to authorities, cut up Miranda's body with a saw, 16 years old. The affidavit against him reads, quote, the defendant and co-defendant, then dismembered the body of the victim and discarded the victim in a dumpster in Ruskin, Florida. By the way, Miranda's remains have never been found. Now, while one of the detectives leaves the room to check some details about the shed where

Gras allegedly said he found the saw, the other investigator steers the interview in this new, unexpected direction. Is it true you used to take animals to the skyway? Yes. What'd you do with them? I would kill them. Do you feel it need to kill them? No. Why do you do it then? I was stressed

out. Just killing them giving you stretchfully? Stress out. Pam and Michelle repeatedly would do they would be short arm and they would threaten where I slept at. They would they just would constantly bicker and about nothing to me all the time like I was I was the

enemy to them so you would kill an animal I would kill an animal so I would not it helped me to relieve my my stress and my anger so I would not hurt them where would you get to animals from Craigslist people give away him give away animals on crazy any kind of animal pretty much be a big of any like a guinea pig or rabbit dog cat what do you do you throw a one off the skyway

when you're doing them the skyway is another one of Michelle's things I don't would take it on Skyway I would take it to the Skyway I would take it if you go to my house and do a what's the the agent that they used to

uncover blood traces of blood if you put that in my house the entire house might glow because you know how many animals on that? Then what do you do with the car car? So the skyway thing is another one in the show. Has it's killing animals like that,

been something you've always done or what is it? It's just recently started. From like from living with Pam, Pam, Pam is a, how many animals you think you've killed? It's hard to say. It's hard to say, man, a lot. I see, it seems like I'm a bad guy right now. Like, it seems like I'm a bad guy.

I'm not a bad guy like that like I just been shocked it's not for me to judge me okay but I'm trying to understand your mind a little bit so so my mind is this I did a lot I did 11 years in prison at a young age yeah I got out and I was faced with many adversities and I like things would just keep happiness and like small things keep happening to keep happening keep having keep happening I could never catch a break without something sticking me in my rib cage. And my frustration and my anger would always be at a point where I'm always frustrated. You know what I'm saying?

Like I was always frustrated. And now this is what, living with Pam and Pam never having rent, Pam always complaining. It's just living with that shit. Had me festering. heavy fissor. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm always on edge. It kind of makes you wonder, right, about Gress's mental fitness, his mental state.

We know that hurting animals is a major red flag for things like psychopathy. We've seen in other cases before. And in fact, last year, a judge had ordered Gress to undergo a mental competency evaluation to make sure that he understood the charges against him, then he was able to assist in his own defense. He was found competent in November. And in fact, in another court filing, this was interesting, the defense had filed. a motion requesting that any mention of animal cruelty be excluded from the trial and the penalty phase because the argument would be that it's arguably too prejudicial for the jury to hear.

The judge hasn't returned an answer yet according to the docket, but we're going to continue to follow the case and see where it goes on that. Now, the detectives bring the questioning back around to Miranda's supposed murder, right? And they have a question for Gras. Why did he allegedly send photos of what he'd done to other people? What was the purpose of that? The purpose was to get sympathy for me. So if they, I was trying to get them to buy me another ring and then everything would just be good.

I just wanted a ring. I didn't want to take a loss on the ring. Your whole thing was I want my ring back. It's a matter what it was. Not no matter what, but I was going to go through. I was going to go through and at least make an effort to try to get my back. And why was that so sentimental to you? Because I just, I never had my whole life.

I never had anything. I went to prison when I was 16 years old and I got out when I was 27. So, like, I'm just starting to learn to live my life and have things of my own. And I don't think it's right for somebody to be able to come into your house and steal from you and be able to walk out of there with your... Sort of like the thing you went to prison for. That was for for for for for for for for for for for, for, for, for, for, for, for, you, for, you, for, you, you, you contributed to a person's death for doing what you got caught doing. I told them. I didn't kill them for. Okay, well, you did. So you kid that you, you can, you, you contributed to a person's death for doing what you got caught doing one. you were six she was never supposed to die ever ever dude I she never was supposed to

pass man she wasn't even supposed to come close to it if anything like I got so I was telling the whole time man like there's nothing that she can't heal up from after a couple days and go home was my attention and all the time I'm trying to get other people to just replace it for me so I could be done with that was my attention for sending them the pictures my mom too you wanted someone you wanted a family member of yours and to our friends to see what you were doing to this girl so that they could buy you the right and then we could end that as long as you had your ring you would let her yes sir so that was like a cry out for you yes sir stop hurting this woman yes sir that was your way of that was your way

of i'm trying every avenue i possibly can try to resolve it everybody's good if she if she if she if she's going to go through this length to get to keep my ring then she went through that length to keep my ring and as long as i got another one back then cool just Yeah. I fully accept what's to come for this. Okay? I just want to see everybody else that was involved get theirs as well. I mean, this girl was never supposed to die ever. She was never supposed to die. Ever. Stick here for a minute. Do you ever say? No. Break watch. Yeah. You're right back. So left alone, Gress puts his head down on the table. But investigators are back a couple minutes later to collect a buckle sweat.

But he wants to make sure the police are going after the real bad guy in all this, right? The person he claims is responsible for all this. Brandis. I just don't know what she's going to tell you guys, man. Oh, Michelle, yeah, man. She's got me on an aggravated assault charge right now. And the camera proves, the camera can prove that I never tried to put her into a car or anything that she said. So that will at least help to prove that she's a liar, you know what I'm saying?

So whatever she's trying to, whatever she's trying to say. As I mentioned, Brandis was arrested March 8th, the day after this interview, this interrogation, after she turned herself in. Both Brandis and Gress, they're charged with first-degree murder. Gress faces an additional charge of kidnapping. And despite what he told investigators, Gress entered a not-guilty plea, as did Brandis. Again, despite what you just heard, despite these horrific allegations, they are both innocent unless proven guilty.

Just got to keep that in mind. But the stakes couldn't be higher. because prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for both of them. Both remain locked up in the Pinellas County Jail. Gress is due back in court in July. Brandis is scheduled for her next hearing in August. We've been on top of this case. We will continue to be on top of this case.

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