Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Woman Screams After Trying to Kill Boyfriend in Crash: Police

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

Leigha Mumby is accused of intentionally causing a crash that would injure her boyfriend, Daniel Waterman, in Flagler County, Florida last February. Daniel awoke from a coma in May and told investigators that Leigha drove her SUV into a tree on purpose as they argued, according to investigators. Daniel was recovering from his injuries but died from pneumonia last month. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through body-worn camera video showing deputies and medics responding to the scene in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW:Therapy with NOCD is 100% virtual, and covered by insurance for over 155 million Americans. Plus, they provide support between sessions, so you're never navigating this alone. If any of this sounds familiar, visit nocd.com to book a free call with their team. That's N-O-C-D.com to learn more and get connected to someone who can help.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Damn. Yeah, I've never seen a crash of the sky before. All right? Yeah. The crash in Flegler County this past February was very, very bad. An SUV crashed into a tree on the night of the big game,

leaving a man and his girlfriend critically injured. help help me but there's a catch detectives say the girlfriend lea mumbi intentionally caused the crash which led to her boyfriend dying months later i go through the bodyworn camera footage of the police response i'm anginette levy and this is crime fix From the intrusive thoughts that come with OCD, you know they can be really scary. OCD is one of the most misunderstood conditions. It's not just the stereotype of liking things really neat. It's upsetting and out-of-character thoughts that refuse to pass causing overwhelming distress. But with specialized therapy, OCD is actually highly treatable. NoCD is the world's leading OCD treatment provider.

All of their therapists are expertly trained in exposure and response prevention therapy, the most effective treatment available. Plus, no CD, it's 100% virtual, provides support between sessions and is covered by insurance for more than 155 million Americans. Visit nocd.com to book a free call and get connected to someone who can help. Daniel Waterman's family is still reeling from his death less than a month ago. Daniel was just 22 years old and had his entire life ahead of him. He should still be here, but he died as the result of his injuries that he suffered during a crash last February, and that crash was caused intentionally, according to detectives in Flagler County, Florida. Flagler County is about halfway between Jacksonville and Orlando on

the east coast of Florida. Leah Mumby faces a vehicular manslaughter charge in the crash that killed Daniel Waterman. The charge was upgraded after Daniel died last month. Back on February 9th, Leah and Daniel had attended a party for the big game. It was a Sunday night. The couple left the party, and then Leah's phone appeared to call 911. The car crash and is not responding to their phone. The emergency location is, latitude 29.5815. Longitude minus 81.2364 with an estimated search radius of five meters.

This message will repeat in five seconds. The owner of this iPhone is in a severe car crash and is not responding to their phone. The emergency location is 229.5815. Help, help, help, help, help. With an estimated search radio to five meters, this message will repeat in five seconds. I'm going to die. Hello. As deputies were dispatched to the scene, a woman can be heard screaming.

Daniel, wake out, please. Daniel, wake up, please. Hello, can you hear me? The owner of the phone was in a severe car crash and was not responding to their phone. That woman screaming is Leah Mumbie and she was pregnant. A deputy arrived and found an SUV crashed into a tree. He walked toward the vehicle and heard a woman crying. Can you copy for it to 28?

Hey, Tina. Tina. Alpha Julia, Alpha Julia. A. A.J. A.J. going to be a white Honda passport. Firefighters had their hands full.

They were doing their best to help the people inside the SUV. Where is she? She's on the first. She's on the truck. Oh, Oh! Oh! Thank you.

Oh! Ah! hallo! Ha! Ha! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! All right. All right?

Where is your girl? Your girl. I don't think we need this anymore. Hey, Elena, are you there? No. No. I think we need this. Call her again.

Let's get a back for you. Let's get it back. Let's drop this. Let's drop this. We'll get it back for it. We'll get it back for it. Eleven. I didn't see it. Oh. When there, when they did the wood one, I basically drove like really slow and I'm like, up, there it is.

It's just her from what I believe. I don't know. She lost control or she was hit. While an investigation will need to be conducted into what caused the crash, helping the people inside the SUV is priority number one at this point. At first, it appears there's only a woman in the driver's seat, but then, the deputy is told there's also a passenger. I have agrival breathing no pole. Do you have one? Agrile breathing no pole from the passenger side.

You have a second rescue, Atlanta? There's a passenger. Yeah. You need nervous? No, for you. What you need? Just get her out. Yeah.

What do you got with the other patient? He has no. polls, but he's acting with me. Okay. Let's work on getting her out. You have your second rescue coming, right? No? I got... Elena, go through me on command, okay? You're good. You're good. That was a good call, though. Jump on that. The driver, of course, is Leah Mumbie, and the passenger is Daniel Waterman. The two were a couple, and at this point, the first responders, they don't know what happened before the crash. But apparently, it wasn't easy to find the crash scene.

That's how far off the road the SUV was when it hit the tree. I couldn't see it. I couldn't see it. Oh. This is a little one. I basically go really slow and I'm like, oh, here it's. How many octaves? They just heard from mine.

Gotcha. Okay? I got to talk to forward. Hmm. Go. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm so. In this next section of the video, you get a better view of just how far off the road. The SUV Leah Mumbi was driving traveled. Just jump to meeting with a man behind it. I'm trying to hear about my right side.

Are you going to be any of the immediate? Alright, I'm going to grab my traffic place. I got it, I got it. We're going to be able to be. We're going to be. I don't know. I think about it. I think about it.

I don't know. I think of the Okay, just say D.O.A? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yes, sir.

Okay. So the one in the passenger is going to be single coming? Yeah. Great. Let's go right now. Let's go right now. Hello. What's that? What's that smell?

What else you got, Joe? I heard we're calling for two heads. Did any help with that? Yeah, that's all right? Oh yeah. Yeah, that's a source of sound down. Okay. Yep.

Now, sorry. Sorry. Now it took some time, but eventually EMTs pulled Leah Mumby from the driver's seat and they loaded her into the ambulance. As the ambulance prepared to leave to take Mumbie to the hospital, Daniel Waterman, her boyfriend, remained in grave condition. Leah was at least conscious. You could hear her crying and yelling for help. She said they were arguing. They were arguing. Well, the chiefs got slaughtered today, too, so. She said she just finished drinking too today. Oh, my God. Oh, that was part of it, but.

That's us. Yeah. Track three. Alright, well I'm gonna try to knock this out, played it up before we get seven, so we don't have to be here for six hours. Give me anything from us? No, I mean, I'm just trying to find a wallet, but other than that. You want some help, sir?

Yeah, good, that'd be awesome. We're trying to find a wallet, a hurt. Can't see . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. her purse is over here for some time but he would later awake from that coma and he claimed that Leah Mumby drove her SUV off the road intentionally after they got

into an argument. His mother told a local newspaper in Syracuse, New York, where Daniel is from, that Daniel could barely talk so he pointed to letters on a board and made sounds to communicate what had happened that night. A Florida Highway Patrol detective wrote an affidavit. On May 15th, 2025, I conducted a recorded interview with Daniel Waterman. In his interview, Daniel stated that he and Leah were in an argument due to personal issues with Leah finding out she was pregnant that day and a text message Daniel received from a female friend in New York. Daniel and Leah exchanged expletives. Daniel stated, Leah began driving recklessly. Daniel stated she slowed down to 50 miles per hour and he tried to get out of the car, but then Leah began to speed up to 80 to 90

miles an hour. Daniel stated the last thing he remembers before the crash was Leah told him, I don't care what happens, you'll get what you deserve, and swerved off the roadway, colliding with a tree, making Daniel incapacitated. The detective spoke to Leah Mumby about that. He wrote, Upon speaking with Leah, several days later, after Leah was released from the hospital, Leah claims to not know what happened prior to the crash and only remembers waking up in agonizing pain. Leah Mumby's unborn babies survived the crash, thankfully, and we would later find out that Daniel believed that the baby was his. Meanwhile, the cousins Daniel and Leah had been watching the big game with that night, Jessica and Sarah Stappenbeck told Flagler Live that Daniel and Leah left before the

end of the game. Jessica told the outlet she was the last person to speak with Leah that night before the crash, and she claimed that Leah called her twice as she was driving and was upset about Daniel being in touch with a woman in New York. Jessica claimed that Leah took Daniel's phone from him while she was driving, and that just minutes before the crash, she got a text from his phone that read, this is what he gets for being a liar and a cheater. Now, as part of the investigation into the crash investigators looked at the event data recorder for the SUV. That's basically the vehicle's black box. The FHP report states, the vehicle is moving steadily at around 93 to 95 miles per hour, three to five seconds prior to the crash. The accelerator input increases four seconds prior to the

crash. The brakes were not applied. The report then describes the impact point when the Honda collided with the tree. Speed, 52 miles an hour, accelerator pedal, 100% throttle at the time of impact, brakes, off, stability control, still engaged, steering, 175 degrees indicating a hard right turn. Flagler County prosecutors charged Leah Mumbie with reckless driving, causing serious bodily injury and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. The last time that we discussed this case, I showed you a video that Daniel's Aunt Tiffany posted on TikTok back in July.

It showed Leah Mumbie turning herself in. at the sheriff's office. She posted a $25,000 bond. Now that her charges have been upgraded, she turned herself in yet again and has posted a $150,000 bond. Now, back in July, a medical helicopter flew Daniel from Florida to New York so he could continue his recovery at his home with his family. His mother said that he was improving and he was actually able to get out of bed to use a wheelchair for physical therapy. And because he believed the baby Leo was carrying was his, he was taking on parenting classes. Tragically, Daniel contracted pneumonia, and on October 8th, he passed away. I spoke with his Aunt Tiffany Waterman about her family's loss. He was wonderful. What I want

everyone to know is he was just starting his adulthood. He was just maturing, you know, realizing about life and what it really means. And it was beautiful to see him becoming the man he was going to be before that ended too abruptly. He was always an athlete. He was in entire life. He was so strong. He was 6.5. He was a big guy. And he was the best cousin to my children who looked up to him. He could do no wrong ever. He was definitely about family. He loved us just so deeply. It's just sad because everything was just cut way too short. What sports did he play? He played. If he tried at any sport, he was amazing. He was the best. His passion was basketball, though. Yeah, being 6'5, I think that would make him a pretty good basketball player.

Very good. You know, when this happened, take me back to when this happened. I just can't even imagine getting that call that he's been in this horrific crash. Yes. I was, I was sleeping in bed. I'm a boring, you know, mother or two, sleeping in bed. And it's a little after 2 a.m. And I got the phone call from my grandmother. And she had already spoken to my sister, his mother. And she told me about the crash. And she said it doesn't look good.

He's probably not going to make it. And it just killed me. He was in the hospital fighting for so long. And, you know, it sounded like there was hope that he could make it. And then, you know, he wakes up from this coma and, you know, he's able to communicate that this was intentional. I mean, what was the family's reaction when that happened? Um, I think we were more concentrating in like, uh, we was able to come to just watching him come to was absolutely amazing. It actually took us a little while to try to understand he was trying to tell us something.

You have to just imagine, like, put yourself there coming out of a coma. It was a kind of induced coma. And we were able to use an alphabet letterboard. And he, and we pointed to every single letter until he spelled it out. And he spelled out an entire statement. There is a baby involved in all of this. And it sounds like you guys, we were talking before we started, that your family has kind of been kept in the dark about the baby. and the birth of the baby and Daniel it seems like believed the baby was was his baby so talk to me a little about this part of that of the story okay so we have been definitely kept in the dark there hasn't been any communication between our party or the opposite party um Dana was looking forward to meeting his baby holding his baby

and raising his baby. That, I think, is what kept him going in the hospital. He would try to do exercises to and strengthen his arm and say, I'm going to be able to hold my baby. I'm going to get out of here. So it's definitely something he was looking forward to. But we have no information or details about anything. The only thing we did know when accident initial happened, she was in communication with us, and she did, you know, send some updates and sonogram pictures. And We did find out it was a girl. So that is basically the extent of our knowledge of the entire pregnancy. And the baby was born.

You know, she did give, Leah did give birth. I have no details on the birth whatsoever, but we have heard, yes, that she has had the baby. Her due date was October 10th. So that is to be expected. And we'll continue to keep an eye on this case and follow it as it moves. through the court system. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.