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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Evil babysitter disguises dead infant bundled in car seat & hands him to mommy

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When Wisconsin mom Heather Gardner picked up her two-month-old son from the babysitter on January 4, 2019, she thought little Benson was sleeping. The woman who was caring for the infant wrapped him up in winter clothes and strapped him in the car seat before handing him over to the mother. A short time later, however, Gardner realized her son was dead. Prosecutors accused Marissa Tietsort of beating the baby to death before the mother arrived. Gardner did not know when she chose Tietsort as a babysitter that she had been banned from contact with children because of earlier child abuse accusations. Nancy Grace looks at this shocking case with forensics expert Karen Smith, Atlanta lawyer and juvenile judge Ashley Willcott, psychologist Dr. William July, and syndicated radio host David Mack.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you know another parent or expecting parent?

0:03.4

Are you wondering what can I give them as a gift?

0:06.3

Don't give them another onesie.

0:08.6

Don't give them a plastic toy or a god forbid a toy gun that's just going to end up in the garage.

0:14.7

Give them something that matters and what matters the most is protecting their child.

0:20.1

What do you love most in the world?

0:21.7

Your children.

0:22.8

What will you do to protect them?

0:25.1

Anything.

0:26.2

I sat down with these smartest people I know in the world on matters of child safety,

0:32.6

finding missing children, fighting back against predators.

0:36.0

And what I learned is so important, powerful and information so critical.

0:41.6

I want you to have it.

0:43.4

I want them to have it.

0:44.8

Go to CrimeStopSphere.com for a five-part series with action information

0:50.7

that you can use to change your life and protect your child.

0:55.3

Give that as a gift.

0:56.9

Not another onesie.

0:58.8

Find out how to protect your child when you're out at the mall or the store or the grocery

1:03.2

in the parking lot at home.

1:05.2

Find out about protection regarding babysitters and daycare even online.

1:11.2

I'd rather have that any day of the week than a plastic toy or god forbid.

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