Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.03.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grays breaking crimes now Christopher Chase
- 0:04Speaker 1: his father dad after an argument. Chase's mom watches it all,
- 0:08Speaker 1: but instead of calling police, she helps Chase dismember the body,
- 0:13Speaker 1: putting pieces in a fifty five gallon drum while mom
- 0:16Speaker 1: stays home cleaning up the mess. Chase takes the drum
- 0:19Speaker 1: to a vacant home and sets it on fire. A
- 0:22Speaker 1: neighbor calls firefighters, who spot Chase at the scene, but
- 0:25Speaker 1: he gets away.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Nancy Chase runs about a block from the fire before
- 0:28Speaker 2: breaking into a home and holding a family of three
- 0:30Speaker 2: at gunpoint. Chase demands the keys to their car, but
- 0:33Speaker 2: seems to change his mind about running and calls nine
- 0:35Speaker 2: to one one to turn himself in. The family was
- 0:38Speaker 2: not hurt. Authorities have not determined what the father and
- 0:41Speaker 2: son were fighting over that led to the shooting, and
- 0:43Speaker 2: are still investigating.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Christopher Chase thirty two, now charged with murder, kidnap, agassault.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Mother Melissa Chase, fifty six, facing tampering with evidence. A
- 0:53Speaker 1: woman waits inside the family truck while her husband lows groceries.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Then Yamila la Board hops in the driver's seat tells
- 1:01Speaker 1: the woman to get out and tries to take off
- 1:04Speaker 1: as the husband yells for Leboard to get out. Leboard
- 1:08Speaker 1: can't get the trucking gear and is arrested on attempted theft.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Leboard released that very afternoon. Just four hours later, hops
- 1:16Speaker 1: into an unlocked car at a public library and drives off.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Cops catch her just a few miles away and hollered
- 1:22Speaker 1: back to jail on theft again. Maybe she'll take driver's
- 1:27Speaker 1: ad this time behind bars. More crime and justice news
- 1:29Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Crime Onlines. John Lemley, a Nevada woman who admitted to
- 1:38Speaker 1: hiring a hitman on the internet for five thousand dollars
- 1:41Speaker 1: in bitcoin to kill her ex husband, has been sentenced
- 1:44Speaker 1: to five years in prison. Her goal in committing the
- 1:48Speaker 1: crime make it look like an accident with war. Here's
- 1:51Speaker 1: Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Court records revealed that thirty eight year old Christy Lynn
- 1:55Speaker 2: Falcons of Fallon, Nevada, pleaded guilty in March to a
- 1:58Speaker 2: charge of murder for hire, a part of a deal
- 2:00Speaker 2: with federal prosecutors that avoided trial. A US District court
- 2:04Speaker 2: judge in California has now ordered that Falcons be released
- 2:07Speaker 2: under supervision for three years after she serves her prison sentence.
- 2:11Speaker 2: According to her September twenty twenty indictment, Falcons started corresponding
- 2:14Speaker 2: with someone in twenty sixteen after finding them on a
- 2:17Speaker 2: dark web hitman website that advertised murder for higher services.
- 2:21Speaker 2: The indictment states that Falcons sought to have her ex
- 2:23Speaker 2: husband killed while he was traveling through Chico, California. Authorities
- 2:27Speaker 2: claimed that the website was a hoax that only served
- 2:30Speaker 2: to rob unsuspecting customers of their money. As part of
- 2:33Speaker 2: her plea agreement, Falcons stated that she offered to pay
- 2:35Speaker 2: an additional four thousand dollars to expedite the murder plot's timeline.
- 2:39Speaker 2: In March twenty.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Sixteen, Falcons, who has been out of custody, was told
- 2:43Speaker 3: to turn herself in in order to start serving her
- 2:46Speaker 3: prison term. In September, a ninth teenager has entered a
- 2:50Speaker 3: guilty plea in a shooting outside in Iowa high school
- 2:53Speaker 3: that left a fifteen year old boy dad and two
- 2:56Speaker 3: females critically injured. According to the Des Moines Registers, sixteen
- 3:00Speaker 3: year old niongsham Dual stated in court that admitting guilt
- 3:03Speaker 3: to first degree murder was quote right for the victim's family.
- 3:07Speaker 3: The shooting involving the then fourteen year old scham Dual
- 3:11Speaker 3: took place in March twenty twenty two on the grounds
- 3:14Speaker 3: of East High School, close to downtown Des Moines. The victim,
- 3:17Speaker 3: fifteen year old Jose David Lopez, was not a student
- 3:21Speaker 3: at the school. Police reported that numerous shooters fired rounds
- 3:25Speaker 3: from different vehicles outside the school. Cham Dual acknowledged being
- 3:29Speaker 3: one of those shooters at the hearing. Ten teens were
- 3:32Speaker 3: accused of taking part in the shooting. In December, a
- 3:35Speaker 3: judge sent cham Dual's case to adult criminal Court on
- 3:39Speaker 3: the grounds that he should be given quote youthful offender
- 3:42Speaker 3: status that indicates that although his case is being heard
- 3:46Speaker 3: in adult court, the juvenile court will be the one
- 3:49Speaker 3: deciding his sentencing. A mistrial has been declared due to
- 3:53Speaker 3: a deadlocked jury in the South Florida case against rapper
- 3:56Speaker 3: yn F. Melly for the alleged two thousand and five
- 4:00Speaker 3: of two of his friends once again crime online Sydney Sumner.
- 4:04Speaker 2: After three days of deliberation, the twelve member panel was
- 4:07Speaker 2: unable to agree on a decision. Prosecutors in Broward County,
- 4:11Speaker 2: who had originally requested the death penalty, will likely decide
- 4:14Speaker 2: to retry the case in front of a fresh jury.
- 4:16Speaker 2: To find a defendant guilty or innocent, the jury must
- 4:19Speaker 2: reach a unanimous decision. When the jury announced they were deadlocked,
- 4:22Speaker 2: Broward Circuit Judge John Murphy twice ordered them to continue debating,
- 4:26Speaker 2: but gave in after they returned a third time. According
- 4:29Speaker 2: to the prosecution, YNW Melly, whose legal name is Jammel Dimmons,
- 4:33Speaker 2: shot Christopher Thomas Junior and Anthony Williams, who were all
- 4:37Speaker 2: in a jeep. Williams and Thomas belonged to the YNW collective,
- 4:40Speaker 2: which went by the names YNW Sack, Chaser and YNW Juvie, respectively.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Defense lawyers argued that the story lacks credibility because Dimmons
- 4:48Speaker 2: and the victims were close friends, despite the prosecution's assertion
- 4:52Speaker 2: that the shooting was a gang related incident.
- 4:54Speaker 3: After making a name for himself in twenty seventeen, YNW
- 4:58Speaker 3: Melly collaborated with con West on Mixed Personalities, released in
- 5:03Speaker 3: January twenty thirteen, a month before twenty four year old
- 5:06Speaker 3: Demands was taken into custody on murder accusations.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Jordan Boone decides to take his dog Lily in a
- 5:12Speaker 1: brand new van from Salt Lake City to the son
- 5:15Speaker 1: Rafael Swell for a camping trip. One day in Boone's
- 5:19Speaker 1: van gets stuck due to flooding, and a couple offers
- 5:22Speaker 1: to take Boone and Lily back to Huntington, Utah. Over
- 5:26Speaker 1: the next few days, there's several sightings of Boone, diagnosed
- 5:29Speaker 1: with bipolar disorder, having what appears to be a manic episode.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Boone trashes a hotel room, steals a garbage truck, and
- 5:38Speaker 1: breaks into a building looking for water. The last time
- 5:41Speaker 1: someone sees even a sign of Boone, the dog Lily,
- 5:44Speaker 1: is alone on a nature trail. Nearly two years after
- 5:48Speaker 1: Boone's disappearance. A man hiking at the Swell finds Boone's guitar,
- 5:52Speaker 1: some of his clothes, and a backpack. Boone's family hopes
- 5:56Speaker 1: this discovery will bring them one step closer to binding Boone.
- 6:01Speaker 1: If you have info on Jordan Boone, please call Salt
- 6:04Speaker 1: Lake PD eight zero one seven nine nine three four
- 6:09Speaker 1: five four. For the latest crime injustice news, go to
- 6:12Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace