Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 02.27.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm easy grace breaking crime nes Now. Police
- 0:03Speaker 1: find Patrina Best thirty eight, unresponsive at her home. Then
- 0:08Speaker 1: Carl Kearney, junior head football coach Balding High, walks into
- 0:13Speaker 1: the police station and confesses to strangling her during an argument.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Nancy. We're now learning that Best was in the process
- 0:19Speaker 2: of moving from her post in Georgia to her latest
- 0:21Speaker 2: travel nurse assignment in Hawaii. Kearney offered to help Best
- 0:25Speaker 2: take her belongings to her parents, also keep Maryland home
- 0:28Speaker 2: for storage. Kearney admitted to police that he choked Best
- 0:31Speaker 2: during an argument. When Kearney realized Best was unconscious, he
- 0:35Speaker 2: tried to slap her awake, but she was already deceased.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Kearney took off in Best car, but later returned to
- 0:41Speaker 2: Prince George's County, where he turned himself into authorities.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Football coach Carl Kearney now facing first and second to
- 0:47Speaker 1: great murder charges. If you have info, please contact Prince
- 0:52Speaker 1: George's County, Maryland PD three zero one five one six
- 0:57Speaker 1: two five one two. Well this is the first arrested
- 1:00Speaker 1: for throwing a snowball. A boo. An Amazon driver stops
- 1:04Speaker 1: to unload his truck. He sees an obviously intoxicated yeas
- 1:08Speaker 1: In Sanchez engaging in and appropriate behavior with one hand
- 1:12Speaker 1: and a beer in the other. He confronts Sanchez, who
- 1:15Speaker 1: jumps into the delivery van and starts grabbing packages. A
- 1:18Speaker 1: Boo pushes Sanchez, who retaliates by lunging at him. A
- 1:23Speaker 1: Boo then picks up a handful of snow and hurls it.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Sanchez falls to the ground. A Boo runs to a
- 1:29Speaker 1: cop nearby for help. Sanchez also notices the officer and
- 1:34Speaker 1: yells that a boo punched him. Both men arrested and
- 1:37Speaker 1: what becomes he said? He said? Sanchez charged with larceny
- 1:41Speaker 1: and public lewdness, a Boo facing third degree assault. More
- 1:46Speaker 1: crime and Justice news after this. Now with the latest
- 1:50Speaker 1: crime in Justice, breaking news Crime Onlines, John Limley.
- 1:54Speaker 3: A twenty six year old male suspect, has been taken
- 1:56Speaker 3: into custody in connection with the murder of a nursing
- 1:59Speaker 3: stewudent whose body was discovered on the University of Georgia campus.
- 2:03Speaker 3: For the latest, here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Police say that Jose Antonio Atbara, a resident of Athens, Georgia,
- 2:11Speaker 2: was named as the suspect and arrested in connection with
- 2:13Speaker 2: the death of twenty two year old lake In Hope Riley.
- 2:16Speaker 2: The Augusta University College of Nursing student's body was discovered
- 2:20Speaker 2: close to running trails, sparking a well publicized police inquiry
- 2:23Speaker 2: that focused on an apartment building immediately south of the scene.
- 2:27Speaker 2: According to authorities, the suspect acted alone and it appears
- 2:30Speaker 2: that he did not know the victim. During a news conference,
- 2:33Speaker 2: University of Georgia Police Chief Jeff Clark stated that investigators
- 2:36Speaker 2: were able to locate Abara, who lived in one of
- 2:38Speaker 2: the apartments, thanks to footage from campus security and other technology.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Chief Clark added that police believed that Obara committed a
- 2:45Speaker 2: solo act because of the substantial evidence they have amassed
- 2:48Speaker 2: in the case. Additionally, he stated that the investigation points
- 2:52Speaker 2: to no relationship between the victim and the suspect. After
- 2:55Speaker 2: Riley's friend informed police that she had not returned from
- 2:58Speaker 2: her morning run, the victim's body was found by police
- 3:01Speaker 2: searching a wooded area close to Lake Herrick, which has
- 3:03Speaker 2: walking and running paths that are popular with local residents.
- 3:07Speaker 2: According to emergency medical personnel, Riley was dead before police
- 3:10Speaker 2: found her body. Clark stated, without providing further details, that
- 3:14Speaker 2: blunt force trauma was the cause of death. Clark also
- 3:17Speaker 2: announced that Abara is charged with felony murder, malice, murder,
- 3:20Speaker 2: aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a nine
- 3:25Speaker 2: one one call, and concealing the death of another.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Eborra remains behind bars at the Athens Clark County Jail
- 3:32Speaker 3: for almost half a century. Thomas Eugene Creech has been
- 3:36Speaker 3: fed three meals a day, taken to medical appointments, and
- 3:39Speaker 3: has had his well being checked by Idaho prison staffers.
- 3:43Speaker 3: This week, his execution is to be carried out by
- 3:46Speaker 3: employees of the very same prison system once again. Crime
- 3:50Speaker 3: Online Sydney Sumner, the seventy three.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Year old Creech, who has been on death row for
- 3:54Speaker 2: one of the longest stretches of time in the country,
- 3:57Speaker 2: will be executed this week by lethal injection for the
- 4:00Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one murder of another prisoner, a crime carried
- 4:03Speaker 2: out with a battery stuff sock. Creachu's only hope to
- 4:06Speaker 2: escape execution is a last minute stay. Creachure's murder of
- 4:09Speaker 2: David Jensen, a young disabled man serving time for auto theft,
- 4:13Speaker 2: was the culmination of a long string of murders in
- 4:15Speaker 2: which Creach was convicted in three different states. He is
- 4:18Speaker 2: also implicated in at least a half dozen additional cases.
- 4:22Speaker 3: In an attempt to halt the execution, which would be
- 4:25Speaker 3: Idaho's first in twelve years, Creachu's lawyers have filed a
- 4:29Speaker 3: flurry of last minute please and four separate courts in
- 4:33Speaker 3: recent months.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Thanks John. Brandy Kinnip, twenty nine, drops off her little
- 4:37Speaker 1: sister at a bus stop Moxville, North Carolina. Brandy, a
- 4:41Speaker 1: mother of three, is known for going off the grid.
- 4:44Speaker 1: But that said, her family waits four years to report
- 4:48Speaker 1: her missing. Okay, I've got a problem with that. Police
- 4:51Speaker 1: search the home where she lived with an ex boyfriend,
- 4:53Speaker 1: find no sign of foul play. The buick in which
- 4:57Speaker 1: Brandy was driving is also gone. Police search a lake
- 5:01Speaker 1: house where she and some of her family live for
- 5:03Speaker 1: a while. It's owned by a man who, despite living alone,
- 5:06Speaker 1: has a woman's clothes and she es in a private room.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Brandy's whereabouts remain unknown. She has been missing since two
- 5:14Speaker 1: thousand and six. If you have info, contact Davy County,
- 5:18Speaker 1: North Carolina Sheriffs three three six seven five one five
- 5:23Speaker 1: five four seven, or the NCBI eight hundred three three
- 5:28Speaker 1: four three thousand. For the latest crime in justice needs
- 5:32Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com with this crime alert.
- 5:34Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Race.