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Crime Alert 11.21.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Herbert
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  Speaker 1: Sweey learns his husband is planning to leave him and
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  Speaker 1: drugs him with thirty times that recommended doseph benadril. Swilly
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  Speaker 1: then chokes him so hard his neck breaks. He then
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  Speaker 1: drives his boyfriend's body to an apartment across town and
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  Speaker 1: stages a crime, saying returning home to clean up, driving
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  Speaker 1: the boyfriend's car to the apartment, then delating all their
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  Speaker 1: ring camera footage. He then goes on to brazenly try
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  Speaker 1: and collect three hundred thousand dollars life insurance.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, we're learning that Swelly's husband, Timothy Smith, was planning
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  Speaker 2: to leave Swelley while he slept. Police interviewed Swelley shortly
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  Speaker 2: after Smith's death and asked for a second interview after
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  Speaker 2: Swelley gave contradictory information. At that point, Swelley lawyered up
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  Speaker 2: and refused to give another interview unless he was granted
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  Speaker 2: immunity from prosecution. While cops built their case against Swilley,
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  Speaker 2: he made several Facebook posts about Smith's death, even writing quote,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard not having you to talk to but I
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  Speaker 2: still talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: Herbert Swelley fifty five, now charged with murder. One. Timothy Husley, sixty,
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  Speaker 1: installs blue lights on his car and tries to impersonate
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  Speaker 1: a police officer, flipping his lights on to pull over
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  Speaker 1: a driver, but as he gets closer he realizes it's
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  Speaker 1: an unmarked cop car. He takes off with a real
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  Speaker 1: cop hot on his tail. The undercover cruiser eventually loses Husley,
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  Speaker 1: but he's located a short time later and booked on
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  Speaker 1: impersonating an officer. More crime and justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime
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  Speaker 1: Online's John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: Nevada authorities say that a planned altercation erupted over a
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  Speaker 3: vate pen and a pair of headphones, leading to the
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  Speaker 3: death of a seventeen year old Las Vegas High School
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  Speaker 3: student in an alleyway near campus. The perpetrators ten of
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  Speaker 3: the boy's classmates, ages thirteen to seventeen. With details, here's
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Police homicide detectives believe the victim was not supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of the brawl, which the students agreed
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  Speaker 2: would take place after classes end for the day at
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  Speaker 2: Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas. According to Johansson,
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Lewis Junior, and a friend whose vate pen and
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  Speaker 2: headphones had been taken earlier in the day, walked into
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  Speaker 2: the alleyway. The brutal assault that occurred on November first,
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  Speaker 2: was documented on camera by a cell phone and shared
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  Speaker 2: widely on social media. The video, according to Johansson, is
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  Speaker 2: quote very devoid of humanity. In the cell phone footage,
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  Speaker 2: the victim can be seen getting ready for the fight
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  Speaker 2: by pulling off his shirt. Johansson says, at that point
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  Speaker 2: the ten students quote immediately swarm him, pull into the
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  Speaker 2: ground and began kicking, punching, and stomping on him. On
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  Speaker 2: suspicion of murder. Eight of the students were taken into
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  Speaker 2: custody by the FBI and Las Vegas Police. Since they
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  Speaker 2: are under eighteen, their identities were not released. Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: police say the two remaining teens will also be charged
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  Speaker 2: with murder, but have not yet been positively identified.
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  Speaker 3: Photos of the teenage suspects were made public by the
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  Speaker 3: police as they requested assistance from the public in identifying them.
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  Speaker 3: Attorneys for the creator of truck maker Nick Kola Corporation
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  Speaker 3: argue that their client should not be imprisoned following his
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  Speaker 3: fraud conviction, and that the case is not like the
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  Speaker 3: one that put Theirnose founder Elizabeth Holmes behind bars for
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  Speaker 3: defrauding investors in her blood testing company. In it issued brief,
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  Speaker 3: the attorneys informed the Manhattan Federal Court judge that Trevor
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  Speaker 3: Milton never behaved in a quote greedy or mean spirited
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  Speaker 3: way while establishing a trail blazing business aimed at revolutionizing
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  Speaker 3: the battery and hydrogen electric trucking industries. Forty one year
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  Speaker 3: old Milton was found guilty of fraud last year after
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  Speaker 3: misleading investors about his company's ability to produce trucks with
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  Speaker 3: zero emissions. Milton sentencing is set for November twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 3: Now to Maine, whereas state judge has ordered two white
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  Speaker 3: males sentenced to federal prison for breaking the jaw of
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  Speaker 3: a black man and a random attack to pay one
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  Speaker 3: point twenty five million dollars in damages once again crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Both Maurice Diggins and Dusty Leo of Bidad, Maine, are
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  Speaker 2: in federal custody and were not represented by counsel during
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  Speaker 2: the proceedings. The judge rendered a default judgment against them.
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  Speaker 2: According to Alison Knowles, the victim's attorney, the decision quote
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  Speaker 2: demonstrates that this kind of conduct is abhorrent and won't
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  Speaker 2: be tolerated, even though she assumes Damon McCollum may never
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  Speaker 2: receive the damages. The two white men made threats and
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  Speaker 2: yelled racial slurs from their vehicle before attacking McCollum in
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  Speaker 2: April of twenty eighteen. It was during the altercation that
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  Speaker 2: McCollum was hit in the jaw. Noll stated that a
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  Speaker 2: default judgment was issued last month by Justice Richard Mulhern
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  Speaker 2: of the Superior Court. Noel stated that after initially contributing
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  Speaker 2: letters to the proceedings, Leo and Diggan ceased communication.
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  Speaker 3: The judge ruled on November ninth, ordering the man to
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  Speaker 3: pay five hundred thousand dollars in compensatory damages and seven
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  Speaker 3: hundred fifty thousand dollars in punitive damages.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Amanda ward by Mind spends a few weeks
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  Speaker 1: with her sister, then gets to ride back to her
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  Speaker 1: husband's Springfield, Ohio home. The couple has a rocky relationship
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  Speaker 1: they offer spend time apart. The day after she's dropped off,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda calls to ask her to pick her up again,
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  Speaker 1: but when the sister shows up, Amanda's gone. A neighbor
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  Speaker 1: report seeing Amanda outside her home earlier that day, but
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  Speaker 1: didn't see her leave. Amanda's family hosts several large search parties,
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  Speaker 1: but husband Daniel Romaine does not participate. Remind is considered
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  Speaker 1: a person of interest in Amanda's disappearance, but two years later,
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  Speaker 1: Remind dies of an apparent overdose. Amanda Wardrowmine now missing
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  Speaker 1: over ten years. If you have info on Amanda Wardrowmine,
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  Speaker 1: contact Springfield PD nine three seven three two four seven
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  Speaker 1: six eight zero. For the latest crime in justice news,
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  Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace