Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 06.19.24

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

Sucker puncher poses for victim's photo. Suspect leads wild chase, then casually asks for a cigarette.  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. Nicholas Hostetler walking down a Campbell, California street suddenly punches an elderly person squarely in the face. The victim pulls out a cell phone to take a picture of the attacker and Hostetler even poses for the photo. What a jerk. A week later, he attacks a second senior citizen. When that victim's family is checking surveillance cameras in the area, Hostetler tries to fight them. Nancy, it's unclear what spurred the attacks from Hostetler, who's seen with his hands on his hips and offering a soft smile in the first victim's photo.

Officers recognized Hostetler from the photo and contacted his parents after the second attack. Hostetler was found in their home and arrested without incident. Nicholas Hostetler, 25, now charged with two counts elder abuse. Seattle cops discover a man sleeping in a stolen car. They set up tire deflation devices under the car before waking up the napper. Despite cops' warning, the suspect takes off flattening three tires. The suspect runs over two tents with people sleeping inside, and when the car finally runs out of gas, he hops a fence. Police find him hiding in a dumpster. Suspect 30 tells cops to, quote, chill out. Then he asked, can I get a cigarette? The Seattle man now facing charges of vehicular assault, evading, and possession of a stolen car. More crime and

justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. We begin in South Dakota, where a 30-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murder after a shooting at a house party that killed three people and injured two others, marking Sioux Falls' first triple homicide in more than 50 years. With more, here's Sydney Sumner of Crime Online. Justin Cody Rackley is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of 43-year-old Daniel Carl Chemnitz, 43-year-old Kelly Elizabeth Reeves, and 34-year-old Michael Andrew Thompson. All were residents of Sioux Falls. Rackley is being held in Minnehaha County Jail ahead of a preliminary hearing on June 25th. Though he says it doesn't seem to have been a robbery or

crime of passion, Lt. Aaron Nyberg stated it's too early to discuss a motive or any relationships involved. When police arrived at the house in a residential neighborhood at around three in the morning on the day of the shooting, officers saw a chaotic situation where maybe a dozen people had gathered around a bonfire. A firearm was discovered at the scene. Two were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. According to Nyberg, the last known homicide case in Sioux Falls involving three or more victims occurred in 1973, an apparent murder-suicide. A Southern California socialite who hit and killed two young brothers in a crosswalk over three years ago has now received a sentence ranging from 15 years to life in prison. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Officials say that Rebecca Grossman, the wife of a well-known burn doctor in Los Angeles,

was behind the wheel of a vehicle that fatally struck 11-year-old Mark Iskender and his 8-year-old brother Jacob. In February, a jury in Los Angeles found Rebecca Grossman guilty of all charges, including two felonies each for second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter, as well as one felony for hit-and-run driving that resulted in death. According to our friends with the Los Angeles Times, Superior Court Judge Joseph Brandolino sentenced her to two terms ranging from 15 years to life, with an additional three years for fleeing the scene of the fatal crash. The sentences are to run concurrently with

one another. Grossman's acts were deemed, quote, reckless and unquestionably negligent by the judge. The data recorder in Grossman's white Mercedes, according to evidence produced by the prosecution, showed that she was driving at speeds up to 81 miles per hour, then tapped her brakes and slowed to 73 miles per hour, less than two seconds before the collision, which activated her airbags. The 60-year-old Grossman agreed to pay $47,161.89 in restitution to the Iskander family. Her lawyers claim that the co-founder of the Grossman-Byrne Foundation had already donated $25,000 in funeral costs for the family. The fatal collision happened in Westlake Village, a community on the western border of Los Angeles County on the evening of September 29, 2020.

Thanks, John. Relisha Rudd, just eight years old, lives with mom in a D.C. shelter. Janitor Khalil Tatum befriends the girl, buying her a computer, taking her to Disney on ice, and Relisha is allowed to stay overnight with him.

Suddenly she stops going to school, but mom, Shemeika Young, sends school officials a note that Relisha is sick and in the care of a Dr. Tatum. When Relisha does not return in a month, a school council reports her missing. Tatum's wife is found shot in the head the same day eight-year-old Relisha is reported missing. Relisha last seen on video weeks earlier entering a D.C. hotel room with the janitor Khalil Tatum. Just after the sighting, the custodian seeing buying a shovel, lime, and trash bags. Police look for Tatum, finding he shot himself with the same gun used to kill his wife. Relisha Rudd not found.

Relisha, African-American, black hair, brown eyes. At the time of her disappearance, she wore braids. If you have any info on Relisha Rudd, call D.C. Police 202-265-9100. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Izzy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.