TBT: Carly Gregg: Honor Roll to Homicide

Summary

Dumb Blonde Podcast: TBT – Carly Gregg: Honor Roll to Homicide
Episode Date: October 9, 2025

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of the Dumb Blonde Podcast, hosted by Bunnie XO and co-hosts Bailey and Mimi, kicks off the show’s October true crime series by covering the shocking and recent case of Carly Gregg—a highly intelligent Mississippi teenager who murdered her mother and attempted to kill her stepfather. The episode dissects Carly’s background, mental health struggles, family dysfunction, the circumstances of the crime, the trial, and the controversial aftermath, while offering candid, often emotionally-charged analysis and speculation.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: True Crime Month & Tour Life

• The episode opens with excitement for October’s true crime focus, setting a casual, behind-the-scenes tone as the hosts broadcast from their tour bus.
  “For the next four weeks, we are going to be covering all different sorts of true crime stories, and the podcast just gets turned into just so much fun.” – Bailey [04:07]

2. Carly Gregg’s Early Life – Gifted but Isolated

• Carly’s fraught upbringing: absent, abusive biological father (Kevin), raised primarily by mother Ashley after a custody battle, Kevin disappears from her life.
• Carly is described as exceptionally intelligent:
  • Scored a 30 on the ACT at age 13—6–7 points off perfect.
  • Skipped grades but struggled to fit in, was teased for her intellect, and used by peers for academic advantage.
  • Displays early obsessions with violence and Swiss knives, likely linked to her traumatic home life.
    “The IQ was through the roof... She was smart, like, ridiculously, like, little baby Einstein.” – Bailey [07:33]

3. Warning Signs and Escalating Problems

• Incidents at school, including bringing weapons and orchestrating a mass cheating scandal.
• Early rebellious behavior, enforced by a strict mother—no social media, regular phone checks, and severe restrictions.
• Experiments with substances—vaping nicotine and THC—leading to household turmoil.
• Carly attempts to reconnect with her biological father despite her mother’s objections.
• Evidence of worsening mental health:
  • Cutting, anxiety, and stress.
  • Placed in therapy briefly; later prescribed antipsychotics and eventually Lexapro.
• The stepfather, Heath, becomes a key (and possibly contentious) figure; speculation about his involvement and impact surfaces throughout.

4. Mental Health & Medication

• Discussions on overmedication of children:
  “Which antipsychotics. When you’re 11 or 12, your brain is still developing.” – Bailey [21:48]
  “Lexapro... It makes you almost unhuman, which is what we saw with Carly. Super numb, like unemotional.” – Mimi [23:20]
• Five days after starting Lexapro, Carly murders her mother.

5. Day of the Crime – March 19, 2024

Timeline Recap (Key Events Start at 24:31):

• Ashley discovers vapes and weed cartridges in Carly’s room after a tip from a friend.
• Carly returns home, enraged at the invasion of privacy and confrontation.
• Walks into mother’s room, retrieves a .38 Special, and conceals it from security cameras—showing both calculation and emotional chaos. “She walks into her mom's room and just cold blooded shoots her in the face three fucking times.” – Bailey [27:51]
• Discussion on psychological implications of shooting someone in the face and weapon familiarity.
• Criticism of having unsecured firearms in a household with a mentally unstable child.

6. Aftermath – Evasive and Disturbing Behavior

• Carly texts her stepfather, Heath, in a chillingly casual manner:
  “You almost home, honey?” … “Thumbs up.” – [34:12]
  • Host theorizes this may have been code for “it’s done.”
• Begins singing to herself after the crime—a sign of detachment that the hosts compare to infamous murderer Jodi Arias.
• Calls a friend for support, asks:
  “Do you get squeamish around dead bodies?” – Carly, relayed by Bailey [37:38]
• Friend is terrified, especially when Carly shows her mother’s corpse and reveals plans to shoot her stepfather with the remaining bullets.

7. Attempted Murder of Stepdad & Carly’s Escape

• Heath arrives home; Carly attempts to shoot him but misses due to his evasive action (“Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee” style, as joked by hosts).
• A struggle ensues, gun goes off multiple times. Carly flees after running out of bullets; her friend escapes separately.
• Stepdad finds Ashley's body, covered by a towel.

8. Investigation & Trial

• Surveillance footage immediately implicates Carly.
• Speculation abounds regarding underreported family abuse, potential sexual misconduct by the stepfather, hidden motives, or manipulation.
• Defense initially pleads insanity but refuses to turn over full medical records, raising suspicion.
• Observers disturbed by Carly’s lack of emotion at trial—except overwhelming breakdown when seeing her stepfather. “I saw a couple people in the comments, arguing, and they were like, well, maybe he just realizes she’s a child…” – Bailey [52:37]
  “Something definitely is there. Because you having literal breakdowns. And if you watch, like, snot pouring from her nose. Breakdown.” – Mimi [51:57]
• Stepfather’s odd response in court, mouthing “I love you” to Carly.
• Carly sentenced to two life sentences (for murder and attempted murder, both without parole), plus ten years for tampering with evidence (covering mother’s face, possible other actions).

9. Final Reactions, Theories & Sentencing Debate

• Debate whether Carly’s punishment fits her actions or ignores her tragic context. “At first, when I first heard it, I still don’t think that she should get life. I think that she’s a really messed up child, you know, and I think that she’s just going to be another statistic.” – Bailey [56:19]
• Both hosts voice suspicions: more behind the scenes (“Heath needs to be investigated”), and predict further revelations.
• Listeners are invited to share their thoughts on the complex, disturbing case.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “How is somebody so smart did something so stupid?” – Bailey [07:39]
• “She walks into her mom’s room and just cold blooded shoots her in the face three fucking times.” – Bailey [27:51]
• “That is hatred.” – Bailey [31:32] (on shooting her own mother in the face)
• “Do you get squeamish around dead bodies?” – Carly, via Bailey [37:38]
• “She’s a child, dude. How many of us made severe mistakes when we were younger? Granted, we did not kill people.” – Bailey [23:44]
• “This whole thing is alleged.” – Mimi and Bailey [47:48, 50:08, repeated frequently]
• “She didn’t just have the gun in her hand. She literally opens the gun up and says, hey, there were six bullets in here…I used three on my mom. I’m going to use three on my stepdad.” – Bailey [38:40]
• “You definitely planned some of it, but…are you really that stupid?” – Mimi [53:52]
• “I feel like she’s gonna come out with the truth in like, a year or two.” – Bailey [57:04]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Key Topics Covered | |-------------|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 04:00–06:15 | Introduction to True Crime Series | October focus, Crime Story Selection | | 06:22–10:57 | Carly’s Early Life | Family background, abuse, intellect, school troubles | | 17:19–20:26 | Rebellion & Mental Health | Substance use, cutting, attempts at therapy | | 21:48–24:31 | Medication & Mental Health Debate | Antipsychotics/Lexapro, impact on youth | | 24:31–28:07 | Day of the Crime | Discovery, confrontation, murder details | | 34:12–38:40 | Eerie Aftermath & Friends’ Involvement | Texts/code theory, singing, friend as witness | | 41:24–44:27 | Attempted Patricide & Escape | Stepdad’s account, struggle, aftermath | | 46:14–51:56 | Investigation, Trial & Family Dynamics | Medical records, court behaviors, speculation | | 54:00–56:55 | Sentencing & Debate | Outcome, possible rehabilitation, hosts’ opinions | | 56:57–57:42 | Predictions & Audience Engagement | What’s next, audience input solicited |

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Tone & Style

As always, the tone is (sometimes darkly) humorous, candid, emotionally invested, and irreverent, with a genuine attempt to analyze both legal and psychological aspects. The hosts don’t shy from speculation and conspiracy, sometimes playing devil’s advocate while remaining engaged with the tragic realities of the story.

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Conclusion

This episode dissects the baffling, horrifying case of Carly Gregg—a prodigiously intelligent teen who committed a shocking act of violence against her family. The hosts explore possible motives, mental health implications, and failures in the support system. Open questions about abuse, family dynamics, medication, and responsibility for youth violence permeate the discussion, leaving the case unresolved in the court of public opinion.

Listeners are left with the hosts’ invitation to join the debate and a promise of more chilling true crime stories to come during “Spooky Season.”

Transcript

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[Bailey]

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[Mimi]

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[Bailey]

Yeah. As you can see, we're on the tour bus, so we are making it work in very small working conditions.

[Mimi]

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[Mimi]

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[Bailey]

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[Mimi]

Coming in hot.

[Bailey]

Coming in hot, baby. It's been a brutal month.

[Mimi]

Yeah, we had a day off yesterday and we got to spend it at the beach, but someone was sick.

[Bailey]

I almost died because I took Triazepatide this week. And we'll talk about that on another podcast.

[Mimi]

But confess, we just went through that.

[Bailey]

Yeah, well, I didn't tell my whole story, though. So on another Askel confess. I'll definitely tell you guys the whole story of what's happening. But anyways, so who are we talking about today?

[Mimi]

So today this is actually a recent case that. I mean, how recent really was this?

[Bailey]

It's very recent. Like within what, the last year?

[Mimi]

Yeah, Carly Greg has been on everyone's for you pages, I'm sure, because that video, I mean you never really get the amount of video that this has. Like I'm. When I dove into this case, the amount of security footage that she did not take care of. No, it was crazy. I was shocked. So we've got home footage. We this happened.

[Bailey]

Cuz she was 14 when it happened and she was 15 when she got convicted March 19th. So March 19th, 2024. This just happened.

[Mimi]

This is so fresh.

[Bailey]

Yeah, this just happened.

[Mimi]

And there was a lot to this case that I didn't know via TikTok. So once we actually dove into it and learned about it, I was shocked. I feel like it changed my mind on a couple things. I feel like this is going to be interesting.

[Bailey]

Yeah, it's definitely interesting because you and I disagree. We do so I would love to do so I think you're going to do the first part and I'll do the second half.

[Mimi]

Yeah. We're going to go into who Carly was as a not so typical teen. Carly. Greg was born in Mississippi and she was born to Ashley and Kevin. Kevin was very much an addict, not just of alcohol, but of other drugs. And Ashley did not want Carly to be a part of his life. She fought tooth and nail so that Carly could not have any visitation with him whatsoever. She wanted to take all the rights away from him.

[Bailey]

He was also physically abusive too, to.

[Mimi]

Both is what I was told to both of them. And that right there, I mean, should be grounds for not having your child around him. Yeah, I completely understand. I do agree with her on taking away rights from him. And it was a long battle between them. So she did actually end up winning custody of Carly. And from there Kevin disappeared out of Carly's life. He wasn't around and she was there to raise Carly sort of by herself until later on when her mother finds a new love. Carly did grow up incredibly smart. They knew at an early age that.

[Bailey]

She was smart, like ridiculously like little baby Einstein.

[Mimi]

Yes. The IQ was through the roof.

[Bailey]

This actually was a part of the story that shook me because I, you know, I don't want to say looking at her, you would think that she wasn't that smart because of what her crime was. But to find out like her ACT scores and like how she got to school, skip a grade and stuff like that, I was like, wait a second, how is somebody so smart did something so stupid?

[Mimi]

Yeah, it was so sloppy.

[Bailey]

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

[Mimi]

So at the age of 13, she did take the acts like Bunny had mentioned and she scored a 30, which is like equivalent to a 16. Year old. Yeah. And which then turned the schools to be like, hey, we should probably advance her a little because she is way smarter than any of the kids in her grade and did end up putting her into a grade in which she was with 15 and 16 years old year olds. So she felt very isolated because she felt like she couldn't really get along with any of the other kids in her class. She was often made fun of, they said, and that she was teased and also used, incredibly used by her peers because they did know how smart she was.

[Bailey]

They said that her ACT score was literally 7, 6 points off of being perfect.

[Mimi]

Perfect, yes. And so were her grades. Her grades were almost perfect. They said she was in the high 90s majority of the time. Yeah. So this poor girl is just, I think, too smart for her own good at this point. She also showed not just signs of, like, being so smart, but just quirks. So being that she had an obsession with Swiss knives and violence early on.

[Bailey]

But I think that she probably learned that from growing up in a physically abusive household.

[Mimi]

Most definitely she was attracted to violence, which could have been, you know, trauma of, like, wanting that fatherly love that she never had.

[Bailey]

That might have been the only fatherly love she knew.

[Mimi]

Exactly. And that being said, the only time she ever got in trouble was because she brought a swift Swiss knife to school. One time she was actually pulled from school, sent to an alternative school temporarily, until they did allow her back into the school system. And that was for the Swiss knife, of course. But that, that's just crazy to me.

[Bailey]

She also got in trouble for helping an entire class cheat.

[Mimi]

Yes. So in 2022, she actually became student of the year. And at that time, her mom had actually began working at her school. So as she started to dabble in this, all of this, I guess, cheating and those kind of things, her mom was right there witnessing all of this happening. So she had hacked into the teacher's comp, got all of the answers, and it, it wasn't that she intended to have the entire class know, but the small group of people she did tell, they told. And then those people told. And then eventually it did get around and someone did snitch and was like, well, we all got it from Carly.

[Bailey]

You know, I feel like I, I sense a child who just wants to be accepted by people around her.

[Mimi]

Yes.

[Bailey]

Like somebody who feels like she's never been accepted into one peer group.

[Mimi]

And that being she is also much younger than her peers at that time. She did become romantic with a fellow student and they really felt the mom really felt like she shouldn't be.

[Bailey]

I mean she's at this point she's like what, 12, 13?

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

You shouldn't be romantic with anybody.

[Mimi]

Anybody.

[Bailey]

Granted my first kiss was when I was 12, but still. Yeah, what was your first kiss?

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[Mimi]

Probably about the same. Yeah.

[Bailey]

Oh, yeah.

[Mimi]

I didn't go tongue right away, James.

[Bailey]

At the bus stop.

[Mimi]

At the bus stop.

[Bailey]

At the bus stop, yeah.

[Mimi]

Wow. Interesting. Mine was on my friend's bed.

[Bailey]

God, you little hussy. You're a freaking hussy. Was it just kissing?

[Mimi]

He just kissed me. His name was Trevor. Trevor.

[Bailey]

Trevor. Sounds like a cute boy. I feel like all the cute boys names were Trevor.

[Mimi]

Yeah, his name was Trevor. He was, like, my first, like, real boyfriend. Anyways, sorry, babe. Jason's over there editing this.

[Jason]

Like, what?

[Mimi]

So.

[Bailey]

Can't believe she kissed somebody at 12.

[Mimi]

Before me. Mom really wanted. Ashley really wanted Carly to break up with this boy. She didn't feel like it was healthy for them, but she just felt the more she pushed her, the more she ran to him. So eventually, she did kind of give up and was like, whatever. She saw them at school holding hands, even after Carly was like, oh, no, no, we're broken up. Your wholeness.

[Bailey]

The mom made her break up with.

[Mimi]

Them, and that's why she ended up giving up. She just felt like the more she fought, the more Carly would want to run towards him. She caught them, you know, holding hands at school, and eventually she was like, you know, it is what it is. But Carly also had a problem with sneaking her phone, getting burner phones. The mom regularly actually went through Carly's phone because of all these troubles that she was showing. And so she would get a burner phone if her phone was taken away, or she would have regular checks in which the mom went through her phone to make sure she didn't have any social media. So, no. No TikTok, no Snapchat, none of those things. Mom didn't want her having any type of, you know, something that could get.

[Bailey]

Her in trouble, which, honestly, I don't have. Bailey doesn't have any of that, and I don't. I think nowadays having your kids on social media is just a gateway for just a shitstorm.

[Mimi]

It is. Honestly, as much as we are social media, I see the bad side of it.

[Bailey]

Yeah. For kids. I just don't feel like kids nowadays can handle that much over stimulation.

[Mimi]

Nope, nope. They're actually banning a lot of phones right now for schools and stuff.

[Bailey]

How do you feel about that?

[Mimi]

I. I'm back and forth about it because if there was ever an emergency, you know, we live in a very bad society and, you know, which people are out to harm children, and I would want my child to be able to contact me and tell me that they're safe. I would want my child to be able to call for help.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

I do feel like maybe, you know, just put the phone up during class, but. Yeah.

[Bailey]

Put them up front.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

Know where your phone is, have access to. And then. Because I feel like when Bailey had her phone, she was on her phone during school all the time.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

Like, her. The most usage she had was during school. I'm like, do you do. And it really affected her grades. And I was just like, d. Are you working in school at all? Like, what are you doing? So I really feel like they should turn them into the front of the class, but have complete. Can see them, have complete access to them if they need them.

[Mimi]

But I don't. I don't have a little phone, kind of.

[Bunny]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bailey]

Phone cubbies. I don't have a problem with them, like, monitoring, like, the kids.

[Mimi]

Absolutely. I completely agree. I. I would want my child to have their phone just for safety reasons. Yeah. So she didn't have any social media, and she had a problem with that because her mom ended up finding that she was dabbling in vaping, and not just nicotine vaping, but weed cartridges, things like that. And it became huge in their household with arguments on phones, vaping, all of those kind of things.

[Bailey]

One of the major arguments between them was that she was also trying to reach out to her biological father.

[Mimi]

Yeah. So she had gone in one of the checks of going into Carly's phone. She did find that on a social media app, she was attempting to reach out to her biological dad. And that there were lots of searches in her web pages for someone with the same name. So, of course, you know, she's out there searching for her dad. She's got issues.

[Bailey]

Yeah, Well, I mean, I don't know if it's issues, because I did the same thing looking for my mom when I was growing up. I think it's just a child's natural want to know where she came from or know the other parent, especially because Ashley did have to crack down on Carly because she was kind of a bad kid. So she probably was looking for an out. You know, like, that's how kids are at that age, they're super manipulative, and they want to go to the fun parent. They don't want to go where there's rules.

[Mimi]

Yeah. And do we know what point the stepdad stepped into their lives?

[Bailey]

No. I can Google that one.

[Mimi]

Yeah, give that a Google real quick. So the mom is constantly battling with Carly over the fact that she is trying to attempt to reach her dad, which I would love to know more about that, honestly. I would like to know if how the mom felt about her attempting to reach out to the dad or if the mom was even willing to allow her to have that conversation, because I feel like if she really did want to meet with the dad, maybe you reach out to the dad and you, you know, arrange them to have that relationship, even if it was visitation with her there or whatever that is. Another part of her mental health was Carly actually got caught cutting. So a lot of her friends were concerned about her at school, and they had been communicating with the mom, too, but they were really concerned because Carly had come out and told them that, you know, she had been cutting her thighs at the time and that she was not in a good mental headspace. Her mom had reached out because between the dad, the cutting, the Swiss knives, the boyfriend, all of these things, the mom had reached out to a therapist and signed Carly up to start going to therapy for anxiety and stress. And this is where I believe in conversation between therapist, doctor, all those kind of things, that Carly was placed on a medication.

[Bailey]

So it doesn't. And to pause you right there, it doesn't say when they got together, but Heath released a statement after she was sentenced, which we'll read later, and said that him and Ashley had been together almost a decade. So I'm assuming when Ashley, or I'm sorry, when Carly was probably around five or six.

[Mimi]

Okay. So, like, he'd already been a part.

[Bailey]

Of her life for a substantial amount of time.

[Mimi]

Yeah. So this is the only father figure that she knew. And I don't really know much about the support he had within Carly and Ashley's relationship. And I don't know how much of a role he played in Carly getting help for all of these issues, being that she went to therapy for anxiety and stress for a little while, but they did say that her mother did not follow through. And eventually she just stopped going.

[Bailey]

So they just put her on antipsychotics.

[Mimi]

So then her primary care is who then came back and put her on the antipsychotics.

[Bailey]

See, this makes me think that there was definitely more going on at home. Than what is being told, Because a child is not going to be that rebellious, because I was an extremely rebellious child, but I was getting abused at home.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

She also said her. Her stepfather sexually abused her. So could this have been going on and maybe this is why Ashley was so strict with her and, like, you know, is this why she was acting out? I mean, for a teen to be cutting herself, that's extreme pain that that child is in.

[Mimi]

Yes.

[Bailey]

You know, so it's like, what are you trying to release? I get that you grew up in a. In an abusive household from a young age, but I just don't see that much. You know, I don't. I see, like there's. I feel like there's so much more that we're missing.

[Mimi]

A huge chunk of this story that has not come forward, hasn't come out yet, you know, because this is so fresh and new. We talked about that in the beginning. There is, I'm sure, plenty of things that are eventually going to come out involving the stepdad, involving Carly, like, and who knows what role the mother played in all of those. She could have known, you know, and just not spoken up. We don't know. We honestly don't.

[Bailey]

When Carly turns 18, am I allowed to interview her, or will that cause an upset?

[Mimi]

Oh, my God.

[Bailey]

Or is it because she's not a dude? That it'll be.

[Mimi]

It could be. It would be totally fine. Right. Carly was placed on antipsychotics and.

[Bailey]

Which antipsychotics. When you're 11 or 12, your brain is still developing. And you guys know how I feel about putting children on medication. Do I think that there are some exceptions to the rule? Absolutely. Do I think people. Some people really need it? Absolutely. But I also feel like a child's mind is still forming. It's still, you know, you're growing, you're going through so many hormonal changes. Like, you are giving a child antipsychotics. You do not know how they're going to react in that child's brain.

[Mimi]

Yeah, no, literally. And what effects good and bad is going to have. You're trying to do it just for the good, but, like, man, there's so many bad side effects.

[Bailey]

So many.

[Mimi]

And I think that's what we actually ended up seeing happen because she was on different antipsychotics, and at some point, the doctors were basically like, we don't know what else to do. And that's sort of. If you guys know anything about Lexapro. Lexapro is one of those drugs. I truly feel like a Doctor gets to a point where they're like, I don't know what else is going to help. So we're going to just throw Lexapro at it and hope this just takes care of whatever problem you have.

[Bailey]

They put you on Lexapro, didn't they?

[Mimi]

No, I never went on Lexapro. No, I. I almost refused because it's like it was in discussion, but it was in discussion with other medications. Lex Pro. Something I never wanted to put myself on because of the side effects and changes I've seen with within people. And I do feel like they're permanent changes. Yeah. I feel like that truly alters your brain and it makes you almost unhuman, which is what we saw with Carly.

[Bailey]

Super numb, like unemotional.

[Mimi]

Exactly.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

And there were some medications that I remember being on when I was on antidepressants which made me feel like that. So I could not imagine, even close to imagine what she went through, because I know what that numb feeling feels like.

[Bailey]

I feel like this is a little girl who was screaming out for help and didn't know how to get it and she just became a product of her environment.

[Mimi]

Absolutely.

[Bailey]

And you know, I. I don't want to say that I sympathize with her, but I mean, she's a child, dude. How many of us made severe mistakes when we were younger? Granted, we did not kill people.

[Mimi]

No.

[Bailey]

And that's not right at all. But you know, they switched her to this Lexapro. And then five days later, what happens? Yes, she kills her mother.

[Mimi]

Only five days prior was this new medication introduced. And within those five days, I can guarantee you she never saw anyone to see how she was feeling. Those people throw these medications at you and are like, well, we'll see what happens in a month. Yeah, I know. In those five days you did not go see a doctor. I know. In those five days you did not get checkups, nothing. So who knows how she was feeling within those days. Yeah. Leading up to this. And do you want to take over?

[Bailey]

Yeah, I'll take over there. So day of day of the murder, you know, everything was normal that day. I think they had just gotten home from school. Was that what it was?

[Mimi]

Yeah. So she had taken her like a completely normal day because they both went to school together. Mom worked there. And the dad leaves shortly after the stepdad.

[Bailey]

Right.

[Mimi]

Leaves shortly after them in the morning. And everyone who interacted with them at school that day were like. It was a normal day.

[Bailey]

Yeah, like everything was normal. And, um, you know, when they got home Carly went to go walk the dogs. Ashley, her mom did a check of her room like she normally does, and she did a check of her room that day because a friend had snitched on Carly and told the mom that day that they were concerned for her because she had began, you know, dabbling in vapes and, like, was becoming an addict. Like, she had to smoke weed every day. She had to have the vapes and all that stuff. So while Carly was out walking the dog dogs, that was her mom's opportunity to go through her room. She ended up finding four vapes weed cartridges too, I believe.

[Mimi]

Right.

[Bailey]

And something else like that. Yeah. So when her mom was going through her room, Carly walks in on her mom searching her bedroom and found that her mother had, you know, found all of her stuff. And I understand how enraging that is as a child, because my stepmom used to go through my all the time. And it's like you just feel like you have no privacy. So I guarantee she was just livid, you know, she was just like, does this woman ever leave me alone? You know? So after that had happened and Carly's mom was done searching a room, Carly went into her mom's room, which kind of surprises me, because where was her mom at that she could go in her room?

[Mimi]

I'm sure still in Carly's room.

[Bailey]

Okay.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

So while her mom is still searching.

[Mimi]

Her room, because she said she was, they were kind of in an argument.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

You know, and it happened so fast.

[Bailey]

So while, while Ashley's still doing Carly's room, Carly goes to her mom's nightstand where her mom keeps a.38 special, and you can see her on camera. And Jason will, will insert the video here for everybody. You can see Carly walk into her mom's bedroom, and then she walks out of her mom's bedroom hiding the gun behind her back.

[Mimi]

So obvious.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Like, what is that?

[Bailey]

But that tells me that wasn't crazy because she knew that there was cameras in the house and she knew to hide the gun. I would think that if you had lost your mind and you were kind of crazy, granted, I understand she's probably going through a roller coaster of emotions coming off anti psychotics going on to Lexapro. Yes. I am probably numb to everything and not thinking in her right mind, but she wasn't so crazy enough to not realize that there was cameras watching her.

[Mimi]

Yeah, I, I.

[Bailey]

We'Ll get to that part. So Carly walks by the cameras, like we said, with the gun behind her back. And by this time, Ashley, I think Carly had walked around like the kitchen or something like that too. And by this time Ashley had gone back into her room and she walks into her mom's room and just cold blooded shoots her in the face three fucking times.

[Mimi]

Yep.

[Bailey]

Once in the once in her chin and twice in the middle of her face. Like first of all, how does that child have such good aim?

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[Mimi]

I'm telling you, I do not feel like this is the first time she has played with this gun.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Like, I truly feel like maybe when this kid was alone or something, she wasn't fascinated. The fact that your first thought is to go exactly where you know that gun is and have no problem knowing how to use it or anything.

[Bailey]

Yeah, that's crazy. Like, who taught her how to shoot a gun?

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

That's just. And a.38 special isn't a little gun.

[Mimi]

I hate to say it. You have a mentally unstable child in your house, and you openly have a gun just sitting in your.

[Bailey]

Sitting in your nightstand.

[Mimi]

Not even a fingerprint safe or something. You just open like your kid is cutting themselves, has Swiss knives, is rebellious, obsessed with violence, and you're like, oh, I'm just gonna keep my gun over here while my kid's on antipsychotics. What?

[Bailey]

Yeah, no, that's a great point. But I just. The thing. Thought of how accurate she was, and to shoot your mother in the face.

[Mimi]

Which you had to be looking.

[Bailey]

That is hatred.

[Mimi]

That was hate.

[Bailey]

Like, it. I mean, shoot a foot, shoot a kneecap. Like, she straight went in there and was like, I'm about to murk this. And, like, went in there and shot her straight in her face three times.

[Mimi]

Which psychologically, you think about it, like, women are so worried always about, like, beauty and faces and stuff. It was very shocking for me to learn that she shot her in the face. I thought maybe heart, chest, something along those lines. If you truly did want to kill her, going for the heart, whatever. For her to look that woman in the face and shoot her. Yeah. Is diabolical to me.

[Bailey]

Diabolical. Absolutely. And another thing that hurt me so bad, whenever you already know what I'm gonna say. Well, it hurt me so bad to see the dogs because it just made me think of, like, Chachi and Bessie and, like, oh, my gosh, like, they were so scared. They were so stressed out, and they didn't know what to do. They were scrambling like, oh, my God, mom is hurt. Like, they didn't know what to do because she's.

[Mimi]

You can hear her scream. It's horrific. It's. You guys just trigger warning. If you're watching this podcast, if you're over on Patreon, watching this video, just, it's a lot. It. You got have to be prepared to watch that.

[Bailey]

Yeah. I mean, it's literally all, all on camera. And for somebody to be that intelligent, why on earth would you not go snip the cameras first?

[Mimi]

Yeah, unplug them.

[Bailey]

Unplug the camera. Spray paint, hang a towel over, you know, like, do something.

[Mimi]

Literally, these cameras, all you have to do is unplug them.

[Bailey]

Yeah. So that tells me right there that it's a crime of passion.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

Because she's not thinking in that moment. She's literally just going straight off of anger. And it's just like, you know what?

[Mimi]

I'm.

[Bailey]

I'm gonna kill this woman. Woman.

[Mimi]

That's crazy.

[Bailey]

So besides the dogs. Poor dogs. When Carly was done killing her mother, she walks into the kitchen and grabs her mom's phone off the counter after shooting her mom. And then she texts her. She's conscious enough to text her stepfather and say, you almost home, honey? To which he replies. To which he replies, no, I'm gonna be here a little while longer. And then she texts back with a thumbs up. This is where I, the conspiracy theorist in me has a problem with it. And just because of, in lieu of what has happened at the, at the trial, I feel, and this is just me having a, you know, conspiracy theorist mind, I feel like that was code word for it's done.

[Mimi]

The job is done.

[Bailey]

The job is done. And that's why, because he said, no, I'm gonna be here a little while, but then shows up back at home not even a little later than he was supposed to.

[Mimi]

Exactly. It just.

[Bailey]

Something's not adding up. And then when she's done texting, you hear her start singing just a ballad, very Jody Arias of you. I was like, it really reminded me of Jodi Arias because, you know, when Jodi Arias was in the interrogation room, she's like singing, and then she, like, put on a whole performance for the.

[Mimi]

Yes.

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

It was crazy. So she's like singing a song to herself.

[Mimi]

Yes. And like she's sitting there. I mean, this is moments after you, just after you horrendous.

[Bailey]

Just killed your mom.

[Mimi]

She's kind of just like wiggling around, just, you know, I, I, that's why I have a Problem with it. I'm like, did you really not feel anything because you felt joyous enough to sing? Right. I was not skippity doo dah when I had no emotions.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Like, you're kind of joyously sitting there.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

And she was sort of like, giddity about it. Yeah. That's sickening.

[Bailey]

Which makes me another thing. Which makes me think the stepfather was in on it was because. Why are you so giddy after texting your stepfather?

[Mimi]

Yep.

[Bailey]

When will you be home, honey? And you say, I won't be home until later. And you send a thumbs up and then you start singing.

[Mimi]

It's like a celebration.

[Bailey]

It's almost like she did good. And for him, like a praise in his mind, you know? And I don't know. I don't know. Just.

[Mimi]

Just me speculation, guys.

[Bailey]

Straight up spec. Allegedly.

[Mimi]

Allegedly.

[Bailey]

Allegedly.

[Mimi]

This whole thing is alleged.

[Bailey]

It's alleged. So anyways, after that, after she's done with her little singing bit, she picks up her phone and then she starts texting her friends saying that she's, like, freaking out and, like, there was an emergency. And of course, these kids are young, so nobody has a car, so, you know, nobody can get to her to help her. But she won't exactly tell them what's wrong.

[Mimi]

Yeah, it's very, like, evasive.

[Bailey]

Yeah, it's very evasive. It's just very, like. I don't. It's almost attention seeking.

[Mimi]

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was looking for. It's like. Yeah, I'm not. It's like those people who post on Facebook and it's like, send a prayer for me, but they won't tell you actually what's wrong.

[Bailey]

Oh, I hate. That's exactly what it was.

[Mimi]

All these people were like, what do I. She's not saying what's wrong.

[Bailey]

Yeah, yeah. If I ever post something like that, I'm always like, say a prayer for me. I'll let you guys know what's going on soon, you know?

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

Like when I was going through that with my dad because I didn't have all the answers, you know, But I was just so distraught. But, yeah, don't just say you need prayers and then never tell anybody what's going on because you know in the comments, you're gonna get 500 comments of people asking you what the is going on. So she text one of her friends who actually is a part of the case, who. They never said her name because she's underage or whatever, but we'll just call her bestie. Okay. She Text bestie and said that, you know, hey, I'm going through something. I need help. So, of course the girl, being a good friend, was like, all right, I'm gonna have my dad drop me off. So has her dad drop her off over at the house, and when she walks in, Carly is sitting in the middle of her dogs in the living room crying. I'm sorry, Singing. Not crying. Singing and playing with her dogs. The friend walks in and is like, bro, you told me, like, this is an emergency. What the hell is going on? And what does Carly say to her? Do you get squeamish around dead bodies?

[Bunny]

What?

[Mimi]

Excuse me?

[Bailey]

Literally, like, are you kidding me? Like, and that's another thing that makes me. Makes me think, like, how desensitized are you to seeing, like, violent things? Like, what was this kid Googling? What was she like? Was she playing Dungeons and Dragons? Like, what is happening that this kid is so far removed? Like, she didn't even say, would you get squeamish seeing my mother's dead body? She said, do you get squeamish seeing dead bodies? And the little girl is like, no. And so Carly takes her into the room.

[Mimi]

Yeah. Like a poor prize.

[Bailey]

Like a prize. Like, literally, like a hunting prize. And shows this other little girl that she had killed her mom. Now, don't get me wrong, if somebody shows me a dead body, I'm going to freak out on the inside, especially if somebody murdered them. But at the same time, you have to think of what this little girl's thinking. You know, she's probably like, what in the is going on?

[Mimi]

While Carly is showing her the body. Carly has the gun in her.

[Bailey]

Has the gun in her hand still. Yes.

[Mimi]

How terrified this girl must have been to be not only staring at a dead body, you're staring at the killer too.

[Bailey]

Well, and she didn't just have the gun in her hand. She literally opens the gun up and says, hey, there was six bullets in here. Sorry, my heart's palpitating trapatide. She. She said there was six bullets in here. I used three on my mom. I'm gonna use three on my stepdad when he gets home. So you can either stay inside or you can go outside and play. Until I kill my stepfather.

[Mimi]

Yes. You're just. This is premeditated, though. Like, she's planning this out.

[Bailey]

It's just crazy to me. And the little girl goes outside and plays.

[Mimi]

Yes.

[Bailey]

If I was that little girl and I went outside, my first reaction would be to take off and go get help. Right. So I. That Makes me think that she was just in fear.

[Mimi]

I, I. Yeah, that's what I think. I think she literally felt like that girl was gonna kill her if she went anywhere.

[Bailey]

Because what do they say you have fight, flight, or fawn? And I think she went into fawn mode.

[Mimi]

Yeah. Yeah. I feel really bad for this little girl because, like, honestly, that little girl was just trying to be. If you think about it, she's just trying to be there for a friend, literally.

[Bailey]

And now she's.

[Mimi]

Now you're accomplice reckless in a almost double homicide. You know, like an attempted murder and a murder.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

How terrified must you be? And how close is this friend? Like, does she know the mom? Did you just walk into someone you've met before or just like, oh, this is.

[Bailey]

Well, they all went to the same school, so she had to have known the mom. She knew her mom. Yeah.

[Mimi]

How sad. And the scene of having three bullets in her face. Come on. Yeah, come on.

[Bailey]

Yeah, it's rough. And she was conscious enough to put a towel over her mom's face because the dad had to remove the towel to see that she was dead. Whenever. You know, we'll get to that part, too. But, you know, there's just so many things that she did that don't make sense to me.

[Mimi]

I really feel like this was premeditated. I feel like she's already thought of all these things, but she thought of the wrong things. She thought of, oh, well, I'm a shooter. Three times. I. I feel like she knew to shoot her three times, and she knew there were six bullets in there, and then she'd use the rest on it. I feel like there's so many things that make me think this was premeditated. And then the things like not erasing the cameras and things like that make me think it was rage. I don't know. I'm a 5050 on this.

[Bailey]

Yeah, well, let's keep talking about it, and we'll see how we feel towards the end.

[Mimi]

But.

[Bailey]

So the friend hears these gunshots. Carly comes running outside and says, says, run. So this little girl takes off and books it all the way back home. And Carly runs two miles away, which two miles is a long run, dude.

[Mimi]

Carly leaves the friend kind of behind.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Like, if you guys watch this, because the. The friend says, I heard them, like, wrestling around. Wrestling around. There was, like, some struggle. She thinks. She believes the dad may have been trying to get the gun away from Carly and that the shot that was sent off or there was three shots off. Right. Because then she ran out of bullets, right?

[Bailey]

Yep.

[Mimi]

So all three shots go off, and the dad isn't dead. Like, the stepdad is not dead at this point, but he is hurt. But he put up a fight.

[Bailey]

Yeah. So from the stepdad's perspective, he said that he opened the door to the house, and as soon as he opened the door, Carly had the gun to his face and pulled the trigger. But he dodged. It went like this. And then that's why the bullet skimmed his neck like that. And so he's fighting with her, trying to get this gun out of her hand. And the guns are just going on. The gun is just going off because she's just, you know, trigger happy right now. Once she realized that the gun was out of bullets, he said that she got this crazy look on her face and, like, kicked back like she was looking at a demon. He said that she, like, freaked out and, like, kicked her legs, like she was scared and, like, backing her up, like she had seen something crazy and then just took off.

[Mimi]

So then she meets friend outside and is like, yo, says, run, run. Leaving friend behind, Carly takes off. And let me just say, she didn't really totally take off, though. In this video. She just kind of like.

[Bailey]

Well, I think she's. I think she was just scared stiff, dude.

[Mimi]

Yeah. And the poor friend.

[Bailey]

That's a lot to take on. You just saw a dead body. You just learned that your friend killed her mother. You just fucking heard her try to kill her stepfather, and now she's telling you to run. Like, you probably think you're next.

[Mimi]

Yeah. And she. Of course she runs in the complete opposite direction that Carly does. Yeah.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Friend runs home.

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

The friend runs. Told her parents. So after Carly runs off, he goes to check in on his wife because he thought that there, you know, was a robber in the house. He thought that maybe Carly had mistook him for a robber. Like, he wasn't thinking in his mind that this is my stepdaughter trying to kill me.

[Mimi]

Yes.

[Bailey]

Which, again, I still don't know how much of this I believe me either, because it's like, you thought that fast to move and to get out of the gun's way. Like, I don't know. What are you, Jackie Chan? Like, come on, dude. Bruce Lee. Like, he's like, wow.

[Mimi]

Yeah. Like Matrix.

[Bailey]

Yeah. Literally. I don't know. I don't know. I just. Something just isn't adding up. But when he went to go check the house, that's when he found Ashley. And there was a towel over her face. And he Removed the towel and saw, you know, that she had been shot in the face and stuff like that. So when the cop showed up, Heath, that's his name, was still in shock. And police looked over the footage and the security cameras in the house. So they immediately knew what happened because they saw that, you know, Carly had killed her mom. And during the investigation, they had a lot of.

[Mimi]

They.

[Bailey]

During the investigation, they had found out that they had a lot of issues in the house, which those issues have not been released. Nobody. It's been a very tight lipped case, which to me is crazy, because you should, I don't know, present all of the evidence, especially, I guess, you know, in the court of law. You should for sure. But I mean, definitely to the people of the public too, because it's like you guys are making somebody hate a child. It's kind of like what they did to Lyle and Eric, you know, like they made people hate them. Not letting people know how bad the abuse was. I didn't know about how. Which we'll get into Lyle and Eric too, but I didn't know how bad the abuse was for Lyle and Eric until recently, you know, so it's like, I don't know, I just feel like not letting people know, like, what was exactly going on? Like, was she being sexually abused by her stepfather? Was there physical abuse in the house? What else was. Was the mom, like, did the mom find out that the daughter and Heath were having a affair and that's why she put the cameras in the house? You know, like, there's just so many what ifs, you know? Yeah. So upon finding out all the problems in the house, you know, they found this stuff made her sound like a spoiled brat, but, you know, like, she was complaining that her mom had put cameras in the house, that she never had privacy, that, you know, she wasn't allowed to do things, she wasn't allowed to have social media. And it's like, kid, it was all for a reason because you act like a fucking lunatic. You know, she was also on. They found out during the investigation that she was also on multiple prescriptions and she was telling them that she was hearing voices in her head and that they refused to hand over her medical records, which to me part like, wait a second.

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[Bailey]

First of all, you guys are about to com to commit a child into custody of the state for the rest of her life and you don't want to hand over medical records.

[Mimi]

They're also claiming insanity. That's what they initially came into this case cleaning.

[Bailey]

Well, the defense did yes.

[Mimi]

Yeah, like oh, insanity. We're gonna pull insanity and all this kind of stuff and so the court goes, okay, hand over the. The medical records where she's clinically insane. And they're like, no. What?

[Bailey]

Just, no, but here's my thing. To be put on antipsychotics, you have to have some sort of, you know, a few grapes short of a fruit salad upstairs. You know what I'm saying? A few tacos short of a taco stand.

[Mimi]

And the amount of medication she was put on, this recent Lexapro switch.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

There had to be records of this. Unless there's not. You know, like, why.

[Bailey]

How would there not be records? Unless she just really wasn't going to the doctors and somebody was prescribing the medication to her.

[Mimi]

I mean, we don't know, but why else would you not hand over every child possibly could to get this child to be tried for insanity?

[Bailey]

What if it was Heath not wanting to get the records? Because in the records, it talks about the sexual abuse Again, this is all allegedly alleged.

[Mimi]

Alleged.

[Bailey]

This is all alleged.

[Mimi]

This entire podcast has been alleged. Yeah.

[Bailey]

Literally. We are just making shit up because this is how we feel. It is.

[Mimi]

Yeah. No, I mean, that's a possibility, too, because if. If she had been seeing a psychiatrist and told the psychiatrist, like, hey, you.

[Bailey]

Know, he's touching me, or like, wouldn't.

[Mimi]

It be, like, the state would have to. I don't know. I don't know how the law works. I'm kind of talking as if I do, but I don't.

[Bailey]

I don't know. I don't know if a step parent, really. I don't. I know we don't have a lot of rights as being a step parent.

[Mimi]

That's why I'm wondering if this had nothing to do with that, or if really they couldn't come up with a.

[Bailey]

Case, or if it's a HIPAA violation because she's a child, she's underage, and there's nobody there to approve the medical records being released.

[Mimi]

Yeah. I mean, but she would go into.

[Bailey]

A ward of the state.

[Mimi]

Yeah, yeah. So they would be able to. This whole. This whole case is crazy to me. The fact that they weren't able to pull any type of. Because here's the thing. Here's my opinion. I do feel like maybe what she ended up getting was a little harsh, but at the same time, if you're not going to pull the insanity card, that's kind of what I feel like the only other option is.

[Bailey]

Well, let's talk about the trial real quick. So Carly, during all the replays of, like, her mom, barely even cried like.

[Mimi]

When did she cry?

[Bailey]

Showed no emotion at all. But the most emotion that she did show was when her stepfather.

[Mimi]

The body cams of the stepfather. What the.

[Bailey]

Which shows me that there's an emotional tie with that man.

[Mimi]

Something definitely is there. Because you having literal breakdowns. And if you watch, like, snot pouring from her nose. Breakdown.

[Bailey]

Hyperventilating.

[Mimi]

Yes.

[Bailey]

Breakdown. Like, she felt so much remorse for hurting her stepfather, but could care less about her mom.

[Mimi]

Not at all.

[Bailey]

You're the mother who fucking is your blood.

[Mimi]

Yes. Who has raised you also. Like, it's crazy to me. That and the way he eyeballs her.

[Bailey]

And mouths I love you.

[Mimi]

Like, weird.

[Bailey]

First of all, if you killed somebody I supposedly loved and was with for a decade, and then you not only killed her, you shot me too and tried to kill me too, I don't think the words that I would be saying to you are I love you with a smile. A creepy smile.

[Mimi]

And the way he just looks at her in court. Yeah.

[Bailey]

It was so strange. And I see. I saw a couple people in the arg. In the comments, arguing, and they were like, well, maybe he just realizes she's a child and, you know, that she's about to go to prison for the rest of her life. And I'm just like, if someone tried.

[Mimi]

To kill me, I don't give a.

[Bailey]

Yeah, go to prison. Like, I don't know. It just is not adding up. It does not make sense. And I really feel like the stepfather should be investigated. Text messages between them. Pull more of those cameras at the house and see what we can find. Go back like a year or two.

[Mimi]

Well, I don't know if they keep a year's worth, but at least, like, prior conversations they had, how they interacted with each other on the daily. How'd they interact that morning before they were leaving?

[Bailey]

Yeah. During the trial, some of her friends even testified that she was on numerous drugs, too. So you have to think this girl's taking antipsychotics. She's taking Lexapro, and. And she's on various drugs, which we don't know what they are, but especially, like, in the vapes. You don't know what you're getting these.

[Mimi]

Days with these kids.

[Bailey]

I. Bailey's had kids overdose at her school just from hitting a vape, you know, so it's like you don't know where this girl's mind really was. Yes, she was cold. Yeah. She was borderline calculated with some of the things she did. But it was also a crime of passion, which makes it so weird. There's like, just a smorgasbord of.

[Mimi]

It's a 50. 50 for me. You definitely planned some of it, but in the other sense of it, I'm like, are you really that stupid?

[Bailey]

Yeah. So with all the footage and the testimony, they ended up sentencing her to life in prison for murder without parole, life in prison for attempted murder without parole, plus 10 more years for tampering with evidence, which. What's the tampering? Putting the towel over her mom's face, probably.

[Mimi]

Towel and who knows what else she could have.

[Bailey]

Probably, you know, move the mom's body or something.

[Mimi]

Yeah. Like, if she was in there for a while, she definitely was within the crime scene. So she was doing something.

[Bailey]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

Yeah.

[Bailey]

So after the. After her sentencing, the stepfather spoke out, and he had a statement. So let's read what the stepfather had to say. He said, I am ashamed. I'm embarrassed, I'm angry, I'm upset, and I'm very sad. I loved Ashley Smiley, too. We were married for almost a decade, and, yeah, he didn't comment about anything else. You would think that he would comment on telling her, I love her during the trial. Yep. I'm just skimming through this. Yeah.

[Bunny]

That's all he said.

[Mimi]

That is so strange to me. Yeah, I would. I am very anxious to see how this plays out. This does play out, because there is bound to be more evidence that gets released to the public once all of this becomes public. I would love to see more about, you know, him taking the stand versus, you know, her taking the stand. He did take the stand, but, I mean, like, just. It's very interesting. What.

[Bailey]

I want to know what happened. I want to know what happened at home. Like, let's go through those phone records. Yeah, let's go through those counseling therapy sessions, because Lyall and Eric Menendez confided in their therapist about the rapes and stuff like that.

[Mimi]

She didn't go to therapy for long. It literally says that she went very temporarily, and then the mom never followed back up on it.

[Bailey]

Yeah. So do we think that the mom never followed back up on it, or did Carly reveal something that the mom didn't? Like, that's true. Like, we never know. Speculation, pure speculation. But, yeah, There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the story of Carly. Greg.

[Mimi]

How do you feel about her sentencing?

[Bailey]

You know, at first, when I first heard it, I still don't think that she should get life. I. I think that she's a really messed up child, you know, and I think that she's just going to be another statistic. But, you know, it's crazy because then it's like, can somebody like that be rehabilitated?

[Mimi]

No, I. I do feel like she should be within some type of cap, not captivity. Cut that. Some type. Leave it in.

[Bailey]

I thought it was hilarious.

[Mimi]

Well, I mean, that's what I feel like.

[Bailey]

I feel like she needs some sort of supervision.

[Mimi]

Yes. The rest of her life. You know, like, there's a chemical imbalance in there that I don't believe can be fixed.

[Bailey]

I feel like she's gonna come out with the truth in like, a year or two. I think she's gonna come forward and be like, yes, I was molested. Yes, we were having a fear. Yes, he helped me.

[Mimi]

The minute he moves on, it's all coming out.

[Bailey]

He moves on, it's all gonna put her in there and doesn't pay her commissary or something. It's gonna be crazy, dude.

[Mimi]

Yep. Something. Something's gonna be her trigger, like this murder was, and she's going to just give it.

[Bailey]

Yeah. Yeah, I agree. What are you guys thoughts at home on this entire case? Let us know in the comments. And also, yeah, let's. I'm looking forward to doing more of these. This. This is my favorite month.

[Mimi]

Happy October, guys.

[Bailey]

I know. Happy freaking October, babies. All right, you ready to go watch daddy bring the house down?

[Mimi]

Let's go.

[Bailey]

All right, we got to go. We got a show to do, babies. Love you guys. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week.

[Mimi]

Bye.