Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 03.18.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Prime alert, Imancy grace breaking crime needs now. Romaine Maddox
- 0:04Speaker 1: thirty six, and William Barrett, fifty nine, get to their Washington,
- 0:08Speaker 1: d C. Hotel room, then chilling screams pierced the silence.
- 0:12Speaker 1: During an argument, Maddox starts punching Barrett and quote running
- 0:17Speaker 1: her mouth, so he chokes her with his belt, thinking
- 0:20Speaker 1: she's already dead, He's shot when she wakes up screaming
- 0:24Speaker 1: for help. He then punches her, grabs the lid from
- 0:27Speaker 1: a toilet tank, and hits her multiple times until it
- 0:32Speaker 1: breaks into pieces. Hours later, hotel employee discovers Romayne Maddox lifeless.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Nancy Maddox and Barrett were caught on surveillance footage wandering
- 0:41Speaker 2: the holes naked before the deadly argument. Police tracked Barrett
- 0:45Speaker 2: down after reviewing the evidence, and while in custody, Barrett
- 0:48Speaker 2: admits to the crime, telling cops he fell asleep after
- 0:51Speaker 2: the attack. At the time of his arrest, Barrett had
- 0:53Speaker 2: blood on his head and face, his cell phone, two
- 0:56Speaker 2: pairs of gloves, his boxers, and belt. He tries to
- 0:59Speaker 2: claim self defense, recounting a struggle that escalated into fetal violence.
- 1:03Speaker 1: William Barrett charged with first degree murder in the death
- 1:06Speaker 1: of Romayne Maddox. An unarmed Florida man goes on a
- 1:10Speaker 1: night cruise through the checkpoint of the Pinellas County Jail
- 1:13Speaker 1: and takes in the sights of the jail property. Deputies
- 1:17Speaker 1: quickly stop the man and notices dui the drunk drivers.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Booked for his second DUI at the same jail and
- 1:25Speaker 1: released on thirty five hundred dollars bond. Wonder if he's
- 1:29Speaker 1: behind the wheel right now? More Crime and Justice to
- 1:32Speaker 1: use after this Now with the latest crime and justice
- 1:36Speaker 1: breaking Neees Crime Onlines, John Limley, a.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Man wanted in connection with the deaths of a mother
- 1:41Speaker 3: and her eleven year old daughter in Massachusetts, has been
- 1:44Speaker 3: apprehended by police in California, while charges against another man
- 1:49Speaker 3: detained previously have been upgraded to murder. For more, we
- 1:52Speaker 3: turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:55Speaker 2: This most recent arrest occurred in San Diego during a
- 1:58Speaker 2: traffic stop. Police say it was about a way week
- 2:00Speaker 2: after twenty seven year old Chastity Nunias and her daughter,
- 2:03Speaker 2: Zella Nunias were shot in a parked suv in a
- 2:05Speaker 2: neighborhood of Worcester. The two were later pronounced dead at
- 2:08Speaker 2: an area hospital. The US Marshall Service said that it
- 2:11Speaker 2: had doubled a reward in connection with the man hunt
- 2:14Speaker 2: from five thousand to ten thousand dollars. The announcement made
- 2:17Speaker 2: several hours before the arrest. The suspects were first charged
- 2:20Speaker 2: with carrying a firearm without a license and armed assault
- 2:23Speaker 2: with the intent to murder. Corral Mangual, who was taken
- 2:26Speaker 2: into custody in wester has now entered a not guilty
- 2:29Speaker 2: plead to upgraded charges of murder. Given the seriousness of
- 2:32Speaker 2: the charges, attorneys on both sides agreed that he should
- 2:35Speaker 2: be detained without bond. April twelfth is now set as
- 2:38Speaker 2: Mangual's next court date. During a press conference, Wester County
- 2:41Speaker 2: District Attorney Joseph Early Junior said that the man arrested
- 2:45Speaker 2: in California would also face murder charges. When that suspect
- 2:48Speaker 2: would be transported to Massachusetts was not immediately known. According
- 2:52Speaker 2: to police testimony released in court documents, surveillance footage reveals
- 2:56Speaker 2: quote that the victims parked in their vehicle and that
- 2:59Speaker 2: two people walked up to the vehicle and starts shooting.
- 3:02Speaker 2: The video footage also shows a car matching a witness
- 3:05Speaker 2: description the driver circling the area before the incident and
- 3:08Speaker 2: then leaving later on. The vehicle was located in Hartford, Connecticut.
- 3:11Speaker 3: There's still no word from investigators regarding a possible motive
- 3:15Speaker 3: for the killings or if there was a relationship of
- 3:18Speaker 3: any kind between the suspects and the victims. A Wisconsin
- 3:23Speaker 3: man has been convicted of fatally stabbing two women, victims'
- 3:26Speaker 3: bodies discovered in a Green Bay residence last year, once
- 3:30Speaker 3: again crime online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Following about an hour of deliberation, the Brown County jury
- 3:35Speaker 2: found forty nine year old Richard Sodka guilty of two
- 3:38Speaker 2: counts of first degree intentional homicide in connection with the
- 3:41Speaker 2: deaths of fifty three year old Paula O'Connor of Bellevue
- 3:44Speaker 2: in fifty eight year old Green Bay resident Ronda Sigelski.
- 3:47Speaker 2: This information coming by way of our friends with WLUKTV. Soka,
- 3:52Speaker 2: also a resident of Green Bay, is due to be
- 3:54Speaker 2: sentenced on May twentieth. He faces two mandatory life sentences.
- 3:58Speaker 2: It was in January of twenty twenty three that Sigelski
- 4:01Speaker 2: and O'Connor were discovered fatally stabbed inside their residence. A
- 4:04Speaker 2: prosecution complaint states that Sotka told police he quote snapped
- 4:08Speaker 2: and killed the women because he felt humiliated after they
- 4:11Speaker 2: laughed at him. He alleged that after the killings, he
- 4:13Speaker 2: cut off his mandatory electronic monitoring bracelet, dumped it into
- 4:17Speaker 2: a ditch, and traveled to Arkansas, where he was apprehended
- 4:20Speaker 2: the same day that the victim's bodies were discovered.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Facing accusations of stalking and breaking a restraining order. Sodka
- 4:27Speaker 3: was out on bond in a Conto county and ordered
- 4:30Speaker 3: to wear the monitoring device.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Thanks John Survellis video shows Richard Alright leaving his New
- 4:35Speaker 1: York home for a walk, wearing slippers. His blood thinners
- 4:39Speaker 1: for three open art surgeries and its antibiotic for a
- 4:41Speaker 1: knee replacements are left behind. Two hours later, his wife
- 4:45Speaker 1: Kathy calls and texts Richard, but he never responds. Kathy
- 4:50Speaker 1: hires a PI who learns Richard gets on a bus
- 4:53Speaker 1: and buys a thirty day Metro card. His credit cards
- 4:56Speaker 1: have not been used since. A search of Richard's computer
- 4:59Speaker 1: shows he may have been on his way to a museum,
- 5:02Speaker 1: but no other clues are found. If you have info
- 5:05Speaker 1: on the disappearance of Richard Albright. Call it n y
- 5:08Speaker 1: p D two one two six nine four seven seven
- 5:13Speaker 1: eight one. For the latest crime injustice news, go to
- 5:15Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.