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The coroner says three gunshot wounds to the head killed Ashley Smylie, and the prosecution team calls on a crime scene investigator who worked at the home where Carly Gregg fatally shot her mother and attempted to shoot her stepfather.
S1, EP15 "Child Psychiatrist Explains"
Jurors heard from the first mental health expert in this case. Dr. Andrew Clark, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, did a full evaluation of Carly Gregg, who was just 14 when police say she killed her mother, Ashley Smylie, and tried to kill her stepdad. Clark told jurors he evaluated the defendant for four hours. His conclusion was that Gregg suffered from bipolar 2 disorder and was taking medication.
S1, EP16 "The Mental Health Evaluation"
Carly Gregg's legal and illegal drug use was a key issue. On the stand for her defense was a child psychiatrist who evaluated her after the shooting death of her mom, Ashley Smylie. According to Dr. Andrew Clark's report Gregg was dealing with mixing prescribed medication with marijuana use, hearing voices in her head, fighting sleep deprivation, anxiety and depression. This was just weeks before she fatally shot her mother and attempted to kill her stepfather.
S1, EP17 "A Fatal Mental Health Crisis"
Jurors got the full mental health report on Carly Gregg. On the stand was Dr. Andrew Clark, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. The defendant was only 14 when police said she killed her mother, Ashley, and tried to kill her stepdad. According to the report, Carly Gregg was dealing with a mood disorder which was exacerbated by the medication she was wrongly taking. The Defense wanted to show jurors that Gregg was dealing with a mental health crisis in the lead-up to the murder.
S1, EP18 "Psychiatrist Under Cross-Examination"
The cross-examination began on the mental health expert who evaluated Carly Gregg for four hours. Her defense was blaming mental illness for the shooting death of her mother. But the state wanted to show that this was a premeditated murder. According to child psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Clark, it was reasonable for Gregg to have no memory of the shooting claiming that such amnesia would, indeed, be convenient for the Defense's case.
S1, EP14 "Dr. Andrew Clark"
Deputy told jurors that he muted the audio of his bodycam over a personnel issue. This was the same police officer who arrested the defendant and took her back to the crime scene after the murder of her mom, Ashley Smylie. Next to testify was the first mental health expert in this trial-Carly Gregg's psychiatrist. The Defense wanted to bring in more evidence about her alleged mental illness which they contended drove her to kill her mom and attempt to kill her stepdad.
S1, EP13 "Arresting The Teen Murderer"
The Defense brought in the police officer who arrested her for the murder of her mother, Ashley Smylie, and the attempted murder of her stepfather, Heath Smylie. The stepdad claimed that she ran away after the shooting by jumping the backyard fence. Unedited portions of police bodycam footage was shown to jurors. They documented the moment Carly Gregg was caught in her neighborhood, arrested and then brought back to the crime scene.
S1, EP12 "Defense Begins Their Case"
Carly Gregg's defense began its case-in-chief to the jury. The goal was to show that the defendant dealt with an untreated mental illness which led her to shoot and kill her mom, Ashley. The Defense's first witness was her stepfather, the other victim in this case. The same man who faced a near-death experience inside his home came to the defense of the accused shooter, his own stepdaughter. Jurors learned of the complex relationship Carly Gregg had with him before all this happened.
S1, EP11 "State Rests Case-In-Chief"
Jurors shifted their attention to the forensic science in this case. On the stand was a trace evidence examiner who found gunshot residue on both of Carly Gregg's hands in the hours after police say she shot and killed her mother, Ashley Smylie. Next to the witness stand was a DNA analyst. Prosecutors claimed they were able to link the defendant's DNA to the trigger on the gun used to shoot her mother. Later, the state formally rested their case to the jury.
