Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 07.22.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Jerald Miller knocks on the door of Texas home, claiming
- 0:06Speaker 1: Child Protective Services has sent him to speak with their child. Concerned,
- 0:11Speaker 1: the family allows him inside. He goes to the child's bedroom,
- 0:14Speaker 1: closing the door for the conversation. The parents hear screams.
- 0:19Speaker 1: They rush inside and find Gerald Miller trying to undress
- 0:23Speaker 1: their child. The family gives police Miller's description. They find
- 0:28Speaker 1: a similar incident occurred just a few weeks earlier.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Nancy, the victim's parents, gave Cobbs Miller's physical description, as
- 0:35Speaker 2: well as information on his vehicle. Property in Miller's car
- 0:38Speaker 2: tied him to both incidents. After his arrest, Miller was
- 0:41Speaker 2: remanded to the Hopkins County Jail, where he is held
- 0:44Speaker 2: on the three hundred thousand dollars bond authorities and reminding
- 0:47Speaker 2: parents that CPS workers carry and show credentials before speaking
- 0:51Speaker 2: with parents or children.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Gerald Miller, fifty six, now charged with impersonating a public
- 0:57Speaker 1: servant and sex assault. Tennessee cops flip on red and
- 1:02Speaker 1: blue lights for a car registered to a driver with
- 1:05Speaker 1: a suspended license. A K nine hits on drugs inside
- 1:09Speaker 1: the car, so officers search it and find quite the
- 1:13Speaker 1: unusual taco bell order. Ziplock bags of meth LSD, marijuana, fentanyl,
- 1:20Speaker 1: gummies and pills are wrapped in tortillas like burritos. The
- 1:26Speaker 1: unidentified woman thirty seven is cuffed and loaded into a
- 1:30Speaker 1: cop car, charged with drug possession, driving on a suspended license,
- 1:34Speaker 1: and two counts failure to appear. More crime and justice
- 1:38Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime in Justice,
- 1:45Speaker 1: breaking news Crime on lines John Limley.
- 1:47Speaker 3: The US Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution
- 1:51Speaker 3: for a Texas man less than half an hour before
- 1:54Speaker 3: his scheduled lethal injection. With more, here's Sidney Sumner of
- 1:59Speaker 3: Crime Online.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Reuben Gutierrez, convicted for the nineteen ninety eight murder of
- 2:03Speaker 2: eighty five year old Escalustica Harrison, received an indefinite reprieve
- 2:08Speaker 2: from the High Court. Harrison, a retired teacher and mobile
- 2:11Speaker 2: home park manager in Brownsville, Texas, was fatally stabbed in
- 2:14Speaker 2: what prosecutors described as a robbery attempt to steal over
- 2:18Speaker 2: six hundred thousand dollars she had hidden in her home.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Gutierrez has consistently maintained his innocence, arguing that DNA testing
- 2:25Speaker 2: could prove he wasn't responsible for the crime. His defense
- 2:29Speaker 2: team asserts there is no physical or forensic evidence linking
- 2:32Speaker 2: him to the murder. Notably, two other individuals were also
- 2:35Speaker 2: charged in connection with the case. The Supreme Court's order
- 2:39Speaker 2: will remain in effect until the justices decide whether to
- 2:41Speaker 2: review Gutierrez's appeal. If the appeal is denied, the stay
- 2:45Speaker 2: will be lifted automatically.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Gutierrez was said to be executed just twenty minutes after
- 2:51Speaker 3: he was informed of the Court's decision by a prison
- 2:54Speaker 3: warden while he was in a holding cell near the
- 2:57Speaker 3: death chamber. Now to Oklahoma and a significant breakthrough in
- 3:01Speaker 3: an investigation relying heavily on DNA testing, as a World
- 3:06Speaker 3: War One veteran has been named as the first person
- 3:09Speaker 3: identified from the mass graves of victims of the nineteen
- 3:12Speaker 3: twenty one Tulsa race massacre. Once again crime Online. Sidney
- 3:16Speaker 3: Sumner mayor G. T.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Bynum announced on Friday that cl Daniel from Georgia, who
- 3:21Speaker 2: was in his twenties when he was killed, has been
- 3:23Speaker 2: identified using DNA from descendants of his brothers. The identification
- 3:27Speaker 2: was made by Inner Mountain Forensics, a lab based in
- 3:29Speaker 2: Salt Lake City in collaboration with the National Archives. The massacre,
- 3:33Speaker 2: a horrific event in which a white mob killed as
- 3:36Speaker 2: many as three hundred black residents over two days, decimated
- 3:39Speaker 2: Tulsa's Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, and forced
- 3:43Speaker 2: thousands into internment camps overseen by the National Guard. Since
- 3:47Speaker 2: searches began in twenty twenty, over one hundred and twenty
- 3:50Speaker 2: graves have been discovered, with forensic analysis and DNA collected
- 3:53Speaker 2: from about thirty sets of remains. Daniel's remains are the
- 3:56Speaker 2: first to be directly linked to the massacre. The breakthrough
- 3:59Speaker 2: came when an investigators found a nineteen thirty six letter
- 4:02Speaker 2: from Daniel's mother's attorney seeking veterans benefits, which provided crucial
- 4:06Speaker 2: evidence that he was a victim of the massacre. During
- 4:08Speaker 2: the announcement, forensic scientist Alison Wilde noted that no members
- 4:12Speaker 2: of Daniel's family, many of whom are not in contact
- 4:15Speaker 2: with each other, attended the news conference. The Tulsa Race
- 4:18Speaker 2: massacre began on May thirty first, nineteen twenty one, when
- 4:21Speaker 2: a white mob, including some deputies by authorities, looted and
- 4:24Speaker 2: burned the Greenwood district. More than twelve hundred homes, businesses, schools,
- 4:29Speaker 2: and churches were destroyed by June first. Forensic anthropologist Phoebe
- 4:33Speaker 2: Stubblefield stated that Daniel's remains were fragmented, making it impossible
- 4:37Speaker 2: to determine the cause of death.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Mayor Binham also announced that the next search for victims
- 4:42Speaker 3: will begin on July twenty second.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Thanks John. After about of pneumonia, Tracy Bill does it
- 4:48Speaker 1: show up to work when she's set to return. Concerned,
- 4:51Speaker 1: her boss at the Illinois State Attorney's Office asked cops
- 4:55Speaker 1: to check on her. Police find Tracy at home, uninjured
- 4:59Speaker 1: but disoriented. They call paramedics to check her blood sugar,
- 5:03Speaker 1: as she's recently been diagnosed diabetic. By the time they leave,
- 5:06Speaker 1: she's no longer confused. Next day, she doesn't come to
- 5:10Speaker 1: work again, followed by a second welfare check, but this
- 5:13Speaker 1: time Bell's gone. Her purse is missing from her home,
- 5:17Speaker 1: her car still parked outside, no activity on her bank
- 5:20Speaker 1: account or cell phone. Now six years If you have
- 5:24Speaker 1: info on Tracy Bell, please call Richton Park PD seven
- 5:30Speaker 1: eight four eight one eight nine five six. For the
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- 5:36Speaker 1: this crime alert I'm Nancy Grace