Teen LOCKED UP for Executing Mom Over Transgender Fight

- So you're basically saying that I'm a culprit. - A Florida teenager has officially admitted to killing two people, their own mom, and the mom's young boyfriend. But this killer could be out of prison sooner than you might expect. - You will be eligible for review after completion of the 25 year minimum mandatory sentence. - As the killer owns up to their crimes, we're taking a look back at the carnage uncovered inside this Palm Bay floor to home. The steps the defendant took to try to cover their tracks and the possible motive behind it all. We're on the case presented by law and crime. I'm Chris Stewart. - When Brevard County, Florida 911 dispatchers got a call back in July of 2024, the teenager on the other end of the line was hysterical. They reported that someone had broken into their home while their mom and their boyfriend were out and they'd ransacked the house. - Is there anyone out there who's at home with you? - Not me, Mom. (crying) - Oh man, I know this is really scary. Your mom and her boyfriend should be on their way home. - No, this is. (crying) - Okay. Take a deep breath, we'll get in touch with your parents. Just as soon as officers get there, okay? (crying) - It wouldn't be until Palm Bay police officers got inside the home that they would discover 38 year old Kelly McCollum and 22 year old Matthew Zenorak, dead, the 16 year old who'd called in the alleged home invasion was Julia Eglor, who identifies as transgender and told police they prefer the name Jasper. According to an arrest affidavit on July 7th, 2024, Eglor told dispatchers that someone had tried to break in through a sliding glass door while Kelly and Matthew were out getting food. Eglor claimed they grabbed their two dogs and hid in their bathroom, terrified to come out as this apparent intruder rummaged around the house for hours. When Eglor finally came out, they said that they found the couple dead. Police body cam footage. Gives us a look at what Eglor's demeanor was like when officers got on scene. - Hello. - How you doing? - We're 1012. - Come on on. - Okay. - Why is there blood on the floor? - Kisler. - Huh? - What, are you okay? Are you bleeding? - No. - Who is bleeding? - I don't want them to report. - Come outside, come outside, come outside. What is going on? Why is that door smash? - It's so uncaved. - Two of it to two of them. We have a medical or a spinal, we have blood on the floor. - Who is bleeding? - My mom. - Where's your mom? - It's good. - Stay here, stay here. - Hey. - Hang up. - It was 1033. Somebody stay out here, where? - Can we walk? - Yep. - Just have a seat right here, right? - He's so weird. - What am I doing? - Sorry, that was not so weird. (laughing) - I just heard it. (laughing) - Huh? - No, it just grew up. (beep) - If you just grab the phone in time? - The dogs walked up there in my room. No, they're just in my room. - Is the door to your room open? - No, they're schooled. - Okay. (laughing) - Are you hurt anyway? - No. - Did you get hurt on her? - Yeah. (laughing) , I'm sorry. (laughing) - It's all locked in my room. - Can you wear a shirt, time's in order? - Okay, I wish it could be here. - We have 43. - Hmm. - Hey, what's your name? - Julia. - Huh? - Julia, a glor. - Julia, a glor? - A glor. - A glor? - Hi, who do you live here with, hun? Your mom, are you okay? Are you injured at all? - Is it leaving? - No, okay. Who else lives here, just your mom? - Her boyfriend was around a lot. - Her boyfriend, what's his name? - Oh, Matthew. - Matthew? Is there any arguments or anything kind of thing? - I'm between two. - There's so much to be able to do. - Wait, my mom is the part you look like. - Okay. - You have to hold her hand on the floor. - It's going in, so it's okay. - It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. - You live here? - Yeah. - Yeah. - You live here, my dear. - Yeah. - Your mom? - Yeah. - What's your problem? - Yeah, it's okay. - Her boyfriend picked out around a lot. - Okay. - He's a good one. - Matthew? - Yeah. - Who? - Matthew? - Mm-hmm. - I don't know how I want to make him do it. - How about here now? - Okay. - I'm just going to ask you a couple of basic questions, so you can get understanding here and I'll give you a couple minutes to, you know. - What's the problem? - Um, where's your sleep? - I don't know. - No? - Oh, what's the problem? - Okay. - It's kind of what, what's charted, what's charting, when he came up to the table. Matthew came up to the window and said, "Oh, I don't know what it was. "You don't know what it was." - Okay. - Did his front window right here? - No. - It was less sliding doors turned back to do what he was doing. - He could go up to that? - Where was your mom at? - Her and her boyfriend were out. - They were behind her, her friends, her friends, and so they were out when you heard this person come up to the window. - Okay. - Okay. - Okay. - What time was it that? - I don't know. - I didn't, look. I just focused on the things like dogs and running. - Was it like a couple of minutes ago? - No. - No. - It was, like, over a second. - Like a couple of hours ago? - Mm-hmm. - According to Eglor, while they were locked inside their bedroom, they heard gunshots from inside the home, but they stayed barricaded in for a while longer before coming out and making an awful discovery. - So here in your room, do you hear this person moving around in a house? - Okay. - I'm sorry. It's gross. - Oh. - Yeah. - I think they broke. I think they broke something, they just heard loud banging, okay, when did the banging stop? - I don't know. The other shirt, it was just, it was so scary looking at the other shirt. - Oh. - So. Why do you think they called that place? - They called this place. - Did my house or was looking for a blue-ish? - Yeah, it's at this place. - But your mom would not home when it's happen? - Yeah. - Okay. - Did you hear her arrive home? - I'm sorry. - I'm sorry. - Oh, I'm sorry. - You think what? - I'm sorry. - I'm sorry. - I'm sorry. - I'm sorry. - So how long have you heard these gunshots? - Like an hour-ish, maybe more. I just, I can't tell. It's time passed. It just felt like so. It was so wild. I just, I couldn't take it anymore. But I came out. It's so wild. Sorry, you're okay, I just wouldn't understand that, very traumatic and shocking event. What did you see when you came out? Nothing at all. Just letting this. Okay. Did you see anything other than blood? Well, there's those two words. As Eglis relays the story outside, an investigation is going on inside the house, and officers are quickly starting to realize that what Eglis says happened just does not match up with the evidence they're coming across. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. They find Kelly McCullum's truck outside the home, the engine is reportedly still warm, and they also discovered that the family dogs weren't where they were expected to be. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, no, that was not us, because we did not step in any blood. We were very careful, yeah, it's very sneakers, it's like these look like converse, those looks like converse, is she, is she wearing shoes, the daughter came out this way too, so she's daughter's not, no mom's not, okay, yeah, zero, I don't see, there's a bunch of empty shells in there, but I don't see a zero, probably under him, we'll just leave it, yeah, there's the keys to the truck, are right there next to him, spent shell casings, knife, yeah it's a big butcher knife in there, right outside the door, there's an axe where he broke the glass. I take it, we open the garage door, yes, yeah, when we, when we cleared it, it was closed and we got her, yeah, she's still doing, this is fine, yeah, there's her, I think daughter's, she's got her wearing shoes, I believe so, I believe she's wearing converse, yeah, she saw me, I should have said, I love you more, she knows her mom's garage, she said that they got a little fight tonight, Nicole's popping over so, I was calling her down a bit, that's hope, yeah, well, she has, yep, there I stayed, yeah, there I stayed, yeah, she said she's not there, she said she's not there, yeah, so I can start watching how she's doing, yeah, that's the case, there's like, there's like four empty shells of casings, yeah, it's fine, there's a lot of casings, yeah, yeah, she's been like, a lot of gunshots, yeah, you know, you see a lot of them, and it's fireworks, people been shooting off fireworks, yeah, maybe that's the case too, people just thought it was fireworks, the dogs are in her bedroom, the dogs are in her bedroom, yeah, we went in there and cleared it, the dogs are in there, we locked them back in there, when we got, when we came in, that door was closed and the dogs were in there, the door was open, the bathroom door was open, that door was closed, this one is the purple one, that's probably the dog's, that's probably the dog's room with the dogs in it, there should be two dogs in there, you want me to grab tape and tape any things off, I mean it's pretty much contained right now, we got cars locked and off, hours after the apparent double homicide, detectives take Eglard to police headquarters for an interview, I was informed that you liked to go to my jostles at accurate because I don't want to, you know, and what are your plans to go mind me asking? I usually go by street, he's fine, so obviously it's been a couple of hours, so you've been with us, I got to read you this thing, your rights first, and then we can go through everything with you and figure out what's going on. I mean, I'm a, I mean, Jasper, is that you want to go mind? I'm gonna tape the surgery, I work with a take of brown, you're in high school, what's the highest grade of everyone? I'm sorry? I'm in high school right now, okay, so you're not a reader, right? Yeah, okay, and how old are you? 16. 16, okay, all right, you're doing good in school? Yeah, okay, well, we talked to you on a scene, so we want to do it just go over some more things. At first, what we do is go and look at the crime scene, and then we come back and ask you questions, that makes sense, that helps make sense. Okay, because we wasn't there, okay. I never met you before, the detective brown never met you before, so, which is a good thing that we don't know you. So, she's going to read you your right, it's called Miranda Warnings, and then from there, we're going to go ahead and talk, you can ask those questions too if you want to also. Okay? Alright. So you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before you ask any questions and have a lawyer present with you during questioning. If you found for a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish. If you decide to answer any questions now without a lawyer present, you will still have the right to stop answering any time until you speak with a lawyer. You may choose not to answer any particular questions. Do you understand each of these that I've read to you? Now, we're reading you this face off, you know, you're not under arrest, you're not in trouble. But just because of the amount of time you've been here to standard procedure. I just want to be fair to you, that's it. Right. So. Okay. Do you understand those? Detectives clarify a few things, then tell Eglar that there is a lot that's really just not adding up. So, Jasper, we've been doing, I've been doing this job about 28 years, I've been doing it for a while. And one thing I learned is that everybody that comes in, it's a police department, a lot of a good people that just make bad mistakes. Okay. Now, Detective Brown briefed me on what you told her out there on scene, okay. I mean, looked over the crime scene, and some things are not adding up, okay. And, like I never met you for, and I don't know what's going on in your house. I don't know what you are going through, you know, but I do have a feeling that you have not told us exactly what happened there tonight, all right. And it doesn't make you a bad person, because it's probably scared you. Okay. This is a tragic event, all right. Okay. When people do things, usually there's a reason why they do it, okay. One of the things I look for when I talk to people that's in here, one, I try to get the truth. Because good things come out of telling the truth, because when you lie and we can show that you're lying, it looks like that you have no remorse or you're hiding something, okay. But everybody lies at first, they do, it's normal, okay. But one thing I always try to find out, it's not just what happened, it's why it happened. But that's just as important, because they could be a good reason why this happened, okay. But when you lie, it sounds like you're hiding something. So I want to start over with tonight, can we do that? Turns out there's surveillance cameras outside the home and they don't show anyone coming in through the backsliding door, plus the blood evidence, as well as positioning of broken glass and shell casing, suggests that this was not a random break in. Eglier tells the detectives that they frequently had arguments with their mom, particularly about gender identity. Eglier said they felt misgendered at home and the issue was brought up a lot during fights. Well, me and her would have a lot of arguments about things, especially over like me being trans, so she'd be like, okay, you're not a real boy and little boy and all, you know, the whole spiel of transphobic stuff, okay. She doesn't approve of your lifestyle, but she doesn't approve of that. Did you say she was like trying to kind of meet me in the middle, but it wasn't really working on that well all the time. She would try to call me child instead of, because it's more like gender neutral rather than kind of meeting in the middle, I guess. So I could tell obviously this frustrated, is this a root of a lot of the arguments, or does it maybe not the root or ends up being brought up in these arguments? It's a thing that was brought up a lot in arguments. Is she misgendering you? Yeah. So when you guys are arguing, is she intentionally calling you "she" or not using the appropriate pronouns or not referring to you as Jasper and referring to you as Julia? And how did Eglier feel about mom's boyfriend, Matthew, the man only a few years older than Eglier? Not a fan. How do you feel about that? How I didn't like it. I don't really support their relationships the thing, so I think that's the only kind of tension that there was between us, because it would always be kind of awkward when it was just me in him in the house, because we wouldn't say f*** to each other, because it's kind of like, I don't really want you here when it was kind of obvious, because I didn't support their relationship at all. Would you vocalize that to him, or at least around him? Well, he knew, I mean, based on conversation with mom or with you. I mean, I would just say it, like I wouldn't really care, like, I wasn't afraid to say it. And I think I made it pretty obvious that I didn't want him around. Around 90 minutes of back and forth, the detective stops circling the issue and they start laying out specific pieces of information that do not look good for Eglier. You express to us, you know, your frustrations with the misgendering you, the not accepting you, understanding you, and those are all valid and human nature, you know. I would be upset if someone was, you know, calling me something that I'm not, or calling me a name that I'm not, or calling me a boy, and I very clearly identify as a girl, you know, that would offend me, that would, as it would offend him, if someone called him a girl, I'm sure that would make him feel some type of way too, and it's perfectly valid for you to feel that way. But at the end of the day, you know, we are here, this is reality. He just laid out to you, the things aren't adding up. And if there's something that took place between you guys and some sort of argument and they came at you or whatever the case may be, that's your story and that's your side to tell. But. And what ever you tell us, we're going to try to confirm that, you know. So, like I said, we want you to tell us what happened, because we may have to go back up to the crime scene and look at it a different way. All right. Okay, Julia? All right. Did you hurt your mom and Matthew today? So if you all want to be honest with you, it's not really theoretical at this point. Everything he just stated to you is telling us that something happened that you're not telling us, right? So you're basically saying that I'm a culprit. We're not saying that at all. But evidence shows us on surveillance cameras, it shows them walking into the house, it shows nobody in the backyard, it shows nobody breaking into the house, the way the camera was angled. 100%. But someone would be seen either hopping the fence, coming around the fence, whatever. And you know that. You know that the camera is angled a certain way. You know that you can walk out that sliding last door and go undetected. And that's an interesting point you just made. So this is why we know we, especially when we see a lot of crime scenes. The same as the blind spot between the two cameras and the way that their angle makes it obvious. Yeah. But someone would have to know that. Someone would have to know that there's a blind spot there. Someone that's not random, that's not randomly coming to your back door and breaking the back door, unbeknownst this person. This person would have had to have known the way the camera set up only by viewing it from an app. Right? You can't really tell. You see it from the outside of the house. Sure. But you can't see the exact scope. There's wide lenses. You don't know exactly what it's doing. But guess who does? I guess you just point that out. You do. So the only thing that makes sense in this instance here is that if this random person that you're saying came up to the backsliding last door, would have had to know that there was something to break the door. They would have had to come into the house and know that there was firearms inside the house, ammunition inside the house to use to then kill your mom and Matthew for what reason. And then not only that. I know the point, do they ever go to your door? And if you think he's worried about some dogs and he has a gun, he ain't worried about no dogs. Okay? And that didn't make sense right there. I used just about to say what if it was you that did this? I was saying theoretically. Okay. Theoretically what? What? You said that get it off your chest and whatever, but it's like that just that's not how that works. It's. Of course. Of course, it's not going to go away that quick. It's not. But you give us some reasons, other people are going to look at this interview and they're going to want to know is this a monster over here or is this somebody who made a terrible mistake? And we're giving you a chance, everybody that comes in here, we give them a chance to tell us what really happened. Okay? It shows remorse and it also shows that this is something that they probably ain't going to never do again. All right? So it's the bolt, I mean, you're there. Tell us what happened. Did either Matthew or your mom, did either Matthew or your mom, did anyone of them try to do anything to you when they came home? Okay. So what happened? And why? Where are you at in the house when they get home? Because we know that you were not in your bedroom. I understand how you can see that, how you know I'm not in my bedroom, how would you know that? So your bedroom door is closed, correct? At the time, this incident took place. The way that the blood spatter is projecting suggests that maybe that wasn't the exact case. It could have been closed, but maybe not all the way, like you're saying it was locked. I mean, I couldn't lock it, the lock is reversed on the door here in the room, okay? So where were you at when they arrived home? We are giving you this opportunity to express to us what happened, why it happened, what emotions you were feeling at the time that led you to this, right? We're all human. I've been explaining that this whole time, a human to another human or outsiders looking in can know that, yeah, that should trigger me too. Or if it was self-defense, yeah, of course I would defend myself too. Anybody's going to look at it that way. But when we don't hear from you what took place, we have to go off what the evidence is showing us. And we have to paint the picture and tell the story for you. That's why we want you and are giving you the opportunity to tell us a story yourself. You made a comment earlier about silence being really loud. It's happening right now. And even though you're not saying it with your mouths, your silence is saying it is love. It makes sense. Did you shoot your parents, uh, girl, your mom, your aunt, too? Julia. Hi politics, Jasper. Right. Did you shoot your mom and Matthew today? What are you basically saying that I did so to you and mean my answer? Well, we want you, like I said, we want you to tell us what happened and tell us what, we're giving you this opportunity to tell us what went on, what was going on to make you do this. An arrest affidavit which refers to Eglar by their legal name, Julia, provides some absolutely chilling details. It says, quote, she admitted that she had broken into Kelly's bedroom while she was gone and obtained a revolver and ammunition. She waited in the kitchen area of the residence for them to arrive home with a gun in her hand and the knife in her right pants pocket. When they walked through the front door, she told them, welcome home. Moments later, Julia shot her mother several times, then shot Matthew several times as he pleaded with her to stop. Julia then followed Matthew into the bathroom where he retreated and began stabbing him repeatedly as she had run out of ammunition. Moments after stabbing Matthew, Matthew essentially asked her to take him out of his misery. Julia went into Kelly's bedroom and loaded another round into the revolver. She entered the bathroom and shot Matthew one more time in the head, ultimately killing him. Eglar was placed under arrest for the deaths of her mom, Kelly McCollum and her boyfriend, Hugh Zenrock. This is the booking video recorded shortly after. It's all there right now, so if you want to just call the reception. Is that Spencer? Yeah, the name and the DR and then just save 'cause I'm sure they're going to want that photo. [Music] [Music] (upbeat music) - What color of the book do you want me? - Hey, which one are you going to have to wear? - What? - What? - The train for her. - Hey. - Has he been arrested before because if not he's going to need the briefing or print Has he been arrested before because if not, he's going to need the briefing or print it so you might as well just hang towels again. He has been? Yep. Do you want to do that one? Nope. Be. Be. Thank you. Okay. A Brevard County grand jury indicted Eglar on two counts of first degree murder putting the case squarely in adult court, they first entered a not guilty plea, but on Friday agreed to accept a plea to two counts of second degree murder. Anagecated guilty at the charge of second degree murder reclassified with a firearm and sentenced to 50 years in the Department of Corrections with a 25 year minimum mandatory receiving credit for 811 days served to this date that is to be followed by 20 years of supervised probation with the same special conditions of undergoing a mental health evaluation and follow up treatment recommended for you in court costs associated with that charge. It will be a concurrent sentence which means that both sentences will run at the same time. You will be eligible for review after completion of the 25 year minimum mandatory sentence pursuant to section 775.082 subsection 1B1 and 921.1402 subsection 2A of the Florida Statues. You have any questions about the terms of your sentence? No, ma'am. So instead of being sentenced to life in prison which was a possibility in this case, the judge gave Eglar 50 years with credit for more than 800 days already spent behind bars. After 25 years, it is possible that Eglar could be granted parole at which point they would be on probation for 20 more years. That will do it for on the case presented by law and crime. I'm Chris Stewart. See you next time.