Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 10.27.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Caleb
- 0:03Speaker 1: Fast twenty nine meets a woman on Facebook dating. They
- 0:07Speaker 1: dated about two weeks. He invites her to visit his
- 0:09Speaker 1: home for the first time, but she tries to leave.
- 0:12Speaker 1: He won't let her for three days.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Caleb.
- 0:16Speaker 1: For three days, Caleb Fast beats her, sex assaults her, uses.
- 0:21Speaker 3: A gun to threaten her.
- 0:22Speaker 1: She finally escapes when he drinks a bottle of wine
- 0:25Speaker 1: and passes out, running to a nearby church to call
- 0:28Speaker 1: nine one one. First responders find her visibly shaken, her
- 0:31Speaker 1: right eyes swollen shut. She's taken to a hospital for
- 0:35Speaker 1: several serious blunt force injuries.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Nancy, the unidentified victim, reported that Fast beat her so
- 0:41Speaker 2: badly she was urine eating blood throughout the ordeal. After
- 0:44Speaker 2: the first beating, Fast ordered the woman to remove her clothes, and,
- 0:47Speaker 2: fearing more physical harm, she did so, after which Fast
- 0:50Speaker 2: sexually assaulted her. With Fast passed out, the woman was
- 0:54Speaker 2: able to leave his home on foot, calling nine one
- 0:56Speaker 2: one a few minutes before five am.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Fast now charged with false imprisonment, battery, agassault, and sex assault.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Online daters beware. Here's a lesson on how not to
- 1:09Speaker 1: rob a bank Michael Nash has to an Anchorage First
- 1:12Speaker 1: National Bank, but he can't get inside. The lobby doesn't
- 1:15Speaker 1: open until ten and the front doors are locked. He
- 1:18Speaker 1: sees a supervisor inside and waves him down. Nash then
- 1:22Speaker 1: passes the supervisor a note that reads, this is a robbery.
- 1:26Speaker 1: While Nash washes through the glass. The supervisor calls Alaska police.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Michael Nash, forty nine, now charged with bank robbery and
- 1:36Speaker 1: he never put a toe in the bank. More Crime
- 1:40Speaker 1: and Justice news after this Now with the latest crime
- 1:45Speaker 1: and justice breaking news Crime onlines John Lemley.
- 1:47Speaker 3: After his lawyers accused the court clerk in his trial
- 1:51Speaker 3: of influencing the jury. A South Carolina appeals court is
- 1:54Speaker 3: now allowing Alex Murdoch to seek a judge to overturn
- 1:58Speaker 3: his murder convictions and life sentence and provide him a
- 2:02Speaker 3: new trial. For more, we turned to Sidney Sumner with
- 2:05Speaker 3: Crime Online.
- 2:06Speaker 2: The appeals court ruling means that convicted murderer Alex Murdau
- 2:10Speaker 2: will now be allowed to argue that jury manipulation influenced
- 2:13Speaker 2: the outcome of his trial on charges of killing his
- 2:16Speaker 2: wife and child. The one paragraph decision could now pave
- 2:19Speaker 2: the way for a full hearing, one in which witnesses
- 2:22Speaker 2: under oath could include the jurors who deliberated a few
- 2:25Speaker 2: hours after the six week trial, Colleton County Clerk of
- 2:28Speaker 2: Court Rebecca Hill, and even Judge Clifton Newman, who has
- 2:31Speaker 2: been widely praised for his handling of the case. Even
- 2:34Speaker 2: if his conviction is overturned, Murdau will not be released
- 2:37Speaker 2: from prison. Last month, he pled guilty to financial crimes
- 2:41Speaker 2: for taking millions of dollars from disadvantaged personal injury victims,
- 2:45Speaker 2: as well as a settlement for the family of his
- 2:47Speaker 2: former housekeeper who died in an accident at his home.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Murdaw's awaiting the judge's decision on his punishment, which for
- 2:54Speaker 2: those offenses would most likely involve years, if not decades,
- 2:57Speaker 2: in prison. After hearing from three jurors who said that
- 3:00Speaker 2: Hill had advised some of them not to believe murder
- 3:03Speaker 2: when he testified in his own defense, Murda's attorneys filed
- 3:06Speaker 2: an appeal last month. They alleged that, in addition to
- 3:09Speaker 2: having private chats with the jury four person, the court
- 3:12Speaker 2: clerk who was responsible for assisting jurors and making sure
- 3:15Speaker 2: the trial proceeded smoothly, also put pressure on jurors to
- 3:18Speaker 2: reach a decision quickly.
- 3:20Speaker 3: The daytime and location of the hearing will be scheduled later.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Now to New Mexico, as federal prosecutors announced that an
- 3:28Speaker 3: Albuquerque man found guilty of the twenty nineteen shooting death
- 3:31Speaker 3: of a US postal worker has been sentenced to twenty
- 3:34Speaker 3: two years in prison. Xavier Zamora was given the sentence
- 3:38Speaker 3: more than a year after entering a guilty plea to
- 3:41Speaker 3: the second degree murder of a government employee. This according
- 3:45Speaker 3: to the Office of the US Attorney for the District
- 3:47Speaker 3: of New Mexico. Zamora also entered a guilty plea for
- 3:51Speaker 3: the use of a firearm during a violent crime that
- 3:53Speaker 3: claimed a life. Prosecutors say that while on his delivery route,
- 3:58Speaker 3: Jose Hernandez witnessed some mo than seventeen years old in
- 4:02Speaker 3: an argument with his mother outside their residence. Hernandez approached
- 4:06Speaker 3: the pair and made an effort to defuse the conflict.
- 4:09Speaker 3: That's when, according to investigators, Zamora hit and shoved Hernandez.
- 4:13Speaker 3: After that, the teenager went inside the house to get
- 4:16Speaker 3: a gun, then shot the mail carrier in the abdomen.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Hernandez died less than a half hour later. Court filing
- 4:23Speaker 3: state that the gun he used was never located overseas. Now,
- 4:28Speaker 3: as allies of jailed opposition leader Alexi Navalney say, three
- 4:32Speaker 3: of his attorneys have been detained by Russian police after
- 4:35Speaker 3: their houses were searched once again, crime online Sydney Sumner.
- 4:40Speaker 2: The arrests coincide with mounting pressure on critics of the
- 4:43Speaker 2: Kremlin on social media. Navalney ally Ivan Zadenoff says that
- 4:47Speaker 2: the action was an attempt to quote completely isolate Navalny.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Although facing a nineteen year prison sentence, forty seven year
- 4:54Speaker 2: old Navalni has been able to stay up to date
- 4:57Speaker 2: on news and send out regular communications while incarcerated since
- 5:01Speaker 2: January of twenty twenty one. Zadanov stated that the three
- 5:04Speaker 2: lawyers were the targets of raids, part of a criminal
- 5:07Speaker 2: case related to allegations that they belonged to an extremist organization.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Following the search, all three were taken into custody, presumably
- 5:15Speaker 2: as suspects in the investigation. This according to Navalney's team.
- 5:19Speaker 2: When the three of them appeared in court later that day,
- 5:22Speaker 2: a pre trial detention order was issued, pending an investigation and.
- 5:25Speaker 3: Trial According to independent Russian media, the offices of another
- 5:30Speaker 3: lawyer representing Navalny were also rated, but the targeted attorney
- 5:34Speaker 3: was not in Russia at the time.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Sierra Chapman visits her ex boyfriend and the Dayton suburbs
- 5:39Speaker 1: to swap personal items after the breakup. She's seen on
- 5:43Speaker 1: Vidio leaving his home four thirty a m in her
- 5:46Speaker 1: silver twenty fourteen Cadillac SUV, but she never makes it home.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Chapmansteen's son calls his aunt when mom never makes it,
- 5:55Speaker 1: and they report her missing. Ten days later, her SUVs
- 5:59Speaker 1: found a bandon twenty five miles south parked in a
- 6:02Speaker 1: residential area Middleton. Her purse the belonging she picked up,
- 6:07Speaker 1: all still in her car. Her family says she has
- 6:10Speaker 1: no friends or family in that area, no reason to
- 6:13Speaker 1: be there. Sierra Chapman now missing over ten months. There's
- 6:18Speaker 1: a twenty thousand dollars reward for info leading to her discovery.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Please call Dayton PD nine three seven three three three
- 6:27Speaker 1: two six seven seven that's nine three seven three three
- 6:30Speaker 1: three cops or Miami Valley Crime Stoppers nine three seven
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- 6:40Speaker 1: two two two stop for the latest crime injustice news.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm
- 6:47Speaker 1: Nancy Grace