4.4.25 CRU with Nancy Grace: Four Days of Hell | The Last Days of 16-Year-Old Miranda Corsette
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Florida teen kidnapped and possibly dismembered after meeting man from social media. Miranda Corsette, 16, was lured through a social media app to meet 35-year-old Steven Gress. If you know anything about this case please call the tipline: ST. PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT (727) 893-7780 or Text: Send “SPPD” to TIP411
Nancy Grace and Sheryl McCollum dissect the tragic case of Miranda Corsette, a 16-year-old girl from Gulfport, Florida. Miranda, who recently lost her parents and moved in with her grandmother, was targeted by a 37-year-old man she met online. Nancy recounts the horrifying details of Miranda's four-day torture and eventual murder, including shocking video evidence captured by a neighbor's ring camera. Nancy and Sheryl break down how this could become a heartbreaking “no body, no crime” case, where the lack of physical remains threatens to silence justice for a girl whose pain was all too real.
Show Notes:
- (0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup
- (0:15) Sheryl starts CRU with the tragic case of 16-year-old Miranda Corsette
- (1:30) Nancy details out the crime - Valentine’s day date
- (3:30) Ring video evidence
- (4:00) Nancy details out the pool ball and the cellophane
- (8:00) Possible questions of confession and discovery
- (9:00) The relationship with fellow neighbors with the perpetrator
- (10:00) The harpoon gun incident
- (14:30) “If this is not a death penalty case, I don’t know what is.” -Nancy Grace
- (17:00) Closing remarks
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Nancy Grace is an outspoken, tireless advocate for victims’ rights and one of television's most respected legal analysts. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor. She is the founder and publisher of CrimeOnline.com, a crime- fighting digital platform that investigates breaking crime news, spreads awareness of missing people and shines a light on cold cases.
In addition, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a daily show hosted by Grace, airs on SIRIUS XM’s Triumph Channel 111 and is downloadable as a podcast on all audio platforms - https://www.crimeonline.com/
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Crime Roundup. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Cheryl McCollum, and I am joined this morning by Nancy Grace, |
| 0:16.0 | and I'm going to go ahead and tell y'all, you better hang on. |
| 0:20.0 | Nancy, good morning, good morning. You often say to me when I |
| 0:25.9 | say, hey, how are you? You say angry and won't justice. Well, baby, I'm right with you this morning. |
| 0:34.9 | I take it that you have looked at the YouTube. I watched your YouTube on that |
| 0:40.6 | poor child who was tortured for four days by that monster that she met online. You know what, |
| 0:52.5 | this little girl, and I'm talking about Miranda Cosette out of Florida. |
| 0:57.8 | She was from Gulfport, but this happened a little bit down the road from Gulfport. |
| 1:05.8 | It's so upsetting. |
| 1:07.7 | She had just turned 16. |
| 1:11.3 | I mean, |
| 1:11.5 | just emphasize that. |
| 1:13.1 | By all accounts, |
| 1:14.3 | she's 15. |
| 1:15.2 | Just turned, |
| 1:16.2 | right? |
| 1:17.6 | She suddenly lost both of her parents. |
| 1:22.5 | Can you imagine at that age? |
| 1:24.8 | No. |
| 1:26.1 | And she moves in with grandma. So, you know, grandma's doing, you know, |
| 1:30.3 | the best she can. But it's all I can do to keep up with the twins. What if I was 20, 25 years |
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