Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 06.07.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I meansy grace breaking Crime needs Now. Anthony
- 0:04Speaker 1: Karato breaks into his grandma's Florida home beats her to
- 0:07Speaker 1: death with a hammer. He then calls the maid service
- 0:10Speaker 1: to help clean up the mass. Upon finding the body,
- 0:14Speaker 1: the terrified cleaner pretends to retrieve supplies from her cars
- 0:18Speaker 1: and flags down a cop. Meanwhile, Karto's grandfather comes home
- 0:22Speaker 1: from running Errand's and Karate launches a second hammer attack.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Crime online Sidney Sumner with us Sidney, what happened?
- 0:29Speaker 2: Nancy? Cops arrive at the home to find Corrado's standing
- 0:32Speaker 2: in the front yard covered head to toe in blood,
- 0:35Speaker 2: and entering the home, they find a bloody hammer lying
- 0:38Speaker 2: on the kitchen counter. Karato's grandfather is found wrapped in
- 0:42Speaker 2: a blanket with severe head injuries and flown to a
- 0:44Speaker 2: nearby hospital. His wife found wrapped in a tarp with
- 0:48Speaker 2: a plastic bag covering her head. The couple had a
- 0:51Speaker 2: protective order against their grandson.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Karato. Thirty four are charged with murder and aggravated battery
- 0:56Speaker 1: on an elder. Oklahoma cops driving through rural area pull
- 1:01Speaker 1: over when they hear what sounds like a scream. They
- 1:03Speaker 1: continue following the sound to a nearby farm royce someone's
- 1:06Speaker 1: trapped under farm equipment. The officer slowly opens the barn
- 1:10Speaker 1: door and finds a goat, upset, his owner left him
- 1:13Speaker 1: alone while tending to his buddy. Everyone had a good
- 1:17Speaker 1: laugh and the officers went on their way happy. That
- 1:20Speaker 1: wasn't a bad call. More criming justice news after this
- 1:28Speaker 1: Now with the latest criming justice breaking these prime online.
- 1:30Speaker 3: John Lemley, we begin in Central America as authorities in
- 1:34Speaker 3: El Salvador now claim they have proved that former President
- 1:38Speaker 3: Alfredo Christiani attended a conference authorizing troops to carry out
- 1:42Speaker 3: the nineteen eighty nine murder of six Jesuit priests and
- 1:46Speaker 3: two civilians. At a formal arraignment hearing this week, the
- 1:49Speaker 3: same prosecutors who first made public the case against Christiani
- 1:53Speaker 3: said that the plot to assassinate the Jesuits during the
- 1:56Speaker 3: nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety two civil conflict in the
- 2:00Speaker 3: country reached the highest levels of government. Christiani, whose whereabouts
- 2:05Speaker 3: are unknown and who left El Salvador in twenty twenty one,
- 2:08Speaker 3: has consistently denied any knowledge or involvement in the crimes
- 2:12Speaker 3: that stunned the entire world. In addition to knowing about
- 2:16Speaker 3: and approving the nineteen eighty nine murders, the prosecution says
- 2:19Speaker 3: Christiani made a call to reassure one of the priests
- 2:22Speaker 3: just before he was killed. German law enforcement have seized
- 2:26Speaker 3: a second man in connection with a racist arson attack
- 2:30Speaker 3: on an asylum seeker shelter thirty two years ago that
- 2:33Speaker 3: resulted in the death of a Ghanian man. Here's crime
- 2:36Speaker 3: online Sidney Sumner with Moore.
- 2:38Speaker 2: According to federal prosecutors, Peter St, whose full surname hasn't
- 2:42Speaker 2: been made public because of privacy laws, was arrested by
- 2:46Speaker 2: police in Sarland, Germany, on suspicion of being an accessory
- 2:50Speaker 2: to murder and an accessory to attempted murder. The defendant,
- 2:53Speaker 2: whose accused of having racist and neo Nazi sentiments, is
- 2:57Speaker 2: believed to have met with other far right extremists on
- 2:59Speaker 2: September eighteenth, nineteen ninety one, in a bar in the
- 3:03Speaker 2: town of Zarluis and called for attacks on immigrant homes.
- 3:06Speaker 3: Prosecutors suspect that Peter St, a major figure in the
- 3:10Speaker 3: local skinhead scene, applauded incidents taking place at the time
- 3:14Speaker 3: in eastern Germany and added quote something should burn or
- 3:18Speaker 3: happen here too Back in this country now as a
- 3:22Speaker 3: California women's prison where a former Federal corrections officer has
- 3:26Speaker 3: been found guilty of assaulting two inmates. This follows news
- 3:30Speaker 3: that the warden and other staff members have been accused
- 3:33Speaker 3: of engaging in similar behavior. Five counts of sexual abuse
- 3:37Speaker 3: against the two women occurred between twenty nineteen and twenty
- 3:40Speaker 3: twenty at FCI Dublin, which is located about twenty miles
- 3:44Speaker 3: east of Oakland. A jury found the officer, John Russell Bellhouse,
- 3:48Speaker 3: guilty on all five counts. Forty year old Bellhouse is
- 3:52Speaker 3: scheduled for sentencing to take place in August. New York
- 3:56Speaker 3: City's reliance on the stop and frisk strategy as part
- 4:00Speaker 3: of a new campaign to curb gun violence, is affecting
- 4:03Speaker 3: communities of color and breaking the law. This according to
- 4:07Speaker 3: a court appointed federal monitor, once again Crime Onlines.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Sydney Sumner monitor Mylan Denerstein claims that the NYPD's Neighborhood
- 4:15Speaker 2: Safety Teams, special units deployed over the past fourteen months
- 4:19Speaker 2: to collect firearms and high crime neighborhoods, have been engaging
- 4:23Speaker 2: in quote, unconstitutional policing by stopping and frisking an excessive
- 4:28Speaker 2: number of people without cause. Denerstein says that only forty
- 4:32Speaker 2: one percent of stops, thirty two percent of frisks, and
- 4:35Speaker 2: twenty six percent of searches at one particular police station
- 4:38Speaker 2: were authorized. The Neighborhood Safety Teams, which operate in thirty
- 4:42Speaker 2: four neighborhoods where eighty percent of the city's violent crime occurs,
- 4:46Speaker 2: are a substitute for the anti crime teams that the
- 4:49Speaker 2: NYPD discontinued in twenty twenty one.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Denerstein claims that ninety seven percent of those the safety
- 4:55Speaker 3: teams have stopped are either black or Hispanic.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Bethany Bower, thirty eight, staying with her sister in Illinois
- 5:02Speaker 1: while they take care of an elderly relative. Bower's sister
- 5:05Speaker 1: spends the night of July twenty fourth at the relative's home.
- 5:09Speaker 1: While she's gone, it appears Bower packs up her stuff
- 5:12Speaker 1: while it's cell phone, items for her dog in a purse,
- 5:15Speaker 1: but leaves without it. When Bower's sister arrives at home
- 5:19Speaker 1: the next day, the purse and the dog sitting on
- 5:22Speaker 1: the front porch. No one has heard from Bower in
- 5:25Speaker 1: more than one year. If you know anything about Bethany
- 5:29Speaker 1: Bower's disappearance. Please call Newton, Illinois PD six one eight
- 5:34Speaker 1: seven eight three eight four seven eight. For the latest
- 5:37Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with
- 5:40Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.