Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 04.05.24
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Crime alert I means he grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Caroline Hurling searches for unkempt properties in affluent Californian neighborhoods,
- 0:08Speaker 1: looking for vulnerable owners. She and several accomplices break into
- 0:13Speaker 1: seventy one year old Charles Wilding's home to take over
- 0:16Speaker 1: the property. When Wilding's reported missing, Hurling tells cops he
- 0:20Speaker 1: let her stay in the home after he moves closer
- 0:23Speaker 1: to his family. In reality, Hurling's been busy forging power
- 0:27Speaker 1: of attorney docks and looting Wilding's assets while his body
- 0:32Speaker 1: decomposes in the home.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Nancy. Cops began investigating after Wilding was reported missing in
- 0:37Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. After the close call with investigators, Hurling
- 0:40Speaker 2: moved Wilding's body to her apartment and attempted to dissolve
- 0:43Speaker 2: it in chemicals. When that didn't work, Hurling dismembered the body,
- 0:47Speaker 2: place the pieces in vacuum sealed bags, and dump the
- 0:49Speaker 2: remains in the San Francisco Bay. Police believe Wilding died
- 0:53Speaker 2: sometime in twenty twenty. His remains have never been recovered.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Caroline Hurling, forty four, gets twenty years behind bars in
- 1:01Speaker 1: order to return three point nine million dollars she stole.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Three Florida men stumble on a golf cart left unattended
- 1:08Speaker 1: on the side of the road. They decided it's theirs now.
- 1:11Speaker 1: They load the cart into a trailer and drive off,
- 1:13Speaker 1: not realizing the golf cart belongs to Lee County Sheriffs
- 1:17Speaker 1: deputies get an alert their cart is moving on its own.
- 1:20Speaker 1: They follow the locations straight to the thieves in a
- 1:23Speaker 1: neighboring county. In addition to the golf cart, cops find
- 1:26Speaker 1: a boat, motor, and two GPS units in the trailer.
- 1:29Speaker 1: All three men thirty three, thirty eight, and forty three.
- 1:33Speaker 1: They sing felony theft charges. More crime and justice news
- 1:37Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,
- 1:42Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John Lemley.
- 1:44Speaker 3: An execution date on May thirtieth has been set by
- 1:47Speaker 3: Alabama for a man convicted of killing a couple during
- 1:50Speaker 3: a robbery in two thousand and four. Here's Sidney Sumner
- 1:54Speaker 3: with Crime Online.
- 1:55Speaker 2: The date of fifty year old Jamie Mills execution by
- 1:58Speaker 2: lethal injection was determined by Alabama Governor k Ivy. This
- 2:02Speaker 2: after the governor was given permission by the Alabama Supreme
- 2:05Speaker 2: Court to schedule an execution. Mills was found guilty of
- 2:08Speaker 2: capital murder in connection with the two thousand and four
- 2:10Speaker 2: murders of Floyd and Vera Hill in Gwen, a Marion
- 2:13Speaker 2: County city of roughly two thousand residents. According to the prosecution,
- 2:17Speaker 2: Mills and his wife went to the couple's home, where
- 2:20Speaker 2: Mills beat them and took one hundred and forty dollars
- 2:22Speaker 2: as well as some prescription drugs. The Attorney General's office
- 2:26Speaker 2: stated in a court document that eighty seven year old
- 2:28Speaker 2: Floyd Hill died from blunt and sharp force injuries to
- 2:31Speaker 2: his head and neck, while seventy two year old Vera
- 2:34Speaker 2: Mills died from complications resulting from head trauma some twelve
- 2:38Speaker 2: weeks after the crime. In order to pursue a pending
- 2:41Speaker 2: allegation of prosecutorial misconduct in the case, mills attorneys had
- 2:45Speaker 2: requested the Alabama Supreme Court to reject the request for
- 2:48Speaker 2: an execution date. Attorneys for Mills claimed in a March
- 2:51Speaker 2: petition to a Marion County judge that the prosecution had
- 2:54Speaker 2: hidden the existence of a plea agreement they made with
- 2:56Speaker 2: mills wife, saving her from a death sentence. Mills trial,
- 3:00Speaker 2: she served as a principal prosecution witness. The existence of
- 3:04Speaker 2: a pre trial agreement has been denied by the Attorney
- 3:06Speaker 2: General's office.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Alabama says it intends to execute Mills by lethal injection.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Alabama conducted the first nitrogen gas execution in the country's
- 3:16Speaker 3: history earlier this year. A state agency is investigating whether
- 3:21Speaker 3: a rural Missouri boarding school at the center of abuse
- 3:24Speaker 3: claims effectively addressed calls to an abuse hotline about the
- 3:28Speaker 3: facility in the past. This as the school has now
- 3:31Speaker 3: closed its doors once again. Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Following the filing of criminal charges earlier this month against
- 3:38Speaker 2: the school's founder's fifty seven year old Larry Musgrave Junior,
- 3:42Speaker 2: his sixty four year old wife, Carmen Musgrave, and a teacher,
- 3:45Speaker 2: twenty two year old Caleb Sandoval. ABM Ministry's Lighthouse Christian
- 3:49Speaker 2: Academy in Piedmont, Missouri, has closed. The Musgraves were accused
- 3:52Speaker 2: of confining a student in a room and were charged
- 3:55Speaker 2: with first degree kidnapping. Sandoval was accused of hurting a
- 3:58Speaker 2: fifteen year old boy during a bux match, leading to
- 4:01Speaker 2: charges of abuse or neglect of a child. Next month, Sandoval,
- 4:05Speaker 2: the Musgraves and the courts will all be in session
- 4:07Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Messages were left with their attorneys by phone.
- 4:10Speaker 2: The private boys Christian boarding school run by ABM Ministries
- 4:14Speaker 2: was located in Wayne County, about one hundred and thirty
- 4:16Speaker 2: miles south of Saint Louis. The facility's website read that
- 4:20Speaker 2: it had been successful in treating boys with attention deficit,
- 4:23Speaker 2: hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, and other disorders. The webpage has
- 4:27Speaker 2: now been taken down. It was after a former student
- 4:30Speaker 2: now living in Alabama got in touch with Sheriff Dean
- 4:33Speaker 2: Finch that his office started looking into the matter a
- 4:35Speaker 2: number of months ago. The Musgraves are accused of locking
- 4:38Speaker 2: a female student in a small room against her will
- 4:41Speaker 2: nearly twenty years ago. This was at a time when
- 4:43Speaker 2: the school served both boys and girls.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Sand of all and the Musgraves are all due in
- 4:48Speaker 3: court for hearings later this month.
- 4:50Speaker 1: Thanks John. Bethany Markowski, eleven, spans the weekend with dad
- 4:54Speaker 1: Larry Markowski. He and the mom are finalizing their divorce.
- 4:58Speaker 1: She calls mom to let her know they're on their
- 4:59Speaker 1: way high home after visiting family in Weekley County, Tennessee.
- 5:03Speaker 1: That afternoon, they stop at Old Hickory Mall in Jackson,
- 5:06Speaker 1: Markowski gives Bethany some money and sends her inside to
- 5:09Speaker 1: shop while he takes a nap in the car. Markowski
- 5:12Speaker 1: gets concerned when he wakes up an hour later and
- 5:14Speaker 1: daughter Bethany has not returned. Markowski goes inside to look
- 5:18Speaker 1: for her, then asks mall security for help. By six pm,
- 5:22Speaker 1: mall security calls Jackson PD Bethany's reported missing. There have
- 5:26Speaker 1: been signings of Bethany with an unknown woman, the last
- 5:30Speaker 1: of which the two were boarding a bus headed for Moline, Illinois.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Bethany Markowski would now be thirty four years old. If
- 5:38Speaker 1: you have info i' Bethany Markowski, please contact TBI eight
- 5:43Speaker 1: hundred eight two four three four sixty three. For the
- 5:46Speaker 1: latest crime in justice news, go to crime online dot
- 5:48Speaker 1: com with this trime alert. I'm Nancy Grace