MONSTER MOM DROWNS DAUGHTER, 7, WANTED "ALONE TIME"
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When a complication with his injuries lands marine-veteran Jon Elliot in the ICU, his wife Brandi is left to take care of their 7-year-old daughter, Piper, between her restaurant shifts.
After a week in the hospital, Jon is stable enough to move out of critical care. Piper is so excited to finally visit her dad, she spends all day drawing pictures to decorate his hospital room. Piper gives her dad plenty of her famous hugs during the visit, before mom says it’s time to go home.
When mom and daughter return home, Elliott wants some time alone. Elliott tells Piper she’ll be back in a few minutes and sits at the bottom of the stairs leading to their door. Worried about her mom, Piper follows Elliott downstairs and starts talking. Elliott then gets up and crosses the street to a greenway along Drake’s Creek, with Piper following behind her.
7-year-old Piper asks where they’re going several times. Then, Elliott grabs Piper by the wrist and leads her down to the creek. Elliott shoves Piper’s head under the water and tells her to be quiet. When Piper stops struggling, Elliott pulls her from the water, starts CPR, and calls 911. Piper is rushed to the same hospital as her father, but it’s too late. The little girl dies and mom, Brandi Elliott is immediately arrested for murder.
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- Ben Powers - Criminal Defense Attorney, Facebook: Legal Powers PLLC, legalpowers.com
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, AngelaArnoldMD.com, 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.
- Julie Gates - Major Law Enforcement Crime Scene Investigator, Forensic Science Program Coordinator/Instructor, Southern Crescent Technical College
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University
- Lauren Conlin - Podcaster/Reporter/Host- The Outlier Podcast & Co-Host of Primetime Crime on YouTube, popcrime.tv, primetimecrimeshow.com, X- @Conlin_Lauren, Instagram- @LaurenEmilyConlin, YouTube: @PopCrimeTV
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:03.0 | The so-called Monster Mom drowns for a daughter, |
| 0:08.0 | just seven years old because she wanted alone time. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:18.0 | A Nashville mother fed up with motherhood wanting to be left alone, now accused of drowning |
| 0:27.0 | her seven-year-old daughter. |
| 0:29.9 | When EMTs arrived, this is what happens. |
| 0:33.8 | Henderson police get a 911 call and arrive to find mom Brandy Elliott performing CPR on her |
| 0:40.1 | seven-year-old daughter along a popular trail. |
| 0:43.2 | The girl is soaking wet having been pulled from the water. |
| 0:46.6 | Piper Elliott is taking by ambulance to a local hospital just before noon. |
| 0:51.5 | So all of this happens even before lunchtime. |
| 0:54.5 | Joining me an all-star panel, but straight out to Lauren Conlin, |
| 0:58.1 | host of prime time crime on YouTube. |
| 1:01.8 | Lauren, thank you for being with us. |
| 1:03.8 | Lauren, where did this happen? |
| 1:07.1 | Nancy, this happened in Hendersonville, Tennessee at Drake's Creek. It's about a two-minute walk and they walked over there. The creek is very shallow. So let me understand what I'm hearing. This was actually a walk away from the apartment because when this first became known, many people assumed that the little seven-year-old girl actually |
| 1:31.1 | drowned in the bathtub. But no, she actually drowned in a shallow part of a lake. So what |
| 1:38.5 | exactly happened that morning? Listen. It's Saturday morning and seven-year-old Piper |
| 1:44.0 | joins her mother sitting on the steps outside their apartment. |
| 1:47.9 | It's just the two of them. |
| 1:49.3 | Her father, a disabled Iraqi war vet, is in the hospital. |
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