FRIEND SHOT PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 10.18.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Here's some of our top stories this week:
Officials insist beloved teacher Ellen Greenberg killed herself, even after new evidence & a new documentary about the case emerges. Her furious family vows to continue to fight for justice!
Authorities in Santa Barbara County launched a search for a 9-year-old girl who has not been seen in a year, and who has not been seen in a photograph in two.
A Denver TV meteorologist reveals the moment when a stalker had her cornered. Florida sets a 15th execution date, setting a modern record.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Jackie Howard, a young Ohio woman shot dead playing a game of Russian roulette with a friend. |
| 0:09.6 | According to prosecutors, Rachel Counts 23 suffered a gunshot wound to the chest October 5th at a home in northern Cincinnati. |
| 0:18.8 | Reportedly, Rachel had been playing cards with O'Marion Horn, also 23. |
| 0:24.6 | Horn allegedly pulled out a gun, removed all but one bullet asking Rachel if she wanted to play Russian roulette. |
| 0:32.6 | Prosecutors say Horn then pointed the gun at Rachel and pulled the trigger. |
| 0:43.0 | Rachel pronounced dead at the scene and Horn arrested, charged with felony murder, |
| 0:45.9 | felony assault, and reckless homicide. |
| 0:49.4 | More crime and justice news. After this. I'm Jennifer Gould. |
| 0:56.2 | The long-awaited new official review of Ellen Greenberg's mysterious 2011 death has delivered a devastating final blow to her family. |
| 1:06.4 | The Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office has again classified the case as a suicide, despite the |
| 1:14.5 | beloved 27-year-old teacher being found with 20 stab wounds, including to the back of her head. |
| 1:22.5 | Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lindsay Simon upheld the controversial ruling in a 32-page report. |
| 1:30.2 | Simon acknowledged the case's grim facts, noting that, quote, the distribution of injuries is |
| 1:37.0 | admittedly unusual, end quote, but concluded that Greenberg, who is being treated for |
| 1:43.0 | anxiety, quote, would be capable of |
| 1:46.0 | inflicting these injuries herself, end quote. The Emmy's office stated its opinion was expressed |
| 1:52.1 | with a, quote, reasonable degree of medical certainty, end quote. Ellen's father, Josh Greenberg, |
| 1:59.3 | spoke to Nancy Grace on a previous episode of crime stories. |
| 2:03.2 | The truth, as all Sandy and I have ever asked for for Ellen, the truth about her debt. |
| 2:10.0 | Greenberg was discovered dead in her apartment on January 26, 2011 by her fiancé Sam Goldberg during a blizzard. The autopsy confirmed the horrific scene. |
| 2:21.6 | Twenty puncture wounds to her neck, heart, and back, with the knife still lodged in her chest. |
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