Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Twin Teen Boys Weigh Less Combined Than Each Should | Crime Alert 03.14.25
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert, I may see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: A Pennsylvania woman colls nine one one, telling the dispatcher
- 0:06Speaker 1: an emaciated boy in nothing but underwear is asking for
- 0:09Speaker 1: food and has it stopped eating since she led him in.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Cops determined the boy, who just weighs fifty five pounds,
- 0:15Speaker 1: is actually fifteen. He says his mom and stepfather with
- 0:19Speaker 1: whole food and waters punishment, as well as taking away
- 0:22Speaker 1: his and his twin brother's clothes, forcing them to stand
- 0:26Speaker 1: outside and freezing temperature. Cops find the twin boy in
- 0:30Speaker 1: worse condition, two pounds lighter than his brother. In Joshua
- 0:34Speaker 1: and Tracey Deshaunt's.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Home, Nancy, the fifteen year old twins should have weighed
- 0:39Speaker 2: about one hundred and forty three pounds each. Police believe
- 0:42Speaker 2: the boys had only gained about ten pounds each over
- 0:45Speaker 2: the last eight years. Officers found that the twins slept
- 0:49Speaker 2: on the floor with one blanket to share, and were
- 0:51Speaker 2: also subjected to physical abuse like tackling and hitting. When
- 0:55Speaker 2: the boy escaped from his home and just his underwear,
- 0:58Speaker 2: temperatures were in the single digits and there was snow
- 1:00Speaker 2: on the ground.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Joshua Deshant thirty six. Tracy Deshant forty two, now facing
- 1:06Speaker 1: a long list of charges, including endangering welfare of children.
- 1:10Speaker 1: North Carolina Family Dollar employee Deja Pierce sees a customer
- 1:14Speaker 1: head toward the door without paying. Pierce tries to stop
- 1:17Speaker 1: her from leaving, but Lakeena Stanley fights for her stolen item,
- 1:21Speaker 1: slaps Peers with a six dollar pack of toilet paper,
- 1:24Speaker 1: and yanks Pierce away from the door by her hair.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Cops find Stanley still in the area with her TP.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Laqina Stanley now charged with assault and attempted larceny a
- 1:35Speaker 1: TP theft. Wow. I hope that's worth doing hard jail
- 1:38Speaker 1: time For more crime and justice news after this Now
- 1:46Speaker 1: with the latest crime and Justice breaking Knees Crime Onlines.
- 1:49Speaker 1: John Linley, a New.
- 1:50Speaker 3: York City man, has been convicted of murdering his partner's
- 1:53Speaker 3: ten year old son and what prosecutors called a prolonged
- 1:57Speaker 3: and brutal case of child abuse. After a weeks long
- 2:00Speaker 3: trial in Manhattan, a jury has found Ryan Cato guilty
- 2:04Speaker 3: of second degree murder in the twenty twenty one death
- 2:07Speaker 3: of Aiden Wolfe. Prosecutors say Cato had tortured the child
- 2:11Speaker 3: for months before delivering the fatal beating inside a Harlem apartment.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg called the crime utterly depraved,
- 2:20Speaker 3: citing extensive internal and external injuries no child should endure.
- 2:25Speaker 3: Kato's defense attorney, Jessica Harani, says her client is disappointed
- 2:30Speaker 3: and plans to appeal, arguing the verdict does not deliver justice.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Police say it was Cato himself who called nine one
- 2:38Speaker 3: one on March sixth, twenty twenty one. Officers arrived to
- 2:42Speaker 3: find young Aiden unconscious in the living room, his body
- 2:46Speaker 3: covered in bruises, some old, some fresh. He was rushed
- 2:50Speaker 3: to Harlem Hospital, where he died. The medical examiner ruled
- 2:54Speaker 3: his death quote fatal child abuse syndrome. Kato now faces
- 2:58Speaker 3: sentencing where he could spend decades behind bars. In Wisconsin,
- 3:03Speaker 3: a former hotels security guard has pleaded guilty in connection
- 3:07Speaker 3: with the death of a man who was restrained at
- 3:09Speaker 3: a downtown hotel. As Crime Online Sidney Sumner tells us,
- 3:13Speaker 3: the incident has drawn comparisons to the twenty twenty murder
- 3:17Speaker 3: of George Floyd.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Brandon Turner, a former security guard at Milwaukee's Higatt Regency hotel,
- 3:23Speaker 2: has pleaded guilty to felony murder and the death of
- 3:25Speaker 2: DeVante Mitchell. The incident occurred on June thirtieth, twenty twenty four,
- 3:29Speaker 2: when the forty three year old Mitchell entered the hotel's
- 3:32Speaker 2: lobby and was involved in a confrontation that led to
- 3:34Speaker 2: his restraint by Turner and three other hotel employees. According
- 3:39Speaker 2: to court documents, Mitchell ran into the lobby and entered
- 3:42Speaker 2: the women's restroom, where he allegedly attempted to confine two women.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Turner and a hotel guest engaged in a struggle with Mitchell,
- 3:48Speaker 2: eventually moving him to the hotel's driveway. There, Turner, along
- 3:52Speaker 2: with security guard Todd Ericsson, bell hop Herbert Williamson, and
- 3:56Speaker 2: front desk worker Devin Johnson Carson, restrained Mitchell faced down
- 4:00Speaker 2: for approximately eight to nine minutes. By the time emergency
- 4:03Speaker 2: responders arrived, Mitchell was unresponsive. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's
- 4:08Speaker 2: Office reported that Mitchell, who was black, suffered from heart
- 4:11Speaker 2: disease and had cocaine and methanphetamine in his system. The
- 4:14Speaker 2: cause of death was determined to be asphyxia due to restraint,
- 4:17Speaker 2: and the manner of death was ruled a homicide. Attorneys
- 4:20Speaker 2: for Mitchell's family have drawn parallels between this incident and
- 4:23Speaker 2: the twenty twenty murder of George Floyd, citing the prolonged
- 4:26Speaker 2: restraint in Mitchell's pleased during the encounter. As part of
- 4:30Speaker 2: a plea agreement, Turner may receive probation in exchange for
- 4:33Speaker 2: testifying against his co defendants.
- 4:35Speaker 3: Turner's sentencing is scheduled for September three.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Thanks John, Cherry Maybe lives a line in Shreveport, raising
- 4:42Speaker 1: three little boys. She tucks all three to bed, tells
- 4:44Speaker 1: them she loves him as usual. Next morning, Cherry's nowhere
- 4:48Speaker 1: to be found. When Cherry's mom gets a call from
- 4:50Speaker 1: the boys on Cherry's cell phone, she rushes to their home,
- 4:55Speaker 1: Sherry's purse and belonging's undisturbed car in driveway. Investigators thank you.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Sherry left on foot, but family members can't say where
- 5:03Speaker 1: she may have gone. Family members know she would never
- 5:06Speaker 1: leave her children. Five to one, one hundred pounds, strawberry,
- 5:10Speaker 1: blonde hair, green eyes, mole near the tip of her nose.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Last scene, pink tank top, black tights, black and white
- 5:17Speaker 1: flip flops. If you have info on Sherry Moody, please
- 5:22Speaker 1: call Shreveport, Louisiana, PD three one eight six seven three
- 5:27Speaker 1: six nine five five. For the latest crime in justice needs,
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- 5:37Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
- 5:42Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'mancy Grace.