Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.21.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. A
- 0:03Speaker 1: Maryland man calls nine to one one when he sees
- 0:06Speaker 1: his brand new BMW on fire in his driveway. Firefighters
- 0:11Speaker 1: contained the blaze and investigate. Cops look over surveillance footage
- 0:15Speaker 1: in the neighborhood and spot the man's eighty six year
- 0:17Speaker 1: old neighbor, Philip Fleming, walking across the street and setting
- 0:21Speaker 1: the car on fire. When cops try to speak with
- 0:24Speaker 1: the senior Philip Fleming, he speed walks into the woods
- 0:28Speaker 1: behind his own home, which officers interpret as evasion Nancy.
- 0:33Speaker 2: The neighbors had a long standing feud, the man's girlfriend
- 0:35Speaker 2: going so far as to have a judge and Act
- 0:38Speaker 2: of peace order against Fleming. Firefighters were able to stop
- 0:41Speaker 2: the fire from spreading past the car, but the BMW
- 0:44Speaker 2: was described as a total loss due to damage caused
- 0:47Speaker 2: by the blaze.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Fleming now charged with arson, property damage, and failure to
- 0:51Speaker 1: comply with a cop. Daniel Kasimar's bike gets a flat
- 0:55Speaker 1: tire while he's out, so he pulls into a Florida Walmart.
- 0:58Speaker 1: He heads inside, then slips a byte lot tire repair
- 1:02Speaker 1: kit and pump under his shirt. Employees notice the shoplifter
- 1:06Speaker 1: and call police. Kasmar, who has two previous shotlifting convictions,
- 1:11Speaker 1: admits he's quote not very good at it as they
- 1:14Speaker 1: arrest him for a third time. Kasmar are now facing
- 1:17Speaker 1: felony theft and held on two thousand dollars bond, probably
- 1:22Speaker 1: more than his bike costs. More Crime and Justice news
- 1:24Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,
- 1:30Speaker 1: Prime Aline's John Lemley.
- 1:32Speaker 3: The ex wife of Microsoft executive Jared Brdigan, has been
- 1:36Speaker 3: charged with first degree murder in what Florida prosecutors have
- 1:40Speaker 3: termed the quote cold, calculated and premeditated murder of the
- 1:44Speaker 3: father of four. For more, we turn to Sidney Sumner
- 1:47Speaker 3: with Crime Online.
- 1:49Speaker 2: A grand jury indicted Shanna Gardner for first degree murder,
- 1:52Speaker 2: a capital offense, as well as conspiracy to conduct first
- 1:55Speaker 2: degree murder and child abuse. All of this according to prosecutors.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Thirty three year old Bride again was shot and killed
- 2:02Speaker 2: in the middle of a Jacksonville Beach roadway last year
- 2:04Speaker 2: in what authorities called a deliberate ambush. Officials say that
- 2:08Speaker 2: Gardner was apprehended in West Richland, Washington, and will be
- 2:11Speaker 2: extradited to Duval County. Five months ago, Gardner's current husband,
- 2:16Speaker 2: Mario Fernande Saldana, was charged by a grand jury on
- 2:19Speaker 2: various offenses, including first degree murder. Henry Tennan Fernanda, Saldana's
- 2:24Speaker 2: former tenant, was arrested earlier this year and suspected of
- 2:27Speaker 2: pulling the trigger. According to police, Bright again was driving
- 2:31Speaker 2: his then two year old daughter in February twenty twenty
- 2:33Speaker 2: two when he encountered a tire blocking the roadway. Authorities
- 2:37Speaker 2: say he was ambushed and murdered when he stepped out
- 2:40Speaker 2: of the vehicle.
- 2:41Speaker 3: Prosecutors say they'll seek the death penalty against Gardner. A
- 2:45Speaker 3: man sentenced to death for the nineteen ninety six murders
- 2:48Speaker 3: of two women he met at beach bars in the
- 2:51Speaker 3: Florida Panhandle is likely to be executed under an execution
- 2:55Speaker 3: warrant approved by Governor Ron de Satius. Michael Dwayne Zach,
- 2:59Speaker 3: the third is to die by lethal injection at six
- 3:02Speaker 3: pm on October three. According to court filing, Zach embarked
- 3:07Speaker 3: on a crime spree across the Florida Panhandle in June
- 3:10Speaker 3: of nineteen ninety six. Zach's killing rampage began on Okaloosa Island.
- 3:15Speaker 3: It was there that officials say he encountered Lourie Rossillo,
- 3:19Speaker 3: whom he strangled to death before leaving her body on
- 3:22Speaker 3: the shore. Zack then proceeded to Pensacola Beach, where he
- 3:26Speaker 3: met Ravon Smith. According to investigator, Zack sexually assaulted Smith
- 3:30Speaker 3: before fatally stabbing her at her home. He was apprehended
- 3:34Speaker 3: two days later after breaking into a house. Zach was
- 3:38Speaker 3: found guilty of first degree murder in both deaths. He
- 3:41Speaker 3: received a life sentence for Rissolo's murder and the death
- 3:44Speaker 3: penalty for Smith's murder. A fugitive from Colorado apprehended after
- 3:50Speaker 3: a spectacular confrontation last month that sent furniture flying from
- 3:54Speaker 3: a window at Caesar's Palace on the Las Vegas Strip,
- 3:57Speaker 3: has accepted a plea deal that would send him back
- 4:00Speaker 3: to his home state to complete any jail sentence once
- 4:03Speaker 3: again crime online Sidney Sumner.
- 4:06Speaker 2: According to his attorney, thirty six year old Matthew John
- 4:09Speaker 2: Ermand Mannix has pleaded guilty to felony property destruction and
- 4:13Speaker 2: misdemeanor carelessness charges. He has also agreed to pay approximately
- 4:17Speaker 2: fifty five thousand dollars in restitution. A Nevada judge could
- 4:21Speaker 2: also find Mannix up to twelve thousand dollars and sentence
- 4:24Speaker 2: him to one to five years in prison, concurrent with
- 4:26Speaker 2: a three hundred sixty four day jail term. Prosecutors agreed
- 4:30Speaker 2: to drop more serious criminal kidnapping and coercion allegations. This
- 4:34Speaker 2: according to court filings in Nevada, a kidnapping conviction can
- 4:38Speaker 2: result in life in prison. No one was critically hurt
- 4:41Speaker 2: in the incident, and Mannix and a female companion surrendered
- 4:44Speaker 2: on July eleven. During the five hour standoff, guests were
- 4:48Speaker 2: forced to flee a pool area as broken glass fell
- 4:51Speaker 2: from a twenty first floor window and hotel furniture such
- 4:54Speaker 2: as chairs and a desk tumbled to the building's rooftops below.
- 4:58Speaker 3: Mannix is still being held in Las Vegas on seven
- 5:01Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand dollars bail.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Caitlin Case takes a flight from Colorado to Louisiana with
- 5:07Speaker 1: plans to buy a car from a friend and drive
- 5:09Speaker 1: it back. During the drive, Caitlin's in frequent contact with
- 5:13Speaker 1: family and reports having issues with the car's NAV system
- 5:17Speaker 1: and very bad sale service. The next day, Caitlyn calls
- 5:21Speaker 1: her dad from rural Texas, telling him She's worried she's lost.
- 5:25Speaker 1: The call cuts out. Cell tower tracking indicates her phone
- 5:29Speaker 1: travels through Paris, Texas, up to tak Tawk County, Oklahoma,
- 5:34Speaker 1: then stops pinging. A week later, the car she purchased
- 5:38Speaker 1: is found abandon hidden behind a steep embankment on the
- 5:42Speaker 1: Kiamichi River. All of Case's belongings found in the car,
- 5:46Speaker 1: including her shoes. Cops do not believe Case physically entered Oklahoma.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Caitlin Case now missing over a year. If you have
- 5:56Speaker 1: info on Caitlin Case's disappearance, please call at Oklahoma SBI
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- 6:07Speaker 1: For the latest crime Injutice News, go to crimeonline dot
- 6:09Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace