Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.09.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Macy Grace breaking crime needs Now. Kevin
- 0:03Speaker 1: Wright robs a Washington business, then has to his dad's apartment.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Worried by his son's a radic behavior and the stolen goods.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Right's dad calls police. Wright refuses to answer to the
- 0:16Speaker 1: door for police and stacks furniture to barricade himself inside.
- 0:20Speaker 1: A swat team arrives to negotiate with Right, but they
- 0:23Speaker 1: forced the entry after hearing a smoke alarm. Inside, they
- 0:27Speaker 1: find Right had started a large fire and swat team
- 0:31Speaker 1: calls for the fire department Nancy.
- 0:34Speaker 2: The fire quickly grew and spread to twenty one units
- 0:37Speaker 2: before firefighters were able to put it out. The swat
- 0:39Speaker 2: team spent three hours trying to convince Right to exit
- 0:42Speaker 2: the unit after his father called nine one one afraid
- 0:45Speaker 2: that his son would hurt him. The father and many
- 0:47Speaker 2: other families are now receiving aid from the Red Cross
- 0:50Speaker 2: and trying to find alternate housing. Three police officers retreated
- 0:54Speaker 2: for smoke inhalation, but there were no other injuries.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Twenty one charged with armed robbery, arson, and domestic violence.
- 1:02Speaker 1: An Indiana community comes together to solve a case of
- 1:04Speaker 1: a missing EMU Rigby a six foot tall flightless bird,
- 1:10Speaker 1: escapes from his enclosure while his dad, Sam Messimer is
- 1:15Speaker 1: away on a backwoodz hiking trip. The community does their
- 1:18Speaker 1: best to keep Rigby off the roads and hurt him
- 1:21Speaker 1: toward home, until Messimer finally gets cell phone service and
- 1:25Speaker 1: is notified Rigby has escaped. After returning, Messimer gathers friends
- 1:30Speaker 1: to help wrangle Rigby, who can run thirty miles an hour,
- 1:34Speaker 1: finally getting a rope around him, leading him safely back
- 1:37Speaker 1: home to a newly reinforced paddock. So far, the six
- 1:42Speaker 1: foot EMU has managed to dodge escape charges. More crime
- 1:47Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime
- 1:52Speaker 1: and justice breaking news by My Life's John Limley.
- 1:55Speaker 3: We begin in Maine as a woman who admitted to
- 1:58Speaker 3: manslaughter after her one year old son died from an
- 2:01Speaker 3: overdose has started her prison term. With more here Sidney
- 2:05Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
- 2:07Speaker 2: In accordance with a plea deal. Twenty nine year old
- 2:10Speaker 2: Mariah Dobbins of Easton, Maine, was given a four year
- 2:13Speaker 2: sentence last month after her son, Jaden Raymond, died on
- 2:16Speaker 2: March nineteenth, twenty twenty two. At the time, the Main
- 2:19Speaker 2: State Police provided little specifics but an autopsy later confirmed
- 2:23Speaker 2: the childhood overdose on fentanyl. Dobbins told police officers on
- 2:27Speaker 2: the scene that Jaden was unresponsive when Dobbins awoke after
- 2:30Speaker 2: she and her two sons had fallen asleep while watching TV.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Dobbins was charged by law enforcement of being inattentive to
- 2:37Speaker 2: the point of being criminally negligent following several high profile
- 2:40Speaker 2: child fatalities. Defense attorney Steve Smith said that the prosecution
- 2:44Speaker 2: sought a severe punishment. Dobbins was given a twelve year
- 2:47Speaker 2: prison term on July twentieth, with the majority of the
- 2:50Speaker 2: term suspended. The main Department of Health and Human Services
- 2:53Speaker 2: has come under fire after several instances of child abuse
- 2:57Speaker 2: and neglect related child deaths.
- 2:59Speaker 3: Also, there have been several cases of babies and young
- 3:03Speaker 3: toddlers overdosing, usually after ingesting pills that were left out
- 3:07Speaker 3: in the open. All of this in the wake of
- 3:10Speaker 3: the state's opioid abuse epidemic. A New Hampshire man has
- 3:14Speaker 3: declared his innocence and the death of Harmony Montgomery, his
- 3:18Speaker 3: five year old daughter, who vanished in twenty nineteen after
- 3:22Speaker 3: he was granted custody. The child is believed to be
- 3:25Speaker 3: dead thirty three year old Adam Montgomery made the statement
- 3:29Speaker 3: in court prior to being sentenced on unrelated firearms charges.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Harmony was not reported missing until November twenty twenty one,
- 3:38Speaker 3: nearly two years after detectives say her father murdered her.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Although the child's body has never been found, Harmony's stepmother
- 3:46Speaker 3: has agreed to assist police in their investigation. An Arizona
- 3:51Speaker 3: woman stands accused of poisoning her husband's coffee every day
- 3:55Speaker 3: for several months in an effort to kill the man.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Once again crime on lines Sumner.
- 4:01Speaker 2: A grand jury indicted Melody Johnson of Tucson on counts
- 4:04Speaker 2: of attempted severe assault, attempted first degree murder, and poisoning
- 4:07Speaker 2: food or drink. Robbie Johnson, the suspect's husband, first noticed
- 4:11Speaker 2: a bad taste in his coffee back in March while
- 4:13Speaker 2: his family was stationed in Germany. This according to court
- 4:16Speaker 2: documents obtained by our friends at KVOA. The court filing
- 4:20Speaker 2: states that Robbi Johnson used pool testing strips to find
- 4:23Speaker 2: that his coffee pot showed high levels of chlorine. He
- 4:26Speaker 2: allegedly used a concealed camera to catch Melody Johnson, adding
- 4:29Speaker 2: an unknown ingredient to the coffee maker.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Johnson told investigators he pretended to continue drinking the coffee
- 4:36Speaker 3: so he could wait until they returned stateside to Davis
- 4:39Speaker 3: monthan Air Force base, before filing a police report.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Jessica Foster twenty, makes a sudden decision to move to
- 4:47Speaker 1: Las Vegas from Calgary, Canada, but seems happy according to
- 4:51Speaker 1: frequent communications with her family. Foster moves in with a boyfriend,
- 4:55Speaker 1: Peter Todd. Months later, she stops communicating with family. In time,
- 5:01Speaker 1: Todd tells them Jessica left for a dentist appointment and
- 5:04Speaker 1: never came home. Foster's belongings are missing, her cell phone
- 5:08Speaker 1: goes to voicemail, and there's no activity on her debit
- 5:11Speaker 1: or credit cards. Foster's family hires the PI, who learns
- 5:15Speaker 1: Foster had been sex trafficked by a man named Donald
- 5:19Speaker 1: Vaz and forced into sex work with her so called
- 5:22Speaker 1: boyfriend Todd as her pimp. Jessica Foster now missing seventeen years.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Foul play suspected. If you have info on Jessica Foster,
- 5:34Speaker 1: contact Vegas PD seven O two six three three one
- 5:39Speaker 1: seven seven three. For the latest crime and justice news,
- 5:42Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com. With this crime alert, I'm
- 5:45Speaker 1: Nancy Grace