Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.30.24 | 7yo Non-Verbal Autistic Child Locked in Storage Container
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cline alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Tennessee cops searched Sean Moody's home, who's wanted on suspicion
- 0:07Speaker 2: of elder abuse. They learned Moody and his wife, Nicky,
- 0:11Speaker 2: have a non verbal, autistic seven year old child. While
- 0:15Speaker 2: searching the home, they find a story's trunk with urine
- 0:18Speaker 2: soaked blankets, a pillow, clothing with bloodstains, and a half
- 0:22Speaker 2: eaten pizza inside. When pressed, Mickey and Sean Moody admit
- 0:28Speaker 2: they frequently lock the child in the trunk for bad behavior.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Nancy cops also described the deplorable conditions in the Moody's home,
- 0:38Speaker 3: listing in their report that animal and human feces were
- 0:41Speaker 3: all over the floors and there was exposed wiring at
- 0:44Speaker 3: all of the outlets. At the discovery of the storage trunk,
- 0:47Speaker 3: officers called in the Department of Children's Services and the
- 0:50Speaker 3: child was placed in protective custody. Shawn Moody remains behind
- 0:53Speaker 3: bars while Mickey Moody posts a seventy five thousand dollars bond.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Parents Mickey Moody thirty six, Shawn Moody nine charged with
- 1:01Speaker 2: aggravated child abuse and child endangerment. California elementary school teacher
- 1:07Speaker 2: Elaine Salmon, staying after school to prep tomorrow's lessons, leaves
- 1:11Speaker 2: her classroom to make copies. When she comes back, she
- 1:14Speaker 2: comes face to face with a four hundred pound thief.
- 1:17Speaker 2: A hungry black bear somehow makes its way into the
- 1:21Speaker 2: classroom and dig into her student's earthquake kits full of
- 1:25Speaker 2: granola bars. Thankfully, Elaine's husband is a bear deterrent specialist.
- 1:31Speaker 1: And manages to get the bear back out.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Of the school before he causes too much damage or
- 1:36Speaker 2: eats anybody. The granola barthief safely wanders back into the wilderness,
- 1:41Speaker 2: barely escaping charges for putting someone in immediate fear of
- 1:46Speaker 2: serious bodily harm. More crime and justice news after this
- 1:55Speaker 2: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
- 1:57Speaker 2: on Lines John Lemley.
- 1:58Speaker 4: In a dramatic turn of events, a murder and armed
- 2:01Speaker 4: robbery suspect who escaped from custody in Mississippi has been
- 2:06Speaker 4: apprehended by law enforcement after a tent standoff in Chicago.
- 2:10Speaker 4: For details, we turned to Sydney Sumner of Crime Online.
- 2:14Speaker 3: According to a spokesperson for the US Marshal Service, Joshua Zimmerman,
- 2:18Speaker 3: who had been on the run since June, was taken
- 2:20Speaker 3: into custody in Chicago. Zimmerman's escape from the DeSoto County
- 2:24Speaker 3: Circuit Court Building in Hernando, Mississippi, had sparked a manhunt
- 2:27Speaker 3: led by the US Marshall Service. Chief Deputy Justin Smith
- 2:31Speaker 3: of the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Zimmerman was
- 2:34Speaker 3: discovered at a restaurant in Chicago. Zimmerman had been detained
- 2:37Speaker 3: in Mississippi on charges of attempted murder and armed robbery,
- 2:40Speaker 3: and was also waiting extradition to Houston, Texas, where he
- 2:43Speaker 3: faces additional murder charges. Authorities have not disclosed how they
- 2:47Speaker 3: managed to locate Zimmerman in Chicago, and there is no
- 2:50Speaker 3: current evidence linking his presence to the nearby Democratic National Convention,
- 2:54Speaker 3: which was under way at the time. The standoff occurred,
- 2:56Speaker 3: and a restaurant situated roughly half a mile from the
- 2:59Speaker 3: United Center where the convention was taking place. During a
- 3:02Speaker 3: press briefing, Chief Deputy Smith described the situation, stating that
- 3:05Speaker 3: Zimmerman had quote barcated himself inside the restaurant.
- 3:09Speaker 4: Smith added that the priority of his office was to
- 3:12Speaker 4: return Zimmerman to Mississippi, and continue investigating the circumstances surrounding
- 3:18Speaker 4: his escape. In a violent incident at Nevada's Ely State Prison,
- 3:22Speaker 4: a white supremacist gang leader from Las Vegas has been
- 3:25Speaker 4: identified as one of three inmates killed once again crime
- 3:29Speaker 4: online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:31Speaker 3: The brawl, which erupted on July thirtieth at the maximum
- 3:33Speaker 3: security facility, also left at least nine other inmates injured.
- 3:37Speaker 3: This according to White Pine County Sheriff Scott Henryod. The
- 3:41Speaker 3: sheriff confirmed the deaths of forty three year old Zachariah
- 3:44Speaker 3: Lutts and twenty two year old Connor Brown, while withholding
- 3:46Speaker 3: the identity of the third deceased inmate pending notification of
- 3:50Speaker 3: next of kin. Lutts, a prominent figure among the Aryan
- 3:53Speaker 3: Warriors white Supremacist prison gang, was sentenced last year to
- 3:56Speaker 3: a minimum of eight years and six months for felony, racketeer,
- 4:00Speaker 3: and forgery charges. Brown, hailing from South Lake Tahoe, California,
- 4:04Speaker 3: was serving a seven to twenty four year sentence for
- 4:07Speaker 3: a twenty twenty robbery in Reno where he stabbed a
- 4:09Speaker 3: gas station clerk and a casino patron. The cause of
- 4:12Speaker 3: the brawl remains unclear. Sheriff Henryod reported that deputies were
- 4:16Speaker 3: called to the prison at approximately nine to forty. Details
- 4:19Speaker 3: regarding the nature of the fight, the weapons involved in
- 4:22Speaker 3: the specific injury sustained by the inmates were not disclosed.
- 4:25Speaker 3: The injured inmates' identities and the extent of their injuries
- 4:28Speaker 3: have not been released. Some were airlifted from Elie for
- 4:31Speaker 3: medical treatment, but no corrections officers were harmed in the incident.
- 4:35Speaker 3: This according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
- 4:37Speaker 4: The investigation into the brawl is ongoing, with authorities working
- 4:41Speaker 4: to uncover the events that led to this deadly outbreak
- 4:44Speaker 4: of violence.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Thanks John.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Melissa Montoya, forty two, meets friends for a Saint Patti's
- 4:50Speaker 2: Day party at a dulcein New Mexico bar. Melissa has
- 4:54Speaker 2: a deep conversation with a friend about her relationship with
- 4:58Speaker 2: her violent boyfriend and Sam's ready to break up. Later
- 5:01Speaker 2: that night, the boyfriend shows up at the bar, insisting
- 5:05Speaker 2: she leave with him. The couple argues, Melissa tells him
- 5:08Speaker 2: to back off. An hour later, he tries again, grabbing
- 5:12Speaker 2: Melissa by the arm and walking her out. No one
- 5:15Speaker 2: has seen or her from her since the boyfriend tells
- 5:18Speaker 2: cops he doesn't know anything about the disappearance and he
- 5:21Speaker 2: wasn't even at the bar that night. The boyfriend dies
- 5:24Speaker 2: shortly after Melissa's disappearance. Melissa Native American five seven, one
- 5:29Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five pounds, black, curly hair, brown eyes.
- 5:33Speaker 2: If you have info on Melissa Montoya, now missing twenty
- 5:38Speaker 2: three years, please call he Korea A Passionation, New Mexico
- 5:43Speaker 2: PD five seven five seven five nine three two two two.
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- 5:57Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Missy Grace.