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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

'Dentist to the Stars' strangles mom dead? Serial killer copycats Stephen King horror story?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Instead of working on celebrity smiles, Los Angeles dentist Daniel Yocobi is sitting in jail on a charge of murdering his wealthy mom for her insurance money. Nancy Grace explores the murder of Violet Yocobi, the grandmother found strangled to death in her Beverly Hills mansion. forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, defense lawyer Troy Slaten, forensics expert Karen Smith, and reporter Pamela Furr join Grace. Bruce McArthur was known by his landscaping clients as a thoughtful man, but investigators say he killed at least 6 men and hid body parts in planters scattered across Toronto. It's a case compared to a Stephen King mystery. Nancy Grace digs into it with lawyer & psychologist Dr. Brian Russell, death scene investigator Joseph Scott Morgan, medical examiner Dr. William Morrone, and reporter John Lemley.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

and over 12,000 healthful products. Founded by organic pioneer and farmer David Stelser,

0:14.0

Azure's goal is to provide healthy, affordable food that's organic, non-GMO, and free of harmful

0:21.3

chemicals. Go to azurestandard.com. Membership is always free and it's so easy to get started.

0:29.5

Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner.

0:39.2

Crime stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph channel 132.

0:46.9

Let me juxtapose two images in your mind. One of a grandmother in her home kept

0:58.3

pristinely everything in place being attacked and strangled dead. Now, imagine this.

1:09.4

You know that moment when they're putting a needle in your mouth and they're

1:13.5

navigating you for some procedure or they put a little gas mask on you and you

1:19.4

pass out and you wake up and all the dental surgery is done?

1:23.4

Well, imagining that guy hovering around you with the needle in his hand, the dentist

1:32.1

just gets charged for murder. Now, what do those two things have to do with each other?

1:38.5

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. A 67-year-old grandmother

1:46.2

is found dead in her own home. A very beautiful mansion in Beverly Hills. And now out of the blue,

1:56.0

the dentist to the stars, Daniel Jacobi, arrested, charged with the grandma's murder.

2:07.0

P.S., he's also her son. To Pam Furr, Crime Stories Investigative Reporter joining us,

2:14.8

let's just start at the beginning. Why did police come to the victim's home to start with?

2:21.9

Well, sure. The daughter and the dentist, brother and sister, had not heard from their mother.

2:30.2

The two of them, Daniel Jacobi and the sister, go over to the home because they hadn't heard from

2:36.8

their mother. They kept trying to call, couldn't get in touch with her. They go to their mother's home

2:42.4

violent and they find her there unconscious and unresponsive. And that's when her daughter called

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