Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Toddler Drowns in Bucket of Bleach with Mom No Where to Be Found | Crime Alert 04.08.25
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert I mean see grace breaking crime needs Now. Dubug,
- 0:03Speaker 1: Iowa Police arrive at a home to find a frantic
- 0:06Speaker 1: child carrying an unconscious baby screaming for help. Emergency responders
- 0:11Speaker 1: rushed the baby to the hospital. The child suffers acute
- 0:14Speaker 1: respiratory failure and is transferred to University Iowa Hospital. Officers
- 0:19Speaker 1: learned the baby fell into a bucket of bleach had
- 0:23Speaker 1: submerged an unknown amount of time. After a four month investigation,
- 0:28Speaker 1: police arrest parents, Scott Markov thirty Madeline Markov twenty eight,
- 0:33Speaker 1: facing charges of neglect or abandonment of a dependent child
- 0:38Speaker 1: causing serious injury Nancy.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Both parents were distracted, leaving their three children, ages six, four,
- 0:44Speaker 2: and one, to their own devices. In the squalid home.
- 0:48Speaker 2: One of the older children discovered the toddler in the
- 0:50Speaker 2: bucket and brought his lifeless body to his mother, who
- 0:53Speaker 2: called nine one one. First Responders found the home infested
- 0:57Speaker 2: with mice and roaches, littered with dirty diapers and unsafe
- 1:00Speaker 2: substances like the bucket of bleach left accessible to the children.
- 1:05Speaker 2: The incident occurred four months ago, but police have just
- 1:08Speaker 2: concluded their investigation, resulting in charges for the Markovs.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Both parents released on twenty thousand dollars Bill Colorado cops
- 1:17Speaker 1: really had to hop to it to catch this fugitive. Irwin,
- 1:20Speaker 1: a red juvenile kangaroo, escapes his owner and as hopping
- 1:25Speaker 1: through traffic downtown Durango, cops question how best to capture
- 1:29Speaker 1: the kangaroo, worried about his kicks being stronger than their
- 1:32Speaker 1: usual runners. Body cam shows the moment an officer manages
- 1:36Speaker 1: to scoop Irwin up come ining he really needs to
- 1:40Speaker 1: add cardio back into his daily workouts orwas safely returned
- 1:44Speaker 1: to his owner with promises to double check the enclosure.
- 1:48Speaker 1: More priming justice news after this. Now with the latest
- 1:55Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines John Lemley.
- 1:58Speaker 3: A rare prosecution and of retired Philadelphia detectives has ended
- 2:03Speaker 3: with a split verdict. Three former officers stood trial for
- 2:07Speaker 3: perjury in a wrongful conviction case that sent an innocent
- 2:11Speaker 3: man to prison for twenty five years. Eighty year old
- 2:14Speaker 3: Martin Devlin was acquitted, Seventy seven year old Frank Yastremsky
- 2:19Speaker 3: was convicted on one count. Seventy seven year old Manuel
- 2:23Speaker 3: Santiago was found guilty of two counts. The case stems
- 2:27Speaker 3: from the nineteen ninety one rape and murder of seventy
- 2:30Speaker 3: seven year old Louise Tally. Anthony Wright was convicted but
- 2:34Speaker 3: later exonerated by DNA evidence at trial. Prosecutors said detectives
- 2:39Speaker 3: lied about his confession and key evidence. Philadelphia's District Attorney,
- 2:45Speaker 3: Larry Krasner charged them just before this statute of limitations expired.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Defense attorneys called the verdicts inconsistent and planned to appeal.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Sentencing is set for June. Former Tennessee head coach Jeremy
- 2:59Speaker 3: Pruitt issuing the NC Double A for one hundred million dollars,
- 3:03Speaker 3: claiming he was unfairly penalized in a player benefit scandal.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Here's crime on lines Sidney Sumner.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Prewitt, who led the volunteers from twenty eighteen to twenty
- 3:13Speaker 2: twenty one, was fired after an internal investigation uncovered what
- 3:17Speaker 2: the university called serious NC DOUBLEA violations. His lawsuit claims
- 3:22Speaker 2: the NC Double A and Tennessee conspired to make him
- 3:26Speaker 2: a scapegoat for long standing issues within the program, some
- 3:29Speaker 2: of which he says predated his tenure. He alleges that
- 3:33Speaker 2: after discovering ongoing payments to players, shortly after his hiring,
- 3:37Speaker 2: he reported them to then athletic director Philip Fullmer, who
- 3:40Speaker 2: assured him the matter would be handled. The nc doublea's
- 3:44Speaker 2: twenty twenty three investigation found over two hundred infractions under
- 3:48Speaker 2: Pruitt's leadership, including eighteen Level one violations, the most severe category.
- 3:54Speaker 2: The violations primarily involved recruiting misconduct, and direct payments to
- 3:58Speaker 2: athletes and their families, totaling around sixty thousand dollars. Tennessee
- 4:03Speaker 2: was fined over eight million dollars but avoided a postseason
- 4:06Speaker 2: ben Pruett received a six year show cause penalty, severely
- 4:11Speaker 2: limiting his future in college coaching. Since then, he has
- 4:14Speaker 2: worked as a senior defensive assistant for the NFL's New
- 4:17Speaker 2: York Giants and returned to high school coaching in twenty
- 4:20Speaker 2: twenty three.
- 4:21Speaker 3: This lawsuit could have major implications for NCAA enforcement policies.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Thanks John Wendy Marie de Hoot, forty four, missing after
- 4:32Speaker 1: she drops her husband at work at home Depot, Eugene, Oregon,
- 4:35Speaker 1: April twenty two. She never arrives at her job at
- 4:38Speaker 1: Georgia Pacific in Halsey, thirty miles away. Her boss and
- 4:43Speaker 1: husband both report her missing. Six days later, a man
- 4:46Speaker 1: finds her purse in Eugene turns it in while it's gone.
- 4:50Speaker 1: On May two, the same man leads police to her
- 4:53Speaker 1: white nineteen ninety Toyota Corolla SR Five abandoned in South Eugene.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Skaters find no sign of violence. Wendy multiracial Cherokee, black,
- 5:05Speaker 1: Latina and white. Five six, one hundred and forty five pounds,
- 5:09Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, contact lenses, last scene wearing black
- 5:14Speaker 1: pinstripe pants, a suit jacket, and a silver ring. If
- 5:18Speaker 1: you have info on Wendy Marie de Hoop, please call
- 5:22Speaker 1: Lane County Sheriffs five four one six eighty two four
- 5:26Speaker 1: three one two. For the latest crime and justice news,
- 5:29Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com and please join us for
- 5:32Speaker 1: our daily podcast, Crime Stories. We do our best to
- 5:36Speaker 1: find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides with
- 5:41Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.