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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Star of hit series "Empire" Jussie Smollett JUST CHARGED WITH NEW FAKING FELONY HATE CRIME

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

"Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted by a special prosecutor in connection to an alleged hoax hate crime in January 2019. In February 2019, Smollett was charged with filing a false police report, but a month later, the charges were abruptly dropped. With the latest indictment, however, he now faces six felony counts of disorderly conduct. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss:Kathleen Murphy: North Carolina Family AttorneyBobby Chacon: Former Special Agent FBI, current star of FB Watch Series "Curse of Akakor" Caryn Stark: NYC Psychologist Karen Smith: Los Angeles Forensics Expert, Lecturer at the University of Florida & hose of "Shattered Souls" podcastGabrielle Fonrouge: NY Post writer

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0:00.0

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.

0:01.7

I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.

0:04.8

The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment

0:08.6

that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.

0:12.0

Because when families are rocked by death,

0:14.9

the only thing they really want are answers.

0:18.1

They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.

0:26.7

Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.6

It's like Christmas morning.

0:38.2

I really just don't know where to start.

0:41.0

So let me just dive in.

0:44.4

So this guy, a star, a star on the hit series Empire,

0:51.3

tells people he was the victim of a hate crime because he is black and gay.

0:58.4

That these perpetrators were just waiting stalking him.

1:03.2

They've been writing these letters.

1:04.9

It looks just like out of martyrs she wrote.

1:09.4

Or wait, downgrade that to Nancy Drew, where you cut out the letters out of a magazine

1:16.8

and then there's a little stick figure of someone being hung.

1:21.5

Anyway, I kept wondering who was stalking him at Subway Sam with you to A.M.

1:28.1

Long story short.

1:30.0

Well, well, well, if Jesse Smollett has not been indicted after pointing the finger at everybody,

1:39.2

but him in the last hours.

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