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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

TEEN BOY FORCE FED ALCOHOL, BRAIN DEAD, WITH BLUE LIPS AT FRAT PARTY

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

19-year -old Daniel "Danny" Santulli suffers "massive brain damage" after an alcohol-fueled hazing incident.  The University of Missouri freshman was allegedly forced to drink an entire bottle of vodka and force-fed beer while pledging to become a member of the Phi Gamma Delta. 

Santulli reportedly had over six times the legal driving limit of alcohol in his blood.  Surveillance video shows Santulli lying on a couch for hours, with people walking by, even moving Santulli back onto the couch when he fell off. 

Ultimately the teen is taken to University Hospital suffering cardiac arrest. Danny Santulli is now wheelchair-bound, blind, unable to speak, and will need round-the-clock care for the rest of his life. 

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • David W. Bianchi - Santulli Family Attorney, "America’s leading hazing lawyer", STFBlaw.com (Miami, FL) 
  • Jim Piazza - Father of Timothy Piazza, Anti-Hazing activist, Founding Member of the Anti-Hazing Coalition, Parents United to Stop Hazing (PUSH)
  • Dr. Susan Lipkins - Psychologist and Hazing Expert, Author: "Preventing Hazing", insidehazing.com
  • Dr. Michelle DuPre - Former Forensic Pathologist, Medical Examiner and Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department, Author: "Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Forensic Consultant, DMichelleDupreMD.com 
  • Mona Kay - Private Investigator, "Mona K Investigations" (Omaha, NE), Twitter: @monakay 
  • Mark Slavit - Television News Reporter, KRCG TV 13 (Columbia, Missouri), krcgtv.com, Twitter: @MSlavitKRCG13 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The So-called Worst Case of Hazing in US History, you can judge that for yourself.

0:23.7

A teen boy is left blind and unable to walk. Why is this happening in our country?

0:34.4

I was just telling Jackie that we're actually talking about putting a space station on Mars.

0:43.2

But we can't stop teens from ending up blinded and unable to walk because of Hazing

0:53.7

on college campuses. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Cime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM-11. Listen to this.

1:06.7

Hundreds of students who participated in that protest gathered right here last night. They came together to protest the actions of Phi Gamma Delta.

1:13.7

Now the fraternity has also been suspended by its national organization.

1:18.7

M.U. Police and the Office of Student Accountability are currently investigating to determine if any criminal statutes or university regulations were violated.

1:27.7

One M.U. student we spoke with was also protesting the way the university has been trying to prevent misconduct on campus.

1:34.7

It's just ridiculous. Something needs to change and the things that they are doing to try and change it is not working.

1:40.7

Based on an initial investigation several fraternity members who were believed to have consumed quote significant amounts of alcohol during a party at the fraternity.

1:49.7

Now M.U. says it plans to conduct an internal review of its entire Greek system. The current status of the hospitalized student is unknown.

1:58.7

This isn't just drinking at a party. This is being forced, said alcohol and entire bottle of vodka as well as the public.

2:09.7

As well as beer. Forced fed to the point that this teen boy was six times over the legal limit.

2:18.7

You were just hearing our friends at Fox 9. Now take a listen to Hannah Falcon K.M.I.Z.

2:27.7

I'm here at the now abandoned Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. And this is where it all happened that night back in October.

2:36.7

What happened that night left Danny Santouli unable to walk, see or talk and now his family and lawyer are asking why prosecutors aren't charging active members with hazing crimes.

2:50.7

Danny Santouli is still unable to speak. He has massive brain damage. He's lost his eyesight. He's blind and he cannot walk.

3:00.7

A probable cause statement from University of Missouri police outlines the events of the night Danny Santouli got alcohol poisoning from a Phi Gamma Delta pledge event.

3:09.7

The statement says active members taped a bottle of vodka to his hands and poured beer down his throat. It also says security footage shows many of the events as they happened inside the Frat House.

3:20.7

Now if you're not going to enforce the hazing laws in Missouri under these circumstances, then you're never going to enforce them. You might as well just get rid of the law.

3:29.7

You know what I learned? And I'm not proud to say this. When I first went to the district attorney's office to prosecute crimes, my boss, who I loved, who's like a grandfather to me, Mr. Slayton, the longest serving elected DA in the country at that time, I think it was 37 years for two sessions sent me with the office lobbyist to push anti-crime issues.

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