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Crime Alert 12.27.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: police rushed to Saint John the Baptist Catholic church after
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  Speaker 1: a nine to one one call reporting a break in.
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  Speaker 1: When they get there, they find the rectory where where
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Stephen Goutsel lives broken into inside Kier Williams standing
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  Speaker 1: over Gootsell with a knife. Goutzil transported to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: but dies of his injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Goutsel called nine to one one while the suspect
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  Speaker 2: stood across from him in the kitchen. While on the phone,
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  Speaker 2: the suspect grabbed a knife and stabbed the priest back.
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  Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, Goutsel was convicted of embezzling
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  Speaker 2: more than one hundred thousand dollars from another church, but
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  Speaker 2: authorities do not believe Gootzl's crime was a motive for
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  Speaker 2: the attack.
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  Speaker 1: Kier Williams, forty three, now charged with the murder of
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic priest Stephen Gootseale. Drunk Anthony Lessa leaves his
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  Speaker 1: table at a Florida seafood restaurant and starts pelting other
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  Speaker 1: customers with gator nuggets think chicken nuggets but from alligator
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  Speaker 1: meet Lesa then heads outside the restaurant, where a life
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  Speaker 1: sized statute of a manatee stands, and, to the horror
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  Speaker 1: of families eating, he begins to grope and molest the
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  Speaker 1: manatee while making suggestive faces that employees desperately tried to
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  Speaker 1: get him to stop. Cops are called, and Lessa twenty
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  Speaker 1: three charged with DC disorderly conduct owe that poormanatee. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now at the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines. Jackie Howard, a.
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  Speaker 3: Mother who took her six year old boy to a
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  Speaker 3: hotel in Ohio for a special day of fun and
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  Speaker 3: then shot and killed him, has now received a life
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  Speaker 3: sentence for more. We turned to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: As part of a plea agreement with Cuyahoga County prosecutors,
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  Speaker 2: thirty one year old Danisha Brent of Parma, Ohio pled
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  Speaker 2: guilty to aggravated murder and other crimes. As a result,
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution dismissed charges that might have resulted in her
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  Speaker 2: receiving the death penalty. She won't be eligible for parole
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  Speaker 2: for at least thirty five years after serving her time.
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  Speaker 2: Both the defense and the prosecution agreed that Brent had
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  Speaker 2: a history of mental illness, including a schizophrenia diagnosis. She
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  Speaker 2: was found to be confident to stand trial, nevertheless, following
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  Speaker 2: a court mandated mental health evaluation. According to the authorities,
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  Speaker 2: in April twenty twenty one, Brent drove her son Kamiree,
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  Speaker 2: to a hotel in Brooklyn so he could use their
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  Speaker 2: indoor pool. She also lavished him with candy during their
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  Speaker 2: time at the hotel. She did, however, ultimately shoot the
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  Speaker 2: boy eleven times in their room. After that, she phoned
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  Speaker 2: the police and reported that roughly thirty minutes earlier, an
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  Speaker 2: unidentified man had shot her and her son in their room.
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  Speaker 2: Authority said she later admitted to fabricating the story.
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  Speaker 3: The motive behind the killing has still not been revealed
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  Speaker 3: by officials. A Utah mother of six has pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 3: to child abuse charges. Ruby Frankie will serve time in
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  Speaker 3: prison for attempting to convince her two youngest children that
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  Speaker 3: they were evil, possessed, and in need of punishment for
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  Speaker 3: their sins. Standing before a court, shackled and in a
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  Speaker 3: white and gray jail uniform, Ruby Frankie closed her eyes
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  Speaker 3: took a deep breath before speaking She then pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 3: to each of her first three counts. She held back
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  Speaker 3: on some emotion on the fourth count and then spoke saying,
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  Speaker 3: with my deepest regret and sorrow for my family and
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  Speaker 3: my children guilty. Prosecutors detailed some of the abuse the
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  Speaker 3: children endured, including Frankie forcing her son's head under water,
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  Speaker 3: smothering him with her hands, and kicking him while wearing boots.
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  Speaker 3: Frankie also forced her ten year old daughter to run
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  Speaker 3: barefoot on roads and withheld food and water as punishment.
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  Speaker 3: According to the Tribune, Frankie claims her longtime business partner,
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  Speaker 3: Jody Hildebrandt, twisted their friendship. Frankie claims Hildebrandt isolated her
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  Speaker 3: from her extended family and older children, and her husband,
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Frankie. She says this distorted her sense of morality
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  Speaker 3: shaped by Miss Hildebrandt's influence. Frankie accepted a prison sentence
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  Speaker 3: as part of a plea agreement. She will be sentenced
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  Speaker 3: in February. After a twhile the Jonathan Major's thought would
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  Speaker 3: prove him innocent and elevate him back to the position
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  Speaker 3: of rising Hollywood store, he has been found guilty of
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  Speaker 3: beating his ex girlfriend. Majors was subsequently fired by Walt
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  Speaker 3: Disney Studios and Marvel Studio shortly after the verdict. Once again,
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Somner.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty four year old Majors was found guilty by a
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan jury of one minor assault charge and one harassment
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  Speaker 2: by elation. The charges stemmed from a March dispute with
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  Speaker 2: his then girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. She said he assaulted her
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  Speaker 2: in a vehicle, leaving her in what she described as
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  Speaker 2: excruciating pain. Major's attorneys claimed Jabari was the aggressor. Majors,
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  Speaker 2: who was found not guilty of aggravated harassment in another
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  Speaker 2: assault charge, cast a downward glance and remained silent during
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  Speaker 2: the reading of the verdict. As he exited the courthouse,
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  Speaker 2: he declined to comment. Following the conviction, Marvel and Disney
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  Speaker 2: promptly remove the Creed three star from all planned projects.
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  Speaker 2: This according to a person close to the studio who
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  Speaker 2: spoke anonymously because he was not allowed to discuss the
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  Speaker 2: case in public.
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  Speaker 3: Sentencing for Majors is scheduled for February sixth.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Jackie Chelsea Grim makes plans to go to a
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  Speaker 1: family wedding in Connecticut with her parents. Grim decides to
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  Speaker 1: drive after finding out her pet lizard would not be
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  Speaker 1: allowed on a plane. She drives from San Diego to Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: where she spends the night with her sister and a friend.
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  Speaker 1: Grim cancels lunch plans with the group the next day
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  Speaker 1: and insists she needs to get going that evening. She
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  Speaker 1: tries to book room at a motel in Seligman, a
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  Speaker 1: detour from the route to Connecticut. She seems disoriented and
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  Speaker 1: tries to give the desk attendant euros. Grim calls her
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  Speaker 1: parents to let them know she won't make the wedding,
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  Speaker 1: so she's turning back in the days after that call,
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  Speaker 1: there are several reports of Grim sleeping in her car
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona. Three days after the last sighting, her car
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  Speaker 1: is found in a remote wooded area with two flat tires,
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  Speaker 1: her purse, the lizard, and a sleeping bag missing from
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  Speaker 1: the unlocked car. There's been no activity on her bank
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  Speaker 1: account or phone for three months. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Shelsea Grimm, please call Coconino County Sheriffs nine two
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  Speaker 1: eight seven, seven four four five two three. For the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime injustice news, go to crime online dot com
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert amens he grace