Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 01.02.24

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

Convenience store clerk killed by golf club wielding thief.  A deer decides it needs an education. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Taylor Schultz grabs a few items at a Minneapolis grocery store and has to check out. But instead of paying, Schultz attacks the cashier, Robert Scaife, punching and kicking him, then grabs a golf club and beats the cashier until the head of the club breaks off. Schultz then stabs Scaife with the broken end of the club and runs. Nancy, another shopper discovered Scaife and called 911. First responders described Scaife as having the golf club impaled through his torso. The 66-year-old was taken to hospital but died there of his injuries.

A witness helped identify Schultz as the attacker, and cops immediately went to Schultz's home address to search for him. Schultz, 44, arrested at his own apartment after a six-hour standoff, now charged with second-degree murder. A New Jersey deer just wants to exercise his rights to a public education. A dog walker passing an elementary school watches a deer crash through a window at the school and run down the hallway. The dog walker calls police who find the deer in a stairwell. The deer takes off into an open classroom, knocking over desks and bookshelves., cops finally captured the deer with a dog snare. Officers walked the deer out of the building so he can run free to the woods.

Well, they say education's not for everybody. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's Jackie Howard. A man from Vermont with a history of mental health problems found guilty of using a meat cleaver to kill his wife and injure his mother-in-law. He's now set to spend at least 27 years behind bars. For more, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. During a sentencing hearing that lasted for two days, Ida Gorong stated, It was an accident. My mind was not working.

A jury found Gorong guilty last year of killing his 32-year-old Burlington wife and of attempting second-degree murder in the attack on his mother-in-law just hours after he had checked himself into a nearby hospital for mental health treatment. Gorong was charged after the attacks in 2017. However, the county prosecutor dismissed the charges in 2019 after finding evidence that indicated Garong was legally insane at the time. Months later, Republican Governor Phil Scott ordered then-Attorney General T.J. Donovan to reconsider the case, and Donovan refiled the charges. Donovan declared that a jury should decide the question of insanity in order to rebuild public confidence. Garong received a total of 35 years to life in prison

with a portion of his term suspended. Once he has served his sentence, he will be eligible for probationary release. More charges are being leveled against the 42-year-old son of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer in relation to the pursuit and collision that claimed the life of a North Dakota sheriff's deputy in December. In addition to being charged with theft, criminal mischief, and reckless endangerment,

Ian Kramer, who is currently incarcerated, is accused of stealing a family car and ramming it through the ambulance bay's closed garage door at a Bismarck hospital. Kramer had previously been charged in Mercer County with homicide, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, and narcotics possession. Kramer is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on those allegations in February. A state district court judge set a $500,000 cash bond on the accusations. In a case being billed by investigators decades after the crime using genetic genealogy, an Oregon man has been found guilty of murder in the 1978 death of a teen girl in Alaska. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to our friends with Alaska

Public Media, 67-year-old Donald McQuaid has been found guilty in state court of killing 16-year-old Shelly Connolly. The girl's body was discovered close to a highway between Girdwood and Anchorage. State troopers in Alaska created a DNA profile using swabs taken from Connolly's body years after her death, but they were unable to find a match. In an effort to identify individuals who have similar genetic makeup, they turned to genetic genealogy testing in 2019. This method entails comparing a DNA profile to known profiles and reference databases. Investigators were eventually able to obtain a DNA sample from McQuaid, who was residing in Alaska at the time of Connelly's death, and they stated that the sample matched the DNA discovered on her body. McQuaid was apprehended in 2019, but the coronavirus pandemic caused his

trial to be postponed, much like it did for other people at the time. Throughout the trial, Connelly's body evidence was presented by the prosecutor. However, Kyle Barber, McQuaid's lawyer, informed the jury that the state's case against McQuaid was limited to the DNA evidence alone. He added that DNA evidence that may be connected to two other people was also discovered by investigators in the case. McQuaid's sentencing is set for April 26th. Thanks, Jackie. Amber Ayes and teen daughter Melissa Fu move in with Ayes' new husband in Irvine, California. One evening, the husband answers a knock at the door to a man and woman he doesn't recognize. The next thing he remembers, he's waking up on the floor near the door to a man and woman he doesn't recognize. The next thing he remembers,

he's waking up on the floor near the front door hours later. He believes he was knocked out by an unknown substance. When he wakes up, Amber and Melissa both gone. He believes the couple at the door kidnapped the two and that they lived at the apartment complex and drove a black Cadillac. Amber Iese and Melissa Foote now missing four years. If you have info on the mom and daughter, call the L.A. FBI, 312-477-6565. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.