Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 08.11.23

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

Teen boy shoots girl dead with father's handgun. Google maps driver crashes car rather than pull over for speeding.  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, a 14-year-old boy invites friends over to his New Mexico home while his dad's at work. The group hangs out until the host pulls out dad's handgun and shoots a 13-year-old girl dead. The boy then drags the girl's body outside and tries to continue the party, but the other minors leave and call cops. When officers arrive, the dad, William Brown, and son refuse to answer the door until police threaten to force entry. Nancy, authorities have released very little information on the shooting because it involves minors. The shooter and victim will not be identified publicly,

and Cuesta, New Mexico Mayor John Ortega has said his, quote, thoughts and prayers go out to the families, community members, and first responders who were affected by it. Brown, 39, charged with making a firearm accessible to minors, his son charged with murder. Indiana cops flip on the blue lights while a manned Google Maps car equipped with a 360-degree camera flies through a 40 MPH school zone at more than 100 miles an hour. The driver doesn't bat an eye and speeds up, cutting through traffic, evading cops into the

next county before losing control of the car, driving through a front yard, and crashing into a creek. Coleman Ferguson, who says he was scared to stop, is taken to the hospital for minor injuries, then charged with resisting cops. Guess he couldn't read the map. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Lemley. Just hours before President Joe Biden was set to arrive in Utah Wednesday, FBI agents shot and killed an armed man allegedly making death threats against the vice president. For more, we turn to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. Gunshots rang out at Craig Robertson's Provo,

Utah residence at 6.15 a.m. as FBI special agents were attempting to serve a warrant. According to two anonymous law enforcement sources who spoke to our friends with the Associated Press, Robertson was carrying a weapon at the time of the shooting. Following months of graphic online threats against a number of public figures, Robertson wrote on Monday that he had learned Biden was visiting Utah and that he intended to get out a camouflage suit and, quote, start cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle. Robertson identified himself as a MAGA Trumper, alluding to the slogan, Make America Great Again, used by the former president. He also tweeted

threats against high-ranking law enforcement officers in charge of the prosecutions against Trump. Neighbors described Robertson as a fragile elderly man who needed a hand-carved stick to help him walk. His online profile listed his age as 74. Despite frequently carrying a gun, they claimed he didn't pose a threat. Biden traveled to Utah Wednesday to visit a Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs hospital. Now to Tennessee, where a judge has dismissed the case against a woman serving a life sentence for robbing and killing a man bound with duct tape when she was just 13 years old. The first-degree murder and aggravated robbery convictions of 28-year-old Angel Bumpus were overturned by Hamilton County Judge Amanda Dunn. Bumpus was 24 when she was

found guilty in 2019 of killing 68-year-old Franklin Bonner. He was chained to a kitchen table in 2009 with duct tape covering his feet, arms, nose, and mouth, and a medical examiner found that he died from suffocation. The case remained unsolved until 2018 when prosecutors revisited it and discovered Bumpus' fingerprints matched those recovered on the duct tape. Mallory Vaughn, a co-defendant in the case, was found not guilty. The defense had asserted during the trial that the evidence was insufficient and the witness testimony was flawed. A U.S. nurse and her daughter have been freed by kidnappers in Haiti almost two weeks after they were taken off the campus of a Christian-run school outside of Port-au-Prince. This incident highlights the severe security risks for tourists

in the capital city that is mostly ruled by gangs. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. The kidnapping of Alex Dorsenville and her child on July 27th came on the same day that the U.S. State Department issued a warning to American citizens to leave Haiti as soon as possible and ordered all non-emergency U.S. government officials to leave due to security concerns. The U.S. continues to issue a do-not-travel warning for the nation. El Roy Haiti, the Christian organization established by Dorsenville's husband, requested prayers in the days following the kidnapping and stated that it was trying to ensure their safe return. El Roy Haiti announced on Wednesday that the mother and daughter from

New Hampshire had been released safely, quote, with a heart of gratitude and immense joy. In a statement, the U.S. State Department expressed gratitude to its Haitian and American interagency partners for making the release possible. No further information was released, including whether a ransom was paid. Susie Escobedo, a loving mom to a seven-year-old son, quits her job just before welcoming her second child to stay home with the baby while her husband works. August 2, Susie spends the day at home doing chores and cooking, texting back and forth with friends. She stops responding around 1 p.m. When her husband arrives home from work just after 7

p.m., Susie's gone. Their four-month-old left alone drinking from a bottle. Susie's family reports her missing after her husband calls to see if they had heard from her. Her husband's employer confirms he was at work until 7 p.m. Susie's cell phone, wallet, and other belongings left behind. Susie Escobedo now missing over five years. If you have info on the disappearance of mom of two Susie Escobedo, please call Calhoun County Sheriff's 361-553-4646. 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.