Crime Alert 02.19.25 | DUI Driver Kills Two Amish Children In Buggy Crash
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
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Woman's twin sister tries to take the blame when she slams into an Amish buggy high on meth. Georgia DUI drivers now must purchase a car seat for families in need to complete their sentences.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. A silver SUV slams into an Amish buggy on a quiet road, Fillmore County, Minnesota. Four children are inside. The crash is brutal. When the smell of burning rubber subsides, two of the children, seven-year-old Wilma Miller, 11-year-old Irma Miller, are dead. The other two, nine and |
| 0:22.3 | 13, barely hanging on, rushed to St. Mary's Hospital with serious injuries. Not long after, |
| 0:28.5 | a text from the alleged DUI driver goes out to her boss, quote, I effed up. I just killed |
| 0:35.3 | two Amish people. They were kids. The sender, Samantha Joe Peterson. |
| 0:40.9 | Nancy, Samantha Joe texted her boss looking for fellow employee and her twin sister, Sarah Beth. |
| 0:47.4 | Samantha hysterically tells Sarah she's going to jail. She isn't sober. Sarah Beth immediately |
| 0:52.5 | rushes to the scene and brings her sister a similar change of clothes, |
| 0:56.3 | so by the time cops arrive, the two women are nearly indistinguishable. |
| 1:00.6 | Sarah Beth tells cops she was the driver, but cell phone data proves Samantha was the only one in the area at the time of the crash. |
| 1:07.9 | Sarah Beth Peterson pleads guilty to two charges of criminal vehicular operation |
| 1:12.3 | for her part in the cover-up. Somehow, Sarah avoids jail, but Samantha Joe Peterson faces |
| 1:21.0 | trial on 17 counts, including vehicular homicide. Banks County, Georgia, DUI offenders now face an unusual penalty. Before their |
| 1:30.1 | sentence is complete, they must buy a new car seat for a family in need. The new policy |
| 1:36.1 | applies to anyone convicted of DUI or reckless driving. Offenders must buy a brand new car |
| 1:41.6 | seat still in the box and deliver it in person to the Banks County |
| 1:45.5 | Probate Court. The sheriff's office will then distribute them to families who need them. |
| 1:49.7 | Judge Cameron Boswell says we found a way to provide the need without burdening the taxpayers. |
| 1:56.2 | Sheriff Carlton Speed says it ensures child safety while enforcing personal responsibility. |
| 2:03.0 | Officials believe the program will make a lasting impact, and I agree. |
| 2:07.4 | More crime and justice news after this. |
| 2:11.9 | Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online is John Limley. |
| 2:15.9 | The Arizona Supreme Court has set a March 19th execution date for a man convicted of murder |
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