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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Nashville Mayor's cemetery sex romps with police bodyguard trigger criminal probe

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Nashville Mayor Megan Barry admits she had an extramarital affair with her police bodyguard, but investigators want to know if taxpayers picked up the tab for some of her romantic adventures. Nancy Grace looks at the scandal with private investigator and former Nashville police officer Vincent Hill, psychologist & lawyer Dr. Brian Russell -- host of Investigation Discovery's "Fatal Vows" series, Chicago defense lawyer Joel Brodsky, and reporter Pamela Furr.

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0:00.0

Who said it was wrong to have sex in the cemetery?

0:21.0

Okay, well for me that is scary, creepy, and plus just from my point of view, you're likely to get mugged or armed robbed or carjacked in an empty cemetery in the middle of the night.

0:35.0

But who am I to judge? It's not a crime. It's a moral issue. I'm not the church lady, but this case is so much bigger than that.

0:46.0

Sex in a cemetery seemingly has rocked the foundation of a political so-called genius and now is a crime and actual crime involved all from sex in a cemetery.

1:03.0

Actually, it sounds like a horrible mixed alcoholic drink. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us.

1:11.0

Okay, let's just start at the beginning. Joining me right now from the scene. I hope you're not in the cemetery. Pamela Furr, crime stories investigator reported before we get to the crime.

1:24.0

Why do we care if two nuts sneak off to a cemetery to get it on? I mean, I don't really want to think about it, but now it's been forced into my psyche. What happened?

1:33.0

Right. Well, I mean, you're right. Nobody cares if two people want to do whatever they do, but the reason why we care here is the Nashville mayor and for bodyguard.

1:43.0

Well, wait a minute. Didn't you see bodyguard with Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston? Didn't you see that? So what's the problem? I don't care what they do. I just really don't want to hear about it.

1:52.0

Well, here's the problem taxpayers pay this bodyguard. He is an employee of the Metro Nashville police department and a lot of overtime hours were scheduled in the two years that mayor national mayor Megan Barry admitted to having this affair.

2:12.0

He put in more than $170,000 worth of overtime during that time. And so Nashville taxpayers are very upset about this. And now the key.

2:24.0

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I lost my breath when you said $170,000. Hold on. Let me Jackie. Jackie may need to give me a baby aspirin because now my chest is hurting. Wait a minute. Did you?

2:35.0

I'm going to give you $170,000 of overtime on top of his regular salary. Correct. Okay. So to me, two, two fiscal, two fiscal years. So two years here.

2:51.0

I've got two questions. One, these are yes, no, so let me drop my cross examination skills such as they are.

3:00.0

Did the mayor sign off on the overtime? She did not, but the for my understanding the police chief did. And this is her personal bodyguard.

3:12.0

Correct. And second, can we show that he charged for his duties, quote, eir, quote, eir. At the time they were.

3:27.0

Well, I just just really know nice way to say it. Having sex in the cemetery. What were those some of the hours or do we know that piece of the puzzle yet?

3:38.0

That is the part that the TDI believes is a yes because, oh, dear, clocked in during the hours that the cemetery activity was taking place.

3:51.0

The overnight.

3:52.0

The way you said that, Pam, for the cemetery activity, you make it sound like there's somebody like two guys out there in the middle of the day landscaping or arranging flowers as cemetery activity. That's not what was going on. Joel Brosky.

4:08.0

Renowned defense attorney. No best for his defense of the killer. The wife killer drew Peterson don't take that the wrong way. Joel Brosky.

4:19.0

Joel Brosky joining me. You have quite the reputation and the, let me just say history of dealing with corruption.

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