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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Gold Medal Shocker: Mary Lou Retton Flips Out During DUI Arrest Caught On Cam| Crime Alert 6AM 07.10.2025

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

From scoring perfect 10's and public adoration at the 1984 Olympics to public shock! Gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton's DUI arrest...is caught on camera & her behavior towards the cops is far from gold. 

A husband poisons his Dementia-stricken wife's drink, then smothers her in a grisly murder -- her blue tongue gave it away. Plus, some real-life heroes rescue a pair of toddlers in a hot car. Jennifer Gould reports. 

 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Our Jennifer Gould standing by Jennifer.

0:06.8

Nancy, the world gasped in 1984 when Mary Lou Brighton flipped her way to Olympic Gold.

0:12.9

But newly released body cam footage from her May DUI arrest in West Virginia paints a heart-wrenching picture of a fallen icon. Take a listen.

0:23.3

He's too young to know who I am. I mean, really? Are you are? I know who you are.

0:32.9

I know who you are. Yeah. Come on.

0:38.7

I got to do my job no matter who you are.

0:40.3

Oh, my God.

0:41.4

What's your first daughter?

0:43.8

The 57-year-old gymnastics legend once America's sweetheart was caught on tape, disheveled, and emotional as police cuffed her.

0:52.3

Officers responded to reports of Retton's Porsche swerving erratically on

0:56.8

Interstate 64. Court documents reveal a screw-top bottle of wine in her car. She slurred her words,

1:04.1

defiantly refused a breathalyzer test, and stumbled through field sobriety tests prompting her immediate arrest.

1:12.2

The raw body cam footage captures rett, desperately invoking her Olympic fame, proclaiming, quote,

1:18.2

I'm a gold medalist, end quote, as officers secured handcuffs around her oxygen tank.

1:24.6

At one point, she bizarrely remarked that the arrest would, quote, be good for the book,

1:29.9

end quote, and she even managed a brief, strained smile when an officer jokingly suggested her

1:36.8

gymnastics skills might aid sobriety tests. However, her mood quickly shifted to distress.

1:43.3

When placed under arrest, here's more of the body cam. Take a listen.

1:47.0

Go ahead and put your hands on your back for me.

1:49.0

No!

1:50.0

Yeah, you're under arrest.

1:51.0

You're under arrest.

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