Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 07.18.24
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Crime alert I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: A Florida homeowner sixty six calls nine to one one
- 0:06Speaker 1: to report noise outside his home. He finds Blake Robinson
- 0:10Speaker 1: trying to break into the homeowner's car. The man sneaks
- 0:14Speaker 1: back inside to call nine to one one, but can't
- 0:15Speaker 1: find his phone, then decides to take matters into his
- 0:18Speaker 1: own hands. He confronts Robinson, who then attacks him. Robinson's
- 0:22Speaker 1: not prepared for the sixty six year old homeowner to
- 0:25Speaker 1: fight back. Robinson knocked to the ground, where arriving cops
- 0:29Speaker 1: find him. They get Robinson back on his feet as
- 0:32Speaker 1: straight into handcuffs Nancy.
- 0:34Speaker 2: According to Brevard County Sheriff's Deputies, Robinson was taken to
- 0:37Speaker 2: the hospital for injuries he sustained while quote getting his
- 0:41Speaker 2: butt whipped by the victim. Robinson punched the homeowner and
- 0:44Speaker 2: the head, threw him to the ground and kicked him
- 0:46Speaker 2: before the homeowner got up and retaliated. The homeowner required
- 0:49Speaker 2: less medical treatment than Robinson and is said to be
- 0:52Speaker 2: in good condition.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Blake Robinson, twenty nine, now charged with attempted burglary and
- 0:57Speaker 1: battery on a senior that gets the best of him.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Christina Marrold prepares to fly back to the US with
- 1:04Speaker 1: her family from Costa Rica. They gets held up in
- 1:06Speaker 1: the customs line. Costa Rican authorities questioned Marrold over a
- 1:10Speaker 1: piece of pottery she bought as a souvenir. Authorities claim
- 1:14Speaker 1: it's a priceless pre Columbian artifact Marold must have stolen,
- 1:19Speaker 1: but Marold has the receipt to prove it's a forty
- 1:22Speaker 1: dollars replica she got at.
- 1:24Speaker 3: A gift shop.
- 1:25Speaker 1: She manages to resolve the miscommunication and make it back
- 1:28Speaker 1: home on a later fly. Hey, pulled onto your receipts. Everybody.
- 1:32Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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- 1:41Speaker 3: John Limley, a Texas judge, has authorized the demolition of
- 1:45Speaker 3: the first Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, the site of
- 1:49Speaker 3: the deadliest church shooting in US history, where a gunman
- 1:52Speaker 3: killed more than two dozen worshipers in twenty seventeen. We
- 1:56Speaker 3: turned to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online for details.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Falling the massacre, the church transformed the structure into a memorial.
- 2:03Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, the congregation voted to tear down
- 2:06Speaker 2: the building, although church leaders have not announced when the
- 2:09Speaker 2: demolition will occur. A new church was completed about a
- 2:12Speaker 2: year and a half after the shooting. Earlier this month,
- 2:15Speaker 2: State District Judge Jennifer Dillingham granted a temporary restraining order
- 2:18Speaker 2: sought by some families to haunt the planned demolition. However,
- 2:22Speaker 2: on Monday, State District Judge Russell Wilson denied an extension
- 2:25Speaker 2: of that order, making it likely that the church could
- 2:28Speaker 2: soon be demolished. Attorneys for the church argued that they
- 2:31Speaker 2: have the right to demolish the memorial. Sam Fugate, the
- 2:34Speaker 2: second representing the attendees who sought the restraining order, said
- 2:37Speaker 2: their goal was to secure a new vote on the
- 2:40Speaker 2: building's feet. The lawsuit allege that some members were wrongfully
- 2:43Speaker 2: removed from the church roster before the vote. Visitors to
- 2:46Speaker 2: the memorial expressed that it brought them solace, but the
- 2:49Speaker 2: church has stated that the structure serves as a quote
- 2:51Speaker 2: constant and very painful reminder of the tragedy. The congregation
- 2:55Speaker 2: voted in twenty twenty one to replace it with an
- 2:57Speaker 2: open air memorial. On November fifth, twenty seventeen, Devin Patrick
- 3:01Speaker 2: Kelly opened fire at the church, killing twenty six people,
- 3:04Speaker 2: including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Kelly died
- 3:07Speaker 2: of a self inflicted gunshot wound after being chased by
- 3:10Speaker 2: bystanders and crashing his car. Investigators believe the shooting stemmed
- 3:14Speaker 2: from a domestic dispute involving Kelly and his mother in law,
- 3:17Speaker 2: who occasionally attended the church but was not present on
- 3:20Speaker 2: that day.
- 3:21Speaker 3: The church has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and
- 3:23Speaker 3: maintains that the decision to demolish the building was made
- 3:27Speaker 3: in the best interest of its members.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Thanks John, Fern Bayard takes a weekend road trip to
- 3:32Speaker 1: catch him, Idaho. From her home, Park City, Utah. One
- 3:35Speaker 1: seventeen pm, Fern signs the Prairie Creek trailhead log book,
- 3:40Speaker 1: riding to the lake and back that's a ten mile loop.
- 3:44Speaker 1: When she misses checkout. The next day, Fern's hotel reports
- 3:49Speaker 1: her missing. Her car is found still parked at the trailhead.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Blank County sheriff searts the trail for six days. They
- 3:56Speaker 1: come up empty handed. Her family says while she's in experience,
- 4:00Speaker 1: it's hiker. She usually doesn't leave the trail or try shortcuts.
- 4:05Speaker 1: There's been no activity on her bank account, credit cards,
- 4:09Speaker 1: or cell phone since she left for the hike. Fern
- 4:13Speaker 1: Baird sixty three five five, one hundred and fifteen pounds,
- 4:17Speaker 1: grayish brown hair, brown eyes, last scene wearing a light
- 4:21Speaker 1: gray jacket, dark pants with a dark colored bandanna, face mask,
- 4:27Speaker 1: and fanny pack. If you have info on Fern Beard,
- 4:31Speaker 1: now missing four years, called Blaine County, Idaho Sheriffs two
- 4:37Speaker 1: zero eight seven eight eight five five five five. For
- 4:42Speaker 1: the latest crime in justice needs go to crimeonline dot
- 4:44Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'mmancy Grace.