Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.08.24 | 82yo Woman Raped, Killed, Burned by Neighbor
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
- 0:01Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Roberta.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Martin, eighty two, reported missing when she doesn't answer the
- 0:07Speaker 2: door for a neighbor. Vermont police find signs of a
- 0:10Speaker 2: break in and a struggle inside. Four days later, her
- 0:15Speaker 2: burned body found buried in a wooded area behind her home.
- 0:20Speaker 2: DNA recovered from her body, and a sex assault kit
- 0:25Speaker 2: indicates Martin was raped by her twenty three year old neighbor,
- 0:31Speaker 2: Darren Martel.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Nancy Martin's family last spoke to her the night before
- 0:35Speaker 3: she was reported missing, around eleven thirty pm. Martel was
- 0:39Speaker 3: interviewed and released by police the day after Martin vanished.
- 0:43Speaker 3: The day after Martin's body was recovered, Martell was arrested
- 0:46Speaker 3: after witnesses say he was masturbating in public. Martin has
- 0:50Speaker 3: not spoken to any motive for the attack on his
- 0:53Speaker 3: elderly neighbor.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Already arrested for public nudity. Darren Martel now charged with
- 0:59Speaker 2: agris evaded murder and pleads not guilty to both crimes.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Molly Hogan making last minute preparations for a wedding over
- 1:08Speaker 2: a few drinks with her fiance. Then her fiance pulls
- 1:12Speaker 2: out a pre nup and insists she sign it if
- 1:17Speaker 2: the marriage is to go forward. Infuriated, Molly Hogan attacks
- 1:21Speaker 2: the fiance, punching him in the chest, back, stomach, and
- 1:25Speaker 2: legs the victim's brother here's the fight from another room,
- 1:30Speaker 2: and Hogan bites him as he tries to break up
- 1:33Speaker 2: the fight. Cops are called. Molly Hogan twenty six charged
- 1:37Speaker 2: with two counts of battery. Wow.
- 1:40Speaker 1: I wonder if the wedding's still long. More crime in
- 1:43Speaker 1: Justice news after this.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Now at the latest crime in justice breaking news pile
- 1:51Speaker 2: onlines John Lemley.
- 1:53Speaker 1: In Detroit, a man has been convicted for a deadly
- 1:56Speaker 1: shooting that left two people dead and six others wounded
- 1:59Speaker 1: following dispute over a block driveway. For more, we turned
- 2:03Speaker 1: to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Winston Curtly Junior was found guilty by a jury on
- 2:09Speaker 3: two counts of first degree murder, six counts of assault
- 2:11Speaker 3: with intent to murder, in ten counts of using a
- 2:14Speaker 3: firearm during a felony. This according to Wayne County Prosecutors,
- 2:18Speaker 3: The incident occurred on July thirty first, twenty twenty two,
- 2:21Speaker 3: resulting in the deaths of thirty nine year old two
- 2:23Speaker 3: Yankee Turkield and thirty eight year old Andre Willis. Curtly
- 2:27Speaker 3: testified that around two thirty am, he was preparing to
- 2:30Speaker 3: exercise when he found an suv obstructing his driveway. According
- 2:34Speaker 3: to Kurtley, Willis and Turkield were inside the vehicle, and
- 2:37Speaker 3: after repeatedly asking Willis to move the suv, Willis responded
- 2:41Speaker 3: with what Multiple times, Kurtly claimed that he heard gunshots
- 2:45Speaker 3: from across the street before retrieving his assault style rifle
- 2:49Speaker 3: and opening fire. He admitted to firing sixteen rounds at
- 2:52Speaker 3: Willis and Turkield, followed by an additional three shots aimed
- 2:55Speaker 3: at two other men. Kurtley's defense attorney, James Schloff, argued
- 2:59Speaker 3: that his client believed he was an imminent danger, stating
- 3:02Speaker 3: Curtly thought Willis had a gun. However, as our friends
- 3:05Speaker 3: with the Detroit News are reporting, Assistant Prosecutor James Keyhoe
- 3:09Speaker 3: countered this claim, stating that no evidence was found to
- 3:11Speaker 3: suggest Willis was armed. Keyhoe also mentioned that a bullet
- 3:15Speaker 3: hit a neighbor's home before one of the wounded men
- 3:17Speaker 3: returned fire at Kurtley.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Curtly, facing a mandatory life sentence, is scheduled for sentencing
- 3:23Speaker 1: September fourth.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Thanks John. Just after graduating high school, Bryce les Pisa
- 3:29Speaker 2: moves with his family from Illinois to Laguna Miguel, California.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Bryce is a talented artist and he does really well
- 3:38Speaker 2: at Sierra College in Rockland, California. He majors in graphic
- 3:42Speaker 2: and Industrial design. Sophomore year, his friends noticed a change
- 3:47Speaker 2: in his behavior. He's less focused on his studies and
- 3:51Speaker 2: he seems erratic. A few weeks into fall semester, he
- 3:55Speaker 2: breaks up with girlfriend Kim Sly and wants to go
- 3:58Speaker 2: home to his parents. He packs his car for the
- 4:01Speaker 2: seven hour drive, but never makes it home. Two days
- 4:06Speaker 2: after Bryce leaves Rockland, his car is discovered line passenger
- 4:11Speaker 2: side down in a ravine at Castake Lake. It looks
- 4:15Speaker 2: like Bryce broke out the rear window and crawled out
- 4:18Speaker 2: of the car, but left all his belongings behind. Bryce
- 4:23Speaker 2: Lapisa now missing nearly eleven years five eleven, one hundred
- 4:29Speaker 2: and seventy pounds, red hair, blue eyes. If you have
- 4:33Speaker 2: info on Bryce Lapisa, call La County Sheriffs three two
- 4:38Speaker 2: three eight nine zero five five zero zero. For the
- 4:43Speaker 2: latest crime in Justice news, go to crime online dot
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- 4:51Speaker 2: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace