Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 04.10.23

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

Son kills main suspect in his mother's murder. Homeless man kills woman for her hotel room.  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. Raul Cuevas calls 911 reporting his mom, Michelle Luna, has been stabbed dead. Police name an acquaintance, Jesus Urrushia, as a suspect. The next day, Idaho police find Urrushia stabbed dead in his own car. Raul Cuevas is the main suspect. Crime Online's John Limley. Nancy, officials are still working to determine the motive in both stabbings, but believe Cuevas caught wind that Arushia was suspected in his mother's murder

and sought to exact revenge. Cuevas attacked Arushia when he stopped to get gas. His car was parked but running when his body was discovered. Cuevas fled after the stabbing but was arrested during a traffic stop on his way out of town. Cuevas, 31, now charged with murder and the alleged revenge killing. Christy Batista flies into D.C. for a concert. After checking into her hotel, she stops responding to friends and family and never leaves for the concert. Police try to make contact with Batista but find George Seidner enjoying her room after stabbing the woman dead.

Sidner is allegedly homeless and did not know Batista in any capacity before the stabbing. Surveillance video shows Sidner putting his ear up to the door, then entering the room. A struggle ensues and Batista briefly opens the door, yelling for help before Sidner drags her back inside. But officers spot blood on Sidner's hands through the blinds and use the hotel's master key to gain access and arrest him. Sidner, 43, booked on murder. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App

and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department says that officers responded to a report of a stabbing near the city's Embarcadero waterfront at 2.35 a.m. on April 4th. They found 43-year-old Robert Lee suffering from apparent stab wounds. MobileCoin confirmed Lee's death the following day. Lee was fatally stabbed in the densely populated Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco near Google's headquarters and Oracle Park,

home to the San Francisco Giants. The neighborhood is a mix of offices and modern condo buildings. Police did not provide any details on the circumstances of the stabbing or potential suspects. A Southern California dermatologist has been charged with poisoning her husband by pouring liquid drain cleaner into his tea. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Yu Emily Yu, a 45-year-old doctor from Irvine, was indicted by a grand jury on three felony counts of poisoning and one count of domestic battery with injury. Yu was scheduled to be arraigned on April 18. Her attorney, Scott Simmons, said she will plead not guilty. Yu was arrested in August after her husband reported to police that he believed he

was being poisoned. She was later released on bail. Prosecutors say the man noticed a strange taste to his tea in April 2022 and installed cameras in the family's kitchen, which captured video of you pouring a substance on three occasions from a bottle of drain cleaner into the tea. The man collected samples of the tea that he gave to authorities, who confirmed the substance was consistent with drain cleaner. Authorities say the substance caused the man to suffer stomach ulcers. A near-century-old abortion ban that fueled one of the largest ballot drives in Michigan history has been repealed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer just months after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state's

Constitution. The 1931 abortion ban made it a four-year felony to assist in an abortion. Roe v. Wade had made the law null and void until the landmark decision was overturned in June by the U.S. Supreme Court. Courts blocked the ban from taking effect while a citizen-led initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution received more signatures than any other ballot proposal in state history to put the question before voters. Voters overwhelmingly approved the proposal in last November's midterms, making the 1931 law unconstitutional and unenforceable.

The 1931 ban could have been enforced in the future had voters collected enough signatures to once again amend the state's constitution and repeal abortion rights. Whitmer's signature now eliminates that possibility, erasing the law completely. In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee legislators have expelled two lawmakers from the state legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third lawmaker was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin. Once again, Crime Online's

Sydney Sumner. The split votes drew accusations of racism, with lawmakers ousting Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, who are both black, while Representative Gloria Johnson, who is white, survived the vote on her expulsion. Tennessee House leadership denied that race was a factor, however. The visitors' gallery exploded in screams and boos following the final vote. After sitting quietly for hours and hushing anyone who cried out during the proceedings, people broke into chants of, quote, shame and fascists. Banishment is a move the Tennessee Chamber has used only a handful of times since the American Civil War.

Two Maryland teens rush a man waiting in his car while pumping gas. They forcibly open the driver's door and demand he hand over the keys. The man does and gets out of the car. But when the teens try to take off, the car stalls and the thieves realize the car's a manual.

Unable to drive a stick, the teens get out and run for it. Police track the pair down and they now face charges of carjacking. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.