TRUE CRIME ROUNDUP: Inside the Karmelo Anthony and Vance Boelter courtrooms

**Lauren Barry** (0:02)
This is a True Crime in Real Time Roundup from The On Deadline Podcast. We explore crimes reported on by Audacy's radio newsrooms across the country.
I'm your host, Lauren Barry. In this episode, we're focusing on two high-profile cases. The Karmelo Anthony trial in Texas and the Vance Boelter trial in Minnesota. Boelter pleaded guilty this week to multiple charges related to stalking and killing Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, as well as the stalking and shooting of Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman. You might remember Boelter as the assassin who impersonated a police officer to stalk his victims.
We'll hear reactions to the Boelter case and Boelter's plea deal reported by Audacy Station WCCO News Talk in the Twin Cities. First, we're unpacking the trial of Karmelo Anthony, which concluded this week. Anthony, a 19-year-old who is accused of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a Frisco track meet last year, was found guilty of murder this week, and his attorneys have already filed an intent to appeal. Anthony's family told CBS News that they were, quote, delusional to think that the trial would result in a fair outcome, and they've claimed that witnesses lied on the stand. While the trial proceedings were mostly closed to the media, we'll get an inside look into what was going on in and outside of the Collin County Courthouse as the jury reached its decision.
This reporting comes out of Audacy Station Krld 1080 in Dallas. We'll actually start our dive into the Anthony case with reporting from Tuesday morning, before the verdict was delivered. Anthony's legal team announced the day before that the defense was resting its case.

**Mike Rogers** (2:12)
And that was apparently a real surprise from people that are watching this. Even the jury kind of gasped when he said the defense rests, it was a surprise to us. Yeah, they really didn't do a lot of witnesses. I think they called seven in total or six.
And Karmelo Anthony didn't take the stand. He did not.

**Lauren Barry** (2:30)
The first voice you heard there belongs to Austin York. And the second was Mike Rogers. They host the Mid-morning Mic Check on KRLD.
Russell Scott, another KRLD reporter, joined them from the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas.

**Mike Rogers** (2:49)
I'm getting the sense out there that a lot of people watching this from the legal standpoint are just kind of confused with what the defense was trying to do at one point even suggesting that Metcalfe may even paled himself.

**Russell Scott** (3:00)
Yeah, there was some back and forth outside of the courtroom about that, whether that could have happened or something like that.
It's normally because the defense was saying this was self-defense. Normally in a self-defense case, you'll have the defendant take the stand in his own defense to talk about that. They didn't do that, which surprised a lot of people. And that's when people started suggesting that maybe they were looking at a manslaughter or maybe criminally negligent homicide.

**Austin York** (3:30)
Now, they didn't put Karmelo Anthony himself on the stand. Who did the defense put on the stand yesterday, Russell?

**Russell Scott** (3:36)
They called a couple of students. They called a coach who was at school with him. And that's all that they called. That's pretty much it. And the students were there. I think there were three students.
We're called to testify that the track culture is kind of a social event where students go back and forth between team tents and will often go to other teams tents, just to visit and kind of make it a social event. Now, you might remember the prosecution, when they call some students, they said, no, no, no, that's not the case. So you've got both sides presenting different witnesses and what their thoughts are on the social situation that attract me.

**Mike Rogers** (4:12)
It's one of those though, if you're saying, hey, I was scared for my life, why not hear from him? He's the only one that could could tell you what he was feeling.

**Austin York** (4:20)
Because cross-examination.

**Mike Rogers** (4:21)
Yeah, we know that.

**Austin York** (4:22)
There is a risk. That's why.

**Lauren Barry** (4:26)
Now, for some context about how the trial was going, leading up to the verdict on Tuesday, we're going to listen in on a Krld report from Friday, June 5th. While some trials are recorded and televised, like the OJ. Simpson trial in the 1990s, the Anthony Trial was kept very private.

**Austin York** (4:50)
And were you let back in Russell? It's quite a bit.

**Russell Scott** (4:53)