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Crime Alert 07.24.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert.
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  Speaker 2: I may see grace breaking crime news now. Militia Sasfras,
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, calls nine one one about her four year
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  Speaker 2: old boy climbing the talk is suffering a headache, and
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  Speaker 2: she finds him unresponsive and cold to the touch. EMTs
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  Speaker 2: find the child with extensive injuries all over his body
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  Speaker 2: and a serious injury to his face. The boys rush
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  Speaker 2: to the hospital where he dies cause of death blunt
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  Speaker 2: force trauma to the head that occurred six to eight
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  Speaker 2: hours before mommy calls nine one one. Cops find text
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  Speaker 2: between Mommy, Malicia Sastras, and her boyfriend discussing beating the
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  Speaker 2: boy for wedding the band Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say that some of the injuries appear to have
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  Speaker 1: been caused by a belt or a cord. The boy
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  Speaker 1: also had a scar around his neck indicating he may
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  Speaker 1: have been strangled, and blisters on his hands that appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be from bindings. Sasfras's boyfriend and the boy's father,
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  Speaker 1: Javante Harris, has also been charged with second degree murder
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  Speaker 1: and cruelty to children.
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  Speaker 2: Malicia Safras found guilty of felony murder, first to greed,
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  Speaker 2: cruelty to children, two counts agg battery now send us
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  Speaker 2: to life plus twenty, says Bastapol. California PD release hilarious
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  Speaker 2: bodycam footage of a foodchase the suspect a pig named Pickles.
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  Speaker 2: Cops get a call about a piglet running in and
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  Speaker 2: out of the street. Several officers sent to catch the piggy.
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  Speaker 2: They quickly realize they underestimated the pigs speed and strength.
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  Speaker 2: Pickles darts across the parking lot, down a street, and
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  Speaker 2: even hides under a car before police corner him in
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  Speaker 2: a backyard and finally catch him. Pickles owner apologize profusely
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  Speaker 2: for the pig's behavior. Cops decide to decline, charging Pickles
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  Speaker 2: with resisting arrest. They also claim they'll never eat bacon again.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this. Now with the
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  Speaker 2: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in Michigan, where a jury has acquitted a
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  Speaker 3: man of first degree premeditated murder in the killing of
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  Speaker 3: a Detroit synagogue leader, but could not reach a verdict
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  Speaker 3: on a separate murder charge. As Sidney Sumner of Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online tells us, this now leads to a potential retrial
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  Speaker 3: in this high profile case.
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  Speaker 1: After five days of deliberations, which restarted last week due
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  Speaker 1: to a juror's dismissal in the inclusion of an alternate,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jackson Bolanos, was acquitted of fatally stabbing Samantha Wall
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  Speaker 1: at her home last October. Jackson Bolanos, who testified in
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  Speaker 1: his own defense, denied involvement but admitted to touching Wall's
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  Speaker 1: body when he found it outside during the night. Wall's
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  Speaker 1: death sparked initial speculation of antisemitic motives linked to the
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  Speaker 1: Israel Hamas conflict, though police found no evidence to support this.
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  Speaker 1: While acquitted to first degree murder, Jackson Belanos was convicted
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  Speaker 1: of lying to police. The jury was unable to reach
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  Speaker 1: the unanimous decision on charges of felony murder, defined in
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  Speaker 1: Michigan as murder committed during another crime and home envision.
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  Speaker 1: This leaves the door open for a retrial. Prosecutor kim
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  Speaker 1: Worthy vowed to quote press on for justice for Wall's family,
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  Speaker 1: with further steps to be discussed at a July twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifth hearing. Forty year old Samantha Wall was discovered with
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  Speaker 1: multiple stab wounds outside her home near downtown Detroit, shortly
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  Speaker 1: after returning from a wedding. Investigators believed she was attacked
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  Speaker 1: inside that managed to get outside before collapsing. The trial
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  Speaker 1: hinged largely un circumstantial evidence. Police noted blood spots on
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Blano's jacket and video footage of him in the area,
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  Speaker 1: though no evidence placed him inside Wall's home. Jackson Ballanos
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  Speaker 1: claimed he was in the neighborhood searching for unlocked cars
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  Speaker 1: and denied breaking into Wall's home and attacking her. Defense
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  Speaker 1: attorney Brown argued that the attack concentrated around Wall's head
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  Speaker 1: and neck suggested a crime of passion, likely committed by
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  Speaker 1: someone she knew, asserting that Jackson Bolanos was simply in
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  Speaker 1: the wrong place at the wrong time. Earlier in the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: a former boyfriend was arrested after making a distressed nine
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  Speaker 1: one one call claiming he might have killed Wall, but
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  Speaker 1: later attributed his statements to a bad reaction to medication.
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  Speaker 1: He was not churched.
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  Speaker 3: Samantha Wall was the president of the Isaacer Greed Downtown
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  Speaker 3: Synagogue and active in politics, working for US Representative Elisa
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  Speaker 3: Slutkin and State Attorney General Dana N. Neessel.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John Donna Cloud nineteen moves in with her dad Splendora, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: is the northeast suburb of Houston. Their relationship is strained.
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  Speaker 2: They argue often. One night she doesn't come home, Dad
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  Speaker 2: reports her missing, telling police his daughter left on a
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  Speaker 2: blind date with a guy she met online. Cops later
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  Speaker 2: learned that's a lie, and Donna's father actually told her
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  Speaker 2: to leave after their last argument. Two men pick up
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  Speaker 2: Donna from the dad's home. One says he drops Donna
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  Speaker 2: off safely at a hotel that evening. Donna's active online
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  Speaker 2: two days after her disappearance, but her phone pings for
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  Speaker 2: the last time in Houston's Westchase neighborhood. That's the southwest
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  Speaker 2: side of the city. Donna Cloud five to one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: ten pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. She's got a tattoo
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  Speaker 2: of a diamond on her right ring finger and the
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  Speaker 2: word faith tattooed on her right forearm. If you have
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  Speaker 2: info on Donna Cloud, now missing eight years, called Montgomery County,
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  Speaker 2: Texas Sheriffs nine three six seven six zero fifty eight hundred.
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  Speaker 2: For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline
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  Speaker 2: dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace