New Evidence Renews Mom's Search for Daughter's Killer

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Brittany Phillips, 18, attends Florida's Eckerd College on a full chemistry scholarship her freshman year, but the homesick college student returns to Tulsa to continue her education.

Within a week, the 18-year-old is dead. Phillips was found raped and strangled inside her locked apartment. Now, a letter has been found with a postmark after the date Phillips was thought to have died, sparking new hope for an arrest.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Dr. Maggie Zingman- Brittany’s mother, Trauma psychologist; Facebook: /Mom.Missing.Brittany
Matthew T. Mangino- Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County), and Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States"
Caryn Stark- Psychologist- Trauma and Crime Expert; Twitter: @carnpsych
Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert & Founder: Atlanta's Cold Case Investigative Research Institute; Host of the new podcast, "Zone 7;" Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
Dr. Kendall Avon Crowns-Chief Medical Examiner for Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), & Lecturer for University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
Andy Kopsa- Award-winning Investigative Reporter; Twitter: @AndyKopsa

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0:00.0	The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:12.0	A grieving mother is hoping and praying that new evidence will shed light on her daughter's
0:21.8	murder.
0:22.8	I'm Nancy Grace.
0:24.2	This is Crime Stories.
0:25.6	Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM 111.
0:30.2	I'm talking about a gorgeous young girl, Brittany Phillips.
0:36.3	First of all, take a listen to our friends at KJRH.
0:41.3	New evidence discovered by her own family is breathing home back into this 18 year old
0:46.4	cold case.
0:47.8	Her mother Maggie Zingman says she got a call from Brittany's father recently that left
0:52.4	her stunned.
0:53.4	All of a sudden, about a month ago, I got this call from him and he said, I need to show
1:00.3	you something but don't be upset with me.
1:02.7	Brittany's father told Maggie that he had recently discovered a birthday card.
1:06.5	Brittany had sent to him in 2004 to mail to her grandfather.
1:10.9	It had a mechanized white post office stamp, meaning it came out of a machine that somebody
1:17.4	either bought it a kiosk or a post office desk.
1:22.4	Okay, why would finding that card shed light on the murder of her daughter and why would
1:31.0	she be angry at its discovery?
1:35.1	First of all, let's explain what happened to this teen girl, Brittany Phillips.
1:41.3	Take a listen to Ashley Holt, challenge two.
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