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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Teen Disappears After Date: Couple Accused of Murder, Dismemberment | Crime Alert 03.25.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A couple is accused of murdering and dismembering a 17-year-old girl after luring her for a "date." Woman arrested for domestic battery by watermelon!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Miranda Corset 17 reported missing from St. Petersburg

0:07.1

when she doesn't come home from a date. Investigators find Stephen Gress, 35, sets up a date with Miranda at his home.

0:15.7

But when the teen arrives, she also makes his girlfriend, Michelle Brandes, not long into the date.

0:22.6

Brandis flies into a rage over a missing ring, accusing Miranda of being a thief.

0:28.3

The couple then torture Miranda, tying her to a chair, beating her.

0:33.2

Miranda dies when the couple shoves a pool ball into her mouth and wraps her face with plastic wrap.

0:41.8

Gress and Brandes, then dismember Miranda and leave her body in a dumpster.

0:47.7

Nancy, while police believe Miranda died in Gress and Brandes' St. Petersburg, Florida home,

0:53.2

they believe the couple drove her body to a home in Largo,

0:56.2

where they found evidence of a dismemberment. A witness tipped police off to the murder and believed the couple

1:01.7

had dumped Miranda's body at a gas station where Branda's works, but police have yet to locate Miranda.

1:07.6

Gress was already in custody when connected to Miranda's disappearance on drug possession

1:11.9

and pointing a dangerous weapon, a harpoon, and his partner. Michelle Brandes later turned herself in.

1:18.0

Stephen Gress, 35, Michelle Brandes 37, charged with kidnap and murder. After a grocery run,

1:24.8

Shelly Hardwick gets in an argument with her boyfriend in their hotel room. The argument turns into a screaming match. Shelly Hardwick gets in an argument with her boyfriend in their hotel room.

1:28.5

The argument turns into a screaming match.

1:31.0

Shelley Hardwick grabs a large watermelon and hurls it at the boyfriend.

1:35.2

He dodges.

1:36.2

But he is covered in watermelon and seeds when it explodes against a cabinet.

1:40.6

Cops are called.

1:41.8

While Shelley Hardwick claims she only threw the watermelon out of frustration

1:45.8

and didn't intend to hurt her bow, the 51-year-old Shelley Hardwick arrested for domestic

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