Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 11.26.24 | Mom Confronts Predator Targeting Daughter, 13
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert, I means he grace breaking crime needs now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Florida mom finds text messages on our thirteen year old
- 0:06Speaker 1: girl's phone from an adult male, takes matters into her
- 0:09Speaker 1: own hands. Mom continues to text the man, pretending to
- 0:12Speaker 1: be the daughter and plans to meet him at a restaurant.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Sure enough, Carrie Banks shows up, but when confronted with
- 0:18Speaker 1: his predatory behavior, he flashes a gun. Mom calls nine
- 0:22Speaker 1: one one, and when cops arrive, he's still in the
- 0:24Speaker 1: parking lot. He takes off running and pulls the pistol.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Cops order him to drop the weapon, he refuses, officers
- 0:30Speaker 1: shoot him. Banks continues to run, but eventually found bleeding
- 0:33Speaker 1: from gunshot wounds Nancy.
- 0:35Speaker 2: When Banks flash the gun, he told the mom quote,
- 0:38Speaker 2: when you hear the shots tonight, you'll know what's up.
- 0:41Speaker 2: The Canaan officer found Banks hiding in a drainage colvert
- 0:44Speaker 2: in need of medical assistance. At a press conference after
- 0:47Speaker 2: the incident, Sheriff T. K. Waters encouraged parents to reach
- 0:50Speaker 2: out to law enforcement if they ever find their child
- 0:53Speaker 2: in this situation, but commented that he couldn't blame the
- 0:56Speaker 2: mom for attempting to confront Banks.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Carrie Banks eighteen with agasalt loot and Lascivia's conduct and
- 1:02Speaker 1: using electronic device to solicit a child. If you call
- 1:06Speaker 1: the cops, you might make sure you're not committing a crime.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Everett Brown says he's frequently harassed by teens in his
- 1:11Speaker 1: neighborhood and calls an Eye one to one after a
- 1:13Speaker 1: boy kicks open his front door and hits him with
- 1:15Speaker 1: a broomstick. When cops arrive, one officer notices what looks
- 1:19Speaker 1: to be cocaine in a plastic bag sitting on Brown's counter.
- 1:22Speaker 1: When asked, Brown admits it's cocaine. He's cuffed right alongside
- 1:27Speaker 1: the team that broke in the door for a Crime
- 1:29Speaker 1: and Justice News after this Now with the latest crime
- 1:35Speaker 1: and Justice breaking news Crime.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Onlines John Limley, We begin in Texas, where efforts to
- 1:40Speaker 3: overturn the conviction of Melissa Lucio, a death row inmate,
- 1:44Speaker 3: gained momentum after a judge declared her quote actually innocent
- 1:48Speaker 3: of capital murder. Fifty six year old Lucio was sentenced
- 1:52Speaker 3: to die for the two thousand and seven death of
- 1:54Speaker 3: her two year old daughter, Mariah, who Lucio insists died
- 1:58Speaker 3: from a fall down his staircase. Senior State District Judge
- 2:02Speaker 3: Arturo Nelson found that prosecutors used false testimony, suppressed evidence,
- 2:07Speaker 3: and relied on outdated science during Lucio's two thousand eight trial.
- 2:12Speaker 3: He concluded that this undermined the case against her. Nelson's findings,
- 2:16Speaker 3: including a recommendation to overturn Lucio's conviction and death sentence,
- 2:21Speaker 3: now go to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for
- 2:23Speaker 3: a final decision. Lucio's execution was delayed in twenty twenty
- 2:28Speaker 3: two as new evidence raised doubts about her guilt. The
- 2:32Speaker 3: case has drawn widespread attention, with support from high profile
- 2:35Speaker 3: advocates and lawmakers. Lucio's legal team argues that she was
- 2:40Speaker 3: wrongly convicted for a crime that didn't occur. The Cameron
- 2:43Speaker 3: County District Attorney's office has not commented. A timeline for
- 2:47Speaker 3: the appeals court ruling remains unclear. In South Georgia, an
- 2:52Speaker 3: investigation as unfolding at a funeral home where disturbing discoveries
- 2:56Speaker 3: have left families searching for answers. As Crime WI Line
- 3:00Speaker 3: Sydney Sumner tells US officials have now identified twelve remains
- 3:04Speaker 3: found at the facility. But many questions remain unanswered.
- 3:08Speaker 2: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation continues to unravel a troubling
- 3:12Speaker 2: case in Douglas, Georgia, where authorities found eighteen bodies in
- 3:15Speaker 2: various stages of decomposition at Johnson Funeral and Cremation Services.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Officials have now confirmed that twelve of the remains have
- 3:23Speaker 2: been identified. Meanwhile, efforts to identify the other six bodies
- 3:26Speaker 2: and determine whether families received the correct cremated remains or
- 3:30Speaker 2: if those ashes are even human, are ongoing. The investigation
- 3:34Speaker 2: began last month when deputies arrived to serve an eviction
- 3:37Speaker 2: notice at the funeral home, located about two hundred miles
- 3:40Speaker 2: southeast of Atlanta. Inside, they made the grim discovery, leading
- 3:44Speaker 2: to the arrest of thirty nine year old Chris Lee Johnson,
- 3:47Speaker 2: the funeral home's owner. Johnson now faces seventeen counts of
- 3:50Speaker 2: abuse of a dead body, with investigators saying improper storage
- 3:54Speaker 2: caused severe disfigurement of the remains. A judge has denied
- 3:58Speaker 2: Johnson bond, citing the severity of the charges and the
- 4:01Speaker 2: possibility of additional charges being filed. The case has raised
- 4:04Speaker 2: broader concerns, According to local reports Johnson operated the funeral
- 4:09Speaker 2: home without valid licenses for embalming, directing, or even running
- 4:13Speaker 2: the establishment. Despite this, state inspections cleared the facility, and
- 4:17Speaker 2: earlier complaints about Johnson's services were reportedly not investigated. Some
- 4:21Speaker 2: families told reporters they suspect the ashes they received might
- 4:25Speaker 2: not belong to their loved ones. Others are grappling with
- 4:28Speaker 2: uncertainty about the fate of their relatives' remains. Investigators described
- 4:33Speaker 2: the case as complex, requiring collaboration among agents, scientists, and
- 4:37Speaker 2: analysts from multiple state agencies.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Investigators described the case as complex, requiring collaboration among agents, scientists,
- 4:45Speaker 3: and analysts from multiple state agencies.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Thanks John Frederica Granado, Sanchez learns, in addition to medical
- 4:53Speaker 1: Conditioncies already got, he has early onset dementia. He continues
- 4:58Speaker 1: to work but has retained change. On the fourth that July,
- 5:01Speaker 1: when he gets off, Frederico plans to meet with his
- 5:03Speaker 1: family but doesn't show up. A neighbor report seeing him
- 5:07Speaker 1: leave his Carol Stream, Illinois home on foot ten am.
- 5:10Speaker 1: He left a cell phone, wallet, and mad's behind. Someone
- 5:14Speaker 1: reports a person matching his description riding a bike in
- 5:17Speaker 1: Carol's Stream July five. The sighting not confirmed. Frederico fifty
- 5:22Speaker 1: nine five ten, two hundred ten pounds, a mole near
- 5:25Speaker 1: the tip of his nose, walks with a limp. Last
- 5:28Speaker 1: scene wearing black pants, black T shirt, black shoes, black
- 5:31Speaker 1: baseball cap. If you have info on Frederico Grenada Sanchez,
- 5:36Speaker 1: please call Carol's Stream, Illinois PD six three zero six
- 5:40Speaker 1: six eight two one sixty seven. For the latest crime
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