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Woman Laughs With Hit Man as She Plans Murder; Day Care Owner`s Violence Caught on Tape; Girl Tortured; Missy Bevers` Case; Brutal Double Murder; Gruesome Details; Unbelievable Video. Aired 8-9p ET

Aired April 18, 2017 - 20:00   ET

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[20:00:00] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`ve been trying to do this for years.

ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, HLN HOST: Undercover video, things this woman hoped no one would ever see.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I got it the last time. They went out there and they couldn`t get the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) sucker.

BANFIELD: Casually making plans to have her ex-husband killed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) my idea.

BANFIELD: But that hit man is an undercover cop.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Price is between 7 and 10.

BANFIELD: The price, the plan, the pictures.

Kids will be kids, but a day care owner could end up a convict after this attack on a 4-year-old girl.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Quit messing with your hair!

BANFIELD: Now the girl`s parents hope the video will shut that day care down for good.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE)

BANFIELD: She may be a baby-faced teen, but police say this was the face of true evil.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not in a million years did I ever think something like this would ever happen.

BANFIELD: Her loving grandparents fought for her, cared for her, even searched for her when she ran away. So how did she repay them?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s a -- the true sense of a tragedy.

BANFIELD: Murder maybe the least gruesome detail in this Georgia tragedy.

Missing for months, police saw the mystery in paradise on the tropical shores of Waikiki, a man, his mother and the morbid secret he kept in his

freezer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The search for Steve Stephens has ended.

BANFIELD: New video showing police chasing the Facebook killer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a short pursuit.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Minutes later, he put a gun to his own head.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As the officers approached that vehicle, Steve Stephens took his own life.

BANFIELD: How the police tracked him down and stopped him for good!

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BANFIELD: Hello, everyone. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. This is PRIMETIME JUSTICE.

It is a rare occasion that you actually get to witness a criminal planning out a crime and then be able to rewind the tape and watch the transaction

all over again. But tonight, you can.

Meet Blanche Wilson. Police say she wanted to kill her ex-husband so badly that she hired a hitman to do it. She even enlisted the help of her own

mom to help out. She was apparently upset that her ex-husband had won custody of their daughters.

The trouble is, the guy she hired to do the job, you know, the hitman -- he was not a hitman at all. He was one of those pesky undercover cops. And

wouldn`t you know it, he was rolling tape the whole time. She even tried to hit on the hitman and then actually hugged him after he showed her fake

pictures of her dead husband.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can we get it in cash?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, it would be cash.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean, I don`t want to (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, it would be cash.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) you know, it`s -- I`ve been...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because I don`t know you. So yes, it would be cash.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I hope we never see each other again.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would like to see you again (INAUDIBLE) (EXPLETIVE DELETED) good-looking (INAUDIBLE) huh?

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) I just want some time to -- for everything to blow over. I don`t know if you hear something, if you got an alibi or

what because...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, yesterday and last night, I was just out with some friends at the river and then (INAUDIBLE) and then here, which all the

cops know my vehicles, so they see (INAUDIBLE)

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you`re good, then. They know you`re (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE)

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BANFIELD: That was the hug. That was the hug after she got to see the dead pictures of her husband. So incredibly cold. And in case you think

the undercover cop didn`t cover all of his bases, he did. We actually have the recording of the plan for payment, title of a car and whatever she

could get in a bank loan, somewhere between $7,000 and $10,000 for the job.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well (EXPLETIVE DELETED) told me 5, but said 10 yesterday. Is he putting me out or what?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, it`s between 7 and 10.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So it just depends on how much goes through. (INAUDIBLE) grab that paper (INAUDIBLE) You know, there`s no (INAUDIBLE) No

security interest (ph), so...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

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BANFIELD: Needless to say, she didn`t have to pay that $7,000 to $10,000 because she was arrested right alongside her mother, Linda Bloom. Both of

the women were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder charges relating to them. They were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison each.

Drew Lee is the co-host of "Justice and Drew" on KTLK 1130. He joins me live now from Minneapolis. That`s quite a story you got cooking in your

town there.

DREW LEE, "JUSTICE & DREW," KTLK AM 1130: Yes, it`s an odd one. Le Center`s about an hour southwest of the Twin Cities, so it`s outside of the

metro area pretty well. But it`s kind of a crazy story.

BANFIELD: So I can never understand, Drew, how the police get wise to this and end up wiggling their way into a situation where they get hired as the

hitman. How did that happen?

LEE: Well, fortunately, the first person that Blanche Wilson and her mother had contacted about hiring a hitman was a family friend. And that

family friend immediately went to the La Sueur County sheriff`s office, notified the authorities of this plan. And that`s when the idea of having

an undercover officer pose as the hitman was hatched, and everything sort of rolled from there.

BANFIELD: So Drew, normally, these are pictures you would only see on "Forensic Files," if they were real. But the pictures of the dead man are

fake. The dead man is quite alive.

LEE: Yes.

BANFIELD: But they`re unbelievably convincing. I want to show these pictures now because this is what the hitman, the so-called hitman showed

Blanche Wilson, as if to say, This is how your husband looked the last time I saw him. This is actually the husband going along and posing like this

for these photos?

LEE: Yes. What happened was the husband was living in South Dakota and the La Sueur County sheriff`s officers immediately notified South Dakota

authorities, told them of this plan. They contacted the husband.

And the first contact was simply, Hey, your ex-wife might be trying to have you killed. So you kind of want to watch your back, and we`ll keep an eye

out for you. The next time he saw the authorities, though, the had -- the plan was in motion. They said, We need you to pretend you`re dead. And

the husband said, Well, that`s when I understood how serious this was.

BANFIELD: How did he react to the news, by the way? Do we know?

LEE: The husband? He didn`t take it seriously at first. When he was first notified that she might be trying to have him killed, he apparently

didn`t think much of it. It wasn`t until that the severity of it really sunk in when he was laying down, posing to be dead. And that`s when it

really sank in how serious this was.

BANFIELD: Well, Sean Wilson, that husband, deserves an Oscar because he did a hell of a job in those photographs. They`re frighteningly

convincing. When I first saw them, I thought we got the story wrong. I thought she`s actually gone through with it and then they tried to catch

her. But it was fake. He was alive. He just looks so incredibly dead.

So real quickly -- I can`t imagine if Sean Wilson is watching this tonight and how he feels about this entire story playing out like a Hollywood, you

know, blockbuster. But here`s more of the actual planning. This is where Blanche Wilson`s mom, Linda Bloom, enters the picture and helps to sort of

plan what, you know, the so-called victim looks like, so that this hit man, the undercover cop -- so the hitman knows who his target is. Have a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s a better close-up, just so I know.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) turn that thing. Well, here, do you want to keep this and play around with it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. That`s fine. I don`t need it. I just want to take a picture. Here we go. That`s good. So you got the money, huh?

LEE: Yes. (EXPLETIVE DELETED)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just for...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I got it the last time they went out there and they couldn`t get the (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, really?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. I put up the money (INAUDIBLE) It was my idea. I`ve been trying to do this for -- (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

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BANFIELD: We`ve been trying to do this for years. It was my idea. And just to make sure, they -- you know, because you really -- you got to give

them every out, right? If you`re going to try to prosecute a case, you got to give them every out. They went on and on to make sure that this hitman

knew exactly where poor Sean Wilson, lived like down to the details of a tree at one spot in the house. Have a listen to this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) old address (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, they moved, like, two years ago, yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) old one (INAUDIBLE) First Avenue.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the new address.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, OK, so there`s a tree blocking the house. But there`s an alley. This is where they park.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s really the only door they use to go in and out of the house is back here (INAUDIBLE) the garage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are the vehicles there?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

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BANFIELD: Yes, vehicles were there. I want to bring in Randy Zelin, as well, to our conversation, if I can, Drew, and Danny Cevallos, also both

here. There is so much tape on this transactional awfulness that really, if this was your client, is there anything you can do but what they did,

and that is just plead, beg for mercy?

DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: I knew you`d ask me.

BANFIELD: Right.

CEVALLOS: When it comes to0- you know, it`s amazing the technology, the video technology that law enforcement has now. You would have to try for

an entrapment defense here. But I mean, the lesson to be learned is the people who are out there trying to hire a hitman -- it`s never a hitman! I

mean, haven`t we learned? It`s always an undercover cop!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not always.

CEVALLOS: Are people doing this on eBay or Craigslist? I don`t know where they`re finding these people!

(CROSSTALK)

CEVALLOS: ... never a real hitman.

BANFIELD: That`s what I asked. I said, How on earth, right? And Drew was one (ph) said it was one of the first people they reached out to, you know,

tipped them off.

ZELIN: This case is interesting because as a matter of law, very interesting -- what is a conspiracy? A conspiracy is not the actual crime

of doing it, it`s the agreement, plus doing something in furtherance of it. You don`t actually have to complete the act, and here, clearly we know it

wasn`t completed.

But what`s interesting to me about this case is without Mom, there`s no conspiracy...

BANFIELD: Good point!

ZELIN: ... because you can`t have -- you have to have two people. The other person can`t be law enforcement.

BANFIELD: OK, let`s (INAUDIBLE) Mom out of this. What if Mom wasn`t around, it was just Blanche Wilson on tape, because we`ve seen that before,

too.

ZELIN: Attempt.

BANFIELD: What was the charge...

ZELIN: Not conspiracy...

BANFIELD: ... attempted -- attempted murder.

ZELIN: ... attempted.

BANFIELD: Yes, but you can go away for a lot more than 15 years for that, can`t you?

ZELIN: It`s a little bit different, and now you get closer to the entrapment defense that Danny raises because what`s entrapment? It is law

enforcement putting pressure on you to commit a crime and no predisposition to commit the crime.

BANFIELD: So real quickly...

CEVALLOS: It`s substituting the intent.

BANFIELD: OK. All right. Do I have time for this other moment? I think it`s -- I love this, and I`ll tell you why. Not only do they plan

meticulously, you know, what he looks like, here are the photos, both with cigarettes, you know, walking around the house, but then they also go

further about the woman in, you know, poor Sean Wilson`s life. And there`s a reference made to, What about her if we come across her?

And wouldn`t you -- well, I`m not going to tell you. I`m not going to tell you what they said when they were given the offer of an extra. Here again

is Blanche and Linda -- Blanche Wilson and Linda Bloom basically helping this undercover detective that they think is a hitman find where the

husband lives, and if there`s another lady there, well -- have a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it his truck?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. And then his event (ph). He has a gray silver Dodge Avenger.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is that the (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Now, that`s an old one.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That one`s no longer there, I don`t think.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is that his vehicle?

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... his vehicle?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. And then she drives a little minivan, a silver or white minivan. I don`t know, it`s pretty new.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And she`s not in on this...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don`t want nothing done with her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. No. She`s just too stupid to be alive is all!

(LAUGHTER)

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BANFIELD: Yes. Come on. Which one`s the stupid one? I mean, seriously, it`s just poetic justice, I think, for Sean Wilson, obviously, and his lady

friend.

Drew Lee, real quickly back to you. The plea bargain that was struck was Blanche got 15 years and her mom got 11 years. How does Sean feel about

all of this? I mean, clearly, these were very important people in his life. Clearly, he had to pose like a dead man, and he could have been one

had it not been, you know, for that pesky undercover agent. What`s he saying about this?

LEE: He`s actually still in fear for his life. He`s very concerned that even from prison, that Blanche, his ex-wife, will continue to try to have

him killed and taken out of the picture. She`s been suffering from all sorts of anxiety, depression, drug abuse. She lost custody because of a

felony drug charge. So she`s been having lots of issues, and he`s quite frightened now that this will continue.

BANFIELD: It`s very, very sad. I mean, it`s great that Blanche and Linda got their due and that they`ll spend a lot of time behind bars. But it`s

just really sad to see that the ugliest of people can come out in a scheme like this.

Drew, great work. Thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it.

LEE: Thanks for having me.

BANFIELD: I`ve got an update tonight on that massive lead story that we`ve been following, the suspect who was accused of killing an elderly man and

then posting that video on Facebook. He has now killed himself. Authorities say that Steve Stephens shot himself in the head after this

police chase. You can see him on your screen.

It all started when he was spotted by drive-through workers at a Pennsylvania McDonald`s. They recognized him this morning as he tried to

order a pack of McNuggets. The manager of McDonald`s actually talked to CNN, one of our affiliates, WICU, about that very moment.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Came through drive-through, placed an order, got to the first window where you pay, and the drive-through employee that was

working at the time recognized him or thought -- noticed that the car was Ohio tags on it and it was a white Fusion, and took his money. And he

pulled to the next window, basically just told him it was going to be a minute for his fries, which it wasn`t really. We were trying to make sure

she got in contact with the state police.

And he didn`t want to wait for the fries, which was fine. He took his six pieces and didn`t want any money back and headed out on to Buffalo Road.

And about the minute he turned right on Buffalo Road, the state police were right behind him at that point.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BANFIELD: Such great thinking by those employees trying to, you know, buy time for the cops by saying the fries aren`t ready. Didn`t work, but they

got their man anyway.

But here`s the problem. It still leaves a lot of unanswered questions. That`s an understatement. There is still a man who was killed for no

reason, and we will never find that reason out at this point.

A Nebraska family thought that they did everything right in their search for a day care fro their kids. They ran the background check, became

friends with the owner, too, actually, pretty good friends. But they never imagined that something like this could happen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Quit messing with your hair!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) Ow! That hurts me!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good! I hope it hurts you!

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BANFIELD: So the question is obviously, how could it happen? That`s what the parents want to know. And they`re going to join me next.

And this. This is not some kind of sick Halloween trick, this is actually an Oklahoma grandmother who called her alter ego Nelda (ph) the witch, as

she abused her own little granddaughter for more than a year.

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BANFIELD: Police are investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy at a licensed home day care in western Michigan. And the person of interest in

the case is what`s bizarre. It`s allegedly an 8-year-old girl. Ms. Bryanna Rasonover says that she`d dropped off her baby boy, Korey Brown --

look how cute he is, he`s just tiny -- and her other children at the day care. That was in the evening because she works nights. And when she

returned after work the next morning, she says she found little Korey unresponsive in a pack-n-play (ph).

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BRYANNA RASONOVER, KOREY`S MOTHER: And I`m, like, Korey, you know, wake up. Like, my baby, he`s -- you know, he`s not waking up. When I got to

the hospital, they -- they told me Korey had already been dead for an hour.

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BANFIELD: Ms. Rasonover said that Korey had bite marks and bruises all over his head, that he was swollen. Exactly what happened at this day care

remains unclear. But that little 8-year-old has reportedly been taken for a mental health evaluation.

And I don`t think you need me to tell you this, but you can ask any working mother and father and they`re going to tell you that the biggest stress is

finding child care that you know and that you can trust. And even then, there is hope and prayer said every time you drive off to work.

But in Nebraska, the hope and prayer is not coming from the parents. Tonight, it`s coming from a day care worker because unbeknownst to her,

she was being videotaped doing something that she was not supposed to be doing, certainly something that she would never, ever want the parents of

her tiny little clients to see.

This is Lynn Rowe (ph), who operates an Omaha day care, or at least she did until recently. But she`s now spending her days planning her defense after

being arrested on child abuse charges. She is front and center in a video that is not easy to watch. But the parents of the 4-year-old girl being

hit and shaken violently want people to see it to make sure that Ms. Rowe and others like her don`t take care of children again.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Quit messing with your hair!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ow! That hurt me!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good! I hope it hurts you! Do what you`re -- do what you`re told to do now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Now!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BANFIELD: Al and Kelley Meyers are the parents of that young girl, and they join me live from Omaha tonight. Mr. And Mrs. Meyers, thanks so much

for being with me.

One of the details in this story that I found so incredibly perplexing was that Lynn Rowe was known to you. She was effectively a friend and a

neighbor. She`d been to your house to celebrate birthday parties. Did you have any clue she was capable of this?

Al and Kelley, can you hear me? I think we may have lost the Meyerses. You know what? We`re going to work on getting our signal back up to Omaha.

My apologies for that.

But I`m going to bring in Danny and Randy on this because when you have -- here we are again talking about things caught on videotape. It becomes

very, very difficult to refute this. And I don`t know how you do your jobs. I don`t know how you become defense attorneys when you have to deal

with that.

ZELIN: Who`s on the video? You can`t see the child because the child`s face is away from the camera.

BANFIELD: I could recognize my child dressed like that, the voice of my child, and...

ZELIN: Who`s going to testify to that?

BANFIELD: Me. If I`m the mom, I`m going to.

ZELIN: Then you would have to take the stand. You also can`t see the defendant on the video because her face is blocked by the back of the

child`s head.

BANFIELD: This looks pretty obvious to me. It looks really obvious to me.

ZELIN: That`s because we already think we know. But in a court of law at a trial, that`s going to be one of the arguments. That video`s going to

have to be authenticated. What I`m trying to say is, I`m going to try to plea bargain this case out by threatening that you`re going to have to put

that child and the parents on.

BANFIELD: Well, I think you are pretty much spot on there because that might be what ends up happening.

I think Al and Kelley can hear me now. Can you hear me now, Mr. and Mrs. Meyers?

AL MEYERS, FATHER (via telephone): Yes, ma`am.

BANFIELD: Oh, thank you. So just before I was talking to one of our attorneys on the set about the videotape, I asked the question -- I don`t

think you guys could hear me, but Lynn Rowe, the woman accused of this crime, is well known to you. She`s a neighbor. She`s a friend. She`s

been to your home for birthday parties.

Did you ever suspect anything could happen like this? How shocking was this to you?

KELLEY MEYERS, MOTHER (via telephone): It was completely shocking, gut- wrenching. I had absolutely no idea that she could do something. I thought she loved our children like they were her own.

BANFIELD: And Al, didn`t you have a son who also was in her care? I mean, your kids have been in her care for six years, correct?

A. MEYERS: That is correct. I am absolutely floored. My emotions...

BANFIELD: I think I know where you`re coming from, and I can understand the silence. I myself have had to deal with something similar to this. I

didn`t see the evidence of it, but I had it witnessed. And it is extraordinary. The guilt that -- well, I personally felt guilt, but none

of us should. I mean, you know, we have to do what we have to do. We need to have care for our kids.

Did your kids say anything to you? I mean, they`re so young, but were they able to articulate any of the details?

K. MEYERS: Our daughter is still too young, I think, to really understand. Our son, when he saw the video, he said that it happened to him, too. So I

mean, he can tell us. He`s 7. He`s old enough to know.

BANFIELD: What did he say? Tell me how he described the treatment he had when he was in her care.

A. MEYERS: He had stated that after he had seen the video, that this had happened to him on at least two occasions, and that he was instructed not

to say anything. And when he saw that, he was, I think, as upset as I was.

BANFIELD: So the -- I`m trying to sort of work through the process that you went through. As I understand it, the video we`re seeing was coming

from a co-worker who had had enough. She videotaped this, promptly quit the day care, and then, I have it correctly, came to you and showed you

these images. Is that true? Is that what happened, Kelley?

K. MEYERS: Yes. She shared the video with us and then she also reported to it CPS, and we reported it to the police.

BANFIELD: But not before, Al, you had a chance to go straight to that day care or at least straight to Lynn Rowe and confront her. How did that go?

What happened?

Oh, that -- the night we got the video, I went to her house multiple times, but she was not there, and then went up Monday evening and confronted her

about this. And the response that my wife and I got was, oh, probably as frustrating as the act itself -- well, maybe not, but it was frustrating

because a lot of -- I`m under a lot of stress. I had a bad employee who recently quit, a lot of deflecting and not taking responsibility.

At which time we showed her the video, and then I think that`s when the realty set in of, They`ve got me. They realized how severe this was.

Immediately, she started to cry and asked for forgiveness and...

K. MEYERS: She also blamed our daughter.

BANFIELD: She blamed your daughter?

A. MEYERS: Yes, said she`s difficult.

K. MEYERS: Our daughter was difficult and hard to control.

BANFIELD: Lots of kids are -- I mean, kids will be kids. This -- you know, this is a profession for a reason. You need to be able to deal with

them.

The maximum penalty, you know, in Nebraska for child abuse is three years. I`m just wondering, you know, Kelley, do you think that`s enough?

K. MEYERS: Well, I have since been speaking to other parents and children who have gone to Lynn`s day care, and she has done -- they have -- I`ve

heard from other people she has done this to them. I`ve heard from someone that she has witnessed her hitting other children. So no, I do not think

three years is enough because I think she has done this throughout her whole career.

BANFIELD: Al, just quickly, I want to button this up and ask you how is your daughter? I mean, how is your son, how is your daughter? How are

they both doing?

[20:30:03] A. MEYERS: Considering the circumstances, extraordinarily well. Yeah. I mean, they`re -- they`re amazing.

BANFIELD: Listen, good luck to the both of you. I know you got a lot of processing ahead. And I`m certainly glad that you were able to find the

evidence and not continue on without knowing, you know, what was happening to your kids. Thanks so much for being with me, Al and Kelly Meyers,

joining me from Omaha tonight.

In other news, a grandmother who abused a 7-year-old granddaughter and terrorized the girl in a house of horrors has now been told how long she

will spend behind bars, five life sentences. Look at the cell phone video from inside this Oklahoma city home. The figure that is dressed in black is

the grandmother, Geneva Robinson, wearing a wig, her hands painted green, dressed as a witch, torturing the little girl, terrifying that little

granddaughter of hers.

Over the course of a year, she burned her granddaughter with cigarettes. She hit her. She didn`t let her eat. She pulled on her fingers and her ears

with pliers. And she made her sleep outside with the dogs. The girl was not allowed to go to school. She was covered head-to-toe in burns and bruises

and scrapes and blisters. She was hospitalized and is now with an extended family member as are her three siblings who were also in that home. The

alter ego of the witch was Nelda. Here she is without her costume headed off to jail.

In Texas tonight, a grim anniversary as the family of Missy Bevers marks one year since her mysterious death. She was a fitness instructor. She was

found stabbed to death by students who were coming to meet her for an early morning class at a local church. Police say she was attacked by this

unknown figure. And I say figure because this is all we can see, someone dressed head-to-toe in black tactical gear.

The surveillance video from inside the church shows him or her, we don`t know. Investigators have been unable to say for sure if that attacker is a

man or a woman, very hard to tell. Video of a car that was caught on camera in a parking lot near the church was also released. So far, no leads we

know of. Anyone who might know anything is asked to reach out to the police. There`s the car, parking lot, you saw the figure. Very mysterious.

A baby-faced Georgia teenager, tonight facing double murder charges. The victims, her own grandparents. It is described as a brutal attack. She

allegedly stayed inside that home with the bodies of her grandparents. We`ll let you know for how long.

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BANFIELD: Not all mugshots are created equal, say for instance the mugshot of baby-faced Cassie Bjorge, just 17 years old. You always say that looks

could be deceiving and if what police say about Cassie is true, this is one hell of a criminal. Cassie or Cassandra lived with her grandparents who

fought and won custody of her. But according to police, she was a habitual run away. And earlier this month, she became something else, an inmate

after the bodies of those loving grandparents were found rotting in the home they shared with Cassie.

What`s worse, police say she and her 19-year-old boyfriend, Johnny Rider, may have actually been in that home with those rotting corpses for about a

week. The grandparents had been brutalized, beaten with a tire iron, their throats slashed. When the police zeroed in on Cassie and Johnny, a standoff

with a SWAT team only ended when the two lovebirds tried but failed to commit suicide by cutting themselves. Both of them have now been charged in

their separate jails with murder and aggravated assault.

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AMANDA STERLING, CASSANDRA`S MOTHER: This was very unexpected. Not in a million years I ever think something like this would ever happen. My

parents were wonderful, wonderful people. Nobody deserves that.

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BANFIELD: Tina Douglas is an anchor and reporter for News Radio 106.7. She joins me live now from Atlanta. Tina, the story is incredible. The details

are just -- I mean, they are astounding. Why did the police think that Cassie and Johnny might have actually been in the home with the dead bodies

of her grandparents for a week?

TINA DOUGLAS, ANCHOR AND REPORTER FOR NEWS RADIO 106.7: Well, because there were a lot of events that have transpired during that week before the

bodies were discovered and no one seemed to know the whereabouts of Cassie and her boyfriend at the time. So police aren`t quite sure of the

timetable, but they`re trying to put it all together.

BANFIELD: So what I find really bizarre in this story is that family members who hadn`t heard from these victims, Wendy and Randall Bjorge, they

asked for the police to cover and do a welfare check. You know, if you can`t get someone to answer their phone a whole lot, they ask for a welfare

check. And the police went, knocked on the door.

[20:40:00] didn`t get an answer, and left. But didn`t go inside the house to do a welfare check where they very well may have found, you know,

freshly killed bodies. Why didn`t they go in?

DOUGLAS: That`s an interesting question. I don`t know if they were looking for more reason to go in, if they didn`t really have enough information

that would encourage them to go in and find out what was going on. But neighbors were reporting different things that were kind of suspicious at

the home at the time.

And so they had been calling, asking for a welfare check. And the check often as possible, that`s called a COAP. And it`s still a mystery as to why

the police did not go in there the first time they were called.

BANFIELD: What`s amazing to me is that the police had been there 31 times in a sort of a year and a half period. Out of that 31 times, 18 of those

times were for runaway calls. Not only that, Cassie was charged with assaulting her grandmother. I believe it was like two years ago, 2015. So

the fact that they didn`t bust down that door knowing how much sort of violence and unrest was in that home is pretty shocking.

I also want to show this Facebook post that Cassie`s grandmother actually put out. I believe it was just on like April 2nd, which would have been

right around the time that maybe the killing happened. The grandmother says please spread the word, please be on the look out for Cassie, to which a

commenter said, not again. I pray that she`s safe and returns home.

Tina, it seemed that these grandparents were nothing but doting and loving. They fought to get her out of a difficult home. They got custody. They

looked after her. They called the police when things were wrong. They tried to get help to find her. They appeals to Facebook to get her back when she

was running away. Why on earth would this have happened and is it possible that they believe that drugs might have been involved?

DOUGLAS: Police are looking at everything, according to the information that we have received. You know, when you think about these Facebook posts

and a lot of the things that we`ve seen here lately, that have occurred on Facebook and people are second-guessing, what if I`ve done this? What if

I`ve asked that? So, when you`re dealing with a family situation, too, a lot of times people keep their troubles private and no one really knows

what`s going on inside a home unless they`re in the house themselves.

BANFIELD: So, I want to bring Danny Cevallos and Randy Zelin into this as well. Danny, one of the details that was really sort of hard to comprehend

was that the bodies of these grandparents were not stashed away or hidden somewhere or out in the garage where they could put their head in the sand

and imagine it didn`t happen. One of the body was found upstairs in a bedroom and the other one was in a hallway.

So if it`s true that Cassie and Johnny were hanging out in this house for a week with two bodies that were decomposing in the open, is that some kind

of aggravating factor? Does it play into how heinous and how sort of cruel and callous these two allegedly are?

CEVALLOS: Not for purposes of whether or not it`s murder under Georgia`s very general murder statute. But it`s always something that`s going to be

an aggravating factor when it comes time for sentencing. This is the kind of thing that will not bode well for these defendants if they are convicted

and it gets to a sentencing. These are facts that prosecutors will just hammer home to a judge and to a jury.

BANFIELD: The jury can`t sit there and not be affected by this. These are grandparents. Randy, there is another kind of series of details that have

to be worked into this. The only way they actually caught these two was because there was a whole other crime being committed. Apparently, Johnny

has a sister and the sister has a boyfriend and he wasn`t too keen on -- there`s allegations that this little pair went over to that sister`s home

and beat the living daylights out of Johnny`s sister and her boyfriend, put them in the hospital.

And because they had the grandparents car, that was the final reason that the police could sort of break down the door and do the welfare check and

found those bodies. So with all those details as well, so the caught in the act in the car and all that witnesses, do these two have a hope in hell of

anything? Because there is a death penalty in that state. Are they gonna have to plead this out?

RANDY ZELIN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, CBSN CONTRIBUTOR: It`s very difficult if you look at both sides of the coin. First of all, it`s very

difficult for a prosecutor or prosecuting agency to seek the execution of teenagers.

BANFIELD: A 17-year-old, right? Under 18 and against the law.

ZELIN: Absolutely, then you`ve got.

BANFIELD: But Johnny is 19.

ZELIN: He`s 19. But as a practical consideration, it`s difficult for a death penalty jury to execute little kids.

BANFIELD: Little young ones.

ZELIN: What Danny looks at as an aggravating factor as a defense attorney, I will flip that and say this shows that these kids are suffering from

either some kind of

[20:45:00] mental disability or mental disease or there were drugs involved and the case kind of deserves attention from that perspective. I will tell

what jumps out to me is what you said earlier, 31 times to the house in a period of 18 months.

BANFIELD: Yeah. 19 of them I believer were runaway calls, 18 were runaway calls. Obviously, this is a distressed child. She came from a distressed

home. The grandparents by all accounts had rescued her. Very, very disturbing stuff. Hold that thought for a minute.

A missing woman in Honolulu leads to one very, very strange admission as to where she was. According to her son, in a warm tropical paradise, she was

in a very, very cold place. Can you think of the coldest place you would find in Hawaii? I`ll tell you in a moment.

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BANFIELD: So when you think of Hawaii, you probably think of a vacation paradise, right? Place for a little R&R (ph), surfing, some suntanning,

maybe a my tie (ph). Certainly you don`t think about a murder mystery though, do you? A mother there disappeared without a trace. Her co-worker

said she didn`t show up for work, eight months ago. They haven`t seen her since and she is not out on the beach somewhere. What happened to Liu Yun

Gong has remained a mystery until just now.

It was just within the last several days according to court documents that man, her son, Yu Wei Gong, called 911 and told a dispatcher that he had

killed his mother. When officers got to his apartment, they found him. He was outside. He was bleeding from his left wrist. He told the police there

had been an argument. Mom was upstairs. When the officers went up there, they couldn`t find her. So they asked him again, where is your mother? And

he simply replied, in the fridge.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is kind of spooky because when we got out of the elevator, there was a police officer right there and the doors opened to an

apartment that`s never opened. Kind of eerie.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like somebody got choked up. It`s kind of scary.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s crazy what this world is coming to, what you can do to your own mom. Seriously, you`re going to do that? It`s terrible. I can`t

even say anything. That`s terrible.

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BANFIELD: Pretty terrible if you`re a neighbor and you think about Ms. Gong in the condition she was found inside that freezer. The officers discovered

the remains of Ms. Gong, her head, her arms, her legs, everything in plastic bags. Police say that her son told them he killed her after he had

an argument with her but that it was an accident. He said he was angry that his mom was frustrated with him. He wanted to drop out of school, get a

job. She wasn`t crazy about the idea.

He`s been charged with second-degree murder. He`s being held on $2 million bail. And there are still a lot of questions. Primetime producer, Michael

Christian, has been working the story all day. It is strange to say the least. But if I get the time line right on this one, Mr. Gong called the

police and made this 911 call sometime between like nine months and a year after his mother was dead and possibly in the freezer, is that right?

MICHAEL CHRISTIAN, PRIMETIME JUSTICE PRODUCER: That`s right, Ashley. He called last week, April 11th. He said that she died last September and that

they were having a fight and that he accidentally killed her. But she actually had not shown up for work since the middle of August. So we`re not

even sure exactly when she died, but certainly eight, nine months ago.

BANFIELD: So his story, Michael, is that he was mad at his mom, they got into an argument about him dropping out of school and that he hit her and

killed her, what about the whole dismembering part? Because as I understand, there might be like seven different plastic trash bags that her

parts were found in?

CHRISTIAN: Yeah.

BANFIELD: Did he do it in the apartment? What were the details of how she was dismembered?

CHRISTIAN: We don`t know. We know that she died because of blunt force injuries to her head. But they haven`t revealed exactly what those blunt

force injuries are, so we don`t know exactly what he used to kill her or how many times she was hit, et cetera. And there`s nothing in the police

affidavit, the arrest affidavit, about her actually being dismembered in the sense that we don`t know if he did it in the bathtub, did he use a saw,

did he use a knife, did he use a cleaver. We just don`t know at this point.

BANFIELD: So, Danny Cevallos is a defense attorney. Randy Zelin is here too. Danny, the second-degree murder. I automatically assumed this was

planned, premeditated, you know, lock him up, throw away the key, not the case in Hawaii?

CEVALLOS: Hawaii is one of those statues that leaves (ph) a bunch of really bad things that qualify for first-degree murder. And that sort of general

lying in wait that we`ve talked about before isn`t in the statute so it defaults to second degree even though it sounds pretty bad.

BANFIELD: And it`s not a death penalty state. So the maximum in Hawaii if he gets convicted of it is life.

CEVALLOS: That`s correct.

BANFIELD: . with parole.

CEVALLOS: That`s.

BANFIELD: For this one, for the second degree.

CEVALLOS: For second degree, correct.

BANFIELD: He could get out.

CEVALLOS: He could.

BANFIELD: Okay. Hold that thought. I need a break. I literally need a break when I hear that. We`ll be right back after this.

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BANFIELD: Okay. So, we decided we are gonna end the show on something light because of a lot of really icky stuff. This is a police officer coming back

to get his keys from his office. That`s a goose. What? That`s a goose, back off, jack. But the goose was having none of that back off jack stuff. And

the detective kept trying to pass him like, let me alone, I just want to be on my merry way.

The goose would not leave this guy alone and actually knocked him to the ground. It kept coming for this poor detective, but he made it, he got

inside. Happy to say he was safe and sound. The goose did not get charged.

Thanks for watching, everyone. Randy and Danny, thank you for being here. Appreciate it. We`ll be back tomorrow night at 8:00 for PRIMETIME JUSTICE.

Stay tuned. "FORENSIC FILES" is coming up next.

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