Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 09.15.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Family
- 0:04Speaker 1: discovers Michael Garvin and mom Lucy Garvin shot dead in
- 0:08Speaker 1: their Vermont home. That afternoon, cops arrests Christopher Ellis when
- 0:12Speaker 1: they find him driving Garvin's missing truck. Ellis tells cops
- 0:17Speaker 1: he meets Michael Garvin in prison and was staying with
- 0:20Speaker 1: him since release. Ellis admits he came to hate Garvin
- 0:24Speaker 1: and planned to kill him for weeks.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Nancy Ellis added that he had no plan for retirement
- 0:29Speaker 2: and would rather spend the rest of his life behind
- 0:31Speaker 2: bars than in an old folks home. Ellis said that
- 0:34Speaker 2: he did not intend to kill Lucy Garvin, but as
- 0:37Speaker 2: she was home at the time of Michael Garvin's killing, she.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Quote had to go. Ellis, fifty four, are charged with
- 0:43Speaker 1: two counts of murder. One Nearly seventy miles off the
- 0:46Speaker 1: Georgia Coastguard officials come across the man in a giant
- 0:49Speaker 1: metal drum kept afloat by Booie's, equipped with paddles that
- 0:54Speaker 1: move as someone runs Think hamster will. The Coast Guard
- 0:59Speaker 1: deems the boat unsafe for travel, but the sailor inside,
- 1:03Speaker 1: forty four year old Resa Balucci refuses to exit, saying
- 1:07Speaker 1: he's running across the Atlantic and claims to have a
- 1:11Speaker 1: bomb on board, threatening to kill himself if anybody tries
- 1:14Speaker 1: to remove him. After four days negotiating, Luci finally admits
- 1:20Speaker 1: there is no bomb. The Coastguard takes him back to Florida,
- 1:23Speaker 1: where he's charged with obstruction of a boarding foiling his
- 1:28Speaker 1: fourth attempt to cross the Atlantic in a hamster ball.
- 1:34Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. Now with the
- 1:40Speaker 1: latest crime in justice breaking news Crime on Line is
- 1:43Speaker 1: John Limley.
- 1:44Speaker 3: We begin in North Dakota, where a man has been
- 1:47Speaker 3: sentenced to five years behind bars for running over and
- 1:50Speaker 3: killing an eighteen year old following a small town street
- 1:54Speaker 3: dance last year with Moore. Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:58Speaker 2: It was back in May that Shannon Brandt of Glenfield,
- 2:01Speaker 2: North Dakota, admitted to manslaughter in connection with the murder
- 2:05Speaker 2: of Kayler Ellingson in McHenry, North Dakota in September twenty
- 2:09Speaker 2: twenty two. According to court documents, Brandt first asserted that
- 2:12Speaker 2: he struck Ellingson following a political debate in that the
- 2:16Speaker 2: team was a member of a radical group and had
- 2:18Speaker 2: threatened him within day's authorities announced that there was little
- 2:22Speaker 2: indication to believe that the altercation was political in nature.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Brandt was given a five year jail term by a
- 2:28Speaker 2: state district court judge, with credit for almost a year
- 2:31Speaker 2: already served. This was followed by three years of supervised
- 2:35Speaker 2: probation and one year suspension of Brandt's driver's license. The
- 2:39Speaker 2: maximum sentence for the offense is ten years in prison,
- 2:42Speaker 2: a twenty thousand dollars fine, or both. Initial charges of
- 2:46Speaker 2: criminal vehicular homicide were dismissed. Later after being charged with murder,
- 2:50Speaker 2: he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
- 2:52Speaker 3: In a pleaar agreement. The charge of leaving the scene
- 2:55Speaker 3: of a fatality against Brant was also dropped. A man
- 2:59Speaker 3: convicted of murder in nineteen ninety three has been granted
- 3:02Speaker 3: a new trial by a Massachusetts judge after new DNA
- 3:07Speaker 3: evidence brought the verdict into doubt. Thomas Rosa was found
- 3:11Speaker 3: guilty of killing Gwyndelne Taylor, then eighteen years old, in
- 3:15Speaker 3: nineteen eighty five. Rosa, who has consistently maintained his innocence,
- 3:20Speaker 3: went through three separate trials for the murder. Rosa's conviction
- 3:24Speaker 3: was overturned. By Suffolk Superior Court Justice Michael Richudi, allowing
- 3:28Speaker 3: for the possibility of a new trial. According to Richude,
- 3:32Speaker 3: new DNA evidence quote cast doubt regarding the reliability of
- 3:36Speaker 3: the eyewitness testimony in the case. Milacunis and Ashton Kutcher
- 3:41Speaker 3: have now apologized after writing character letters in defense of
- 3:45Speaker 3: their fellow that seventies show starred Danny Masterson once again
- 3:50Speaker 3: crime online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:52Speaker 2: The celebrity couple wrote the letters ahead of masterson sentencing
- 3:56Speaker 2: for rape. Masterson was handed a thirty to life term
- 3:59Speaker 2: by a judge in Lafe, Los Angeles, for raping two
- 4:01Speaker 2: women in two thousand and three. In a video sent
- 4:04Speaker 2: via Instagram, Kutcher and Cunis expressed regret for whatever hurt
- 4:08Speaker 2: the letters may have costed. According to Kutcher, the letters
- 4:11Speaker 2: requesting mercy quote were intended for the judge to read
- 4:14Speaker 2: and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or
- 4:17Speaker 2: retraumatize them in any way. We would never want to
- 4:20Speaker 2: do that and we're sorry if that has taken place.
- 4:23Speaker 2: After the actor was found guilty of the assaults in May.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Kutcher claims that Masterson's family got in touch with the
- 4:29Speaker 2: pair and wanted them to write character letters supporting quote
- 4:32Speaker 2: the person that we knew for twenty five years. The
- 4:35Speaker 2: Hollywood Reporter and other internet outlets then published the letters online.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Masterson was a star on the television program That seventy
- 4:44Speaker 3: Show from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and six,
- 4:47Speaker 3: alongside Ashton Kutcher, Meelacunis and Toper. Grace.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Candy Stargelds seventy five and best friench Reirly Weaver eighty
- 4:55Speaker 1: three often take drives in remote California to look at
- 4:59Speaker 1: the same Henry. The women mention their heading to Wendell
- 5:03Speaker 1: and take off in Candy's white Toyota Round four. When
- 5:07Speaker 1: they don't come home, their families report them missing. Two
- 5:10Speaker 1: weeks later, a pair of Nevada hunters discover their car
- 5:14Speaker 1: parked on a remote road two hours northeast of their destination.
- 5:19Speaker 1: The car has a flat The hood was raised, and
- 5:22Speaker 1: help was spelled on the ground with objects from inside
- 5:25Speaker 1: the car. Surely, Weaver is found dead in the passenger seat,
- 5:30Speaker 1: Candy Sturgeon nowhere to be found. Authorities say Weaver's death
- 5:34Speaker 1: does not appear to be suspicious, but Candy has not
- 5:37Speaker 1: been located nearly three years later. If you have info
- 5:42Speaker 1: on Candy Sturgel's disappearance, please call Lauren County Sheriff's five
- 5:47Speaker 1: three zero two five seven six ' one two one.
- 5:51Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline
- 5:53Speaker 1: dot com. This crime alert I Mancy Grace