Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 09.16.24 | Missing Baby Found Dead in Bucket
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Fine alert by Nancy Grace breaking cry news. Now Elia's
- 0:03Speaker 1: ard Monaus isn't speaking with his wife. After an argument
- 0:07Speaker 1: while she's watching TV with their three month old baby, Jacob,
- 0:11Speaker 1: Manias grabs a child from her arms walks to another
- 0:14Speaker 1: room of their Indiana home. When Mani's returns, he doesn't
- 0:18Speaker 1: have Jacob, but he's carrying a wrench. He beats his
- 0:23Speaker 1: wife savagely. She drives herself to the hospital with a
- 0:26Speaker 1: skull fracture. There, she tells police she doesn't know where
- 0:29Speaker 1: the baby is. Back at home, Manis denies knowing Jacob's whereabouts,
- 0:34Speaker 1: but officers discover the tot's body hidden in a bucket
- 0:38Speaker 1: full of dark liquid.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Nancy Police immediately begin a statewide search for Elia's Ard, Moneus,
- 0:44Speaker 2: and Jacob, but find Mona's still at their home. When
- 0:47Speaker 2: investigators first spoke with Monias, he asked if his wife
- 0:50Speaker 2: had died from her injuries and was disappointed when she hadn't.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Cops find the bucket next to a trash can in
- 0:56Speaker 2: the home. They say the child died of asphyxiation and
- 0:59Speaker 2: did not drown in the liquid.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Eliazar Manias twenty eight, charged with murder attempted murder and battery.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Shane Smith, thirty, approaches a man parked on Smith's street.
- 1:11Speaker 1: The man rolls down his window. Smith accuses him of
- 1:14Speaker 1: stealing a pack of juice boxes. Smith then reaches through
- 1:17Speaker 1: the window to grab the man's phone. During the struggle,
- 1:20Speaker 1: Smith punches the guy twice. The guy gets out of
- 1:23Speaker 1: the car, Smith continues to attack him. A neighbor here's
- 1:26Speaker 1: the struggle, tries to break it up. Smith attacks him too.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Police recall. Smith hides in his home nearly an hour
- 1:34Speaker 1: before finally surrendering. Smith now charged with robbery and battery
- 1:39Speaker 1: a juice box. More crime and justice news after this.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news to
- 1:47Speaker 1: find my lines.
- 1:48Speaker 3: John Linley in the Butta of prisoner's death has been
- 1:51Speaker 3: ruled a homicide after an autopsy revealed he died from
- 1:54Speaker 3: asphyxiation while being restrained by guards. We turned to Sydney
- 1:59Speaker 3: Sumner of I'm Online for more.
- 2:01Speaker 2: The incident occurred on December twenty eighth of last year
- 2:04Speaker 2: at the Southern Desert Correctional Center, a medium security prison
- 2:07Speaker 2: near Las Vegas. The prisoner, thirty nine year old Patrick o'dally,
- 2:11Speaker 2: died of what the Clark County Coroner's Office identified as
- 2:13Speaker 2: positional and mechanical asphyxia during an altercation with law enforcement.
- 2:17Speaker 2: According to the autopsy, o'dalli was shackled, placed face down,
- 2:21Speaker 2: and held in a position that restricted his ability to breathe.
- 2:24Speaker 2: His death came after he had been pepper sprayed and
- 2:27Speaker 2: restrained by guards following erratic behavior. Toxicology reports revealed low
- 2:31Speaker 2: levels of methamphetamine and xylazine, a drug typically used as
- 2:35Speaker 2: an animal sedative, in o'dalli's system. These substances were noted
- 2:38Speaker 2: as contributing factors in his death, though the primary cause
- 2:41Speaker 2: was related to the physical restraint. The Nevada Department of
- 2:45Speaker 2: Corrections initially withheld key details surrounding o'dally's death, including the
- 2:49Speaker 2: fact that he was restrained at the time. While the
- 2:51Speaker 2: department has declined to comment on the autopsy finding, citing
- 2:54Speaker 2: an ongoing investigation, no information has been released about how
- 2:58Speaker 2: o'dalli accessed the drugs wile in custody, or whether any
- 3:01Speaker 2: officers involved in the incident face disciplinary action. The autopsy
- 3:05Speaker 2: also raises concerns about possible gaps in the video footage
- 3:08Speaker 2: of the incident. According to the report, the footage shows
- 3:11Speaker 2: o'dolly being taken to the infirmary face down and shackled
- 3:15Speaker 2: before a gap ocurs. When the video resumes, guards are
- 3:18Speaker 2: seen performing CPR and o'delli, who was unresponsive. He was
- 3:21Speaker 2: pronounced dead shortly afterward. O'dolly was serving up to two
- 3:25Speaker 2: years for possessing a stolen credit card and attempting to
- 3:28Speaker 2: carry a concealed weapon. His family, including his two children,
- 3:31Speaker 2: had recently been approved to visit him, though they were
- 3:34Speaker 2: unable to do so before his death.
- 3:35Speaker 3: The Nevada Attorney General's Office has declined to comment on
- 3:39Speaker 3: the case as the investigation remains ongoing. An American mother
- 3:43Speaker 3: accused of killing her two youngest children in Colorado last December,
- 3:48Speaker 3: reportedly told her surviving eleven year old daughter that she
- 3:52Speaker 3: acted under divine instruction. This according to a prosecutor in
- 3:56Speaker 3: a London court room, once again Crime Online sitting Somner.
- 4:00Speaker 2: The chilling testimony came as thirty six year old Kimberly
- 4:03Speaker 2: Singler fights extradition back to the US from the UK.
- 4:06Speaker 2: She stands accused of killing her nine year old daughter
- 4:09Speaker 2: Eleana and her seven year old son Aiden, both found
- 4:12Speaker 2: shot and stabbed in their Colorado Springs apartment. Prosecutor Joel
- 4:16Speaker 2: Smith revealed that Singler's eldest child, identified only as MW,
- 4:19Speaker 2: survived the attack and later told authorities that her mother
- 4:23Speaker 2: was responsible. The court heard that MW pleaded for her
- 4:26Speaker 2: life during the brutal attack, but Singler allegedly continued, stating
- 4:30Speaker 2: that God made her do it. According to the prosecution,
- 4:33Speaker 2: after initially telling investigators that a man had entered their
- 4:36Speaker 2: home and carried out the attack, MW later changed her account,
- 4:39Speaker 2: claiming her mother had asked her to lie. Singler denies
- 4:43Speaker 2: the charges, with her defense attorney Edward Fitzgerald arguing that
- 4:46Speaker 2: her daughter's statement may have been coerced.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Fitzgerald also contended that Singlar should not be extradited, citing
- 4:53Speaker 3: concerns over European human rights law.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Thanks John mary Lands, a pediatric nurse, lives in Marshall, Michigan,
- 4:59Speaker 1: with fiancee Christopher Pratt. After an argument, Mary tells Pratt
- 5:03Speaker 1: she's getting some arror and leaves home on foot. She
- 5:06Speaker 1: never returns. Pratt calls Mary's family the next morning. They
- 5:10Speaker 1: immediately report her missing. Mary left her cell phone and
- 5:14Speaker 1: car keys at home. She did have a purse with her,
- 5:17Speaker 1: but there's been no activity on bank accounts or credit cards.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Caninees loose or scent at a nearby hotel. Pratt stops
- 5:24Speaker 1: cooperating with authorities after his initial statement. He's been in
- 5:28Speaker 1: and out of prison for unrelated domestic violence and sex
- 5:31Speaker 1: assault charges since Mary's disappearance. Mary five six, one hundred
- 5:36Speaker 1: and sixty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. She has a
- 5:40Speaker 1: naval piercing last scene wearing a brown leather jacket over
- 5:44Speaker 1: her scrubs with slip on sneakers, carrying a white mesh purse.
- 5:49Speaker 1: If you have info on mary Land's now missing over
- 5:52Speaker 1: twenty years, called Marshall, Michigan, PD two six ' nine
- 5:57Speaker 1: seven eighty one two five. For the latest crime injustice news,
- 6:02Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com and please join us for
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- 6:09Speaker 1: I'm Missy Grace.