Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 04.13.23

Episode Date: April 13, 2023

Drunk father drowns child while running from car crash. Elderly bank robber writes polite note to teller. 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. Daryl Galarenzo takes his tot for a drive to help the child sleep while Galarenzo is drunk. He crashes the car, runs from the scene with his two-year-old in tow, then tries to cross a stream with the boy in his arms, slips underwater, and drops the child, who was found hours later, drowned. Crime Online's John Limley. Nancy, the child is rushed to the hospital where he's pronounced dead.

A preliminary autopsy suggests the two-year-old died of drowning and hypothermia from the cold Massachusetts waters. Police found Gay Lorenzo near the stream, alone and soaking wet. Gay Lorenzo claims he lost control of the car on a patch of ice, and the child ran from the flipped car and into the stream on his own. Gay Lorenzo, 35, pleads not guilty to DUI and manslaughter. Bonnie Gooch, convicted bank robber, gives it another shot in Missouri. Gooch hands the teller a note that says she's got a gun and to hand over cash. The teller complies, then calls police after Gooch leaves two miles from the

bank. Cops stop Gooch and arrest her. In 1997, Gooch was convicted of a California bank robbery and spent time in prison. Her second heist more than 20 years later in a suburb of Kansas City. Her probation for that robbery ended just months before this latest attempt. Gooch's note also included an apology for potentially scaring the teller. Gooch, 78, charged with bank robbery for a third time. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. One man was killed and three others critically injured Tuesday in a shooting outside a funeral for a homicide victim in the nation's capital.

Metropolitan police say an officer was stationed near the funeral home in northeast Washington, D.C., where the service was held when the gunfire broke out around 12.30 p.m. The shooting happened about 20 minutes after a funeral ended for a victim of a homicide who was shot and killed in March. The victim's family has asked police to have officers near the funeral. At least four people were shot. One man died at the scene. Three more people, two men and a woman, were taken to the hospital in critical condition. Sixteen years after David Phillip Wilson was sentenced to death for killing a man during a 2004 burglary, the state of Alabama has turned over a letter allegedly written by an accomplice

saying she was the one that beat the victim with a bat until he fell. With more, here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. Last month, a federal judge ordered the Alabama Attorney General's Office to turn over a copy of the letter, noting the jurors never got a chance to hear about it even though prosecutors possessed the letter before Wilson's trial and believed it to be authentic. The judge said while it's plausible Wilson might still have been convicted and sentenced to death, the letter must be turned over to determine its importance. Wilson was convicted of capital murder for the 2004 death of 64-year-old Dewey Walker during a robbery and burglary. Walker was found dead in his home after

failing to show up for work. Investigators said Wilson confessed to being there to steal a computer and also admitted that after Walker discovered him, he hit Walker with a bat and then put an extension cord around his neck to try to get him to drop a knife. Three others were sentenced to between 23 and 25 years in prison for Walker's killing. Wilson was the only one sentenced to death after a jury recommended a death sentence by a 10-2 vote. A wealthy former Maine gubernatorial candidate charged with possession of images depicting child sexual abuse plans to change his plea next month in Hancock County. The hearing for Elliot Cutler, who previously pleaded not guilty, is scheduled for May 4th

in Superior Court. Cutler's attorney declined to discuss details, including any potential agreement with prosecutors. The 76-year-old Cutler, who remains free on bail, was arrested last year at his waterfront home in Brooklyn, a coastal community 130 miles from Portland. He was charged with four counts of possession of sexually explicit material of a child under 12. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A Kansas man has been convicted of murder after his two-year-old daughter died of malnutrition while he was passed out for days from intoxication. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Jeffrey J. Exon was convicted in the death of Aurora Exon at their home in Topeka. Investigators found that Exon would not feed or attend to his children for days because of his addiction issues.

Exon's six-year-old son, who was four when his sister died, testified at trial that his dad locked them in their rooms for several days without food while he, quote, slept. Jeffrey Exon called authorities to the home on January 5, 2021, when Aurora was found dead. Five empty liquor bottles were found in his bedroom. Exon was convicted of aggravated child endangerment, first-degree murder and the commission of a felony, reckless but unintentional second-degree murder, and failure by a parent to report the death of a child. Sinead Nichols, the children's mother, said she agreed to give Exxon custody of the children because her living conditions did not allow for her to take care of them. Exxon is scheduled to be sentenced July 28th. Robert Odette and his wife order takeout for an

evening at home until Odette gets a text from an unknown woman. The couple struggles over Odette's phone. The husband hurls a just-delivered box of chicken wings at his wife and chases her through the house. She locks herself in the bedroom, calls cops. They arrest Odette for assault by chicken wing. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.