Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 05.11.23

Episode Date: May 11, 2023

Elevator mechanic found responsible for killing his apprentice. Heated argument between a man and his parrot grabs cops' attention.  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. Elevator mechanic Peter Malatz brings his apprentice Joseph Rosa on a job with him to replace steel ropes between the elevator cabin and the counterweight. Malatz says with the cabin on the sixth floor, he asks Rosa to go downstairs and cut the old ropes. When he does, the cabin falls down the shaft, crushing him.

Nancy, Malatz bypassed several important safety features that could have prevented Rosa's death. Malatz failed to, quote, hang the elevator cabin, preventing it from falling when the ropes are cut. Malatz also intended to replace the elevator's braking system, but when the newer model did not fit, Millat simply left the brakes off entirely while continuing to work. Rosa, who was 25, had been married just months before his death. Millat, 67, now charged with negligent homicide. Florida Highway Patrol notices a man driving erratically, so here come the blue lights. Officers do not find a drunk driver driver but a driver locked in an argument with his talking pet parrot it seems the driver wants to take a walk on the beach but the parrot just wants to go home

troopers say they de-escalated the situation polly want a cracker and sent the couple on their way with a warning to keep their focus on the road and their beaks shut. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. On Monday, a judge sentenced a woman convicted of murdering her 11-year-old stepson in Colorado and throwing his body over a bridge in Florida to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The judge criticized her assertion that she was insane and that one of her other personalities was responsible for the murder as being unfair to mentally ill people. Letitia Stouch was convicted earlier in the day of first-degree murder and other crimes

related to the stabbing death of Gannon Stouch more than three years ago. According to the prosecution, she allegedly stabbed Gannon 18 times as he struggled to resist her before striking him in the head and shooting him once. The prosecution asserted that Stouch killed the boy in January 2020 because she despised him and wished to harm Al Stouch, the boy's father, saying that she intended to leave while he was away on National Guard deployment. They claim that after the child's murder, she then put his body in a suitcase and traveled

more than 1,300 miles in a rented van with the remains. After firing at kids who were playing hide-and-seek outside his home and hitting a 14-year-old girl, a Louisiana man has now been charged with aggravated assault and battery, this according to authorities, with the latest, Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. According to a statement released on social media by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office, the girl was shot in the back of the head early on Sunday and was sent to a hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. Investigators say a number of kids were playing hide-and-seek in the Starks' neighborhood and were found to be

hiding on a neighbor's property. Officials state that 58-year-old David Doyle told officers that he picked up his revolver when he noticed shadows outside his residence and fired at people he saw fleeing, unintentionally hitting the girl. The sheriff's office reported that Doyle was taken into custody and charged with aggravated battery, four charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, and illegal discharge of a firearm. Doyle is being held in custody at the Calcasieu Correctional Facility on a $300,000 bond. The investigation, according to officials, is still active. She authored a children's book on grieving following her husband's passing the previous year. Now that woman is accused of murdering

the father of three. Coury Richens, who is being detained in Utah, is charged with killing her husband with a deadly amount of fentanyl at their Camas, Utah home. Camas is a small mountain town close to Park City. According to the accusations made by the prosecution, Richens called the police in the middle of the night in March 2022 to report that her husband, Eric Richens, was cold to the touch. After making her husband a mixed vodka cocktail to celebrate his selling a house, the mother of three informed police that she went to their bedroom to put one of the children to sleep.

Later, a medical examiner discovered that Eric Richens had five times the fatal amount of fentanyl in his system. In addition to charges of murder, Richens is accused of possessing GHB, a psychoactive drug commonly used in social settings, including at dance clubs. Police now say a suspect has been detained in connection with a shooting

that took place outside a well-known New Orleans restaurant, leaving a server dead and a guest from Chicago injured. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. With assistance from the New Orleans Police Department, U.S. Marshals successfully apprehended the suspect in Houston. He is named as 22-year-old Kyron Keith Fizande. Charges of attempted second-degree murder, second-degree murder, and aggravated battery will be brought against him upon extradition. On April 28th, the shooting took place in front of Mandina's restaurant as tens of thousands of people arrived for the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Hilbert Walker III, a 23-year-old waiter, was killed. The gunfire also struck a

Chicago woman seated inside the restaurant. A found cell phone turned over to Wisconsin police by a Good Samaritan. Officers uncovered the owner and head to Tara Sullivan's home to return it. When they arrive, it looks like a car has backed through the garage door. Inside the home, drawers and Sullivan's purse dumped out. One county over, officers find an abandoned car, Sullivan's. The 46-year-old realtor has not been seen since. If you have info on Tara Sullivan's whereabouts, call Marathon County Sheriff's 715-261-1200. 715-261-1200. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.

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