5.23.25 CRU with Nancy Grace: Diddy Extortion Claims, Kid Cudi Bombing, and Kohberger Developments Cause Trial Delay
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
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4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Nancy Grace and Sheryl McCollum tackle the latest in the Diddy and Kohberger cases that are dominating crime news. They confront the haunting question posed to survivors: “Why won’t you just leave?”
Nancy uses her experience prosecuting domestic violence cases to explain the grim calculus that keeps victims trapped, especially when their abuser holds the keys to their future, their finances, or their public image. New testimony from Kid Cudi links Diddy to a Molotov cocktail car bombing, escalating the investigation. Nancy and Sheryl reveal how Cassie Ventura’s mom took out a $20,000 loan to keep intimate footage of Cassie from being released.
Lastly, Nancy turns to Idaho, where the Bryan Kohberger murder trial faces further delays after previously unseen investigation footage was reportedly leaked to Dateline.
Show Notes:
- (0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup
- (0:15) Today’s CRU is the latest on the Kohberger case along with the Diddy case
- (3:00) Nancy explains why victims don’t “just leave” abusive relationships
- (6:00) Diddy extorts Cassie Ventura’s mother
- (7:00) “ You don't ever wanna end up with a guy who holds something over you. I don't care what it is. Your career, your job, the payment on your car.”
- (12:00) Kid Cudi testifies about molotov cocktail
- (19:00) What Happened to Ellen?: An American Miscarriage of Justice
- (19:15) Latest on Bryan Kohberger case
- (21:45) Dateline footage causes grounds for a delay in trial
- (25:00) Wrap up
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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/
Connect with Nancy:
X: @nancygrace
Instagram: @thenancygrace
Facebook: @nancygrace
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.
Connect with Sheryl:
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I Heart podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Crime Roundup. |
| 0:16.2 | Y'all, I am so excited. |
| 0:18.1 | I am sitting in a field in the middle of Tennessee, |
| 0:24.4 | and I am joined excited. I am sitting in a field in the middle of Tennessee, and I am joined by the lovely, talented, beautiful, hilarious Nancy Grace. Good morning. I'm totally jealous, because if you're in |
| 0:31.9 | the middle of a field in Tennessee, that means you're on a crime scene. Listen, I am so excited. |
| 0:43.9 | The eight-year-old me can hardly stand it because today I'm going to go to the ambush site of Sheriff Buford Pusser and his wife, Pauline. |
| 0:48.3 | And it's just going to be a tremendous event for me. |
| 0:51.7 | It's kind of a full circle moment. |
| 0:55.8 | Well, well, you know what? |
| 1:00.5 | Wait a minute. Let's see. Full circle. Does that mean you're at the end? Oh, wait, a circle's never ending because I need you back on the show big time. I got to figure everything out about Coburger |
| 1:05.2 | and I've got to figure everything out about Diddy. Can we start with Coburger because he hasn't |
| 1:10.1 | been getting enough attention lately because Diddy and his sex trafficking is taken over the world. Excuse me, |
| 1:16.0 | correction. Itty bitty, Diddy. He's not just a Tootsie Roll. He's Tutsary Road mid. |
| 1:22.9 | When I saw your clip with you undoing the Tootsie Roll rapper. I don't know. I don't know that I've laughed |
| 1:30.4 | that hard with you in about 20 years. That was so classic. So classic. My daughter saw it too. |
| 1:38.1 | And I'm sure you didn't know what it meant, right? She said no, Mom. I didn't know anything. |
| 1:42.3 | I know nothing. Outta girl. |
| 1:48.0 | Today's their first day out of school, and she's in the kitchen. |
| 1:50.7 | I'm watching her making some kind of a concoction. |
| 1:52.0 | What is that, honey? |
| 1:55.5 | It's coffee with a shot of whiskey. |
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