Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 06.23.23

Episode Date: June 23, 2023

Mother found guilty of abusing her 3-year-old to death. Detroit cops assist in catching a runaway steer.  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. A dog walker calls police after discovering burned, decomposing remains of a child in a ditch. The unidentified child doesn't match any missing person report in Delaware. DNA eventually IDs her as three-year-old Emma Grace Cole, her mother and stepfather, Christy and Brandon Haas, arrested for murder. Nancy, investigators learn that the couple had abused Emma and three other children in their care for nearly two years. The couple withheld food and medical treatment

while forcing the children to exercise excessively as punishment, also beating and burning them. Behind bars, Christy Haas was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression, for which she received treatment, so there was no question about her competency at court hearings. Christy Haas, 31, pleads guilty to murder by abuse. Husband Brandon Haas scheduled for trial. A team of Michigan cattle wrangers call police for help as a steer runs dangerously close to the highway just outside Detroit. Troopers respond to help block traffic.

Their dash cams catch the moment the cow runs onto the highway with men on horseback and ATVs hot on its heels. The men finally lasso the cow as it tries to jump over the railing separating each side of the highway and drag the steer across three lanes of traffic safely onto the shoulder. Despite the incident being the steer's second escape from an animal rescue, he was pardoned. He didn't end up at the steakhouse. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A man in western Indiana has received a 40-year sentence after pleading guilty but mentally ill to a felony charge connected to the fatal stabbing of his mother. According to our friends with the Tribune Star, 42-year-old Michael Charles Wilson of Terre Haute was sentenced by a Vigo County judge after entering a guilty but mentally ill plea to

a charge of burglary with serious bodily injury. Wilson's 72-year-old mother, Gail Wilson, was discovered dead in her bedroom in May 2021 by a relative. Officers dispatched to the scene discovered multiple injuries to her neck and bloody garden shears on the ground next to her body. A former Dances with Wolves actor is now wanted by Canadian police on nine counts, including sexual exploitation, sexual assault, and removing a minor from Canada before the age of 16. For more, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. The investigation into sexual allegations against Nathan Lee Chasing Horse has spanned several years. According to a statement released by the Sutunon Nation Police Service, one of the alleged offenses dates back to 2005.

Since his arrest in January in Southern Nevada, Chasing Horse has been detained in Las Vegas. The actor is accused of 18 felonies, including kidnapping, sexual assault of a child, and child abuse. Court documents state that Chasing Horse served as leader of The Circle, a cult-like organization. He's also accused of utilizing his position to win the trust of indigenous families and their children and to seduce underage women. In Kevin Costner's 1990 Oscar-winning film Dances with Wolves, Chasing Horse played the role of Sioux tribal leader Smiles-a-Lot. Overseas now and to England, where a 44-year-old mother of three found guilty for medically inducing an abortion while she was about eight months pregnant, has been handed a sentence of more than two years in prison.

In Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, Justice Edward Pepperell stated that the tragic case compelled him to weigh the woman's reproductive rights against the rights of the unborn and suggested that the sentence would prevent others from performing abortions after the legal limit of 24 weeks. In spite of the mother's, quote, deep and genuine remorse and the fact that her children, including one with special needs, would suffer without her, Pepperell said the woman could have avoided prison if she had simply entered a guilty plea sooner. Back in this country now, into Louisiana, where virtually all of that state's death row inmates have requested clemency on the same day. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney

Sumner. The majority of Louisiana's death row convicts made clemency requests on the same day. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. The majority of Louisiana's death row convicts made clemency requests on the same day, pleading with the state's term-limited governor, John Bel Edwards, to save their lives and commute their sentences from the capital penalty to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The 51 clemency applications came after a bill to abolish the death penalty failed during Louisiana's recent legislative session. Earlier this spring, Edwards, who's unable to seek re-election due to consecutive term limits, voiced his support for the first time to eliminate capital punishment. He's urged lawmakers to get rid of the death penalty, saying it was, quote, inconsistent with Louisiana's pro-life

values as it quite literally promotes a culture of death. Our friends with the Advocate newspaper who broke the news of the filings tell us that only two clemency requests have been approved by Louisiana governors since the state instituted the death penalty in the 1970s. Susan Lane, 31, calls police from McDonald's to report a woman stalking and harassing her, but leaves before cops get there. Lane then calls her mother to tell her about the stalker and says she's on the way home. But Susan Lane never makes it. The next day, a neighbor calls Lane's parents to let them know her brown BMW parked at a gas station. They discover the car's been there for hours. The

driver's side door opened with the key in the ignition. Lane's belongings also inside. Lane now missing over two years. If you have info on Susan Lane's disappearance, please contact the Ann Arendelle PD, 410-222-3588. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.