Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 01.15.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimews now. Ashley Hines,
- 0:04Speaker 1: just eighteen, joins friends in DC for a celebration at
- 0:08Speaker 1: a local hotel. The party turns ugly Someone's asked to leave,
- 0:12Speaker 1: shots ring out. Police arrive, eighteen year old Hines dead
- 0:17Speaker 1: from a gunshot wound.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Nancy Hines was a freshman at Louisiana State University, home
- 0:22Speaker 2: in DC for her winter break. Her murder is the
- 0:25Speaker 2: first recorded in the Capitol in twenty twenty four. The
- 0:27Speaker 2: city had two hundred and seventy four murders in twenty
- 0:30Speaker 2: twenty three, the highest recorded since nineteen ninety seven. Hines's
- 0:33Speaker 2: mother says she was texting with Ashley just moments before
- 0:36Speaker 2: her death. Her last message was I love you.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Witnesses and CCTV help cops identify the shooter, Jelani Cousin,
- 0:44Speaker 1: also eighteen and now charged with murder.
- 0:47Speaker 2: II.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Amanda Brokeu comes home from work to find her driveway missing. Yes,
- 0:53Speaker 1: her entire concrete path torn away. Brokeus and indirect victim
- 0:58Speaker 1: of a scam. After repeatedly turning away contractors for work
- 1:02Speaker 1: she did not hire. One contractor made it through ripping
- 1:06Speaker 1: up the driveway Here's how the scam works. Scammers hire
- 1:10Speaker 1: contractors to complete a project at a random home, then
- 1:13Speaker 1: pay more than the work will cost with a bad check,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and collect a large refund. In Brokoo's case, the contractors
- 1:22Speaker 1: did not catch on to the scam before they completed
- 1:25Speaker 1: the job removing her driveway. If the scammers are ever caught,
- 1:31Speaker 1: at least a prosecutor has some concrete evidence. More crime
- 1:35Speaker 1: and Justice news after this Now with the latest crime
- 1:40Speaker 1: and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Lemley.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Authorities now say they have discovered the gun used to
- 1:46Speaker 3: shoot a couple who vanished just before Christmas. For more,
- 1:50Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:52Speaker 2: A father and son from Texas both arrested in connection
- 1:55Speaker 2: with the deaths of the eighteen year old pregnant woman
- 1:58Speaker 2: and her boyfriend are now being charged with tampering with evidence.
- 2:01Speaker 2: At a press conference, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus
- 2:04Speaker 2: stated that the father and son quote made enough statements
- 2:07Speaker 2: to implicate them in the murder. The additional charges in
- 2:10Speaker 2: the deaths of Savannah Nicole Soto and twenty two year
- 2:12Speaker 2: old Matthew Guera were made public just two days after
- 2:15Speaker 2: investigators interviewed the suspects. The couple's discovery dead in a
- 2:19Speaker 2: carr had previously been described by him as very, very perplexing.
- 2:23Speaker 2: A charge of capital murder has been leveled against nineteen
- 2:25Speaker 2: year old Christopher Presardio. Fifty three year old Ramone Presardio
- 2:29Speaker 2: has been charged with abuse of a corpse and stands
- 2:31Speaker 2: accused of assisting in moving the remains. Police also charged
- 2:35Speaker 2: the younger Presardio with abuse of a corpse, in addition
- 2:38Speaker 2: to the original charges against both men of altering, destroying,
- 2:41Speaker 2: or concealing evidence. Ramone Presardio was asked if he felt
- 2:45Speaker 2: regret after being arrested. To this, he responded, quote, aren't
- 2:48Speaker 2: you sorry for lying about what you're saying. Meanwhile, while
- 2:51Speaker 2: being led by police to a different vehicle, his son
- 2:54Speaker 2: remained silent. McManus cited a concern about impeding the ongoing
- 2:58Speaker 2: investigation and declined to disclose details on what led to
- 3:01Speaker 2: the new accusations. He claimed that during a search of
- 3:04Speaker 2: the Presardio's house, investigators discovered a gun thought to be
- 3:07Speaker 2: the murder weapon. It was the weekend before Christmas when
- 3:10Speaker 2: Sodo was declared missing after her family reported that she
- 3:13Speaker 2: had not arrived at a medical center for an induced
- 3:15Speaker 2: delivery that had been scheduled for that day. A few
- 3:18Speaker 2: days later, Kerr and Guerra's bodies were discovered by the
- 3:21Speaker 2: police in a vehicle outside an apartment building in San Antonio.
- 3:24Speaker 2: According to the local medical examiner, the couple were both
- 3:27Speaker 2: shot in the head. Authority say that a third victim
- 3:29Speaker 2: of the killings is Sodo's unborn child.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Investigators say the murders seem to have been the result
- 3:34Speaker 3: of a drug deal, with Chief McManus stating that there
- 3:37Speaker 3: was proof of drug sales on both Sodo and Guera's phones.
- 3:42Speaker 3: A Milwaukee woman has entered a guilty plea to five
- 3:45Speaker 3: counts of homicide after running a red light in May
- 3:48Speaker 3: and colliding with another vehicle. Three teenagers and a one
- 3:51Speaker 3: year old girl among the dead. Six other felony charges
- 3:55Speaker 3: against twenty one year old Antiyona Sandefert were dropped by
- 3:59Speaker 3: the prosecution return for her guilty plea. Our friends with
- 4:02Speaker 3: the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are reporting that Assistant District Attorney
- 4:06Speaker 3: Sarah Sadovski will request a quote substantial prison sentence from
- 4:11Speaker 3: the court. February nineteenth is the date now set for
- 4:14Speaker 3: sentencing in a lawsuit involving Jeffrey Epstein, Over one hundred
- 4:19Speaker 3: and thirty additional court documents have now been made public
- 4:22Speaker 3: once again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 4:25Speaker 2: The newly released documents provide further insight into the late
- 4:28Speaker 2: millionaire financiers relationships with various celebrities in addition to his
- 4:33Speaker 2: sexual abuse of underage girls. Extracted testimony from Epstein's employees,
- 4:38Speaker 2: phone messages he received, including one from Harvey Weinstein, and
- 4:41Speaker 2: numerous legal memos from attorneys outlining potential witnesses should the
- 4:45Speaker 2: lawsuit proceed to trial were all included in the most
- 4:48Speaker 2: recent set of documents. All of the records are associated
- 4:51Speaker 2: with a defamation action that Virginia Giuffrey, one of Epstein's victims,
- 4:55Speaker 2: brought against Gillaine Maxwell, the millionaire's girlfriend, in twenty fifteen.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Several women and had to accuse Maxwell of assisting Epstein
- 5:02Speaker 2: in his efforts to recruit minors for sex. The lawsuit
- 5:05Speaker 2: was settled in twenty seventeen.
- 5:06Speaker 3: Maxwell was subsequently prosecuted and is now serving twenty years
- 5:11Speaker 3: behind bars.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Thanks John Tyler Goodrich picks up pizza for his family
- 5:15Speaker 1: on his way home from work at the Nebraska Department
- 5:17Speaker 1: of Corrections. After sending the two children to bed, Goodrich
- 5:22Speaker 1: argues with his husband storms out of their Omaha home. Goodrich,
- 5:26Speaker 1: an active runner, seen on surveillance jogging in the neighborhood,
- 5:30Speaker 1: but Goodrich never comes home. He also misses a team
- 5:34Speaker 1: marathon the very next day. While Goodrich had his cell
- 5:38Speaker 1: phone and while it's with him when he left, there
- 5:40Speaker 1: have been no pings or bank activities since he disappeared.
- 5:44Speaker 1: If you have info on Tyler Goodrich, now missing two months,
- 5:49Speaker 1: please contact Lancaster County Sheriffs four zero two four four
- 5:53Speaker 1: one sixty five hundred. For the latest crime and justice news,
- 5:57Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com with this crime alert.
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