Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 03.08.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking Crime Needs Now. Jessica
- 0:03Speaker 1: Long convinces Wayne Barlow she's got something he wants. They
- 0:07Speaker 1: agreed to meet in a wooded area for the exchange.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Long has Barlow part on the street. As soon as
- 0:14Speaker 1: Long gets her payment, she signals her buddy, Michael Montgomery,
- 0:18Speaker 1: to steal Barlow's car while she distracts him. Barlow quickly
- 0:24Speaker 1: realizes what's happening. He struggles with Montgomery, who eventually shoots
- 0:28Speaker 1: him in the head.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Nancy. Once Barlow understood what was happening, he attacked Long.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Montgomery steps in, beating Barlow with a pipe like object,
- 0:37Speaker 2: then tries to run Barlow over with his car. As
- 0:40Speaker 2: Barlow lies in the street, Montgomery approaches and shoots him
- 0:43Speaker 2: in the head. Barlow's body was later discovered on the
- 0:46Speaker 2: side of the road, and text messages led investigators to Long.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Both Jessica Long thirty seven and Michael Montgomery forty seven,
- 0:54Speaker 1: now charged with murder. Border Protection agents knew Calvin Batista
- 1:00Speaker 1: than happy to see them, but he really did have
- 1:02Speaker 1: a snake in his pants. Batista hops the bus from
- 1:05Speaker 1: New York City to Montreal to purchase three Burmese pythons,
- 1:09Speaker 1: a species regulated by the FEDS because of their size
- 1:12Speaker 1: and danger. Batista puts each snake in a bag and
- 1:16Speaker 1: then ties them to the draw string of his pants
- 1:19Speaker 1: to conceal the snakes for the bus ride home. Customs
- 1:23Speaker 1: is not easily fooled. Batista snakes are confiscated and the
- 1:27Speaker 1: thirty eight year old man will now serve a year
- 1:30Speaker 1: of probation and pay five grand for the attempted smuggling
- 1:34Speaker 1: of pythons. More Prime in Justice news after this Now
- 1:40Speaker 1: with the latest Prime in Justice breaking these crime onlines.
- 1:43Speaker 1: John Lemley, a.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Vermont man, has entered a guilty plea to three crimes,
- 1:47Speaker 3: including manslaughter, in the death of his two year old son,
- 1:50Speaker 3: who investigators say fell into a fast flowing stream last
- 1:54Speaker 3: April as his father fled the scene of a vehicle
- 1:56Speaker 3: crash in Massachusetts. We turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime
- 2:00Speaker 3: Online for details.
- 2:02Speaker 2: For the charge of manslaughter, Daryl Gay Lorenzio of Reedsboro,
- 2:05Speaker 2: Vermont received a sentence of nine to fifteen years in prison,
- 2:09Speaker 2: which is far more than the state's recommended sentence of
- 2:11Speaker 2: three years. In addition, he received a concurrent two and
- 2:14Speaker 2: a half year term for operating a vehicle while intoxicated
- 2:17Speaker 2: and operating a vehicle endangering a child. The defense asked
- 2:21Speaker 2: for four years in prison, while the prosecution wanted a
- 2:23Speaker 2: sentence of twelve to fifteen years. It was in Northern
- 2:26Speaker 2: Berkshire District Court in North Adams earlier this year that
- 2:29Speaker 2: Galernzio entered a not guilty plea. At around two in
- 2:33Speaker 2: the morning on April eighth, twenty twenty three, Massachusetts State
- 2:36Speaker 2: Police trooper say they responded to reports of a single
- 2:39Speaker 2: vehicle rollover in the town of Clarksburg. According to police,
- 2:42Speaker 2: a preliminary investigation revealed the boy may have died when
- 2:46Speaker 2: his father abandoned him in a brook while running on
- 2:48Speaker 2: foot from the scene of the crash. At around two
- 2:50Speaker 2: twenty am. The child was pulled from Hudson Brook and
- 2:53Speaker 2: sent to Berkshire Medical Center in North Adams, where he
- 2:56Speaker 2: was pronounced dead. A preliminary autopsy revealed the boy's cosse
- 3:00Speaker 2: of death to be hypothermia and drowning. Authorities discovered Galerenzio
- 3:04Speaker 2: by the stream, completely drenched. Galerenzio had minor injuries and
- 3:08Speaker 2: was treated in a local hospital. He told police that
- 3:10Speaker 2: they went for a drive because his son could not
- 3:12Speaker 2: sleep and had been coughing.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Gay Lorenzo blamed the collision on icy conditions and said
- 3:17Speaker 3: the boy ran away from him into the stream. Federal
- 3:21Speaker 3: prosecutors say that a New York man has been found
- 3:24Speaker 3: guilty of killing and dismembering a woman after obtaining a
- 3:27Speaker 3: life insurance policy in her name through fraud and attempting
- 3:31Speaker 3: to collect the benefits once again crime online.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Sidney Sumner, a co conspirator, testified during a two week
- 3:37Speaker 2: Brooklyn federal trial, that it was through watching crime shows
- 3:40Speaker 2: like The First forty eight and Dexter that Corey Martin
- 3:43Speaker 2: learned how to get away with killing the woman, a
- 3:45Speaker 2: sex worker that he managed. Brooklyn US attorney Breon Peace
- 3:49Speaker 2: said that the mandatory life term associated with the most
- 3:52Speaker 2: serious allegation of murder for hire is appropriate for a
- 3:55Speaker 2: quote ghastly cold blooded crime that was meticulously planned and
- 3:58Speaker 2: driven by greed. The thirty six year old Queen's Resident
- 4:01Speaker 2: was charged in connection with the twenty eighteen killing of
- 4:04Speaker 2: twenty six year old Brandy Odom, whose dismembered body was
- 4:07Speaker 2: discovered scattered throughout a Brooklyn park. The prosecution said that
- 4:10Speaker 2: Martin and Odam lived together with Adel Anderson, a co
- 4:13Speaker 2: conspirator in Queen's They claimed that in the year prior
- 4:16Speaker 2: to Martin killing Odom in her bedroom in April twenty eighteen,
- 4:19Speaker 2: Martin and Anderson had fraudulently purchased two life insurance policies
- 4:23Speaker 2: in Odom's name. In Martin's trial, Anderson, who has entered
- 4:27Speaker 2: a guilty plea to charges pertaining to the life insurance
- 4:30Speaker 2: fraud and murder plot, testified that the two had watched
- 4:32Speaker 2: the first forty eight, a true crime program prior to
- 4:35Speaker 2: Odom's death to learn how to commit murder without getting caught.
- 4:39Speaker 2: According to Pece's office, Anderson also mentioned that Martin watched Dexter,
- 4:43Speaker 2: a showtime series about a fictitious serial killer. As part
- 4:47Speaker 2: of her testimony, Anderson said the two then bought cleaning supplies,
- 4:50Speaker 2: covered their entire bathroom in heavy duty black garbage bags,
- 4:53Speaker 2: and dismembered Odum's body before dumping it in Canarsie Park.
- 4:57Speaker 3: Prosecutors said that Martin and Anderson tried und successfully to
- 5:01Speaker 3: collect on Odom's life insurance policies on multiple occasions before
- 5:05Speaker 3: being captured in twenty twenty.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Thanks Sean while Kelly Evans is described by her family
- 5:10Speaker 1: as an old soul who enjoys spending time alone. They
- 5:14Speaker 1: get concerned when she doesn't answer texts or calls for
- 5:16Speaker 1: two days straight. Her daughter stops by mom's and Nola,
- 5:20Speaker 1: Arkansas home and finds her car in the driveway and
- 5:23Speaker 1: most of her belongings undisturbed. Kelly Evans left her wallet behind,
- 5:27Speaker 1: only taking a zebra pattern purse with her. A week
- 5:31Speaker 1: after she's reported missing, a woman matching Kelly's description and
- 5:35Speaker 1: carrying a zebra purse to seeing walking east on Highway
- 5:39Speaker 1: two twenty five near Greenbrier, Arkansas, but cops following up
- 5:44Speaker 1: cannot locate the woman to verify the siding. Kelly Evans
- 5:48Speaker 1: now missing over six years. If you know anything about
- 5:53Speaker 1: Kelly Evans, contact Faulkner County, Arkansas Sheriffs five zero one
- 5:58Speaker 1: four or five zero four nine nine one seven. For
- 6:02Speaker 1: the latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot com
- 6:04Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.