Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 11.07.22
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Final alert, I Nancy Grace breaking crimes now. Ihad Mustafa
- 0:03Speaker 1: uses a copy of his ex as key to enter
- 0:06Speaker 1: her apartment, disable the fire alarms, and start multiple fires inside,
- 0:10Speaker 1: engulfing the Baton Rouge complex in flames. That's right, Nancy.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Thankfully the girlfriend was not at home at the time
- 0:17Speaker 1: of the fire, but when Louisiana firefighters pinpointed the start
- 0:21Speaker 1: of the fire to her apartment, she mentions that Mustafa
- 0:25Speaker 1: had been harassing her after their recent breakup. A man
- 0:29Speaker 1: matching Mustapha's description was seen on surveillance video entering and
- 0:33Speaker 1: exiting the building just minutes before the fire began. There's
- 0:37Speaker 1: about four thousand dollars in building damages. No one hurt.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Mustapha now charged with fifty counts of arson. Oklahoma cops
- 0:45Speaker 1: track has tolen phone to DeMarco Brown's home. When questioned,
- 0:48Speaker 1: Brown admits he often uses a tow truck to steal
- 0:51Speaker 1: part cars to resell or scrap. You have that right.
- 0:54Speaker 1: A victim tells police that he left the cell phone
- 0:58Speaker 1: in his car and tracted to the home in hopes
- 1:01Speaker 1: of locating the car. When police show up, Brown confesses
- 1:05Speaker 1: he does not have a license or required paperwork to
- 1:09Speaker 1: legally tow cars. He also falsified multiple bills of sale,
- 1:14Speaker 1: dealer tags and even scrap metal dealer receipts for the
- 1:18Speaker 1: stolen cars. Brown now charged with grand theft auto. Forty
- 1:22Speaker 1: five year old Quentin Smith facing a long list of
- 1:25Speaker 1: charges after trafficking teen girls. Smith forces drugs on the girls,
- 1:30Speaker 1: then transports them to homes in Louisiana and Mississippi. Smith
- 1:34Speaker 1: provided narcotics like fentanyl and meth to these underage girls.
- 1:40Speaker 1: When they became unaware of their surroundings. Smith would drive
- 1:44Speaker 1: them to locations detectives describe as trap houses and take
- 1:49Speaker 1: cash from adult men in exchange for sex with the
- 1:53Speaker 1: young girls. Smith now charged with human trafficking, rape, and
- 1:56Speaker 1: cruelty to juvenals. Michael Barrett goes to a Halloween party
- 2:00Speaker 1: as a k k K member. Another party goer orders
- 2:04Speaker 1: him to take off the racist costume. His reaction, he
- 2:08Speaker 1: stabs the guy. This was a huge party, Nancy. A
- 2:12Speaker 1: few hundred teens came to the field party and children
- 2:16Speaker 1: as young as fourteen were in attendance. The party dispersed
- 2:21Speaker 1: as first responders arrived on the scene, and the victim
- 2:25Speaker 1: is in stable condition after undergoing surgery for his wound. Barrett,
- 2:29Speaker 1: a senior in high school, will likely be in jail
- 2:33Speaker 1: instead of graduating with his classmates come spring. Barrett booked
- 2:37Speaker 1: on first degree assault. More Crime and Justice news after
- 2:40Speaker 1: this Now with the latest Crime and Justice breaking Knees
- 2:46Speaker 1: Crime Onlines. John Lemley, a former long shot Idaho gubernatorial candidate,
- 2:51Speaker 1: has been convicted of kidnapping and killing a twelve year
- 2:54Speaker 1: old Colorado girl who went missing nearly forty years ago.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Our friends at Crime Online jurors found seventy one year
- 3:01Speaker 1: old Steve Pankey guilty of felony murder, second degree kidnapping,
- 3:05Speaker 1: and false reporting and the disappearance and death of Janelle
- 3:07Speaker 1: Matthews in nineteen eighty four. A judge then sentenced him
- 3:10Speaker 1: to life in prison with the possibility of parole. It
- 3:14Speaker 1: was Pinky's second trial in the case. Last year, jurors
- 3:17Speaker 1: were unable to reach verdicts on the kidnapping and murder charges,
- 3:20Speaker 1: and prosecutors decided to put him on trial again. Penky
- 3:22Speaker 1: was a neighbor of Janelle and her family when she
- 3:25Speaker 1: vanished after being dropped off at her empty home by
- 3:28Speaker 1: a family friend after performing at a Christmas concert. In Greeley, Colorado,
- 3:33Speaker 1: a city about fifty miles north of Denver. A long
- 3:37Speaker 1: term patient at Western Washington State's psychiatric hospital has been
- 3:41Speaker 1: arrested on suspicion of killing his sixty nine year old roommate.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Lakewood officers were called to Western State Hospital after fire
- 3:50Speaker 1: crews responded to a report of an unresponsive patient, noticing
- 3:54Speaker 1: that the death looks suspicious. The victim's fifty one year
- 3:58Speaker 1: old roommate was arrested on suspicion of second degree murder.
- 4:02Speaker 1: The victim, who had been a patient at the hospital
- 4:04Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty nine, has not been publicly identified. The
- 4:08Speaker 1: man had been found not guilty by reason of insanity
- 4:12Speaker 1: on a first degree murder charge. The victim's roommate had
- 4:15Speaker 1: been at the hospital since twenty fourteen on a first
- 4:19Speaker 1: degree assault charge. For nearly a half century, the Lady
- 4:23Speaker 1: of the Dunes held on to her secret. Now the
- 4:26Speaker 1: FBI has announced it has identified the woman discovered almost
- 4:31Speaker 1: five decades ago amid the dunes of the Cape Cod
- 4:34Speaker 1: National Seashore. Today, over forty eight years after her murder
- 4:37Speaker 1: and discovery, we can finally say her name. Ruth Murrie Terry.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Terry had been the oldest unidentified homicide victim in Massachusetts.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Terry's body was found July twenty sixth, nineteen seventy four.
- 4:50Speaker 1: The victim's hands were missing and her head was nearly
- 4:53Speaker 1: severed from her body. The left side of her skull
- 4:56Speaker 1: had been crushed. Her naked body was found lying on
- 4:59Speaker 1: a each blanket with her head resting on folded jeans.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Former Kansas City chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid has been
- 5:08Speaker 1: sentenced to three years in prison for driving drunk, speeding
- 5:12Speaker 1: and hitting two parked cars last year, leaving a five
- 5:16Speaker 1: year old with a serious brain injury. Our friends at
- 5:19Speaker 1: Crime Online. Read pleaded guilty in September to driving while
- 5:23Speaker 1: intoxicated causing serious bodily injury. The charge carries a maximum
- 5:27Speaker 1: penalty of seven years in prison, but prosecutors had agreed
- 5:30Speaker 1: to ask for a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Reid sought probation. The injured girl's family had opposed the
- 5:37Speaker 1: plea deal. Circuit Judge Charles H. McKenzie sentenced Read, and
- 5:41Speaker 1: he was set to be taken into custody. Sarahta Copeland
- 5:45Speaker 1: sprays lysol on customers and a Boston grocery store and
- 5:48Speaker 1: tries to ignite the themes with a lighter. Cops say, luckily,
- 5:51Speaker 1: the forty two year old did not cause serious harm
- 5:54Speaker 1: to the victims or herself. She's booked on assault with
- 5:57Speaker 1: a dangerous weapon. For the latest crime justice news, gootcrime
- 6:01Speaker 1: online dot com with this criminal er. I'm Yancy Grace.