The Case Against Brooke Skylar Richardson
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In April 2017, Brooke Skylar Richardson, learned she was pregnant and told no one. In July 2017, she visited an OB-GYN, told the doctors her baby was stillborn, and that she buried the body in the backyard of the family home. The doctors notified authorities and she was charged with a number of counts, including aggravated murder. “48 Hours" Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.9 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, |
| 0:16.5 | the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. |
| 0:21.7 | Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker, The Ferris Wheel, on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm Investigators were tipped off about the possible remains buried in the back of this house here behind me. |
| 0:59.0 | Brooke Skyler Richardson had a promising future. The prosecutor says she gave birth in the family home and then killed her baby. The 18-year-old... |
| 1:00.0 | Is there a way to describe this past year? |
| 1:04.0 | The worst nightmare. |
| 1:06.0 | Pergatory. Every day. |
| 1:09.0 | The Carlisle teen is charged with killing her newborn baby. |
| 1:12.6 | I can tell you that Brooke, Skyler Richardson, did not kill her baby. |
| 1:18.6 | I don't know when it hit me, but it was... |
| 1:22.6 | I was a grandmother and I never had any of the benefits of it. |
| 1:25.6 | Our lives have been completely turned upside down. |
| 1:31.0 | What was the reaction to this story? |
| 1:33.0 | How big did this become? |
| 1:34.4 | I felt like Super Bowl level. |
| 1:38.5 | It was like the world stopped. |
| 1:42.7 | Everyone wanted to know what was going on in our backyard |
| 1:46.0 | and what had happened. |
| 1:48.0 | The sidewalk was lined with people sitting in lawn chairs. |
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