The Case Against Brooke Skylar Richardson

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[Music] Brooke Skyler Richardson had a promising future. The prosecutor says she gave birth in the family home and then killed her baby. The 18 year old is there a way to describe this past year.

The worst nightmare. Percutory every day. The Carlisle team is charged with killing her newborn baby.

“I can tell you the Brooke Skyler Richardson did not kill her baby.”

I don't know when it hit me, but it would.

I was a grandmother and I never had any of the benefits of it.

Our lives have been completely turned upside down. What was the reaction to this story? How big did this become? I felt like super bowl level. It was like the world stopped.

Everyone wanted to know what was going on in our backyard and what had happened. The sidewalk was lined with people sitting in lawn chairs. Are you serious, right? Well, here.

We have no privacy. We're followed, stalked. Facebook, to me, turned into hate book. I did not know she was pregnant. Here's her track photo.

This was track season in April. And you can't tell. I mean, we missed everything. There we missed everything. [Music]

We thought we were doing the right thing by cooperating. I didn't try and kill my baby. I turned out to be the absolute wrong thing. She faces charges of aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, and dangering children.

Are you scared? I'm very scared. I mean, we were scared to death talking to you because we don't want things to come across wrong. [Music]

The defendant broke Richardson.

Murdered a baby that she didn't want and never intended to keep.

This case is about a rushed judgment. She had a stillborn and she made a poor choice after that. Not telling anyone and bearing the baby. Or has been advised that we have a verdict. Are we ready for the jury?

Yes. Would the defendant please rise? What's your biggest fear at this point? It's guilty conviction. [Laughs]

[Music] This is the case of the state of Ohio versus Brook Skyland Richardson in case number 2000, so nothing has polarized Ohio's Warren County more than the trial of Brook Skyler Richardson.

“Do you feel that Skyler's ever gotten the presumption of innocence?”

Absolutely not. Now, 20 years old, Brook, known as Skyler, is accused of killing her newborn daughter. If convicted, she could spend the rest of her life in prison. It's just changed our lives forever.

For more than a year, Skyler's parents, Kim and Scott Richardson gave us unique access to their story, but on the advice of their lawyers, Skyler couldn't talk to us. But it's so hard to be living like this thinking,

but what if? A lot of what ifs, a lot of what ifs. [Music] In 2017, the Richardson were living the good life in Carlisle, Ohio, population 5,000.

It's a mayberry, small town, USA, I mean. It's so small town. Most people don't leave. Their kids excelled in school and sports. Sun Jackson plays on the football team.

Skyler was a cheerleader.

the family was struggling with a serious issue. Skyler's eating disorder.

“How much do you think her weight and eating ruled her life?”

Oh, 95%. That is her life. This is her. Out of very scary point. Oh my gosh.

Kim says she first noticed the problem

when her cheerleader daughter was in the sixth grade. 12 years old, she wouldn't buy gum because it had five calories. I didn't even know gum had calories. She was so tiny. She was a perfect flyer.

You do a stunt in the air or you hold a very difficult stretching pose for, you know, a few seconds and then come back down to the ground. But it also meant she had to be easy to lift and catch. Kim says it was the beginning of Skyler's battle with her weight.

How would she lose the weight? She would throw up. And when cheerleading was over for the season, Skyler would binge then starve again. Did you get afraid to even talk about her?

Absolutely. She definitely would shut down if you mentioned it to her. The Richardson say they tried everything. Doctors, therapists, nutritionists. Skyler was diagnosed with body dysmorphia, a mental disorder

involving an obsessive focus on a perceived flaw in appearance. Nothing helped. She's very guarded. Keep a lot of secrets. Yes.

So many. And we don't know what they are. And I don't know the way ever will. In late July 2016, the summer before her senior year, Skyler began dating a friend's cousin.

The relationship ended quickly. And by January 2017, Skyler had a new boyfriend, a high school junior named Brandon. Why didn't those two click? What is it?

I don't know because she's this tall and he's that tall. Skyler was happy. She even seemed to be putting on some weight. Kim and Scott hoped their daughter's eating disorder was finally under control.

We were actually pleased that she was finally gaining some weight. She looked healthy. A month later, she eagerly picked out her prom dress. And it was a tight fitting dress that she needed to be laced up in. And then in late March, Skyler went on vacation with her family.

She wore two piece. I told her she looked great. We went for the first time in my life. I thought she's healthy. She's in a healthy relationship. She really cares about Brandon. I could tell us she did. Kim knew Skyler's relationship with Brandon was heating up.

“That's why I wanted her to be on the pill.”

So in late April, Skyler went to her mother's gynecologist to get a prescription for birth control. She had just turned 18, so Kim waited outside. She came out. She had clearly been crying. Did you ask her why she was crying?

It was traumatic. She just preferred your first appointment is. And I'm like, yeah, it is. As a female. The real reason for the tears? The doctor had told Skyler she was pregnant.

Eight months. She asked him not to tell anyone.

She never said anything to either one of you about what the doctor told her.

No. Nine days later on May 5, Skyler and Brandon went to the prom despite being laid into her pregnancy. She fit into her gown. She's wearing the same dress that she had tried on in February.

Purchased February 15th. I have side-by-side put the pictures together and I look at the pictures in a light. They're almost identical. They're identical. But less than 48 hours later in the early morning hours of May 7th.

Something happened that turned the Richardson's life upside down.

“It remains Skyler's secret for more than two months”

when police suddenly showed up at the Richardson's home. They said, hey, we just need to talk to your daughter about something she may have witnessed. She's not in any trouble, we just need to talk to her. Taking them at their word, Scott drove his daughter to the police station. I mean, honestly, I can look back.

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On July 14, 2017, when Scott Richardson drove his daughter's

“Skyler to the Carlyle Police Station, he had no idea that she had been keeping a secret.”

Is she's going into talk to the police? Do you know what it's about? No, have no idea. Lieutenant John Fain, who at the time was with the Warren County Sheriff's Office,

wanted to question 18-year-old Skyler about a call they'd received.

There's an allegation from an OB-GYN office that a patient there had delivered a baby at home subsequently buried her in her backyard. Skyler was put in an interrogation room. Her father wasn't allowed in with her. Do you have the right to remain silent?

As Fain read Skyler her rights. Do you have the right to talk to lawyer? And then began pressing her. A camera was recording everything. We got to call from the doctor's office.

Okay, and according to them on April 26, you found that you were pregnant.

“Remember that was the same day Skyler went to see the gynecologist about getting birth control pills.”

More than two months later, she returned. If you went back to vet doctor's office. And I told her what happened. But I had to have a baby and it wasn't alive. I didn't go into.

Skyler told investigators that in the early morning hours of May 7, 2017, she gave birth to a still-born baby in her bathroom. She just got to keep out my train. I tried. I tried on whatever. She's breathing. She doesn't have a heartbeat. So now, would you do when you realize that she's not going to make it?

I have to bury her. I can't tell anybody. Without waking anyone, Skyler said she silently walked downstairs. Got a small garden travel. And then dug a shallow grave in her backyard. I didn't try and come by baby.

After about 45 minutes of questioning, Lieutenant Vain told Skyler's anxious parents. The real reason he brought in their daughter. Shock. I couldn't film my body.

I could not get up. How could that happen? I've seen her every day. I look at her. I talked to her. I hug her.

Vain then gave the Richardson some time alone with their daughter. Never mentioning that the camera was rolling.

I'm going to step out. And capturing this deeply personal moment. Skyler told her parents that she named her baby. She named her baby Annabel. And that the baby's father was at friends' cousin. She dated very briefly before Brandon.

I can't imagine the pain. It breaks my heart to think about her laying in bed. Being scared and not being able to come down and tell me what had just happened. With the Richardson, still at the police station, coming to terms with their new reality.

Investigators descended on their home in search of human remains.

“Soon, Skyler's once closely held secret.”

Investigators were tipped off about the pond. Was shared with everyone in town. Buried in the back of this house? After more than five hours, Skyler and her parents were allowed to go home. But six days later, Lieutenant Fang called.

Asking Skyler to come in again. That was told she's not in the trouble. It's not a life-changing situation. This time, Fang was accompanied by detective Brandy Carter. And they had new damaging information from the coroner's office.

We know there's some more that happened from what you shared the other day.

reported there was evidence that the baby's bones may have been burned.

“So she was under the belief that the baby had been set on fire.”

I was a reaction when you heard that. I was surprised. Fame began to think Skyler must be lying about everything and was determined to get her to admit to killing the baby and then burning the remains in order to hide the evidence.

She denied setting a fire. A total of 17 times.

Any reason for any of that in your head, you're thinking this young woman is lying to me.

Yes, because they had told us certainly with scientific certainty there was the fire. Maybe it's just one of those things where you just thought you'll get cremation. I'm going to have some actions that I can keep of my daughter. Suddenly, Skyler changed her story. I'm talking everything that you were thinking and everything you did.

It didn't stop there. Did you hear anything like little gurgles sounds? Skyler also made the startling admission that the baby might have been born alive.

“How did you know it first, you know, that she was probably alive just a little bit?”

Why did you read it in the way? Maybe a little way to the girl?

When she said that she might have heard a gurgle, the gurgle came from you guys first, right?

That word, yes, I said that word first. At the end of that hour-long interrogation, detectives had enough to arrest the 18-year-old on a charge of reckless homicide. Their theory was that she had suffocated the baby. A distraught Skyler told her parents what she told police.

They couldn't make the baby just a little. They'd find her screaming to think, "Yeah, I did everything I did." Brooke Richardson is in the Warren County jail tonight. She will Skyler make bail.

“Just two weeks later, the case was presented to a grand jury.”

Who indicted her on a new devastating set of charges. Skyler was arrested again. The Warren County Prosecutor David Forenshell. Counting one of that indictment is for aggravated murder. Aggravated murder, a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence in Ohio.

The other charges, involuntary manslaughter, endangering children and abuse of a corpse. Forenshell left no doubt that he had the evidence. The general allegations against her are that she did give birth to a newborn infant. She caused the death of that infant burned the infant and buried the infant.

The motive says forenshell, a baby wouldn't fit into Skyler's life. Skyler and her family were pretty obsessed with external appearances. You're describing a spoiled self-intitled teenager who was more worried about vanity than keeping the life of a baby alive. Those are your words. There's no way she's ever heard.

I would stick my life on it. Despite Skyler's incriminating statements, Kim and Scott say they intend to prove Skyler is innocent. With the help of these two attorneys. The prosecutor's trying to say that Skyler Richardson was a cold blood and killer. And it's quite a leap once all the evidence is in.

Skyler Richardson in handcuffs entered a plea of not guilty during her arrangement on five charges, including aggravated murder. Skyler spent the weekend in jail until her family could come up with a $50,000 bond. It was a surreal experience for her parents. It was her physically, but when you looked at her face, she was had checked out. Skyler emerged into a tabloid fire store.

Following the prosecutor's sensational press conference, the court imposed a gag order, but the damage had already been done. We know a lot more tonight about the Carlisle team mom that accused of the horrific crime of killing her newborn and then burning the baby's body.

In some ways, is this like kind of the modern Salem witch trials?

Yes, very.

“Every move we make, everything we do were judged, were followed, stopped.”

We were crucified, and that's putting it mildly. Outside the Warren County Courthouse today, protestors stood with signs calling for justice for baby Carlisle. Justice for your baby, but are your baby's voice. They would take turns sitting out in front of our house and they would set up a schedule to watch our comings and goings. I would see pictures of myself out on my back deck.

There were threats, and a constant drum beat of vitriol.

It became difficult for the family to even leave the house. People would claim to know us, they would take any picture that they could find of Skyler, and they would paste pictures of baby spaces in it. And they found a picture of her with a shovel, and they posted some little baby space in it. prominent local defense attorneys, Charlie M. Rickers, and his father, Charlie H. Say this is a case of a false confession.

I can tell you the Brooke Skyler Richardson did not kill her baby. And then, as both sides prepared for trial, Dr. Lisbeth Murray, the forensic anthropologist who reported the remains were burned, retracted her initial assessment after taking another look at the bones.

She now said they showed no sign whatsoever of incineration or burning.

And now, every doctor in the case, including the state's own doctor, agree that that was a false opinion. And yet, nothing changed in the prosecutor's approach. Because in the interrogation, Skyler admitted that she tried to cremate the remains, for and shall refuses to back down or correct the record.

“Part of the reason why I think the indictment was so severe is because the first anthropologist in this case came to an opinion that she has now retracted.”

But has that affected the way people see this case? Absolutely. The jury pulls been tainted and now this poor girl, our client Skyler, who was 18 years old at the time, is facing life in prison. Skyler was fitted with an ankle bracelet and placed under House arrest. She spent much of her time reading books and hanging out with her dogs. In the backyard under a pine tree, her parents placed an angel ornament to mark the spot where Skyler once buried the baby. She called Annabelle.

She did what she thought she needed to do. Maybe outside looking in, that was wrong, but in her mind, she just delivered a stillborn baby. She gently laid the baby down in the ground. She didn't have a casket. She buried the baby and laid a flower over top of it. She put a vase as a marker. You can see it from her window.

As 12 months passed, Skyler's plans to attend the University of Cincinnati were put on hold. She can't get a job, she can't go to school. The defense filed a motion to move the trial to a different county, but the request was denied. If not, listen to anything that Charlie and the team have put together and take them into consideration, it's just all very cold and hard. Then, in July 2019, the State Approach Skyler's lawyers with an unexpected offer.

The prosecutor told Charlie, "I will take aggravated murder off if you plead to the rest of them, which still could have been 15 years." Face with a possibility of life without parole. The Richardson's new, they had a terrible dilemma. But in the end, the decision was Skyler's to make. It was a Sunday morning, and she woke up, and I can still see her sitting on the couch, and she goes, "I'm not going to play to something that I didn't do."

And in my heart, I got sick, but it has to be her decision, end of day. She has to live with this. That's got to be though way and on both of you.

“The idea that whether she goes to prison for the rest of her life is in your hands.”

It's quite a burden. There's no way that she would harm her baby, no way. On September 3, 2019, despite concerns of a tainted jury pool, a 12-person jury has seated after a single day of war deer.

with a jaw-dropping quote from a text that Skyler Richardson sent to her mom.

“"I'm literally speechless with how happy I am.”

My belly is back, OMG, and I'm never, ever, ever, ever letting it get like this again."

Those are the words that Brooke Richardson texted to her mother, just hours after she murdered her infant daughter in the middle of the night and buried her lifeless body in the dirt behind their home. With the possibility that Skyler's own words will be her undoing, her family wondered if they made a tragic mistake by not accepting the deal they were offered.

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have been bracing for her trial. "Why wake up in the morning? "Thank God each day. "It's another day, at least get to see her in touch."

This stress and uncertainty have taken a toll.

Skyler still battling and eating disorder is virtually wasting away. How's Skyler? Not good.

“She's about 90 pounds, she wears kids clothes.”

She has no clothes for court, everything. We have to pin everything on her, kind of like so we're in her clothes. But what doctors say is an illness, the state characterizes as vanity. Prosecutors even can nip in quotes from a text

Skyler Center mom just hours after giving birth. "You're about to see me looking freaking better than before, OMG." And there's a selfie that Skyler took at the gym that same afternoon. Her actions and her statements demonstrate that she had no intention of having this baby.

Prosecutors admit they could not prove the baby was born alive. But can nip and tells the jury that Skyler herself admitted it. During this interview, Brooke admitted the following. She saw her daughter's arms moving a little. Heard her girl and heard her cry.

She also told investigators that she might have held her baby "to tight" and that's not all. She attempted to bring the baby after her death and an effort to cremate her. But defense attorney Charlie M. Ricker says,

"Skyler just told the police what they wanted to hear." "We know that the police were able to break her down and make her vulnerable and admit to something that is scientifically impossible. Burning of a baby. This doctor many weeks later said I was wrong.

They disregarded any truth and they said, "Well, Skyler's Senate, we're just keep going. We'll just keep moving forward." The state calls doctor Susan Brown, the assistant Warren County coroner,

who performed the autopsy on the baby's remains. "Do you have an opinion as to the cause of baby Richardson's death?" "Yes, homicide or violence of undetermined ideology. But when cross-examine by the defense, doctor Brown concedes there's no physical evidence

that Skyler killed her baby or that the baby was even born alive. "You cannot tell us to any reasonable degree of scientific certainty that Annabelle was born alive. Is that correct?" Based on just the autopsy examination alone, I cannot determine whether it was alive birth.

In fact, under cross-examination, witness after witness called by the state can see there is no physical evidence of a live birth

The only evidence comes from Skyler. So if Skyler is convicted,

“she could be convicted on what she said rather than what she did.”

Exactly. But why would Skyler kill her own child?

Prosecutors say she never wanted the baby

and they point to text messages she sent her mother in the day's leading up to prom as Skyler's biggest concern seemed to be fitting into her dress. Skyler, I'm just in freak out mode.

I want to look amazing again more than anything. I hate being like this so much and there are those text Skyler sent after giving birth. "I am literally so excited now just for dinner to wear something cute.

Yay, my belly is back." But when the defense begins its case, Obstetrician Dr. John White takes the stand and tells the jury he believes the baby was not alive at birth.

“She delivered a still birth infant in the bathroom.”

Skyler told investigators that she never cut

an imbilical cord suggesting to Dr. White that the cord may have become detached sometime before or during birth. He also says Skyler's description of the baby's appearance is significant.

She described Annabelle's appearance is being really white and in my experience when you deliver a healthy newborn, they're almost purple. Dr. White points out that Skyler only gained 15 pounds during the course of her pregnancy.

Here she is at three months and again at seven and a half months and then again in May less than two days before giving birth. According to Dr. White, Skyler's eating disorder may have restricted the baby's development in the womb. "Fetal growth restriction increases the risks

of entry-utern demise or neonatal death." Later an expert on police interviews explains to the jury how certain police tactics can result in false confessions and certain people are more susceptible

says clinical psychologists, Dr. Stewart Basman, who's been hours interviewing Skyler. "To you, it is my opinion that Skyler Richardson suffers from a mental disorder that predisposes her to comply to people in authority.

What stands out to me about what transpired in the interrogation was a clear sense of intimidating, attempting to convince Skyler to implant a memory that would incriminate her." "But Lieutenant John Faines says,

"That's not what happened."

"I don't feel that there is something so powerful

"or this strong coercion that people are looting to "that's going to get someone to admit, to do." "Thanks to it didn't happen." "You're too authority figure. She's in a closed room. "She doesn't have an attorney. She doesn't have her parents."

"How do you know that baby was alive just for a little bit "to end a belt was alive a little bit?" "Hey, it's not for life, it's been a little bit." "You don't think it's possible that she might have just "sed that because it would please you.

"You don't think that." "I don't think any answers that she gave "in that interrogation, any answer "was with the goal of pleasing us." "No, I do not think that."

A week after the trial started, "without Skylar ever taking the stand, "the prosecution and the defense "make their final appeals to the jury. "A system prosecutor Julie Kraft."

"Unwanted."

“"That's what brok Richardson's daughter was unwanted."”

"To outside observers, brok Richardson had the perfect life." "She grew up in a small town." "She was a cheerleader for the high school football team." "She obsessed over her appearance." "And she was determined to maintain that perfect life

"it all costs." "First instruction, and we've heard a lot about it. "This burden of proof." "The defendant is presumed innocent until guilt "is established beyond a reasonable doubt."

"And it's their birth." "It's the prosecutor's birth." "If you have a reason to doubt the lie, brok, "you have to fight your son." After all the turmoil and high-stakes drama,

"the case is now in the hands of jurors." "For hours later, they reach a verdict."

"With the defendant please rise."

"With regard to count one, "wee the jury in the above caption case "find the defendant." On September 12, 2019,

“"skyler waits for the jury of seven women”

"and five men to decide her future." "It's completely out of your control at that point." "We just didn't know." "And that's the scariest thing." "With the jury believes Skyler confessed to a murder

"or with a thing she'd been pushed into making false statements." "What's the biggest fair right now?" "That we can't prove that she's innocent too." "I mean, that's the hardest thing."

"No one expects a quick verdict,

"but then just four hours later, "Kyman Scott Richardson returned to Judge Otis "pack courtroom with their daughter, Skyler." "I almost had to hold her up to walk back "because she was the nervous wreck."

"I wasn't even sure what to say." "I mean, part of say honey is gonna be okay "when you don't know."

“"Nam has the jury reached a verdict in the case."”

"We have." "I can see the juror with the envelope "and I'm like thinking that's my daughter's life." "I mean, I am just praying not guilty, "not guilty, not guilty."

"We the jury in the above caption case "find a defendant, Brooks Skyler Richardson, "not guilty of the offensive aggravated murder." "Not guilty of aggravated murder." "Not guilty of involuntary manslaughter."

"Not guilty of child endangerment." "Skyler so stoic at trial is overwhelmed." "I'm just wanted to fall to my knees." "She did the right thing by not taking the plea. "I just wanted to be like,

"Do we're right? We thought free." "But because Skyler buried Annabelle in the backyard, "she is convicted of gross abuse of a corpse." "That felony carries up to a year in prison." "The judge orders Skyler held in jail

"until sentencing." "Her parents watched in shock." "As Skyler is led away in handcuffs." "Following the verdict, District Attorney David Fornchell "denied that he pursued a case with insufficient evidence."

" Brooks Richardson created the situation "that prevented us from being able to conduct an autopsy "on that baby girl." "And in a sense, it feels like that she's been rewarded." "Do you think you are out on a apology by the DA?"

“" Honestly, I don't care if I were receiving yet my wife.”

"It's pretty clear at this point. "They didn't make the right decision." "And it was almost like they were incapable "of admitting they made a mistake." "Do you think the jurors, by this verdict,

"were obviously able to discount what Skyler said "in both interrogations?" "We knew that most people think,

"Well, I would never admit to something I didn't do."

"And I think our jury, at least, " got to hear a little bit about false confessions "that helped them decide the case." "One day after the verdict, Skyler is back in court "for sentencing."

"Is there anything that you want to tell me before I impose a sentence?" "Thank you, Your Honor." "And for the first time, she publicly speaks." "And I just wanted to say how sorry I was. "I can sometimes be selfish,

"but I would like to think that I've become better in the knowledge "that I've upset everyone. "And hurt so many people with what I've done. "And I'm forever sorry and I'm so sorry." "I'm really, really sorry, and I understand.

"And thank you." "Seemingly unmoved." Judge Oda delivers a stern message. "I firmly believe Miss Richardson, "in fact, I know in my heart that

"if you would have made different decisions in this case, "and about would be here today." "But I think that your choice is "forbure, during birth, and after

"Skyler is sentenced to three years of probation, "a far cry from life in prison."

“"What does this now mean for the family?"”

"It's a relief that it's over. "They now know that they don't have to worry about "losing their daughter. "Now they can plan for the future." Before she will tell you,

I had nothing to live for. Nothing. She was too scared of what that was. Too scared. Too scared to dream.

She's gonna sneak you some ham.

“The system is telling me who you see now.”

She's grown up a lot. She's got a resiliency, some inner strength. You know what?

You always hope it's there.

Just gotta let it come out. She's a great kid. And hopefully she's gonna bounce back from this. I think she will. In September 2019,

“Skyler entered into an eating disorder treatment program.”

It's a lifelong illness. So I have this all of her life. But we can do this. But Kim and Scott Richardson will also have to grapple with the mistakes they made

and lives that will never be quite the same.

You do come out here a lot. Yeah, I do. To visit. The angels still marks the site where Annabel once was.

It's heartbreaking, but this is all we have. Sometimes I just need to. Full close to her.

And I always tell her that, you know, she's loved.

And she would have been loved. And she's always in our hearts. Following the verdict, Annabel's remains were returned to the Richardson family.