Video version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YyWgUWwqD8

Transcript version of Christa Pike's lawyer being interviewed this morning:

Chapter 1: Current medical condition

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Mr. Frell, uh, your team said in a court filing that Miss Pike is in the hospital on a ventilator. What's her condition this morning?

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Uh, it remains the same. She's still in the hospital on a ventilator, critically ill. Uh, we don't really know the

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prognosis yet and may not know for several days.

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Was she ever conscious after this? Has she been able to say anything? Not that I am aware of. No.

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On Thursday night, the hospital staff was trying to clear the two doses of pentobarbatl from her body. Were they able to?

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No, that's still the ongoing process right now.

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Have the doctors been able to explain at all how she survived these two attempts at execution?

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Uh, they haven't. And and I need to emphasize that uh you know, we are not getting uh we're not consulting directly with the doctors. She has a medical

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power of attorney uh that gives us information. Uh, I'm not sure what all they may have told that person, but this is the extent of what we know.

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They haven't let you in to see her.

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Uh, no. Uh, and um, she is guarded. I'm not sure who may have seen her. I know I have not seen her.

Chapter 2: State's legal intentions

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The state of Tennessee has not yet said whether it will ultimately try to execute her again. Have you received any indication from the governor's office or

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the Tennessee attorney general that the state intends to seek another execution date?

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No, other than the governor did suspend all executions in Tennessee for the end of this year, which is pretty much the end of his term. Now, gubanatorial

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candidate Marsha Blackburn has uh announced that she would try to uh use the electric chair, which would uh

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require uh the Tennessee legislature to change the law. But uh it remains to be seen what what the future is. And I I

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think one of the the main things that will leave this up in the air for a while is the fact that we don't know what the prognosis is as in the

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long-term prognosis. If she recovers, she may not uh fully recover and there may be uh issues about her competence. I mean, we just don't know any of this.

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So, we have had no discussions about this. The Tennessee Attorney General's office so far uh has not given us any

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indications of what their intentions will be.

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What do you want to happen? What do you think the state should do now?

Chapter 3: Call for commutation

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I think at the very least the governor should commute Ms. Pike's death sentence to a life sentence. At the very least,

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we like I said, we don't know what uh her physical state will be, but it is clear that uh she has endured a

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torturous attempt at executing her. And we had already asked that the governor commute her for for many good reasons. I

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think she's spent over 30 years in prison, most of that in solitary confinement only to be taken out and not executed, but tried to execute her.

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and that we don't know right now and we may never know what sort of torture she endured during that process. What where

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her consciousness was, what physical pain there was, what mental torture she went through. I can tell you that we had

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a 2 and a half day hearing uh about lethal injection. The special master

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that was appointed to uh hear the case insisted that Miss Pike be present and listened for two and a half days as to

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how the state of Tennessee was going to kill her. I think she has been put through some really really bad mental torture

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and physical torture and that at the very least that deserves a commutation of her death sentence.

Chapter 4: Seeking justice for victims

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Um there is obviously another side here in terms of the case itself. the family of Colleen SL, the the 19-year-old uh

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that Christa murdered. Uh Colleen's mother was on the grounds of the prison that night. She was waiting for your client to be executed. I'm wondering

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what you think justice looks like in terms of the victim.

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I I I think that's very hard to say. I can tell you what justice shouldn't be for the victim's family and that's uh

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this long many years of back and forth for her and to be brought here to witness an execution that doesn't

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happen. Um nothing that anyone can do will bring back Colleen Slimmer. Nothing that anyone can do will make this right

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for May Martinez, her mother. Um, I can't give any better solution than the

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fact that Christa has been and may very well continue to be severely punished, harshly punished, and maybe not overly

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so, but certainly this has been a serious punishment for a very serious and awful crime. Um, I don't I don't

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think that attempting another execution is going to bring justice.

Chapter 5: Need for process transparency

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It is certainly an odd and unusual situation where the world is waiting, at least as

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far as I can tell, for your client to recover from these botched execution attempts so the state can kill her for good.

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That just seems bizarre.

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It it I as far as I know, it's it's unique. uh in in this country there have been other attempted executions that

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were botched as in they couldn't get the vain they uh other things went wrong. I

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don't know of any uh situation where the state says that the execution was carried out exactly as it planned to do

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and the person survived. And that is a unique situation and I think that your word bizarre is exactly right. And one

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thing that should definitely come from this is that this needs to be a much more open process. Over a year ago, uh,

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in the face of another execution, we asked for information about what the state was going to do. A judge ordered

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one thing to be disclosed, and that was the expiration date of the chemicals they were going to use to execute him.

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The state immediately filed an emergency motion with the Tennessee Court of Appeals that blocked that order.

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With Christa Pike's execution, there was a delay. It was supposed to happen at 10:00 a.m. in the that day, and it didn't end up happening till about 8:00

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that evening. We don't know what drugs there were, whether manufactured, compounded, how well they were preserved, what was done with them. That

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could have played a role. In order to find out what happened, the state of Tennessee has got to start telling its

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people exactly what it is doing so that in the democratic process, the people of Tennessee can decide if that's what they want to be done in their name because

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this torturous execution leaves so many questions that the state of Tennessee will refuse to answer. We

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don't know who's performing this. uh the people who placed the IV lines who obviously were not able to do it successfully or to me obviously I I you

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know I don't have definitive answers on what happened but that caused the uh

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drugs to not effectively circulate and that's probably why Chris Pike survived.

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But the state of Tennessee had assured us that these were uh people with decades of experience at setting IV lines. Yeah.

Start at 8 minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eKzyJi695A

American Idol’ alum Caleb Flynn blubbers as he’s convicted on all counts for killing wife to be with young mistress

By

Jared Downing

Published Sep. 29, 2026

Updated Sep. 29, 2026, 1:19 p.m. PDT

“American Idol” alum and ex-church pastor Caleb Flynn sobbed in court as the jury found him guilty of heinously murdering his wife while she slept in their bed, so he could plan a future with his much-younger mistress, an Ohio jury decided Tuesday.

The 40-year-old husband and father of two preteen daughters staged a phony break-in at their Tipp City home as a cover for fatally shooting his wife, Ashley, on Feb. 16, the jury in Miami County concluded after deliberating for 2.5 hours.

A blubbering Flynn fought to keep his composure but tears filled his eyes as he wept while the judge read guilty verdicts for all 11 counts against him, which included tampering with evidence and other related crimes, in addition to aggravated murder — which could land him in prison without the possibility of parole.

Caleb Flynn, who has been accused of killing his wife, Ashley Flynn.Facebook / Ashley Flynn

“He made a choice. Ashley lost her life,” Ohio Prosecutor Paul Watkins told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday.

Flynn staged the crime scene to make it look like a home invader broke into the couple’s house, and shot his 37-year-old wife while he and his two daughters were asleep, prosecutors argued in court.

Ashley was shot with a 9mm pistol, but the murder weapon was never recovered. Meanwhile, Flynn’s own 9mm pistol was missing from his truck, where he normally kept it.

Flynn is on trial on 11 felony counts including aggravated murder in the killing of his wife, Ashley, a scene prosecutors say he staged to look like a home invasion.

Flynn hatched the horrific scheme after a yearslong affair with with Alleigha Botner, 24, whom he met in 2022 while she was a 20-year-old intern at the church where he served as a music pastor, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors unveiled a trove of more than 100,000 text messages between the lovers. Botner she was forced to read messages in court in which Flynn told her he wanted his wife dead and was pondering how to get away with killing her.

Former “American Idol” contestant Caleb Flynn is seen during his trial, Sept. 18, 2026.

Hours before the murder, Flynn allegedly texted her: “I choose you. I’m free. Actions will come tomorrow.”

Flynn’s lawyers countered that the state had proven he was an adulterous husband who hated his wife — but that didn’t make him a murderer.

“This is a murder case, and it’s really nothing more,”  said defense attorney Patrick Mulligan, stressing that investigators never recovered the murder weapon and lacked forensic evidence, eyewitness testimony or other direct proof that he was the one who killed his wife.

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis convicted of murdering Tupac Shakur 30 years after rapper gunned down in Vegas

The man accused of killing legendary rapper Tupac Shakur — one of the entertainment industry’s most captivating crimes — was found guilty by a Nevada jury. 

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, learned his fate in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday after about two weeks of trial.

The conviction of Davis, a former high-ranking “shot caller” in a Los Angeles chapter of the Crips gang, marked the first person to face justice for Shakur’s murder, which went down on a Las Vegas street on the night of Sept. 7, 1996.

Duane Davis stands during a break in closing arguments during his murder trial on Aug. 31, 2026, in Las Vegas.Steve Marcus/Pool Reuters via AP

Shakur, a pioneer of the burgeoning rap scene, was driving in a car when another pulled up alongside and blasted him with a hail of bullets. He died days later at 25.

Davis was not accused of shooting the gun which killed Shakur, but prosecutors argued he gave it to the gunman — long presumed to be his nephew Orlando Anderson, who died in a gang shootout two years after the murder — and orchestrated the entire attack.

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They came to that conclusion largely from Davis’ own words — he apparently owned up to it while trying to dodge potential charges in 2008, and later detailed the entire plot in a 2019 memoir that ended up leading straight to his 2023 arrest.

A 1996 photo of the bullet-ridden black BMW that Marion “Suge” Knight and Tupac Shakur were riding in when the rapper was gunned down is shown in court on Aug. 31, 2026.REUTERS

Davis’ mug shot is displayed during closing arguments on Monday. The trial began Aug. 10.POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Davis’ defense, however, argued those admissions were pure falsehoods — with attorney Michael Sanft characterizing the memoir as historical fiction, even going so far to compare it to the movie “Titanic.”

“Has anybody seen the documentary called ‘Titanic,’ with Jack and Rose?” Sanft jibbed during closing statements.

But prosecutors argued Davis’ own statements were just the icing on the cake — saying the case was “drenched with circumstantial evidence” placing him in the middle of the crime.

His nephew had been beaten up by Shakur — said to be affiliated with a rival Blood gang — just hours before the killing, which prosecutors argued necessitated a violent response by unspoken gangland rules.

“That was the nature of the gang life in the 1990s in Compton – you had no choice, you could not go back to Compton after being beaten publicly,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal said during his closing arguments.

That response was organized by an enraged Davis, who Palal said “got a gun and went hunting for Tupac Shakur.”

Palm Bay mother charged again in child abuse case after pool incident

PALM BAY, Fla. —

A Palm Bay mother is facing child abuse-related charges for the second time in five months. Police said her 16-month-old child was unresponsive after ending up in the family’s pool.

Laura Forczyk, 42, was arrested Feb. 20 and charged with child neglect and child abuse.

A probable cause arrest affidavit states her estranged husband, who does not live at their Palm Bay home, called 911 after Laura FaceTimed him.

The report said officers found a 16-month-old unresponsive. The defendant opened the front door, holding the child in her arms. The child’s head was tilted back, her arms were out, and her eyelids were fluttering.

The child was airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. The State Attorney’s Office said she survived, but her condition is unknown.

According to the affidavit, Laura spontaneously uttered, "I’m going to jail."

Laura and her husband, Nathan Forczyk, were both charged with six counts of child abuse in September — one count for each of their six children, who range in age from 16 months to 9 years old. In that case, officers allege the couple locked the children in their rooms with no access to food or water.

Both were eventually released on bond.

In November, Laura’s attorney asked to modify her bond to allow unsupervised access to her children. He argued she complied with all conditions during supervised visits through the Florida Department of Children and Families. Her case manager also supported reunification, according to court documents.

A Brevard County judge signed the motion Dec. 18. It was officially filed Feb. 5.

"The court system sometimes has to strike a balance between someone’s rights as a parent," attorney Chris Carson said. "I mean, it’s your child — you have a right to, as a general proposition, unless there’s court intervention, parent your child as you see fit."

Criminal defense attorney Chris Carson is not affiliated with the case but said parental rights are heavily considered in the courtroom.

"There are processes where a parent’s rights can be limited or even altogether terminated, but it has to rise to a pretty significant level for that to happen," Carson said. "The process itself can be cumbersome. It can take time."

The Palm Bay Police Department sent the following statement regarding the arrest:

"This incident raises serious concerns for the safety of this infant and their siblings. During initial contact, the mother provided no insight into how the infant ended up in the pool, and we estimate approximately four minutes passed before any effort was made to contact emergency services. Our Special Victims Unit is conducting a thorough review with the State Attorney’s Office and DCF to determine next steps and remains committed to the safety and well-being of our most vulnerable residents." — Lt. Marlena Hentschel, Criminal Investigations Division, Palm Bay Police Department

We reached out to the Department of Children and Families for comment on the case.

"The Department of Children and Families conducts investigations concerning all allegations of abuse, neglect or abandonment in Florida. Information regarding investigations is confidential," a spokesperson said in an email. "Our team is currently working to gather information. We’ll follow up with you as soon as we have an update or any additional details to share."

We reached out to Laura Forczyk’s attorney for comment, but did not hear back.

It is unclear who has custody of the six children, but Forczyk is being held at the Brevard County Jail without bond.

Video of 1st arrest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3FbcVuQrmg

Oxford Center witness says director continued work under fake name

Tess Ware

Livingston Daily

Aug. 21, 2026, 1:33 p.m. ET

Several former employees testified they feared for their licenses because of billing practices at Oxford Center during a continued preliminary examination Aug. 19.

Tamela Peterson, 59, was arraigned in January on nine charges of healthcare fraud in Livingston County's 53rd District Court. The hearing previously convened on May 29, July 8 and Aug. 12.

Peterson — CEO of The Oxford Center — is accused of "having knowledge of" and being "the direct beneficiary of" fraudulent healthcare claim practices, including billing for services not completed. She's also one of three people facing a second-degree murder charge in Oakland County's 52-4 District Court for the hyperbaric chamber death of five-year-old Thomas Cooper.

All five witnesses who testified Aug. 19 were former employees of Oxford.

Elaina Voller

Elaina Voller, a board certified behavioral analyst, worked at the Oxford Center from 2018 to 2021.

Voller testified that she was required to give her login information for the company system to Kimberly Coden, also known as Casey Diskin — who is currently in prison for unauthorized practice of a health profession, identity theft and bribing and/or intimidating a witness.

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Voller also testified she was on maternity leave from April 2021 to July 2021, yet was listed as the provider for two claims filed in June.

After news of her superior's arrest and lack of credentials broke, Voller reportedly told Peterson she wasn’t comfortable working with Coden. Peterson allegedly said it didn’t matter that Coden wasn’t credentialed, because Voller was and it was her information on the billing.

“I believed (that was) a threat,” Voller said.

Aimee Hutton

Aimee Hutton was an assistant and front desk worker at Oxford. She testified that, after Coden's resignation, there was a new remote-working director named Esther McCrae.

Hutton testified that she discovered Esther McCrae was Kimberly Coden. The same day, she resigned from her position.

“We were told not to talk about it,” Hutton said.

Hutton testified that, after her resignation, she received threats from both Coden and Peterson.

“Tammy called me multiple times," Hutton said. "She started saying things to my former colleagues ... defaming my character and saying I was a liar. Then she sent me multiple text messages telling me she would ruin my career if I tried to leave, that I could never use her as a reference, and that I wouldn’t go anywhere without her as part of my reference.

“She also had other individuals from the company reach out directly to me, including the marketing director, reminding me of everything (they'd) done for me and that I needed to keep quiet.”

According to her testimony, the on-site doctor left abruptly after the news broke about Coden. Peterson allegedly had staff push his appointments out 3-4 weeks and then started writing prescriptions herself until new doctors could be hired.

Naseeb Sidhu

Naseeb Sidhu was a BCBA at Oxford in 2021 and 2022. She was listed as the rendering provider on services for patient Andrew Spanding, whom she testified she'd never met. Sidhu reportedly approached Peterson about reversing the claims, and screenshots were provided showing the reversals were in progress — but she later learned they were fake.

“I was feeling very uncomfortable toward the end of my time at Oxford,” Sidhu testified.

The hearing is scheduled to continue Aug. 26.

— Contact reporter Tess Ware at tware@livingstondaily.com.

Derek Chauvin files petition to vacate state murder conviction in death of George Floyd

By 

Riley Moser

Updated on: August 18, 2026 / 10:37 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is once again seeking to overturn his state murder conviction in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

Chauvin is looking to have his conviction vacated and the charges dismissed.

In the petition, Chauvin's legal team is requesting a court order declaring that the assignment of authority of the case to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was "illegitimate" and a violation of his due process rights. Additionally, they're asking for a court order declaring that the failure of the Hennepin County District Court to convene a grand jury before any charging decision and the failure of prosecutors to secure an indictment also violated Chauvin's due process rights.

WCCO has reached out to the Minnesota Attorney General's Office for comment.

Chauvin has been in federal prison since 2021 and is simultaneously serving a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights and a 22 1/2-year state sentence for second-degree murder. Chauvin has been serving out the concurrent sentences in a federal prison in Big Spring, Texas. 

Floyd, who was Black, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is White, used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the ground for nine and a half minutes. The killing, captured on bystander video, sparked protests in 2020 as part of a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice.

In 2022, Chauvin appealed his conviction to the Minnesota Court of Appeals, claiming the jury had been "intimidated by excessive pre-trial publicity." A three-judge panel affirmed the conviction in a 50-page decision. The Minnesota Supreme Court declined to review the case. Chauvin's lawyers also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his conviction, but it too declined.

This is the third time Chauvin's counsel has filed for postconviction relief. The first petition was dismissed in late 2025 and the second one was dismissed in May.

Former assistant Anoka County attorney helped operate sex trafficking organization, charges say

By Nicholas Lentz, 

Frankie McLister

Updated on: August 15, 2026 / 6:25 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota

A former assistant Anoka County attorney is accused of helping run a sex trafficking organization in Hennepin County, Minnesota, according to a criminal complaint filed on Thursday.

Andrea Leigh Sampson, 35, is charged with 13 counts each of promoting prostitution of an individual and receiving profits from prostitution, court records show. 

The criminal complaint said law enforcement agencies, including the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, started investigating the operation in 2021. Officials found that a 57-year-old man had been operating the organization with assistance from Sampson, a 30-year-old woman and a 36-year-old woman.

Law enforcement learned through their investigation that the man and the 30-year-old woman were "actively involved in recruiting and posting commercial sex advertisements for numerous women," set rates for appointments for "commercial sex transactions" and collected and received profits from the transactions, according to the court document.

The 36-year-old woman owned and operated the website Minnesota Erotica Personals, on which women have been "posted" for commercial sex transactions, the complaint said. She, along with the 30-year-old woman and the man, collected money from the victims posted on the website. 

Sampson helped create and maintain corporations that appeared to be shell companies used to hide and/or funnel profits from the organization, according to the court document. Proceeds from the organization were allegedly collected and deposited into accounts before they were moved into bank accounts, including those of the corporations Sampson created.

Per the complaint, at least two Minneapolis properties owned by Sampson were sites where photographs of victims were taken for the advertisements and where transactions happened. 

The court document, citing phone records, journal entries and other information gathered in the probe, said Sampson and the other two women appeared to believe they were in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with the man.

Law enforcement has spoken to at least 13 women who have been offered for commercial sex through the organization and provided money from their transactions to it, according to the complaint.

"Several of the victims reported to law enforcement the fact that a male yielding a gun showed up at times to help keep the victims in line after 'management' was displeased," the court document said.

In addition to Minneapolis, the organization has operated in Bloomington, Eden Prairie and St. Louis Park, according to the complaint.

Investigators also learned that Sampson, the man and the 36-year-old woman have also been operating "assisted living and/or autism sites" and are collecting money from the sites.

The Anoka County Attorney's Office said in a written statement that it was notified by law enforcement of the investigation on Feb. 25, while Sampson was still with the agency. It immediately placed her on administrative leave. 

According to the statement, Sampson's last day of employment with the attorney's office was on March 9. As of Friday, she's at the Hennepin County Jail. 

"It's a really troubling, and in some ways startling case"

Marvin Steele, who previously worked for Sampson, says he noticed strange behavior at his job with Homefelt Assisted Living.

"It was mostly communication through text message. She only came to pickup the clients and take them to an appointment. That's the only time you'll see her, really," Steele said. "It was known one of the clients does occasionally go and get a prostitute every now and then."

Steele says Sampson always touted herself as doing everything by the book.

"She loves to talk about how she does everything legally. She's a lawyer, knows what she's doing. She knows the law. It was funny to find out she's not doing everything legally," he said.

Rachel Moran, a professor of law and director of clinical education at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, says this case is unusual and disturbing.

"It's a really troubling and in some ways startling case," Moran said. "I absolutely think Anoka County Attorney's Office has an obligation to look at everything she was involved in."

Moran says considering Sampson's position, justice and accountability are of upmost importance.

"If someone in a position of power is involved in criminal activity, whether they're using their position of power or not, then certainly they should be held accountable," she said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/assistant-anoka-attorney-charged-trafficking-operation/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BObojBSPPb4

Oxford Center Safety Director pleads no contest to involuntary manslaughter charge

August 18, 2026

By Sarah Wright

TROY — Late last month, Oxford Center Safety Director Jeffrey Mosteller pled no contest to one count of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper due to a hyperbaric chamber explosion.

The incident occurred Jan. 31 while Cooper was undergoing treatment in the chamber, which is prescribed for children and adults with a variety of health conditions, including autism, ADHD and autoimmune diseases. The hyperbaric chamber caught fire from within and exploded.

Following Cooper’s death, prosecutors considered charges of either second-degree murder or involuntary manslaughter against Mosteller, as well as Tamela Peterson — the owner of the Oxford Center — and Gary Marken, its primary management assistant. 

In addition, the chamber’s operator, Aleta Moffitt, was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of intentionally placing false information on a medical records chart. 

Per the plea and sentencing agreement submitted to the 6th Circuit Court, Mosteller will be sentenced in the range of 19 months to 15 years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Kwamé Rowe on Aug. 31. Mosteller’s attorney, Alona Sharon, was reached for comment but did not respond by press time.

Marken is next scheduled to appear before the court Sept. 1 for a pretrial hearing, while Peterson’s case is currently stayed by order of the court with her next appearance not yet scheduled. She was recently arraigned in Howell’s 53rd District Court on nine counts of health care fraud — false claim, following allegations that she knew of and benefitted from fraudulent practices such as billing for services not provided. 

As for the hyperbaric chamber explosion, a statement by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office noted there are strict safety protocols in place that must be followed prior to the operation of the machine, established by both the manufacturer and the National Fire Protection Association. 

Dana Nessel, the attorney general, said those protocols were ignored by Mosteller.

“A young child lost his life in a completely preventable tragedy because this defendant allowed an outdated device to operate in defiance of safety standards,” Nessel said in a statement. “While no outcome can reverse this loss, it is my hope that this conviction provides a sense of justice to Thomas’s family.”

https://www.candgnews.com/articles/police-courts-fire/oxford-center-safety-director-pleads-no-contest-to-involuntary-manslaughter-charge/

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The article states:

&gt;>which is prescribed for children and adults with a variety of health conditions, including autism, ADHD and autoimmune diseases<<

This is not correct, hyperbaric chambers are NOT prescribed for autism, ADHD, or autoimmune disorders. This facility was doing it for these conditions but in those cases, it is snake oil sales. This company was gouging people. Hyperbaric chambers do not assist with those particular disorders. It's a great treatment for some disorders, but not those. It's similar to treating mental retardation with oxygen, it just isn't going to help.

The last article I posted on this person, it did not say what the plea deal was, this article does tell us it is 19 months to 15 years.

This case is so outragious and greedy, I hope all 4 people get the maximum possible sentences.