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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Woman Sentenced to 20 Years for Gas Station Shooting | Crime Alert 05.15.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Woman sentenced to 20 years behind bars for gas station shooting. Woman missing over 60 years is found living happily states away. 

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0:00.0

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.5

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now.

0:08.6

Kristen Brianna Kelly, 35 and Isaac Smith, getting an argument in the parking lot of a

0:13.8

San Springs, Oklahoma gas station 4 a.m.

0:17.3

Kristen Kelly pulls out a gun and shoots Isaac several times in the neck and chest killing him.

0:24.0

When the police arrived, the weapon's not hard to find.

0:27.3

Nancy, the two are sitting in a car when the attendant hears gunshots and sees several flashes of light.

0:33.1

After the murder, Kelly does not flee the scene, but does ditch her still loaded weapon in a nearby trash can.

0:40.2

Kristen Brianna Kelly arrested for Isaac Smith's death.

0:44.3

Kelly pleads guilty to second-degree murder and landed 20 years behind bars.

0:49.5

One day after Aubrey Jean Backerberg's 20th birthday, she leaves her Reedsburg-Wisconsin home to

0:55.5

pick up her paycheck.

0:57.0

Her two children are with a babysitter.

0:59.1

Two days before, she filed a criminal complaint against husband Ronald Backerberg, who she

1:04.1

says beat her so badly she suffered head injuries.

1:07.5

She says he also threatened to kill her.

1:09.8

The babysitter comes forward saying

1:11.4

Aubrey hitchhiked to Madison 55 miles away, then caught a bus to Indiana. She's never seen

1:18.0

again. Until just a few days ago, detectives opened up the Cole case and searched Ancestry.com

1:24.7

and other public records to track Audrey to an out-of-state address.

1:29.8

Audrey, now 82, tells police she left to escape her husband 60 years ago and has no interest

1:38.4

in returning home to her family.

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