Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 06.14.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
- 0:01Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news Now. University Arizona grad
- 0:04Speaker 2: student Marad Dervish is banned from campus and later expelled
- 0:09Speaker 2: for harassing a professor, Thomas Mikesner. Mike Sner gave Dervish
- 0:14Speaker 2: a bad grade. University staff are given a picture of
- 0:18Speaker 2: Dervish and told to call nine one one if he
- 0:20Speaker 2: spotted on campus. Dervish, forty eight, dawns a baseball cap
- 0:25Speaker 2: and a face mask and gets into a campus building,
- 0:28Speaker 2: waits outside Mike Sner's office, and shoots the professor eleven times,
- 0:33Speaker 2: also hitting a building manager.
- 0:36Speaker 3: Nancy. Dervish was arrested three hours after the shooting during
- 0:39Speaker 3: a traffic stop. His attorneys claimed that Dervish lost his
- 0:42Speaker 3: mind the day of the shooting and had severe mental
- 0:44Speaker 3: health issues, but jurors determined the crime was premeditated because
- 0:48Speaker 3: Dervish had purchased the gun nearly a month ahead of
- 0:50Speaker 3: the shooting.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Marad Dervish, forty eight, found guilty of murder and aggravated assault,
- 0:56Speaker 2: now facing life behind bars all over a bad grade.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Sandra Rogers, eighty watches her neighbor John Ferroni, washing his
- 1:06Speaker 2: motorcycle just outside their homes and a Florida's Senior Living community.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Rogers gets increasingly upset about the amount of water for
- 1:16Speaker 2: Ronie's using, and she confronts him. Well the argument gets heated.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Eighty year old Sandra Rogers spits on Ferroni seventy two
- 1:25Speaker 2: and then yanks his beard. Cops are called witnesses confirm
- 1:30Speaker 2: Rogers is the aggressor. Sandra Rogers ironically taken to jail
- 1:35Speaker 2: from her home on Peaceful Lane and book for battery
- 1:39Speaker 2: on a senior citizen. More crime and justice news after this.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Now with the ladiest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlined,
- 1:49Speaker 2: John Limley.
- 1:50Speaker 1: We begin in Oregon as a man enters a not
- 1:53Speaker 1: guilty plead to all accounts alleging that he killed three
- 1:56Speaker 1: women in the Portland area last year, then dumped their remains.
- 2:00Speaker 1: For more, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 2:04Speaker 3: Various news outlets are reporting that Jesse Lee Calhoun's lawyer
- 2:07Speaker 3: filed the not guilty please to three counts of second
- 2:09Speaker 3: degree murder and three counts of abuse of a corpse
- 2:12Speaker 3: in connection to the deaths of twenty four year old
- 2:14Speaker 3: Charity Lynn Perry, thirty one year old Bridget LeeAnne Webster
- 2:17Speaker 3: and thirty two year old Joanna Speaks. Calhoun remained silent
- 2:20Speaker 3: during his arraignment in Molnoma County Circuit Court in Portland, Oregon.
- 2:24Speaker 3: Speak's body was discovered in an abandoned barn in southwest Washington,
- 2:27Speaker 3: while Perry and Webster were discovered in Oregon. Concern was
- 2:31Speaker 3: sparks that a serial murderer might be targeting young women
- 2:33Speaker 3: in the area when their remains were discovered over several
- 2:36Speaker 3: months beginning in February twenty twenty three. The bodies were
- 2:39Speaker 3: found in wooded areas, under a bridge, and in a colvert,
- 2:42Speaker 3: all within a radius of around one hundred miles. Although
- 2:45Speaker 3: Speak's body was discovered in southwest Washington in April twenty
- 2:48Speaker 3: twenty three, authorities have stated that they think she was
- 2:50Speaker 3: murdered close to Portland. What evidence the police and prosecutors
- 2:54Speaker 3: have that connects Calhoun to the deaths is currently unknown.
- 2:57Speaker 3: The Molnomah County District Attorney's office has stayed that investigations
- 3:01Speaker 3: are still ongoing into the deaths of two additional women
- 3:03Speaker 3: that occurred during the same time period. Reporters were informed
- 3:07Speaker 3: by the victim's families that the three women suffered from
- 3:09Speaker 3: mental health problems or addiction. The thirty nine year old
- 3:12Speaker 3: Calhoun was apprehended at the Snake River Correctional Center in
- 3:15Speaker 3: eastern Oregon in June twenty twenty three after being charged
- 3:18Speaker 3: on unrelated parole warrants. It was in May that he
- 3:21Speaker 3: was indicted in the women's deaths. Calhoun was later transferred
- 3:24Speaker 3: to Portland. This according to the Molnoma County Jails Roster,
- 3:28Speaker 3: Calhoun was indicted just weeks before he was to be
- 3:30Speaker 3: freed from state prison, where he had been sent to
- 3:32Speaker 3: serve out a four year sentence for a variety of
- 3:35Speaker 3: offenses that included attacking a police officer and attempting to
- 3:38Speaker 3: strangle a police dog. Calhoun was first released in twenty
- 3:41Speaker 3: twenty one, a year ahead of schedule, to serve as
- 3:43Speaker 3: part of a group of inmates assisting to fight destructive wildfires.
- 3:47Speaker 3: In twenty twenty, the commutation was granted by then Governor
- 3:50Speaker 3: Cap Brown. The commutation was granted by then Governor Kate Brown,
- 3:53Speaker 3: but was later rescinded by Governor Tina Kotek after police
- 3:56Speaker 3: started looking into his involvement in the death last year.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Whom would have been freed prior to the deaths, even
- 4:02Speaker 1: if Brown hadn't commuted the sentence. According to the San
- 4:06Speaker 1: Francisco Public Defender's Office, a judge has now dismissed a
- 4:10Speaker 1: number of state charges against Paul Pelosi's attacker, a man
- 4:14Speaker 1: found guilty and federal court last month. As Crime Online
- 4:18Speaker 1: Sidney Sunder tells us, the judge based the decision on
- 4:21Speaker 1: the claim that the counts were subject to double jeopardy.
- 4:24Speaker 3: It was in May that David Depapp was found guilty
- 4:26Speaker 3: of making an attempt to kidnap a federal official and
- 4:29Speaker 3: attacking a family member of a federal official, in addition
- 4:32Speaker 3: to any possible punishment resulting from the state trial to
- 4:35Speaker 3: Pap was sentenced to thirty years in federal prison. After
- 4:38Speaker 3: serving a sentence, he will probably be deported back to Canada.
- 4:41Speaker 3: After the federal court win, state prosecutors proceeded with their
- 4:44Speaker 3: own prosecution against Apap, who in twenty twenty two used
- 4:48Speaker 3: a hammer to beat the husband of former US House
- 4:50Speaker 3: Speaker Nancy Pelosi inside their San Francisco home.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi was eighty two years old when the attack occurred.
- 4:57Speaker 2: Thanks tom Elena Dela Craze, sixty two plans to visit
- 5:01Speaker 2: Virginia and celebrate her breast cancer remission with all of
- 5:04Speaker 2: her grandchildren and daughters, Tya and Jamie. Days before her flight,
- 5:09Speaker 2: Tina gets a call from her mom's Bronx building manager,
- 5:12Speaker 2: who says no one has seen Elena for days. Elena
- 5:16Speaker 2: doesn't answer dozens of calls from Tya or Jamie. Surveillance
- 5:20Speaker 2: video catches Elena leaving her apartment around eleven thirty PM
- 5:25Speaker 2: with a small purse. Now that's not unusual for Elena,
- 5:28Speaker 2: who frequently goes out for late night snacks. Inside her apartment,
- 5:33Speaker 2: there is food left on the stove and most of
- 5:36Speaker 2: her belongings are all up behind. Elena Delacruz five three
- 5:41Speaker 2: one hundred pounds usually wears a short blond wig to
- 5:45Speaker 2: cover up hair loss from chemo. She was last seen
- 5:48Speaker 2: wearing a white and blue striped shirt with gray jeans
- 5:51Speaker 2: and orange sandals. If you have any information on Elena
- 5:56Speaker 2: Dela Cruz, now missing three years, please come NYPD eight
- 6:01Speaker 2: hundred five seven seven tips. For the latest crime in
- 6:05Speaker 2: justice news, go to crime online dot com with this
- 6:07Speaker 2: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace