Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 07.06.23

Episode Date: July 6, 2023

Father faces charges after verbal abuse leads to teen daughter's suicide attempt. Neighbor takes anti-theft protection to criminal levels.  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 Florida girl celebrating her 13th birthday phones dad, but instead of well wishes, she's met with verbal abuse. Jared Canales calls his daughter several swear words, tells her she's worthless, and that she should, quote, kill herself. The teen smashes the photo frame using a shard of glass to slit her wrist, then swallows a bottle of Benadryl. Her mom calls 911. Nancy, Canales' daughter was pregnant at the time of the phone call, which was the subject of the majority of the abuse. After telling her mother what she had done, the girl was rushed to the hospital,

where doctors pumped her stomach and police spoke to her about what happened, determining Canales should face charges. It's a miracle the teen girl survives all this. Following a nationwide manhunt, Canales arrested on child abuse. Blaze Smith's home is robbed and thanks to his home surveillance, he sees the burglar is a neighbor. Smith hatches a plan. He fashions a weapon out of a baseball bat, nails and barbed wire, and leaves the window open. When neighbor Aldo Gomez crawls through the window, Smith beats him with the baseball bat, chasing him outside where the beating continues. Another neighbor calls 911. Gomez rushed to the hospital with a skull fracture.

Gomez now facing two burglary charges. And Smith also charged with two ag assault charges. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. The first trial in American history involving a law enforcement official for actions during an on-campus shooting has concluded with a Florida sheriff's deputy being cleared of charges of felony child endangerment and other offenses for failing to act during the 2018 Parkland school shooting. The dads of two children killed on February 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, gazed straight ahead and promptly departed the courtroom as the verdicts were read. Former Broward County Deputy Scott Peterson sobbed.

The jury had been in deliberations for 19 hours over the course of four days. Peterson, Stoneman Douglas' campus deputy, was accused of failing to stop gunman Nicholas Cruz during his six-minute rampage inside the three-story, 1,200-classroom building, which resulted in 17 deaths. Now to New Jersey, where a political consultant hired two hitmen to murder a co-worker in exchange for $15,000 has been given a 24-year federal prison term. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. 45-year-old former campaign consultant Sean Cato admitted to planning to commit murder for hire in the 2014 stabbing death of Michael Galdieri before setting his apartment on fire. Judge John Michael Vasquez of the U.S. District Court expressed skepticism about Cato's admission of guilt,

saying it appeared as if he was trying to, quote, save his own skin by working with investigators in a different tax and wire fraud case that resulted in the guilty plea of a former top aide to the state senate president. Prosecutors finally gave a motive for the hit during the last week of the trial. Cato told them he wanted Galdieri dead because he was threatening to demand money in return for not disclosing wrongdoing Galdieri claimed Cato committed through his political consulting business. It's unknown exactly what the wrongdoings might have been or how much money Galdieri is said to have requested. Attorneys for the family of a Virginia man have requested that

the U.S. Department of Justice launch a criminal inquiry into the events leading up to the 28-year-old's death. The man died of asphyxiation after being pushed to the ground for around 11 minutes while being admitted to a mental institution. Well-known civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and Virginia attorney Mark Crudas claim in a letter to federal officials dated June 26 that the state prosecutor's office that filed second-degree murder charges against sheriff's deputies and hospital staff lacked the personnel and resources necessary to adequately prosecute the case.

Erbo Otienu died March 6 while being admitted to Central State Hospital. Surveillance video shows Otienu in handcuffs and leg shackles as Henrico County sheriff's deputies and medical staff attempt to restrain him for nearly 20 minutes. Otienu spent the majority of that time on the ground being held down by a group that at one point seemed to number 10 people. Christy Richardson runs her late husband's Wyoming trucking company. When Christy doesn't show up to work October 7, her daughter immediately knows something's wrong. The daughter and her husband drive to Christy's home and discover the home is locked. Christy's car, cell phone, and purse left behind. Christy's garage

door opener missing, her bedsheets appear to be stained with blood or urine. An employee who wrote love letters to Christy for years quit his job days before Richardson's disappearance, but he repeatedly denies involvement. Christy Richardson now missing over eight years. If you have info on Christy Richardson's disappearance, please contact Casper PD 307-235-8202. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.