JUSTICE FOR CAMILLIA: ILLEGAL MIGRANT SUSPECT SET FREE, CHOKES MOM-OF-5 DEAD
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Cobb County, Georgia, police and EMTs respond to a 911 call reporting an unconscious person just before 8:30 a.m. They find a woman’s body in a bush, her face partially covered by her disheveled sweater. Police say she has been dead for several hours and that there are signs of a struggle.
Authorities identify the woman as Camillia Williams, a mother of five. Her family in Louisiana describes her as someone who wouldn’t hurt a fly and could hold a conversation with anyone. Police say the 52-year-old was strangled.
Detectives with the Cobb County Police Department spend two days searching the neighborhood where Williams’ body was found. Investigators block off the street while collecting evidence and knock on neighbors’ doors, looking for witnesses and surveillance footage. A neighbor across the street from where Williams was found turns over Ring doorbell footage, revealing the entire attack on video. The footage shows a young man closely following Williams. When she turns to tell him to leave her alone, he rushes at her.
The video shows the man wrapping Williams in a chokehold and dragging her to bushes in front of a home on Pat Mell Road. When she goes limp, he puts both knees on her neck and kneels there for several minutes, preventing her from breathing. He then casually walks away.
Investigators identify the attacker as 21-year-old Honduran national Hector Sagastume.
Joining Nancy Grace today,
- Arsene Williams - Brother
- Tony Williams - Brother
- Darryl Cohen - Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney; X: @DarrylBCohen
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital; Voted My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022, 2023 and 2024.
- Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, ColdCaseCrimes.org, Host of new podcast: Zone 7; X: @149Zone7
- Dr. Thomas Coyne - Chief Medical Examiner, District 2 Medical Examiner's Office, State of Florida; Forensic Pathologist, Neuropathologist and Toxicologist; X: @DrTMCoyne
- Dave Mack - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.7 | Camelia Williams is a proud and loving Georgia mother of five, |
| 0:10.8 | and things take a dark turn when she reports to family a weirdo following her around. |
| 0:17.5 | Why was an illegal migrant? |
| 0:40.2 | Set free, free to walk amongst us, then to become state's suspect number one in the brutal choking death of a mom of five leaving one of her favorite stores. First of all, listen to this. Cobb County, Georgia police and EMTs respond to a 911 call with reports of an unconscious person just before 8.30 a.m. What they |
| 0:47.4 | find is a woman's body in a camellia bush, her face partially covered by her disheveled sweater. |
| 0:53.6 | Police say she's been dead for several hours and it appears there was a struggle. |
| 0:58.0 | The woman is identified as Camelia Williams, a mother of five. |
| 1:01.9 | Camelia's family in Louisiana say she wouldn't her to fly and could hold a conversation with anyone. |
| 1:07.4 | Justice tonight for Camelia. |
| 1:10.0 | Joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we know |
| 1:12.4 | right now, but straight out to crime stories reporter Dave Mac joining us at the scene. Dave, first of all, |
| 1:18.5 | explain to the viewers where you are right now. Right now, we are in Cobb County, Georgia, |
| 1:23.5 | just outside of Atlanta on Pat Mel Road, which is a fairly active road, a lot of homes. |
| 1:30.8 | And as you can see directly behind me, right here, Nancy, the body of Camilla Williams was found |
| 1:36.6 | behind that house in a wooded area. That's where we're located right this minute. |
| 1:40.8 | You know what really strikes me, Dave Mack, is that people that have never |
| 1:45.6 | had any, their lives have not been touched by violent crime. And God bless them. I don't want |
| 1:50.7 | their lives touched by violent crime. They perceive that murder, rape, all sorts of violent crime |
| 1:58.7 | occurs to somebody else, somewhere else, nowhere near them, |
| 2:04.6 | and they're safe. And I get it. I'd like to think that too, but I know differently, because look at |
| 2:09.5 | where you are. That is a beautiful suburb, a tree-lined neighborhood where you think nothing could go |
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