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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 06.21.23

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Teen girl tells friends she's afraid of retaliation after break-up. She's found  raped and strangled to death.      Man pours gasoline all over his apartment then lights a match.   

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0:00.0

Primolar, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking primaries now, high school senior Madeline Beale's

0:05.0

break-up with her boyfriend Chase Cook, telling friends she's afraid of Cook, and possible

0:09.9

retaliation.

0:10.9

Madeline even considers moving out of her family's pool house and back into the home for safety.

0:17.2

Days later, she has found raped and strangled dead in the family pool house.

0:22.6

Nancy, investigators look to Cook as their initial suspect and discovered a video on his

0:27.1

cell phone from the night of Beale's murder that showed Cook having sex with Beale's

0:31.2

who appeared to be unconscious.

0:33.4

Beale's was set to graduate with a 4.0 GPA and was committed to playing basketball for

0:37.6

north-eastern Oklahoma A&M college.

0:40.3

Her parents hope she will be remembered by quote how she lived, how she loved, and the

0:44.7

countless ways she uplifted everyone.

0:46.7

Chase Cook, 19, now charged with murder and rape.

0:51.1

The tenants at Travis Carlson's duplex are confused and concerned when they notice

0:56.8

Carlson going back and forth to his truck, drilling a hole in his gas tank and collecting

1:01.9

the gas in several canisters.

1:04.8

Carlson heads back up to his top floor apartment in the home and blasts Billy Joel's, we didn't

1:10.4

start the fire while he douses everything in gas and lights a match.

1:15.2

Carlson lets his downstairs tenants know the house is on fire and watches firefighters

1:20.1

get to work, putting it out while the music continues to blare.

1:24.9

Despite using the lyrics of the song to claim he didn't start the fire, Carlson 37 charged

1:31.3

with arson.

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