Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 03.25.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Maycy Grace of breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Twelve year old Emeny Hughes reported missing by her mother.
- 0:07Speaker 1: A neighbor sees em Andy get into a dark four
- 0:10Speaker 1: door Dodge pickup with a seemingly packed bag. Houston police
- 0:14Speaker 1: find the girls been chatting with a man on the
- 0:16Speaker 1: dating app tagged. Cops zero in on Sir Terryan Preston
- 0:21Speaker 1: and find Eminy at his Columbus, Texas home.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Nancy, Columbus, Texas, is just over an hour east of Houston.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Authorities believe Amini was with Preston at his home there
- 0:31Speaker 2: for eight dates. The parent company have tagged the Meat
- 0:34Speaker 2: Group said in a statement that the app is restricted
- 0:36Speaker 2: to those seventeen and older, but when they find users
- 0:39Speaker 2: who have circumvented their age restriction process, each report is
- 0:43Speaker 2: investigated to the fullest extent possible.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Preston, twenty seven, tries to run from the cops. He's
- 0:48Speaker 1: quickly captured in charge with evading arrest. Believe me more
- 0:52Speaker 1: charges pending. Ruth Bullard, a seventy four year old realtor,
- 0:57Speaker 1: is on the way to a Florida showing being Gregory
- 1:00Speaker 1: Zoff approaches her and starts yelling at her at the
- 1:04Speaker 1: top of his lungs. She calls police, saying the incident
- 1:07Speaker 1: frightened her. When cops catch up with Zoff, he's wearing
- 1:11Speaker 1: a crown of thorns and carrying a pinata. He claims
- 1:16Speaker 1: he was just quote singing his Leprechaun song, but he
- 1:20Speaker 1: has an extensive history of similar incidents. He's booked on
- 1:24Speaker 1: DC disorderly conduct one week after his last plea of
- 1:29Speaker 1: threatening somebody else. The Leprechaun song was apparently not very lucky.
- 1:34Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. Now with the
- 1:39Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.
- 1:43Speaker 3: We begin in southern California, where a jury has convicted
- 1:46Speaker 3: a thirty two year old father of murdering his four
- 1:49Speaker 3: children and their grandmother in twenty twenty one. Four details
- 1:53Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:56Speaker 2: The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says that JaMarcus
- 1:59Speaker 2: Lamar de David has been found guilty of five charges
- 2:02Speaker 2: of first degree murder and three counts of assault on
- 2:04Speaker 2: the child resulting in death. The killings took place on
- 2:07Speaker 2: November twenty eighth, twenty twenty one, at the family's residence
- 2:10Speaker 2: in Lancaster, a city in the Antelope Valley High Desert
- 2:13Speaker 2: north of Los Angeles, Erica, England. The fifty one year
- 2:17Speaker 2: old grandmother had been babysitting the children. Their mother called
- 2:20Speaker 2: nine one one after arriving home to discover the bodies
- 2:23Speaker 2: of her loved ones. In twenty twenty one, our friends
- 2:26Speaker 2: with the Associated Press interviewed a neighbor who said a
- 2:28Speaker 2: woman was running in front of their home yelling, my
- 2:30Speaker 2: babies are gone. They're all dead. The children were identified
- 2:34Speaker 2: by the medical examiner as eleven year old Namia David,
- 2:37Speaker 2: seven year old JaMarcus David Junior, two year old Caden David,
- 2:40Speaker 2: and Noah David, who was nineteen months old. David, who
- 2:43Speaker 2: worked as a security guard, had written on social media
- 2:46Speaker 2: about leading a moral and devout life. It was only
- 2:49Speaker 2: minutes after his wife arrived at the residence that he
- 2:51Speaker 2: turned himself into Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies. According to
- 2:55Speaker 2: documents from the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services
- 3:00Speaker 2: and overseeing the private security industry, David possessed a permit
- 3:03Speaker 2: to carry a gun, but it expired in August twenty
- 3:06Speaker 2: twenty and was marked discanceled. The union that represents prison
- 3:09Speaker 2: officers says that England, the children's grandmother, worked for the
- 3:12Speaker 2: state prison in Lancaster. At the time of her death.
- 3:15Speaker 2: She had been a corrections officer since nineteen ninety seven.
- 3:18Speaker 3: Deputy Public Defender Anna Brief, David's defense lawyers stated that
- 3:22Speaker 3: she would reserve commenting until after David's April twenty fourth sentencing,
- 3:27Speaker 3: although divorce proceedings are ongoing. Rex Huerman's estranged wife claims
- 3:32Speaker 3: she thinks he is incapable of the atrocities of which
- 3:35Speaker 3: the Long Island serial killing suspect is accused, and she
- 3:39Speaker 3: pays him a monthly visit in jail. Once again Crime
- 3:42Speaker 3: Online Sydney Sumner.
- 3:44Speaker 2: It was just a few days after Huerman was arrested
- 3:46Speaker 2: on July thirteenth, twenty twenty three, for three unsolved killings
- 3:50Speaker 2: known as the Gilgo Beachlings, that Asa Eleup filed for divorce.
- 3:54Speaker 2: In a statement provided to her friends at Newsday, Eleup said,
- 3:57Speaker 2: through her attorney quote, I will listen to all of
- 3:59Speaker 2: the evidence and withhold judgment until the end of trial. Initially, Huerman,
- 4:04Speaker 2: a sixty year old Manhattan architect, was accused of killing
- 4:07Speaker 2: Melissa Bartholemy Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. Then in January,
- 4:11Speaker 2: he was accused of the murder of marine Bernard Barnes,
- 4:14Speaker 2: a fourth victim. In twenty ten, the remains of the
- 4:17Speaker 2: four women were discovered in the Gilgo Beach area of
- 4:19Speaker 2: Jones Beach Island, along a stretch of highway about a
- 4:22Speaker 2: quarter mile long. The remains of six more adults and
- 4:25Speaker 2: a toddler were discovered during continued searching regarding the deaths
- 4:29Speaker 2: of the latter victims. No one has been arrested. Huerman
- 4:32Speaker 2: is behind Barr's awaiting trial after entering a not guilty
- 4:35Speaker 2: plead to the four killings of which she is accused.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Ellerup expressed in a statement through her lawyer that her
- 4:41Speaker 2: quote heartfelt sympathies go out to the victims and their families.
- 4:45Speaker 2: A spokesperson for the Suffolk County Jail says that records
- 4:48Speaker 2: reveal fewer visits to see Huerman than the once weekly
- 4:51Speaker 2: that Ellerup claims.
- 4:52Speaker 3: Ellerup, who's been married to Huerman for twenty seven years,
- 4:56Speaker 3: has a deal with NBC Universal to appear in a
- 4:59Speaker 3: documentary about the murders.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Thanks John Army, Veteran Haley Murphy plans to attend her
- 5:05Speaker 1: ex boyfriend's birthday party and gets her younger sister to
- 5:08Speaker 1: pick her up from home in Temple, Texas for a
- 5:10Speaker 1: weekend in Austin. That night, Haley has plans to meet
- 5:15Speaker 1: a friend and her sister drops her off at Slip
- 5:17Speaker 1: Willie's Bar nine pm. About an hour later, she calls
- 5:21Speaker 1: her sister to make sure she got home and says
- 5:23Speaker 1: she's planning to spend the night with a friend and
- 5:26Speaker 1: plans to meet her sister the next day at the
- 5:28Speaker 1: birthday party. Murphy and the friend last seen at another bar,
- 5:33Speaker 1: Eddie's Tavern, around eleven thirty pm. Haley never makes it
- 5:37Speaker 1: to the birthday party. No activity on her phone, bank account,
- 5:41Speaker 1: or social media since she spoke to her sister that night.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Helly Murphy now missing nine months. If you have info
- 5:49Speaker 1: on Halle Murphy, contact Austin, Texas PD five one two
- 5:54Speaker 1: nine seven four five two five zero. For the latest
- 5:59Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with
- 6:01Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace