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Woman Runs Down Father of Her Children | Crime Alert 05.07.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now, and
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  Speaker 1: Jelica Quintana pulls over into the emergency lane Interstate fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine to twenty Tuscaloosa. Then sud lane drives across three lanes,
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  Speaker 1: deliberately crashing into a guy on the side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: After his body slams onto the hood of her car,
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  Speaker 1: He's thrown to the ground. Kinana then runs over him.
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  Speaker 1: Victim Dennis Melton, Katana's boyfriend the father of her three children.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Melton, got out of Quintana's car after an argument.
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  Speaker 2: Quintana allegedly told him, if you get out of the car,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to watch you die. Melton's bright orange safety
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  Speaker 2: vest left marks on the road as she plowed him down.
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  Speaker 2: Quintana fled the scene, and another passing driver called nine
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  Speaker 2: one one. Investigators initially believed Melton's death to have been
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  Speaker 2: an accident, but witnesses came forward with horrifying descriptions of
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  Speaker 2: Quintana running him down on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Angelica Kintana guilty sent us to life behind bars. It's
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  Speaker 1: a fight many merry couples have, but not all of them.
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  Speaker 1: In an arrest, an eighty seven year old Florida man
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  Speaker 1: and wife eighty five fight over the temperature in the home.
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  Speaker 1: The argument starts seven a m. When the wife reaches
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  Speaker 1: for the thermostat to turn down the air. Charles Ingram
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  Speaker 1: pushes her to prevent her from changing the temperature. Cops
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  Speaker 1: are called. Ingram, who has a lengthy rap sheet, adds
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence to his resume. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: news Crime onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, Mississippi's longest serving death row inmate, is scheduled
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  Speaker 3: to be executed on June twenty fifth. The state Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court has ruled that Richard Gerald Jordan, now seventy eight,
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  Speaker 3: has exhausted all state and federal appeals. Jordan was sentenced
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  Speaker 3: to death in nineteen seventy six for kidnapping and killing
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  Speaker 3: Edwena Martyr in Harrison County. Prosecutors say he posed as
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  Speaker 3: a utility worker to enter the martyr's home, abducted Edwina,
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  Speaker 3: and later shot her in the woods. He then called
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  Speaker 3: her husband, demanding twenty five thousand dollars in ransom while
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  Speaker 3: falsely claiming she was still alive. The court's order did
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  Speaker 3: not state how Jordan will be executed. Mississippi law permits
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  Speaker 3: lethal injection nitrogen gas, the electric chair, or a firing squad.
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  Speaker 3: The ruling came the same day Florida prepared to execute
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  Speaker 3: army veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson, bringing the national total to fourteen
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  Speaker 3: executions so far this year, three of them in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Mississippi last carried out an execution in December twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: A Tennessee man is under ar rest, accused of setting
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  Speaker 3: fire to a historic civil rights ceter in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: We turn now to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online for details.
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  Speaker 2: Federal agents have charged thirty five year old Reagan Prater
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  Speaker 2: with arson in the fire that destroyed the main office
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  Speaker 2: at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Newmarket, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: a site long associated with civil rights organizing. Founded in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two, the center trained Rosa Parks in nonviolent resistance,
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  Speaker 2: shortly before she launched the Montgomery bus boycott. It also
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  Speaker 2: hosted and educated generations of movement leaders. An FBI affidavit
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  Speaker 2: cites group chat messages linking Prator to white supremacist organizations.
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  Speaker 2: In one exchange, a user named Rooster details setting the
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  Speaker 2: fire with quote a sparkler bomb. In Some napalm authorities
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  Speaker 2: say Prator use that alias spray painted near the scene
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  Speaker 2: a white power symbol known as the Triple Cross. That
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  Speaker 2: same symbol was seen on a weapon used in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen christ Church mosque shootings in New Zealand. Prater
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  Speaker 2: previously served five years in federal prison for a separate
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  Speaker 2: arson at an adult video store. A phone found at
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  Speaker 2: that scene contained video of the fire being set.
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  Speaker 3: Despite the damage, the Highlanders Center continues its shi, rebuilding
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  Speaker 3: and reaffirming it's decades long fight for justice.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Sarah Burton twenty nine, A mom of two
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  Speaker 1: gets used SUV from her dad to replace her card
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  Speaker 1: that was in an accident. Three days later, the family
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  Speaker 1: learns Burton has another accident in the second vehicle. Five
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  Speaker 1: days after the accident, a friend drops Sarah off that's
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  Speaker 1: the last time she's seen alive. Sarah Burton five seven,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty pounds. If you know or think
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  Speaker 1: you know anything regarding the whereabouts of Sarah Burton, please
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  Speaker 1: call Joppa, Missouri PD four one seven six two three
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  Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime Alarn, I'm missing Grace