Grandmother Testifies in the Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2023
- "She was always a sweet child."
#SydneyPowell's grandmother testifies about the day her daughter was allegedly murdered by her granddaughter in the #MotherStabbedMurderTrial.
Powell is accused of stabbing her mother to death after she learned that Sydney was expelled from college.
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This whole situation is so bizarre. This woman seems to have no feeling for her murdered daughter and no anger toward the killer granddaughter. It's all kind of chilling.
Why are the defendant's mental health providers not called to testify?
@CourtTV i have gone to your website to rewatch the full trial day and i think i missed the morning ...when i click on the livestream i can only rewind 3 hrs though ...and its 2:42 pm right now in OH which means there should be mourning hrs too. Pls can you load each trial day from start to finish at least on your website since you do not provide this service on youtube? Some would love to watch the full trial not only snippets.
@@katie4aday511 I think I heard court is in recess today?
@@JimB16 no i am just rewatching the livestream from the previous 3 hrs
What’s crazy to me … how she can feel safe with her granddaughter under her roof! 😳
Yes! There’s no way I would feel safe, no matter if I thought it was a psychotic break! I wouldn’t want her to have another psychotic break around me!
I’m sure Grandmother is trusting that Sydney is truly taking her medicine…???
Maybe she knows, that she is not schizophrenic
The grandma knows if she does everything Sydney asks she will be fine.
100% who wd wanna live with an animal that wd kill their own mom
She was sane enough to pose as her mom on the phone with the deans, and sane enough to make up a story about strangers breaking in. If you’re insane, you don’t have the capacity to cover up your crimes. I hope the jury sees through it all and holds her accountable. Even if her condition is so severe that it’s what caused her to murder her mother, then she’s sick enough to live in a mental institution for the rest of her life. You don’t allow a person capable of this to walk among the rest of us.
AGREED
Exactly! Truly insane people don't know they're insane and swear they are normal. I'm tired of these sickos trying to exploit mental illness when it suits them. No, go to jail where you belong demon seed.
And she didn't forget about the Monday night Bachelorette gatherings! Or how to avoid detection by her parents. Or how to bullshit the school. No confusion there.
Why do people think that the mentally ill are all blathering basket cases? Maybe your only exposure is to homeless people (many of whom are mentally ill) or your only information about mental illness is from movies? You would be surprised how many mentally ill people are out in society and you'd never guess that they are sick. Most are not dangerous. Most hide their illness because they are embarrassed or fearful or confused or in denial. It's much more complicated than she's crazy or she's not crazy. Much more complicated.
You're spot on..
I can’t believe they let a violent offender go home with the elderly mother of the woman she murdered! 😮😮😮 This whole family is bananas.
Has anything come of the fact that she is out on bail in the custody of her family? No.
Hope grandma makes it!
True I'm afraid for the grandparents safety
yeah scary .
Grandma's fine you know it , just mad because we know she's avoiding justice and her true character only revealed under pressure and no meds .
I’m sorry but something is wrong with this family. There is no way you are killing my child and then coming to live with me.
Martyrdom of granny!
The granddaughter had an undiagnosed mental illness. The experts agree. This grandmother is just doing the best to pick up the pieces and move forward with everyone.
@@looney1023 sorry if you kill my child you are dead to me.
Shes better than most of us.
@@jennyd9144 I don’t think she is better than any of us. She might be mental as well.
Brenda you were loved by so many people...the children at the hospice that she cared for were blessed. Rest in Peace with the Angels like you.❤😢
Very disturbing, the lack of emotion for her daughter and the brutal murder she suffered. This is a family of enablers to the spoiled Sydney.
My thoughts exactly. I expected her showing some emotion for her daughter. None. Zero. It's terrible to watch 🥺
I agree something is totally off
The participation trophy, time out parents that don’t hold their children accountable for their actions.
This whole family is nuts. Coddling is not parenting. They still haven't learned anything... Sydney is a danger to society.
Indeed 🎯
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Dangerous without treatment. Unless you have a mental illness,have a family member that is or in the medical field you have no right to judge. Period !!
You speak like you have personal experience with this?
@@denisesanderson7334 always women excusing shitty behaviour from other women due to some “mental illness”. I swear to god it’s like allergy to accountability, even murder.
Its disgraceful, that family seem to have total disregard for Brendas death, they are too busy being compassionate towards that little brat who took away her mothers life and tried to say it was a burglary.
And she did some DRAMMmATIC acting ; what a shame!
I do so agree!!
@@RllyhatesocialmediaLoveG-kf8dr Bit late to the conversation aren't you? Some people have sympathy for victims.....(me,) and some people defend murderers.....(you.). Stop with the bullshit, "what she faced", she is an entitled brat who couldnt get her own way. RIP Brenda.
I don't think it's as easy as your objective outside view concludes. Listen I agree with you, the daughter was clearly an entitled brat, but that doesn't mean her family doesn't still love her & their love for the daughter doesn't negate the love they had for the mother/victim. These things are not mutually exclusive. I don't think they have a "total disregard" I think it's probably more attune to them just trying to hold onto what they have left despite the fact that she's the reason they lost the mother. It seems to me the family is completely devastated & the only coping mechanism is try to hold onto the daughter/granddaughter despite her repugnant actions. Emotions make people delusional in the sense that they'll deny reality to cope with the pain. It doesn't excuse what she did, it doesn't excuse her very earned life sentence, I just don't think the dichotomy is as clear as you're outlining. As an outsider I see your point, but the family is clearly in a very difficult position one of which there are no good outcomes.
Oh come on now she only hit her over the head with a frying pan.,and stabbed her 30 times in the neck. If that is Brenda's mom, poor brenda
The whole family is delusional. RIP ❤ for the mother that was brutally murdered by her own daughter.
with the same skillet that mom cooked her meals with
There is nothing wrong with this spoiled brat!!!! In the violent way she killed her mom she should get life without parole.
Right! She tried covering it up, she knew exactly what she was doing
Shes not crying today she's very calm because her family and doctors are on her side she don't need to fake it today...
So the psychiatric people that assessed and treated her are wrong them people who's trained for years and treated however many mental health issues there wrong and ur right.
Agree!!
@@Gabriel-hf1yyexactly! I agree. And Dr Reardon is out of touch with reality. And he can’t get a sentence out without 3 or 4 UMMMS. So unprofessional, and how much is he getting paid to testify?
A murderer got out on bail and goes to stay with her elderly grandparents ?? What the heck?
Exactly WTF is wrong with this picture?
Just like any other scenario. We are looking from the outside and judge what we see that way. But being in it is different.
Right? My thoughts too.
I agree what the heck? Must be het familys money and friends in high places
Sickening
It’s hard for me to imagine someone killing my daughter. Much less, her own daughter and then allowing that daughter to live with me. It’s mind blowing. I wish I could understand.
Be happy as hell you DON'T understand!!! 😂 These people are creepy and weird.
Her family actually believes this girl should go free. Unbelievable.
Absolutely disgusting. Meds were bringing her down? How about the fact the she murdered her mom? Makes me sick.
Now the family is insane for believing this this monster
So she can kill more people. Unbelievable!!
It’s obvious that the grandmother has not faced what happened yet.
The prosecution easily established that her granddaughter has had no schizophrenic episodes since living with her. None before either. Seems she was schizo for about 5 minutes right after she got busted. That doesn't qualify, sorry.
When she said she never heard of Brenda and Sydney ever fighting, arguing or talking disrespectful to each other that seems either very strange or not true. What person is always in agreement with another?
Exactly, especially between a mother and daughter
@@KimKatzkeExactly
She just never witnessed it personally, and Brenda obviously didn't tell her mom everything. Maybe she didn't want the grandma worrying.
It's not like grandma hovered over them 24/7. How the hell would gma know if no one told her?
I agree.
Absolutely NO DISAGREEMENTS.
Thats hard to believe.
There are several members of my family that i love to no end.
We've all had " words " AT LEAST.
@@Elegant_Sausagegrandma doesn't have to hover over them 24/7 to be aware of any disagreements or arguments.
If you've raised a teenager, you know there's going to be disagreements.
It's not realistic. Especially since they are obviously close. Spending holidays and etc together.
Moms and daughters!
The fact that this woman refers to her grandchild who brutally murdered her daughter/mother as,
" my Sydney" is a huge 🚩.
Denial and enabler come to mind.
I understand she's lost a daughter and this killer is the closest thing to her daughter left doesn't make it right to live in a fantasy.
That's a dangerous place to live.
There's something off about this woman's testimony.
Grandmother talks about Sydney like she never murdered her mother. Too much compassion for that brutal murderer - what a disgrace!
I agree.. not one tear no remorse so sad!!
this seems to be more and more common lazy entitled brats who basically dont feel they have to account for anything even "murder" I guess?
Ignorance isnt the new thing hun....this is not a "brutal murderer" u simple simple human...this is a CHILD WHO HAS ZERO EMOTIONAL REGULATION and has made a despicable choice out of those emotions. Plz dont further make an ass of yourself and assume; am saying she is innocent, it is clear she is not, nor did i say a light punishment should be her fate...i simply said she is not some psychopath destined to take the lives of oh so many ppl. Stone cold murderer with no regard for herself or actions bcuz clearly that isnt the case with her. She is an out of control child who experienced a desperation she had not thus far and behaved in the absolute worst possible manner at the time in question. If she were as u claim it would be evident in other areas of her life and would have been. It is not, because she is not. She cant even listen to the details of what she has done bcuz she did not "mean" to do it and by mean i mean she was out of control and of her mind ..her right mind didnt mean to do it.
@@evarodriguez7978wtf have u watched...when the school lady was up there she bawling all the time as with her father and SEVERAL others that have testified. Yes she has shown nothing but remorseful emotions.
Maybe she didn't show them in this twenty min vid ...u think this is the entire trial?? U must if u passing judgement based on it
Insanity makes no sense. She was living a normal life before she murdered her mother.
Yes and now she is schizophrenic? How convenient. Its amazing the way they stand behind her murder.. if she walks they open the door that responsibility will be ignored
She's not legally insane. She's just a murderer
@@justbystander770 I wouldn't trust her in a shithouse with a muzzle
Even a better life than normal
Sane... until they pull the trigger. 😉
Grandma might as well have said " My Sydney could never have killed her mother, she was an angel...."🙄
disturbing.
My mom passed away last year from cancer. devasted my grandmother and she would take me out if my mother's passing was caused by me. I miss my mom every single day, and one thing you realize is that nobody has your back better than your mama. Appreciate them at all costs.
That’s not true for everyone. Maybe nobody will have your back more than your mama did, but nobody will stab me in my back harder and more often than mine.
I completely agree with you. I'm so sorry about your dear mama. I also lost my mom to cancer. It's been 27 years ago and my mom was only 47. With time it gets a little easier to deal with but obviously it never goes away. Some days it's just as raw and painful as it was the day she died. Thankfully that doesn't happen too often. I do have my occasional crying fits, though. Then I remind myself that my mama is no longer in pain and she's in a much, MUCH better place...and that I WILL see her again one day. You, too will be reunited with your mom.
It makes me incredibly FURIOUS when I see daughters/sons disrespect their mom. (I'm talking about good moms. Not the evil ones who abuse and neglect their children.) It sends me over the edge when an entitled spoiled brat ends up murdering their mom in a jealous fit of rage. I don't know if that was the situation with Sydney but it has been with others.
@@trickortrump3292I'm so sorry that your mother isn't unconditional loving and caring. Every person deserves to be loved and cared for by their mother. 😔
@@trickortrump3292 we must have the same mother!!
Please do. My mother died when I was three. I don't even know what it's like to have a Mom, so please appreciate it every day if you do.
I wonder how her brother feels about the family being so supportive...his mother was was murdered...I hope he is receiving therapy.
Has he been to court? I've seen a bevy of women surround her, Can't say I've seen the brother in or on the way to court. Great question!
Hes on her side too...
@@Gabriel-hf1yyyou know this?
@@jeanettecoleman-mz7ie yes all the family is on her side they don't want her punished at all.. they want her to continue living with her grandma...
Weird family. I think they are covering up some things.
Even though this grandmother is protecting her granddaughter I cant begin to imagine the pain of the mother being murdered and the pain that your granddaughter was the one that did it
Agree. She may think she is protecting her, but she isn’t doing her any favors.
"My granddaughter was a perfect teenager, student, loving daughter, friend ect... but she's anxious and is schizophrenic so that's the reason she brutally murdered her mother." "Everything is all good"
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt!
@@tracy7612beautiful comment ❤️
My confusion about the responses from her grandmother relate to how she recounts: Sydney "was improving" and then "she improved even more" (after that 'one off feeling" at the farm when the doctor changed some meds) is this: in Grandma's eyes, what was she improving from? - The shock of the attack on her mother? Or a personality trait that her grandmother (and family ) actually *'had'* been aware of prior to the murder of her Mom~?
She was improving as she wasn't hearing the "noises anymore? I thought it was voices.
Schizophrenia usually starts in early to mid twenties. It’s possible she does have it, but the act of committing murder was still intentional.
That poor deceased woman deserved a better mother, a better daughter and a better husband. They are all disgraceful.
Totally agree. After watching these people on trial, I started to think they all planned it together. I really cannot believe how they can talk so nice about Sydney knowing how brutally she killed a person they loved. Dad, grandma didn’t produce one tear 🥲
Well said. Poor Brenda was not loved by her mum a bit. This is so disturbing to watch 🥺
From the testimony of how close they were it sounds like she is responsible for creating the spoiled monster. She knew her daughter was a liar but wanted to be a friend to her children and not a parent.
@@kristinew7913 Are you blaming the victim who was brutally murdered?
Really?
REALLY?
What the heck is in the place of your heart? 😨
@@verabolton Truth can be ugly, it’s not for everyone. This entire family is disturbing.
This family is delusional
Totally. That grandmother ???
No tears for her daughter???
Maybe until you walk in their shoes you should shut up!
@@MegaTinniWhy does there have to be? JERK!
@@MegaTinni That’s very strange. She seemed very eager to protect her granddaughter but no tears for her daughter
The fact that Brenda’s family is supporting this disgrace is kinda disgusting imo.. JUSTICE FOR THAT POOR BEAUTIFUL MOM. 🙏🏼💗
Probably because Brenda would want them to and they know that. Since they knew and loved Brenda the most.
I'm not justifying Sydney's crime, but I understand what's happening with Brenda's side being so supportive. Families and humans in general are complicated.
Sydney needs prison time without a doubt. And I hope justice is served.
Maybe they know more than you do about the character of Sydney.
I agree but the reality is that she will be either locked up at heartland the "NUTHOUSE" or in Marysville. Neither option is gonna be good.
@@nancymesekor maybe they are enablers that will excuse any bad behavior if it spares themselves pain. Denial
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What a mother! I could not fathom being an advocate for Anyone that brutally harm my baby that I brought into this world.Much less was the perpetrator of her demise. That poor woman has noone who stands in her defense. Not mother, husband, noone. All are concerned for the murdering princess who should Never see the light of day.
Brenda's role at the Hospital, in a Caring capacity, I can see on her face she's a compassionate person, to be murdered by your own daughter.
When she was not allowed on campus/ dormitories she would stay in hotels not being able to go home early prior to spring break, parents obviously made sure she had a supply of cash, to hide out like that, keep it from your parents, "schizo" NO, insult to those who do!🤬
Grandma, you're choosing to be blind! Get your head out of Sydney's a** and STAND UP for your daughter lady! Justice for Brenda 💜
She is answering questions as a witness in a trial. That is all she can do here.
Whether or not she has schizophrenia is not the point. Did she know right from wrong? The grandmother seems to be clinging to that and it’s sad because there are millions of individuals with mental illness who don’t kill their family members. It isn’t much of a defense just based on diagnosis alone.
It’s easier to put the blame on something or someone as to why it happened rather than accept the fact that her granddaughter is a nut case and needs to be held accountable for her own actions.
They are fighting for her to be admitted into a mental hospital where she could be released within a year if she "improves." She doesn't have schizophrenia. She is well kept, was well kept. Schizophrenics hygiene is horrible. No matter how severe. That is one of the classic signs. This case and the Chandler Halderson case are an insult to those that are truly inflicted with schizophrenia.
That's the one thing that really bothers me is others with ANY form of depression or whatever get labeled negatively that would NEVER THINK of doing a thing like this to ANY human being whatsover
No tears from grams...she's cold.
No she's probably be going through this for a longtime people are not going to cry all the time I don't know how anybody can force themselves to cry it's a natural thing I feel bad for the grandmother and the whole family it is very heartbreaking
I love my grandchildren, but if any of them would kill my son or daughter I would never forgive them.
Same!
I hate to admit it but, my grandchild would be in danger… I would not rational nor sane!!!
I would completely disown them before I pick up a serious charge
Evil little girl who has conned her whole family.
Yup
Exactly! She knew what she was doing.
They created her, horrible parenting.
Yeah, Sydney worked on the doctor at the hospital. How he came up with that diagnosis in a few days is beyond me.
It was stated by the Prosecution SEVERAL times, this Doctor seen Sydney. . .about "18 MONTHS" after the murder? ? ? ? ? And he came up with "his" diagnosis' ? ? ? ? Sydney was "IN THIS STATE" just before she was to start college, during this time and ? ?STILL in THIS STATE? ? ? ? I disagree, I've been waiting for some one to diagnosis her as IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE RULE, that's what Lorena Babbitt had, BUT she didn't kill her husband! There are MORE Psychologists/Doctors, coming. . .
@@crystalhanson1483so much punctuation? ? ! ! ?
I use several ? ? ? (questioning) and at times several ! ! ! (thinking/ true-false-is it possible) and several ? ! ? ! because I'm QUESTIONING/ I'm NOT agreeing. . .I'm still (thinking) waiting for (more testimony) the OTHER doctors/psychologist's Tests/ Assessments. I get Court TV on my antenna. Court TV hasn't been on CABLE, ever where I live. Very "little" about this and other cases, recently on antennal TV and isn't much on the cable system for my internet hook up. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON? I am sorry. I come back to READ the comments, often. I get more INFO from the comments than antenna TV/cable Internet videos :) :) @@LadyAngelaYaYa1966
As an adult you are required to be accountable for your actions, and more so when its about killing you mom, such lack of remorse for a woman who wanted the best for her!!
A very sad case but I think it’s the behaviour leading up to crimes that determine whether someone is insane or not. All the lies and covering up makes me believe she knew what she did and knew it was wrong.
Fully agreed! Her lies and her scheming are signs of clarity concerning the gravity of her actions. Just a spoilt failure with no remorse. Should never get out, ever.
She may not be insane but there is something mentally wrong with her. She knew it was wrong but she couldn't control her emotions.
Exactly.
@@linsioux217Yes. She is a person that kills. In stead of dealing with her emotions and reality, she runs from it or ignores. Just as she's flaking out of her own trial. Covering her ears, not showing up, ...
She has the emotional maturity of a child, combined with an entitled, evil, murderous personality of an adult.
The way she keeps behaving, leads me to believe she can't be rehabilitated.
@@MegaTinni So well observed and put. I don't think she can be rehabilitated either because there is no accountability and seems no remorse. The grandmother talking about Sidney as though nothing grave happened possibility reflects what led Sidney down this path of entitlement and murderous indifference towards the feelings and wellbeing of others.
HOW IS SHE ABLE TO BE OUT ON BAIL AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF MURDERING HER MOM? 🤯🤯🤯
It’s a slap in the face for sure. They’re saying that the defendant has problems.🤪We all do. 😮💨
I don't understand the family giving Sydney a pass on a brutal murder. I feel like I am watching an episode of the Twilight Zone. Wtf??? No mention of the true victim. Brenda has been murdered. This is not normal!!
Who the heck goes to their murderous granddaughter's hospital instead of their innocent dying daughter's? Even if they wouldn't let her see Brenda, I don't see how she could go to that hospital and be with Sydney. Something's very wrong here.
BRENDA must have been a mess, poor woman, mother, I feel sorry for the son who no longer has a mother, because of this Devious, entitled, LIAR!
Even though she did something completely horrible that's still her granddaughter and it's called unconditional love.
I guess Brenda doesn't count for anything, even to her mother? Imagine growing up in that. This family seems to have a very skewed way of looking at reality.
I listened to this with an open mind. But after today I don’t believe she has any mental disorders. She is just a master manipulator. She has grandmother wrapped around her finger. I hope Brenda gets justice.
This is sad and unreal. The fact that they support this young girl. She killed your daughter smh.
This grandma doesn't want to face reality
Sidney aint insane but her family is. Protect this child to the point where she remains a 9 year old forever. So glad that the jury got it right.
but the judge didn't
I know one thing for sure. I would not live with Sydney, even if she was my granddaughter. No way , no how. That whole family is bananas
So sitting through all this talk about how wonderful Brenda was, Sydney had no tears..... no remorse. So, her conjured up tears at other times is just for herself; trying to manipulate the jury to feel sorry for her and let her off. I sure hope the jury sees right through her. Prison time!
yes!!!! she is not pretending to hyperventilate when grandma sings her praises.
Unreal how this woman on one hand is saying how kind her daughter was, as she is defending her murderer, and this is how spree killers are made! The entitled never see the reality in anything! Do you notice how Sydney is all cheerful, and not performing like she had when the state was making a case for what she did! I didn't know they let her go stay with her Grandma after murdering her mom! I am literally repulsed by Sydney and her Entire family, as if she shouldn't pay for murdering her mother to cover up her lies! Grandma appeared to have no emotion for her daughter! No tears nothing!
Did you notice her demeanor change when cross examined,curt short answers pursed lips.
Exactly
The family don't seem to care about brinda and what a wonderful woman she was too ... rip brinda...
Yessss!!!! I feel like the acts she puts on at her grandparents house to convince them the medication is working is who she acted like today like what was she doing coloring a frickin picture??? .. and the crying dry eyes is who she is when it’s any other witness on the stand.. and I totally agree that this mother had no emotion and maybe her grieving has changed after a few years but “my sydney” should have been “my Brenda” and she never said that.. for her own daughter… who was murdered…..
@@sinclairreed5367 I saw it too! They feel she shouldn’t have been charged 🤦🏾♀as if she is above the law!! Given their attitude about the law is for everyone else that violently murder someone but not their precious Sydney I would be shocked to know that they have prepared her for the possibility of going to jail.
This entire family not right in the head. How you gonna let a killer live in your home, beg for her not to be punished for killing her own mother
There's something wrong with this family, most people who lose a loved one in such a brutal way would still be reeling, these guys all seem like bye Brenda.
If Sydney is insane which I don't believe, but if she is then her grandma is in danger!
People dont get it.
That type of violence from a woman is highly unusual.
She can go off at anytime.
A DANGER TO SOCIETY.
@@spirit13the1st6people don’t get it ? lol and YOU do????? 😂
@@brodyllc
Odd?
You're immediately ADVERSARIAL.
What did i say that was a problem or untrue?
Correct!
Granny got no brains to realise, or Soon won't have any functioning brain, hide the frying pan, hide the KNIVES!, granny must be a thrill seaker to have a MURDERER in the house!!
The chick is not insane, she was just raised in a way that made her think she could get away with anything. If she were insane, she'd have been insane all the way, her insanity wouldn't have waited the college call to come out. If she were insane, she wouldn't have lied to cover up her crime, insane people don't lie about those things as they think they did something good.
Sydney is clearly a danger to society, insane or not, she's a danger to her family. Who says she'd not kill her father, her grandma, a future boyfriend, her kids? She's to be locked up either way.
That's my opinion up to this point, let's see what the jurors and judge think about it.
Or her own child
I'm not defending her and I am just starting to hear about this case but many schizophrenic people first show symptoms in college or college age. Lots of times the kids were normal up to that point and it's very confusing to the parents. They delay getting care for the kids because they can't figure out what's going on at first.
@@goatgirl5968I agree. I had a family member who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. It's a terrible disorder that comes on in college or late high school, where people cannot trust their reality. I haven't seen enough of this trial but I sure hope she isn't using this mental illness as an excuse if it wasn't the cause.
@@goatgirl5968 True. I didn't say the opposite, what I meant is that even without a diagnosis there should have been signs, symptoms... the person doesn't just start showing all the signs overnight like Sydney seems to do in court. And from the testimonies I watched it didn't occur to me that Sydney could be schizophrenic as her reaction right after the murder wasn't one of a schizophrenic person. And she lied for months, plotted behind her parents' backs.. and yet seemed to act normally in society while putting on a pretense in court. I watched the body language expert's analysis and he said her reactions weren't ones of a mentally deranged person.
I'm not new to crime stories, and most of the time when mental health is put forward at first, it appears later that it's just an excuse. Some crimes are too abject to be believed intentional, yet they are. Human nature can be surprisingly evil.
But that's just my own point of view from my personal experience (reads, documentaries...etc.), everyone's free to think differently 😊
Sydney likely had latent mental health issues that were triggered during college into actuated full-blown problems.
If the victim was so trained to watch for symptoms in children, why were there no red flags that popped up regarding her own daughter? The defendent has been residing with the Grandma, which is rather scary too. What if Grandma does something the defendent doesn't like.....
A parent usually doesn't see those red flags because it is their child, no matter their training. 🙄
Schizophrenia in children is very rare - this illness typically presents in late adolescence through early adulthood…wow would you look at that, Sydney’s age group. Additionally, schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed as other conditions before it is recognized for what it is. Onset can be progressive, it’s not as if people launch right into hearing voices or thinking they’re Jesus with superpowers. You lay people are so damn ignorant it’s pathetic.
New to this case so please forgive my ignorance.
Why is the defendant allowed to live at grandma's instead of in a prison or some kind of detention center?
She is a safety threat.
@@ajordan1976She got out on bail so this is just a trial. She hasn’t been sentenced, so she’s still innocent until proven guilty. The jury has to vote on guilty or not guilty, THEN they will vote on the sentence.
@@ajordan1976because daddy bailed her out because she said somebody broke into the house and killed the mother,then he realized she did it,and that’s why she didn’t go home with him,maybe she wasn’t supposed to be around her brother for fear she may do him in!
So Sydney was only in a psychiatric hospital for 1 week and they diagnosed her with schizophrenia? Yeah, she could have been acting and lying for that week. I call BS on her having it! Justice for Brenda!
Court TV isn't showing all the Trial on my cable system :( :( I HEARD, Tuesday or Wednesday a SNIPIT of a Clip where someone said that Sidney left the hospital and stated: "she wanted to go get a new tattoo"? ? ?
@@crystalhanson1483 Someone said Court TV website has the whole trial.
@@crystalhanson1483yep, no consequences for this, very Immature devious human!
I found a blog that is on this video. . .somewhere. The High School Teacher tells all the "HELP" any High School student that is having TROUBLE in any subjects CAN ASK FOR HELP to pass the subject to get their full credits to GRADUATE High School. The other Teacher, teaches in a College and tells ALL the "AVENUES" any student(s) can take if a subject is too hard for them. . . Both Teachers stated, Sydney would "cry" [act up] to a friend and the friend took her to a TEACHER who would GO to the Teacher (chemistry?) and ASK if Sydney can RETAKE the test at another time! Both Teachers stated Sydney was USED to GETTING OTHER PEOPLE TO TAKE HER DIFFICULT SUBJECT(S) TEST(S) and HAVING OTHER PEOPLE ASK "SOMEONE" TO "GET RID OF HER PROBLEMS"; other students or other teachers! Sydney is IMMATURE! @@jeanettecoleman-mz7ie
these dr's and lawyers all scratch each others back.
This was an indulgent temper tantrum. The jury will see that. You're not entitled to lose your temper and kill someone. The judge might ease up on the penalty.
very good and now we know accurate
But why ease up on the penalty? You clearly have some insight on how things work.
Oh brother, just stop. At what point does her dead mother deserve justice?
At the end of the trial.
There’s something wonky about this granny. Doesn’t display any grief about the vicious murder of her own daughter ?
I'm positive she is heartbroken
@@junebuchholtz287 Absolutely.
When are they gonna make Sydney take responsibility for her actions?? This is unbelievable!
She's very IMMATURE, coloring in, 20 plus yrs of age???
@@jeanettecoleman-mz7ie Have you never seen a colouring book for adults? 🤔
The nonchalant way Sydney sits there looking bored. Not an ounce of remorse or empathy for what she’s put her grandma through. She only acts like she’s upset when it looks like her lies and manipulation are not working. This disgusting girl is completely fooling her family. Thank goodness the jury saw through her. Justice was served!
Imagine being murdered and your murderer is coddled by your own mother.
It’s different when the person was also your child and you likely contributed to their distress and desperation. Don’t pretend this was some random off the street.
God, that's a truly terrible thought.
Not saying they need to hate her but she needs to be held accountable. Dont be delusional this girl planned it
i dont think she planned it. Theres no evidence to suggest she planned it. how would she have been able to know her mom was going to be on the phone with the university? definitely homicide but not premediated. idk what evidence you've seen to suggest that.
@@kirbcutscals i dont think she planned the murder, but she was devising plans to get away with it.
@@kirbcutscals She did premeditate when she went for the knife. She had to go to the kitchen and back to her mum. Plenty of time to premeditate. According to the law.
Insane people having a psychotic episode don’t immediately make up a lie to cover their crime and stage the scene , they just aren’t thinking that way
I feel like there is so much more to this story the family seems like it’s no big deal she killed her mom just my opinion
Yes it is kind of odd.
For them to proclaim how great Brenda was.
Brenda seems like an afterthought now.
Grandma lost her daughter she doesnt seem to emotional.
It’s extremely bizarre to witness.
Extremely. Something is way off.
@@SmileyAdventures it really is even with the dads testimony it’s not like this girl just threw a fit and got mad she killed her mother!!!
I certainly didn’t like or understand her attitude towards the prosecution. Lady! Your lovely granddaughter killed your daughter!
This family is SICK IN THE HEAD ! Unbelievable.
Why did the judge let the murderer out on bail??????
Lady this grandchild murdered YOUR DAUGHTER.
If this girl goes free, all that it’s gonna do is show her YET AGAIN that she doesn’t have to face consequences for her actions. What’s gonna stop her from going on the next murderous rampage or doing something else horribly??? Girl is gonna feel invincible. Especially now that she’s “clinically diagnosed”. She’s clearly smart enough to understand the implications of that, so I wouldn’t doubt that she would use that diagnosis to her advantage in the future. Sickening
Keep her away from Children, she's a loaded gun, when will the next time be, or the next victim, that's on these so called experts, but it will be too late for any victim!🤬🤬🤬
If she did this out of cold blood, she should rot in prison. If it were because of her "diagnosis" she should go bye bye to an institution.
There's no way she could go free. She answered the phone and tried to pretend to be her mom. 🙄 I wonder if she had friends who were around her before the murder happened, just to say how her behavior was before she killed her mom?
& telling her father, & the cops there was a breaking & mum told her to get out, also smashing a window to make like there was a breakin, she Not stupid by any meaning of the word, she IS DEVIOUS though!😈
Ironic Brenda did that line of work and then have her own daughter stab her to death. Rip poor lady no one deserves what happened to her
She's a mom murderer. Dad says there was nothing wrong with her, no mental health issues. Of course she was better at your home granny, she's not in jail.
Her dad didn’t know anything about his daughter. He didn’t even know when she came home
The dad is very odd, maybe a bit autistic, leave everything to his wife to handle.
Sydney is very lucky to have her remaining family's support. When she goes to prison for this terrible deed, she will be one of the few who has a support system.
Let's hope She DOES GO TO PRISON,
SHE WON THAT PRIZE!
Not sure I would call it a luck. She was spoiled rotten, never learned responsibility and self discipline. She'll have a hard time in prison, regardless of outside support.
How can this Gma support Sydney after killing her Daughter is beyond me! This is absolutely crazy
I feel the same i love my kids anyone killing them family or not I just couldn't except it...
I'll spell it out:
Family. Relationships. Are. Complicated.
It's complicated because she obviously loves them both
She doesn’t want to loose both
I think they really do believe she had a mental breakdown.
Funny that Sydney wasn’t crying or carrying on while her grandmother testified. She makes me sick that’s the mother of her murder victim and it’s like she feels nothing for what she is putting her through.
She should be ashamed of herself !!!! For condoning her daughters killing
I feel very sorry for her and the rest of the family that are so delusional when it comes to her granddaughter. Hopefully the justice system will do what the family is not capable of. Just sad.
So, grandma just said, she has abuse issues with her own son?
Not even a tear for her beloved daughter. I am so confused. Any murderer has got to be let off because of insanity??? That is if this murderer is proven innocent because of insanity. Feel so disappointed in defence attorney. Thought he was a decent guy. If this was my daughter who had been murdered by my granddaughter I would be heartbroken beyond words & could not testify in court. All very very strange.
You don't know how much she cried when the murder happened. Listen, I love my dad more than I could ever express. He's dead. I lost him in a horrifying way. But if I had to talk about it on the stand, I'd be stoic. My tears I save for the times I want to reflect and let the memories flow. I don't share my tears with the world. Maybe this woman is the same way, how would you know? She obviously loved her daughter very much, she spoke sweet words about her and the memories were warm and cherished.
You don't know what you are talking about. It's not odd to be in control of your emotions. It's actually quite healthy.
Defense has to do everything they can for their client, no matter how decent or moral they are. 🙄
@lindasuejasa9784 it amazes me how many people refuse to understand this. Especially public defenders, they are compelled to put forward a defence.
Elegant sausage , grandma didn't even go to the hospital where she thought her daughter was ,but went where her granddaughter was . that seemed odd to me . once I would have heard my daughter was dead and my granddaughter did it ,I would have been beside myself . It would take a long time for me to make since of that .
Granny has the wool pulled over her eyes.There’s more to the story than the family is telling.
Think the entire family needs locked up in a ward goodness 🤯🤯🤯🤦♀️
Strangely calm and matter-of-fact grandma is on the stand. Very odd.
It is incredible to hear that they discharged her to go live with her elderly grandparents on a farm after she murdered their own child. That seems irrational and unsafe. It might be based on love and compassion, but it seems more like denial and enabling. Regardless of what they thought her diagnosis was, she was violent, unpredictable and very dishonest.
I think this whole family may be mentally ill. The fact that they think that this girl should not be locked away for life it’s just sickening.
She killed her mother for nothing.
She never cries for her daughter. I would be a mess.
She looks to me like someone who keeps her grief very private. I'm sure she has wept buckets in the three and a half years since her daughter was murdered, and still does. 😢
I'm beginning to think the reason why Sydney thought she could get away with mu*rder was how coddled she was.
This woman is unreal …defending the murderer of her child and housing her… !!! OMG!!! 😱
How could she sleep at night knowing a vicious murderer granddaughter was sleeping in that house? She murdered her daughter FFS. She's one brave old lady that's for sure. I bet she didn't cross her. How scary and STUPID on GMa's part
@@micheledematteis2072 l totally agree! The daughter is an adult and her sentence will be as that! Thank God for the jury who didn’t bow down to her like her looney family! 🤪😡😳Justice for the mother who gave birth to a 👿 monster!!!
@@annbendouli5871 Yes!!!
Brenda worked with children with cancer…..what a huge loss for the hospital and patients.
Keeps referring as "My Sydney"..🤦🏻♀️ GET A GRIP WOMAN!! She killed your daughter ffs
I know. So annoying
The reason Sydney was out of it at grandmas is because the reality of what she did and the consequences set in.
Consequences of murder is not living on grandma's farm!
@@ajordan1976 I meant the consequences to come for murder
Not the antipsychotics?
I greatly respect the demeanor of the prosecutor. He is consistently respectful and is not showboating in any way.
A teen and her mom not speaking words is really outlandish to even hear/take in. Of course they did. Human nature, G-ma. This family is deep-rooted in playing perfect (sad).
What sweet lady! So sad she lost her daughter and in such a horrible sad way.
People with schizophrenia or even people pretending to have it will say voices told them to do whatever bad thing they did. They don’t make up a story about a man breaking in that did the deed. They blame the voices not some break in that never happened. Voices get you an insanity defence.
Good point but she could have panicked
Covering up the crime gets you life
I was thinking a complete dissociative episode and when she “came back” she just assumed someone broke in. I think that would explain the difference between her emotions during the father’s testimony and her grandmother’s. Or she got so worked up during dads that they highly medicated her for this testimony.
She did the dirty deed, thought 💩, now what do I do, I'll say someone broke in, Because I'm unable to be honest about my actions, GUILTY, nothing else is acceptable!
I know this is so devastating for this grandma but let's not blame the authorities for it.
This grandmother lost a daughter and doesn’t want to lose a granddaughter too , but by being blinded by her grief she’s not really seeing the danger this girl poses to anyone around her
Now she is looking all calm and not crying
nails nicely painted
Taking notes and looking quite engaged in the process…..
Something’s wrong with this family! Omg
Grandmother said she felt Sydney was improving? Wow, she was improving in such a short time? I really don't know what to make of this family yet.
I feel desperately sad seeing this elderly woman giving testimony, having lost her daughter by a brutal murder, horrendously, perpetrated her granddaughter. I think she and her husband are very courageous and compassionate to have Sydney live with them after she was released on bail, if she is schizophrenic her behaviour could be dangerously unpredictable. At least her medication is better now. I don't know the entire case but just feel so sad for her grandmother. May her beloved daughter Rest in Peace. Xxx ❤
I can't watch any more of this delusional family. What a bunch of sad, messed up, people. Sydney had the presence of mind to lie, to pretend to be her mother on the phone, and to try to claim a break-in and attack...She knew what she was trying to do (and failed). Grandma needs to wake up; defending the lying murderer of your child is a horrible look.
I'm just into watching this from Melbourne Australia ohhhh dear Brenda I'm extremely saddened and sorry over your very senseless cruel murder by your own daughter 😢 My God terrible...💔🙏🕊🌹🦋
If she killed my only daughter. I wouldn't have bonded her out , she wouldn't have come to stay at my house. I wouldn't have lied to help my granddaughter out by saying she has a mental health disorder. This evil brat is not crazy, she knew exactly exactly what she was doing when she killed her own mother over her own lie .
Whats wrong with this family? Do they not realize that stabbing someone in the beck 30 times is not normal.