South Dakota TOP COP mows down, kills pedestrian & says, 'I thought it was a deer!'

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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An investigation is underway into how South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway. Ravnsborg called 911 saying he thought he had hit a deer, driving home from a Republican fundraiser. The next morning it was discovered that it was a man. Joining Nancy Grace Today:James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Major Case detective, SWAT Officer (RET) Attorney www.shelnuttlawfirm.com Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga www.angelaarnoldmd.comGreg Smith - Special Deputy Sheriff, Johnson County Sheriff's Office (Kansas), Executive Director of the Kelsey Smith Foundation, www.kelseysarmy.com Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author,"Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime NetworkSierra Gillespie - Crime Online Investigative Reporter Tipline: South Dakota Highway Patrol - (605)773-3105

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0:00.0	Cribe stories with Nancy Grace.
0:08.0	Imagine your father, your brother, your son dying in a ditch on the side of the road.
0:21.7	And somebody out there knows he's there but does nothing.
0:27.6	Those are allegations right now but the alleged perk is the well-respected attorney general
0:36.2	a South Dakota on his way home from a political fundraiser.
0:41.1	So what's justice?
0:43.2	Where is it?
0:44.2	Will it ever happen?
0:53.2	Beaver's causing Nicknemic also identified the body.
0:56.3	He just seems like the whole process was just put on the back burner and they could have
1:04.0	got Victor up there.
1:05.8	A heck of a lot sooner to take a statement or identify a body or something.
1:13.3	Beaver's wife also has concerns.
1:15.9	How can you not see someone walking down the road?
1:22.8	And for no sirens to go off around here is highly unusual because anytime there's an accident
1:28.9	or anything.
1:30.2	Why did my husband lie in a ditch for 22 hours?
1:35.8	Why were no alarms sounded off over here when the accident happened?
1:41.1	I mean we have no answers yet.
1:44.8	And right now I'm just rotten.
1:47.4	I just lost the man of my life.
1:51.2	I can't really stand even hearing it.
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