Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 04.24.23

Episode Date: April 24, 2023

Woman beats her disabled husband. Nurse slams newborn into hospital bassinet.  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. Mary Beth Finke's wheelchair-bound husband finds her passed out drunk on the front stoop, tries to help her inside. Finke gets angry, yelling she's tired of taking care of him, goes to her car, returns with a metal pipe, and hits the husband over the head multiple times. Crime Online's John Limley. The pipe weighed five pounds, Nancy, and was nearly three feet long. The man was unable to escape her attack and suffered several lacerations to the face

and swollen bumps on his head. Finke's husband did call police to report the attack and was seen by a rescue crew, but refused to be taken to the hospital for further treatment. Mary Beth Finke now booked on ag assault and vulnerable adult abuse. New parents horrified when they watch through hospital glass as nurse Amanda Burke puts their baby down for a nap. The nurse flips a newborn to the stomach, slams the baby into the bassinet. Parents speak with hospital staff who review footage and call police. Consuela Saravia and Fidel Sinclair watched as their son Nico was slammed into his bassinet just hours after his birth at Long Island's Good Samaritan Hospital.

Burke's attorney says the registered nurse would never do anything to endanger any infant or patient under her care, but the Suffolk County Police Department's SVU disagreed and put out a warrant for her arrest. Amanda Burke, 29, fired and charged with endangering welfare of a child. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a six-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard waived extradition during a brief court appearance in Florida.

With more, Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. 24-year-old Robert Lewis Singletary was arrested in the Tampa area by Hillsborough County deputies. He wore a dark-colored protective vest during the hearing. Singletary replied, indeed, when Hillsborough Circuit Judge Catherine Catlin asked if he would sign the waiver to allow officials to take him back to North Carolina to face charges in Tuesday's shooting of the girl and her parents. He will be held without bond on a fugitive warrant. Singletary is facing four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gaston County Police say that the department and the U.S.

Marshal Service's Regional Fugitive Task Force have been conducting a broad search for Singletary, who fled after the April 18th shootings near Gastonia, a city of roughly 80,000 people west of Charlotte. Singletary had been out on bond in a December attack in which authorities say he assaulted a woman with a hammer. A man has been sentenced to up to 50 years in prison for killing his neighbor during an argument over a lawnmower. 52-year-old Neri Lopez Morales was sentenced for the death of 42-year-old

Amber Burton in what the victim's mother called, quote, one of the most stupid reasons I have ever heard to shoot someone. Lopez Morales was originally charged with first-degree murder, but entered a plea agreement in February to originally charged with first-degree murder, but entered a plea agreement in February to be charged with voluntary manslaughter. Court documents say Burton and her boyfriend sold a lawnmower to Lopez Morales, but Burton repossessed it because Lopez Morales allegedly owed her money in September 2021. Police say he drove to Burton's house and shot her once with a shotgun while they argued. A southern Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime charge in addition to attempted murder in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus.

Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. 56-year-old Billy R. Davis of Bloomington was indicted by a federal grand jury in Evansville on a charge of willfully causing injuries to the victim due to her race and national origin. Her lawyer said she's mentally ill. Davis, who is white, is accused of repeatedly stabbing the 18-year-old woman with a folding knife on January 11th as the victim, from Carmel, Indiana, waited to get off a bus in downtown Bloomington. Citing court records, our friends at WRTV-TV have reported that Davis told police she stabbed the woman because it, quote, would be one less person to blow up our country. An affidavit from a detective who reviewed surveillance footage says the victim was

stabbed about seven times in the top of the head. Surveillance footage showed no interaction between the two women prior to the attack. Asian Americans have increasingly been the target of racially motivated harassment and assaults in recent years, particularly since the coronavirus pandemic began, with many worrying that anti-Asian rhetoric linked to fraught relations between the U.S. and China could lead to more violence. A man accused of setting several people on fire, including himself, at a Mississippi home is now facing charges of murder after two of the victims died as a result of his alleged actions. 31-year-old Marcus Uria Lara Perez faces two counts of capital murder and three counts of aggravated assault.

Authorities say Perez was also injured in the April 9th fire at a home in Byram, Mississippi, and is currently being treated at a burn facility in Alabama. City of Byram police report that the suspect is currently unconscious and, quote, could be hospitalized for a while. Three other victims remain hospitalized. National Guard expert marksman Josiah Garcia needs to make some fast cash quote, could be hospitalized for a while. Three other victims remain hospitalized. National Guard expert marksman Josiah Garcia needs to make some fast cash because he's got a baby on the way. So what does Garcia do? Of course, he applies for a job with rentahitman.com.

An FBI agent pretends to be the hiring manager for the website meets Garcia in a parking lot to give him his first assignment. Garcia then makes it worse, asking if he should send pictures of the dead body as proof. The FBI agent promptly arrests him. Garcia now charged with using the internet to facilitate murder for hire. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.