Laura Owens’ BOMBSHELL Punishment for Pregnancy Scam!

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: she knows she's lying but not once has she admitted to lying it's judgment day for laura owens i've never in my entire life set out to hurt another person after years of shocking fake pregnancies sickening lies and cruel manipulation the pregnancy scam fraudster finally faces her day of reckoning but is her punishment a slap on the wrist or is justice served she's either a [00:00:31] Speaker 2: sophisticated conniving calculating shakedown artist or um she's been engaging in some really [00:00:40] Speaker 1: poorly thought out attention-seeking behavior i'm anjanette levy and this is crime fix the day has come for laura owens to learn her punishment after years of claiming she was pregnant with the twins of two men when she wasn't this wasn't just a one-time claim laura owens went as far as filing a paternity lawsuit against bachelor contestant clayton eckert the years of text messages the fake pregnancy tests the web of lies a prosthetic belly and even a stolen ultrasound all blew up in laura owens's face in spectacular fashion i have done nothing except get pregnant by the bachelor that was laura owens melting down as scottsdale police executed a search warrant at her parents home in january of 2025 the evidence seized in that operation led a grand jury to indict owens on charges of perjury forgery tampering with evidence and fraudulent schemes laura was booked she pleaded not guilty and she maintained she was the victim of a social media mob a vicious campaign the case of laura owens it's been watched closely by people across the country and around the globe the case has a cult following with social media followers digging into every detail and even uncovering evidence but as laura owens trial date approached and after laura owens went through a long line of lawyers something changed and laura owens [00:02:22] Speaker 2: in a complete about face pleaded guilty so uh miss owens i've been handed a plea agreement that indicates you want to resolve your case by pleading guilty to count one fraudulent schemes and artifices a class two non-dangerous felony count six perjury a class four non-dangerous felony count nine fraudulent schemes and artifices a class two non-dangerous felony and then count ten taking my identity of another a class [00:02:47] Speaker 1: four felony non-dangerous is that what you want to do today yes your honor and today laura owens learned her punishment after a pre-sentence report recommended she served prison time for her schemes the judge could have sentenced laura owens to 12 years in prison you know running a business is tough enough but why make it harder doing things manually or relying on dozens of apps that don't talk to each other that is where our great sponsor odoo comes in odoo is an all-in-one business management platform with a full suite of integrated apps that seamlessly connect all of your operations from sales and accounting to manufacturing and even shipping odoo can automatically 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for the past five years plus the psychological warfare that she waged on these men is extreme april 26 it's discovered that the ultrasound she sent greg back in 2021 to prove her twin pregnancy had a fiver logo embedded in the background and they were able to determine that the um ultrasound actually came from a vanishing twin blog in 2015 from victim stormy mitchell and meanwhile while all of this is going on she's also been doing the same thing to clayton which we'll get to later greg was called to testify at the hearing but they ran out of time so here is the um this is on the left here is stormy mitchell's actual ultrasound um that she posted on her blog this one to the right is the one that laura stole as you can see hers is zoomed in a little bit more but it's exactly the same you see the um sack where the baby both babies would be one's bigger than the other one um uh you can also see uh whoops there's a typo in it she didn't use in uh the number zero she put an o in it which would not be on a proper medical ultrasound um stormy mitchell uh found this out she was very distressed because i'm not sure how much the court is aware but a vanishing twin that means the one that the smaller one did not survive and you know what was supposed to be a time of it was a very difficult time which is why she posted on the blog um to get support laura used stormy sadden her sad situation for her own [00:06:27] Speaker 4: selfish benefit i want to walk you through uh what victim clayton ecker uh endured beginning in 2023 so may 17th uh defendant contacts uh clayton uh he was a reality uh star he had been the bachelor and at the time he was working as a scottsdale realtor she contacts him under the auspices of a possible real estate deal as i'll discuss shortly the evidence supports that clayton was targeted by the defendant in fact he invites her over on may 20th 2023 uh importantly they they hook up they end up having but there was no clayton as uh uh these gentlemen who are victimized here in part they're victimized because they were guys who tried to do the right thing clayton realized he made a mistake he believed that he crossed an ethical line you know in his capacity as a potential real estate agent and he thought it best to refer laura to uh another real estate agent she became very upset and she was because she was targeting him she was very upset about the fact that they were not going to engage in a [00:07:49] Speaker 1: relationship that's what she wanted from him and then came the time for the victims to speak these are the arizona victims there is one man in california who came forward and a second man who was too scared to do so first up clayton eckert who had a one night fling with laura owens that he says did not include actual sexual intercourse that would result in a pregnancy but i want you to understand this laura [00:08:17] Speaker 5: all of the suffering that she has endured has fall has come from her own doing and it's her choice she has chosen her suffering but she has not extended that privilege to me and the other victims i didn't want any of this i didn't want to be in the court system i didn't want to give up my power at the mercy of the court and have them ultimately rule after fighting for three and a half years i'm at the mercy of you and i understand that and i hope that we have a fair outcome but i didn't get to choose my suffering this image of fragility that she presents is calculated she goes since since we've been in court she goes it is documented she goes to barry's boot camp one to two times a day she's hundreds of days that she's gone she is manipulating the image of what you see but that's still her choice if laura doesn't carry out paternity scandals none of this impacts her all of this is suffering is by her own doing i believe that incarceration is an absolute must because i know as well as the other victims know that laura will not stop until she is removed from her environment and her environment is the comforts of her parents guest house her being labeled a felon is not enough she doesn't work so that doesn't matter but she is afraid of incarceration because it takes her out of her comfort zone it pulls her out of what she is used used to living within which is being funded by her family to sit in her guest home and carry out these tactics she's extremely dangerous because she can do this 24 7 around the clock and what i don't want to see is another victim back in this court system by her own doing she didn't choose to stop before she got caught and now she's just and with her back against the wall her tears if she brings any today are going to be because she's fighting to keep herself from being incarcerated her tears aren't from empathy they're not she doesn't feel sorry she's just sorry [00:10:35] Speaker 1: she got caught greg gillespie is the second male victim in arizona in this case the assistant county [00:10:41] Speaker 4: attorney read a letter that gillespie wrote dear judge reader i'm submitting this statement because i want the court to understand that the harm caused by laura michelle owens criminal conduct cannot be measured by the four counts to which she has pleaded guilty alone what happened to me was not simply a series of isolated incidents it has had a long lasting financial and personal impact on my life i've spent years dealing with consequences that i did not create expenses i should never have had to incur incur and financial losses that would not have existed but for miss owens conduct there is a financial number associated with these losses but there is no number that can adequately capture what it has been like to live through this for years i have had to spend time energy and money dealing with circumstances resulting from miss owens actions instead of being able to focus solely on my career my family in my life i have repeatedly had to deal with the consequences of conduct that was entirely outside of my control one of my most significant examples was the sale of my paid off 2014 toyota forerunner for 27 000 i own that vehicle outright yet i had ultimately had to liquidate an asset to help recover financially from the losses i was experiencing that decision represents more than simply a 27 000 transaction to me it represents an asset asset i had worked for and owned outright that i was forced to give up because of the financial circumstances created by the losses i was trying to manage laura also still has an active order of protection against me nothing in any of her past three orders of protection she's received against me since 2021 is true just more lies from laura meant to harass and intimidate me she even went as far as having all three of these orders served to my work when she was very well aware of my home address and knows i do not work out of my company's scottsdale showroom being served with multiple orders of protection at work based on false allegations was humiliating frightening and deeply damaging to my reputation i request the harshest possible punishment for laura owens for the crime she has committed against me i hold no sympathy for her greg gillespie [00:12:56] Speaker 1: asked for 294 000 in restitution for lost commissions and wages and for an suv he had to sell to pay legal fees because of laura owens the prosecutor also read a letter from a victim in this case a woman whose ultrasound laura owens took from the internet and used as her own the babies in that [00:13:18] Speaker 4: ultrasound actually died your honor my name is stormy mitchell i'm a wife a mother a daughter and a friend i'm a lover of books concerts theme parks and theater and i am so much more than that also i'm a victim of laura owens laura owens is a woman i've never met and had absolutely no connection with before discovering what she had done my husband and i have experienced a devastating loss loss of babies through miscarriage and stillbirth these losses have forever changed our family and who we are as people losing a child is not something you ever get over and experiencing that heartbreak is something i would never wish on anyone years ago i experienced a devastating loss of one of my twins during pregnancy due to vanishing twin syndrome the ultrasound picture laura owens stole was one of my twins is the only physical reminder in this world that both twins existed together at the same time it is the only photo i will ever have of my twins together i will never get a first day of school photo with them or a holiday photo in matching outfits i only have that one ultrasound picture she didn't just steal a picture which would have been heinous enough she then claimed that the photograph of my pregnancy represented her own pregnancy she used my babies as part of a lie to manipulate and hurt someone else honestly that is despicable i'm asking the court to sentence laura owens to jail time i do not make this request lightly as a mother and a nurse i believe in compassion and i understand that people make mistakes but i also believe that there is a difference between making a mistake and making multiple intentional choices that cause harm to others laura searched for an ultrasound photo and found mine on the edges of the internet she purposely stole my photo and claimed it as her own what laura owens did was not a harmless act you know if you love digging into the details of these big [00:15:08] Speaker 1: meaningful crime cases as much as i do you need to be using the law and crime plus app if you haven't checked it out already here are three reasons to jump on board today first you get complete access watch the best shows from both law and crime and court tv completely ad-free number two you get court tv's case files deep dive access to raw trial evidence including body camera video 911 calls crime scene photos and much more and finally binge worthy true crime you can dive into a huge huge library of true crime series documentaries and cases whenever you want and right now we have a great special offer with my promo code fix fall that is fix fall get 25 off an annual law and crime plus subscription and enjoy a full year of true crime commercial free it's just 44.99 for the year go to lawandcrimeplus.com and subscribe today then it came time for laura owens's family to speak first her mom jan black my husband and i have [00:16:13] Speaker 6: both enjoyed decades-long award-winning careers in journalism hosting news and talk shows on abc and cbs i am now 70 and i rely heavily on laura to help me provide daily care for ron as has been mentioned laura lives in a casita on our property ron is 81 and has had severe mobility issues having battled parkinson's disease for 26 years along with three kinds of cancer serious heart issues and numerous other health issues in recent years three years ago we were told that ron had only six months to a year to live and while thankfully he has outlived that prognosis a jail sentence for laura would in reality be a punitive sentence for us as well it would deprive ron of the precious limited time he may have left with his daughter and it would strip away the vital caregiving support we both desperately need at this time in our lives laura has already been severely punished her character has been destroyed she's been humiliated and she's paid a devastating price physically mentally and financially on behalf of ron and myself i ask that you show laura mercy and sentence her to probation only granting her this chance to quietly rebuild her life under the supervision of [00:17:54] Speaker 1: the court and then came owens's father legendary san francisco talk radio host ron owens who's fighting [00:18:01] Speaker 7: cancer your honor i just want to tell the court that i love my daughter more than i can put into words she's been there for me through the good times and bad and she's always trying to think of ways to help me and brighten my day she cares for me in a way that no one else could i don't know how much [00:18:24] Speaker 1: time i've got left and finally laura owens's attorney and laura owens herself spoke on her behalf begging begging that she be spared from prison um your your honor i'm absolutely [00:18:39] Speaker 8: terrified of what might happen after i um i speak today but i really don't want that fear to overshadow what i came to say because i i know there are people who have suffered because of decisions that i made and i want to take accountability for that and they deserve to hear me do that um i i pleaded guilty to four felonies and i am profoundly profoundly sorry for the pain to stress and expense that i've caused them and for failing to meet the the standard of honesty that this court had every right to accept from me um i've thought about the choices that brought me here every moment of every day and i wish more than anything that i could go back to the moments that i still had the opportunity to make different choices and i wish more than anything that i had made those different choices and that's not because i'm finding myself here right now i just genuinely wish i i had made better choices and hadn't panicked um i've never in my entire life set out to hurt another person but i do understand um that the people the people i heard don't have don't uh they shouldn't have to care what my um what my intentions were they just have to live with the consequences of what my actions did to them and i am just so terribly terribly sorry that um that i ever put them into that position and eventually i started to believe that the things that these people were saying were were true um and i hated myself so much that i thought that i deserved to suffer and i starved myself and i made myself vomit like i could physically rid myself of this shame that i couldn't bear and i felt i had no control to apologize to these people so this was like a way i could control have some sort of control and i lost 50 pounds i weigh 85 pounds now um and i considered i wondered if doing that would make these people feel like they got justice that they uh deserved and i still think about that a lot but i also understand how terribly wrong that thinking is because i can't make amends to these people by hating myself um they deserve better and they need to know that i've taken this seriously enough to change how i live and that's exactly what i've been trying to do [00:21:24] Speaker 1: so guess what judge reuter he gave laura owens what she wanted he didn't send her to prison all right i [00:21:30] Speaker 2: know there's a lot of interest in this case and i've tuned all that out um from my my point of view i just think there's been a lot of suffering all the way around and um you know it's unfortunate that suffering has become a spectator sport so sorry for everybody who's been involved in this case uh you know i've been doing this a long time i've sentenced i've sentenced a lot of people for just about every way a human can harm other humans um she's either a sophisticated conniving calculating shakedown artist or um she's been engaging in some really poorly thought out attention seeking behavior as a result of mental health issues so which is that because one deserves one kind of sentence one deserves a different kind of sentence and you can only look at the evidence for that at some point during all this all this litigation and right in the middle of it she basically it was this was in the pre-sentence report in the summary of the departmental reports says basically hey if you just date me or if we have a relationship this will all go away i mean that tells you pretty much all all you need to know when you're deciding whether or not she's this sophisticated con person or very not a sad individual making some poor choices so obviously i think it's the latter i don't think putting a you know potentially mentally ill person who has committed a non-violent offense with no prior criminal history in a prison is the appropriate thing to do i'm not going to do that just because prison wasn't imposed today that is always a thing you're going to have to worry about while you're on probation because if you violate the terms and conditions of your probation to a degree your probation could be revoked and if that happens you could be sentenced up to 12.5 years in the department of corrections on counts one and nine and up to 3.75 years in the department of corrections on camp six and ten [00:23:32] Speaker 1: a deputy cuffed laura owens and led her away to jail to start her 30-day jail sentence she will spend 11 years on supervised probation if she violates it she could go to prison she will also have to seek mental health counseling judge reuter said that he anticipates that laura owens will also have to pay restitution so stay tuned this story may not be over just yet and that's it for this episode of crime fix i'm annette levy thanks so much for being with me i'll see you back here next time