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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now. The
- 0:03Speaker 1: Orange County Sheriff's find a gruesome scene responding to a
- 0:06Speaker 1: domestic violence call. Ron and Antoinette Gerdville, seventy seven and
- 0:10Speaker 1: seventy nine, and their dogs all found decapitated inside their home.
- 0:16Speaker 1: As deputies investigate, they get a second call about a
- 0:19Speaker 1: bloody man chasing a maintenance worker in the same neighborhood
- 0:23Speaker 1: and stealing his golf cart. Officers find Joseph Gerdville, the
- 0:28Speaker 1: victim's son, driving the golf cart on a nearby bike trail.
- 0:32Speaker 1: He refuses to stop and sheriffs are forced to shoot him.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Nancy Neighber's report seeing Joseph Gerdville arguing aggressively with his
- 0:40Speaker 2: father outside the home the morning of the murderers. The
- 0:43Speaker 2: younger Girdville reportedly lives with his parents and has been
- 0:46Speaker 2: struggling with a drug problem. Joseph Gerdville was shunt multiple
- 0:49Speaker 2: times during the golf cart chase and is said to
- 0:51Speaker 2: be in stable but serious condition.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Joseph Gardville, forty one, survived, but now charged with two
- 0:58Speaker 1: counts of her Michael Fleming heads to a Florida citizen's
- 1:02Speaker 1: first bank, finding it closed, he walks to a local
- 1:05Speaker 1: Chase branch. He calmly fills out a withdrawal slip asking
- 1:09Speaker 1: for one cent. When the bank teller starts to explain
- 1:13Speaker 1: her confusion, Flemy informs her this is a robbery and
- 1:17Speaker 1: threatens violence. The teller still refuses to hand over a
- 1:21Speaker 1: peny and notifies law enforcement. Fleming takes a seat in
- 1:24Speaker 1: the lobby until cops arrive, and then willingly submits to handcuffs,
- 1:29Speaker 1: telling cops his goal is to be arrested well. He succeeded.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Michael Fleming forty one, now charged with robbery. More crime
- 1:38Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Now at the latest crime
- 1:44Speaker 1: and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
- 1:46Speaker 3: John Lemley, We begin with a significant development in a
- 1:49Speaker 3: case out of Abutuki, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, as
- 1:53Speaker 3: authorities have now arrested a suspect in connection with a
- 1:56Speaker 3: triple homicide. For the latest, we turned to Sydney Sumner
- 1:59Speaker 3: with Crime Online.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Phoenix Police have identified the suspect as thirty year old
- 2:04Speaker 2: Chase Christman. He is currently in custody facing charges of
- 2:07Speaker 2: three counts of murder and one count of misconduct involving weapons.
- 2:11Speaker 2: The arrest follows the discovery of three victims found dead
- 2:14Speaker 2: inside an apartment on July fifteenth, after an early morning
- 2:17Speaker 2: fire that investigators believe was intentionally set. The victims have
- 2:21Speaker 2: been identified as twenty seven year old Marissa Honeycutt, twenty
- 2:24Speaker 2: five year old Anthony Frederickson Chucarelli, and thirty seven year
- 2:27Speaker 2: old Samuel Lott. According to Phoenix Police spokesman Sergeant Robert Shearer,
- 2:31Speaker 2: the bodies were located in a second floor bedroom of
- 2:34Speaker 2: the three level apartment complex. All three victims exhibited signs
- 2:37Speaker 2: of trauma that were not related to the fire, suggesting
- 2:40Speaker 2: the blaze was an attempt to cover up the killings.
- 2:43Speaker 2: Authorities have indicated that Chrisman admitted to being at the apartment,
- 2:46Speaker 2: but has not confessed to the homicides. However, police say
- 2:49Speaker 2: they have LinkedIn to the crime through both digital and
- 2:51Speaker 2: physical evidence. Investigators also noted that Chrismin was an associate
- 2:55Speaker 2: of the victims and is considered the sole suspect in this.
- 2:58Speaker 3: Case as of now this specific causes of death and
- 3:01Speaker 3: the possible motive behind these brutal killings have not been disclosed.
- 3:06Speaker 3: Now to Hawaii, where a Honolulu businessman has been convicted
- 3:10Speaker 3: on multiple charges, including murder in aid of racketeering once
- 3:14Speaker 3: again crime online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:17Speaker 2: In a significant federal trial, Michael Miske has been found
- 3:20Speaker 2: guilty on thirteen of sixteen counts, including racketeering, conspiracy, and
- 3:24Speaker 2: murder and aid of racketeering. These charges are connected to
- 3:27Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen killing of Jonathan Fraser. The jury delivered
- 3:30Speaker 2: its verdict after five days of deliberation, the announcement prompting
- 3:34Speaker 2: an emotional response in the courtroom. Spectators expressed relief, and
- 3:38Speaker 2: many of Fraser's loved ones donned in Justice for Johnny
- 3:41Speaker 2: t shirts sobbed quietly as a verdict was read. Miski,
- 3:44Speaker 2: watching solemnly, was found guilty of several serious charges, ensuring
- 3:48Speaker 2: a mandatory minimum life sentence. Among the charges Miski was
- 3:52Speaker 2: found guilty of were conspiracy to commit murder and aid
- 3:54Speaker 2: of racketeering, kidnapping resulting in death, conspiracy to commit murder
- 3:58Speaker 2: for hire, and use of a chemical weapon. However, the
- 4:01Speaker 2: jury acquitted him on counts of conspiracy to commit murder
- 4:04Speaker 2: for hire resulting in death, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and
- 4:07Speaker 2: bank fraud. Prosecutors portrayed misk as the leader of a
- 4:11Speaker 2: criminal enterprise that used violence and intimidation to maintain control,
- 4:15Speaker 2: generating millions through drug trafficking and illegal firework sales. They
- 4:19Speaker 2: argued that Miski was ruthless, often offering money to have
- 4:22Speaker 2: individuals beaten or killed. In his defense, Miski's attorney, Michael Kennedy,
- 4:27Speaker 2: described him as a successful entrepreneur, highlighting his business Cammayina
- 4:31Speaker 2: Termite and Pest Control, which serviced notable cultural sites in Hawaii.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Kennedy argued that Wayne Miller, a close associate of misk
- 4:38Speaker 2: was the true mastermind behind many of the crimes. Misky
- 4:41Speaker 2: faced severe charges, including murder and native racketeering and murder
- 4:45Speaker 2: for higher conspiracy, both carrying mandatory life sentences.
- 4:49Speaker 3: The government chose not to seek the death penalty in
- 4:52Speaker 3: this case.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Thanks John. Sarah Martin twenty four, spends the day before
- 4:56Speaker 1: Thanksgiving with her best friend rion and Baker running errands
- 5:00Speaker 1: around Milwaukee. On the way home, she has to be
- 5:02Speaker 1: dropped off at a friend's home and later calls Rionan
- 5:05Speaker 1: to let her know she got home safely. The day
- 5:08Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving, Rhonan gets a call from Sarah's mom, Lindsey,
- 5:13Speaker 1: asking if she's seen Sarah Rihanan has not, and the
- 5:17Speaker 1: mom says Sarah did not come home after going out
- 5:20Speaker 1: with friends the night before late Thanksgiving night, Sarah's picked
- 5:25Speaker 1: up by an unknown person and never seen again. There's
- 5:29Speaker 1: no activity on her phone or bank accounts. Sarah Martin
- 5:33Speaker 1: now missing twenty four years five three, one hundred and
- 5:37Speaker 1: ten pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes. She has a scar
- 5:41Speaker 1: on her upper leg and abdomen. If you have info
- 5:44Speaker 1: on Sarah Martin, call Milwaukee PD four one four nine
- 5:49Speaker 1: three five seven four zero five. For the latest crime
- 5:53Speaker 1: in justice news, go to crime online dot com with
- 5:55Speaker 1: this crime alert. I Nancy Grace