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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
- 0:05Speaker 1: A stomach turning display of sociopathic cool ended in a
- 0:10Speaker 1: high stakes takedown on the sands of Daytona Beach.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Florida, after a convicted.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Child killer was caught partying with unsuspecting spring breakers while
- 0:21Speaker 1: on the run from Ohio authorities. Chief Deputy Brian Henderson
- 0:26Speaker 1: of the Volusha County Sheriff's Department spoke to ABC News five.
- 0:31Speaker 2: I'm gonna speak for all the Floridians. We don't want
- 0:35Speaker 2: child murderers in our state, and we definitely don't want
- 0:38Speaker 2: child murderers from another state.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Anthony Grove, forty five, a man branded armed and dangerous
- 0:45Speaker 1: by Ohio parole officers, was snatched by Vlusha County deputies
- 0:50Speaker 1: during a massive proactive sweep of unruly.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Vacation crowds on the beach.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Sporting neon green sunglasses, a silver chain, and a bizarre mohawk,
- 1:03Speaker 1: Grove was found nonchalantly boozing on a sea wall thousands
- 1:08Speaker 1: of miles from the state lines he was legally forbidden
- 1:12Speaker 1: to cross. The details of Grove's original depravity are horrifying.
- 1:18Speaker 1: In February twenty fifteen, during a heated domestic dispute over
- 1:23Speaker 1: smoking in the home, Grove launched a heavy ceramic coffee
- 1:27Speaker 1: mug at his baby mama. He missed his target, instead
- 1:32Speaker 1: striking his two month old son, Zealand, directly in the head.
- 1:36Speaker 1: The infant died the next day at Akron Children's Hospital.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Despite the fatal brutality, Grove dodged a murder charge and
- 1:45Speaker 1: served only eight years for involuntary manslaughter before being parolled
- 1:51Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. When Chief Deputy Henderson approached him
- 1:54Speaker 1: on the beach for a general icebreaker, Grove allegedly baited
- 1:59Speaker 1: the officer into a sympathy trap, claiming he had quote
- 2:04Speaker 1: unquote lost a child, while intentionally omitting that he was
- 2:09Speaker 1: the reason that little boy was dead.
- 2:12Speaker 2: It was caught on body camp. Dude, you okay, yeah,
- 2:16Speaker 2: that's when we go sit in the car. You made
- 2:18Speaker 2: it sound like a kid as a car accident.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Henderson recalled how the killer tried to manipulate his emotions, stating,
- 2:26Speaker 1: quote as a father, that really pissed me off end quote.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Groves ruse disintegrated, though as a background check revealed an
- 2:34Speaker 1: active October twenty twenty five, warrant for his arrest. In
- 2:38Speaker 1: addition to the parole violation, Florida authorities slapped Grove with
- 2:44Speaker 1: charges for failing to register as a convicted felon and
- 2:48Speaker 1: drug possession after a THHC pen was found in his backpack.
- 2:53Speaker 1: He's currently held in the Belusha County Jail awaiting extradition
- 2:58Speaker 1: back to Ohio.
- 3:00Speaker 2: More crime injustice news.
- 3:02Speaker 1: After this, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania woman transformed a Cloverly Road
- 3:11Speaker 1: home into a sadistic chamber of horrors, allegedly forcing her
- 3:17Speaker 1: children to choose the very weapons she would use to
- 3:21Speaker 1: beat them while her boyfriend sat back and did nothing.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Maria Roach, thirty one, was hauled off to the Dauphin
- 3:28Speaker 1: County Prison facing a litany of felony charges after a
- 3:32Speaker 1: twelve year old victim's desperate plea for help exposed a
- 3:37Speaker 1: domestic dungeon. Prosecutor say Roach did not just discipline the kids,
- 3:42Speaker 1: she terrorized them with a twisted game of the gun
- 3:46Speaker 1: or the belt, leaving the victims to pick their own
- 3:49Speaker 1: poison in a house of absolute atmospheric dread. The allegations
- 3:55Speaker 1: are demonic, according to the Harrisburg Bureau of Police. Roach
- 3:59Speaker 1: one ordered a child to retrieve a firearm before she
- 4:03Speaker 1: allegedly aimed at another sibling's head and then pulled the trigger.
- 4:08Speaker 1: The bullet narrowly missed that child, slamming into a nearby wall.
- 4:13Speaker 1: In another occasion, survivors claimed she shoved the cold barrel
- 4:17Speaker 1: of a gun directly between the eyes of another child,
- 4:21Speaker 1: while Roach allegedly rain down blows with a belt that
- 4:25Speaker 1: left marks across the victim's necks, arms, and backs. Her boyfriend,
- 4:30Speaker 1: William Witherspoon reportedly found the violence comical, watching the abuse
- 4:36Speaker 1: unfold with a sadistic smile and audible laughter. The investigation
- 4:42Speaker 1: took a forensic turn when one child revealed that Roach
- 4:46Speaker 1: kept her arsenal hidden beneath her bed. The brave survivor
- 4:50Speaker 1: even admitted to trying to secretly unload the weapons to
- 4:54Speaker 1: prevent a tragedy. Roach is now facing multiple counts of
- 4:58Speaker 1: aggravated assault on victims under theat and child endangerment, while
- 5:03Speaker 1: Witherspoon has been slapped with felony counts for his role
- 5:07Speaker 1: as a spectator to all that brutality. Both are being
- 5:11Speaker 1: held on ten thousand dollars bonds, with a preliminary hearing
- 5:15Speaker 1: set for April eighth, and finally talk about getting forked over.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Now when all you Can Eat nightmare is turning into
- 5:24Speaker 1: a high stakes courtroom menu. Gary Sellinger, fifty nine filed
- 5:29Speaker 1: a blistering lawsuit claiming Golden Corral staffers and Henderson, Nevada
- 5:35Speaker 1: skewered him over a false accusation of skipping the bill
- 5:40Speaker 1: despite allegedly holding a receipt. Selinger says he was choked,
- 5:45Speaker 1: slammed into a table, and stabbed with a fork by
- 5:49Speaker 1: aggressive employees. The buffet brawl reportedly left Celinger with a
- 5:54Speaker 1: traumatic brain injury and wounds across his body. While Henderson
- 5:58Speaker 1: police made no rests at the scene. Sellinger is now
- 6:03Speaker 1: serving up a negligent suit against the corporate giants and
- 6:07Speaker 1: the manager. He's seeking punitive damages to reimburse his pain.
- 6:11Speaker 1: It turns out when you dish out violence instead of dinner,
- 6:16Speaker 1: the law may carve out a massive settlement.
- 6:19Speaker 2: We shall see.
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- 6:28Speaker 2: I'm Jennifer Gould.