Killer Mom Julie Schenecker Shoots 'Mouthy' Children: New Trial?

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🗓️ 29 April 2023

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Summary

Convicted killer Julie Schenecker returned to a Tampa courtroom begging a judge to grant her a new trial. Schenecker argued that her former lawyers made many mistakes and that media coverage tainted the jury. That argument didn't convince a judge however.

On January 27, 2011, Julie Schenecker did the unthinkable: Armed with a .38 revolver she had purchased five days before, the former Russian linguist fatally shot her teenage children in the head. Beau Schenecker, 13, was found dead in a car parked in the garage of the Scheneker’s upscale Tampa home; 16-year-old Calyx had been placed in her bed after was killed. Julie Schenecker reportedly lifted her daughter’s mouth in the shape of a smile in a bizarre staging of the body.

Calyx had been doing her homework on the computer in another room when Julie Schenecker came up behind her and shot her in the head, then in the face. Julie had already killed Beau, reportedly shooting him in the head as they were in the car, headed to soccer practice. Julie’s husband Parker Schenecker, at the time an army colonel, was stationed in Qatar when his children were killed.

In an interview with police just after the double homicide, Julie Schenecker admitted to shooting the children. She later changed her story, and said that she "saved them" Beau from alleged sexual abuse, and Calyx from mental illness.

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Joining Nancy Grace today:

Ashley Willcott - Judge and trial attorney, anchor, www.ashleywillcott.com
Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, www.drbethanymarshall.com, New Netflix show: 'Bling Empire'
Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet"
Sarina Fazan - Four-time Emmy award-winning TV Anchor & Reporter (interviewed Julie Schenecker in 2015 for ABC), Sarina Fazan Media, www.sarinafazan.media, Podcast: "On The Record with Sarina Fazan" @sarinafazannews, YouTube: Sarina Fazan TV

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0:00.0	5. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:07.0	Imagine two beautiful children that you give birth to, that you raise, that you nurture,
0:21.1	that you sacrifice so much for a mom who loves nothing more than her boy and girl, to
0:30.3	the shock of cops that arrive at her mansion in Florida, to find mommy in the backyard,
0:38.4	having a glass of wine in her bathrobe while her daughter is upstairs shot in the mouth,
0:46.7	dead, her son, out for an afternoon of athletics, also dead in the carport at the hands of mommy.
0:58.4	I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and
1:05.5	Series XM 111. I'm talking none other than Julie Shenaker, the highly educated mom of two,
1:14.8	who works her way up the ranks of the military to a very high, high ranking position,
1:21.2	convicted in the murders of her two teen children. In the last days, she hopes to convince a judge
1:31.1	she deserves a new trial. With me here in the studio, Jackie Harrow, Jackie, what can you tell me?
1:37.6	In her latest bid for a new trial, Julie Shenaker alleged that her lawyers were ineffective,
1:43.4	that they didn't call certain witnesses and they didn't pursue any avenue that would have helped
1:48.9	her case. She also claimed she was pressured not to testify. Shenaker also says that media coverage
1:55.6	surrounding her case impacted the jury. Julie Shenaker in her attempt to get a new trial and start
2:03.0	all over from scratch demands the judge reverse her case claiming her former lawyers made so many
2:10.0	mistakes. She deserves a do over. Yes, a do over. But what were the facts of trial? Listen.
2:19.3	Police say about seven o'clock Thursday night, Shenaker armed herself with a 38 caliber pistol
2:25.7	she had just purchased over the weekend. They say she shot her son twice in the head in the
2:31.1	family's garage. Then went upstairs and shot her daughter in the back of the head while she was
2:37.1	doing her homework. She did tell us that they talked back that they were mouthy and that she was tired
2:43.0	of it. Before we go any further, I want you to hear Julie Shenaker speaking in her own words.
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