Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 01.08.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crimes Now. A Kentucky
- 0:04Speaker 1: mom costs nine to one one over domestic violence concerns
- 0:07Speaker 1: between her grown son and his girlfriend. When cops arrive,
- 0:10Speaker 1: they find a trap door in Zachary Jones's floor with
- 0:14Speaker 1: a missing sixteen year old North Carolina girl inside. Jones
- 0:19Speaker 1: lied about his age and online chats with the girl,
- 0:22Speaker 1: then lured her from her home and held her captive.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Nancy officers who found the girl described her as shaken
- 0:27Speaker 2: up and very high. She told them Jones had been
- 0:30Speaker 2: threatening her with a gun, forcing her to take cocaine,
- 0:33Speaker 2: assaulting and raping her. She said Jones demanded she tell
- 0:37Speaker 2: people she was eighteen, and it's unclear whether Jones's mother
- 0:40Speaker 2: realized her son was holding the girl against her will.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Jones thirty four, now facing nearly thirty charges, including false
- 0:47Speaker 1: imprisonment and rape. Daniel Palomino, thirty two, orders chicken out
- 0:51Speaker 1: a Florida Huawaz convenience store and specifies he wants extra
- 0:56Speaker 1: spicy Nasville sauce. Palomino gets his order, but he's convinced
- 1:01Speaker 1: the chicken is not completely cooked, so Palomino checks the
- 1:06Speaker 1: chicken at the wah wah worker getting the spicy sauce
- 1:09Speaker 1: in her eyes. Please show up. Palomino's arrested on battery,
- 1:14Speaker 1: buy chicken and spicy sauce. More crime and justice news
- 1:18Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
- 1:23Speaker 1: news Crime Onlines John Linley.
- 1:25Speaker 3: A Las Vegas bail hearing for a former gang member
- 1:28Speaker 3: accused of planning the nineteen ninety six murder of hip
- 1:31Speaker 3: hop icon Tupac Shakur has now been rescheduled to allow
- 1:35Speaker 3: defense lawyers to address claims made by the prosecution that
- 1:38Speaker 3: witnesses could be in danger. Details now from Sydney Sumner
- 1:42Speaker 3: with Crime Online.
- 1:43Speaker 2: The court appointed council for Dwan Keefey d Davis requested
- 1:47Speaker 2: a postponement in response to the prosecutor's assertion last week
- 1:50Speaker 2: that Davis poses a public safety risk if he is released,
- 1:53Speaker 2: citing recordings from his jail phone and a list of
- 1:55Speaker 2: names given to his relatives. Our friends with the Associated
- 1:59Speaker 2: Press were informed by one of Davis's attorneys, Robert Arroyo,
- 2:02Speaker 2: that the defense wanted to reply in writing to the court.
- 2:05Speaker 2: He refused to say more. According to a Royo's statement
- 2:08Speaker 2: from the previous week, there is no proof that any
- 2:10Speaker 2: witness had been threatened or named in the nineteen ninety
- 2:13Speaker 2: six drive by shooting that also injured rap mogul Marion
- 2:17Speaker 2: Shug Knight, who's currently serving twenty eight years in a
- 2:19Speaker 2: California jail for a separate fatal shooting in Metro Los
- 2:22Speaker 2: Angeles in twenty fifteen. Davis is the only person who
- 2:26Speaker 2: has ever been charged with a crime accused of murder.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Davis is scheduled to go on trial in June after
- 2:31Speaker 2: entering a not guilty plea. His arrest on September twenty
- 2:34Speaker 2: ninth outside his Henderson home has left him behind bars
- 2:37Speaker 2: without bail. It was in mid July that Las Vegas
- 2:40Speaker 2: police served Davis with a search warrant at his residence. Davis,
- 2:43Speaker 2: who is currently being held in the Clark County Detention
- 2:46Speaker 2: Center in Las Vegas, is originally from Compton, California. Phone
- 2:49Speaker 2: calls made by inmates at the detention center are recorded
- 2:52Speaker 2: as a matter of routine.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Davis may serve the rest of his life in prison
- 2:56Speaker 3: if found guilty at trial. Gipsy rose Blan now says
- 3:00Speaker 3: she's discovered a way to forgive both her mother and herself. Still,
- 3:04Speaker 3: it's been a long road from years of abuse to
- 3:07Speaker 3: living behind bars as the worst moments of her life
- 3:10Speaker 3: were reported in the tabloids. Now, a Missouri women's prison
- 3:14Speaker 3: has granted parole to the thirty two year old Blanchard.
- 3:17Speaker 3: She's been freed some eight and a half years after
- 3:20Speaker 3: convincing her then boyfriend to kill her abusive mother, Claudine
- 3:24Speaker 3: Dede Blanchard, in a desperate attempt to escape her gypsy. Rose.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Blanchard's mother made her pretend for years that she had
- 3:32Speaker 3: muscular dystrophe, leukemia, and other life threatening ailments in order
- 3:37Speaker 3: to try a former NBA minor League player and his
- 3:40Speaker 3: ex girlfriend jointly for the murder of a woman whose
- 3:43Speaker 3: body was discovered in southern Nevada last month. A prosecutor
- 3:47Speaker 3: has now announced that separate murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy charges
- 3:52Speaker 3: will be combined once again. Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Tuesday marked Chance Comanche's first court appearance. Comanche, a twenty
- 3:59Speaker 2: six seven year old native of Los Angeles, was a
- 4:02Speaker 2: player for the Stockton Kings prior to his arrest in Sacramento, California,
- 4:05Speaker 2: on December fifteenth, When a judge asked him if he
- 4:08Speaker 2: understood the charges against him, He stood in chains and
- 4:11Speaker 2: answered yes, ma'am. After the brief court appearance, Comanche's defense counsel,
- 4:14Speaker 2: Gary Gyman declined to speak and did not immediately request bail. However,
- 4:19Speaker 2: he did state that Comanche plans to enter a not
- 4:21Speaker 2: guilty plea at upcoming hearings. Sakari Harnden, Comanche's nineteen year
- 4:25Speaker 2: old former girlfriend, is also being held in Las Vegas
- 4:28Speaker 2: for a separate hearing on a theft allegation relating to
- 4:31Speaker 2: the disappearance and death of twenty three year old Marianna
- 4:34Speaker 2: Rogers of Lynwood, Washington. Kennedy Holtus, the prosecutor, informed Judge
- 4:39Speaker 2: Diana Sullivan that Steve Wolfson, the district attorney for Clark County,
- 4:42Speaker 2: plans to consolidate all of the cases against Comanche and Harndon.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Sullivan fixed Comanche's next court date for February eighth, and
- 4:49Speaker 2: stated that the defendant will remain behind bars without bail.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Investigator say Marina Rogers, a medical assistant, was strangled to
- 4:57Speaker 3: death early on the morning of December sixth. He was
- 5:00Speaker 3: discovered later in a roadside ditch in suburban Henderson.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Thanks John Nicholas Downey takes a job in Tampa, Florida,
- 5:07Speaker 1: but often drives back to Gulfport, Mississippi, to visit his wife.
- 5:11Speaker 1: He rents a Tesla for a four day visit through
- 5:14Speaker 1: the car sharing app Truro. On the night he's set
- 5:17Speaker 1: to return, Downey stops at a McDonald's five hours north
- 5:20Speaker 1: of Tampa to recharge the rented Tesla. Instead of returning
- 5:24Speaker 1: to the highway, Downey starts driving down State Road seventy one.
- 5:28Speaker 1: The tesla's owner notices the wrong turn and texts Downey,
- 5:33Speaker 1: but Downey never responds. He also never makes it to work.
- 5:37Speaker 1: The next morning, the car is found abandoned one hour
- 5:40Speaker 1: south of the McDonald's. Downey's phone bag, and work equipment
- 5:44Speaker 1: all found inside. Despite extensive searches of the area, no
- 5:49Speaker 1: leeds found. If you have info on Nicholas Downey, now
- 5:53Speaker 1: missing nearly a year, contact Liberty County Sheriffs eight five
- 5:57Speaker 1: zero six four three two two three five. For the
- 6:01Speaker 1: latest crime injustice news, Go to crimeonline dot com with
- 6:04Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.