Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 05.15.23

Episode Date: May 15, 2023

Man assaults immobile girlfriend. Passenger who misses his flight calls in a bomb threat.  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. Aiden Ralph and his girlfriend argue after he accuses her of cheating. Ralph begins to shove the woman repeatedly. His last shove sends her down a flight of stairs, breaking her back. She is left immobile and begs Ralph to call 911. He refuses and then rapes her. The couple had been

together for three years prior to the incident in December of last year at their university. The woman was later found and taken to the hospital, where doctors determined her spine was fractured in the tumble down the stairs. Ralph, a sophomore linebacker for the Iowa State Cyclones, was dismissed from the team following his arrest. Ralph has been assigned a public defender and ordered to have no contact with the victim before his release on bond. Ralph, 20, now charged with sex assault and domestic violence. After a JetBlue flight from Vegas to LA leaves, the airline receives a call from an angry passenger who missed the flight. He says his luggage, which did make it onto the plane, may or may not contain an explosive. When the plane lands in LA, it's taken to a remote area

on the tarmac where it sits over an hour as passengers are evacuated for a luggage search. No explosives found, but the unnamed passenger issued a misdemeanor citation for violation of airport rules. How about terroristic threats? More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A Chicago police officer has been fatally shot while returning home from work. According to authorities, four teens have been accused in connection with the incident. Charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery are brought against Joseph Brooks, Travelle Breland, 18-year-old Jaquan Buchanan, and a 16-year-old juvenile in connection with

the death of Officer Ariana Preston on May 5th. The Chicago Police Department says that during a string of robberies, Preston was shot dead at 1.40 a.m. on May 5th. Additionally, in relation to incidents that happened that Friday and Saturday, all four were charged with armed robbery, burglary, theft of a motor vehicle, and other felonies. Authorities say a customer was shot and killed inside a Detroit gas station Wednesday by another customer who had earlier argued with the store clerk over a small purchase. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. As prosecutors were charging 27-year-old Samuel McRae with murder and attempted murder,

additional details continued to emerge. The shooting took place around 3 a.m. on Saturday. Prosecutors say McRae attempted to leave the gas station with less than $4 worth of merchandise after payment was rejected, but the clerk locked the door. A witness, David Langston, says that McRae threatened to shoot everyone inside the store unless the door was unlocked. 37-year-old Langston was wounded, but his 37-year-old best friend, Gregory Kelly, died from his injuries. Also among the wounded was a 60-year-old man.

McRae was denied bond at a subsequent court appearance. After appearing in court Wednesday, McRae was returned to jail. Prosecutors claim that an American man detained in Northern Virginia on terrorism-related charges is married to another American who has been branded the Empress of ISIS by law enforcement for her efforts to create an all-female Islamic State battalion. A terrorist organization is accused of receiving funding from 33-year-old Mohamed Chippa of Springfield, Virginia, who was detained last week. The Islamic State is said to have received some of the almost $200,000 in Bitcoin that he allegedly provided to enable Chippa to achieve her declared objective of assisting in the smuggling of female ISIS militants out of jail facilities. Unaccounted for funds still exist. Prosecutors also revealed a connection between Chippa and Alison Fluke

Ekron, a Kansas-born American currently serving a 20-year jail sentence at a detention hearing Wednesday. Approximately 100 women and girls, some as young as 10, learn how to wield automatic guns, detonate explosives, and detonate suicide belts while serving in the Katiba Nuseba, a battalion that Fluke Ekron organized and led. Fluke Ekron pleaded guilty to these charges last year. A Dances with Wolves actor has sought Nevada's Supreme Court to overturn his broad indictment in state court after being accused of sexually abusing indigenous women and

girls for more than 10 years. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to Nathan Chasing Horse and his attorneys, his victims wanted to have sex with him. The 46-year-old is still imprisoned in Las Vegas on accusations that, if found guilty, could land him in jail for a very long time or the rest of his life. His appeal to the state Supreme Court was filed on Tuesday. Last month, Carly Kearney, the judge presiding over the state's case, upheld Chasing Horses' indictment, stating in an order that Clark County prosecutors had provided sufficient evidence for a reasonable grand juror to conclude that the sexual assaults occurred. His trial was scheduled to start on May 1st, but Kearney postponed the case while Chasing Horse appeals the ruling.

Chasing Horse is charged with 18 felonies, including sexual assault of a minor, child abuse, and kidnapping. Shannon Anderson drives to a Camden-gated community 35 miles from her Edenton, North Carolina home. She goes door-to-door looking for someone by name when no one can help her. She heads toward a swampy area described as hard to navigate. Police track down the person Anderson was reportedly trying to find, but that person lives in Virginia and cannot explain why Anderson will be searching for them. Ground and helicopter searches of the area turn up nothing. If you have info on Shannon Anderson,

please call Edenton PD 252-482-5144. 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.