Beth Karras

Thank you for that introduction.

Right.

So I know when we look back in hindsight, we know what the defense explanation for that was at that time.

But when we were looking at this unfolding in real time, people who were following it and I started following it with Court TV from the very beginning.

It looked really suspicious.

Like, why is she looking for this child herself?

Why isn't she calling the authorities?

She ultimately tells the police she didn't trust them.

She wanted to look for her daughter herself.

But we learned that what she's doing in this 30-day period from June 16th to July 15th

Was I mean, what what's documented photos of her and other memorializations and text messages, whatever, don't seem to be consistent with looking for her daughter.

Right.

She's partying.

She got a tattoo.

She's in a hot body contest.

And it's like, really, is this woman grieving her daughter?

Is she in a panic?

Is she looking for this toddler who was two years old and 10 months at that time?

So it was very suspicious.

And she ultimately gets charged with child neglect, failure of crime.