Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 02.19.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert, I mean sy Gray's breaking crime. Nees now
- 0:03Speaker 1: heading out for a daddy daughter breakfast date, Sonny. Josephat
- 0:07Speaker 1: drives to the Florida home he used to share with
- 0:10Speaker 1: his ex wife. When he gets there, Josephat sees her
- 0:13Speaker 1: new husband installing a security cam and becomes enraged. He
- 0:18Speaker 1: loads the gun and starts shooting at his ex wife
- 0:22Speaker 1: and her husband, killing them both in front of his daughter,
- 0:27Speaker 1: who calls nine one one Nancy.
- 0:28Speaker 2: We're now learning that the victim's wedding was just a
- 0:31Speaker 2: week prior to the shooting. Josephat told investigators he was
- 0:34Speaker 2: there to take his daughter on a breakfast date, but
- 0:36Speaker 2: she was surprised to see him. That morning, she was
- 0:38Speaker 2: unloading groceries when Josephat pulled up to the home and
- 0:41Speaker 2: asked if her mother and stepfather were home. She did
- 0:44Speaker 2: not answer him, but the couple came out to greet Josephat.
- 0:47Speaker 2: That's when he began shooting. Josephat will be represented by
- 0:50Speaker 2: a public defender, and he could be facing the death
- 0:53Speaker 2: penalty if convicted on either of the first degree murder charges.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Sunny Josephat now charged two counts of murder a seven
- 1:01Speaker 1: hundred pound long horn bull and transit to a Newark slaughterhouse. Escapes,
- 1:06Speaker 1: running down the railroad and ending up inside the Newark
- 1:10Speaker 1: penn rail station. Terrified commuters scatter, giving the bull and
- 1:14Speaker 1: his horns a wide berth. Police try to corral the bull,
- 1:18Speaker 1: but after their charge several times, they give up. Animal
- 1:21Speaker 1: control shoots the steer with a tranquilizer, and he's transported
- 1:24Speaker 1: to a cow's sanctuary, where he is now named Ricardo.
- 1:29Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
- 1:33Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines John Lemley.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Authorities in Pennsylvania say a suburban Philadelphia man accused of
- 1:40Speaker 3: beheading his father and releasing a video online showing him
- 1:44Speaker 3: holding up the severed head, also had a device with
- 1:47Speaker 3: pictures of federal buildings on it and appeared to have
- 1:50Speaker 3: instructions for constructing bombs when he was taken into custody.
- 1:55Speaker 3: With more here. Sidney Sumner with a crime online the.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Office of the Bucks County District Attorney. He says that
- 2:00Speaker 2: thirty two year old Justin Mahn is being charged with
- 2:03Speaker 2: twelve additional counts, including theft and terrorism, in connection with
- 2:06Speaker 2: the death of his father, Michael Mahn. One month ago,
- 2:09Speaker 2: Prosecutors claimed that Justin Mann used a kitchen knife and
- 2:12Speaker 2: machete to decapitate Michael Mahn at their Levittown home after
- 2:16Speaker 2: shooting his father to death with a firearm he had
- 2:18Speaker 2: purchased the day before. Then, Justin Mahn made a video
- 2:21Speaker 2: in which he calls for violence against the government while
- 2:24Speaker 2: holding up his father's head and identifying him as a
- 2:26Speaker 2: twenty year federal employee on a desk. In the room
- 2:29Speaker 2: where the video was recorded, Prosecutors say investigators discovered bloodstains.
- 2:34Speaker 2: They also found a computer with many tabs open, one
- 2:37Speaker 2: of which was for YouTube. Along with promoting a range
- 2:40Speaker 2: of conspiracy theories, Justin Mann rants in the video about
- 2:43Speaker 2: the Biden administration, immigration and border security, fiscal policy, urban crime,
- 2:48Speaker 2: and the conflict in Ukraine. Before it was removed, the
- 2:51Speaker 2: video was up on YouTube for several hours. Prosecutors alleged
- 2:55Speaker 2: that Justin Mahn intended to mobilize the Guard against the
- 2:59Speaker 2: federal government, so he drove his father's two thousand and
- 3:01Speaker 2: nine Toyota Corolla to a National Guard training facility at
- 3:05Speaker 2: Fort Indiantown Gap. According to prosecutors, Man was taken into
- 3:09Speaker 2: custody and discovered to be in possession of a nine
- 3:11Speaker 2: millimeter handgun in a USB stick that included images of
- 3:15Speaker 2: federal buildings in what appeared to be instructions for creating
- 3:18Speaker 2: an explosive device. The FBI stated by way of email
- 3:21Speaker 2: that it is assisting with the District Attorney's probe.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Mon who is being held without bail, had already been
- 3:27Speaker 3: charged with first degree murder, abusing a corpse, and possessing
- 3:31Speaker 3: instruments of crime. A Saint Louis man has been handed
- 3:35Speaker 3: a sixty year prison sentence for a string of carjackings,
- 3:38Speaker 3: one of which resulted in the death of a high
- 3:40Speaker 3: school football coach. Once again, crime online, Sydney Sumner, thirty
- 3:45Speaker 3: one year old.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Kurt Wallace entered a guilty plea in September to four
- 3:48Speaker 2: counts of carjacking, one count of firing a handgun, and
- 3:51Speaker 2: furtherantce of carjacking resulting in death and other offenses. The
- 3:56Speaker 2: sentence was imposed by US District Judge Ronnie L. White.
- 4:00Speaker 2: According to federal authorities, Wallace is accused of shooting three
- 4:03Speaker 2: victims during three carjackings in twenty seventeen. The attacks were
- 4:07Speaker 2: through dating apps. On September sixteenth of that year. One
- 4:11Speaker 2: victim was shot in the shoulder. On October fifteenth, another
- 4:15Speaker 2: was shot in the leg. Both victims survived the attacks.
- 4:18Speaker 2: On October sixteenth of twenty seventeen, Jazz Granderson was shot
- 4:22Speaker 2: and killed while his jeep, Grand Cherokee, was being stolen.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Granderson worked as an assistant football coach at a suburban
- 4:28Speaker 2: Saint Louis High school. Wallace was named in a federal
- 4:31Speaker 2: indictment in November twenty seventeen. Authority say that in July
- 4:35Speaker 2: of twenty nineteen, Wallace broke out of jail while awaiting trial.
- 4:38Speaker 2: During a police pursuit, he crashed the vehicle he had
- 4:41Speaker 2: stolen and was apprehended.
- 4:43Speaker 3: Six additional defendants implicated in the carjackings have already been
- 4:47Speaker 3: found guilty and are serving terms varying from five years
- 4:51Speaker 3: to life.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Thanks John. Danielle Rico briefly visits with her mom one afternoon,
- 4:56Speaker 1: showing a newly repaired car. Danielle had a man with
- 5:00Speaker 1: her she introduced as a friend. Her mom worries when
- 5:03Speaker 1: she hasn't heard from Danielle in nearly two weeks. Reaching
- 5:07Speaker 1: out to Danielle's boyfriend, he says they broke up and
- 5:11Speaker 1: Danielle moved out with her two teen daughters. The mom
- 5:14Speaker 1: reports her missing. Cops also speak with the ex. He
- 5:18Speaker 1: admits he sold Danielle's car and has been using her
- 5:21Speaker 1: debit card. Cops get in touch with a man with
- 5:24Speaker 1: whom she was last seen, Randy, and he tells several
- 5:27Speaker 1: different stories about where he last saw her. In the
- 5:30Speaker 1: first few months after her disappearance, friends continue to get
- 5:34Speaker 1: Facebook messages from her, but her mom says they were odd.
- 5:38Speaker 1: She doesn't believe Danielle sent them. Danielle Rico now missing
- 5:42Speaker 1: over a year. If you have info on this mom
- 5:45Speaker 1: of two, Danielle Rico, please call Riverside Sheriffs eight hundred
- 5:50Speaker 1: ninety five zero four four. For the latest crime and
- 5:53Speaker 1: justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
- 5:57Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace