[Nancy Grace:] Breaking news tonight. A well-respected cardiologist refuses to pay a $135,000 strip club bill, claiming he was drugged, drugged four times? But why does he keep going back? Bombshell tonight. Our investigation reveals the doctor signed all his own American Express bills at the strip club. Hey, Doctor, you`re busted!
[Unidentified Male:] A cardiologist is accused of trying to skip out on a huge bill from a strip club to the tune of over $135,000. The doctor denied the charges, saying he wasn`t there, and later saying he must have been drugged by the staff. The strip club says they have camera footage that proves the doctor was at the club.
[Grace:] And tonight, caught on tape. We go live to a quiet community that explodes with serious allegations, two so-called special ed teachers giving a little autistic boy a horrendous beating, shoving the boy to the floor, beating him in the head, even choking the little autistic boy, the child having no way to go home and tell Mommy and Daddy, if it weren`t for another brave teacher so shocked she records the whole thing on her cell phone in secret. Tonight, we want justice!
[Unidentified Male:] ... this special education student, who according to police is on this video being choked, hit, and beaten in this Harper Archer middle school classroom. His mother says the video shows her 11-year-old autistic son being mistreated, hit, and tossed around by another teacher`s aide.
[Grace:] And to Little Falls, Minnesota. A 65-year-old hears a noise in the broad daylight. He grabs his guns and shoots, gunning down two all- American neighborhood teens that broke into the home. The case takes a bizarre turn when homeowner Byron Smith says he kills them both with, quote, "a good clean shot" to the head. Tonight, self-defense or murder?
[Unidentified Male:] Sixty-four-year-old Byron Smith admitted to police that he shot and killed 18-year-old Haley Kifer and her cousin, 17- year-old Nick Brady, after they broke into his home. Prosecutors allege Smith was lying in wait in his basement, armed and planning to kill the teens.
[Unidentified Female:] And then you hear Nick Brady groaning. Then you hear another bang, and Byron Smith says "You`re dead."
[Grace:] And to Wellsville, Utah, a 2-year-old little boy fatally shot in the family living room, shot with a loaded rifle belonging to Daddy. Tonight, no charges?
[Unidentified Male:] Police say the 2-year-old`s death was a tragic accident, and as of now, no charges have been filed. But the question remains, why was the 3-year-old able to get her hands on a rifle and fire off the deadly shot?
[Grace:] That video from ABC`s "GMA." And then to Kansas, a murder suspect getting ready to defend himself on murder charges. But in addition to getting a story and his witnesses together, he demands the court give him a free tattoo removal, claiming his tattoo that says "murder" around his neck could give the wrong impression.
[Unidentified Female:] Strong reactions to Jeffrey Chapman`s tattoo.
[Unidentified Male:] That`s ridiculous. Why would you ever get that?
[Unidentified Female:] Here you can see the word "murder" in big block letters. The focus is quickly shifting from the crime to the accused`s tattoo.
[Unidentified Male:] Appearance of the defendant makes a lot of difference.
[Unidentified Female:] Chapman`s attorney say the tattoo needs to be removed.
[Grace:] Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. A well-respected cardiologist refusing to pay nearly $200,000 strip club bill, claiming he was drugged, drugged at the strip club. But four times? Why did he keep going back? Our investigation tonight reveals this doctor, a well-known cardiologist he`s in practice with his father and his twin brother, all of them cardiologists he signed his own American Express bills at the strip club! Uh-oh, Doctor. You`re totally busted! A well-known cardiologist. Do you want this guy operating on your heart? Straight out to Michael Board, WOAI. What happened, Michael?
[Michael Board, Woai:] Well, Nancy, the lawsuit alleges that over a 10- day period, Dr. Zyad Younan went to the Scores strip club four times, racking up a bill of about $135,000. Nancy, that`s more than most people`s houses. And he was spending his money. Apparently, there they sell champagne bottles for $1,000 a bottle.
[Grace:] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait, wait, wait, wait! A thousand dollars for a bottle of champagne?
[Board:] For one...
[Grace:] Dinner $250, cover charge 20 bucks, drinks, dance packages up to $750. And isn`t it true, Michael Board, you go into a private room for $1,000 an hour, and the, quote, "girls" are extra on top of that $1,000 when you go in these private rooms? What was this doctor doing?
[Board:] Yes, you wonder what this 41-year-old doctor was doing with these girls much younger than he is in these back rooms. They won`t tell you what goes on back there, but Nancy, we both know what goes on in the back...
[Grace:] Whoa! OK. Hold on! Hold on! There`s the private room. I like that pit
[Unidentified Female:] Hey, Nancy. I just want to know, this $135,000 bill that he racked up in what was less than a week I want to know, was he did he have a line of credit at the strip club or did...
[Grace:] Good question.
[Unidentified Female:] ... or was he was he using...
[Grace:] Let`s answer that question, Kelly in Kentucky. Let`s go to Mark Yackow, COO of Scores strip club. Mark, thank you for being with us.
[Mark Yackow, Coo Of Scores:] My pleasure.
[Grace:] Mark, first of all, do you get a line of credit? How does it work? How can you rack up $135,000? I mean, when I go to Target and it`s over $200, they make me show my driver`s license. So how can he rack up about 150 grand in strip club charges?
[Yackow:] Every time he does a transaction, whether it`s the purchase of liquor, to go into a private champagne room or to...
[Grace:] What`s a champagne room? Hold on. Mark, what`s a champagne room?
[Yackow:] It`s a private room, just a private room, nicely decorated, with music...
[Grace:] You know what?
[Yackow:] ... a TV in there...
[Grace:] You know what, Mark Yackow? No offense, but that`s like putting perfume on the pig. You`re calling a private room where you take a bunch of strippers a champagne room? I think they`re doing more than sipping champagne. Maybe a little juice and gin`s going down back there. OK, so Mark, how did he rack up 150 grand?
[Yackow:] Well, he was there just to correct the record, he was there three different times. But one of the evenings, he started before midnight and he ended after midnight. So that`s how the four dates came upon. But he was there three different times. And each time, when he came in he came in, he came in and he took six or seven girls into the private room for
[Grace:] Whoa! Wait a minute! Mark Yackow, I`m getting more details than I bargained for. So this cardiologist let`s just say, you know, my brother, my father, everybody`s got heart problems. Do I really want a guy hovering over my father in open heart surgery, or my brother, after he`s been out with seven strippers in the champagne room all night long? So how much would it cost to take seven strippers in the champagne room?
[Yackow:] Well, they get paid approximately $5,000 an hour for the girls and the room...
[Grace:] OK, that physically hurt me. Unleash the lawyers. Joining me tonight, Gary Casimir and Peter Odom. All right, Peter, his defense is, I don`t remember a thing, they drugged me.
[Peter Odom, Defense Attorney:] In a case like this, he better have some evidence to show that he was drugged. They`re going to have signatures on those cards. They`re going to be able to show that at least he was conscious enough to write his signature. So they`d better show presumptive evidence that he actually was drugged, or he`s going to lose.
[Grace:] OK. You`re supposed to be taking the defense. All right, Casimir, see if you can do any better.
[Gary Casimir, Defense Attorney:] Well, I think...
[Grace:] What`s your defense?
[Casimir:] Yes, I think at this point, he`s going the right way. I think he`s saying that he was drugged, that he was incapacitated at the time.
[Grace:] Four times in a row?
[Casimir:] It`s possible. Four times in a row, he keeps getting drunk. Like most habitual alcoholics, he keeps going back to the place...
[Grace:] Put him back up!
[Casimir:] I`m sorry?
[Grace:] OK, could you repeat that, Casimir?
[Casimir:] Like most...
[Grace:] So he gets drugged...
[Casimir:] ... habitual alcoholics...
[Grace:] ... then he goes back...
[Casimir:] ... he keeps going back and getting high.
[Grace:] OK, but alcoholics that`s different from being drugged.
[Casimir:] No, absolutely. Alcoholic or drugged. He claims that they drugged him. But let`s say, for example, he`s incapacitated, whether it`s drugs or alcohol, he can`t make a decision.
[Grace:] What do you mean...
[Casimir:] You can`t hold a guy responsible and you can`t keep serving a drunk guy alcohol. If he goes out of the place and kills somebody,
[Grace:] Gary? Gary, did you hear the Scores guy, the COO of Scores? He just said he took seven strippers back to the champagne room, and they make five grand an hour. I think they`re doing a little more than serving champagne, Gary. He`s not...
[Casimir:] Absolutely. But the question becomes...
[Grace:] So his claim you know what? I think the answer to this is to find out if he was out of his gourd with all of those strippers...
[Casimir:] Absolutely.
[Grace:] ... or if he was, let me see, performing normally. Back to Mark Yackow, COO of Scores. So Mark, have you guys actually filed a lawsuit, or are you planning to file a lawsuit?
[Yackow:] We have filed a lawsuit.
[Grace:] And did you try to get the money from him before you filed a lawsuit?
[Yackow:] Absolutely. As a matter of fact, his claim is he was never even in the club, that he was drugged outside the club, and the girls took his credit card and his passport and came into the club three different times. It was absurd.
[Grace:] Well, let me ask you this, Mark Yackow. Strip clubs are a lot like casinos. They`ve got videocameras everywhere, basically to make sure nobody steals. But this place is blanketed with videocameras, right? Don`t you have videocameras of him being in there?
[Yackow:] Absolutely. And I offered him to come in, to show him the video that he was in the club. He refused.
[Grace:] Well, let me ask you this. The other day, "USA Today" did a profile of this doctor, Dr. Zyad Younan, a well-known cardiologist with his father and his brother, because they`re all three cardiologists. Do you think his Daddy knows that he`s spending nearly 200 grand at a strip club and he`s going to be the target of a lawsuit?
[Yackow:] He probably knows now.
[Grace:] Well, he probably knows now. Well put. OK, cardiologist is going to operate on you the next morning, out all night with seven strippers in the champagne room. While get your mind around that, when we get back, caught on tape, two so-called special ed teachers giving a little autistic boy a horrendous beating, shoving the child to the floor, beating him in the head, laughing, making fun of him, even choking the little autistic boy.