MOM'S GUT: SOMETHING HAPPENED TO MY ANASTASIA BEFORE BODY FOUND LACERATED IN ABANDONED HOUSE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Anastasia Hamilton texts her mom Sunday morning. That was the last time anyone heard from the 25 -year-old.
After hours of unanswered calls, texts, and messages on social media, Romanello went to Cleveland Police. Investigators pinged the woman's phone near Cleveland Steelyard. Hamilton is seen on a surveillance video walking with an unidentified man.
Her body is later found in an abandoned house.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Melissa Romanello - Victim's Mother, GoFundMe: "Anastasia Hamilton Funeral Expenses"
- Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney, Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC, CCEAlaw.com
- Dr. Charles Heller - Clinical and Forensic Psychologist Specializing in Domestic Violence, Chief Forensic Consultant: Rockland County (New York) Forensic Mental Health Unit, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
- Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"
- Sia Nyorkor - Anchor & Reporter, WOIO-TV (Cleveland, OH), Instagram: @ TVNewsLady, Facebook.com/TVNewsLady
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| 0:00.0 | 5. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:07.0 | When a beautiful 25-year-old girl doesn't answer her cell phone, her mother knows immediately. |
| 0:21.0 | Something is very wrong. What happened to Anastasia? |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation in Series XM111. |
| 0:34.0 | First of all, take a listen to our friends at News 5. |
| 0:37.0 | Melissa Romanollo says her daughter, 25-year-old Anastasia Hamilton, has a lot of plans for her future. |
| 0:44.0 | She's not a big dream. She wants to go to real estate life and... |
| 0:49.0 | But Romanollo is now living a nightmare. Anastasia is missing. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm just going to leave her home. Anastasia lives in Cleveland, works at K&D properties in Terminal Tower. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm going to have a lecture at 9.30 in the morning. I searched for her to come over. |
| 1:08.0 | She didn't answer. |
| 1:10.0 | We talked half of a dozen times today. We faced times, several times today. |
| 1:15.0 | After several hours of unanswered calls, texts, facetimes and messages on social media, |
| 1:21.0 | Romanollo went to Cleveland Police. |
| 1:24.0 | Joining me and all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now. |
| 1:28.0 | Big question. What happened to Anastasia? |
| 1:32.0 | Again, thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation in Series XM111. |
| 1:36.0 | A special guest joining us. Anastasia's mother, Melissa Romanollo. |
| 1:43.0 | Mr. Romanollo, thank you for being with us. |
| 1:46.0 | You're welcome. |
| 1:47.0 | Mr. Romanollo, I don't know how you're holding it together. |
| 1:51.0 | I have a daughter and a son. |
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