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- 0:00Speaker 1: Nancy Grace is coming to Fox Nation. I Want Justice.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace available now only on Fox Nation.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Coronavirus crimes are on the rise. Why Crime Stories with
- 0:28Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. From an apartment parking lot, a Cape Coral
- 0:33Speaker 1: officer heard panicked cries for help. As he approached the building,
- 0:37Speaker 1: the screams grew louder. The officer says he spotted a
- 0:41Speaker 1: man later ideed as Joseph Newell, straddling his victim with
- 0:45Speaker 1: what appeared to be his hands around her neck. According
- 0:49Speaker 1: to Newell's arrest report, he was intoxicated and told them
- 0:53Speaker 1: the woman had COVID nineteen, but in reality, she was
- 0:57Speaker 1: six months pregnant. We are getting from our cause. Jennifer
- 1:01Speaker 1: Benton with the Abuse Counseling and Treatment Center says they're
- 1:04Speaker 1: seeing a spike in domestic violence cases that could be
- 1:08Speaker 1: linked to coronavirus. Definitely, people are saying home, they're more agitated.
- 1:13Speaker 1: The center is open to all looking for help. We
- 1:16Speaker 1: have a hotline that operates twenty four hours a day
- 1:19Speaker 1: that will continue. We have three shelters and they're open
- 1:22Speaker 1: and they're staff twenty four hours a day. We are
- 1:24Speaker 1: here for people especially now with growing concerns over COVID. Nineteen,
- 1:30Speaker 1: Cape Coral police arrest a man they found beating brutally
- 1:35Speaker 1: beating a pregnant woman that he says has corona virus.
- 1:40Speaker 1: It was Joseph Cory Newell twenty four or Fort Myers.
- 1:44Speaker 1: He's charged with a felony aggravated battery, knowing the victim
- 1:49Speaker 1: was pregnant. Eleven o six pm police dispatch for disturbance.
- 1:54Speaker 1: They find a person in the parking lot claiming to
- 1:58Speaker 1: hear screams. They go in and they find the pregnant
- 2:02Speaker 1: victim on the floor, her face covered in blood. His excuse,
- 2:11Speaker 1: she has corona virus. Of course she didn't, she's pregnant.
- 2:17Speaker 1: She was immediately taken to Cape Coral Hospital. Pregnant, yes, coronavirus,
- 2:23Speaker 1: no imancy. Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for
- 2:27Speaker 1: being with us. You were just hearing WBBHTV NBC two
- 2:30Speaker 1: Nesta Montoya speaking about that incident. But the coronavirus crimes
- 2:36Speaker 1: are on the uptick on a major, major way. We know.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Televangelist Jim Baker is being sued for selling silver solution
- 2:48Speaker 1: claiming it cures coronavirus. Joining me right, now an All
- 2:53Speaker 1: Star panel. Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor, author Red Flags at
- 2:56Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. Cloyd Steiger thirty six years,
- 3:00Speaker 1: Seattle PD, twenty two years, homicide author Seattle's Forgotten serial Killer.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Gary Jane Grant at Kloyd Steiger dot com. Professor Forensics,
- 3:09Speaker 1: Jacksonville State University. Joseph Scott Morgan, author Blood Beneath My
- 3:13Speaker 1: Feet on Amazon, We're now psychologist outam New York. Karen
- 3:17Speaker 1: Stark at Karen Stark dot com. But right now to
- 3:21Speaker 1: Dave Matt, crime online investigative reporter. As it turns out,
- 3:27Speaker 1: the Missouri AG has filed a season desist on televangelists
- 3:35Speaker 1: Jim Baker. Why Dave Matt Nancy. Jim Baker was selling
- 3:42Speaker 1: a solution on his television show called Silver Solution that
- 3:47Speaker 1: he and a so called doctor claimed was an effective
- 3:51Speaker 1: cure for coronavirus, totally eliminating it within twelve hours. You know,
- 3:58Speaker 1: amazing to me. To Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor forensic, we
- 4:03Speaker 1: have taken a long, hard look at colloidal silver, and
- 4:07Speaker 1: after I first came out against Jim Baker on this,
- 4:11Speaker 1: I got a lot of heat online. A lot of
- 4:14Speaker 1: naysayers mad at me for SAE. Colloidal silver i e.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Silver solution doesn't cure coronavirus. And it's important to note
- 4:24Speaker 1: that Missouri ag is coming down on Baker, not because
- 4:28Speaker 1: colloidal silver hasn't been used for years and years and
- 4:31Speaker 1: years to soothe skin elments and so forth. But it
- 4:34Speaker 1: doesn't cure coronavirus, does it? Joe Scott. No, if it did,
- 4:39Speaker 1: it would be, you know, widely distributed everywhere. And hey,
- 4:44Speaker 1: if it is this miracle drug, Nancy, why would you
- 4:48Speaker 1: want to be selling it. Why would you want to
- 4:50Speaker 1: be selling it? Wouldn't you want to have everybody have
- 4:52Speaker 1: access to it so that everybody could be cured. Listen
- 4:56Speaker 1: this compound. Over the years, people have claimed that it HIV,
- 5:01Speaker 1: people have claimed that it cure shingles, herpes, eye disorders,
- 5:06Speaker 1: all of these different things, and the main component is
- 5:09Speaker 1: actually silver and it is not an essential element for
- 5:13Speaker 1: the body. It's beyond ridiculous to sell this to somebody,
- 5:20Speaker 1: particularly people that are so vulnerable. Here's the deal. People
- 5:23Speaker 1: that are watching, to a large degree televangelist on TV
- 5:27Speaker 1: are the elderly in our population. They are the ones
- 5:31Speaker 1: being affected by coronavirus the most and so you know,
- 5:35Speaker 1: he's got a perfect pool of victims. To Wendy Patrick,
- 5:39Speaker 1: California prosecutor and author, Wendy, here's my question, and light
- 5:44Speaker 1: of the coronavirus pandemic, can any criminal action be taken
- 5:49Speaker 1: against Baker? Well, you know the problem with taking any
- 5:52Speaker 1: criminal action in scenarios like this is you're going to
- 5:55Speaker 1: have to find not only a statute that fits, you're
- 5:57Speaker 1: going to have to find the right jurisdiction, but you're
- 5:58Speaker 1: gonna have to find courts that are You know, this
- 6:00Speaker 1: is one of the times and probably unprecedented that we're
- 6:04Speaker 1: asking these questions to try to figure out is it
- 6:07Speaker 1: worth our time to try to mount criminal charges against
- 6:09Speaker 1: somebody who is definitely probably not going to be in custody.
- 6:12Speaker 1: But can we make this kind of a case, particularly
- 6:15Speaker 1: if there is an intent requirement. You see a lot
- 6:18Speaker 1: of these cases being filed that, as you Nancy know,
- 6:21Speaker 1: are specific intent crime. So it's not enough to simply
- 6:24Speaker 1: do or say something, but you also have to prove
- 6:26Speaker 1: the mindset of the person that did it. But if
- 6:29Speaker 1: we had a criminal case against Jim Baker, what would
- 6:33Speaker 1: it be I would have to go and look at
- 6:36Speaker 1: the statutes very carefully to try to figure out what
- 6:39Speaker 1: kind of misrepresentation type of crime would lie or something
- 6:43Speaker 1: like this. That's normally the first place we would look
- 6:46Speaker 1: if somebody is knowingly offering something knowing the product is false,
- 6:50Speaker 1: or with reckless disregard for the truth of what they're saying.
- 6:54Speaker 1: We're talking about Jim Baker, the Charlotte, North Carolina tell
- 6:58Speaker 1: evangelist who's already done five years in prison for fraud
- 7:01Speaker 1: and the nineties. That's a big hint of what the
- 7:05Speaker 1: criminal charge would be, fraud f R A U D.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Now we know that he's pushing colloidal silver, the quote
- 7:15Speaker 1: silver solution all right, to cure corona virus. He's already
- 7:23Speaker 1: gotten a cease and desist order. It's a very pricey
- 7:28Speaker 1: and it's aimed at the elderly, and he has been
- 7:31Speaker 1: pitching it on TV. The National Institutes of Health and
- 7:35Speaker 1: say colloidal silver has no known function or benefits. The
- 7:39Speaker 1: New York Attorney General sent Baker the order. The Missouri
- 7:43Speaker 1: ag is taking action against him. Now, long story short,
- 7:50Speaker 1: there are civil lawsuits and there are criminal cases, a
- 7:54Speaker 1: criminal case for fraud knowing fraud. It's a white collar
- 7:59Speaker 1: crum could be brought and there could be probably a
- 8:06Speaker 1: slap on the wrist for that. Like about five years now,
- 8:10Speaker 1: there's another guy you may know his name, a conspiracy
- 8:14Speaker 1: theorist Alex Jones has somehow landed in the middle of
- 8:19Speaker 1: the Corona virus debacle. I want you to take a
- 8:25Speaker 1: listen to this. Officials are warning the public not to
- 8:29Speaker 1: fall for fake cures peddled by some companies and individuals,
- 8:32Speaker 1: possibly trying to scam consumers with their claims. Earlier this week,
- 8:36Speaker 1: the FTC and FDA issued warnings to seven companies accused
- 8:40Speaker 1: of selling unapproved or misbranded products claiming they can treat
- 8:43Speaker 1: or cure COVID nineteen with T's essential oils and colloidal silver.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Televangelist Jim Baker received one such warning for offering an
- 8:51Speaker 1: eighty dollars silver solution he advertised as a treatment for coronavirus,
- 8:56Speaker 1: even though there is not yet a known vaccine and
- 8:59Speaker 1: conspiracy theory to Alex Jones received a cease and desist
- 9:02Speaker 1: letter for hawking unproven products from New York Attorney General
- 9:05Speaker 1: Letitia James, one of several she and other states attorneys
- 9:08Speaker 1: general have issued in recent days to people they say
- 9:11Speaker 1: are selling unproven product. You were just hearing our friends
- 9:16Speaker 1: over at ABC. That was news correspondent Will Reave speaking.
- 9:20Speaker 1: What we're learning right now is that conspiracy theorists, the
- 9:23Speaker 1: one that says Sandy Hook never happened. I think, isn't
- 9:25Speaker 1: that him? Alex Jones has been told to stop selling
- 9:29Speaker 1: anti coronavirus tooth paste. Mister Jones using his radio show
- 9:35Speaker 1: and website to promote conspiracy theories, now falsely claiming his
- 9:39Speaker 1: products can fight the virus. The New York State Attorney
- 9:44Speaker 1: jumped in issue to cease and desist order on Alex Jones.
- 9:47Speaker 1: So what do we know about his claims? Straight out
- 9:50Speaker 1: to Dave Mattcrime online dot Com investigative reporter, what does
- 9:54Speaker 1: he climbing? He actually claims, Nancy that the silverns used toothpaste,
- 9:59Speaker 1: mouthwaw screams and other dietary subsplements actually are a stop
- 10:04Speaker 1: gate against the virus. That's whoa whooa a stop gate. Okay,
- 10:12Speaker 1: go ahead. I just had to write that down. His
- 10:14Speaker 1: super blue super Blue brand of toothpaste quote kills the
- 10:21Speaker 1: whole stars a Corona family at point blank range super Blue.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I mean, really, I guess you know. Hold on, Dave Makeham,
- 10:34Speaker 1: circling right back to you. But I need to shrink,
- 10:36Speaker 1: and I happen to have renowned psychologist Karen Stark. Karen Stark.
- 10:41Speaker 1: But people are desperate. They'll do anything, They will do
- 10:46Speaker 1: anything to protect themselves or their families, and this is
- 10:49Speaker 1: a perfect time for fraud stars to jump in. Alex Jones.
- 10:55Speaker 1: According to the Attorney General, their words not Mine made
- 10:59Speaker 1: us series of claims that as products could act as
- 11:02Speaker 1: a stop gate as Dave Matt reports against coronavirus super
- 11:06Speaker 1: Blue brand of toothpaste. There are currently no products, vaccines,
- 11:11Speaker 1: or drugs are proved to treat coronavirus. Karen, what's going
- 11:15Speaker 1: through everybody's minds. People are desperate and vulnerable, Nancy, and
- 11:19Speaker 1: you when you think about, you know, what's popular are
- 11:22Speaker 1: out there. They're desperate for a cure, and they don't research.
- 11:27Speaker 1: A lot of times there's a product that everybody's buying,
- 11:30Speaker 1: and they're only buying it because they see other people
- 11:33Speaker 1: are buying it, and they get influenced. Well, if other
- 11:36Speaker 1: people are buying it, it must be good. So if
- 11:38Speaker 1: it's this guy, we've heard about him and he's saying
- 11:42Speaker 1: it's a cure well, and people are buying it. I'd
- 11:44Speaker 1: better do it because I'm terrified. And that's exactly what's happening.
- 11:49Speaker 1: They're taking advantage of everyone's fear and vulnerability and offering
- 11:55Speaker 1: these products that will not make a bit of a difference,
- 11:58Speaker 1: just to get money. I would use the phrase monetizing fear,
- 12:05Speaker 1: making money off people's fear. Climb stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
- 12:25Speaker 1: did I ever get the chance to say thank you
- 12:27Speaker 1: for joining us here on Serious eleven. At a time
- 12:31Speaker 1: when we are all trying to pull together, asking for
- 12:37Speaker 1: Heaven for guidance, trying to do the right thing, we
- 12:40Speaker 1: have fraudsters taking advantage of those most vulnerable. In the
- 12:46Speaker 1: last hours we learn conspiracy theorists and radio star Alex
- 12:50Speaker 1: Jones has been told to stop selling his fake anti
- 12:54Speaker 1: coronavirus toothpaste. It's called super Blue. We know that sham
- 13:02Speaker 1: products from dietary supplements, foods, medical devices, vaccines, door to
- 13:08Speaker 1: door coronavirus testing. They're everywhere right now. They're on Amazon,
- 13:13Speaker 1: they're own eBay, they're knocking on your door, knock, can
- 13:16Speaker 1: I test it for coronavirus? It has presented people like
- 13:22Speaker 1: mister Jones with an opportunity to monetize fear. According to
- 13:30Speaker 1: Letitia James, the state ag who issued an order against
- 13:34Speaker 1: Jones on Thursday, while people are literally dying, while they're
- 13:40Speaker 1: crowding the halls of hospitals, while their loved ones are
- 13:44Speaker 1: trying to breathe, other people are making money off that fear.
- 13:50Speaker 1: I worked for a while at the Federal Trade Commission
- 13:54Speaker 1: in their anti trust and consumer protection divisions. And for
- 13:58Speaker 1: a product to go on the market, a drug product,
- 14:03Speaker 1: it has to be undergo multiple double blind tests, in
- 14:08Speaker 1: other words, double blind. One group gets the product, one
- 14:11Speaker 1: group gets pulsebos. You have to go through multiple tests
- 14:14Speaker 1: like that to prove they really work. This is so
- 14:19Speaker 1: disappointing that people are taking advantage of those suffering. Dave Maack,
- 14:25Speaker 1: what mar can you tell me about super Blue? Alex
- 14:28Speaker 1: Jones has claimed that his super bluetooth face, he actually
- 14:31Speaker 1: said this on his show, it kills the whole Sars
- 14:35Speaker 1: Corona family at point blank range. There's no vague area here.
- 14:40Speaker 1: This is a very direct claim, and as you mentioned,
- 14:44Speaker 1: he has a very devoted loyal audience to believe a
- 14:46Speaker 1: lot of the garbage he spews and that's why there's
- 14:50Speaker 1: a crackdown on him. Because this guy's money doesn't come
- 14:52Speaker 1: from advertisers on his show. It comes from him selling
- 14:55Speaker 1: these types of products. He has a whole line of
- 14:58Speaker 1: garbage products that are of question. Noble youth, Well, here's
- 15:01Speaker 1: a question. His claims obviously are false. But do you
- 15:07Speaker 1: believe out to Cloyd's Tiger he will obey the cease
- 15:11Speaker 1: and desist order? I would think not. I mean, these
- 15:14Speaker 1: guys are snake oil salesman and they'll get every dime
- 15:18Speaker 1: they can before they're physically forced by the law to
- 15:22Speaker 1: do something. It's just like he said, it's outrageous monetary
- 15:26Speaker 1: monetizing fear, you know, to Dave, Matt, doesn't he still
- 15:29Speaker 1: say Sandy Hook didn't happen the mass shooting Nancy. My
- 15:32Speaker 1: understanding is that he claims that he's that, Yes, he
- 15:36Speaker 1: said something happened to Sandy Hook. That is not what
- 15:39Speaker 1: was reported in the media when all the children were killed.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Then we know of Matt Colvin stockpiling eighteen thousand bottles
- 15:49Speaker 1: of hand sanitizer, trying to pick up the price up
- 15:52Speaker 1: to seventy dollars a bottle. That's clearly price gouging to Dave, Matt,
- 16:00Speaker 1: what can you tell me about Matt Colvin? These Tennessee brothers,
- 16:04Speaker 1: Matt Colvin and his brothers saw the pandemic coming, and
- 16:06Speaker 1: so what they did in Tennessee is they went around
- 16:08Speaker 1: and started buying up hand sanitizers throughout all their local stores,
- 16:12Speaker 1: and then spread out from there and ended up even
- 16:15Speaker 1: going into Kentucky, and they amassed at least twenty thousand
- 16:21Speaker 1: things of hand sanitizers, and they were selling them online
- 16:25Speaker 1: and a tube, a container that would go for a
- 16:28Speaker 1: dollar retail was selling for seventy five eighty bucks online
- 16:32Speaker 1: before they finally, you know, they got caught onto and
- 16:37Speaker 1: Amazon shut them down and they were stuck with seventeen
- 16:40Speaker 1: thousand bottles of hand sanitizer. But still they're still being
- 16:44Speaker 1: looked into. And you know, you guys are the lawyers,
- 16:46Speaker 1: not me. They're still looking at possible charges for taking
- 16:51Speaker 1: advantage of a time as they were trying to do.
- 16:54Speaker 1: A guy was seventeen nearly eighteen thousand bottles of hand sanitizers,
- 16:59Speaker 1: selling them for seventy five dollars a pop. To attorney
- 17:04Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick joining Us, author of Red Flags, Wendy, what
- 17:09Speaker 1: about the possibility I know that he is now under
- 17:12Speaker 1: investigation for price gouging. What could become of that? Well,
- 17:16Speaker 1: if he's charged, it's really going to send a message.
- 17:19Speaker 1: I mean price gouging. You have to look at well, gosh,
- 17:21Speaker 1: how far did you raise a price? Here they raise
- 17:23Speaker 1: there's an astronomical amount. But you look at the amount
- 17:27Speaker 1: of overage people are charging and saying, hey, can you
- 17:29Speaker 1: justify that some other way than clearly being guilty of
- 17:33Speaker 1: price gouging. But whether it's price gouging, fraud, or whatever
- 17:37Speaker 1: it is that people are engaging in, once these cases
- 17:39Speaker 1: start being charged, I don't care what jurisdiction it is,
- 17:42Speaker 1: people are going to pay a lot more attention and
- 17:45Speaker 1: certainly be a lot more careful about what they try
- 17:47Speaker 1: to get away with online while speaking a price gouging,
- 17:50Speaker 1: listen to this. Deputies arrested eight people for it, and
- 17:53Speaker 1: they say those who are profiting from people's fear will
- 17:56Speaker 1: be prosecuted. To impact toilet paper for believe it was
- 18:02Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. Toilet paper, gloves and other cleaning supplies
- 18:05Speaker 1: now evidence in a criminal investigation after people tried selling
- 18:09Speaker 1: the items for up to twenty times their regular retail price.
- 18:12Speaker 1: The San Diego Sheriff's substation in Fulbrook arrested eight people
- 18:16Speaker 1: for price gouging. Deputy say they found them selling the
- 18:19Speaker 1: items online, met them in a public place acting as buyers,
- 18:23Speaker 1: then they were placed under arrest. The individuals were cited
- 18:26Speaker 1: and released, but face up to one year in prison
- 18:29Speaker 1: and could be fined up to ten thousand dollars. According
- 18:32Speaker 1: to the district attorney, it's illegal to increase prices for
- 18:35Speaker 1: essential goods by more than ten percent during a declared
- 18:38Speaker 1: state of emergency. Items like these in ninety five masks,
- 18:41Speaker 1: which normally run about two dollars each. He was selling
- 18:45Speaker 1: twenty six of those for about two hundred ten dollars. Wow,
- 18:48Speaker 1: you're hearing Fox five San Diego News report Justina Myers
- 18:52Speaker 1: and more from Justina on price gouging. Guys, you gotta
- 18:56Speaker 1: watch out. Listen to Justina Myers. The rise in price
- 19:00Speaker 1: douging comes as grocery store shelves are wiped clean. People
- 19:04Speaker 1: buying out of control. They don't even know what they're buying.
- 19:06Speaker 1: They're just buying. Facetiming. Before her shift out, Ralph's in
- 19:09Speaker 1: Bonita sales manager Esther Lopez says supply wouldn't be a
- 19:12Speaker 1: problem if shoppers didn't create one. She's worried about those
- 19:16Speaker 1: who are desperate who might fall victim to excessive prices
- 19:19Speaker 1: if they can't find it at the store. The people
- 19:21Speaker 1: who can come in here on their own, who have
- 19:23Speaker 1: some health problems, so please stop doing this. Independent grocery
- 19:28Speaker 1: stores are also seeing the stockpiling. Yeah, the shelves are
- 19:32Speaker 1: pretty empty, co owner of Staley Farms Market in Kensington,
- 19:35Speaker 1: reminding shoppers so only take what they need half a
- 19:38Speaker 1: gallon a mouth, grow one thing to cheese rather than nine.
- 19:42Speaker 1: So we are experiencing that overload panic purchase buying, and
- 19:48Speaker 1: that has hurt the supplies. As for law enforcement, they
- 19:51Speaker 1: have a strong message for those looking to line their
- 19:54Speaker 1: pockets stirring this pandemic. Can you take advantage? We're going
- 19:58Speaker 1: to seek you out. Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, we
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- 20:41Speaker 1: Children Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. There are also reports
- 20:51Speaker 1: of door to door coronavirus seals. Kids. Let me tell
- 20:55Speaker 1: you there are no door to door sales kits for coronavirus.
- 20:59Speaker 1: People are waiting four or five more hours in line
- 21:03Speaker 1: for drive through coronavirus testing, So nobody is bringing you
- 21:07Speaker 1: a coronavirus kit to your door. What that is is
- 21:10Speaker 1: a distraction robbery attempt. They start talking to you about
- 21:14Speaker 1: coronavirus and then they stick their footing your door and
- 21:16Speaker 1: strong arm rob you or worse, or they might try
- 21:20Speaker 1: to be They may be trying to get your vital
- 21:22Speaker 1: information like your credit card, your d OB, your social
- 21:25Speaker 1: security who knows what they're trying to get, and then
- 21:27Speaker 1: leave give you an empty box. That's what that is.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Don't fall for it. But that's really just the tip
- 21:35Speaker 1: of the iceberg. Take a listen to our friends at
- 21:38Speaker 1: w d JT Milwaukee, CBS Shirley Discorbeth. Let's alter here
- 21:43Speaker 1: at sojourn Or Family Peace Center is open for victims
- 21:46Speaker 1: of domestic violence. Staff here say they're actually seeing an
- 21:50Speaker 1: increase and calls for help. Majority of the programs here
- 21:54Speaker 1: at Sojourn or Family Peace Center are now remote or
- 21:57Speaker 1: over email. However, two of the most critical programs remain open,
- 22:01Speaker 1: the shelter and the twenty four hour hotline. The Courthouse
- 22:05Speaker 1: Advocacy program is also open. There's still processing restraining orders.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Advocates say even during this crisis, domestic violence continues to
- 22:14Speaker 1: be an issue. Violence never stops, and that in times
- 22:18Speaker 1: of stress, domestic violence absolutely goes up in people's lives.
- 22:22Speaker 1: We all want to maintain some sort of control in
- 22:25Speaker 1: our lives, and times of crisis, all of us are
- 22:28Speaker 1: feeling stressed. That could be, you know, we want to
- 22:30Speaker 1: go to the grocery store stock up when groceries. Some
- 22:33Speaker 1: people exercise control in different ways. For victims of domestic violence,
- 22:39Speaker 1: going to work can be their only respites, but for
- 22:42Speaker 1: many people that's not an option. Right now, Domestic violence
- 22:45Speaker 1: is on a stark and drastic rise. During Corona virus scares,
- 22:54Speaker 1: people are staying into Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor author Red Flags,
- 22:58Speaker 1: explain Plaine, why is domestic violence now a major concern?
- 23:03Speaker 1: It's a major concern, Nancy, because it's a scenario where
- 23:06Speaker 1: the danger is inside your home. Domestic violence victims often
- 23:10Speaker 1: find a respite by going to work, staying at work late,
- 23:13Speaker 1: lingering at the grocery store, things they can't do right now.
- 23:16Speaker 1: You know, when we request the public to shelter in place,
- 23:19Speaker 1: we assume a safe place to hunker down and whether
- 23:22Speaker 1: the storm. But domestic violence victims are not safe at home,
- 23:25Speaker 1: and they may have abusers that are threatening. What's going
- 23:28Speaker 1: to happen if they dare to go out, They'll be
- 23:30Speaker 1: locked out, They'll get sick. They don't want to go
- 23:32Speaker 1: to a shelter because they're worried about overcrowding and not
- 23:35Speaker 1: an opportunity to social distance. That's the same reason. Sometimes
- 23:39Speaker 1: even if they're injured, they don't want to go to
- 23:41Speaker 1: an emergency room. They would probably rather, in the words
- 23:44Speaker 1: of some of them, suffer a physical injury than get
- 23:47Speaker 1: the coronavirus. It's a horrible scenario, but it is exactly
- 23:51Speaker 1: made easier by some of these domestic violence hotlines offering
- 23:55Speaker 1: all sorts of ways to contact them, whether it's on
- 23:57Speaker 1: the phone, whether it's on email, or however, they can
- 24:00Speaker 1: get at least some access to knowing what help is
- 24:03Speaker 1: available during this typical time. Take a listen to reporter
- 24:08Speaker 1: terse Appel at WLBT NBC three. Every year, domestic violence
- 24:14Speaker 1: peaks at certain times, and there are some very standard factors.
- 24:17Speaker 1: A lot of family members in close proximity, stress over finances,
- 24:21Speaker 1: stir crazy children. Police usually see the highest numbers of
- 24:25Speaker 1: domestic violence calls during the holidays, but summer, when children
- 24:29Speaker 1: are out of school, is also a time to watch.
- 24:32Speaker 1: Now families are staying home instead of going to school, work,
- 24:35Speaker 1: or church because of the dangers of coronavirus. Sandy Middleton,
- 24:39Speaker 1: director of the Mississippi Center for Prevention of Violence, says
- 24:42Speaker 1: some homes could be at risk. Day cares are closed,
- 24:45Speaker 1: I mean schools are closed. A lot of people aren't
- 24:48Speaker 1: going to work. So even if we don't get to
- 24:51Speaker 1: a pure quarantine situation, we're still talking about a lot
- 24:55Speaker 1: of people being piled in together in homes ranking any
- 25:00Speaker 1: Chief investigator Brett McAlpin says Nancy children can also contribute
- 25:04Speaker 1: to stress in the home. They want to go outside,
- 25:06Speaker 1: they want to see their friends and things like that.
- 25:08Speaker 1: And if we're gonna have this this quarantine situation, we're
- 25:12Speaker 1: not gonna that's not going to be possible. We are
- 25:14Speaker 1: now learning that a mother in Utah attacks her husband
- 25:20Speaker 1: and children. To Dave Matt Crime online dot Com investigative reporter,
- 25:26Speaker 1: what happened? Jessica Cambery from in Provo, Utah and Ancy
- 25:31Speaker 1: apparently just lost it when she realized that her boys
- 25:37Speaker 1: were going to be at home and that they weren't
- 25:39Speaker 1: going to be allowed to go to school. They weren't
- 25:41Speaker 1: gonna be able to go out. At thirty six years old,
- 25:44Speaker 1: she actually just exploded on the family. She started attacking
- 25:48Speaker 1: her husband. When one of the boys tried to get
- 25:52Speaker 1: her off the husband, she kicks the twelve year old
- 25:55Speaker 1: boy and twists the arm of another one. It was
- 25:58Speaker 1: an all out frey with this thirty six year old
- 26:01Speaker 1: mom who just lost it when she realized the kids
- 26:03Speaker 1: were going to be underfoot and in the house and
- 26:05Speaker 1: she couldn't get away from anybody. Thirty six year old
- 26:08Speaker 1: Jessica Cambray, profile Utah just arrested overclaim she attacked the fiance,
- 26:16Speaker 1: tried to choke him, kicked one of the boys, twisted
- 26:21Speaker 1: another one's arms. Why upset her children would not be
- 26:27Speaker 1: at school? Attacking them because of the Corona virus. School
- 26:33Speaker 1: closures straight out to Karen Start New York psychologists way in. Well,
- 26:39Speaker 1: when you think about it, Nancy, and you have people
- 26:42Speaker 1: that are unstable, and as we keep saying, frightened, vulnerable,
- 26:47Speaker 1: here's somebody who clearly can't do it with her children
- 26:51Speaker 1: being home, and no one can predict how long this
- 26:55Speaker 1: is even go to last. And so we take this
- 26:57Speaker 1: unstable person, obviously your everyday mother, and she hears about
- 27:03Speaker 1: this and completely cannot contain herself, loses herself and attacks everybody.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Thirty six year old Jessica Cambray. You know I want
- 27:13Speaker 1: to go out to you, Cloyd Steiger. This happened a
- 27:16Speaker 1: little after midnight. As I always told juries, nothing good
- 27:20Speaker 1: happens after midnight, A major blowout over coronavirus after midnight,
- 27:26Speaker 1: choking her husband police. Can you imagine having to say
- 27:31Speaker 1: your mom twisted your arm and kick to you and
- 27:34Speaker 1: try to choke your dad when you're trying to help
- 27:37Speaker 1: your dad. Having to tell the cops that, yeah, you know,
- 27:42Speaker 1: in another life, years and years ago, I was a
- 27:44Speaker 1: patrol officer and went to those type of things all
- 27:46Speaker 1: the time. Two of my sons right now are Seattle
- 27:48Speaker 1: police officers and have to go to work every day
- 27:51Speaker 1: and that's the type of stuff they see and they
- 27:53Speaker 1: can't get away from it. Ter exposed. So it's just
- 27:57Speaker 1: like I said, like Karen said, people are cooped up,
- 28:00Speaker 1: and you know, we have a propensity for that to
- 28:02Speaker 1: begin with. Such just aggravates the whole thing. Right now,
- 28:04Speaker 1: we know she is under arrest in homes where domestic
- 28:08Speaker 1: violence or family violence is a reality. What should a
- 28:12Speaker 1: victim do right now? To Wendy Patrick, victims should assess
- 28:17Speaker 1: their options. They have family, they have friends, they may
- 28:20Speaker 1: have other places to live. It shouldn't be a choice, Nancy,
- 28:23Speaker 1: between being physically injured or physically ill. They should take
- 28:27Speaker 1: advantage of so many online resources. I mean, there are
- 28:30Speaker 1: so many people that are opening their homes, opening their businesses,
- 28:34Speaker 1: transforming hotels into shelters. It's changing by the day. So
- 28:38Speaker 1: there are options. And the very first thing I want
- 28:41Speaker 1: to say when I'm looking at all these victims is
- 28:44Speaker 1: you are not alone. There are many people that are
- 28:47Speaker 1: in this circumstance, and there are an increasing amount of
- 28:49Speaker 1: people that are stepping up willing to help you find options.
- 28:53Speaker 1: Rather than being under this horrific type of house arrest
- 28:57Speaker 1: where they're worried about the danger within. Another issue is
- 29:00Speaker 1: child abuse to you, you know, Joe Scott Morgan, you
- 29:06Speaker 1: have been in the investigative business for so long. I
- 29:10Speaker 1: anticipate a spike and child abuse and we may never
- 29:15Speaker 1: really know about it because children, the most vulnerable, can't
- 29:18Speaker 1: speak out. What do you think? Yeah, and I think
- 29:22Speaker 1: that one of the stressors that's involved with this is
- 29:25Speaker 1: that you have adults that are caretakers over children that
- 29:31Speaker 1: are unstable to begin with. Many times they're frustrated, they
- 29:36Speaker 1: can't get out of the house, and so they're going
- 29:39Speaker 1: to take advantage of and they're going to abuse the
- 29:43Speaker 1: weakest person in the house. This can extend to the
- 29:48Speaker 1: wife as well physically, but the target here are the children.
- 29:54Speaker 1: They're frustrated with them, and to live in an abusive
- 29:57Speaker 1: household like this, it means to live in fear. And
- 30:02Speaker 1: these children, if they make a wrong sound, if they
- 30:06Speaker 1: don't move quick enough for this individual, great harm can come.
- 30:09Speaker 1: To crime stories with Nancy Grace. From an apartment parking lot,
- 30:27Speaker 1: a Cape Coral officer heard panicked cries for help. As
- 30:31Speaker 1: he approached the building, the screams grew louder. The officer
- 30:34Speaker 1: says he spotted a man later ideed as Joseph Newell,
- 30:38Speaker 1: straddling his victim with what appeared to be his hands
- 30:42Speaker 1: around her neck. According to Newell's arrest report, he was
- 30:46Speaker 1: intoxicated and told them the woman had COVID nineteen, but
- 30:50Speaker 1: in reality she was six months pregnant. We are getting
- 30:54Speaker 1: ready for more calls. Jennifer Benton with the Abuse Counseling
- 30:57Speaker 1: and Treatment Center says they're seeing us spike in domestic
- 31:01Speaker 1: violence cases that could be linked to coronavirus. Definitely, people
- 31:05Speaker 1: are staying at home, they're more agitated. The center is
- 31:08Speaker 1: open to all looking for help, a hotline that operates
- 31:12Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day that will continue. We have
- 31:15Speaker 1: three shelters and they're open and they're staff twenty four
- 31:18Speaker 1: hours a day. We are here for people, especially now
- 31:21Speaker 1: with growing concerns over COVID nineteen. An attack goes down
- 31:27Speaker 1: based on belief, the false belief that a woman has
- 31:33Speaker 1: coronavirus beaten brutally. You were just hearing our friend at
- 31:37Speaker 1: WBBHTV NBC two, Nestor Montoya speaking. We already know that
- 31:44Speaker 1: domestic violence and child abuse will rise during quarantines. Also,
- 31:49Speaker 1: at risk people will be neglected we will see deaths
- 31:55Speaker 1: while most Americans are inside their homes watching as worrying
- 32:00Speaker 1: desperate emails, almost screaming fear for unseen victims. During the
- 32:08Speaker 1: national shutdown, one Florida social worker writing of her fear
- 32:14Speaker 1: because of her disabled clients shut in their homes, unable
- 32:18Speaker 1: to even go to the bathroom. Child Protective Services fears
- 32:23Speaker 1: that families will run out of food, formula, and diapers
- 32:27Speaker 1: die of lack of treatment. You've got parents desperate to work,
- 32:33Speaker 1: but all that stress will it lead to child abuse?
- 32:38Speaker 1: In Manhattan, one worker says they are drowning trying to
- 32:43Speaker 1: get food and supplies to homeless people right now. While
- 32:51Speaker 1: most eyes are focused on hospitals and the ill, what
- 32:56Speaker 1: about the unseen victims will come back? I'm Nancy Grace.
- 33:01Speaker 1: This is crime stories. There was an outright war at
- 33:06Speaker 1: a Brooklyn Costco, another at a Sam's club in Georgia,
- 33:13Speaker 1: but a hate crime. Take a listen to this. An
- 33:17Speaker 1: Asian woman was punched in the face in Midtown and
- 33:20Speaker 1: what's being investigated as a possible coronavirus related bias attack. Yes,
- 33:25Speaker 1: the NYPD responded to this reported assault at a building
- 33:28Speaker 1: on West thirty fourth Street, A twenty three year old
- 33:31Speaker 1: woman told officer she was punched in the face by
- 33:33Speaker 1: a woman who also made anti Asian slurs before leaving
- 33:37Speaker 1: the scene. She was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Police say the two women knew each other and attend
- 33:43Speaker 1: the same school. The zero tolerance for violence with our students.
- 33:48Speaker 1: We investigated the situation. The student was suspended immediately following
- 33:52Speaker 1: the situation. Now today on Twitter, First Lady Charlaine McCrae
- 33:57Speaker 1: told Asian American New Yorkers that your city dands with you.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Governor Cuelmo has directed the New York State Police Hate
- 34:03Speaker 1: Crimes Task Force to assist in that investigation. You're hearing
- 34:08Speaker 1: our friends there at ABC seven an Asian American hate
- 34:15Speaker 1: attack at a Brooklyn Costco today, Matt, what happened at
- 34:21Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Costco, Nancy. We actually had people that they
- 34:27Speaker 1: were doing a buying horde, you know, when people are
- 34:30Speaker 1: grabbing up all the toilet papers they can and piling
- 34:32Speaker 1: it in their buggies and just grabbing all these items
- 34:35Speaker 1: that we see as essential, and it just kind of
- 34:38Speaker 1: exploded on itself. And this manager who was there or
- 34:41Speaker 1: an employee, he was just trying to get everybody calm.
- 34:44Speaker 1: You know the video that we've seen his cell phone
- 34:46Speaker 1: video and you can hear this guy imploring them saying, please,
- 34:49Speaker 1: we're all in this together as human beings. We've got
- 34:51Speaker 1: to come together. He was just trying to calm the situation, and,
- 34:55Speaker 1: by the way, effectively did calm the situation down. So
- 34:59Speaker 1: this is what happened. A brawl breaks out at a
- 35:01Speaker 1: costco a man all the coronavirus tension, there have been
- 35:07Speaker 1: multiple altercations, but the attack in a midtown superstore apparently
- 35:14Speaker 1: was a hate attack on an Asian woman. Is that
- 35:18Speaker 1: what happened, Dave mac twenty three year old Asian woman
- 35:23Speaker 1: did wasn't wearing a mask, and another woman who goes
- 35:26Speaker 1: to school with her at the Empire Beauty School actually
- 35:30Speaker 1: saw her outside of the school and said put your
- 35:32Speaker 1: mask on, and it escalated to an actual violent physical
- 35:37Speaker 1: attack where the one student who's unnamed right now was
- 35:41Speaker 1: hurling racial episodes and other things at the twenty three
- 35:44Speaker 1: year old Asian woman for not wearing her mask. It
- 35:46Speaker 1: is being investigated as it now. That happened in midtown?
- 35:49Speaker 1: What was the store? Do we know it was on
- 35:51Speaker 1: the street? From my understanding, he was in the street
- 35:54Speaker 1: near where they went to school, and so basically the
- 35:57Speaker 1: Brooklyn Costco incident was what. That's where we had a
- 36:01Speaker 1: number of people that were gathered together and people were
- 36:04Speaker 1: grabbing too much toilet paper or paper towels, and just
- 36:09Speaker 1: a group of people all kind of met up at
- 36:11Speaker 1: the cash register and there there were no toilet paper
- 36:15Speaker 1: rolls left, and people were frustrated that others had their
- 36:18Speaker 1: buggies piled up where they couldn't find any for their families.
- 36:22Speaker 1: And that's where the argument started, and one thing led
- 36:24Speaker 1: to another with people pushing and shoving and banging carts,
- 36:27Speaker 1: and that's where the employee or manager was like, look,
- 36:30Speaker 1: we're all human beings. You've gotten to calm down. This
- 36:33Speaker 1: is ridiculous. We got to work together on well. From
- 36:36Speaker 1: midtown Manhattan to the Costco in Brooklyn to a Sam's
- 36:41Speaker 1: Club in Hiram, Georgia, it doesn't seem to be ending.
- 36:47Speaker 1: But let's go across the country where apparently spring Breakers
- 36:53Speaker 1: aren't concerned about coronavirus. Take a listen to our friends
- 36:57Speaker 1: at WPLG Local ten Terrell Corny, and by now you've
- 37:01Speaker 1: heard all the stories about people's skeptical to travel, and
- 37:04Speaker 1: people avoiding large crowds because they're worried that this virus
- 37:08Speaker 1: could be easily transmitted. Well, none of that is happening
- 37:11Speaker 1: here on the beach. The fun is in full swing
- 37:16Speaker 1: on Fort Lauderdale Beach. It's been awesome, crazy. It's though
- 37:20Speaker 1: we're spring breakers from near and far are packing away.
- 37:24Speaker 1: They're worries. Any thought that crossed your mind at all
- 37:27Speaker 1: about canceling ah? Oh really honestly. In fact, sky ten
- 37:32Speaker 1: captured this view of the coastline where droves of people
- 37:35Speaker 1: can be seen on the sand, visitors soaking up the
- 37:38Speaker 1: sun from Fort Lauderdale down to South Beach, where crowds
- 37:42Speaker 1: are just as heavy. This despite the wave of coronavirus
- 37:45Speaker 1: scares sweeping the nation. Yes, we just don't care. I mean,
- 37:48Speaker 1: we talk about it all the time, but we can't
- 37:50Speaker 1: stop it. No real worries. We're young, we don't really
- 37:55Speaker 1: need to worry. Really, they don't need to be worried
- 37:57Speaker 1: about coronavirus. To Joseph Scott Morgan, professor forensic Jackson State
- 38:02Speaker 1: University death investigator, Joe Scott, that's just bass Ackwards. It's foolish,
- 38:08Speaker 1: absolutely foolish, you know it was let out early on
- 38:11Speaker 1: when we began to suffer from the coronavirus, that the
- 38:15Speaker 1: elderly were passing away. Well, that only makes sense because
- 38:19Speaker 1: they're the most vulnerable. And unfortunately people took that to
- 38:22Speaker 1: mean that if you're young, you're not gonna get it.
- 38:25Speaker 1: And apparently it applies here because this is stupid, and
- 38:29Speaker 1: I'll say it's stupid behavior on their part. Virus can
- 38:32Speaker 1: attack anybody at any time. That's why social distancing is
- 38:37Speaker 1: so important, and they're doing anything but distancing themselves. Well,
- 38:41Speaker 1: at first we thought the young were more less likely
- 38:46Speaker 1: to be attacked by coronavirus. I'm not sure that that's true.
- 38:50Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to our forensic
- 38:53Speaker 1: w FLA Fox eight listen. Breaking news just into our
- 38:58Speaker 1: newsroom this morning. The University of Tampa has announced that
- 39:01Speaker 1: five students who were traveling together over spring break i've
- 39:04Speaker 1: now tested positive for coronavirus. UT switched to online classes
- 39:08Speaker 1: earlier this week. Residence halls are still open for students
- 39:12Speaker 1: that have no other housing options. All others have been
- 39:15Speaker 1: sent home again. This breaking news. Five students now at
- 39:18Speaker 1: UT tested positive for coronavirus and joining me at the
- 39:22Speaker 1: same from Florida is psychologist Karen Stark. Karen, what are
- 39:27Speaker 1: you saying, Nancy? It would just blow your mind. It's
- 39:31Speaker 1: so upsetting. I see right whereon staying sons of young
- 39:37Speaker 1: people gathering together, barbecuing, laughing, and along the intracoastal you
- 39:42Speaker 1: see boats with crowds of kids on there, playing music, singing.
- 39:47Speaker 1: It's very frightening because they feel invincible, I guess, and
- 39:52Speaker 1: they are not listening to what's being told. You know,
- 39:55Speaker 1: it's amazing to me, Karen Stark. So I'm looking at
- 39:59Speaker 1: video of young people out twerking and partying on the beach.
- 40:03Speaker 1: Is that happening, Yes, except now they've decided to close
- 40:08Speaker 1: the beaches. So what's happening that I can see is
- 40:11Speaker 1: they're going out on the intracoastal on boats, or they're
- 40:15Speaker 1: gathering in places where there are pools. They have them
- 40:17Speaker 1: closed the pools yet and getting together and making lots
- 40:24Speaker 1: of noise, just partying, partying as though we're all from school.
- 40:29Speaker 1: This is the time, we're invincible. We could just have
- 40:32Speaker 1: a good time. And they don't seem to understand there
- 40:36Speaker 1: are people here that don't believe that it's real, that
- 40:39Speaker 1: think it's a hoax, and it's very hard if you're
- 40:42Speaker 1: somebody like me who's social distancing to say we're social distancing,
- 40:46Speaker 1: please stay away from us. So we have to be
- 40:49Speaker 1: very careful. Joe Scott, please address the danger of coronavirus
- 40:55Speaker 1: and why we are social distancing. Yeah, Nancy, you know,
- 40:59Speaker 1: the thing about this is that you know it can't
- 41:02Speaker 1: be seen, you don't know where it might be existing.
- 41:05Speaker 1: This is a very robust virus. We talk about things
- 41:08Speaker 1: in science like the surface life of a virus. Some
- 41:11Speaker 1: things are fragile. Coronavirus is not. It's what we refer
- 41:16Speaker 1: to as robust. That means that even if someone sneezes
- 41:19Speaker 1: on a surface, that virus is not necessarily going to
- 41:22Speaker 1: die immediately. There are some studies that have taken it
- 41:25Speaker 1: out several days as a survivabal and so it'll latch
- 41:30Speaker 1: onto another host, viable hosts, another person that touches that surface.
- 41:34Speaker 1: If you're within six feet of an individual and they
- 41:37Speaker 1: call for they sneeze, they've got some kind of upper
- 41:40Speaker 1: respionratory problem, then that's going to transfer onto that person.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Then they touch their face. It is absolutely essential that
- 41:48Speaker 1: people distance themselves from one another. Wait till the storm
- 41:53Speaker 1: passes over, and I can't assure you it will. This
- 41:56Speaker 1: is not the bubonic plague. Viruses have a lot and
- 42:00Speaker 1: you cannot stop it. We can't stop influenza. You know
- 42:04Speaker 1: that we go through the flu season. That's why they
- 42:06Speaker 1: call it that We're going to go through the corona season.
- 42:09Speaker 1: It will eventually phase out, but people have to stay
- 42:13Speaker 1: away from one another because it's highly contagious. We wait
- 42:17Speaker 1: as justice unfolds, and our prayers now for a cure
- 42:23Speaker 1: for coronavirus. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off, Goodbye friend,