Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 03.28.23

Episode Date: March 28, 2023

Elderly man stabs his wife to death. Restaurant employees help catch a predator. 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. Tennessee cops answer an unknown problem call at an elderly couple's home and find Tatsupan Siserino stabbed dead in the garage. Neighbors tell cops the woman's 80-year-old husband, Focam Sacerino, drove away just before officers pull up. Nancy, neighbors remember Sacerino as a kind and gentle woman who was always excited to see the babies and children in the neighborhood. Frequently brought over egg rolls and other dishes and could be found gardening in warm weather.

They had no idea the couple was having problems and were shocked and saddened by the news of the murder. Sacerino now of the murder. Cicerino now charged with murder. Whataburger employees notice an older man eating with a teen girl. The girl seems uncomfortable. The employees definitely are, so they call cops. The girl, 13, tells officers Michael Clark offered her a ride to Whataburger, then offered her money for sex and touched her inappropriately. Employees who witnessed the two of them together had a gut feeling that something was wrong, prompting them to call police. They learned this was apparently not the first time Clark engaged the girl. She

told police Clark spoke to her from his car as she walked home from school several weeks ago. Clark stopped her on her way home again, this time offering her a ride. Thanks to Whataburger employees for being alert, Clark, 79, now charged with solicitation and indecency with a child. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A vehicle belonging to the family of a missing Texas boy who has severe developmental and physical disabilities has been found abandoned at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Authorities say they turned an Amber Alert

for six-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez of Everman, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, into an endangered missing persons alert Saturday night. Everman police say they learned Saturday night that Noel's mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, his stepfather, and Rodriguez-Singh's six other children had boarded an international flight. Noel wasn't listed as a passenger on the flight. Child Protective Investigations asked Everman police Thursday evening to conduct a welfare check on Noel at the family's home. Cindy Rodriguez-Singh told police Noel was with his biological father in Mexico.

But CPI found out that wasn't true. Family members also told CPI they hadn't seen Noel since November. A Tampa area plastic surgeon has been charged with murder, accused of killing a lawyer missing since last week from a firm that represents former co-workers the doctor has been suing in a business dispute. We hear more details now from Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Largo police arrested Dr. Tom Kozowski on a first-degree murder charge in the disappearance of Stephen Cozy, who was last seen March 21st at Blanchard Law, the firm where he worked.

Police said that while Cozy's body has not been found, they have evidence that he was killed by Kozowski. Investigators said Cozy's wallet, phone, and keys were found in the law office, along with a significant amount of blood in the bathroom. They say a suspicious person and car were seen at the office, leading them to Kozowski. A search of the doctor's Tarpon Springs home found evidence that led to his arrest, police said. They did not elaborate. 44-year-old Kozowski, who goes by the name Dr. K, was being held without bail at the Pinellas County Jail. The body of a white woman found in 1978 that was dumped at an illegal landfill in Mississippi's Rankin County has been identified. Using DNA testing on the remains of the body,

the Rankin County Coroner's Office positively identified the victim as Tanya Lee Wills Mullins, who was 22 years old when she disappeared. The coroner's office found renewed interest in the 1978 Jane Doe case after Ohio officials contacted them about a similar unsolved case. After they collected and shipped the forensic evidence to a lab, experts were able to get a DNA extraction that led to the victim's identity. Meanwhile, authorities are continuing to investigate Mullen's death to determine what happened to her.

Also in Mississippi's Rankin County today, several deputies from the Sheriff's Department are being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations they have been involved in in at least four different encounters with black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to the Associated Press, two of the men alleged that Rankin County Sheriff's deputies shoved guns into their mouths during separate encounters. In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger,

leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together. In one of the two fatal confrontations, the man's mother said a deputy kneeled on her son's neck while he told him he couldn't breathe. Police and court records obtained by the AP show that several deputies who were accepted to the Sheriff's Office Special Response Team, a tactical unit whose members receive advanced training, were involved in each of the four encounters. In three of them, the heavily redacted documents do not indicate that they were serving in their normal capacity as deputies or as members of the unit. Such tactical units have drawn scrutiny since the January killing of Tyree Nichols,

a black father who died days after being severely beaten by black members of a special police team in Memphis, Tennessee. Jeffrey Stewart gets on a Boston subway and harasses commuters, yelling in their faces, pulling out his pet, Jerry, a rat, threatening passengers that Jerry will bite them. Security escorts Stewart off. Minutes later, when Stewart tries to re-enter, cops get involved. Stewart yelling profanities, threatening to have Jerry the rat bite the officers, too. Stewart charged with disorderly conduct and threats to commit a crime. Jerry turned over to animal control.

Don't know yet if Jerry the rat's getting the death penalty. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.