Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 01.01.24

Episode Date: January 1, 2024

Speeding driver rams police cars with children in the car.  Repeated Dr. Pepper thief caught trying to resell the soda syrup.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Louisiana cops try to pull over a speeding driver, Desiree Mallory, but she takes off, floors it, purposefully ramming into police cars, finally stopping after crashing into a curb. When cops arrest Mallory,

who's over the legal limit of alcohol, they discover four children, no seatbelts, in the car during the wild chase. Nancy, the chase began shortly before 10 p.m. The Jefferson's Parish Sheriff's Office did not reveal whether officers were inside the units that Mallory rammed, but no injuries were reported. A deputy did fire his weapon at Mallory's vehicle during the chase, but Mallory and her children were not injured. The sheriff's office declined to comment on why the deputy shot at the car or if he knew there were children inside. Desiree Mallory, 31, charged with DUI, aggravated flight, aggravated criminal damage, and child endangerment. Jimmy Robinson, III, regularly breaks into the Oklahoma City Dr. Pepper facility where he used to work, stealing entire pallets of five-gallon Dr. Pepper syrup bags.

The bags retail for nearly $4,000. The manager places GPS trackers in the packages, following them to a gas station a few miles away. Robinson sells the syrup to the owner half price. He's finally caught in the act by a security guard and the soda heist fizzles out. Robinson now charged with burglary and grand theft for guess what? Nearly $100,000 stolen syrup. He's a real sticky fingered thief. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A teenage girl murdered 40 years ago in Washington State by the Green River serial killer has now been identified by authorities. We hear more now from Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.

It was in 1982 that 15-year-old Lori Ann Rispotnick fled her Lewis County home. She was never seen again by family or friends. Her remains and the remains of two other victims were discovered in Auburn, south of Seattle, in 1985 over a road embankment. Two of those victims were unidentified by investigators, and their remains were identified as Bone 16 and Bone 17. 2012 saw the identification of Bone 16 as Sandra Majors, thanks to DNA testing. However, Bone 17's identity remained a mystery until Virginia-based Parabon Nanolabs,

a forensic genetic genealogy company, was able to create a new DNA profile and establish that they belonged to Raspotnik. According to a press release issued by the King County Sheriff's Office, Raspotnik's mother supplied a DNA sample that verified the findings. Gary Ridgway led officials to the location where the three victims had been discovered after they used DNA evidence to connect him to the killings in 2001. In 2003, he entered a guilty plea for 48 slayings, including those connected to bones 16 and 17. Young female runaways and sex workers made up a large portion of his victims. In 2011, following the discovery of another set of remains,

Ridgway entered a guilty plea to his 49th count of murder. Ridgway is incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for life without the chance of release. Prosecutors say that two brothers from Southern California who operated a heroin delivery business and took phone orders from clients using words like taco are now each sentenced to 24 years in federal prison. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Sentences were handed down for 45-year-old Julio Cesar Martinez of Riverside and 46-year-old Victor Martinez, 46, of Jemet. Both cities are located in the vast Inland Empire of California. A statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office stated that both admitted to trafficking at

least 64 pounds of heroin throughout Orange County and entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute heroin in August. The U.S. Attorney's Office stated that the crime ring distributed heroin that was brought into the country from Mexico by couriers who occasionally concealed the substance in various cavities of their bodies. The ring operated from at least September 2003 until July 2021. Orders from customers who bought drugs under the names of different Mexican dishes were handled by call centers operated out of the homes of the workers. Authorities defined an ounce of heroin or slightly more than 28 grams as an enchilada and a gram as a taco. Prosecutors in the case stated that one customer overdosed on heroin and other drugs in Orange County in 2016, resulting in the person's death. Thanks, John.

Luis De Villa drives from Bentonville, Arkansas to Monterey, Mexico to visit his girlfriend. He spends a week in Mexico, says goodbye to the girlfriend March 29, planning to drive straight home to Arkansas, about 14 hours. When he doesn't show up at work, he's reported missing. It doesn't appear he ever made it home. Is silver Nissan Altima also missing? His route would have taken him through Nuevo Leon to the southern border of Texas on Mexico Highway 85. The media has dubbed it the highway of death. 36 people have disappeared in the last years there. Louis Davila now missing nearly three years. If you have info on Louis Davila, please call FBI 1-800-CALL-FBI, 1-800-215-5324. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com.

With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.