Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 06.07.24

Episode Date: June 7, 2024

Adult son beheads father, shows head in YouTube conspiracy rant. Judge lands in hot water for questionable post.  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. Michael Maughan's wife calls 911 when she comes home to their Pennsylvania home to find his beheaded body. She says when she left, Maughan was home with their adult son, Justin. In a YouTube video posted hours earlier, the son, Justin Mon, holds his father's decapitated head up to the camera and calls for violence against the government. Nancy, Michael Mon was a federal employee with the Philadelphia branch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In his YouTube video, Justin Mon described a large government conspiracy and called his father a traitor to

the country. The video was quickly removed for violating the platform's policies. At the scene, investigators found the victim's head wrapped in a plastic bag inside a cooking pot next to the body. Cops find Justin Mon two hours from the crime scene driving his own dad's car. Mon, 32, booked on murder and abuse of a corpse. A Vegas judge is in hot water after posting a picture of herself in a hot tub with two public defenders. Judge Erica Ballou is pictured in a hot tub with a male and female public defender with a racy caption posted at the bottom. Ballou has made questionable posts in the past. Her social media habit now threatens her position. The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline has filed two counts

of violating the Code of Judicial Conduct against Ballou for activities that undermine public confidence. You can say that again. Plus, don't they know those hot tubs are full of germs? More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A former Ohio Sheriff's deputy is scheduled for a retrial in the death of a 23-year-old black man. The prosecution asking the judge to drop one of

two murder counts against the defendant. We turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online for more. In addition to one murder count for purposefully killing Casey Goodson Jr., Jason Meade also faces one count of causing the victim's death during a felonious assault. However, special prosecutors Tim Merkel and Gary Schroyer requested that the judge dismiss the former of the two counts. Prosecutors' reasons for making the request were not explained in the motion, and Merkle announced that they would not be commenting further on the procedural move. It was as Goodson was attempting to enter his grandmother's Columbus, Ohio home in December of 2020 that he was shot multiple times and killed. His death, along with those of several other black people at

the hands of white Ohio law enforcement officials in the past 10 years, has provoked widespread outrage and calls for police reform. Meade says that he shot Goodson because the man was wielding a gun. After turbulent proceedings that resulted in the dismissal of four jurors, Meade's first trial in February ended in a mistrial due to the jury's inability to reach a unanimous decision. The date of his retrial is set for October 31. Meade faced charges of both murder and reckless homicide in the death of Goodson. Meade entered a not guilty plea and his attorneys claim that political pressure from local elected officials was the reason behind the prosecution's decision to request a second trial. Meade shot Goodson six times in the entryway of his grandmother's house, five of the shots hitting him in his back. Meade stated in his deposition that he was afraid for

both his life and the lives of others when Goodson pointed a gun at him as the two drove past each other. Meade claimed he shot Goodson as the young man turned toward him with a gun in his hand. According to Goodson's family and the prosecution, he was shot and killed while clutching his keys in one hand and a sandwich bag in the other. They acknowledged that Goodson may have had a gun, but that he had a license to carry a firearm. The handgun that belonged to Goodson, a weapon with an extended magazine, was discovered with its safety mechanism activated on his grandmother's kitchen floor. Prosecutors maintained throughout the first trial that Meade was the only witness to Goodson's holding a gun. There is no video of the incident as the officer was not wearing a body camera.

It's unclear when a judgment will be made on the dismissal request. The trial date for a man accused of killing rapper Young Dolph in a daytime gun attack at a cookie store in Memphis, Tennessee has now been rescheduled by the court. Once again, Crime Online, Sidney Sumner. Judge Jennifer J. Mitchell of Shelby County, Tennessee, has now set a trial date of September 23rd for 26-year-old Justin Johnson. The defendant entered a not guilty plea to first-degree murder in connection with the November 2021 shooting death of young Dolph, who was buying cookies at a bakery close to his

childhood home. Johnson's trial was scheduled to begin this week. On May 14th, however, the prosecution and Johnson's attorney jointly filed a motion requesting that the trial be postponed so that they could call expert witnesses to testify about records pertaining to cell phone location. Due to extensive media coverage of the 36-year-old rapper's death, which stunned Memphis and the entertainment industry, Mitchell decided in February that the trial jury will be drawn from outside of Memphis. Thanks, John. Rachel Cook, just 19, comes home to Georgetown, Texas after her first semester at San Diego Mesa College. She's pursuing a fashion degree.

She brings her boyfriend home for the holidays with her family, and he returns to San Diego after New Year's. Rachel stays behind for a wedding. A cross-country runner, Rachel often takes a four-mile run around her parents' neighborhood. People see her on the run starting at 9.30 a.m. January 10. A neighbor just a few doors down remembers seeing her cooling down and walking back toward her home, but she never makes it. After hours pass and Rachel still has not returned, her family reports are missing. Extensive searches ensue, no sign of Rachel.

Rachel Cook would now be 41. She's been missing 22 years. If you have info on Rachel Cook, call Williamson County, Texas Sheriffs, 512-943-5204. 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.