Chris Crawford
Appearances
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
This teen has been expelled from school. Her mom has been fired.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
My name is Chris Crawford and I'm known to take high profile cases in the local Gulf Coast area.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
I got an understanding of what was happening from Randy, and then all of a sudden there was kind of like this explosion of information. We had forensic experts. It just got to the point where, you know, the state attorney's office had three or four experts. We had an expert, which is so rare in a criminal case.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
The law enforcement, FDLE, they're literally interrogating 30 to 40 kids. They would show up at kids' house randomly. Hey, we're from Florida Department of Law Enforcement. When we would get the recordings, you could immediately tell that these are teenage kids that want nothing to do with this. The high school kids did not care at all. They're like, oh, we're still talking about that?
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
That's what you guys are here investigating? I don't know anything. That was 30, 40 interviews just like this. And what I'm telling you is the amount of time that they ran around the town, went to all these different schools trying to get these kids, because some of the kids would go to different schools at this point. Some kids had even graduated.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Right? Like that's what gave it this good story aspect. That's what gave it the fantasy and the emotion and everything else.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
But truthfully, none of that really mattered. It was all about that one interview Laura did in the office with the investigator and some other guy she's admitting to violating the law.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
So all the other technical stuff about the election and all this kind of mystery of what was actually going on at the end didn't matter because they had her admission that she's accessing student profiles outside of the confines of her job. And that is what they were really putting a lot of emphasis on, that that was the key to their case.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Did people in Escambia County really care that much about it? Locally, people thought it was ridiculous that we were wasting so much time and money going after this family. Truthfully, it wasn't like there was parents screaming and shouting about this. The parents were more upset about these FDLE agents.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Imagine these higher-level law enforcement agents showing up at their front door wanting to talk to their kids. That's what the parents were more upset about. But elsewhere, this is like some kind of crazy southern small town story to them.