Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 01.03.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crimenes now. Taylor
- 0:03Speaker 1: Blahha gives birth to a baby girl at home using
- 0:07Speaker 1: meth as a pain reliever. The child starts to cry.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Blahha and boyfriend Brandon Thoma, afraid her cries might attract
- 0:16Speaker 1: attention of cops, drown the baby girl and the bathtub Nancy.
- 0:21Speaker 1: The couple was also afraid that cops would find meth
- 0:24Speaker 1: in the baby's system and they would lose custody of
- 0:27Speaker 1: their two year old. The couple held her under the
- 0:30Speaker 1: water until she was dead. Toma then put the baby's
- 0:33Speaker 1: body in a backpack and buried it. Both Thoma thirty
- 0:38Speaker 1: one and Blaha twenty four, now charged with a murder.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Good riddance more criming justice knees after this. Now with
- 0:53Speaker 1: the latest criming justice breaking knees crime onlines. John Lemley,
- 0:57Speaker 1: a suspect arrested in connection with US slayings of four
- 1:01Speaker 1: University of Idaho students, plans to waive an extradition hearing
- 1:05Speaker 1: so he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face
- 1:08Speaker 1: murder charges. Sidney Sumner is with crime online. Brian Koburger,
- 1:13Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old PhD student and teaching assistant
- 1:16Speaker 1: in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington
- 1:19Speaker 1: State University, was taken into custody early Friday morning by
- 1:23Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania State Police at his parents' home in Chestnut
- 1:26Speaker 1: Hill Township. Investigators obtained samples of Koburger's DNA directly from
- 1:31Speaker 1: the suspect after he was arrested. During a press conference,
- 1:35Speaker 1: Bill Thompson, a prosecutor in Ladda County, Idaho, said that
- 1:38Speaker 1: investigators believe Koburger broke into the University of Idaho students
- 1:43Speaker 1: home near campus quote with the intent to commit murder.
- 1:46Speaker 1: The bodies of the students, Kaylee Gonzolvez, Madison Mogan, Zayner Kernodle,
- 1:51Speaker 1: and Ethan Chapin, were found November thirteenth, several hours after
- 1:55Speaker 1: investigators believed they died. An early morning dispute between two
- 2:00Speaker 1: patrons and an adult entertainment club in Ohio led to
- 2:04Speaker 1: gunfire that killed one man and wounded four others, one critically.
- 2:10Speaker 1: The Franklin County Sheriff's Office says the gunfire was reported
- 2:13Speaker 1: around two thirty am Sunday at the Buck's Platinum Club
- 2:17Speaker 1: in Columbus. Officials reported that twenty eight year old Charles
- 2:21Speaker 1: Westbrook was killed and another person was listed in critical condition,
- 2:26Speaker 1: while the other three gunshot victims had non life threatening injuries.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Authorities described the shooting as quote an argument between two
- 2:35Speaker 1: patrons that escalated and some bystanders were struck by bullets.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Authorities say no arrests were immediately reported. A spokesman for
- 2:44Speaker 1: the county Sheriff's office says Sheriff's office detectives and the
- 2:48Speaker 1: Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation are investigating a body found
- 2:54Speaker 1: inside a donation ben in South Carolina had likely been
- 2:57Speaker 1: dead for at least several months. Crime on Lines Sydney Sumner.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Someone found the body after checking the rusty bin off
- 3:06Speaker 1: US Highway One in Lugoff after smelling a bad odor.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Investigators first thought the body might be from someone seeking
- 3:13Speaker 1: shelter from the recent cold snap, but quickly determined the
- 3:16Speaker 1: remains had been in the bin for at least several months.
- 3:19Speaker 1: The bin appeared to have not been emptied for years,
- 3:21Speaker 1: and at VHS tapes inside. Detectives are now treating the
- 3:25Speaker 1: death as a homicide and took the bin and body
- 3:27Speaker 1: away for further investigation. An autopsy has been scheduled for Wednesday.
- 3:31Speaker 1: The gruesome discovery in South Carolina comes less than three
- 3:35Speaker 1: months after a woman's body was found in a donation
- 3:38Speaker 1: ban in New Hall, California. A man accused of attacking
- 3:42Speaker 1: police with a machette near New York's Times Square on
- 3:45Speaker 1: New Year's Eve was arrested on charges of attempting to
- 3:48Speaker 1: murder officers, as authorities continue to investigate whether he was
- 3:53Speaker 1: motivated by Islamic extremism. Nineteen year old Trevor Bickford also
- 3:58Speaker 1: faces attempted assault charges from the attack that injured two
- 4:01Speaker 1: officers at the edge of the high security zone where
- 4:04Speaker 1: throngs of New Year's revelers were gathered. Bickford, who lives
- 4:08Speaker 1: in Wells, Maine, was hospitalized after police shot him in
- 4:12Speaker 1: the shoulder during the confrontation and was awaiting arraignment. It
- 4:16Speaker 1: wasn't immediately clear whether he had a lawyer who could
- 4:19Speaker 1: speak to the allegations. The violence happened about two hours
- 4:22Speaker 1: before midnight Saturday, just outside the area where revelers are
- 4:26Speaker 1: screened for weapons before gaining entry to one of the
- 4:29Speaker 1: world's biggest and most famous New Year's celebrations. The United
- 4:34Speaker 1: States Embassy in the Central American nation of Belize has
- 4:38Speaker 1: confirmed the death of a US citizen there and says
- 4:41Speaker 1: it is closely monitoring the local investigation. Once again Sidney
- 4:45Speaker 1: Sumner with Crime Online. Belize Police Commissioner Chuster william says
- 4:50Speaker 1: that two men have been arrested and charged with murder
- 4:52Speaker 1: in the killing that occurred Friday night in San Pedro
- 4:55Speaker 1: on the island of vamburgos Ka, a popular tourist destination.
- 5:00Speaker 1: S embassy, in keeping with state department policy, did not
- 5:03Speaker 1: identify the victim. However, New Orleans media outlet nola dot
- 5:07Speaker 1: com identified her as Jubria Bowens, a nursing student at
- 5:11Speaker 1: Louisiana State University. Bowens was apparently struck by gunfire outside
- 5:15Speaker 1: a nightclub. Commissioner Williams says the attackers used an assault
- 5:20Speaker 1: rifle and the intended target had been a local gang leader.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Beverly Roberts eighty five and Mary Austin sixty one agree
- 5:30Speaker 1: to feed, trap and neoter local cats in their Alabama town,
- 5:35Speaker 1: but not everyone sees it as a favor. The food
- 5:38Speaker 1: left out attracts animals much bigger than cats, who damaged
- 5:41Speaker 1: people's property. A cop spots the women setting up a
- 5:44Speaker 1: trap in a private parking lot and asks them to leave.
- 5:47Speaker 1: When he finds them there again an hour later, he
- 5:50Speaker 1: charges both of them with criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct.
- 5:55Speaker 1: I guess you could call them crazy cat ladies for
- 5:58Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice news, a crime online dot
- 6:00Speaker 1: com with this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.