Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 01.26.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace breaking crimenes Now. Maria Trero
- 0:04Speaker 1: stopped by her sister's apartment, finds the front door unlocked,
- 0:07Speaker 1: inside seventy four year old Maria Hernandez tied up, gagged
- 0:12Speaker 1: and beaten dead. Investigation finds no forced entry into the
- 0:16Speaker 1: apartment and the building surveillance video is gone. Police say
- 0:21Speaker 1: ex con building manager less Shawn Mackie killed Hernandez. Nancy.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Mackie got a job at the building while finishing parole
- 0:29Speaker 1: for a nineteen ninety nine stabbing in which Mackie left
- 0:33Speaker 1: the victim lying in the street with intestines hanging out
- 0:37Speaker 1: of his stomach. Hernandez was beaten with a similar brutality.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Prosecutors say Hernandez had bruises and abrasions all over her
- 0:45Speaker 1: body and lacerations of her vaginal and rectal areas. Her
- 0:50Speaker 1: official cause of death homicidal asphyxia. Mackie, forty seven, charged
- 0:55Speaker 1: with murder, attempted murder, and burglary. Jenny Fitzpatrick and her
- 1:00Speaker 1: two little girls, Peyton nine Courtney one, die in a
- 1:04Speaker 1: five am house fire. Tyl Tyler, the girl's dad, also
- 1:09Speaker 1: in the home, was rescued and taken to a local hospital.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Tyler tells responders he doesn't know what caused the fire,
- 1:16Speaker 1: but but investigation shows the fire was intentional. Cops determine
- 1:22Speaker 1: Nancy that Fitzpatrick and Tyler were in a relationship from
- 1:25Speaker 1: social media posts and conclude the fire was set as
- 1:29Speaker 1: part of a domestic incident. One child was rushed to
- 1:32Speaker 1: the hospital along with her father, but died from her injuries.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Peyton's elementary school released a statement remembering quote her positivity
- 1:41Speaker 1: and joyful spirit. Tyler gets out of the hospital and
- 1:44Speaker 1: goes straight to jail. The thirty two year old now
- 1:47Speaker 1: charged with three counts first degree murder, arson, and aggravated
- 1:51Speaker 1: child endangerment. More crime and justice news after this with
- 1:57Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice breaking news five Onlines John Lemley.
- 2:01Speaker 1: In the wake of the worst massacre in Los Angeles
- 2:04Speaker 1: County history, the California governor was meeting gunshot victims in
- 2:08Speaker 1: the hospital when he was pulled away and briefed on
- 2:11Speaker 1: a mass shooting at the other end of the state.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Word that a gunman had killed seven people at Mushroom
- 2:17Speaker 1: Farms in the scenic coastal stretch of northern California came
- 2:22Speaker 1: just hours after Governor Gavin Newsom spoke of his fatigue
- 2:25Speaker 1: and frustration with mass shootings. Yet Newsom was at Half
- 2:29Speaker 1: Moon Bay on Tuesday to address the third mass shooting
- 2:33Speaker 1: in just over a week in a state with some
- 2:36Speaker 1: of the nation's toughest gun laws and lowest gun death rates.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Four people have been charged in the alleged rape of
- 2:43Speaker 1: a Louisiana State University student who authorities say was assaulted
- 2:47Speaker 1: then left in a Baton Rouge subdivision near where she
- 2:51Speaker 1: was then struck and killed by a motor vehicle. Sidney
- 2:54Speaker 1: Sumner with Crime Online. Eighteen year old Cavan Washington and
- 2:58Speaker 1: a seventeen year old whose name was withheld because he
- 3:01Speaker 1: is a juvenile, were charged with their degree rape. According
- 3:05Speaker 1: to the arrest warrant, the nineteen year old victim in
- 3:07Speaker 1: the case was at a bar and the Tigerland Entertainment
- 3:10Speaker 1: District on January fifteenth when she met the seventeen year
- 3:13Speaker 1: old now accused of sexually assaulting her. Police say the
- 3:17Speaker 1: woman left with him and three other men. Everett Lee
- 3:21Speaker 1: twenty eight and Cason Carver, eighteen, were both charged with
- 3:24Speaker 1: principle to third degree rape, meaning they were present but
- 3:28Speaker 1: did not take part in the alleged crime. The East
- 3:31Speaker 1: battenbrue Sheriff's office says all four of the accused turned
- 3:34Speaker 1: themselves in. In recent days, a judge has ordered a
- 3:38Speaker 1: man released from prison immediately after his attorneys presented new
- 3:42Speaker 1: evidence and argued that he didn't commit the crimes he
- 3:46Speaker 1: was convicted of and spent more than twenty years locked up.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Four the nineteen ninety one murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault
- 3:54Speaker 1: of a woman visiting Hawaii. Judge Peter Caboda ruled that
- 3:58Speaker 1: albert Ian Schweitzer, who was convicted in two thousand and
- 4:02Speaker 1: sentenced to one hundred thirty years in prison, should be
- 4:05Speaker 1: quote released from his shackles immediately. That prompted applause in
- 4:09Speaker 1: the Heilo courtroom and hugs for Schweitzer, who was flown
- 4:13Speaker 1: to the Big Island for the hearing from the Arizona
- 4:16Speaker 1: prison where he was serving his sentence. A petition filed
- 4:19Speaker 1: late Monday outlined additional evidence in one of Hawaii's biggest murders,
- 4:24Speaker 1: which unfolded Christmas Eve in nineteen ninety one. On the
- 4:28Speaker 1: Big Island. A guynecologist accused of molesting hundreds of patients
- 4:33Speaker 1: during a decade's long career has been convicted of federal
- 4:36Speaker 1: sex crimes charges, in a victory for accusers who were
- 4:40Speaker 1: outraged when an initial state prosecution resulted in no jail time.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Crime on lines Sidney Sumner. Sixty four year old Robert
- 4:49Speaker 1: Haddon of Englewood, New Jersey, was convicted after less than
- 4:53Speaker 1: a day of deliberations at a two week trial in
- 4:55Speaker 1: which nine former patients described how he abused them sexually
- 4:59Speaker 1: during examinations when they were most vulnerable. Outside the courthouse
- 5:04Speaker 1: after the verdict, women who were among Haddon's victims expressed
- 5:08Speaker 1: relief at his conviction and said they were eager to
- 5:11Speaker 1: see him start serving time. Hadden, who is subject to
- 5:14Speaker 1: electronic monitoring and was set free on one million dollars bail,
- 5:18Speaker 1: declined to comment as he left the courthouse. A Florida
- 5:22Speaker 1: cop stops Christopher Nigaris for a minor traffic violation and
- 5:26Speaker 1: lets him go with a warning. As soon as the
- 5:28Speaker 1: cop steps away, Negaris burns rubber well. Of course, the
- 5:32Speaker 1: cop chases him, and he speeds and runs several stop
- 5:35Speaker 1: sides before he crashes and takes off on foot. Nigaris,
- 5:40Speaker 1: not originally getting a ticket, now gets three plus two
- 5:44Speaker 1: felony charges for eluding and leaving the scene of a crash.
- 5:49Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice news, go to crime
- 5:51Speaker 1: online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.