Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 02.02.24

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

Woman in 'cannabis psychosis' stabs boyfriend over 100 times. Fake cop tries to arrest real cops.  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. Brynn Spetcher smokes pot with boyfriend Chad Amelia and has a very bad reaction. She attacks Amelia with a knife, stabbing him dozens of times. Then she also stabs her own dog. When California police arrive, they have to tase Spetcher just to get the knife away. Nancy, Amelia's roommate walked in on the attack and called 911, but Spetcher continued to stab Amelia, and he was dead by the time police arrived. Amelia had been stabbed 108 times.

Experts claim Spetcher had no control over her actions at the time of the attack. Spetcher wrote in a five-page statement that she believed she was dead and had to hurt Amelia, whom she'd only been seeing for a short time, to bring herself back to life. Jurors find Spetcher, 32, guilty of involuntary manslaughter due to pot-induced psychotic disorder. Spetcher now sentenced to just two years probation and 100 hours of community service. Wow, if that's how the judge felt, maybe the judge should take her home. Sean Brown walks in the middle of the road, of course, disturbing traffic. Georgia cops try to talk to Brown. His response is to pull out a badge reading special police.

He informs the cops he has to place them under arrest for assaulting an officer. He even reads them their Miranda rights. But he's the one who ends up arrested on charges of impersonating an officer and giving a false name. Gives a whole new meaning to why does the Idgit cross the road. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A California man has been found guilty of murder for shooting and killing a six-year-old child traveling in the back of his mother's car on a busy freeway. In the death of Aiden Leos, who was strapped into a booster seat and headed to kindergarten, Orange County jurors have found 26-year-old Marcus Ariz guilty of second-degree murder. He was also found guilty of firing at a moving vehicle that was occupied. Authorities say that on May 21, 2021, Nguyen Le, Ariz's girlfriend, and he were on their way to work when Le cut off

Aiden's mother's car, after which the mother made an offensive gesture. According to the officials, Ariz took out a revolver, reached through the window, and shot Aiden in the heart through the trunk of his mother's car. As officials spent more than two weeks looking for the suspect, the shooting stunned the three million residents of Orange County, which heavily relies on a network of freeways to travel to work and school. It also attracted international attention as the search for the killer continued. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. John Aiden had just celebrated his sixth birthday,

10 days before the shooting that took his life. Prosecutor Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said of the case in a statement, The heartbreak of a parent losing a child is so overwhelming that no word exists to describe it. He continued, The short, happy life of Aiden Leos is a life interrupted, abruptly ended by a bullet that pierced Aiden's heart. The bullet not only killed a little six-year-old boy, it ripped a hole in the heart of all of Orange County. Sentencing for Ariz is set for April 12th. He's currently being held without bond.

Lee is being tried separately and has entered a not guilty plea to being an accessory after the fact. Now to Nevada as four Las Vegas high school students have entered not guilty pleas to second degree murder in connection with their classmates beating death. An incident captured on cell phone video and extensively shared on social media. pleased to second-degree murder in connection with their classmates beating death, an incident captured on cell phone video and extensively shared on social media. Once again, Crime Online, Sydney Sumner. The teenagers, who have all been charged as adults, were indicted by a grand jury in Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas. The indictment also charges them with conspiracy to commit batter, a gross misdemeanor. Since the pupils were minors when the beating occurred on November 1st,

Crime Online is not releasing their names. The next court date is scheduled for February 22nd. As of right now, nine students have been taken into custody in relation to the death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis Jr. Separate hearings are being awaited by the other students. Ten students, ages 13 to 17, are said to have taken part in the beating that happened after school in an alleyway near Rancho High School, this according to Las Vegas police. The police department has recently announced that a tenth student is still being sought by detectives. Investigators say that students had planned the alley fight over wireless headphones and a vape pen that had been stolen

by Lewis' friend. Court records reveal that a homicide detective who looked into the matter students had planned the alley fight over wireless headphones and a vape pen that had been stolen by Lewis's friend. Court records reveal that a homicide detective who looked into the matter told the grand jury that CCTV and cell phone footage showed Lewis removing his red sweatshirt and punching one of the teenagers. The investigators claim that after Lewis was forced to the ground, the 10 suspects started kicking, punching, and stomping on him. Transcripts show that following the altercation, Lewis was taken by a student in a nearby resident to campus, unconscious and in serious condition. Members of the school staff attempted to help him and called 911. It was a week later that Lewis died in an area hospital. In the state of Nevada,

an underage teen accused of murder can be charged as an adult if they were 13 or older at the time of the alleged crime. Thanks, John. Heather Tift lives with her mother in Hot Springs, Montana. March 5, Tift spends the morning with mom, leaving that afternoon to visit a friend. She never comes home. Tift's purse and cell phone were with her, but no spare clothes, and she left her personal belongings behind. Family has not heard from Tiff since she left for the Friends. Heather, now missing nearly three years. She's 5'6", blonde hair, brown eyes, wearing glasses. know or think you know anything about Heather Tift, contact Hot Springs, Montana, PD, 406-741-3314. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy

Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.