Beloved Lady Kid Doc Hires Hitman After Losing Custody
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Stephanie Russell loses custody of her two children when it comes to light during court proceedings, that Russell has been coaching her children to lay claims of abuse against her ex-husband. The evidence was revealed to be video recordings of the children practicing. Russell then tries to hire a hitman, but the hitman is undercover FBI.
Now, Stephanie M. Russell pleads guilty to two counts of a federal indictment.
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| 0:00.0 | Cribe Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:07.0 | A beloved female pediatrician now facing serious felony charges of what? |
| 0:25.6 | A hitman? Yes, this so-called beloved family doctor, a pediatrician that has literally |
| 0:37.0 | ministered to thousands and thousands of children is now charged with hiring a hitman. |
| 0:45.4 | To commit murder, I'm Nancy Grace. This is Cribe Stories. Thank you for being with us here |
| 0:51.0 | at Fox Nation and Series XM-111. You know, when I take my children to the pediatrician, |
| 0:57.0 | number one, I don't leave the room. But number two, I got to trust that doctor. I've got |
| 1:03.4 | to trust that doctor with my children's lives. And you know what? We have a lady doctor. |
| 1:11.0 | We have a lady doctor and she's so warm and she's motherly and empathetic and sympathetic |
| 1:20.1 | and talks to you for a long time to the point where I'm thinking, I know she's got other |
| 1:27.4 | patients. How can she be spending this much time with my twins? Because she loves children. |
| 1:34.8 | Right? That's the way this doctor is. So how does that compete with hiring a hitman to |
| 1:42.4 | commit a murder? Again, welcome. This is Cribe Stories. I'm Nancy Grace. I don't want to thank |
| 1:48.4 | you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM-111. Let's go, Jackie. Hit it. |
| 1:55.4 | Dr. Stephanie Russell is of a loved pediatrician with over 3,000 patients in her practice. |
| 2:01.1 | This live pediatric's website shows a child's dream office. Think Disney overload with promises |
| 2:06.7 | of things like a live finding Nemo fish tank. Russell, a graduate from the University of |
| 2:11.4 | Louisville School of Medicine, has been a licensed doctor for nearly 25 years. I wanted you |
| 2:17.0 | to hear that because that is exactly what the twins pediatrician's office looks like. |
| 2:22.5 | They have these giant, they look real, but there are 3D pictures of fish tanks with the |
| 2:29.7 | finding Nemo fish swimming around and tons of books for children of all ages. Just everything |
| 2:39.1 | a child or even a twin would want to keep them amused and their mind off the fact they're |
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