Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 02.06.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs Now. Renato
- 0:04Speaker 1: Mahaj gets in an argument with his parents and threatens
- 0:07Speaker 1: them with a machete. Then as to his girlfriend and
- 0:10Speaker 1: daughter's home. Mahaj forces his way inside and kills Suela
- 0:15Speaker 1: Celia with a knife and brass knuckles. He then drags
- 0:20Speaker 1: his eight year old daughter to his car and takes
- 0:22Speaker 1: off fancy.
- 0:23Speaker 2: When the incident began at his parents' home, Mohaj took
- 0:26Speaker 2: the couple's cell phones, preventing them from calling for help.
- 0:29Speaker 2: He left them unharmed before the attack that killed Selioj,
- 0:32Speaker 2: his girlfriend, and the mother of his child. Moujaja's eight
- 0:35Speaker 2: year old daughter witnessed the entire attack and asks Moujaj
- 0:38Speaker 2: why he replied he really wanted her to die. Selage
- 0:42Speaker 2: was found covered in blood with her throat slit and
- 0:44Speaker 2: was pronounced dead on the scene.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Mahaj and his daughter located hours later, the little girl unharmed.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Renato Mahaj thirty four, now facing a string of charges
- 0:55Speaker 1: including murder, kidnap, child abuse, and assault. South Carolina police
- 1:00Speaker 1: try to pull over Joshua Harvey, but he takes off
- 1:03Speaker 1: and cops have to give up The chase. Hours later, though,
- 1:06Speaker 1: cops encounter Harvey again, this time with his girlfriend Rosie
- 1:10Speaker 1: Smith in the passenger seat and the previously black car
- 1:13Speaker 1: now spray painted white. The chase resumes and cops lose
- 1:19Speaker 1: them a second time. When police do catch up girlfriend
- 1:22Speaker 1: Rosie Smith behind the wheel and the couple is finally
- 1:25Speaker 1: forced to stop. Cops order them out of the car,
- 1:28Speaker 1: and a dog, a cat, and four chickens follow them out.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Both Harvey and Smith now charge with failure to stop
- 1:36Speaker 1: and their car load of animals seized by animal control.
- 1:41Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
- 1:45Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines John Limley.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Over thirty years after a Pennsylvania woman was killed and
- 1:52Speaker 3: her suburban Philadelphia home burned in an effort to conceal
- 1:55Speaker 3: the crime, a man has now been sentenced to life
- 1:58Speaker 3: in prison without the possibility of parole. With morehir Sidney
- 2:02Speaker 3: Sumner with crime Online.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Following his conviction a day earlier for first degree murder
- 2:06Speaker 2: and two counts of arson in the April nineteen ninety
- 2:09Speaker 2: one death of thirty five year old Joy Hibbs in
- 2:11Speaker 2: Bristol Township. Fifty seven year old Robert Atkins has now
- 2:14Speaker 2: been sentenced in Bucks County Court. According to authorities, it
- 2:18Speaker 2: was after the fire at the Bristol Township residence that
- 2:20Speaker 2: the victim's body was discovered in an autopsy subsequently determined
- 2:24Speaker 2: that she had been stabbed and strangled. The prosecution said
- 2:27Speaker 2: that Atkins threatened to kill Hibbs and blow up her
- 2:29Speaker 2: house in an effort to settle a disagreement over a
- 2:32Speaker 2: marijuana sale. It was not until May of twenty twenty two.
- 2:35Speaker 2: That Atkins was arrested in the case. In response to
- 2:38Speaker 2: criticism from Hibbs family in media coverage of the case,
- 2:41Speaker 2: defense layer Craig Pengles contended that the case was founded
- 2:44Speaker 2: on a quote mountain of doubt. He accused the original
- 2:47Speaker 2: investigation's officers of mishandling evidence and neglecting to look for
- 2:51Speaker 2: additional possible suspects before imposing the sentence. Judge Wallace H.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Bateman Junior stated that Atkins had cheated Hibbs family out
- 2:59Speaker 2: of a future with their loved one. Prosecutors stated that
- 3:02Speaker 2: Atkins was given a mandatory life sentence without the possibility
- 3:05Speaker 2: of parole for the murder conviction, in addition to a
- 3:08Speaker 2: concurrent five to seven years for one arson conviction and
- 3:11Speaker 2: attend a twenty year term for the second arson conviction.
- 3:14Speaker 3: After three decades of working to solve his mother's case,
- 3:17Speaker 3: Joy Hibbs's youngest child, David Hibbs, told our friends with
- 3:21Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Inquirer that the family has started to heal.
- 3:25Speaker 3: Authorities in Pennsylvania say that a cyber attack on the
- 3:28Speaker 3: website of the state Courts Agency has disabled several online operations,
- 3:33Speaker 3: but does not appear to have compromised any data. Once again,
- 3:37Speaker 3: Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Chief Justice Deborah Todd has released a statement reporting that
- 3:42Speaker 2: the incident was being looked at by the FBI, the
- 3:44Speaker 2: US Department of Homeland Security, and the federal government's top
- 3:47Speaker 2: cybersecurity agency. According to the federal government, a quote denial
- 3:52Speaker 2: of service cyber attack occurs when attackers flood the targeted
- 3:55Speaker 2: host or network with traffic until the target cannot respond
- 3:58Speaker 2: or simply crashes access for legitimate users. Todd says this
- 4:02Speaker 2: is the type of cyber attack used in Pennsylvania. The
- 4:05Speaker 2: perpetrator's identity and motive were not immediately disclosed by the
- 4:09Speaker 2: Court's administrative Office. The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts The
- 4:13Speaker 2: organization has thus far withheld information regarding whether the hacker's
- 4:16Speaker 2: requested payment or a ransom, or if it's security safeguards
- 4:20Speaker 2: function as intend it. Internet docket sheets and a gateway
- 4:23Speaker 2: for filing electronic case documents were two of the online
- 4:26Speaker 2: systems that were disabled.
- 4:27Speaker 3: According to Todd, the state courts are still in operation.
- 4:31Speaker 1: Thanks John. To make a Harris text her son Corey
- 4:34Speaker 1: Danielle Happy birthday, but he doesn't respond. She checks his
- 4:38Speaker 1: social media and sees the post from a friend of
- 4:41Speaker 1: Corey's asking if anyone has seen him. To make a
- 4:44Speaker 1: Harris reaches out to the man, who says he has
- 4:46Speaker 1: some of Corey's belongings after he stormed out of a
- 4:49Speaker 1: friend's house. He explains Corey went with him from LA
- 4:53Speaker 1: to a home near Kerman, California, to celebrate his thirty
- 4:57Speaker 1: third birthday, but then an argument broke out before and
- 5:01Speaker 1: Corey left the house on foot. The friend assumes Corey
- 5:04Speaker 1: hitchhiked into Kerman and went home from there, but Corey
- 5:08Speaker 1: left his phone and wallet behind. That's weird. Harris immediately
- 5:13Speaker 1: reports her son missing. Corey Danielly then misses a performance
- 5:17Speaker 1: with his band, his mother's birthday and now his own
- 5:21Speaker 1: son's second birthday. If you have any information on Corey Danielli,
- 5:26Speaker 1: now missing six months, please call Fresno County, California Sheriffs
- 5:31Speaker 1: five five nine six hundred three one one point one
- 5:36Speaker 1: repeat five five nine six zero zero thirty one eleven.
- 5:42Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline
- 5:45Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.