Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 12.03.24 | Man Admits to Killing Mother After Waking Up From Surgery
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crimes Now. Hospital staff
- 0:04Speaker 1: show Frank McMillan to his wife's room in the hospital.
- 0:07Speaker 1: As soon as the room is clear of doctors and nurses,
- 0:10Speaker 1: he pulls a knife and stabs his wife, then himself.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Both McMillan and his wife rust to surgery survive. When
- 0:18Speaker 1: he wakes up from sedation, he immediately confesses that he
- 0:22Speaker 1: also killed his own mother before attacking his wife.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Nancy. Police did find McMillan's mother dead inside her home
- 0:29Speaker 2: from a parent homicide. It's unclear what spurred the murder
- 0:33Speaker 2: and subsequent attempted murder and suicide from McMillan. Both McMillan
- 0:37Speaker 2: and his wife are in critical condition as a result
- 0:39Speaker 2: of the stabbings, but are expected to make full recoveries.
- 0:42Speaker 2: McMillan will be transferred from Keyeser Hospital in Vallejo, California,
- 0:46Speaker 2: to the Solono County Jail once he is medically cleared.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Frank McMillan's sixty three, now charged with murder and attempted murder.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Ronald Putt's wife, not happy when he comes home from
- 0:57Speaker 1: the bar intoxicated, immediately pours another glass of rum. They
- 1:02Speaker 1: argue over his drinking and she dumps out the rum,
- 1:05Speaker 1: enraging him. Foot It then pops open a beer and
- 1:09Speaker 1: picks up his car keys to leave. When his wife
- 1:11Speaker 1: tries to take the keys, he shoves her onto the bed.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Cops her call foot It claims his Bible thumper wife,
- 1:18Speaker 1: his verds, not mine, attacked him, but six feet tall,
- 1:22Speaker 1: three hundred pound foot It is the one putting cuffs.
- 1:26Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
- 1:32Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines John Lenlay.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Two Indianapolis police officers are on trial this week in
- 1:40Speaker 3: connection with the twenty twenty two death of Herman Whitfield.
- 1:43Speaker 3: The third a black man who died during a mental
- 1:46Speaker 3: health crisis after being tased and restrained by police. With more,
- 1:50Speaker 3: here's Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Officers Adam Ahmad and Steven Sanchez were indicted in April
- 1:56Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and face charges including involuntary mess onslaughter,
- 2:00Speaker 2: reckless homicide, and battery. Both have been on administrative leave
- 2:04Speaker 2: and are being tried as co defendants. The incident began
- 2:07Speaker 2: on April twenty fifth, twenty twenty two, when Herman Whitfield's
- 2:10Speaker 2: parents called nine one one reporting their thirty nine year
- 2:13Speaker 2: old son was in crisis at their home. Body camera
- 2:16Speaker 2: footage shows officers encountering Whitfield, a gifted pianist, naked in pacing.
- 2:21Speaker 2: As officers attempted to de escalate, Whitfield avoided contact. Moments later,
- 2:26Speaker 2: Sanchez deploted a taser, causing Whitfield to collapse. Officers, including
- 2:30Speaker 2: Ahmad and Sanchez, restrained him face down while handcuffing him.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Whitfield could be heard saying can't breathe before falling silent.
- 2:38Speaker 2: He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The Marion
- 2:41Speaker 2: County Coroner ruled the death of homicide, citing cardiopulmonary arrest
- 2:45Speaker 2: related to police restraint and taser use, with contributing factors
- 2:49Speaker 2: of obesity and heart disease.
- 2:51Speaker 3: A civil lawsuit filed by Whitfield's family alleges excessive force
- 2:55Speaker 3: and seeks damages. That case is scheduled for federal trial
- 2:59Speaker 3: in July. Five Authorities in Massachusetts are pursuing charges against
- 3:05Speaker 3: three teenagers accused of assaulting a transgender boy in Gloucester
- 3:09Speaker 3: this summer. After a month's long investigation, Gloucester Police announced
- 3:14Speaker 3: that they have requested criminal complaints against two sixteen year
- 3:17Speaker 3: olds and a seventeen year old. The charges, which include
- 3:21Speaker 3: assault and battery, now head to juvenile court, where a
- 3:25Speaker 3: magistrate will determine if there's enough evidence to proceed. The
- 3:29Speaker 3: alleged victim, Jaden Tkacich, says the attack happened in August
- 3:33Speaker 3: during an outdoor party. According to Takatcich, as many as
- 3:37Speaker 3: a dozen teens surrounded him using homophobic slurs before chasing
- 3:41Speaker 3: him into the woods. He was later hospitalized with a
- 3:44Speaker 3: fractured bone under his eye, along with scratches and bruises.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Gloucester's police chief, Edward Connolly, confirmed that a specially trained
- 3:52Speaker 3: hate crime investigator was assigned to the case. However, after
- 3:56Speaker 3: consulting with outside experts, officials determine the evidence did not
- 4:00Speaker 3: meet the legal threshold for hate crime charges.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Thanks John.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Jermaine Charlo twenty three co parents are two young boys
- 4:09Speaker 1: with ex boyfriend Michael de France, still good friends. They
- 4:12Speaker 1: had to Missoula, Montana for a night out around one
- 4:16Speaker 1: a m Jermaine seen on surveillance with de France leaving
- 4:19Speaker 1: the bad Lander next day. She doesn't answer calls, family
- 4:23Speaker 1: reports are missing. De France says he last saw her
- 4:27Speaker 1: when he dropped her off near her friend Cassidy's home
- 4:30Speaker 1: in Missoula. Cops believe Jermaine lied about Cassidy, afraid to
- 4:35Speaker 1: tell him she actually intended to spend the night at
- 4:38Speaker 1: her new boyfriend's. Jermaine's phone, however, continues to ping all
- 4:42Speaker 1: the way back to Varro Hill on Flathead Reservation, where
- 4:46Speaker 1: former boyfriend De France lives. Searches turn up nothing. Jermaine
- 4:51Speaker 1: Chrollo Native American, five nine, one hundred and thirty pounds, highlighted,
- 4:57Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes, tattoo of a fly in the
- 5:00Speaker 1: center of her chest, a deer on her left shoulder blade.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Last scene wearing a gray hoodie with a camo under
- 5:08Speaker 1: armour logo, jeans, cowboy boots, blue baseball cap. If you
- 5:13Speaker 1: have info on Jermain Charlope, called Missoula, Montana PD four
- 5:18Speaker 1: zero six five five two sixty three hundred. For the
- 5:23Speaker 1: latest crime injustice breaking news, go to crimeonline dot com
- 5:26Speaker 1: and please join us for our daily podcast crime stories
- 5:30Speaker 1: with this crime alert.
- 5:32Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace.