MANHUNT: DAD LOSES CUSTODY, GUNS DOWN JUDGE IN DRIVEWAY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Hours after a judge awards sole custody of four children to their mother and the father is forced to leave the home, the judge is gunned down in a targeted attack. Judge Andrew Wilkinson suffered multiple gun shot wounds in his own driveway. Police have named Pedro Argote as the suspect, who abandoned his car around ten miles from Wilkerson's home. Argote has now eluded police for six days, and investigators say they believe Argote has left the immediate area.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Jessica Garth - Chief, Special Victims & Family Violence Unit, State's Attorney's Office, Prince George's County, Maryland
- Caryn L. Stark - Psychologist, renowned TV and Radio trauma expert and consultant, www.carynstark.com, Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Irv Brandt - Senior Inspector, US Marshals Service International Investigations Branch, Chief Inspector, DOJ Office of International Affairs; Author: “SOLO SHOT: CURSE OF THE BLUE STONE” available on Amazon, Also "FLYING SOLO: Top of the World" Twitter: @JackSoloAuthor
- Shannon Henry- President & Founder of SASS Go, (Surviving Assault Standing Strong) a nonprofit on a mission to eradicate abuse, trafficking and violence against women and girls globally, Case Consultant, Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Education, www.sassgo.org, @sassgoglobal FB, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok
- Mike Hadsell- President and Founder of Peace River K9 Search and Rescue, PRSAR.org
- Dr. Kendall Crowns- Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County, Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
- Christopher Gavin-(Rhode Island) Breaking news reporter for The Messenger, www.TheMessenger.com. TWITTER: @chris_m_gavin
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. Custody battles are never pretty. They're always awful. In all the years I prosecuted |
| 0:19.9 | felony crimes in inner city Atlanta and that was 10 years. |
| 0:25.0 | Murders, rape, child molestation, you name it. |
| 0:28.0 | I hated going into the courtroom when there was a custody battle going on. |
| 0:33.0 | The anger, the animosity, the bitterness, the resentment, |
| 0:37.0 | all that raw emotion just beneath the surface and not always beneath the surface. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh yeah, Slugfest would break out in the courtroom. |
| 0:49.0 | Ex-husbands and wives of being literally pulled apart by the sheriff's bailiffs. |
| 0:55.4 | Now we know a judge has been gunned down dead in the driveway after making a custody ruling. |
| 1:05.9 | And now that shooter is on the run armed, |
| 1:11.0 | desperate and dangerous. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 1:14.0 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 1:16.0 | Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and Serious XM 111. |
| 1:20.0 | First of all, take a listen to this. |
| 1:22.0 | At approximately 8 p.m. deputies from the Washington County Sheriff's Office and other agencies |
| 1:28.4 | responded to the 19,100 block of Old Waterford Road in Hagerstown, Maryland for a reported shooting. |
| 1:38.1 | The victim was an adult male who was |
| 1:44.0 | suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds. |
| 1:48.0 | He was transported to Meredith Medical Center |
| 1:51.0 | where he later succumbed to his injuries. The victim was identified |
| 1:55.0 | as Washington County, Maryland Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson |
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