Gorgeous Mom Set on Fire by Ex TESTIFIES FROM BEYOND GRAVE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
An Ohio mother is doused with gasoline and set on fire.
Judy Malinowski, then 31, suffered third-degree and fourth-degree burns over 90 percent of her body. She was in a coma for seven months and underwent more than 60 surgeries. Malinowski was resuscitated seven times.
She died in 2017, but not before providing three hours of recorded testimony that would be used in court against her attacker, her boyfriend, Michael Slager.
Slager initially pleaded no contest to assault and arson charges in 2016 and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. After Malinowski died, he pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life without parole.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Bonnie Bowes - Mother to Judy Malinowski, Founder/President of Judy's Foundation
- Jarrett Ferentino - Homicide Prosecutor' Facebook & Instagram: Jarrett Ferentino
- Dr. Chloe Carmichael - Clinical Psychologist, Women’s Health Magazine Advisory Board;' Author: ‘Nervous Energy: Harness The Power of Your Anxiety;' Twitter: @DrChloe
- Lt. Chad Cohagen - Investigative Lieutenant for the Gahanna police (worked on Judy’s case)
- Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida, Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine, & Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference
- Patricia Gillespie- Director of “The Fire That Took Her” (available now on Paramount); Instagram: @p.e.gillespie, Facebook: trish.gillespie.9
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at FoxNation |
| 0:27.5 | and Series XM-111. First of all, take a listen to our cut one. This is a 911 call from the Franklin County Sheriff's. |
| 0:37.5 | Franklin County Sheriff's Office, can I help you? Hello? |
| 0:48.5 | What's the address? |
| 0:55.5 | Okay. Okay. I need you to stop screaming so I can understand you. What is the address? |
| 1:02.5 | What's going on? |
| 1:06.5 | Somebody is on fire. |
| 1:08.5 | Can you tell me who did this? |
| 1:13.5 | This is how it feels. Do you think it looks like a boy or a black truck? |
| 1:19.5 | That's what you're talking about. |
| 1:22.5 | What did he do? What's like gasoline? What did he do? |
| 1:25.5 | He was sitting on the ground and he was out there. |
| 1:29.5 | He was talking all of a sudden. He was on fire. |
| 1:32.5 | I think the police are here. |
| 1:35.5 | And there's more. Listen to our friend Lestrent at Inside Edition and our cut 18. |
| 1:41.5 | I need you to stop screaming because I can't understand what you're saying. |
| 1:46.5 | The 33-year-old woman tried to break up with Slager as they sat at a gas station outside Columbus, Ohio. |
| 1:52.5 | Judy bolted from his car. Slager chased her, doused her with gasoline, then littered into a human fireball. |
| 2:00.5 | Judy's mom, Bonnie. |
| 2:02.5 | They told me that he had doused her in gasoline and sat on fire. |
| 2:07.5 | And she suffered horribly. |
| 2:11.5 | Take a listen to our cut 19. |
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