Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 08.04.23

Episode Date: August 4, 2023

Baby left in hot car for more than five hours. Thief goes completely ignored.  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. Rhonda Jewell agrees to babysit for two sets of Florida parents, picking up the first couple's 10-month-old to take her to the second couple's home. When Jewell arrives, the baby's sleeping, so she heads inside to check on the older children before returning to bring the baby inside. Five hours later, the baby's mom drops by the home,

horrified to find her daughter still sitting in the car, not breathing. Nancy, the baby's mother, calls 911 and she is rushed to the hospital, but declared dead upon arrival. While it was 98 degrees outside, temperatures inside the car were in excess of 113 degrees, and the girl's temperature consistently read at 110 degrees, the highest temperature the thermometer could read. In a statement, Baker County Sheriff Scotty Roden asked the community to be mindful of the tragedy the victims are experiencing when seeking information about the incident. Jewel 46, now charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child. An Atlanta nail salon doesn't bat an eye in the face of an attempted robbery. Caught on video, a man wearing a hat and sunglasses walks in

and demands money from customers who all ignore him. The man approaches an employee and makes the same demand, but instead of responding, the woman casually answers the business's ringing phone. Once again, he demands the customer give him money. She just shrugs and says she doesn't have any and walks out. The man stands still for a moment, then awkwardly walks out of the building. Georgia cops still looking for the would-be nail salon robber. More crime and justice news after this.

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A suspect has been detained in connection with a May shooting in Vermont that left one man dead and another injured. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Vermont State Police say that 43-year-old Devin Dennis of Hartford, Connecticut was apprehended after he landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on a flight from Jamaica. Ahead of his initial court appearance in Queens County Criminal Court, Dennis will remain behind bars. The suspect will be returned to Vermont to stand trial for attempted and second-degree murder there. On May 12, 27-year-old Juan Sierra of Springfield, Massachusetts, was fatally shot in the city of Brookfield, Vermont. He suffered a gunshot wound to the torso and was declared dead at the scene. Despite also being

shot, 29-year-old Miguel Fuentes, also of Springfield, was able to drive away from the scene and receive treatment from a passerby several miles away. According to police, the passerby called 911. Fuentes survived after being transported to the hospital. Police identified Dennis as a suspect and discovered that he had left Connecticut's Bradley International Airport on May 13th for Jamaica. According to investigators, the shooting was drug-related. Now to Texas, as five people are hurt in a shooting at a crowded after-hours nightclub in Houston. According to Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief Bon Tien, two men were fighting in the club's parking lot around 4.30 a.m. when one of the men grabbed a gun. Thien says the gunman was persuaded to put the weapon away

as the other man and his friends entered the illegal bar in southeast Houston. However, the armed man entered the club after the others and opened fire. The individual who was initially confronted outside, along with four others, were injured in the shooting. Police say that several of the injured were innocent bystanders. Authorities report that three people had non-life-threatening injuries, while two others were in serious condition. An Oklahoma judge has ordered a new trial for a man held behind bars for nearly 50 years for a fatal shooting that he has long maintained he did not commit.

Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Glenn Ray Simmons had been found guilty of killing store clerk Carolyn Sue Rogers during a 1974 liquor store robbery in Edmond, just north of Oklahoma City. Later, Simmons was picked out of a lineup by a woman who was shot and injured during the robbery. Simmons, a Louisiana native, has repeatedly claimed that he was in his home state at the time of the crime, not Oklahoma. The Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office has requested that District Judge Amy Palumbo set a date for a new trial and overturn the conviction. Her request is based on the grounds that the prosecution withheld crucial evidence such as

a police report suggesting an eyewitness might have identified other suspects in the case instead of Simmons and co-defendant Don Roberts. According to Palumbo, the murder conviction and life sentence for Simmons have now been overturned, saying that Simmons is entitled to relief for, quote, the state's failure to disclose police department reports, which denied Glenn Simmons a fair trial. Simmons was convicted at the age of 22. He's now 70. Kathleen Haley makes plans to meet up at her sister's house in Newport News, South Carolina for dinner, but doesn't show up. Her sister checks the next day. Haley's apartment shows signs of struggle. There's cleaning supplies and rubber gloves in the bathroom, blood smears on the walls and in the laundry basket, her computer and mattress both missing, and a section of carpet is cut out.

Haley's car parked at her apartment, but the seats pushed way too far back for Haley to have been the last driver. Neighbors recall seeing a blonde man going in and out of Haley's apartment the day of her disappearance, but her family is unable to match that description to anyone Haley knows. Kathleen Haley, now missing nearly 11 years. If you have info on Kathleen Haley, please call Newport News PD 757-928-4100. 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.