Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 11.02.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Mikah
- 0:04Speaker 1: Eckert runs into his girlfriend as he's leaving a Houston
- 0:06Speaker 1: restaurant and goes to greet her, only to find out
- 0:09Speaker 1: she's therefore a date with her husband. Eckert argues with
- 0:13Speaker 1: the couple, the man start throwing punches. Ekert pulls a
- 0:16Speaker 1: knife stabs both his girlfriend and her husband until the
- 0:20Speaker 1: security guard separates him from the couple.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Nancy Eckert had no idea of the forty four year
- 0:25Speaker 2: old woman he was seeing was married. Her forty two
- 0:27Speaker 2: year old husband stepped in between the two of them
- 0:30Speaker 2: when Eckert began arguing with her, leading to a physical
- 0:32Speaker 2: fight between the boyfriend and husband. In a brief pause,
- 0:36Speaker 2: Ekert pulled a knife and stabbed both several times, but
- 0:38Speaker 2: they were reported to be in stable condition.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Eckert, twenty five, now charged with two counts a assault.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Ryan Smith and a coworker sent to a Nebraska apartment
- 0:48Speaker 1: complex to collect a body to take to the funeral home.
- 0:52Speaker 1: A building manager accompanies the staff to the unit, where
- 0:55Speaker 1: they find an extremely detailed blow up doll in the
- 1:00Speaker 1: bed next to the dead body. Smith tells the building
- 1:04Speaker 1: manager the sheriff's office asks him to collect the doll
- 1:07Speaker 1: for testing, but the manager is not convinced and sends
- 1:11Speaker 1: the workers on their way. Hours later, the building manager
- 1:14Speaker 1: finds the deceased man's apartment broken into. Cobbs arrived to
- 1:19Speaker 1: find Smith, the body collector, inside the unit, standing over
- 1:24Speaker 1: the blow up doll, his shirt untucked, his pants disheveled.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Smith forty one, now charged with felony burglary. If only
- 1:34Speaker 1: that plastic doll could talk. More crime and justice news
- 1:38Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
- 1:42Speaker 1: news Prime Online is John Lemley.
- 1:44Speaker 3: A Texas mother who fled the country for India after
- 1:48Speaker 3: giving multiple excuses for what happened to her missing six
- 1:51Speaker 3: year old son, now stands charged with his murder. With more,
- 1:55Speaker 3: here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:57Speaker 2: According to Everman Police Chief Craig's, thirty eight year old
- 2:01Speaker 2: Cindy Rodriguez Singh has been indicted on one count of
- 2:04Speaker 2: capital murder, two counts of child injury, and one count
- 2:07Speaker 2: of abandoning a child with no intention of returning by
- 2:09Speaker 2: a grand jury in Terrant County. Noel Rodriguez Alvarez's body
- 2:13Speaker 2: has not yet been found, despite extensive searches by authorities
- 2:17Speaker 2: in and around Everman, the family's hometown located south of
- 2:20Speaker 2: Fort Worth. Noel was last seen, according to investigators, in
- 2:24Speaker 2: late October of twenty twenty two. Spencer expressed optimism that
- 2:28Speaker 2: the indictments would aid in the mother's apprehension an eventual
- 2:31Speaker 2: return from India to the United States. He stated that
- 2:34Speaker 2: federal authorities are investigating the matter, but is unsure if
- 2:37Speaker 2: she has yet been found. After receiving a tip from
- 2:40Speaker 2: Child Protective Services that Noel hadn't been seen in a while,
- 2:43Speaker 2: officers visited the family's house Back in March, Rodriguez Singh,
- 2:47Speaker 2: along with her husband and their six kids, boarded a
- 2:50Speaker 2: plane for India two days later.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Spencer said Noel, who had mental and developmental disabilities, had
- 2:56Speaker 3: never been enrolled in school. A woman from Long Islandland
- 3:00Speaker 3: has been found guilty of aggravated manslaughter in the death
- 3:03Speaker 3: of a New York City Police detective on the Long
- 3:06Speaker 3: Island Expressway in April of twenty twenty one. Hempstead resident
- 3:10Speaker 3: Jessica Bouvey was taken into custody shortly after the death
- 3:14Speaker 3: of fourteen year police veteran Anastasio Sakos. The forty three
- 3:18Speaker 3: year old was hit and killed while assisting authorities at
- 3:21Speaker 3: the site of another deadly incident on the Queen's Expressway.
- 3:25Speaker 3: According to Queen's District Attorney Melinda Katz, thirty four year
- 3:29Speaker 3: old Bouvet was operating her vehicle with a suspended license
- 3:33Speaker 3: and was under the influence of alcohol. Bouvey fled the scene,
- 3:37Speaker 3: but was apprehended soon after the incident. On the forty
- 3:41Speaker 3: first anniversary of an Indiana man's murder, state police have
- 3:45Speaker 3: announced that they've apprehended a suspect in connection to the
- 3:48Speaker 3: cold case dating to Halloween nineteen eighty two. Once again
- 3:52Speaker 3: Crime Online, Sydney Sumner.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Police they detained a sixty one year old man from
- 3:57Speaker 2: the southern Indiana town of Seymour. He's being held on
- 4:00Speaker 2: charges of Clifford Smith's shooting death on October thirty first,
- 4:03Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two. Smith's wife reported her husband missing on
- 4:07Speaker 2: November fourth of that year, and almost a month later,
- 4:09Speaker 2: on December first, two animal trappers discovered Smith's body near
- 4:13Speaker 2: Seymour along the White River. Smith died, according to investigators,
- 4:17Speaker 2: from a gunshot wound to the head. When Sergeant Kit
- 4:20Speaker 2: Mayne started looking into the case in September twenty fifteen.
- 4:23Speaker 2: He discovered that on October thirtieth, nineteen eighty two, the
- 4:26Speaker 2: suspect and other individuals were at a house with Smith.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Police say the suspect took a shotgun from the premises,
- 4:32Speaker 2: loaded it, and drove away from the house with Smith
- 4:35Speaker 2: in the vehicle with him. This was the last time
- 4:37Speaker 2: Smith was seen alive. Following the investigation, the suspect was
- 4:41Speaker 2: placed under arrest after the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office issued
- 4:45Speaker 2: an arrest warrant for him.
- 4:46Speaker 3: The city of Seymour is located approximately fifty eight miles
- 4:50Speaker 3: south of Indianapolis.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Paul A Wad, a manager at Georgia Sam's Club, worries
- 4:55Speaker 1: her co workers when she doesn't show up to work.
- 4:57Speaker 1: She hadn't done that in five years she worked. They
- 5:00Speaker 1: when she doesn't show up again the next day, cops
- 5:02Speaker 1: head to her apartment. Wade had started packing for a
- 5:05Speaker 1: plan to move to Florida, meaning belongings in boxes, but
- 5:08Speaker 1: otherwise no sign of Paula or her three year old
- 5:11Speaker 1: son Brandon. Her wallet, keys, purse, glasses all left behind.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Paula Waite's nearly blind without her glasses. The only thing
- 5:20Speaker 1: missing is Brandon's car seat. Cops will reach out to
- 5:23Speaker 1: Wade's strange husband, but he had moved out of state
- 5:26Speaker 1: for the military and he had not heard from her.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Paula and Brandon Wade, now missing twenty one years. If
- 5:34Speaker 1: you have info on Paula Wade now forty six or
- 5:36Speaker 1: Brandon Wade now twenty four, contact the FBI seven seven
- 5:41Speaker 1: zero two one six three thousand. For the latest crime
- 5:44Speaker 1: in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this
- 5:46Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.