Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 02.13.24

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

Woman stages murder-suicide after killing mom, sister, out of jealousy. Florida 'night-crawler' charged for entering crime scene.  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. A mother and daughter found shot dead in what appears to be a murder-suicide, but investigators determine the scene is staged. Police say Megan Hargan shot her mom and sister, then tried to make it look like the sister pulled the trigger.

Motive? Money. Just the day before, Hargan tried to transfer $400,000 from her mother's bank account. Nancy, Hargan was reportedly jealous that her mother was helping her sister purchase a home while she received no such assistance. Mom Helen Hargan was found with a single-point-blank gunshot wound to the top of her head. She was found in a bathroom with a.22-caliber rifle wedged between her legs. Meghan Harkin's defense attorneys say that Helen Harkin put the gun to her own head and fired using her toes. Harkin was tried twice as a juror in the original proceedings attempted to recreate the suicide herself and told other

jurors it was impossible. A judge deemed that recreation outside research, and Harkin received a second trial, also resulting in a guilty verdict. Megan Harkin handed two life sentences. Salvatore Schifano, 66, gets a warning from a Florida cop after trying to cross crime scene tape at a fatal Clearwater plane crash. Then he's later caught in the scene of the plane crash, the crime scene, taking video on his phone. When approached by police, he identifies himself as medical staff,

but can't tell cops for whom he works. Stefano arrested, now facing charges of resisting an officer. He apologized, all right, but then explained he was just trying to take the video to sell it. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. According to authorities in Hawaii, a 10-year-old girl discovered dead in her Honolulu home last month died from years of abuse and neglect, pneumonia and starvation. With details, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Honolulu Police Homicide Lieutenant Dina Thomas says that the child's parents and grandmother

were taken into custody on suspicion of murder, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, and other offenses. The grandmother and parents were arrested on Friday morning. It was in January that police were called to a home in Wahiawa, just outside of Honolulu, and discovered the girl dead and appearing emaciated. The household included a total of six children. Four of them were the parents' biological children. Thomas stated that the couple were the girl's legal guardians and the adoptive parents of a four-year-old boy. Thomas noted that the young boy was also emaciated and appeared to have been abused or neglected. The lieutenant also said that the other four minors exhibited no evidence of maltreatment. Now to New York City as a 15-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with two counts of attempted murder after it's alleged that he

shot a Brazilian tourist in the leg in Times Square and then opened fire on a police officer. The teenager, identified by authorities as a resident of a Manhattan migrant shelter who came to the city from Venezuela late last year, is being held without bond after the assistant district attorney stated that he, quote, cannot be trusted to return to court. This, according to our friends with the New York Daily News. The teen is also charged with assault and possessing a weapon in connection with the shooting incident that started in a sports store and spread to midtown Manhattan streets. A man who admitted to killing four employees at a marijuana farm in Oklahoma in 2022 has been

handed a life sentence. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to court documents, 47-year-old Chen Wu entered a guilty plea to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon related to the murders committed on November 20, 2022. Wu, who was also listed as Wu Chen in court documents, is accused by the prosecution of shooting and killing three men and a woman in a garage at the property west of Hennessy, a town located roughly 55 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. Wu received a 20-year prison sentence for the assault charge and a life sentence without the possibility of parole for each of the murder convictions as part of a plea

deal. His sentences are to be served concurrently. Two days after the murders, Wu, 47, was apprehended in Florida and subsequently extradited to Oklahoma. Prosecutors claimed in court documents that just before Wu shot and killed the victims, he had sought the return of his $300,000 investment in the pot operation. Thanks, John. Sophronia Caress Taylor, 37, plans to go out of town and arranges for someone to feed her cats. Family has not heard from Sophronia for two months. It's unknown where she planned to travel her cats. Family has not heard from Sophronia for two months. It's unknown where she planned to travel or why. Sophronia Caress Taylor, African-American, shoulder length, black,

curly hair. If you have info on the disappearance of Sophronia Caress Taylor, 601-399-4440. Repeat, 601-399-4440. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.