Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 03.14.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Chrome alert. I mean see Grays breaking crime news Now,
- 0:03Speaker 1: Lisa Coleman threatens a woman for cash, forcing her to
- 0:06Speaker 1: make withdrawals at several ATMs. Coleman fifty eight then rob's,
- 0:10Speaker 1: a sandwich shop, a hotel, and a bank of the
- 0:13Speaker 1: cash in their registers, all wearing heels, earning her the
- 0:16Speaker 1: nickname the high Heeled Hijacker. Texas cops use surveillance video
- 0:20Speaker 1: in a license plate to identify Coleman as the hijacker.
- 0:23Speaker 1: She's now charged with kidnapping and three counts of robbery.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Joe Melgoza and his bride esther celebrating at their wedding
- 0:31Speaker 1: reception when their neighbors, Brothers Roney and Josewey Costanetta, show
- 0:36Speaker 1: up uninvited. Melgoza politely asked the brothers to leave. They do,
- 0:41Speaker 1: but return with baseball bats and beat the groom. The
- 0:44Speaker 1: brothers attacked several male attendees with the baseball bats, but
- 0:48Speaker 1: Melgoza managed to chase them off. The groom then succumbed
- 0:52Speaker 1: to a head injury before EMTs arrived. After their arrests,
- 0:56Speaker 1: the brothers insisted that they were not at the celebration,
- 0:59Speaker 1: but nia Copps discover a photo booth picture of zwey
- 1:03Speaker 1: Rony and a female wedding guest tucked into one of
- 1:06Speaker 1: the men's shirt pockets. Roney thirty one and Joseway Costaneta,
- 1:10Speaker 1: twenty two found guilty of murder and could face life
- 1:13Speaker 1: in prison. Mark Muffley checks a bag to Florida at
- 1:17Speaker 1: a Pennsylvania airport, but TSA agent's flag it for suspicious
- 1:21Speaker 1: materials sewn into the lining of the bag as a
- 1:24Speaker 1: homemade explosive filled with fireworks powder and lit through a
- 1:28Speaker 1: slow burning fuse. Muffly runs when TSA asks him to
- 1:32Speaker 1: return to bag check over the loudspeaker. Agents also discovered
- 1:36Speaker 1: several lighters, a case of butane, a wireless drill, and
- 1:40Speaker 1: two GFCI outlets a type of circuit breaker from Muffley's bag.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Local authorities in conjunction with the FBI were able to
- 1:48Speaker 1: confirm Muffley's address where they found him. Several hours later,
- 1:53Speaker 1: Muffley found and arrested at his home on possession of
- 1:56Speaker 1: an explosive in an airport and attempting to place an
- 1:59Speaker 1: explosive on an aircraft. More criming justice knees after this.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Now at the latest Criming Justice breaking knees, Crime Onlines
- 2:08Speaker 1: John Lemley. Carlos Gonzalez Rodriguez cuts through a fence and
- 2:12Speaker 1: removes a window ac unit to break into a Florida farmhouse.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Gonzalez Rodriguez makes off with a TV horse, saddles, and
- 2:20Speaker 1: a refrigerated trailer from a nearby shed. The thief then
- 2:24Speaker 1: returns to the home, only to find cops taking the
- 2:27Speaker 1: homeowner's statement. Gonzalez Rodriguez takes off in the trailer that's
- 2:31Speaker 1: full of over one hundred thousand dollars in poultry, and
- 2:35Speaker 1: leads cops on a wrong way chase that ends with
- 2:38Speaker 1: Gonzalez Rodriguez crashing into a cement wall at a neighboring farm.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Gonzalez Rodriguez now charged with grand theft, burglary, and fleeing police.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Authorities are continuing to investigate after deputies conducting a welfare
- 2:53Speaker 1: check entered a Texas home, heard a gunshot and then
- 2:56Speaker 1: discovered two men dead, including one who had eyed apparently
- 3:01Speaker 1: months ago the Harris County Sheriff's office as a sixty
- 3:05Speaker 1: three year old man fatally shot himself just before deputies
- 3:09Speaker 1: entered his home and found he had been living with
- 3:11Speaker 1: a corpse neighbors contacted the Harris County Sheriff's office about
- 3:16Speaker 1: concerns they hadn't seen one of the men who lived
- 3:18Speaker 1: at the home for months. After entering the home, the
- 3:22Speaker 1: deputies heard a shot from the rear of the home
- 3:24Speaker 1: and found the body of a sixty three year old
- 3:27Speaker 1: man with a self inflicted gunshot wound in a bedroom.
- 3:31Speaker 1: It was unclear how the other man had died, but
- 3:34Speaker 1: it appeared that he had been dead as long as
- 3:36Speaker 1: several months. An autopsy is planned on the decomposed body.
- 3:40Speaker 1: A Missouri police officer has been killed and a second
- 3:44Speaker 1: officer badly wounded after a shooting at a small town
- 3:47Speaker 1: convenience store. The shooting around nine thirty pm Sunday killed
- 3:52Speaker 1: Detective Sergeant Mason Griffith of the Herman Police Department. Authorities
- 3:56Speaker 1: have not released the name of the injured officer. The
- 4:00Speaker 1: Missouri State Patrol said the injured officer is in serious
- 4:04Speaker 1: but stable condition at a hospital. The Patrol has not
- 4:07Speaker 1: released information about what led to the shooting. It wasn't
- 4:11Speaker 1: clear if the officers returned fire. The Patrol identified the
- 4:15Speaker 1: suspect as thirty five year old Kenneth Lee Simpson of
- 4:18Speaker 1: Saint Louis County, who was able to escape. Herman is
- 4:22Speaker 1: a town of about twenty one hundred residents about eighty
- 4:25Speaker 1: miles west of Saint Louis. The parents of a baby
- 4:29Speaker 1: killed in nineteen ninety two are in custody after newly
- 4:32Speaker 1: developed DNA evidence led investigators to them. A farmer in Picayune, Mississippi,
- 4:38Speaker 1: looking to feed his animals, found the infant's body April seventeenth,
- 4:42Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. The body was in a trash bin
- 4:45Speaker 1: inside a bag, wrapped in a towel with other garbage,
- 4:48Speaker 1: and autopsy showed the baby was most likely born the
- 4:51Speaker 1: morning on which it was found. It also revealed the
- 4:54Speaker 1: baby was around three weeks premature and lived a few
- 4:58Speaker 1: minutes before being smothered. The cause of death was determined
- 5:01Speaker 1: to be perinatal asphyxia because of smothering, and the case
- 5:05Speaker 1: was classified as a homicide. Fifty year old Inga Johansson
- 5:09Speaker 1: Carrier of Avondale and fifty year old Andrew Carrier, the
- 5:13Speaker 1: second of River Ridge Or facing charges of first degree murder.
- 5:17Speaker 1: They are being held without bond at the Jefferson Parish
- 5:20Speaker 1: Correctional Facility and await extradition. To Mississippi overseas now and
- 5:26Speaker 1: to Japan as Tokyo's High Court has ordered a retrial
- 5:29Speaker 1: for an eighty seven year old former boxer who has
- 5:32Speaker 1: been on death row for more than five decades after
- 5:35Speaker 1: his murder conviction that his lawyers say was based on
- 5:38Speaker 1: forced confession and fabricated evidence. The Tokyo High Court said
- 5:43Speaker 1: that Eweyo Haakamada deserves a retrial because of a possibility
- 5:47Speaker 1: that key evidence that led to his conviction could have
- 5:50Speaker 1: been fabricated by investigators. Amnesty International says Hakamada is the
- 5:56Speaker 1: world's longest serving death row prisoner. He has been temporary
- 6:00Speaker 1: released since twenty fourteen, but still not cleared of charges
- 6:04Speaker 1: after his execution was suspended and a retrial ordered. That
- 6:08Speaker 1: ruling was overturned by the Tokyo High Court until the
- 6:11Speaker 1: Supreme Court in twenty twenty ordered the lower court to reconsider.
- 6:16Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice needs got a crime
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