Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 6AM 11.21.24 | Couple "Finishes Off" Landlord for Cash, Cars

Transcript

Crime Alert 6AM 11.21.24 | Couple "Finishes Off" Landlord for Cash, Cars · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace of Breaking Crime News Now.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Leo Moore and Helly Barbara rent the extra room in
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Johnny Ross Junior's Texas condo. Days after they move in,
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: neighbors realize they haven't seen Ross and there's a horrible
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: stinch coming from inside. Cops fine Ross's body wrapped in
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: rugs and sheets, stabbed dead. More and Barber, who stole
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: his Mercedes, lead cops on a high speed chase that
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: ends in their arrest Nancy.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: After the couple's apprehension, Barber admits that they wanted to
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: kill Ross to rob him of his cars and money.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Barber says More slip something in Ross's drink than stabbed
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: Ross in the neck when he passed out in the
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: living room. The couple left the condo for the night,
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: but when they returned more than eight hours later, Ross
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: was still alive. Barber asked More to finish off Ross,
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: so Moore stabbed him in the back several more times
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: before the couple wrapped him in the materials and left
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: him to rot.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Both now charged with murder. Several LA residents living on
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: the same blot final insurance claims after a bear damages
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: their luck street cars four provide pictures of torn up
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: seats and doors, along with pictures of what looks like
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: a bear in the cars, but insurance investigators uncover surveillance
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: footage that tells a very different story. The video is
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: showing a person in a bear costume getting in each
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: car while owners take photos. Cops find the costume in
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: one of the claimant's homes. The four involved in the
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: game charge with insurance fraud for the bare brain scheme.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: For a Crime and Justice News after this now with
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: the latest crime and Justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: In New York City, authorities have announced charges against thirty
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: people tied to violent gang rivalries in Upper Manhattan that
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: have left four bystanders dead in the past eighteen months.
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: Police say the violence stems from a cycle of retaliation
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: that began with a twenty eighteen killing, escalating into a
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: wave of shootings, robberies, and other crimes involving three rival
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: groups known as the two hundred eight Block, six Block
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: and Own Every Dollar or OED. Among the recent attacks,
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: a pregnant woman was injured by gunfire while sitting in
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: her car, and a stray bullet struck a bystander on
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: a crowded basketball court. Four other bystanders, aged forty four
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: to sixty six were killed in separate incidents. The indictment
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: reveals that gang members communicated through text and social media,
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: allegedly coordinating violent plans and threatening rivals. In total, authorities
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: linked the groups to eighteen shootings with seven fatalities. The
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: NYPD believes these prosecutions could significantly improve safety in the
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: Inwood and Washington Heights neighborhoods. A computer expert behind one
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: of the largest bitcoin thefts in history has been sentenced
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: to five years in prison. Sidney Sumner of Crime Online
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: Brings US details.
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: Elia Liechtenstein was found guilty of orchestrating the twenty sixteen
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: hack of bitfinex, a Hong Kong based cryptocurrency exchange, where
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: he stole about one hundred and twenty thousand bitcoin, worth
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: about seventy one million dollars at the time and now
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: valued at over seven billion dollars. Alongside his wife, Heather Morgan,
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: Liechtenstein spent years laundering about twenty one percent of the
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: stolen funds through a complex network of accounts and transactions,
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: hiding the trail from authorities. US District Judge Colleen Callerkotelli
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: described the scheme as meticulously planned. In court, Lichtenstein expressed regret,
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: calling it a waste of his talents and saying he
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: hopes to one day apply his skills to fight cybercrime.
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: Authorities say they recovered more than ninety six percent of
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: the stolen funds, with Lichtenstein's cooperation, totaling over six billion
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: dollars at current value. The remaining laundered money had been
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: worth fourteen million dollars in twenty sixteen and would have
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: exceeded one billion dollars when the couple was arrested. In
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two.
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: Morgan, an entrepreneur and amateur rapper, faced her own charges,
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: but maintains that Litkenstein initially involved her without fully disclosing
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: his actions.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: Thanks John Isaac Hunt, twenty seven, shares a Saint Michael,
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: North Dakota home with his dad, but on a March afternoon,
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: he doesn't say where he's going. He leaves in the
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: passenger seat of a brown Chevy Tahoe. He doesn't come
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: home that night and calls and text goo unanswered. Next day,
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: family reports him missing. Volunteers on foot and with drones
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: search spirit Late reservation where his phone last pained no sign.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Isaac Hunt five nine one eighty, black hair, brown eyes,
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: scar above his lip, pierced ears, tattoos and aces Spade
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: and a Superman symbol on his neck in the names
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Angelita and Adam on his forearms. Last scene wearing a
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: black jacket over a gray hoodie, dark blue jeans, white sneakers,
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: and a white baseball cap. If you have info on
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: Isaac Hunt, now missing seven months, called Fort Totten, Northcota,
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: PD seven one seven, six, six, four two three one.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: For the latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: com and please join us for our daily podcast, Crime
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: Stories with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.