Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 12.20.24 | Missing Woman's Body Found in Well, Arrest Made
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Gray's Breaking crime News now Shamra
- 0:04Speaker 1: Hope Cassidy Fealkel, forty nine, lasting in Hartsville, South Carolina,
- 0:07Speaker 1: September twenty five. At first, her family not concerned, but
- 0:11Speaker 1: after two weeks, Felkel is reported missing. October seven. Now,
- 0:16Speaker 1: human remains found buried in a well after daughter Casey
- 0:20Speaker 1: Woolf gets a tip to searching area near Felkel's property.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Her death now ruled a homicide, an arrest made.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Nancy Felkel's remains were discovered in a hollowed out area
- 0:32Speaker 2: near an inoperable well. Felkel's level of decomposition indicated she
- 0:36Speaker 2: had been there for quite some time. An arrest warrant
- 0:39Speaker 2: shows Daniel Peel is suspected of Falkel's murder. The document
- 0:42Speaker 2: alleges Peel strangled Fealkel following an argument, but police are
- 0:46Speaker 2: still working to determine if or how Peel and Falkel
- 0:49Speaker 2: knew each other. Falkel's daughter says she is living in
- 0:52Speaker 2: a nightmare and will miss her mom forever. In an
- 0:55Speaker 2: online post, she writes, I hope it is so beautiful
- 0:58Speaker 2: up there.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Daniel Peel's sixty booked on murder kidnap and obstruction of justice.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Vanessa Guerrera, thirty, did not have to confess to cops.
- 1:08Speaker 1: She stole a two thousand and four to four free
- 1:10Speaker 1: Star van worth two thousand dollars and sold it for scrap.
- 1:13Speaker 1: She wrote all about it in her personal journal. It
- 1:15Speaker 1: did not take long for cops to locate the journal
- 1:18Speaker 1: after she's id'd by witnesses at the auto salvage business.
- 1:21Speaker 1: She even accident her written confession totally sold a card
- 1:25Speaker 1: today her words not mine, followed by an exclamation point.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Guerra charged with a pair of felonies receiving stolen property
- 1:34Speaker 1: and theft. They need to tack on felony ding dong
- 1:38Speaker 1: for writing a confession for cops to find more crime
- 1:41Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime
- 1:48Speaker 1: and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines.
- 1:50Speaker 3: John Lemley, and Oklahoma man convicted of killing a ten
- 1:53Speaker 3: year old girl in two thousand and six, has been
- 1:56Speaker 3: executed by lethal injection. Forty five year old keb xan
- 2:00Speaker 3: and Ray Underwood was pronounced dead Thursday morning at the
- 2:03Speaker 3: Oklahoma State Penitentiary. It marked the state's fourth execution this
- 2:07Speaker 3: year and the final one in the US for twenty
- 2:10Speaker 3: twenty four, Underwood was sentenced to death for the murder
- 2:13Speaker 3: of Jamie ross Bolin, a crime he admitted was part
- 2:17Speaker 3: of a gruesome fantasy. Prosecutors described the killing as premeditated
- 2:21Speaker 3: and brutal. A last minute appeal to the US Supreme Court,
- 2:25Speaker 3: citing procedural issues and Underwood's mental health, was denied. Oklahoma
- 2:30Speaker 3: uses a three drug protocol for lethal injections, starting with
- 2:34Speaker 3: a sedative and ending with a drug that stops the heart.
- 2:38Speaker 3: The execution took place on what would have been Underwood's birthday.
- 2:42Speaker 3: The suspect in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian
- 2:46Speaker 3: Thompson has returned to New York to face federal charges
- 2:49Speaker 3: including stalking and murder, which could carry the death penalty.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Let's get right to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online for more.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Twenty eight year old Luigi Mangioni was flown back through
- 3:00Speaker 2: after a brief court appearance in Pennsylvania, where he had
- 3:03Speaker 2: been arrested five days after the December fourth shooting. Authorities
- 3:07Speaker 2: alleged Mangioni and Bush Thompson outside of Manhattan hotel as
- 3:10Speaker 2: the CEO was heading to an investor conference. Video footage
- 3:14Speaker 2: shows the masked gunman, firing multiple shots before fleeing. Mangioni,
- 3:18Speaker 2: a computer science graduate from Maryland, was apprehended on December ninth,
- 3:22Speaker 2: Adam MacDonald's and Altuna, Pennsylvania Police say he was carrying
- 3:26Speaker 2: the weapon used in the attack, fake id's ten thousand
- 3:29Speaker 2: dollars in cash in a notebook detailing grievances against the
- 3:33Speaker 2: health insurance industry. The federal complaint accuses Mangioni of targeting
- 3:37Speaker 2: Thompson out of anger toward corporate greed in healthcare, though
- 3:40Speaker 2: investigators confirm he was never a United Healthcare client. Notes
- 3:44Speaker 2: found in his possession reportedly expressed plans to attack a
- 3:48Speaker 2: health insurance executive. Mangioni faces both federal charges, which include
- 3:52Speaker 2: murder through use of a firearm, and a separate New
- 3:55Speaker 2: York state indictment charging him with murder as an act
- 3:58Speaker 2: of terrorism. Thursday. He showed little reaction as the charges
- 4:02Speaker 2: were read. Thompson, a fifty year old Iowa native and
- 4:05Speaker 2: follower of two, had worked at United Health Group for
- 4:08Speaker 2: two decades and became CEO of its insurance division in
- 4:11Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. His death has sparked conversations about rising
- 4:15Speaker 2: frustrations with the US Healthcare System.
- 4:17Speaker 3: Mangione's defense team has described the dual prosecution as unprecedented,
- 4:23Speaker 3: urging the public to avoid rushing to judgment.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Thanks Tom Roslin sax Meyer, seventy one, and husband Bill
- 4:30Speaker 1: set up their camping equipment at Silver Valley Campground, Lake Alpine,
- 4:35Speaker 1: near Bear Valley, California. Around two pm, she sets out
- 4:39Speaker 1: for a hike. Husband Bill says she often hikes by herself,
- 4:43Speaker 1: and this time her plan was to walk.
- 4:45Speaker 3: By the lake.
- 4:46Speaker 1: It's a trip that should take about an hour. When
- 4:49Speaker 1: an hour and a half goes by, he reports her
- 4:51Speaker 1: missing to the camp host. An estimated one hundred person
- 4:55Speaker 1: search team scours the area. Divers check the lakes. A
- 4:59Speaker 1: helicopter searches from above. A four dog team also joins
- 5:03Speaker 1: the search. Saxon Meyer last same wearing a yellow or
- 5:07Speaker 1: blue short sleeve shirt, blue shorts, canvas tennis shoes, wire
- 5:12Speaker 1: rimmed reading glasses. She's five to one, reddish brown hair,
- 5:16Speaker 1: brown eyes. If you know or think you know anything
- 5:20Speaker 1: about Rosalind saxon Meyer's disappearance, please call Alpine County Sheriff's
- 5:26Speaker 1: five three zero six nine four one three five one,
- 5:30Speaker 1: or your local FBI Office. For the latest crime and
- 5:34Speaker 1: justice needs, go to crime online dot com and please
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- 5:41Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm easy, Grace