Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 05.08.23

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

Woman sells organs from bodies she's supposed to cremate. Cops rescue elderly man from burning vehicle.  For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Candace Scott moves bodies and embalms remains for Arkansas Central Mortuary Services. Scott Moonlights selling embalmed organs and fetuses to, quote, oddity collectors. Her most frequent buyer, Jeremy Pauley, buys 16 shipments of body parts, spending over $10,000. Here's more from Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Scott first approached Pauly about purchasing organs in 2021, offering a, quote, fully intact embalmed brain.

Scott sells Pauly hearts, lungs, genitalia, large pieces of skin, and fetuses from cadavers donated for medical student use, even offering discounts for parts that were damaged in surgery practice. Prosecutors are pushing to have Scott held without bail due to the depraved nature of the crimes, but under federal rules, the judge may only make this decision based on Scott's flight risk. Scott, 36, faces federal mail and wire fraud charges as well as transporting stolen goods. Pauley charged separately in Pennsylvania with abuse of a corpse and receiving stolen property. Wisconsin police hit the blue lights to help a driver whose minivan has the tire going flat. As Donald Schmeling looks for a good spot to pull over, the tire pops.

His rim hits the asphalt. When sparks fly, the back of the van goes up in flames. Schmeling, 84, struggles to get out. Cops drag him away just seconds before the entire van goes up in flames. Schmeling luckily suffers only minor burns. Big thank you, Wisconsin police. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. According to an autopsy report now made public, Tyree Nichols died from head injuries sustained when he was beaten by Memphis police during an arrest in January. For more, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.

According to the autopsy, Nichols' death was a homicide. The medical examiner in Memphis issued a report that detailed head injuries, wounds, and bruises, as well as damage to other body parts. Both Nichols and the five police officers who were dismissed and charged with second-degree murder and other offenses after his death were black. They entered a not guilty plea on February 17th. Police stopped Nichols on January 7th, allegedly for a traffic infraction, and cops violently forced him out of his car. According to video footage released by the city of Memphis and other police records, an officer shot at Nichols with a stun gun, but Nichols fled in the direction of his nearby home. Nichols was pursued by police, who were a part of the Scorpion crime-fighting squad, who hit him with punches, kicks, and baton blows while he screamed for his

mother. Authorities reported that 27 minutes after emergency medical personnel arrived at the scene of the beating, Nichols was transported to a hospital in an ambulance. 29-year-old Nichols died three days later. According to police, a 21-year-old who was a student at the University of California Davis until last week, has been detained on suspicion of fatally stabbing two people and injuring another in attacks that alarmed the peaceful campus community. Carlos Dominguez was apprehended after 15 people reported seeing someone who appeared to match the suspect's description close to a city park, where he is charged with killing the second victim by stabbing him to death.

Police say it's unknown if Dominguez knew the victims, and they did not provide a motive for the stabbings, which occurred over many days beginning with the finding of the first body April 27. Two people were killed, a 20-year-old UC Davis student and a 50-year-old homeless man who was well-liked in the neighborhood. A homeless woman who was assaulted in her tent May 1st is recuperating. A man charged with murder in the 2020 shooting death of a young man in Seattle's Capitol Hill organized protest area has entered a guilty plea. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to the Seattle Times, 22-year-old Marcel Long entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Horace Anderson. On June 20, 2020,

Anderson was killed in San Francisco while protesting the Minneapolis death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. Several people reportedly called 911 to report the shooting, but when police arrived, they were greeted by an angry crowd and fled after hearing someone shout that the shot victim had been brought to Harborview Medical Center. Just over 30 minutes after the 911 call, Anderson died at the hospital. According to a lawsuit filed by Horace Anderson Sr., Anderson's father, police and fire department medics allegedly refused to arrive at the shooting scene while Anderson was perishing. Last year, the city paid $500,000 to resolve the complaint.

More than a year after the slaughter in a Seattle suburb, Long was taken into custody. According to court records, Anderson and Long have been at odds since 2019, following a fight Anderson lost that was documented on YouTube. In exchange for the murder allegation against him being dropped, an Alabama prisoner accused of the death of a guard who assisted him in escaping the facility has now admitted to escaping. In order to avoid a trial in June on the felony murder accusation, 39-year-old Casey Cole White entered the plea agreement in Lauderdale County Court

on an additional murder accusation he's still awaiting trial. According to authorities, Vicki White, the Lauderdale County Deputy Director of Corrections and a 17-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office, assisted White in escaping from an Alabama prison in 2022. Police initially believed the female jailer had been abducted by the inmate, but they later discovered that the two had a romantic relationship within the prison. Investigators tracked down the pair in Indiana after an 11-day manhunt. Vicki White died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while Casey White was apprehended again. Because Alabama law permits

a person to be prosecuted with murder if someone is killed while committing a crime, Casey White was accused in her death. McKella Standridge, a 25-year-old mom, tries to call 911 for help in the early morning hours, April 21, but her phone dies seconds after connecting to dispatch. Washington cops go to the home where Standridge makes the call, but there's no sign of McKella. Just days before her disappearance, Standridge posed to social media, quote, if I ever go missing, just know I didn't leave. If you have information on McKayla Standridge, please call Skagit County Sheriff's 360-416-1911.

For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.