Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Teen Son Kills Father in Drunken Altercation | Crime Alert 05.08.25
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs Now. Julian
- 0:04Speaker 1: Welch Beto nineteen making something to eat at his home Melbourne, Florida,
- 0:08Speaker 1: when its dad, Francis Welch drunkenly gets up from the couch,
- 0:12Speaker 1: telling his son he doesn't deserve to eat because he's
- 0:15Speaker 1: not employed. Welch Betto ignores the dad, takes his plate
- 0:19Speaker 1: walks to the bedroom.
- 0:20Speaker 2: His dad pushes him.
- 0:21Speaker 1: The two began fighting and end up on the floor.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Welch Betto puts his father in a headlock and punches
- 0:27Speaker 1: him in the ribs. The father's fiance intervenes and breaks
- 0:30Speaker 1: up the fight. Five minutes later, nineteen year old Welch
- 0:33Speaker 1: Betto hears her scream Nancy.
- 0:36Speaker 3: The teen walks out into the living room, finding his
- 0:39Speaker 3: father sprawled on the couch, unresponsive with his head tilted back.
- 0:43Speaker 3: The fiance calls nine one one and Francis Welch's rushed
- 0:46Speaker 3: to the hospital, but he dies due to internal bleeding
- 0:48Speaker 3: from his spleen, last rated by one of three broken ribs.
- 0:52Speaker 3: While Welch Betto was sober at the time of the altercation,
- 0:55Speaker 3: his father had an extremely high BAC ofo point three
- 0:59Speaker 3: ninety one.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Else Shabato arrested charged with manslaughter. Customers barely react when
- 1:05Speaker 1: a man's shot and killed at a food truck Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Security footage captures the disturbing side of people moving around
- 1:13Speaker 1: the lifeless body. One man even walks around to place
- 1:16Speaker 1: an order while the victim lies on the ground in
- 1:20Speaker 1: a growing pool of blood. A witness pumping gas nearby
- 1:24Speaker 1: describes the moment the shooting takes place. He hears two
- 1:27Speaker 1: shots and hits the deck, then two more shots. Despite
- 1:31Speaker 1: gunfire and blue police strobe lights, its business as usual.
- 1:35Speaker 1: No one at the food truck or gas station will
- 1:37Speaker 1: even talk about what happened. Reporters attempt to speak with witnesses,
- 1:41Speaker 1: they refuse, Police urging witnesses to call crime stoppers nine
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- 2:01Speaker 1: breaking nees Crime onlines John Linley a.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Major break in a Cleveland, Ohio cold case. Authorities say
- 2:07Speaker 2: they've solved the twenty thirteen murder of nurse Elisa Sherman.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Gregory J. Moore, Sherman's former divorce attorney, was arrested in
- 2:16Speaker 2: Texas and is now charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Prosecutors in Cuyahoga County say More lured Sherman to his
- 2:26Speaker 2: locked downtown office, where she waited more than an hour
- 2:29Speaker 2: before being fatally stabbed and attack. Investigators believe he either
- 2:34Speaker 2: carried out or orchestrated. Moore had previously served jail time
- 2:39Speaker 2: for lying to police about his whereabouts that day. His
- 2:43Speaker 2: law license was suspended in twenty seventeen. The Ohio Bureau
- 2:47Speaker 2: of Criminal Investigation reopened the case in twenty twenty one,
- 2:51Speaker 2: and prosecutors now say the evidence clearly points to Moore's involvement.
- 2:57Speaker 2: A second teenager has been charged in connecttion with the
- 3:00Speaker 2: massive wildfire that has scorched New Jersey's Pine Bearns, marking
- 3:05Speaker 2: the state's second largest blaze in nearly two decades. Crime
- 3:09Speaker 2: Online Sydney Sumner has the latest on the investigation and
- 3:13Speaker 2: the ongoing containment efforts.
- 3:16Speaker 3: The Jones Road fire, ignited on April twenty second in
- 3:19Speaker 3: Ocean County, New Jersey, has consumed over fifteen thousand acres,
- 3:23Speaker 3: prompting the evacuation of approximately five thousand residents and causing
- 3:27Speaker 3: significant property damage. As of the latest report, the fire
- 3:31Speaker 3: is eighty percent contained. This according to the New Jersey
- 3:34Speaker 3: Forest Fire Service. Authorities have now charged a second individual
- 3:38Speaker 3: in connection with the blaze. A seventeen year old male
- 3:40Speaker 3: whose identity is held with due to his age, faces
- 3:43Speaker 3: charges of aggravated arson and hindering apprehension. Prosecutors allege he
- 3:48Speaker 3: assisted nineteen year old Joseph Kling of Waretown in setting
- 3:51Speaker 3: wooden palettes ablaze using gasoline in a wooded area, then
- 3:55Speaker 3: leaving the fire untended. Kling was arrested earlier in charge
- 3:59Speaker 3: with aggravated arson, arson, and hindering apprehension. During a detention hearing,
- 4:04Speaker 3: his attorney stated that Kling did not intend to cause
- 4:06Speaker 3: a wildfire or property damage. Investigators report that both suspects
- 4:11Speaker 3: initially misled authorities by falsely claiming that a group of
- 4:14Speaker 3: individuals they encountered in the woods were responsible for starting
- 4:17Speaker 3: the fire. However, evidence from phone messages and witness testimonies
- 4:21Speaker 3: contradicted their statements, leading to their arrests. The pine barrens,
- 4:25Speaker 3: situated between Philadelphia and the Atlantic Coast, are particularly susceptible
- 4:29Speaker 3: to wildfires due to their sandy soil, underdeveloped foliage and
- 4:33Speaker 3: strong winds. These conditions, combined with a prolonged drought, have
- 4:37Speaker 3: exacerbated the fire spread.
- 4:39Speaker 2: The Jones Road fire has destroyed at least one commercial
- 4:42Speaker 2: building and several vehicles.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Thanks John. Brandy Natasha Cole, seventeen, disappears after getting into
- 4:49Speaker 1: a pickup truck Tifton, Georgia. It's July seventh. She climbs
- 4:53Speaker 1: into a white four door king Cab near Pucket Park.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Never seen again. Inside the trout an African American woman
- 5:00Speaker 1: and four Hispanic men. Brandy's family says she struggles with drugs,
- 5:05Speaker 1: but follows one rule, checking in with mom every seven days.
- 5:09Speaker 1: She never breaks the rule until that day. Her mom
- 5:13Speaker 1: fears she met with foul play. Today, Brandy's daughter, nineteen,
- 5:18Speaker 1: has no memory of her mom. Brandy five five, one
- 5:22Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, slightly crooked teeth,
- 5:27Speaker 1: an a tattoo on her hand, a beat brother tattoo
- 5:31Speaker 1: on her ankle. If you know anything about Brandy Natasha
- 5:34Speaker 1: Cole now thirty one, called tiff County Sheriffs two two
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- 5:48Speaker 1: where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
- 5:52Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides with this crime art. I'm Nancy
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