Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 07.24.23

Episode Date: July 24, 2023

Jilted husband shoots his wife's affair partner. Neighborhood plagued by mail thief.  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. John Takahara, a Hawaiian acupuncturist, starts a sex affair with a married client. Husband Eric Thompson finds out through his wife's Insta. Thompson, enraged, walks in Takahara's office wearing a hat and sunglasses and shoots Takahara in the face four times. Nancy, Thompson is caught on surveillance footage parking his car about a block from Tokuhara's office just before the shooting. The hat he wore into the building blew off as he left and DNA samples taken from the hat show Thompson likely wore it. Thompson's defense attorney has claimed that police narrowed

their pool of suspects too quickly as Tokuhara was a serial cheater and a habitual gambler. Thompson, 34, on trial for murder. An Austin, Texas neighborhood has not received mail in over a month. Why? A protective red-tailed hawk dive bombs anybody who gets close to the community mailbox and the bird's nest in a tree above the mailbox. The bird is a habitual offender, causing a three-month pause in mail delivery last year. Meanwhile, residents can pick up their mail at the post office. The hawk potentially facing mail tampering charges, but I think he's going to take flight. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley.

A Long Island architect has been identified as the suspect charged in the deaths of three of 11 victims in a long unsolved string of crimes known as the Gilgo Beach murders. Detectives now saying that they were able to match the man's DNA from pizza he ate to genetic material on the women's bodies. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Rex Heuermann is the man accused of killing Melissa Bartholomew, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. He had lived across a bay from where the remains were discovered for many years. According to investigators, he is also the main suspect in the death of a fourth woman, whose body was found chained and buried in dense bush alongside a deserted coastal highway.

Investigators have stated that it's unlikely that one person killed all 11 victims over the years. 59-year-old Heuermann was apprehended after being linked to a pickup truck that a witness claimed to have seen when one of the victims vanished in 2010. Detectives say they first identified Heuermann as a suspect in March 2022. Detectives pursuing Heuermann in March of this year found DNA on a pizza crust in a box that he threw away in a Manhattan trash can and compared it to a hair found on a restraint used in the crimes. Heuermann's attorney, Michael Brown, says that they were first made aware of the allegations the morning after the suspect's arrest. Speaking to the media after the arraignment, he said Heuermann told him, I didn't do this. Huerman's lawyer entered a not

guilty plea in state court in Riverhead on the client's behalf because of, quote, the extreme depravity of his alleged behavior. Judge Alan Amber ruled that the suspect be imprisoned without bail. A judge has now set a trial date for two men accused of murdering rapper Young Dolph in a daytime ambush at a Memphis, Tennessee bakery. During a hearing, Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffey announced that Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith will go on trial March 11th for the deadly shooting of the Memphis-born rapper. Young Dolph, whose true name was Adolph Thornton Jr., was shot November 2021. Johnson and Smith have pled not guilty to charges that include

first-degree murder. The murder's motive has not been made public. After a two-day search by police and family members, a 25-year-old Alabama woman who had been reported missing after stopping to check on a child walking along an interstate has returned home. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Our friends at AL.com reported that Carly Thea, Carly, Nicole Russell, has returned to the Hoover, Alabama home she shares with her parents. According to Hoover Police Chief Nick Durzis, Russell was taken to a hospital for evaluation after arriving home alone. After calling 911 and a relative to report seeing a young child walking beside Interstate 459 late at night, Russell's whereabouts were unknown.

Although Russell's car and cell phone were located, neither she nor a child were anywhere to be found. Hoover police say that although the phone connection was still open, Russell's family member on the other end could only hear highway noise and a scream. One eyewitness claimed to have seen a gray car and a man standing outside Carly's car, but the observer had no further details. Tyler Christensen, a creative and hard-working young man, homeschooled along with his four sisters. Tyler, 16, he leaves home on foot, telling his parents he's headed to the weekly youth group at the church one mile away from his Washington home. Instead, he walks in the opposite direction and takes a ferry to Kingston, hitches a ride to Silverdale, 30 minutes south. The man who gives Tyler a ride says he was

trying to get to Shelton to go hiking in the Olympic Mountains. One month later, Tyler's backpack found under a bridge, Shelton, Washington. Tyler Christensen now missing over five years. If you have info on Tyler Christensen, please call Snohomish County Sheriff's 425-407-3970. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.