The Cheat Sheet: Carjackers and Convictions
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover.
We cover instances of carjacking, rape, and murder out of Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and Utah. The first case deals with the atrocious death of a young mother who leapt into action to save her son from carjackers. The second is a shocking shooting of a Black woman by a law enforcement officer. One case is that of a high-profile murder case where a religious reference resulted in an overturned death sentence. And the last case involves legal wrangling over an overturned conviction.
CNN’s coverage of Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson’s shooting of Sonya Massey: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/us/sonya-massey-police-shooting/index.html
ABC 7’s coverage of Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson’s shooting of Sonya Massey, including his background: https://abc7ny.com/post/ex-deputy-sean-grayson-fatally-shot-sonya-massey/15098940/
KUTV's coverage of Doug Lovell's overturned death sentence in the murder of Joyce Yost: https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-supreme-court-overturns-death-sentence-in-doug-lovell-rape-murder-case-joyce-yost
The Salt Lake Tribune's coverage of Doug Lovell's overturned death sentence in the murder of Joyce Yost: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/07/25/douglas-lovell-death-sentence/
The Associated Press’s coverage of Christopher Dunn's overturned conviction in the murder of Ricco Rogers: https://apnews.com/article/conviction-overturned-christopher-dunn-missouri-86ae570ed24f514d174b3353a419b636
The Associated Press’s coverage of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s involvement in blocking the release of Christopher Dunn: https://apnews.com/article/christopher-dunn-missouri-conviction-overturned-bc213e05442642428638fe5c1bf95b99
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| 0:00.0 | Content warning. This episode contains discussion of violence, kidnapping, rape, and murder. |
| 0:07.0 | Today on the cheat sheet we'll be covering three Midwestern cases out of Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri, as well as one case out west in Utah. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm a journalist. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney. |
| 0:25.1 | And this is the Murder Sheet. |
| 0:26.9 | We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, |
| 0:30.3 | interviews, and deep dives into murder cases. |
| 0:33.0 | We're the murder sheet. |
| 0:35.0 | And this is the cheat sheet. |
| 0:37.0 | Carjackers and convictions. You're going to be. So, Let's start with this carjacking case out of Ohio. It's been pretty widely covered. One article I found that seemed to summarize all the known facts in a pretty clear way was in people.com and this is just like an utterly nightmare story because I think if you're a parent, |
| 1:50.0 | it's very, very easy to imagine something like this happening to you. |
| 1:58.0 | There was a woman named Alexis Stakely. She is a single mother of a six-year-old. She |
| 2:07.4 | actually works a couple of jobs. She goes to pick up her six-year-old son from the babysitter. |
| 2:16.0 | She carries her son out, puts in the back seat of the SUV, |
| 2:22.0 | starts the car, and then she remembers oh he left one of his toys in the |
| 2:27.2 | babysitter's house. So just for a second she goes to grab that, leaving her sleeping child in the backseat of the vehicle, |
| 2:39.5 | and that is when the vehicle is a carjack, it's stolen. |
| 2:44.1 | And she sees this and she reacts in the way, |
| 2:48.0 | I think any loving parent would. |
| 2:51.0 | She wants to do anything possible to stop the vehicle and save her child. |
| 2:57.4 | She gets in front of the vehicle and it strikes her and it injures her so severely that she ends up passing away. |
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