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Michigan Mom Calls in false bomb threats to Daughter's School Over Play | Crime Alert Recap Saturday · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jackie Howard. Jail time and probation. That's what's ahead
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  Speaker 2: for a Michigan mom. Crystal Royster forty two twice called
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  Speaker 2: in false bomb threats to her daughter's Detroit school after
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  Speaker 2: the girl wasn't allowed to take part in a school play.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities say the daughter could not participate due to school
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  Speaker 2: policy after being sick and going home earlier that day.
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  Speaker 2: Over seven hundred people had to be evacuated from Lake
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  Speaker 2: Shore High School as Saint Clair Shore's police and other
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  Speaker 2: jurisdictions rolled in to respond. Charges of a false report
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  Speaker 2: or threat of a bomb is a four year felony,
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  Speaker 2: and Royster pleaded guilty. She will serve probation for eighteen
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  Speaker 2: months after spending fourteen days in the Makeham County Jail.
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  Speaker 2: As part of her probation, Royster is not allowed to
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  Speaker 2: contact the victims of the incident and must notify the
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  Speaker 2: school before heading onto the grounds. She also has to
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  Speaker 2: take part in a Class eight Impulse control classes, War,
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  Speaker 2: crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Jennifer Gould, a teenage daycare worker entrusted with the
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  Speaker 3: lives of helpless infants. Transformed a Minnesota nursery into a
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  Speaker 3: personal death trap, intentionally suffocating babies just to satisfy a
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  Speaker 3: sick craving for attention. THEA Ludimia Russell, eighteen, was hauled
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  Speaker 3: off to jail after delivering a bone chilling confession to cops.
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  Speaker 3: She spent weeks smothering children until they turned quote unquote
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  Speaker 3: white purple and sprayed blood tinged foam from their mouths. Also,
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  Speaker 3: she could play hero when paramedics arrived. Here's Savage Police
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  Speaker 3: Chief Brady Jewel at the news conference.
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  Speaker 4: This murder, an attempted murder of another child, deeply affected
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  Speaker 4: our community. This person should never ever again be free
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  Speaker 4: to harm another child.
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  Speaker 3: The three month investigation into the Rocking Horse Ranch childcare
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  Speaker 3: in Savage, Minnesota revealed that Russell's twisted bid for sympathy
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  Speaker 3: ended in the senseless murder of eleven month old Harvey Mucklebust,
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  Speaker 3: who was slaughtered just five days before he was set
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  Speaker 3: to celebrate his first birthday. The nightmare began on September nineteenth,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, when Russell allegedly targeted a four month
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  Speaker 3: old girl twice in a single shift during a routine
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  Speaker 3: burping session. The teen reportedly smothered the infant until the
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  Speaker 3: baby vomited a quote blood like substance end quote, and
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  Speaker 3: stopped breathing. Russell dialed nine to one pint one, feeding
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  Speaker 3: off the emergency she had just manufactured. Hours later, she
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  Speaker 3: did it again to the same child, but her bloodlust
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  Speaker 3: wasn't sated. On September twenty second, she cornered little Harvey
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  Speaker 3: in the infant room. She crushed that boy's chest and
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  Speaker 3: covered his face until he was unresponsive, with blood pooling
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  Speaker 3: around his little nose. Staff performed CPR, but Harvey was
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  Speaker 3: pronounced dead at the hospital, his tiny body unable to
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  Speaker 3: survive Russell's depraved quest for validation. An autopsy ruled out
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  Speaker 3: trauma or toxins, pointing investigators towards foul play. Chief Jewel
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  Speaker 3: branded the teen quote the common denominator in the carnage
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  Speaker 3: end quote, uncovering a dark history of false nine to
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  Speaker 3: one one calls and fire setting at a church camp
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  Speaker 3: classic markers, they say, of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It
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  Speaker 3: is the ultimate fake tragedy sickness where a care giver
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  Speaker 3: intentionally injures mutilates our smother's a victim, just to soak
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  Speaker 3: up pity and play the hero in a crisis they
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  Speaker 3: secretly sparked. Prosecutors confirmed Russell Face's second degree murder for
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  Speaker 3: Harvey's death and attempted murder charges for that little girl.
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  Speaker 3: She remains held in Scott County Jail. The daycare's license
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  Speaker 3: was suspended immediately after Harvey's death, and it closed permanently
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  Speaker 3: amid the.
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  Speaker 5: Pro I'm the co parton the Grieving Widow is sharing
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  Speaker 5: her experience after her husband was tragically shot and killed
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  Speaker 5: when they mistakenly entered a stranger's driveway. Sheila Booker recounted,
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  Speaker 5: if the police hadn't got there when they did, I
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  Speaker 5: would probably be dead too.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: He pulled a gun up in my face. And this
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  Speaker 5: when my husband get out. When my husband get out
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  Speaker 5: trying to protect me, don't you, And that's when you
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  Speaker 5: shot us, right in front of him.
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  Speaker 6: The police, they came so fast. If you want for them,
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  Speaker 6: I think I have me did so?
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  Speaker 4: Did they say?
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  Speaker 5: My life? The circumstances surrounding the investigation are evident On
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  Speaker 5: the windshield of Booker's Chevy Spark. She witnessed the chilling
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  Speaker 5: murder of her husband, Rodriguez Poplar, on Friday morning. Booker
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  Speaker 5: explained that as they noticed flashing lights ahead an officer
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  Speaker 5: in the area on North Trevison Street, her husband suggested
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  Speaker 5: they pull into the driveway of a home and turn around,
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  Speaker 5: as their headlight was broken and they were afraid of
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  Speaker 5: being ticketed. However, when they did so, the homeowner emerged
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  Speaker 5: from the house, brandishing a firearm and demanding they'd leave immediately.
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  Speaker 5: She said in party pointed the gun at me, My
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  Speaker 5: husband got out to protect me, and that's when he
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  Speaker 5: shot my husband right in front of my eyes. The police,
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  Speaker 5: whom Booker hoped to evade, arrived within moments to make
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  Speaker 5: and arrest. The officers found the suspect, Tommy Applewhite, still
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  Speaker 5: in possession of the firearm he had used in the crime.
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  Speaker 5: Apple White is now facing multiple charges, including second degree murder.
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  Speaker 5: A review of court records revealed that apple White has
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  Speaker 5: a lengthy criminal history in Shelby County, Tennessee, dating back
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  Speaker 5: to two thousand and one. His most serious offense occurred
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  Speaker 5: in two thousand and seven, when he shot a man twice.
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  Speaker 5: Apple White ultimately pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was
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  Speaker 5: sentenced to just three years in prison. Further court documents
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  Speaker 5: indicate a series of other illegal issues related to drug
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  Speaker 5: and firearm charges. At the time of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: six shooting, Apple White was reportedly on active probation after
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  Speaker 5: pleading guilty to a gun violation in twenty two This
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  Speaker 5: according to records from the Tennessee Department of Corrections. For now,
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  Speaker 5: the woman is planning the funeral service of her husband
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  Speaker 5: and father of her children. The suspect remains behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: I'm drew nell. A Milwaukee jury convicts a father of
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  Speaker 1: child neglect after prosecutors say he locked his six children
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  Speaker 1: inside a storage unit while he slept in a truck nearby.
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  Speaker 1: The verdict came late Wednesday, after jurors deliberated for less
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  Speaker 1: than ninety minutes. They found Charles du Priest guilty of
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  Speaker 1: neglecting a child. Following a trial in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
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  Speaker 1: Do Priest took the stand in his own defense and
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  Speaker 1: told jurors he and his partner were struggling with homelessness
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  Speaker 1: and they were relying on shelters and relatives. He described
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  Speaker 1: feeling overwhelmed and unable to provide.
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  Speaker 6: As a person. I felt slightly inadequate. I was hurt,
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  Speaker 6: but at the same time I needed the.
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  Speaker 1: Help to Priests testified that on the night of September fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: the family went to a storage facility.
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  Speaker 6: We arrived at the storage on it, Asia goes in
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  Speaker 6: with the children and fifteen minutes later I fall asleep.
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  Speaker 6: Next thing that I can remember is being woken up
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  Speaker 6: to the police lieu on my window.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors showed juror's body camera video from the moment police
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  Speaker 1: cut the lock and open the unit. Inside, six children,
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  Speaker 1: ranging an age from nine to just two months old,
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  Speaker 1: were found alone in the dark. Prosecutors said the children
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  Speaker 1: had no electricity, no running water, and used a bucket
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  Speaker 1: to do things that one would normally do in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: They argued the parents had no other options that night.
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  Speaker 1: Assistant District Attorney Thomas Hassel told the jury the case
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  Speaker 1: was not about financial hardship.
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  Speaker 4: These charges are not at out poverty, arabel responsibility, and
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  Speaker 4: the events shows that these children did not have to
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  Speaker 4: be locked inside that storage ing that night.
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  Speaker 1: Two Priests remains in custody and is scheduled to be
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  Speaker 1: sentenced in April. Zelenski pleaded guilty last week. To misdemeanor
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  Speaker 1: counts of child neglect as part of a plea deal
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  Speaker 1: for felony counts against her were dropped and she is
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  Speaker 1: set to be sentenced in March. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice needs followed, crime alert early update on your
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcast app with this crime a large. I'm Drew Nelson.