PSYCHIC TIKTOK INFLUENCER APPEALS $10 MILLION VERDICT IN UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO SLAYINGS DEFAMATION CASE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 13 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A Texas-based TikTok creator has been ordered to pay University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield $10 million in a defamation lawsuit, The creator falsely accused the professor of orchestrating the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students. Ashley Guillard, an internet personality, posted videos accusing Professor Scofield of planning the murders to cover up an alleged affair with one of the victims. Scofield sued for defamation after Guillard repeatedly refused to take the damaging videos down. It subjected the professor to severe harassment and threats. A federal judge found Guillard liable for defamation. Guillard filed an appeal to challenge the $10 million judgment
Joining Nancy Grace today:
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Greg Morse - Criminal Defense Attorney at Morse Legal, Author of “The Untested” [found on Amazon]
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Dr. Shavaun Scott- Psychotherapist, Author of “The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence” and "Game Addiction: The Experience and the Effects;" FB: Shavaun.scott, Instagram: shavaunscott
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Dr. DeWayne Hendrix - Former Associate Warden at the MDC in Brooklyn, and Former Senior Warden with the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons; Founder and President of A New Daylight Foundation, Author: "Who Are You? See it Say it and Seize it;" @anewdaylight (IG) @drdewaynehendrix (LinkedIn) @anewdaylight (X-Twitter)
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Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author of "Blood Beneath My Feet," and Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;" X @JoScottForensicith Joseph Scott Morgan;" X:@JoScottForensic
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Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, Host of Podcast: Zone 7; X: @ColdCaseTips
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Susan Hendricks - Outside Ada County Courthouse Journalist, Author: “Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi;" IG @susan_hendricks X @SusanHendicks
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.0 | The brutal murders in Idaho have reverberations that go on and on and on. In the last days, we learn a university, |
| 0:23.7 | in the last days we learn a TikToker who falsely accused, a university professor of being somehow |
| 0:31.3 | involved in the murders, is fighting a $10 million judgment. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:40.0 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:41.4 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:43.8 | That's right. |
| 0:44.8 | A TikToker was ordered to pay $10 million to a college professor |
| 0:50.3 | for falsely claiming the professor played a role in the brutal murders of four |
| 0:57.7 | beautiful University Idaho students. What happened? Now, according to court documents, we've obtained |
| 1:05.1 | a social media personality, a TikToker, Ashley Gillard, who goes on social as Ashley solves mysteries on TikTok. |
| 1:15.3 | Okay. Compared the judgment, the $10 million judgment ordered against her to the Salem witch trials. |
| 1:25.4 | Okay. This woman, Ashley Galard, claims she conducted a tarot card reading after the murders to, quote, |
| 1:36.2 | get information on who killed the students, and why? |
| 1:40.2 | Repeat, a tarot card reading. |
| 1:49.5 | She then says her cards reveal that one of the slain students had a relationship with a professor, Rebecca Schofield, and that Schofield ordered the murders |
| 1:58.1 | of the students. |
| 2:03.7 | Well, nothing could be further from the truth. |
| 2:07.4 | Brian Koberger murdered them and pled guilty to it, |
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