Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 03.12.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean sye grace breaking crimes now. Sergio
- 0:03Speaker 1: Colin Gomez accuses his pregnant girlfriend of cheating after she
- 0:07Speaker 1: puts her three year old son, Ivan to bed. They
- 0:10Speaker 1: talked things through and settle in for a movie. An
- 0:12Speaker 1: hour later, Colin Gomez starts accusing again. Afraid mommy locks
- 0:19Speaker 1: herself and a three year old son's bedroom, Colin Gomaz
- 0:22Speaker 1: breaks down the door, entering the room with a gun.
- 0:26Speaker 1: When she tries to take the gun away, he shoots
- 0:29Speaker 1: the little Ivan in the head.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Nancy Ivan's mother immediately called nine one one, but there
- 0:34Speaker 2: was nothing first responders could do for the little boy.
- 0:37Speaker 2: California cops found Colin Gomez pacing on a sidewalk outside
- 0:40Speaker 2: the apartment complex, and while he resisted arrest, officers were
- 0:44Speaker 2: able to subdue and cuff him. Santa Clara County District
- 0:47Speaker 2: Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement, quote, we will
- 0:50Speaker 2: sadly but steadfastly do our job to make sure this
- 0:52Speaker 2: person will never harm another.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Sergio Colin Gomaz, twenty four, charged with murder and Albuquerque
- 1:00Speaker 1: chemistry teacher tells the principle she's bringing swords to school
- 1:03Speaker 1: to discuss the properties of metal, but everything goes wrong.
- 1:08Speaker 1: The teacher allegedly encourages students to fight in pairs with
- 1:13Speaker 1: the samurai swords until a sixteen year old is badly cut.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Instead of calling for help, she asks students to delete
- 1:20Speaker 1: videos of the swords. Eventually, a student runs for help
- 1:24Speaker 1: and the school nurse calls nine one one. The victim
- 1:26Speaker 1: undergoes multiple surgeries but will never regain full use of
- 1:31Speaker 1: her hand. While the teacher has not been criminally charged,
- 1:35Speaker 1: the family's now suing the teacher, the principal, and the
- 1:38Speaker 1: school district. More crime and justice news after this. Now
- 1:44Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines
- 1:47Speaker 1: to John Lemley.
- 1:48Speaker 3: We begin in Wisconsin as a police chief says that
- 1:51Speaker 3: the total reward in the case of a three year
- 1:53Speaker 3: old boy who disappeared last month has now increased to
- 1:56Speaker 3: twenty five thousand dollars. With more, here's Sydney's so with
- 2:00Speaker 3: Crime Online.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Minhert announced in a news
- 2:04Speaker 2: release that the Manitowac County, Wisconsin crime Stoppers reward for
- 2:07Speaker 2: information resulting in Elijah VU's whereabouts in return or in
- 2:11Speaker 2: the arrest and conviction of those responsible for his disappearance
- 2:14Speaker 2: has increased to a maximum of ten thousand dollars. Minhert
- 2:18Speaker 2: added that there's an FBI reward of up to fifteen
- 2:20Speaker 2: thousand dollars in this case. In addition to the crime
- 2:23Speaker 2: Stoppers reward. Prosecutors say that the boy's mother had sent
- 2:26Speaker 2: him to stay in a Two Rivers home, where he
- 2:28Speaker 2: was last seen on February twentieth. Elijah has not been
- 2:32Speaker 2: found despite many searches by the police and local citizens.
- 2:35Speaker 2: His mother, thirty one year old Wisconsin Dell's resident, Katrina Bauer,
- 2:39Speaker 2: is accused of two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing
- 2:42Speaker 2: an officer in one felony count of party to a
- 2:45Speaker 2: crime involving child neglect in Manitowac County. She is being
- 2:49Speaker 2: jailed under a fifteen thousand dollars cash bond. Thirty nine
- 2:52Speaker 2: year old Jesse Vong of Two Rivers, the man with
- 2:55Speaker 2: whom Elijah was sent to stay, is accused of one
- 2:57Speaker 2: felon account of party to a crime child neglect. He
- 3:00Speaker 2: is behind bars for a twenty thousand dollars cash bond.
- 3:03Speaker 2: According to Manitowac County District Attorney Jaqueline Lebray, Elijah was
- 3:07Speaker 2: sent by Bauer to live with Thong for disciplinary reasons.
- 3:10Speaker 2: At the time of Elijah's disappearance, Bauer was not in
- 3:13Speaker 2: Two Rivers, which is roughly thirty miles southeast of Green Bay.
- 3:17Speaker 2: A criminal complaint states that Bauer informed police that she
- 3:19Speaker 2: had left Elijah with Wong on February twelfth because she
- 3:22Speaker 2: wanted him to train her son to be a man.
- 3:25Speaker 2: She planned to pick him up on February twenty third.
- 3:28Speaker 2: On February twentieth, Wong reported Elijah missing to the police,
- 3:31Speaker 2: stating that he had taken a nap that morning and
- 3:33Speaker 2: had taken the boy into the bedroom with him. However,
- 3:36Speaker 2: the boy was gone when he awakened roughly three hours later.
- 3:39Speaker 2: This also detailed in the criminal complaint.
- 3:41Speaker 3: One final detail in that complaint, Wong admitted to authorities
- 3:45Speaker 3: that he was seeing Bauer and had been attempting to
- 3:48Speaker 3: assist with her son's bad behavior. A Philadelphia man has
- 3:52Speaker 3: had his conviction overturned and is now free from prison.
- 3:56Speaker 3: All of this several years after a crucial witness recanted
- 4:00Speaker 3: his testimony given during trial for a pool room killing
- 4:03Speaker 3: over fifty years ago. Once again, crime online Sydney Sumner.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Seventy seven year old William Franklin was originally found guilty
- 4:10Speaker 2: of killing Joseph Hollis in a Brewerytown pool room in
- 4:14Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six, mostly on the basis of the testimony
- 4:17Speaker 2: of a jailhouse informant who defense lawyers claimed was involved
- 4:20Speaker 2: in other criminal cases. Franklin is now a freeman. Our
- 4:24Speaker 2: friends with The Philadelphia Inquirer previously reported that the informant
- 4:28Speaker 2: claimed in an affidavit in a video statement made prior
- 4:30Speaker 2: to his death in twenty twenty that detectives had not
- 4:33Speaker 2: only threatened him with a life sentence, but also offered
- 4:36Speaker 2: him lenient treatment and the opportunity to have liaisons with
- 4:39Speaker 2: multiple women, either at police headquarters or in hotel rooms.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Franklin's first degree murder conviction was overturned by Common please
- 4:46Speaker 2: Court Judge Tracy brandeis Roman last week. This According to
- 4:50Speaker 2: the newspaper, she stated that her court is quote not
- 4:53Speaker 2: fond of the notion that Philadelphia authorities have close cases
- 4:56Speaker 2: through intimidation and similar covert incentives. On the day his
- 5:00Speaker 2: release after serving some forty four years behind bars, Franklin
- 5:04Speaker 2: was greeted with applause from his family and supporters As
- 5:06Speaker 2: he left current from Hold correctional facility. He told our
- 5:10Speaker 2: friends with WCAU TV that he felt quote fine, lovely,
- 5:14Speaker 2: and grateful to be here, but added that there's more
- 5:16Speaker 2: work to be done because we have a lot of
- 5:18Speaker 2: brothers and sisters behind those walls.
- 5:20Speaker 3: Franklin, who was granted bailed by the judge, is now
- 5:23Speaker 3: under house arrest until the Philadelphia District Attorney's office decides
- 5:27Speaker 3: whether to appeal the ruling or retry him.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Thanks John. Nicole Bauman seems to have a good time
- 5:33Speaker 1: at her oldest daughter's twentieth birthday party, but two days later,
- 5:37Speaker 1: she disappears from the family's mount door of Florida home.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Nicole make sure their two younger children are settled in
- 5:43Speaker 1: for the night, then gets ready for bed herself, saying
- 5:46Speaker 1: good night to her daughter around eleven thirty, then going
- 5:49Speaker 1: to sleep next to her husband. He wakes up the
- 5:51Speaker 1: next morning, Nicholl's gone, her car still in the driveway,
- 5:54Speaker 1: her person's cell phone left behind. It doesn't appear she
- 5:57Speaker 1: changed out of her nightgown or put on. Nicole's husband,
- 6:01Speaker 1: Brett Baldwin, moved the family away just after Nicole disappeared,
- 6:06Speaker 1: but he's not considered a POI. Nicole Baldwin now missing
- 6:10Speaker 1: four months. If you have info on Nicole Baldwin, call
- 6:14Speaker 1: Mount Dora, Florida PD three five two seven three five
- 6:18Speaker 1: seven one three zero. For the latest crime in justice news,
- 6:22Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com with this crime alert.
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