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[music] >> On June 15th, 2024, a quiet Ohio neighborhood is thrown into chaos after a woman is pinned to her garage by a vehicle with her own daughter behind the wheel. But when she refuses to cooperate, Miami Township officers find themselves in pursuit of a desperate driver willing to risk everything to get away. Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Get out of the [ __ ] car now. 64-year-old Joyce Mallette remains trapped and fighting for her life as her 23-year-old daughter, Anna Mallette, is just seconds away from putting even more lives at risk, including a dog sitting inside the car. >> [music] >> As Anna makes a desperate [music] escape, officers begin a high-speed pursuit. Meanwhile, emergency responders race to save her mother. All right. Can't move. Okay, stay with me, okay? What's your name? I'm here, okay? Stay with me. Right there, okay? If you got to throw up, you're fine. I got you. Stay with me. You got her? >> Yep, got her. >> As Joyce's fate hangs in the balance, Anna continues to lead officers on a chaotic chase. With her driver's side door swinging open, she barrels through back roads, continues driving even after losing her front right tire, and races onto the highway. But as she swerves across the road, the pursuit comes to a violent end. >> [screaming] >> Get her again, Anna. Come on. >> Get her. >> Get on your back. GET ON YOUR BACK. GET ON YOUR BACK. >> Got it. >> Oh, no. >> Please, just kill me. >> Despite the severity of the crash, Anna and her dog have made it out alive. However, as officers begin reading Anna her Miranda rights, her refusal to cooperate reignites, giving way to a series of unsettling statements. >> Hey. >> I want to go back. >> Anna, you stop. >> PLEASE, PLEASE. >> ANNA, STOP. GET IN THE CAR. >> PLEASE. I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE. PLEASE. >> STAY IN THE CAR. >> I DON'T want to be on the highway. >> Slow down. >> I WANT TO DIE. PLEASE. PLEASE, PLEASE, LET ME JUMP OFF the bridge. I don't want to eat anymore. Please. Please. I don't want to be dissected. Please, I WANT TO GO BACK to Earth. That wasn't my mom. >> This won't be the last of Anna's disturbing remarks, as she will soon provide a bizarre explanation behind the day's events. But for one responding officer, her behavior isn't entirely unfamiliar. >> Yeah, we've dealt with her before doing the same thing. Chasing a boyfriend out of the yard with >> Was she hurt person or is she just a mental case? >> I think it's a mental. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. >> The incident involving her now ex-boyfriend occurred in May of 2022. However, police reports do not provide a full account of what transpired. For that attack, court documents show that Anna was convicted of felonious assault, served 7 months in prison, and was released on parole in 2023. A status she was still under when she struck her mother with the car. Back at Joyce's home, emergency responders desperately tried to save her life as she's been critically injured in the attack. Police then turn to witness accounts to reconstruct the moments leading up to the incident, where one woman paints a particularly horrifying picture. >> The black Acura, I don't know like who the players were. But it was it had like turned around our just kind of like a normal turn in our driveway and then I saw the girl or the a woman running on the the yard. >> Okay. >> And the the Acura came up on their lawn. >> Yep. >> And like stopped and not hit the tree, it looked like. Like I think the woman is in the tree. And the woman had entered the yard and the car came over here somewhere and >> Okay. >> Investigators will soon discover that Anna's understanding of what she did is far removed from reality. She is then transported to the hospital. There a detective sits at her bedside, hoping to get answers. But, with every statement, Anna's account only becomes stranger. >> My My ex-boyfriend was a demon. He locked me in his home. And he he burned my body in his home. >> Where was his home for you? >> At my sister's house. And then, they also burned my body off in that camper. They were taking my body apart. I have a video of it. And he like he replaced my whole family. He's trying to erase me. He took all of our phones. All my phones are with me and they're gone. >> From your house? >> Yeah. And they they tried getting rid of my whole family. They replaced them with like other people, like other like like clones or something. They're like they're like non-humans. I just want my family back. >> As Anna details her side of the story, she makes it clear that in her mind, the woman before her was no longer her mother. >> It's an alien or something. Like I I looked at her closely and I took a picture. I have it on my phone. She's >> [music] >> not human. And she had my phone in her purse. And I grabbed her purse and she just started dragging me down the road. And she's not an old woman. She's extremely strong. >> Right. She's like an FBI agent or something. >> I shaved her head cuz she threatened to scalp me. >> Why did Why did she threaten to scalp you? >> I don't know. Did she threaten to beat me then scalp me? >> Security camera footage from the day before captured a tense exchange between the mother and daughter, offering a glimpse into the events that may have preceded the attack. >> I have no idea what She was trying to attack me. I don't want anything to But, what if I have to Exactly. I will drop you off at the homeless shelter. EXACTLY. WHAT? YOU GOT AN IDEA THERE. >> A RELATIVE WOULD ALSO tell investigators that Joyce had spent the night before the terrifying ordeal with another family member claiming that Anna was beating her up. By the following morning, the situation would escalate to a deadly level. >> She kept running away and I had a broken leg. I'm not running away but like she instead of getting in the car with me, she just kept going like I thought like like I don't know. I just like drove forward in the garage and then I backed up. And then um I was in shock when she was like and she like moved by the side or something. But she didn't get hit or anything. >> Audio portions of the attack were also captured by a neighboring security camera where screams can be heard echoing just seconds before Joyce IS STRUCK. >> NO! >> [screaming] >> NO! >> [screaming] >> I THOUGHT I WAS A hostage or something. I wanted to be returned. I didn't want to hurt anybody. I didn't want to hurt the car. I don't want to hurt anything. I don't want to do anything. I just wanted to have peace at last. I do love her but and it's not her anymore. >> As Anna is transported to the Clermont County Jail, she makes a claim that will haunt her for the rest of her life. >> I didn't kill anybody. That's >> That's not for me to say right now. >> my decision. I didn't kill anybody. >> That's for the family to decide. >> No, it's not my decision. I didn't kill anybody. >> Tragically, that's not true. 64-year-old Joyce succumbed to the injury she sustained during the incident. According to police records, she suffered a crushed pelvis which caused extensive internal bleeding. Joyce's obituary remembers her as having, quote, gently left our world leaving behind four beloved grandchildren. >> Do you understand? I need to be released. I didn't kill anybody. >> According to court documents, Anna was charged with one count of aggravated murder, three counts of murder, and four counts of felonious assault, each with a repeat violent offender specification. She was also charged with two counts of failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer. In July of 2025, Anna pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault, both with repeat violent offender specifications. 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