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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Jennifer Goold.
- 0:05Speaker 1: A horrifying act of betrayal in Florida, a man who
- 0:08Speaker 1: was welcomed into the home of a generous elderly couple
- 0:12Speaker 1: to help him get back on his feet repays them
- 0:15Speaker 1: by brutally murdering one of them. The vicious attack happened
- 0:19Speaker 1: while the couple was simply watching TV in their home
- 0:22Speaker 1: on the fifty two hundred block of Old Oak Road
- 0:25Speaker 1: in Milton, near Mobile, Alabama. Thirty one year old Toby
- 0:29Speaker 1: White stabbed Lucy Red multiple times with a butcher knife
- 0:33Speaker 1: in front of her horrified husband. Santa Rosa Sheriff Bob
- 0:37Speaker 1: Johnson spoke to ABC three News.
- 0:40Speaker 2: A husband of the victims said that when he asked
- 0:43Speaker 2: him why did he do that, he said God told.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Him to That was his answer. The crime scene was gruesome.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Reeds suffered several stab wounds, primarily to her chest and abdomen,
- 0:54Speaker 1: which were fatal. The butcher knife used in the murder
- 0:57Speaker 1: was found at the scene, still bearing traces of her blood.
- 1:00Speaker 1: In a desperate attempt to save his wife, the husband
- 1:02Speaker 1: wrapped the seventy seven year old in a blanket and
- 1:04Speaker 1: drove her to Santa Rosa Medical Center, where she was
- 1:07Speaker 1: pronounced dead. The suspect had been living in a camper
- 1:11Speaker 1: on the couple's property for several months, having met them
- 1:14Speaker 1: through a mutual friend. He was granted access to their
- 1:17Speaker 1: home under the condition that one of the couple was present.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Following the murder, White fled, initiating a high stakes manhunt.
- 1:26Speaker 1: He was first spotted driving a stolen vehicle, leading to
- 1:28Speaker 1: a police chaf that spanned multiple counties. Unbeknownst to the
- 1:32Speaker 1: initial pursuing officers, White was not only a suspect in
- 1:37Speaker 1: a car theft, but also in Reed's murder. The chase
- 1:41Speaker 1: ended when White crashed the car, after which he tried
- 1:44Speaker 1: to escape on foot. The foot chase took officers through
- 1:47Speaker 1: wooded areas and residential neighborhoods, but law enforcement, utilizing canine
- 1:52Speaker 1: units and aerial support, managed to corner him in a
- 1:55Speaker 1: wooded area behind a residential property. White was arrested after
- 2:00Speaker 1: a brief struggle, still wearing the blood stained clothes from
- 2:04Speaker 1: the crime. White's criminal history is extensive. He had been
- 2:08Speaker 1: arrested seven times in Santa Rosa County since twenty eleven,
- 2:12Speaker 1: with a recent arrest in August of twenty twenty three
- 2:16Speaker 1: for grand theft of a vehicle, weapons offenses, and possession
- 2:20Speaker 1: by a convicted felon. He was sentenced to one year
- 2:23Speaker 1: in jail with time served credited, followed by two years
- 2:26Speaker 1: of probation. Released from jail less than two weeks before
- 2:31Speaker 1: the murder, White was on probation when he allegedly killed Red. Currently,
- 2:37Speaker 1: he awaits extradition back to Santa Rosa County to face
- 2:41Speaker 1: murder charges. In more, I'm Nicole Parton, a mother from Georgia,
- 2:46Speaker 1: is facing second degree murder charges after her baby tragically
- 2:50Speaker 1: died from burns calls by a hair dryer, allegedly while
- 2:54Speaker 1: the mother was under the influence of drugs. In November
- 2:57Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, thirty two year old more Alison Creele
- 3:01Speaker 1: contacted emergency services in Cowetta County when she discovered her
- 3:06Speaker 1: infant son unresponsive after waking up from a nap. Crele
- 3:10Speaker 1: informed authorities that she had been using a hair dryer
- 3:13Speaker 1: to warm her baby and then fell asleep during the process.
- 3:18Speaker 1: When responders arrived, they found the child with severe burns,
- 3:22Speaker 1: particularly on his right side, and despite their attempts to
- 3:25Speaker 1: revive him through CPR. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
- 3:29Speaker 1: During their investigation, authorities noticed a marijuana smoking device on
- 3:33Speaker 1: Kreole's back porch, leading them to suspect she was impaired
- 3:36Speaker 1: at the time of the incident. She was initially charged
- 3:39Speaker 1: with second degree cruelty to children and later released on bond.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Almost a year later, while still on bond, Krele was
- 3:47Speaker 1: arrested for DUI after allegedly driving erradically fuck six shares
- 3:53Speaker 1: the body cam footage so.
- 3:56Speaker 3: While were you swerving by the foss starty sleeves and
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- 4:06Speaker 2: A rbing place underrest of job under the influensive bank.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Recently, a grand jury has added a charge of second
- 4:12Speaker 3: degree murder against her, claiming she inflicted quote cruel and
- 4:17Speaker 3: excessive physical and mental pain by leaving the blow dryer
- 4:21Speaker 3: on the baby while she was unconscious and intoxicated. As
- 4:25Speaker 3: of January twenty four, Creole was taken into custody and
- 4:29Speaker 3: booked into the Cowwetta County Jail.
- 4:32Speaker 2: I'm Drew Nelson, a South Carolina mother who drowned her
- 4:35Speaker 2: to young sons in nineteen ninety four. As now a
- 4:38Speaker 2: complete nightmare in prison after being denied parole. That's according
- 4:43Speaker 2: to a corrections officer who spoke to the New York Post.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Susan Smith, now fifty three years old, has served thirty
- 4:50Speaker 2: years of a life sentence for the murders of three
- 4:52Speaker 2: year old Michael and fourteen month old Alexander. She was
- 4:55Speaker 2: denied parole on November twentieth after a hearing where she
- 4:59Speaker 2: pleaded from her.
- 5:01Speaker 3: It was so horrible.
- 5:04Speaker 4: And I'm giving the idea can change it. That was
- 5:08Speaker 4: then this is now. A prison worker at Leath Correctional
- 5:11Speaker 4: Facility tells the New York Post. Smith's behavior changed immediately
- 5:16Speaker 4: after the decision. Quote. Last year, when she had a
- 5:18Speaker 4: chance of getting out, she was really cooperative, helpful, even pleasant.
- 5:23Speaker 4: But now she's the complete opposite, just rude and all
- 5:26Speaker 4: the time. Overnight she went from being a model prisoner
- 5:30Speaker 4: to a complete nightmare. Smith gained a national attention in
- 5:33Speaker 4: nineteen ninety four when she rolled her car into John D.
- 5:37Speaker 4: Long Lake in Union, South Carolina, with her two sons
- 5:40Speaker 4: strapped inside. The vehicle took six minutes to sink. Smith
- 5:44Speaker 4: initially told police a black man had carjacked her, sparking
- 5:48Speaker 4: a nationwide search. Nine days later, she admitted to the murders.
- 5:52Speaker 4: Investigators revealed she wanted to be with a man who
- 5:55Speaker 4: did not want children. She was convicted in nineteen ninety
- 5:58Speaker 4: five and sentenced to life for the chance of parole
- 6:01Speaker 4: after thirty years. Her ex husband David Smith opposed her release,
- 6:05Speaker 4: wearing a pin with pictures of their sons. Quote, God
- 6:08Speaker 4: gives us free choice, and she made free choice that
- 6:11Speaker 4: night to end their life. This wasn't a tragic mistake.
- 6:14Speaker 4: She purposefully meant to end their life. Smith will have
- 6:17Speaker 4: another chance at parole next year, but David has vowed
- 6:20Speaker 4: to fight against her release every time. For the latest
- 6:24Speaker 4: crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly update on
- 6:27Speaker 4: your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson.