Cop & evil stepmom force 8-year-old Thomas Valva to freeze dead in cold garage

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Emergency services are called to a New York home after reports of an unresponsive 8-year-old boy. His father says he fell in the driveway. Medical technicians and cops are suspicious considering the boy's body temperature is just 76 degrees. Thomas Valva dies and now his policeman father and the stepmother are charged. Investigators say the couple left him overnight in a cold garage. The outside temperature was 19 degrees. Joining Nancy Grace Today:James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective, Swat officer Lawyer www.ShelnuttLawFirm.comDr. Jeff Gardere - Board Certified Clinical Psychologist, Prof of Behavioral Medicine at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine www.drjeffgardere.com, Author: 'The Causes of Autism” @drjeffgardere Steven Lampley - Author, Speaker, Retired Police Officer and Undercover SVU Detective, Author, "12 and Murdered," www.stevendavidlampley.com, Facebook.com/StevenDavidLampleyPageJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network Ray Caputo - Lead News Anchor for Orlando's Morning News, 96.5 WDBO

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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
0:43.5	What would you do to save the life of an eight-year-old little boy?
0:49.3	Would you jump in a river and swim to save him and pull him to the shore?
0:54.0	Would you run into a burning building to pull the little boy out to safety?
0:59.6	Would you fight to keep an attack dog from attacking the little boy?
1:06.7	What would you do to save an eight-year-old boy's life?
1:11.6	What if it was as simple as calling 911?
1:17.1	What if it was as simple as giving him something to eat?
1:21.2	What if it was as simple as giving him a blanket?
1:36.3	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
1:45.2	Why did eight-year-old Tommy have to die?
1:49.2	Why?
1:51.0	Take a listen to our friends at crimeonline.com.
1:53.8	It's a cold February morning in the teens when long-eiling police get a call about a
1:59.1	non-responsive child, just 9.40am, according to police dispatch the boy fell in the driveway at his home.
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