American Airlines Pilot Taken From Cockpit in Handcuffs on Murder Charges

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Three bodies are found. Two are burned in a car in a Pembroke, Kentucky field. After police identify the car's owner, the body of Calvin Phillips is found in his home. His wife Pamela, and a neighbor Edward Dansereau are identified as the victims in the car. As police investigate, a connection is found to a neighbor, pilot Christopher "Kit” Martin, but there's no evidence that he committed the murders. Or is there? Joining Nancy Grace Today:Kathleen Murphy - North Carolina, Family Attorney, www.ncdomesticlaw.comCaryn Stark - NYC Psychologist, www.carynstark.com Dr. Michelle Dupre - Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Former Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s DepartmentJeff Cortese - Former FBI Special Agent, www.jeffcortese.comSabrina Hall - Former TV Reporter, FOX 17 News

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together.
0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your
0:28.4	favorite podcast.
0:35.6	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:42.3	Do you ever have that feeling of a little bit of nervousness, anxiety when you're about to take
0:48.6	off or land on a long flight? But then you hear the captain come over the loudspeaker
0:54.9	and he is always so calm and they're talking very slowly, explaining what's happening,
1:02.4	and suddenly you feel like, hey, everything's all right. Well guess what? It's not all right.
1:09.3	How does a former army major, Apache Pilot, now pilot for American Airlines, get escorted off
1:20.1	the plane he just captain and charge with murder?
1:31.7	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:40.0	Calvin Phillips, Pam Phillips and Ed Dancero all murdered and Pembroke Kentucky in 2015.
1:46.5	The case was puzzling and ice cold. Then all of a sudden three years later police arrest Martin
1:52.5	is scourting him off a full American Airlines flight he was piloting. No DNA, no witnesses,
1:59.3	no comment from the prosecution. They eventually say the motive was that one of the victims was
2:04.5	going to testify against Martin, but Martin believes the victim was going to testify against his
2:09.2	bigamist wife, Joan. Well wait a minute. Now I've got bigamie front of the mix, bigamie,
2:15.4	it's very, very rarely prosecuted. Bigamie is when you're married to two people or more at the same
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