Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 03.07.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Prime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime needs now. Crystal
- 0:04Speaker 1: Candelario sets her sixteen month old up in a playpen
- 0:07Speaker 1: at their Ohio home with their favorite blankets and toys.
- 0:10Speaker 1: She then tells baby jail and goodbye, but there's no babysitter.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Candelario leaves the tot alone ten days while she mommy
- 0:21Speaker 1: vacations in Puerto Rico. When mommy returns jail in, Candelario
- 0:26Speaker 1: is not breathing. The baby girl pronounced dead at the hospital.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Nancy. Hospital staff say the child died of starvation and
- 0:34Speaker 2: severe dehydration. The pack and play in which Jalen Candelario
- 0:38Speaker 2: died was full of blankets, saturated with urine and feces.
- 0:42Speaker 2: As part of a plea deal to additional murder charges
- 0:45Speaker 2: in an assault charge against Candelario were dropped. Candelario's defense
- 0:49Speaker 2: attorney claimed several mitigating issues will be raised at sentencing
- 0:53Speaker 2: next week.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Crystal Candelario, thirty two, pleads guilty to aggravated murder. Florida
- 1:00Speaker 1: cops stop a couple for rolling through a stop sign
- 1:02Speaker 1: at an overpass deep in the Everglades. The cop asked
- 1:06Speaker 1: what the couple's doing at four am Aeriel Laquoir and
- 1:09Speaker 1: Michael Clemens report they've been gathering frogs and snakes. Cops
- 1:14Speaker 1: search the car and find a backpack crammed full of
- 1:18Speaker 1: forty one turtles. The officers ask if they've got anything else,
- 1:23Speaker 1: and Lachoir reluctantly pulls a foot long alligator.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Out of wait for it, her pants.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Fish and wildlife step in and the couple now charged
- 1:32Speaker 1: with several turtle related defenses. Lachoir additionally hit with possessing
- 1:38Speaker 1: an American alligator. That's one thing I've never seen on
- 1:42Speaker 1: a wrap sheet. More Prime in Justice News after this
- 1:48Speaker 1: Now with the latest priming justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
- 1:51Speaker 3: John Lemley, an Internal Revenue Service special agent charged with
- 1:54Speaker 3: involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a
- 1:58Speaker 3: coworker following training extras sizes at a gun range last year,
- 2:02Speaker 3: now has a trial date set for April. For more,
- 2:05Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Larry Edward Brown, Junior was charged with one count of
- 2:10Speaker 2: involuntary manslaughter of an officer of the United States by
- 2:14Speaker 2: a federal grand jury. Following his initial court appearance in Tucson,
- 2:18Speaker 2: he was released with his trial slated to begin on
- 2:20Speaker 2: April second. The forty two year old Brown of the Peoria,
- 2:24Speaker 2: Arizona area, is accused of shooting IRS Special Agent Patrick
- 2:28Speaker 2: Bauer on August seventeen. According to the U S. Attorney's Office,
- 2:32Speaker 2: Brown and Bauer were both IRS Special Agents in the
- 2:35Speaker 2: Criminal Investigation Unit who had received training as use of
- 2:38Speaker 2: force instructors. Brown has more than twelve years of experience,
- 2:42Speaker 2: while Bauer was a fifteen year veteran. The prosecution says
- 2:46Speaker 2: that the special agents were receiving classroom instruction in standard
- 2:50Speaker 2: pistol qualifications at the range at the Federal Correctional Institution
- 2:54Speaker 2: in Phoenix. They claimed that training had ended for the
- 2:57Speaker 2: day when Brown entered a building where firearms and structors
- 3:00Speaker 2: can observe and direct live fire training. The indictment states
- 3:04Speaker 2: that Brown handled his firearm without due caution and with
- 3:07Speaker 2: reckless disregard for human life, striking Special Agent Bower in
- 3:11Speaker 2: the torso with a single gunshot. Bower had led the
- 3:14Speaker 2: live fire pistol qualifications just prior to the incident. Authorities
- 3:19Speaker 2: reported that despite the efforts of on site medics and
- 3:21Speaker 2: emergency personnel, Bower died at the scene.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Prosecutors say that if found guilty, Brown could spend up
- 3:28Speaker 3: to eight years behind bars. The owners of a boys
- 3:32Speaker 3: boarding school in Missouri, a husband and wife, are now
- 3:35Speaker 3: in jail and charged with felonies following a protracted investigation
- 3:39Speaker 3: by the county sheriff. Once again crime online Sidney Sumner,
- 3:43Speaker 3: fifty seven year.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Old Larry Musgraves Junior was apprehended on the campus of
- 3:47Speaker 2: ABM Ministries in Piedmont, a small town located one hundred
- 3:50Speaker 2: and thirty miles south of Saint Louis. This according to
- 3:53Speaker 2: a news release issued by Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch.
- 3:56Speaker 2: When sixty four year old Carmen Musgraves visited the jail
- 3:59Speaker 2: to check on her husband the next afternoon, she was
- 4:02Speaker 2: taken into custody. Both are being held without bond after
- 4:05Speaker 2: being charged with first degree kidnapping. In two thousand and nine,
- 4:09Speaker 2: the school, which was co ed at the time, was
- 4:11Speaker 2: forced to close after a federal complaint claimed that the
- 4:14Speaker 2: Musgrave family had neglected to take steps to protect a
- 4:17Speaker 2: female student after she accused a former principle of engaging
- 4:21Speaker 2: in sexual acts with her. Court documents reveal a settlement
- 4:25Speaker 2: of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars was agreed upon
- 4:28Speaker 2: by ABM Ministries and the Musgraves, while the principle agreed
- 4:31Speaker 2: to pay one hundred thousand dollars.
- 4:33Speaker 3: We're learning from our friends with the Kansas City Star
- 4:36Speaker 3: newspaper that all five of the boys who fled the
- 4:39Speaker 3: school since January have now been returned to their homes.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Thanks John. Terra Smith, sixteen, runs errands with her mom,
- 4:46Speaker 1: who then drops her off at their Reading, California home.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Mom joins her husband at the family business Oasis Fun Center.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Smith has been grounded. It is supposed to say home
- 4:56Speaker 1: until our shift at the Oasis that evening. Smith then
- 5:00Speaker 1: begs her little sister not to tell, but she's going
- 5:03Speaker 1: for a job. She'll be back in twenty minutes. When
- 5:05Speaker 1: Tara doesn't show up to work that evening, her mom
- 5:08Speaker 1: drives the neighborhood no sign of Tara. A friend of
- 5:12Speaker 1: Tara's tells her mom Tara was in a relationship with
- 5:16Speaker 1: her married twenty nine year old taekwondo instructor, Charles Zinc.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Tara's mother finds a letter Tara wrote ending the relationship
- 5:25Speaker 1: with Zinc. Zinc swears after Tara ended the relationship that afternoon,
- 5:30Speaker 1: he dropped her off, then prayed in a part for
- 5:34Speaker 1: five hours. Zinc denies involvement in the teen girl's disappearance
- 5:39Speaker 1: and stopped cooperating with authorities. Tara Smith now missing twenty
- 5:45Speaker 1: five years. If you have info on Tara Smith, contact
- 5:49Speaker 1: Shasta County, California Sheriffs five three zero two four five
- 5:54Speaker 1: six zero two five. For the latest crime injustice news,
- 5:58Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com with this crime alert.
- 6:01Speaker 3: I Nancy Grace