Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 01.22.25 | Father Kills Toddler, 2, When Mother Breaks Up With Him

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

Father facetimes his toddler's mother as he kills their girl during a police chase. Woman attacks pizza shop employees over cold pie! For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. It's life behind bars for a Texas man who killed his two-year-old daughter during a police chase, all while FaceTiming the live video to the girl's mother. Deontre Flanagan, 26, picks his daughter up from daycare, then confronts the mother, Kirsten Watson, at work. He accuses her of talking to another man, strikes her, takes her phone, and flees with the daughter, Zavaya. Nancy, that's when Flanagan facetimes Watson with Zavaya sitting in his lap. Flanagan's hand is around her throat, keeping the little girl from breathing. Flanagan repeatedly shouts,

this is what you made me do, while Watson begs him to stop. The chase ends when Flanagan repeatedly shouts, This is what you made me do, while Watson begs him to stop. The chase ends when Flanagan crashes into two cars. When cops move in, they find Flanagan used a blunt object to hit Zavia in the head and smash Zavia's head against a blunt object. The little girl is rushed to a hospital, but pronounced dead upon arrival. Watson called police several times in the days leading up to the murder, worried Flanagan would become violent after their breakup. A jury convicts Flanagan of capital murder. Watson vows to keep Zavia's memory alive.

Ricky Holley wants a late night snack and decides on Domino's Pizza. Ready to dig in, Holley goes into a rage when she discovers the pizza is uncut and cold. She gets in the car and drives to the closest St. Petersburg, Florida Domino's to berate employees. When they refuse to replace the pizza, she throws the pizza at them and rips their phone off the wall. Well, police are called. Ricky Holly, 22, spends the night in jail for criminal mischief. Bet she won't find Domino's on the commissary menu. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley.

We began in North Carolina as a deadly shooting has unfolded at a Raleigh restaurant during the morning preparation period for lunch. Police say George Collum Jr., the executive chef at Coquette Brasserie in North Hills, fatally shot 26-year-old co-worker Jonathan Mark Schaefer before turning the gun on himself. The incident occurred just before the restaurant's scheduled lunch opening. Collum was hospitalized in critical condition but later died from his injuries. A bystander, identified as 24-year-old Jonathan Aguilar Vega, was also injured but has since been treated and released from the hospital. Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson confirmed the shooting was not random, as Collum and Schaefer knew each other. The incident prompted a heavy police presence,

temporary lockdowns at nearby schools, and left the usually bustling district unusually quiet. Coquette's parent company, Urban Food Group, has expressed gratitude for community support and is focusing on supporting its staff. A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than two decades on death row is set to be executed at the end of this month. Marion Bowman Jr. is the third person to face execution since the state resumed the death penalty last year following a 13-year pause. Crime Online's Sydney Sumner has more on the story and the controversy surrounding it. 44-year-old Marion Bowman Jr. is scheduled to be executed on January 31st by lethal injection, a method he chose over the

electric chair and firing squad. Bowman's execution comes as South Carolina continues a renewed use of the death penalty after overcoming years of legal and logistical hurdles, including a shortage of lethal injection drugs. Bowman's conviction stems from the 2001 murder of Candy Martin, a 21-year-old whose body was found in the trunk of her burned-out car. Prosecutors relied heavily on testimony from friends and relatives who struck plea deals. Bowman has maintained his innocence, claiming the evidence against him was incomplete and his trial defense inadequate. The South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Bowman's recent appeal to review new evidence, calling it without merit. His last hope now lies with Governor Henry McMaster, who has yet to grant clemency in any case during his tenure.

Bowman's attorneys argue he has been a model prisoner, supporting fellow inmates with mental health struggles and serving as a liaison between death row inmates and prison officials. With just days until his scheduled execution, Marion Bowman Jr. is asking for mercy, though history suggests a clemency grant is unlikely. Thanks, John. Ashley Morris Mullis, mother of three, last seen at a family reunion in Royerton, Indiana. Days after, her parents find her home locked and empty. Notes left on her door go unanswered. Dad reports her missing two weeks later. Ashley, 27, claims Daniel York Sr., a married man she's seeing, is the father of her newborn.

She lives in a home owned by York and his wife, Sheila. After Ashley disappears, her baby girl remains with the Yorks. Two years later, Daniel dies. Sheila moves to Florida with Ashley's daughter. Sheila later adopts her, claiming no living relatives exist. Ten years after Ashley's disappearance, Sheila York arrested for kidnapping and obstruction. Investigators say she falsifies adoption records and lies about family ties. Ashley, 5'6", brown hair, brown eyes, tattoo of Ashton, upper left arm, butterfly, right leg.

If you know or think you know anything about the disappearance of Ashley Mullis, please contact Delaware County Sheriff's 765-747-7781. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. And please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.