Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 07.19.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Lauren Collins, eighteen, drives home to Ohio from University Kentucky. Suddenly,
- 0:08Speaker 1: a runaway tire bounces over the cement barrier and smashes
- 0:12Speaker 1: into a windshield. She dies of serious injuries in the
- 0:16Speaker 1: hospital six days later. Ricky Raider tells police he lost
- 0:20Speaker 1: a tire that night and did not know it hurts someone.
- 0:23Speaker 1: But a recorded phone call from Raider to an inmate
- 0:28Speaker 1: the night Collins died reveals Raiders saw the whole thing,
- 0:33Speaker 1: including the crash, and left without calling nine to one
- 0:36Speaker 1: one Nancy.
- 0:37Speaker 2: In addition to witnessing the accident, Reader actually reinstalled his
- 0:41Speaker 2: tire before leaving the scene of the crash. Reader borrowed
- 0:44Speaker 2: lugnuts from the other wheels on his nineteen ninety three
- 0:46Speaker 2: four f two fifty to secure the tire well enough
- 0:49Speaker 2: to get away. Lauren Collins had just finished her first
- 0:52Speaker 2: year at the University of Kentucky, where she was studying
- 0:55Speaker 2: fashion marketing.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Ricky Raider, thirty seven, now charged with leaving the scene
- 0:58Speaker 1: of an accident and feeling to render aid. Florida police
- 1:02Speaker 1: notice an ambulance driving erradically, and they try to provide
- 1:06Speaker 1: an escort. When they learned the ambulance is stolen. That
- 1:09Speaker 1: escort quickly turns into a chase. Aerial Choir, thirty, steals
- 1:14Speaker 1: the ambulance from Golasano Children's Hospital and goes for a
- 1:18Speaker 1: joy ride. She speeds, swerves, drifts across lanes, runs red lights,
- 1:23Speaker 1: and nearly flips the ambulance on a curb before stopping
- 1:26Speaker 1: at an intersection. Cops take the opportunity to wrestle Choir
- 1:30Speaker 1: from the driver's seat and arrest her. Aerial Choir now
- 1:34Speaker 1: charged with grand the ft, fleeing, and resisting arrest. More
- 1:38Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now with the latest
- 1:45Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.
- 1:48Speaker 3: We're now learning that the twenty year old man who
- 1:50Speaker 3: attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump was not brought
- 1:54Speaker 3: to the attention of law enforcement until he was first
- 1:57Speaker 3: spotted at Saturday's rally when some of the crowd noticed
- 2:00Speaker 3: the suspect behaving oddly outside the political event. For the
- 2:05Speaker 3: latest we turned as Sidney Sumner of Crime Online, law.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Enforcement officials were initially alerted to Thomas Matthew Crook's suspicious
- 2:12Speaker 2: behavior outside the event, but despite a swift search, they
- 2:15Speaker 2: could not locate him before he managed to access a
- 2:17Speaker 2: rooftop and open fire. The shooting resulted in the tragic
- 2:20Speaker 2: death of one spectator and has prompted a thorough investigation
- 2:23Speaker 2: by the FBI, which is treating the incident as a
- 2:26Speaker 2: potential act of domestic terrorism. However, the absence of a
- 2:30Speaker 2: clear ideological motive has fueled various conspiracy theories. The FBI
- 2:34Speaker 2: reports that Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, had bomb making
- 2:37Speaker 2: materials in his vehicle and is believed to have acted alone.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Despite extensive searches, investigators have found no threatening comments or
- 2:44Speaker 2: ideological positions on his social media accounts to explain the attack.
- 2:48Speaker 2: During the chaos, the Secret Service quickly escorted the presumptive
- 2:51Speaker 2: Republican presidential nominee off the stage.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Former President Trump later stated on social media that the
- 2:58Speaker 3: upper part of his right ear wind pierced in the shooting.
- 3:01Speaker 3: A Washington State judge has ruled that Attorney General Bob
- 3:05Speaker 3: Ferguson cannot enforce a subpoena seeking decades of records from
- 3:09Speaker 3: the Seattle Archdiocese once again, crime online Sydney Sumner.
- 3:14Speaker 2: This ruling comes despite Ferguson's claims that these records are
- 3:17Speaker 2: necessary to determine that the Catholic Church use charitable trust
- 3:20Speaker 2: funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests. Judge Michael
- 3:24Speaker 2: Scott sided with the archdiocese, stating that under state law
- 3:27Speaker 2: governing charitable trust, Ferguson lacks the authority to enforce the subpoena.
- 3:31Speaker 2: The law includes an exemption to prevent state interference in
- 3:34Speaker 2: religious practices. In response, Seattle Archbishop Paul d Etn issued
- 3:39Speaker 2: a written statement expressing the church's willingness to provide relevant
- 3:42Speaker 2: records and work with Ferguson on the investigation in a
- 3:45Speaker 2: lawful manner. Ferguson, a Catholic himself, announced that his office
- 3:49Speaker 2: will appeal the decision. The state contends that while the
- 3:52Speaker 2: law protects religious practices, using charitable trust money to conceal
- 3:56Speaker 2: or facilitate sexual abuse is not a protected religious practice.
- 4:00Speaker 2: The legal battle began in May when Ferguson filed the case,
- 4:03Speaker 2: accusing the Church of obstructing the investigation by refusing to
- 4:06Speaker 2: comply with the subpoena. The archdiocese responded by expressing surprise
- 4:10Speaker 2: at the allegations, stating it welcome the investigation and shared
- 4:14Speaker 2: the state's goals of preventing abuse and helping victims heal.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Church officials argued that the records requested by the state
- 4:20Speaker 2: were excessive and irrelevant, including receipts dating back in nineteen forty.
- 4:24Speaker 2: The Seattle Archdiocese encompasses over one hundred and seventy pastoral
- 4:28Speaker 2: locations and seventy two schools.
- 4:30Speaker 3: This case is part of a broader trend, as twenty
- 4:33Speaker 3: three states have conducted investigations into the Catholic Church, with
- 4:37Speaker 3: at least nine issuing detailed reportings on their findings. In
- 4:41Speaker 3: many instances, these reports have uncovered information beyond what the
- 4:45Speaker 3: church had voluntarily disclosed.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Thanks John Aaron Johnson gets in an argument with his
- 4:50Speaker 1: wife and decides to find another place to spend the night.
- 4:53Speaker 1: He dives thirty minutes southeast from Birchwood, Wisconsin to a campground.
- 4:57Speaker 1: He sets up a tp and settles in. He's never
- 5:00Speaker 1: heard from again. His cell phone goes straight to voicemail.
- 5:04Speaker 1: It's not even pinging. It takes cops nearly two months
- 5:08Speaker 1: to find his truck. They also find clothing, including gloves, boots,
- 5:13Speaker 1: and pants, wallet still inside. Cops get a tip somebody
- 5:18Speaker 1: spotted a man wearing only a tank top and boxers
- 5:22Speaker 1: the day after Aaron leaves birch Wood. The tipster asked
- 5:26Speaker 1: Erin if he needed help. Aaron said no and kept walking.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Cops believe Erin may have been suffering from hypothermia. Aaron
- 5:35Speaker 1: Johnson thirty four five six two hundred pounds shaved head
- 5:41Speaker 1: and arm sleeve tattoos, now missing four years. If you
- 5:46Speaker 1: have info, call Russ County, Wisconsin Sheriffs seven one, five,
- 5:51Speaker 1: five three two twenty two one hundred. For the latest
- 5:55Speaker 1: crimeing justice needs, go to crimeonline dot com with this
- 5:58Speaker 1: crime alert.
- 5:59Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Gray.