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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime means now. Denari
- 0:03Speaker 1: mccallman and parents arrived in Bahamas April four for a
- 0:07Speaker 1: stay at the Atlantis Resort that's on Paradise Island. That night,
- 0:12Speaker 1: nine pm, he leaves dinner to get a jacket and
- 0:15Speaker 1: walk around the resort. It's the last time his parents
- 0:19Speaker 1: see him alive. Early the next morning, his body found
- 0:22Speaker 1: on the shoreline. Beaten.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Nancy Denari was found dead less than twelve hours after
- 0:28Speaker 2: arriving in the Bahamas. Resort staff first notified twenty three
- 0:32Speaker 2: year old Donari's parents that he had not returned to
- 0:34Speaker 2: his room around ten pm that night. It was then
- 0:37Speaker 2: that they realized the location sharing on the recording engineer's
- 0:40Speaker 2: phone was not working properly. During a search of the property,
- 0:44Speaker 2: police contacted the mcalmans through the resort, claiming Denari had
- 0:47Speaker 2: spat at someone. After an autopsy, officials claimed Denari died
- 0:51Speaker 2: by drowning, but seeing pictures of the body, his mother
- 0:55Speaker 2: believes he was attacked, seeing his face was swollen and
- 0:58Speaker 2: his hair was full of sand. Several clerical errors, Dinari's
- 1:02Speaker 2: body has not been released to his family, and they
- 1:04Speaker 2: worry they are losing evidence.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Mccolman's family hiring a lawyer to work with US officials
- 1:10Speaker 1: in the Bahamas, twenty three year old Fullington Fraser the
- 1:14Speaker 1: Third is high on mushrooms. As he drives his roommate
- 1:18Speaker 1: to the store. He runs a red light Milwaukee, Oregon
- 1:21Speaker 1: sixty mph, crashes into a Toyota, then a Subaru. Roommate
- 1:26Speaker 1: Mitchell Barr, twenty four, ejected and dies. Fleetwood Mosee thirty seven,
- 1:33Speaker 1: driving the Subaru, also dead. Two people in the prius injured.
- 1:38Speaker 1: At the hospital, Fraser doesn't remember having a passenger. When
- 1:42Speaker 1: told about his actions that led to the death of
- 1:45Speaker 1: two people, he says, hey, are they okay? In jail,
- 1:49Speaker 1: his salmate says he laughs about Barr's death. A jury
- 1:53Speaker 1: finds him guilty of manslaughter and more more crime and
- 1:56Speaker 1: justice news after this. How could a beautiful, young first
- 2:03Speaker 1: grade teacher be stabbed twenty times, including in the back,
- 2:09Speaker 1: allegedly die of suicide? Yes, that was the medical examiner's
- 2:14Speaker 1: official ruling after a closed door meeting. He first named
- 2:17Speaker 1: it a homicide. Why what happened to Ellen Greenberg? A
- 2:23Speaker 1: huge American miscarriage of justice? For an in depth look
- 2:29Speaker 1: at the facts. See What Happened to Ellen on Amazon.
- 2:35Speaker 1: All proceeds to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
- 2:43Speaker 1: Onlines John Lemley.
- 2:45Speaker 3: In Arizona, Lorie Valoda Bell is back in court, this
- 2:49Speaker 3: time accused of conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Charles
- 2:53Speaker 3: Vallow in twenty nineteen. Her brother Adam Cox, testified that
- 2:58Speaker 3: he believed she was involved in the killing, which happened
- 3:01Speaker 3: just before a planned family intervention to confront her increasingly
- 3:05Speaker 3: extreme religious beliefs. He said, Laurie claimed her husband was
- 3:09Speaker 3: possessed by a zombie and no longer human. Prosecutors say
- 3:14Speaker 3: Valo Dabell and her brother Alex Cox, who fatally shot
- 3:17Speaker 3: Charles Valo, plotted the murder to collect life insurance money
- 3:21Speaker 3: and clear the way for her to marry Chad Day Bell,
- 3:25Speaker 3: an author of apocalyptic novels. Alex Cox died months later
- 3:29Speaker 3: of natural causes, but his self defense claim has since
- 3:33Speaker 3: come under scrutiny. Lurie Valoda Bell, already convicted in Idaho
- 3:38Speaker 3: for murdering her two youngest children, faces another life sentence
- 3:42Speaker 3: if found guilty. In Arizona, a second trial over alleged
- 3:46Speaker 3: conspiracy to murder of relative's ex husband is set for May.
- 3:50Speaker 3: A former Colorado funeral homeowner has pleaded guilty to a
- 3:54Speaker 3: disturbing case that has shaken public trust in the state's
- 3:58Speaker 3: mortuary industry. Crime Online Sidney Sumner tells us the case,
- 4:03Speaker 3: involving a body left in a hearse for over a
- 4:06Speaker 3: year and mishandled cremated remains, has prompted significant legislative reforms.
- 4:12Speaker 2: In Denver, thirty four year old Miles Harford, former owner
- 4:15Speaker 2: of Apollo Funeral and Cremation Services in Lyttleton, pleaded guilty
- 4:19Speaker 2: to one count of abuse of a corpse and one
- 4:21Speaker 2: count of theft. This plea comes after authorities discovered the
- 4:25Speaker 2: body of sixty three year old Christina Rosalis, who died
- 4:28Speaker 2: of Alzheimer's in August twenty twenty two, concealed under blankets
- 4:32Speaker 2: in the back of an inoperable hearse at Harford's rental property.
- 4:36Speaker 2: During the investigation, officials also found the cremated remains of
- 4:40Speaker 2: at least thirty individuals hidden throughout the property, including in
- 4:43Speaker 2: a caral space. Some families had unknowingly received incorrect ashes,
- 4:48Speaker 2: believing they were those of their loved ones. Harford faced
- 4:51Speaker 2: multiple charges, including forgery and additional counts of corpse abuse.
- 4:55Speaker 2: As part of the plea agreement, the remaining charges were dismissed,
- 4:58Speaker 2: but he remains liable for restitution related to all allegations.
- 5:03Speaker 2: This case is among several in Colorado that have exposed
- 5:06Speaker 2: significant lapses in the state's funeral home regulations. In response,
- 5:10Speaker 2: Governor Jared Pulis signed two bills into law last year
- 5:14Speaker 2: mandating regular inspections and licensing requirements for funeral home operators
- 5:18Speaker 2: to ensure proper handling of human remains.
- 5:21Speaker 3: Harford's sentencing is scheduled for June ninth.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Thanks John two year old Tika Lewis plays a racing
- 5:28Speaker 1: game in the arcade at a crowded Tacoma, Washington bowling alley.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Her mom looks away to check on her other children,
- 5:35Speaker 1: then Tika's gone. Witnesses report a white male with pock
- 5:39Speaker 1: marked skin following a child near the exit, then a
- 5:43Speaker 1: maroon Pontiac grand am speeding away. A massive search finds nothing.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Police lead the case to other attempted inductions in the
- 5:52Speaker 1: area with a similar suspect and mo Tika three feet tall,
- 5:58Speaker 1: thirty five pounds Africanamerican brown eyes, curly black hair with
- 6:03Speaker 1: red and silver streaks, and a birthmark on her left buttock,
- 6:07Speaker 1: wearing a green tweetybird shirt and had a clear purse
- 6:11Speaker 1: full of Starburst candy. Tika would now be twenty eight.
- 6:19Speaker 1: If you have info, call eight hundred call FBI, or
- 6:24Speaker 1: go to tips dot FBI Gov. For the latest crime
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- 6:36Speaker 1: our best to find missing people, especially children, and solve
- 6:40Speaker 1: unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.