Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Victim Records Video of "Bridge Guy" Just Before Murder |Crime Alert Recap Saturday 10.26.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
- 0:03Speaker 2: I'm Drew Nelson.
- 0:04Speaker 3: The latest from Tuesday.
- 0:05Speaker 2: In the ongoing double murder trial in Delphi, Indiana, enters
- 0:09Speaker 2: its fifth day of testimony today. On Tuesday, investigators focused
- 0:13Speaker 2: on the crime scene evidence and a video from one
- 0:16Speaker 2: of the victim's phones. Richard Allen, aged fifty two, is
- 0:19Speaker 2: accused of killing two teen girls who vanished in twenty
- 0:21Speaker 2: seventeen near the mo Noan High Bridge. On Tuesday, Indiana
- 0:25Speaker 2: State Police Lieutenant Brian Bunner, who is a digital forensic examiner,
- 0:29Speaker 2: testified about data extraction from Libby German's phone. He described
- 0:33Speaker 2: how they retrieved and processed the phone data into a report,
- 0:36Speaker 2: noting that the report was hundreds of pages long. Bunner
- 0:39Speaker 2: shared that the video from Libby's phone was about thirty
- 0:42Speaker 2: five seconds long, taken between two and two thirty on
- 0:45Speaker 2: the day of the murders. A digital forensic expert testified
- 0:48Speaker 2: about a thirty five second video found on Libby Jerman's phone.
- 0:52Speaker 2: The video shows the girls walking on the bridge before
- 0:54Speaker 2: their deaths. In the clip, their voices can be heard
- 0:57Speaker 2: discussing the trail and noting that they had to find
- 0:59Speaker 2: a different path The video has been a critical piece
- 1:02Speaker 2: of evidence, but it does not show the moment they
- 1:04Speaker 2: were confronted by the man known as Bridge Guy. The
- 1:07Speaker 2: prosecution asked if the screenshots from the video showed anyone
- 1:11Speaker 2: behind Abby. At first, Bunner said no, but in later
- 1:14Speaker 2: photos he confirmed that he could see a man. The
- 1:17Speaker 2: defense cross examined Bunner, asking about the metadata and GPS
- 1:20Speaker 2: accuracy from the phone. Earlier on Tuesday, Indiana State Troop
- 1:24Speaker 2: of Brian O'Lahy continued his testimony from Monday. He detailed
- 1:28Speaker 2: several pieces of evidence, including a black Nike shoe found
- 1:31Speaker 2: near Libby's body and various items of clothing from both girls.
- 1:35Speaker 2: The defense questioned him about whether any DNA found at
- 1:38Speaker 2: the scene linked to Alan, to which Olay he responded
- 1:41Speaker 2: that he was not aware of any such evidence. Monday
- 1:44Speaker 2: session revealed disturbing crime scene photos. Libby's family sobbed in
- 1:48Speaker 2: court as they saw graphic images of her body. Prosecutors
- 1:52Speaker 2: showed evidence like Libby's phone, of forty caliber Smith and
- 1:55Speaker 2: Wesson cartridge, and blood swabs from the scene. They also
- 1:58Speaker 2: questioned the placement of ranches on the girl's body, which
- 2:01Speaker 2: investigators believe were used to conceal them. The defense pressed
- 2:04Speaker 2: the investigators on why some evidence like the sticks was
- 2:08Speaker 2: not collected right away. Investigators admitted they returned weeks later
- 2:12Speaker 2: to Gappago.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I'm Jackie Howard. The search for missing mom Suzanne Clark
- 2:17Speaker 1: Simpson has entered its third week, while her husband remains
- 2:21Speaker 1: behind bars, refusing to cooperate with the investigation. Police and
- 2:25Speaker 1: search teams have now searched four locations around San Antonio.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Crommewald Lenes Dave Mick says no new evidence in the
- 2:33Speaker 1: mom's disappearance has been recovered.
- 2:36Speaker 3: After four days, police have ended the search at a
- 2:38Speaker 3: landfill in southeast Bear County. Authorities said they focused on
- 2:42Speaker 3: the site after GPS data led them there and were
- 2:45Speaker 3: confident they would recover Suzanne's remains, but now admit they
- 2:48Speaker 3: found no evidence at the site during their search.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Almost Park Police resumed their search for Simpson in wooded
- 2:55Speaker 1: areas in and around Almost Park. Cops have enlisted the
- 2:59Speaker 1: help of Texas Search and Rescue and are still asking
- 3:02Speaker 1: the public to leave the search to the professionals. Foot
- 3:05Speaker 1: searchers and dog teams are coming several areas looking for
- 3:09Speaker 1: traces of Suzanne Brad Simpson's defense attorney claims that police
- 3:14Speaker 1: are manipulating the public perception of his client with ludicrous charges.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Steve Gilmore repeats that Simpson reported Suzanne missing immediately after
- 3:25Speaker 1: learning she missed the kindergarten pickup. Gilmore also insists that
- 3:30Speaker 1: Simpson wanted to cooperate with Olmos Park PDE but quickly
- 3:34Speaker 1: caught on that authorities were trying to obtain and arrest
- 3:37Speaker 1: warrant when Chief Jegis rescheduled their follow up interview three times.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Gilmore speculates that prosecutors have no intent to pursue the
- 3:46Speaker 4: two misdemeanor charges, pointing out that there is no recorded
- 3:49Speaker 4: history of domestic violence in the couple's twenty two years
- 3:52Speaker 4: of marriage and the allegations could not be proven in court.
- 3:55Speaker 4: Gilmore suggests the only reason Simpson is facing a federal
- 3:59Speaker 4: gun charge is to ensure he remains behind bars because
- 4:02Speaker 4: law enforcement knows there is no chance a judge would
- 4:05Speaker 4: uphold a two million dollars bond. Gilmour claims to have
- 4:09Speaker 4: a receipt proving Simpson did register the short barrel rifle
- 4:13Speaker 4: in question.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Brad Simpson has been charged with a federal gun charge
- 4:17Speaker 1: which means he's facing ten years in prison and a
- 4:20Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine. Simpson's family members
- 4:24Speaker 1: turned over his arsenal of weapons in the days after
- 4:27Speaker 1: Suzanne's disappearance. Among the guns was an unregistered short barrel rifle.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Simpson also owned several silencers.
- 4:35Speaker 3: Late Monday night, two weeks after Suzanne Simpson disappears, husband
- 4:40Speaker 3: Brad Simpson's longtime business partner, is arrested on felony charges.
- 4:44Speaker 3: James Cotter, sixty five, is charged with tampering with evidence
- 4:48Speaker 3: and owning an unauthorized weapon. While police have not officially
- 4:52Speaker 3: revealed if the arrest is tied to Suzanne's disappearance, a
- 4:55Speaker 3: law enforcement source claims Cotter allegedly helped Brad Simpson hide
- 4:59Speaker 3: a gun possibly tied to Suzanne's disappearance.
- 5:04Speaker 5: I'm Nicole Parton in Kentucky, a woman is now seeking
- 5:08Speaker 5: love from behind bars after a fatal incident where she
- 5:12Speaker 5: shot her boyfriend in the face. Shane Hubbers, thirty three,
- 5:16Speaker 5: was convicted of killing Ryan Poston in twenty twelve. She
- 5:20Speaker 5: was sentenced to life in prison in twenty eighteen after
- 5:24Speaker 5: a jury convicted her of murdering her on again, off
- 5:27Speaker 5: again boyfriend, Ryan Postin we the.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Jury find the defendant guilty of murder. WE the jury
- 5:36Speaker 2: fixed the defendant, Seanna Huver's punishment for the offensive murder
- 5:41Speaker 2: at life imprisonment.
- 5:44Speaker 5: The incident occurred after post And went on a date
- 5:46Speaker 5: with Aubrey Bolt, Miss Ohio, twenty twenty two. During a
- 5:50Speaker 5: police interview immediately after her arrest, she confided in detectives
- 5:55Speaker 5: that she feared quote if anyone would ever want to
- 5:58Speaker 5: marry me if they know I killed my boy boyfriend,
- 6:00Speaker 5: not funny. Two separate juries determine Hubber's murdered post and
- 6:04Speaker 5: in cold blood, not ever self defense. Currently incarcerated, Hubbers
- 6:10Speaker 5: is trying to turn over a new leaf and find companionship.
- 6:13Speaker 5: She's doing that through the pin Pal service right a
- 6:16Speaker 5: prisoner based in Florida. On her profile, Hubber's express that
- 6:21Speaker 5: she has evolved significantly since her arrest. As a twenty
- 6:24Speaker 5: one year old, Hubbard shared fifteen photographs of herself and
- 6:28Speaker 5: her profile, some of which were taken from inside prison.
- 6:32Speaker 5: I am tall and a thin brunette, standing five nine,
- 6:35Speaker 5: one hundred and fifteen pounds with lots of long, wavy,
- 6:38Speaker 5: golden brown hair, big steel blue eyes and a wide, bright,
- 6:42Speaker 5: heart shaped smile. She said, no one really knows or
- 6:46Speaker 5: can explain what I've been through besides me. She is
- 6:49Speaker 5: looking for someone who will see her for the person
- 6:51Speaker 5: she is today and not for the past actions of
- 6:54Speaker 5: shooting her boyfriend in the face because he went on
- 6:58Speaker 5: a date with a Miss Beauty pat Despite facing a
- 7:01Speaker 5: life sentence, she remains hopeful of an early release. She
- 7:05Speaker 5: claimed self defense, but was eventually found guilty of murder
- 7:09Speaker 5: after a retrial. Despite the challenges she faced, Hubber's remains
- 7:14Speaker 5: optimistic that she will find love behind bars. For the
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- 7:25Speaker 5: Nicole Carton.