Crime Alert 05.02.23
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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4.2 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Special education teacher is heading to trial for child abuse. Elderly woman kills husband at the hospital in 'suicide pact.'
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| 0:59.5 | Little girl in class, primalized John Limley. Nancy and the teachers preliminary hearing, |
| 1:04.8 | her lawyers argued McCullgan has a right to defend herself in some circumstances, |
| 1:10.3 | and as there is no evidence that any child involved sustained injuries or cried in pain that |
| 1:16.0 | McCullgan's charges should be reduced to misdemeanors. The Horry County judge hearing the case |
| 1:21.3 | did not agree, and rule the case will move forward to a grand jury. McCullgan is currently on |
| 1:27.3 | administrative leave from the district, and the school board has suspended her teaching license. |
| 1:32.5 | McCullgan now facing six counts of child abuse and several lawsuits from parents. |
| 1:37.4 | Ellen Gillan smuggles a gun into a Florida hospital where her husband's getting treatment. |
| 1:42.0 | Gillan shoots her terminally ill husband, what's killing him, and barricades herself in his room. |
| 1:48.4 | Cops finally use a flashbang and taser to get her to drop the gun. |
| 1:52.4 | We're now learning, Nancy, that terminally ill 77-year-old Jerry Gillan and his wife had made a |
| 1:58.1 | suicide pact, but Ellen Gillan could not bring herself to follow through after shooting her husband. |
| 2:04.2 | Gillan sat in bed with her husband and pointed a gun at any staff member that tried to enter the room. |
| 2:10.3 | Her charges have now been reduced to assisting self-murder and aggravated assault of a law |
| 2:15.7 | enforcement officer. Gillan charged with murder. More crime and justice needs after this. |
| 2:21.8 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country. |
| 2:26.6 | The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment that I was going to try |
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