Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 12.27.24 | Son Kills Mother, Neighbor Trying to Check On Her
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crimes Now. Thomas Farnsworth,
- 0:04Speaker 1: fifty seven, gets a strange voicemail from neighbor Sherry's son,
- 0:07Speaker 1: Roger Shweda. Shweda says he can't go inside their home
- 0:11Speaker 1: anymore because he killed his mother. Well. Farnsworth calls nine
- 0:15Speaker 1: one one for a welfare check on neighbor Sherry, age seventy,
- 0:18Speaker 1: and walks over to her home to get the exact address.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Roger Shweda happens to arrive home while Thomas Farnsworth still outside,
- 0:27Speaker 1: and Shweda shoots him dead with the nine one one
- 0:30Speaker 1: operator still on the phone. When cops arrived, they find
- 0:34Speaker 1: Cherry Shweda brutally murdered in her bedroom.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Nancy cops track Roger straded down using license plate reader technology.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Shweeda spotted driving north towards Canada. The forty year old
- 0:44Speaker 2: flees from a traffic stop, leading a short police chase
- 0:47Speaker 2: before surrendering. Police have not revealed Cherry Shweda's cause of death,
- 0:51Speaker 2: only describing the manner of her homicide as gruesome.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Roger Shweda, forty, booked two counts open murder and gun charges.
- 1:00Speaker 1: A Colorado cop catches a man in the act trying
- 1:03Speaker 1: to break into an empty home. The suspect takes off
- 1:06Speaker 1: on a scooter. The female officer struggles to keep up
- 1:09Speaker 1: on foot as she chases him through the neighborhood. Then
- 1:13Speaker 1: she spots a child's bike lying in the yard and
- 1:15Speaker 1: hops on. She gains on The suspect back up, arrives
- 1:19Speaker 1: and blocks the path. He's quickly collared on felony theft,
- 1:23Speaker 1: and the lady cop gets a ride to drop off
- 1:26Speaker 1: her borrowed bike and return to her own car. More
- 1:30Speaker 1: Crime and Justice Knees after this Now with the latest
- 1:36Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Crime Onlines. John Lemley a man who's facing multiple charges
- 1:41Speaker 3: after a violent knife attack at Manhattan's Grand Central subway
- 1:45Speaker 3: station Tuesday night. Police say the incident happened around ten
- 1:49Speaker 3: to fifteen pm, leaving a forty two year old man
- 1:52Speaker 3: with a wrist injury and a twenty six year old
- 1:55Speaker 3: woman with a neck wound. Both victims are in stable
- 1:58Speaker 3: condition at Bellevue Hospital. The suspect, now charged with assault, menacing,
- 2:03Speaker 3: reckless endangerment and weapons possession, allegedly attacked the woman as
- 2:07Speaker 3: she exited a Number four train, yelling quote, what's your
- 2:11Speaker 3: problem before punching her to the ground and slashing her
- 2:15Speaker 3: throat with a small knife. This attack comes as New
- 2:18Speaker 3: York grapples with rising subway violence. Just days earlier, a
- 2:22Speaker 3: man appeared in Brooklyn criminal court on charges of murdering
- 2:25Speaker 3: a woman by setting her on fire aboard a subway car.
- 2:29Speaker 3: That suspect, identified as thirty three year old Sebastian Zapeta,
- 2:33Speaker 3: is being held without bail at Rikers Island. A shocking
- 2:37Speaker 3: revelation out of Hawaii at this hour as a federal
- 2:40Speaker 3: investigation continues into the death of a convicted crime boss
- 2:44Speaker 3: at a detention center in Honolulu. Here's the latest from
- 2:47Speaker 3: Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Michael misk a fifty year old former crime boss, died
- 2:52Speaker 2: earlier this month while on federal custody. The Honolulu Medical
- 2:56Speaker 2: Examiner has now confirmed the cause of death a lethal
- 2:59Speaker 2: overdose of firetanol and paraflora fetanyl. Both substances are synthetic opioids,
- 3:04Speaker 2: with periflora fetanyl known to be even more boutan than fentanyl.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Miski was found unresponsive at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center
- 3:11Speaker 2: on December first, despite life saving efforts by facility staff
- 3:14Speaker 2: and emergency responders. He could not be revived. Officials have
- 3:18Speaker 2: said the death appears accidental, but the investigation remains ongoing.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Questions linger about how Miskey obtained the deadly substances while
- 3:25Speaker 2: in custody. The Bureau of Prisons has yet to comment
- 3:28Speaker 2: on the matter. An autopsy report is expected to shed
- 3:31Speaker 2: more light, though it may take another month to complete.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Miski's death comes just months after his conviction in July
- 3:37Speaker 2: on thirteen federal charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, murder in the
- 3:41Speaker 2: aid of racketeering, and kidnapping resulting in death. Among the
- 3:44Speaker 2: crimes linked to Miski where the kidnapping of an accountant
- 3:47Speaker 2: over unpaid debts, the release of toxic chemicals in derival nightclubs,
- 3:51Speaker 2: and the killing of a close friend of his late son.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Miski's conviction entitled the federal government to seize twenty eight
- 3:56Speaker 2: million dollars in assets, including luxury properties, boats, and artwork.
- 4:01Speaker 3: Miski is now awaiting sentencing scheduled for late January.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Thanks John Darnette Tennis, a beloved member of the Salish
- 4:09Speaker 1: and Kootenai tribes on the Flathead Reservation, Lake County, Montana,
- 4:14Speaker 1: Donnette does not have a cell phone. Her sister thinks
- 4:16Speaker 1: nothing of it when she's not home as she drops
- 4:19Speaker 1: off a birthday dinner for Donnette. Dnette's brother, however, concern
- 4:23Speaker 1: when she still hasn't checked ten days later. Siblings make
- 4:26Speaker 1: a few calls and learn. On her birthday, she went
- 4:28Speaker 1: to a casino with friends, then went to a recreation
- 4:31Speaker 1: area near the Buffalo Bridge that spans the Flathead River.
- 4:35Speaker 1: She separated from the group as they waited for a
- 4:37Speaker 1: tow truck when their car broke down. In tense, searches
- 4:41Speaker 1: with drones, sonar, canines ATVs turn up nothing. Dannette Tennis
- 4:47Speaker 1: fifty four, Native American, five nine, one hundred and fifty pounds,
- 4:51Speaker 1: brown hair, hazel eyes. Last scene wearing denim jacket over
- 4:56Speaker 1: a white shirt, denim shorts, white slide on on sandals.
- 5:01Speaker 1: If you have info on Thenett Tennis missing three months,
- 5:06Speaker 1: called Lake County, Montenna Sheriffs four zero six eight eight
- 5:09Speaker 1: three seven three zero one. For the latest crime injustice news,
- 5:13Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com and please join us for
- 5:16Speaker 1: our daily podcast Crime Stories, where we do our best
- 5:21Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides
- 5:25Speaker 1: with this crime alart. I'm Nancy Grace