Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 01.09.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy grace breaking, crime needs Now. A California
- 0:04Speaker 1: woman cleans up litter and collects recyclables at the El
- 0:07Speaker 1: Camino College campus. While she works, Jeffrey Davis approaches her,
- 0:11Speaker 1: then attacks, savagely, beating her with a sledgehammer. A passer
- 0:16Speaker 1: by discovers the woman. She's rushed to the hospital but dies.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Nancy Davis is described as a transient in the area
- 0:23Speaker 2: that police were familiar with. Officers declined to share the
- 0:26Speaker 2: charges Davis faced in previous arrests. The victim was in
- 0:30Speaker 2: her early sixties and died of her injuries after Davis
- 0:32Speaker 2: was arrested. Coff believed the attack was likely a random
- 0:35Speaker 2: act of violence and not targeted.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Campus police id Davis from security footage and arrest him
- 0:41Speaker 1: near campus. Davis, forty years old, charged with attempted murder
- 0:45Speaker 1: and upgraded charges including murder expected. LaToya Gladney and McDonald's
- 0:51Speaker 1: manager in training, has difficulty with one of her cooks
- 0:54Speaker 1: and calls her husband, Dwyane Waden, for help. Waden, a pastor,
- 0:58Speaker 1: comes by the restaurant and confront the cook, Theodore Garlington.
- 1:02Speaker 1: They argue, Waden punches Garlington in the face. Waden then
- 1:06Speaker 1: chokes at Garlington and pushes his head toward the deep friar.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Several other employees pull Waden off. Garlington cops are called
- 1:15Speaker 1: Pastor Waden fifty seven and old enough to know better,
- 1:18Speaker 1: charged with assault. More crime and justice news after this.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Now at the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
- 1:27Speaker 1: Onlines John Linley.
- 1:28Speaker 3: As a new year gets underway in New Jersey, Atlantic
- 1:32Speaker 3: City has seen a man fatally stabbed and another discovered
- 1:35Speaker 3: bleeding to death. This as the gambling destination is currently
- 1:39Speaker 3: installing hundreds of additional surveillance cameras to the thousands that
- 1:43Speaker 3: are already monitoring the area. For more, we turn to
- 1:46Speaker 3: Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:48Speaker 2: According to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, it was around
- 1:51Speaker 2: six fifteen am New Year's Day that police responded to
- 1:54Speaker 2: a nine to one to one call regarding a man
- 1:55Speaker 2: who is found bleeding on a roadway close to the
- 1:58Speaker 2: beach and who subsequently died a lit hospital. Police received
- 2:01Speaker 2: a second nine one one call a little over an
- 2:03Speaker 2: hour later, this time regarding a twenty two year old
- 2:06Speaker 2: man with numerous stab wounds who is pronounced dead at
- 2:08Speaker 2: the scene. Investigators say that so far, no arrests have
- 2:11Speaker 2: been made, and the deaths do not appear to be connected. However,
- 2:15Speaker 2: incidents such as these have prompted calls for more cameras
- 2:17Speaker 2: in the face of growing clamor for more public safety
- 2:20Speaker 2: at a casino resort that receives twenty seven million visits annually.
- 2:24Speaker 2: The city announced in October that two hundred cameras, each
- 2:27Speaker 2: with five independent lenses, would be installed around city areas
- 2:30Speaker 2: as part of a five million dollar state finance plan.
- 2:33Speaker 2: At the time, police Chief James Sarcos said that this
- 2:35Speaker 2: project would be the equivalent of adding one thousand more
- 2:38Speaker 2: cameras to the three thousand that are currently in use,
- 2:40Speaker 2: both public and private. When the project is finished later
- 2:43Speaker 2: this year, most of Atlantic City will be covered, even
- 2:46Speaker 2: though it won't cover every square inch of the forty
- 2:48Speaker 2: eight block city For a resort that depends on visitors
- 2:51Speaker 2: and their money, though the stakes are high, if tourists, gamblers,
- 2:54Speaker 2: and other visitors don't feel comfortable in Atlantic City, they
- 2:57Speaker 2: will go elsewhere.
- 2:58Speaker 3: The network of existing cameras on and around the boardwalk,
- 3:01Speaker 3: as well as on the surrounding streets, may have captured
- 3:05Speaker 3: some images that could help with the investigation into the
- 3:08Speaker 3: two New Year's killings, but neither the police nor the
- 3:11Speaker 3: county prosecutor's office would comment on that point. Now to Pennsylvania,
- 3:15Speaker 3: where a man has been charged, now officially in connection
- 3:18Speaker 3: with the cold case rape and killing of a medical
- 3:20Speaker 3: student that took place in a huge city park two
- 3:22Speaker 3: decades ago. Amid a string of high profile sexual assaults.
- 3:26Speaker 3: The man is suspected of slashing people with a broad
- 3:29Speaker 3: knife while riding a bicycle on a trail in Philadelphia.
- 3:32Speaker 3: In recent weeks, forty six year old Elias Diaz has
- 3:35Speaker 3: been charged with murder, rape, and other offenses in connection
- 3:39Speaker 3: with Rebecca Parks two thousand three death. He was placed
- 3:42Speaker 3: under arrest without bond until a preliminary hearing scheduled for
- 3:46Speaker 3: January eighth. In late November and early December, he allegedly
- 3:50Speaker 3: used a machete style weapon against people on the Pinnipack
- 3:53Speaker 3: Park trail in northeast Philadelphia. Diaz was initially arrested on
- 3:57Speaker 3: charges of aggravated assault and others. Now to Los Angeles,
- 4:02Speaker 3: as disgraced celebrity attorney Tom Girardi has been ruled competent
- 4:06Speaker 3: to face trial in relation to allegations that he embezzled
- 4:09Speaker 3: over fifteen million dollars from his clients once again crime
- 4:13Speaker 3: Online Sidney Somner.
- 4:14Speaker 2: A notification of the brief order was filed under seal
- 4:17Speaker 2: by a federal judge. Five days were allotted to the
- 4:20Speaker 2: attorneys on both sides to list any material in it
- 4:22Speaker 2: that they wanted the judge to keep private. The eighty
- 4:25Speaker 2: four year old Girardi is the estranged husband of Erica Jane,
- 4:28Speaker 2: a star on the hit TV show The Real Housewives
- 4:30Speaker 2: of Beverly Hills. Last year, Girardi entered a not guilty
- 4:34Speaker 2: plea to wire fraud charges in Los Angeles, pleading not
- 4:36Speaker 2: guilty to embezzling money from clients such as an Arizona
- 4:39Speaker 2: widow whose husband perished in a boat accident, a Los
- 4:42Speaker 2: Angeles couple heard in a car accident that left their
- 4:45Speaker 2: son paralyzed, and a man who suffered severe burns in
- 4:47Speaker 2: the twenty ten San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Girardi could be sentenced to serve decades in federal prison
- 4:54Speaker 3: if found guilty.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Thanks John David Schultz works in Iowa as a life
- 5:00Speaker 1: truck driver. He kisses his wife and twin boys goodbye
- 5:03Speaker 1: heads to a farm in Eagle Grove. He picks up
- 5:06Speaker 1: a load of piglets to transport to the Whiteman Pea
- 5:09Speaker 1: company's buying station that's an hour away in Sack City.
- 5:13Speaker 1: He never makes it. Schultz's semi is found abandoned at
- 5:16Speaker 1: Highway junction, just ten minutes from the destination. The truck
- 5:21Speaker 1: was parked in the middle of the lane with the
- 5:23Speaker 1: key in the ignition his phone and wallet inside. Cops
- 5:27Speaker 1: find more of Schultz's belongings across the street, but no
- 5:31Speaker 1: additional clues to his whereabouts. If you have info on
- 5:34Speaker 1: David Schultz, now missing six weeks, please call Sack County
- 5:39Speaker 1: Sheriff's seven one two six six two seven one two seven.
- 5:44Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crime
- 5:46Speaker 1: online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.