Popular Restaurant Hostess Stabbed Dead at Prominent Dentist Home. Still No Arrest
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Saturday night: Amber Spradlin finishes her shift at the Brickhouse Restaurant in Prestonsburg.
She leaves the restaurant with friends, Roy Kidd, and Dr. Mike McKinney. Dr. McKinney is a well-known dentist and also happens to be the owner of the Brickhouse Restaurant. They first head over to the Seasons Inn. A little while later, the trio decides to leave the inn. In the early morning hours of Sunday, they end up at the home of Dr. McKinney.
Just a few hours later, 911 is called, twice. Amber Spradlin has been stabbed eleven times in the head, neck and throat. Now almost a month later, no arrests have been made.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Dr. Debbie Hall- Cousin of the Victim; Facebook: Justice for Amber
- Mark Wohlander - The Family’s Attorney, Former Kentucky Prosecutor & Former FBI special agent; Volunteer at the David School
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst; Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
- Robin Dreeke - Behavior Expert & Former FBI Special Agent / Chief of the FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program; Author: "Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agents Manual for Behavior Prediction;" Twitter: @rdreeke
- Dr. Michelle DuPre - Forensic Pathologist, Medical Examiner and Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department: Author: "Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide;" Forensic Consultant
- Jeff Vanderbeck - V.P. and Publisher Appalachian Newspapers Inc (which includes the Floyd County Chronicle and Times, The News Express, mango Messenger, The Paintsville Herald and the Mongo Messenger in WV); Twitter: @floydchronicle
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| 0:42.5 | What happened to Amber? Why do we still not have answers in the case of a young woman brutally |
| 0:52.4 | murdered? It seems to me the answer is right under the noses of authorities, but why |
| 0:59.5 | no arrest? I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at Box Nation |
| 1:05.5 | and Series XM-111. First of all, take a listen to this. Around one on Sunday, |
| 1:12.4 | her aunt won to Spradlin got a call that would change her life. We just outwalked in the |
| 1:17.2 | flea market and ran her aunt out and went up to her friend and we had him. Amber who worked at |
| 1:23.5 | the popular brick house in Preston's Burg was in at work or at home. Early in life, Amber's |
| 1:29.1 | Pradlin experienced trauma and heartbreak, but she endured. She was just three years old when her |
| 1:34.4 | mother died and later her sister died in a car accident. She was raised by her grandparents |
| 1:39.7 | and as they got older, she in turn put her own life on hold to care for them. After her |
| 1:44.7 | grandparents passed, Amber's Pradlin started to grow. She moved into her own place for the first |
| 1:49.8 | time and got a job she really enjoyed at the brick house restaurant. Amber's Pradlin looked |
| 1:54.4 | forward to every day and every new adventure. But that life of adventure she was finally getting |
| 2:01.2 | to live after her family raised her, her grandparents after her mom was killed. As they became elderly, |
| 2:08.8 | she decided to take care of them. When they passed, she finally started living the life she had |
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