Teen Girl Walks 10 Miles BAREFOOT to COMMIT SUICIDE? NO WAY Say Parents

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tiffany Valiante, 18, has graduated high school and is on her way to Mercy College in New York. Standing 6 feet 2 inches tall, Valiante is a star athlete, earning a volleyball scholarship.

On July 12, 2015, Valiante left her cousin's graduation party. A few hours later, the family learns Valiante has been struck and killed by a train traveling 80mph in a secluded, wooded area just four miles from her home. The death is ruled a suicide by the medical examiner.

Valiante's family is fighting that ruling over many issues. First and foremost, Valiante had an intense fear of the dark, meaning there was no way she would walk more than four miles in the dark. Her shoes were found more than a mile from her body, yet her feet were clean. A rape kit was not performed on Tiffany’s body.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Stephen & Dianne Valiante - Tiffany's Parents; See Change.org Petition Here
Paul D’Amato - Trial Lawyer representing the Valiante family (pro bono- the D’Amato Law Firm); Twitter: @DamatoLawFirm
Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA; Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital - Voted My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022
Jim Brennenstuhl - Private Detective working with Paul D’Amato and the Valiante family; Owner of Investech
Dr. Donald Jason - Former Atlantic County Medical Examiner and Forensic Pathologist (hired by Paul D’Amato to reexamine aspects of the case); Currently Professor Emeritus of Pathology; Autopsy Service at the Wake Forest School of Medicine
Justin Rohrlich - Reporter at The Daily Beast; Twitter: @JustinRohrlich

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0:38.8	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:45.2	A teen girl allegedly commits suicide. But it doesn't make sense. It makes no sense at all. A young teen
0:57.0	girl barely clothed suicide by train. I'm not buying it. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime stories.
1:08.8	Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM 111. What do you do if you're the
1:15.8	parent of a child? And authorities insist your child committed suicide. But you know based on the
1:26.4	facts, she didn't absolutely did not. And what about when experts tell you there's no way this
1:36.4	is a suicide. This is a homicide. But yet seemingly cops and authorities won't budge.
1:47.9	First of all, take a listen to our friends at Crime Online.
1:52.3	When Steven and Diane met, Diane already had two girls, Jessica and Crystal. And they didn't plan
1:58.1	on having anymore. They were surprised and shocked in a good way when Diane found out she was going
2:03.8	to have Tiffany. Diane says the first time they laid eyes on her, it was heaven. Tiffany was a happy
2:09.1	child. And after the older girls grew up and out, friends and family say, Tiffany was raised
2:15.0	kind of like an only child. You know, I've got an all-star panel to try to make sense of what we know
2:21.1	right now. But first, I'm going to go to special guests joining us, Steven and Diane Velliente.
2:29.2	These are the parents of Tiffany, the teen girl who lost her life.
2:35.5	Mr. Mrs. Velliente, thank you for being with us. And I've studied the case very carefully. And
2:41.7	from what I can see, your daughter's case is a complete divergence from every statistical data
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