so first day of school routine for us was. so let's take this bus and then you're going to transfer to this bus. yeah. and so i did that, and then i think in suburbs it gets a little easier. yeah it does. i got to leave it there, though. sorry, claudine. i don't mean to interrupt your your story, ut we are out of time, f right now on true crime news. she went from straight-a student to convicted killer. >> i sentence you to an indefinite sentence of 15 years to life. >> but why did sidney powell kill her own mother? >> sidney was like brenda's mini me. and brenda was sidney's best friend. >> when her big secret comes to light shock. >> first it was disbelief. >> did she snap? no, no. stop stop. or was it all planned? >> that's not a mentally ill person. that's somebody that's thinking. >> plus a traffic stop.

>> you have your license on you. >> with a twist. well, i think he just puts 131-116 in his leg and a cop becomes a robber. >> this is your money? >> yes. i heard him crumple it up. >> your daily source for true crime starts right now. i'm ana garcia. today on true crime news. america's been glued to the case of 15 year old cali gregg. she's the mississippi teen just sentenced to life in prison for shooting her mother to death and trying to kill her stepfather to. the family's surveillance camera was rolling as cali murdered her mom, ashley smiley, in another room. the motive? her parents had discovered her secret life of using drugs just moments after the murder, cali was casually texting on her phone. she even invited a friend over to see the body. in court, she was giggling on the stand. cali's behavior is

in stark contrast to another high profile case of a teen girl killing her mother. her case is the focus of our top story today. sidney powell seemed to be on the road to success. now she's going nowhere fast. so where did it all go wrong? >> miss powell, is there anything you want to say to me at this time? >> in the blink of an eye, sidney powell went from straight-a student. >> she was an all-american kid. >> she was never in trouble. >> to convicted murderer. >> on count one, ma'am, i sentence you to an indefinite sentence of 15 years to life in the ohio department of corrections. >> so how did this young woman's life go so off the rails that she would kill her own mother? she says she's on the ground. >> so who is it? my mom. >> before that dark day, sidney powell was an honor student. a varsity soccer player, a mentor at school, and extremely close

with her mom. 50 year old brenda, who counseled pediatric cancer patients and their families at akron children's hospital. >> sidney was like brenda's mini me, and brenda was sydney's best friend and on tuesday, march 3rd, 2020, sidney killed her best friend, her mother. >> why? >> never once in my wildest nightmares would it have been how it played out. >> that one question would become the crux of a national headline making trial. the problems started when 19 year old sidney's grades slipped at the university of mount union, in alliance, ohio, about an hour from her parents home in akron. she was suspended in december and kicked off campus. but by the end of february, she still hadn't left and didn't tell her parents. >> no one knew. not even her closest friends knew the extent of the problems she was having, and her status as being a student at the college. not even her roommates. >> she was laughing. she was having fun. she said she got

jobs. she seemed fine. >> we received no communication from the university on disciplinary actions or that sidney was being suspended or expelled. unfortunately, once you hit 18, they consider you an adult. whether who's paying the bills or not. >> not wanting to face her parents, sidney stayed at local hotels for about a week and told them that she'd be home after classes on march 3rd. that's the day. spring break started and the day life as the powell family knew it ended. shock >> first, it was disbelief. >> that morning, steve was trying to pay a tuition bill when he got locked out of the university's parent portal. he called the school and was shocked to learn sidney was no longer enrolled. >> so i asked them, well, how long has that been? and what was that for? and they basically told me, you have to ask sidney. >> using the family's location sharing app, steve saw sidney was at the house. he left work and headed home to get some answers. >> we started talking about it and i said, so what's going on?

and basically she said, all of my friends have their stuff together, but i don't. so at that point, i called brenda because brenda was better at handling these things than i was. >> steve left and brenda came home a fateful decision. brenda had just gotten on the phone with university officials. >> during that phone call, brenda only got one word out before they heard what they described as thumping, shriekin. and then the phone went dead. there was a loud thud. >> and what we know is this is when sidney had grabbed a frying pan and struck brenda on the top of her head. as sidney ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife, came back and stabbed her mom from the waist up 30 times. that's what the officials heard. >> they tried calling brenda back twice. no answer. on the third try, someone picked up, but it wasn't brenda. >> it's actually sidney. she's trying to say she's brenda, her mother. well, the representatives from mount union

were so familiar with sidney that they knew it was her right away. and when they said, sidney, is this you? and the phone goes dead. >> panicked, they called the akron police. when akron detective ken díaz hears a dispatch, he alerts his close friend steve powell. brenda's husband, steve immediately calls his daughter sidney and tells her the police are on the way to the house. >> she snapped, it was like i was talking to a different person, she said. she started talking about, oh my god, somebody broke in the house and she started crying hysterically. >> when officers arrived at the house for a welfare check, no one is well, they have a female here. >> she's got minor cuts to her hands. >> i don't know if she's, like hyperventilating. daddy wyatte. what the hell? where's my wife? ernie are you okay? >> when we come back, whether or not sidney was okay would become the most important question. did she have a psychotic break that

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we're back with the murder of brenda powell. her daughter sydney had been lying to her and the rest of the family about failing out of college. when the school called to tell brenda the truth, sydney savagely attacked her mom. acapellas. what these officers are about to find is gruesome. brenda powell lying in a pool of blood, an iron skillet and knife nearby, and 19 year old sydney in a state of hysteria. okay, stay right here. >> no, no, there's so much blood. no, please. come on, man, she's never macoy. no, no, she was stabbed, i believe 30, 32 times. >> she was hit multiple times in the head. this is one of the worst cases i've ever seen. as far as trauma to a victim. >> sydney tells the police there was a break in and her mother was savagely attacked. >> we heard a bang and she told me to get out and then i heard

screaming. so i came back and she was on the ground. >> she's hyperventilating. >> she's not making any sense. she's covered in blood when she's removed out of the house by one of the officers on the scene, it's within minutes that she just falls over and goes completely catatonic. >> when steve powell arrives home, he is witness to all the chaos unfolding right in his own driveway. sydney. sydney. >> sydney. >> sucese afd gets here. they're going to pronounce her, i'm sure. are you saying you want to check her? i don't think she's breathing. >> soon steve is at the akron police headquarters telling them what he knows. it's quickly clear to investigators there's been no break in. >> i don't know what she was thinking, but when she found out the police were involved and the police were coming, she had to do something. and what did she do? she staged a break in. that's not a mentally ill person. that's somebody that's thinking the site of sydney covered in blood tells the whole story. >> steve's friend, detective ken díaz, is there when steve gets

the news. brenda didn't make it. koonbo bad news. >> your wife passed away. >> the look on steve's face was something you can't describe or nothing i would ever want to see again. total despair. total shock. >> when sydney's little brother arrives at the police station, his dad is now the bearer of bad news. >> it was a heart wrenching to tell my son that what happened, probably one of the worst things you could ever imagine telling anyone, let alone your son. >> hours after the murder, sydney still appears to be catatonic, but the next day, police charge her with the murder of her mom, brenda. >> shock. i would have never have thought it was sydney that was being accused of it. >> sydney was released on a $25,000 bond. with the family's support, she went to live with her maternal grandparents on their farm. leading up to trial, she underwent a battery of

psychiatric evaluations, the family begging prosecutors not to try her for murder. >> what the family and brenda wanted is for sydney to get treatment and help for her schizophrenia. >> three and a half years after her mother's murder, sydney's trial began. >> this case will come down to this sole question whether or not miss powell, at the time of the murder, was suffering from a severe mental disease which prevented her from knowing the wrongfulness of those actions. >> the brutality of this incident screams out insanity. >> sydney's emotions were on display throughout the ten day trial. in the end, after less than ten hours of deliberation, we, the jury in this case, do hereby find the defendant, sydney powell, guilty of the offense of murder as charged in count one. >> it's a tragedy. there's no doubt in my mind. it's very shocking. it's something you don't think about. >> i was shocked, i was disappointed, i was enraged, and i was confused. it wasn't a fair

trial. >> throughout it all, steve powell has somehow managed to remain optimistic. still hopeful a judge will soon grant a new trial. >> sydney's 24, so she has a lot of life ahead of her and everything we're doing from this moment on is to help her realize that her life is still worth living. there's a value in what she's doing and that her family loves her. >> sydney's locked up in a prison in ohio, the earliest that she will be eligible for parole is 2038. she is appealing her conviction on the grounds that her insanity defense did not get a full hearing. if there are any developments, we will bring them to you. coming up next, talk about good cop, bad cop. have we got a story for you? >> i'm going to show you right here. lo look me. i s retail prg

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>> we turn now to north carolina, where police body cams were rolling when a traffic stop went sideways and a cop ended up in cuffs. what started as a speeding violation? >> you have your license on. you all right, just give me a moment. all right. >> turned into an arrest over an outstanding federal warrant for a weapons violation. >> you have a warrant out for your arrest. a warrant for what? >> i'm going to show it to you in a moment. >> okay, but when charlotte-mecklenburg cops cuffed 29 year old moncrief moon and are about to take him in, the color green catches the arresting officer's. i a large stack of cash, $100 bills in my left jacket pocket. the money is placed on the trunk of the car. immediately, moncrief becomes focused on the cash, saying it's for his girlfriend to pay bills.

what is my money on the ground? >> what? >> the officer tosses the stack of bills on the passenger seat of the police car, and tosses moncrief in the back, but when they make it to the police station. >> all right, i'm gonna count your money in front of you, okay? >> moncrief grows suspicious of officer henry chapman. i heard the robinzon josh hart five six, seven, eight, nine. >> ten. >> now, moncrief turns the tables asking the female officer, counting the money to search. >> officer chapman, can you look in between his legs? i think he just put some of my money in jeison. >> the blade. yes, sir. how much money did you have on you? i'm asking you. >> i'm asking you. can you just check in between his legs? sir, listen to me. he's moving and everything. look. he's moving. >> sir. i'm good. >> i heard the rubber band, pop. he told me. oh, i had to look. he's moving. he's moving in between his legs. >> moncrief is convinced officer chapman has stashed some of his

cash, and his other officers arrive. look at his hand. >> he's tucking money. he's tucking money right in his right hand. >> he demands that officer chapman be searched. >> look at me. >> if someone takes your money, it will be a big problem. all right? no one's going to take your money. i have to see his hands. are you saying that there's more and more money in here? >> what i'm saying is he just touched my machine and put it in between his legs. i heard my rubber band. i've been nothing but cooperative with you guys. >> officer chapman gets out of the patrol car and tries to prove he didn't take any of moncrieff's money. >> i'm going to show you right here. >> look, look, look, look at me. >> but as another officer opens chapman's driver's side door, it's like an atm machine. >> do you see anything? >> no. yeah. no, cap. i'm not even going to touch it. it's blue. it's right here. it's all the blue hornets are right there behind that receipt. thank you all. that's my money. you didn't have that. this is your money. yes, i heard him crumple it up.

thank you, thank you. all right. >> that's my money. >> $900 is tucked inside the driver's side door. but officer chapman denies he had anything to do with how it got there. >> sir, you've been watching me the whole time. i seen you taking it. >> i seen you, sir. >> it's not me. if i'm right, it's going to be around $1,000. >> moncrief will not let him off the hook. >> mr. chapman went in. my money, he separated my money. he was trying to steal it. and i caught. >> officer chapman is taken to a room in the station and his gun is removed. then the cops, so adamant that he had nothing to do with stealing moon's money, changed his tune. >> szwarz. i'm sorry. >> in a separate room, a supervisor had this to say to moncrief. >> right is right. wrong is wrong. yes, sir. all right. cmpd takes this seriously. yes, sir. now, i wish i could say that another way, because i feel like cursing right now. >> right. he removes moncrieff', cuffs his veini or anything, and

now it's officer chapman who, shackled in an interrogation room after an internal investigation. officer henry chapman is arrested and charged with embezzlement. he resigned from the police force the next day. officer chapman took an alford plea, which means he gets to maintain his innocence while accepting the judge's punishment. he'll now serve a minimum of two years probation and complete a cognitive behavioral intervention course. joining me now is louis bolaños, a former homicide investigator. louis, you have investigated a lot of police misconduct. how common is what we just saw? >> yes, ma'am. that's true. unfortunately it is very common. but this case has a little twist to it because i love to see this. the officers who were challenged with this allegation acted so quickly. they did the right thing. when they heard

that allegation, they stepped right in because only two things are going to happen. either they confirm it happened or deny it happened. both are great outcomes. get to the truth. and that's what happened here. >> i think it's important that the police officers on the scene took moncrief's allegations and complaints seriously. >> not only did they take it seriously, but they decided to act immediately. i really feel for the officers that had to arrest their own that day. very seldom does that happen that quick and with the officers right there on the spot, usually it goes up the chain takes forever to get that to happen. so it was very emotional for them. but i think that helps bring incredible transparency to this investigation. >> louis bolaños, thank you so much. when we come back, a viral video helps catch the per n behind the wheel of this car.

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one wild story. two people, three sides. one. the husband stabbed. the police say that you took the knife and you stabbed yourself in the back. did you know? two. the wife brutally attacked. >> there was something inside me that just said. if i don't play dead, then i'm going to die. 3xn the truth. >> a twisted game of he said, she said. >> it just seems strange to me. >> on the next true crime news. all right. now some unbelievable new video. you have to see a woman allegedly steals a porsche suv and runs over the owner in his driveway. some surveillance cameras caught the woman ringing the victim's doorbell and acting like she was interested in buying his luxury car. police say the woman then got behind the wheel of the car, locked the doors and peeled out, slamming into the victim's body and dragging him into the street before racing off in the stolen

car. after the video went viral with millions of views, 18 year old sarah bagshaw turned herself into police. she's now facing charges of theft of a motor vehicle and dangerous operation causing bodily harm. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna (ominous music) - it's chilling, it's haunting. it's really sad that that's how her life ended. (ominous music) it's a lot of passion, rage. you never see her ever again. (ominous music) sherri's murder was premeditated. he was planning to kill her. he thought he was going outsmart investigators. that didn't happen. (ominous music) (emergency services talk indistinctly on the radio) (police sirens ring) - hi, i'm nancy o'dell. today's "crime expose" takes us to findlay, ohio,