Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 01.23.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'mancy Grace breaking crime news now. A Florida
- 0:04Speaker 1: mom caused police after discovering twenty eight videos of her
- 0:07Speaker 1: teen's son having sex with his former art teacher. Marie
- 0:12Speaker 1: Joe Gordo taught the boy's eighth grade art class five
- 0:15Speaker 1: years before, then began a sex relationship with the miner
- 0:20Speaker 1: this past summer, meeting him in her car and at hotels.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Nancy Gordo was not only the boy's art teacher, but
- 0:27Speaker 2: also his religious ambassador. Gordo resigned from her position at
- 0:31Speaker 2: the school where she taught the boy just as the
- 0:33Speaker 2: sex relationship started, taking a position at another school teaching
- 0:37Speaker 2: art to children in kindergarten through eighth grade. Gordo has
- 0:40Speaker 2: been ordered to hand over her phone to authorities, but
- 0:43Speaker 2: the woman has been free on bond since her arrest.
- 0:45Speaker 2: In October.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Gordo, twenty nine, pleads not guilty to three counts of
- 0:49Speaker 1: exploiting a miner and federal child porn charges. I wonder
- 0:54Speaker 1: how they're going to explain those twenty eight videos. An
- 0:58Speaker 1: eight year old girl and her sibling play on a
- 1:00Speaker 1: frozen pond. The ice gives way both fall into freezing water.
- 1:05Speaker 1: An elderly neighbor calls nine one one and manages to
- 1:09Speaker 1: rescue the sibling, but can't reach the girl. As soon
- 1:12Speaker 1: as Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer gets on the scene,
- 1:15Speaker 1: she immediately dives in the freezing water, dragging the little
- 1:20Speaker 1: girl just eight to safety. Archer and the children warm
- 1:24Speaker 1: up in her patrol car until EMTs get there. Both
- 1:27Speaker 1: children make a full recovery from hypothermia. The Vermont State
- 1:32Speaker 1: Police Life Saving Award well deserved Trooper Michelle Archer. More
- 1:38Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now with the latest
- 1:43Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news, crime onized John Limley.
- 1:46Speaker 3: Reviving a dormant case against the actor Alec Baldwin has
- 1:49Speaker 3: now been indicted by a grand jury on an involuntary
- 1:53Speaker 3: manslaughter charge related to a fatal shooting that occurred in
- 1:56Speaker 3: twenty twenty one during a rehearsal on a New Mexico movie.
- 2:00Speaker 3: With the latest here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Months after they received new analysis of the rifle that
- 2:06Speaker 2: was used, special prosecutors in Santa Fe have presented the
- 2:09Speaker 2: case to a grand jury. After a day and a
- 2:11Speaker 2: half of laying out their case before the grand jury,
- 2:14Speaker 2: the prosecution declined to answer any questions. Baldwin's defense lawyers
- 2:18Speaker 2: say they will contest the charge. Two crew members were
- 2:20Speaker 2: among the witnesses seen at the courthouse for proceedings that
- 2:23Speaker 2: for now are shrouded in secrecy. One of the witnesses
- 2:26Speaker 2: was at the scene when the fatal shot was fired,
- 2:28Speaker 2: and the other had walked off the set the day
- 2:30Speaker 2: before out of fear for his safety. It was during
- 2:33Speaker 2: a rehearsal on the movie set south of Santa Fe
- 2:35Speaker 2: in October twenty twenty one, that Baldwin, the principal actor
- 2:39Speaker 2: and co producer of the western film Rust, was aiming
- 2:42Speaker 2: a revolver at cinematographer Helena Hutchins when the gun went off,
- 2:45Speaker 2: killing her and injuring director Joel Susa. Baldwin claims that
- 2:49Speaker 2: when he pushed back the hammer, the gun fired, even
- 2:51Speaker 2: though he did not pull the trigger. The actor, who
- 2:53Speaker 2: has starred in roughly forty films and TV shows, including
- 2:56Speaker 2: Martin scorsesees that departed the sitcom Thirty Rock in the
- 3:00Speaker 2: early blockbuster The Hunt for Red October, is now again
- 3:03Speaker 2: facing legal issues as a result of the charge.
- 3:05Speaker 3: It remains possible that Baldwin may have to serve prison
- 3:09Speaker 3: time if convicted. Citing DNA evidence. Authorities in Texas now
- 3:14Speaker 3: say that a man who died in prison decades ago
- 3:17Speaker 3: has been identified as the person who kidnapped and stabbed
- 3:20Speaker 3: three girls from Indiana and left them in a cornfield
- 3:24Speaker 3: almost fifty years ago. Once again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Although the girls, who were eleven, thirteen, and fourteen years
- 3:31Speaker 2: old at the time, survived the attack, a clear suspect
- 3:34Speaker 2: was never identified and the case was cold until recently.
- 3:37Speaker 2: According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the assailant has
- 3:41Speaker 2: now been identified by investigators using forensic genetic genealogy as
- 3:45Speaker 2: Thomas Edward Williams. The man was an inmate who died
- 3:49Speaker 2: in a Galveston, Texas prison in November nineteen eighty three
- 3:52Speaker 2: at the age of forty nine. Police say that Williams
- 3:54Speaker 2: was reported to have lived in Indianapolis at the time
- 3:57Speaker 2: of the August nineteen seventy five incident, close to the
- 4:00Speaker 2: location where the three girls were kidnapped while hitchhiking. According
- 4:03Speaker 2: to our friends with the Indianapolis Star, the girls were
- 4:06Speaker 2: transported to a cornfield in suburban Hancock County, where two
- 4:09Speaker 2: of them had their throats cut and one of them
- 4:11Speaker 2: was raped and stabbed in the chest and throat. After
- 4:14Speaker 2: the attack, two of the girls were able to catch
- 4:16Speaker 2: the attention of a motorist who called for help. It
- 4:19Speaker 2: was after the three now adult women contacted authorities about
- 4:22Speaker 2: the unsolved case that investigators reopened it and began testing
- 4:25Speaker 2: the crime scene evidence.
- 4:26Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, at a press conference, the three victims,
- 4:30Speaker 3: Sherry Rostler, Trick, Kathy Rotler, and Kendace Smith, described how
- 4:34Speaker 3: they had persisted over the years in asking law enforcement
- 4:37Speaker 3: to identify their attacker.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Thanks John Army, vet Daniel olsa and works as a
- 4:42Speaker 1: research assistant in Fargo at North Dakota State University's Department
- 4:46Speaker 1: of Soil Science. He's a drone operator. When Daniel stops
- 4:51Speaker 1: coming to work with no notice, his employers call the family.
- 4:54Speaker 1: They can't get in touch with him either. A week later,
- 4:58Speaker 1: Daniel's carr filled with many his belongings, found abandoned three
- 5:02Speaker 1: hours east in Bismarck. Numerous searches in the area where
- 5:07Speaker 1: the car was found no leads. The Olson family says
- 5:11Speaker 1: Daniel suffers from post traumatic stress syndrome. After IRAQ and
- 5:15Speaker 1: a fellow veteran, Matt Jamison, who served with Daniel says
- 5:18Speaker 1: he hopes other vets will speak up about their mental
- 5:21Speaker 1: health so he doesn't lose some more friends. To the quote,
- 5:24Speaker 1: silent killer Daniel Olsen, Army vet missing two years. If
- 5:31Speaker 1: you have info on Daniel Olsen, contact West Fargo PD
- 5:34Speaker 1: seven zero one four three three fifty five hundred. For
- 5:38Speaker 1: the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot
- 5:41Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.