Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 06.24.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimews now. Ashley Hines,
- 0:04Speaker 1: just eighteen, joins friends in DC for a celebration at
- 0:08Speaker 1: a local hotel. The party turns ugly Someone's asked to leave,
- 0:12Speaker 1: shots ring out. Police arrive, eighteen year old Hines dead
- 0:17Speaker 1: from a gunshot wound.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Nancy Hines was a freshman at Louisiana State University. Hines
- 0:22Speaker 2: mother says she was texting with Ashley just moments before
- 0:25Speaker 2: her death. Her last message was I love you.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Witnesses and CCTV help cops identify the shooter. Jelani Cousin,
- 0:32Speaker 1: also eighteen, now charged with murder II. Amanda broku comes
- 0:37Speaker 1: home from work to find her driveway missing. Yes, her
- 0:42Speaker 1: entire concrete path torn away. Broke us and indirect victim
- 0:47Speaker 1: of a scam after repeatedly turning away contractors for work
- 0:51Speaker 1: she did not hire. One contractor made it through ripping
- 0:55Speaker 1: up the driveway.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Here's how the scam works.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Scammers hire contractors to complete project at a random home,
- 1:02Speaker 1: then pay more than the work will cost with a
- 1:04Speaker 1: bad check, and collect a large refund. In Brokho's case,
- 1:09Speaker 1: the contractors did not catch on to the scam before
- 1:13Speaker 1: they completed the job removing her driveway. If the scammers
- 1:18Speaker 1: are ever caught, at least a prosecutor has some concrete evidence.
- 1:24Speaker 1: More crime and Justice news after this. Now with the
- 1:30Speaker 1: latest Crime and Justice breaking Knees Crime Onlines John Lemley.
- 1:33Speaker 3: We began in Ohio as a man found guilty of
- 1:36Speaker 3: killing eight members of another family is now requesting a
- 1:40Speaker 3: new trial for the latest returned to Sydney Sumner with
- 1:43Speaker 3: Crime Online.
- 1:45Speaker 2: The request was submitted by George Wagner, the Fourth to
- 1:48Speaker 2: the Ohio Court of Appeals. He alleges that at his
- 1:50Speaker 2: twenty twenty two trial, in which he was found guilty
- 1:53Speaker 2: of all twenty two counts, including eight counts of aggravated murder,
- 1:56Speaker 2: there were multiple mistakes made in his filing. He contends
- 2:00Speaker 2: that there is a quote reasonable probability that the alleged
- 2:03Speaker 2: errors swayed the jurisd decisions. It now gives prosecutors sixty
- 2:06Speaker 2: days to reply to the petition. Wagner received eight consecutive
- 2:10Speaker 2: life sentences, one for each of the victims, plus an
- 2:13Speaker 2: additional one hundred and twenty one years for the remaining offenses.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Among the purported mistakes, he listened his appeal the fact
- 2:20Speaker 2: that prosecutors were permitted to introduce evidence of crimes and
- 2:23Speaker 2: firearms unrelated to the Rodent killings, which only assisted in
- 2:26Speaker 2: linking Wagner to his own family's criminal activities. The prosecution
- 2:30Speaker 2: says that the killings, which at first raised questions about
- 2:33Speaker 2: possible drug cartel participation, were the result of a disagreement
- 2:37Speaker 2: about Wagner's custody of his niece. The deadly shootings that
- 2:40Speaker 2: occurred in April twenty sixteen near Piked in Ohio at
- 2:43Speaker 2: three mobile homes in a camper startled locals and sparked
- 2:46Speaker 2: one of the biggest criminal investigations in the state. Wagner
- 2:49Speaker 2: stated that he would not have allowed the killings to
- 2:51Speaker 2: occur if he had known about the plot, and denied
- 2:53Speaker 2: any knowledge of his family's involvement in the killings. The
- 2:56Speaker 2: prosecution contended that since he was aware of the schemes
- 2:59Speaker 2: and took pardon them, he ought to be found guilty
- 3:02Speaker 2: of the murderers. Wagner was allegedly with his father and
- 3:05Speaker 2: brother when they went to the road in houses, that
- 3:07Speaker 2: he walked inside with them, and that he assisted his
- 3:09Speaker 2: brother in moving two bodies. However, Wagner was not charged
- 3:13Speaker 2: with shooting anyone in exchange for helping his family avoid
- 3:16Speaker 2: possible death sentences. George Wagner's younger brother, Edward Jake Wagner,
- 3:21Speaker 2: entered a plea of guilty to aggravated murder and other
- 3:23Speaker 2: counts and consented to testify against George and his parents.
- 3:27Speaker 2: George Billy Wagner, the third their father, has entered a
- 3:30Speaker 2: not guilty plea in connection with the killings, and his
- 3:32Speaker 2: trial is set to begin on January sixth.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Angela Wagner, George and Jake Wagner's mother, entered a guilty
- 3:39Speaker 3: plea to aiding in the planning of the murders. Months
- 3:42Speaker 3: after the state became the first to execute someone using
- 3:45Speaker 3: the previously untested method, Alabama is seeking to carry out
- 3:49Speaker 3: another nitrogen gas execution once again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:55Speaker 2: In recent days, the Office of the Attorney General requested
- 3:58Speaker 2: that the Alabama Supreme Court set it down eight for
- 4:00Speaker 2: Carrie Dale Grayson's execution. Grayson was found guilty of killing
- 4:04Speaker 2: Vicky w Uhr in Jefferson County in nineteen ninety four.
- 4:07Speaker 2: This would be the third planned nitrogen gas execution if allowed.
- 4:11Speaker 2: In January, the state executed Kenneth Smith using nitrogen gas,
- 4:15Speaker 2: which was a first for the country. Alabama has scheduled
- 4:18Speaker 2: Alan Eugene Miller's nitrogen gas execution to take place on
- 4:21Speaker 2: September twenty sixth. Although prisoners have the option to be
- 4:24Speaker 2: executed by electric chair or nitrogen gas, lethal injection is
- 4:28Speaker 2: still the state's preferred method of execution. The state is
- 4:31Speaker 2: starting to look for execution dates for the scores of
- 4:33Speaker 2: prisoners who choose nitrogen as their preferred mode of execution
- 4:37Speaker 2: following Smith's January death by nitrogen gas. The request is
- 4:41Speaker 2: made in spite of the continued dispute and legal action
- 4:44Speaker 2: surrounding the events of the first nitrogen execution. As Smith
- 4:47Speaker 2: was tied to the gurney in the execution chamber, he
- 4:49Speaker 2: had convulsions that resembled seizures for over two minutes. A
- 4:53Speaker 2: few minutes of desperate breaths ensued after that. Advocates were
- 4:57Speaker 2: alarmed by the execution's outcome, claiming it was a complete
- 5:00Speaker 2: dat opposite of the state's assurance of a swift and
- 5:02Speaker 2: painless death. Steve Marshall, the Attorney General of Alabama, called
- 5:05Speaker 2: the execution a textbook example and offered to assist other
- 5:09Speaker 2: states in creating the new protocol.
- 5:11Speaker 3: The date of the execution will be determined by Alabama
- 5:14Speaker 3: Governor k Ivy if Justice is approve it. Thanks John.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Tyler Goodrich picks up pizza for his family on his
- 5:21Speaker 1: way home from work at the Nebraska Department of Corrections.
- 5:24Speaker 1: After sending the two children to bed, Goodrich argues with
- 5:28Speaker 1: his husband storms out of their Omaha home. Goodrich an
- 5:31Speaker 1: active runner, seen on surveillance jogging in the neighborhood, but
- 5:36Speaker 1: Goodrich never comes home. He also misses a team marathon
- 5:41Speaker 1: the very next day. While Goodrich had his cell phone
- 5:44Speaker 1: and while it's with him when he left. There have
- 5:46Speaker 1: been no pings or bank activities since he disappeared. If
- 5:50Speaker 1: you have info on Tyler Goodrich, now missing two months,
- 5:54Speaker 1: please contact Lancaster County Sheriff's four zero two four four
- 5:58Speaker 1: one sixty five. For the latest crime and justice needs.
- 6:02Speaker 1: Go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm
- 6:05Speaker 1: Nancy Grace.