EXCLUSIVE: TEEN GAGS ON POOL BALL, SARAN WRAPPED HEAD, SUSPECTS POPEYES & PUTTPUTT, CHAINSAW
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Disturbing new details have emerged in the torture and murder of 16-year-old Miranda Corsette.
Court documents reveal that at least six people knew Steven Gress, 37, and Michelle Brandes, 35, were holding Miranda against her will before she died.
Gress allegedly sent photos of Miranda, visibly bruised, to three people, including his mother. She told police she did not view the images but admitted her son tried to talk to her about Miranda. She said she shut down the conversation, telling him she didn’t want to know.
At least two neighbors reportedly saw Miranda in distress at the home. A woman who lived with Gress and Brandes witnessed a week of torture, the murder, and the clean-up that followed.
The documents also outline a detailed timeline, including a trip to celebrate Brandes’ birthday at a Popeyes restaurant—while Miranda’s dismembered remains allegedly sat in Gress’ trunk.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Dave Horton - Landlord of Gress' home
- Andrea Lewis - Partner at Searcy Law in Pam Beach, Florida, Former Felony Prosecutor at Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office, and President of the Palm Beach County Bar Association,
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author of "Deal Breaker,” and featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
- Paul Duffy - Senior consultant with Group 9 Security Consulting and Training, Former Deputy and Inspector with the United States Marshals Service
- Anna Sonoda - Child Grooming Expert, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Author: “Duck Duck Groom: Understanding How a Child Becomes a Target”
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), and NEW Podcast: "Mayhem in the Morgue" [launching on April 7]; Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
- Dan Sullivan - Staff Writer, Tampa Bay Times; X @TimesDan, BlueSky: timesdan.bsky.social, Instagram: @timesdansullivan
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:04.0 | A beautiful young teen girl, Miranda, just turned 16. |
| 0:12.0 | We now know from search warrant affidavits and returns. |
| 0:19.0 | This little girl actually dies gagging on a pool ball forced into her mouth. |
| 0:26.2 | Her head wrapped mummy style with kitchen saran wrap. And then after this child's body is dismembered, the perps leaving blood and human tissue up on the |
| 0:44.9 | side of a house. |
| 0:46.9 | They didn't even take a water hose for Pete's sake to clean off this child's blood. |
| 0:54.0 | These two go out to celebrate with Popeyes and Putt Putt after dismembering |
| 1:03.0 | her with a chainsaw. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 1:10.3 | Records reveal gruesome new details about the 16-year-old Florida teens murder. Defendants |
| 1:16.3 | allegedly ate Popeyes and played mini-golf before incinerating Miranda Corset's body. |
| 1:23.7 | It all starts here when last week we obtained exclusive video of the co-defendants. |
| 1:32.0 | Here he is, Gress, we believe, taking the teen girl's body out to his vehicle. |
| 1:41.6 | Just sauntering along without a care in the world, not worried if he would |
| 1:45.6 | be seen, nothing. |
| 1:49.3 | He tucks the body into his vehicle, checks everything is just right, nothing hanging out, |
| 2:00.2 | slams the trunk with the child's body in the car and saunter's |
| 2:08.1 | back in. |
| 2:09.9 | Little did he know that he is upstairs residence. |
| 2:14.2 | This is a duplex, had her ring camera going the entire time, and we got it. |
| 2:22.9 | It's all caught on video, this and more. He's not even worried. This, as we learn, he and Billzebub, the minion from hell, Satan's assistant, forced a pool ball into this child's mouth, then wrapped her head, mummy style, and saran wrap, until she died. |
| 2:55.6 | In the last hours, we obtain more video and we enhance it, NASA style, to determine what exactly was being said at one juncture. I want you to see the video that we have enhanced. |
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