Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 08.17.23

Episode Date: August 17, 2023

Teacher pressures 9 year old student to send nude photos. Finger brings perp to justice 17 years after robbery.  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. Kevin Lance, a Kentucky elementary school teacher, befriends one of his students outside class texting the nine-year-old boy on a regular basis. Lance begins to pressure the boy into sending nude photos and sends him example photos from adult pornography. Nancy, Lance worked as an English teacher in Lexington and was put on leave after the allegations. After sending the pornographic material, Lance instructed the boy to delete the photos so his parents wouldn't see them. The Fayette County School District has not publicly commented on the matter. Lance, 49, facing 17 sex offenses, including

distribution of obscene matter to a minor. Two men break into a home where a family of eight is sleeping. They knock out the father, drag him to another room, and continue the robbery. A few minutes later, dad wakes up, arms himself with a sword, and chases the man out of the home, cutting off one of the man's fingers. Cops fingerprint that lone finger and ID the suspect as repeat offender Terrence Stewart, but it takes cops 17 years to find him. Stewart now finally charged with aggravated assault and attempted robbery. Was it worth it, Terrence Stewart? Behind bars and missing a finger. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,

Crime Online's John Lumley. A Southern California judge accused of killing his wife during an argument while drunk has pleaded not guilty to murder. His lawyer claims it was an accidental shooting. For more, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. As part of the new bail conditions sought by prosecutors, Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson was ordered to surrender his passport, submit to searches, and wear monitoring devices for blood alcohol content and GPS. Ferguson, who is free on a million-dollar bail, is also prohibited from owning firearms or alcohol, as well as visiting bars or liquor stores. Ferguson's lawyers told reporters after the hearing that the longtime judge and former prosecutor was certain a jury would agree

with him that no crime had been committed. The hearing took place in Los Angeles because Ferguson has been a judge hearing criminal cases in a courthouse about 25 miles to the southeast in Orange County. The 72-year-old was arrested on August 3rd at his home in the posh Anaheim Hills neighborhood after police discovered his wife, Cheryl Ferguson, shot to death. County. The 72-year-old was arrested on August 3rd at his home in the posh Anaheim Hills neighborhood after police discovered his wife, Cheryl Ferguson, shot to death. Prosecutors said in court records that the pair was arguing and the judge was drinking when he grabbed a pistol from an ankle holster and shot her in the chest. According to the filings, the couple's adult son and Ferguson contacted 911, and Ferguson texted his court clerk and bailiff to say he shot his wife.

Ferguson's next court appearance is scheduled for October 30th. Prosecutors have obtained a second expert study of the pistol used in Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western film in New Mexico, as they consider whether to recharge the actor. Baldwin claims the revolver unintentionally discharged when he followed instructions to aim it at cinematographer Helena Hutchins, who was behind the camera during rehearsal. It was on October 21, 2021, at a movie ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe

that Baldwin said he pulled back the hammer but not the trigger and the gun fired, mortally wounding Hutchins. In April, special prosecutors dropped an involuntary manslaughter allegation against Baldwin, claiming they were told the gun had been modified before the shooting and had malfunctioned. They commissioned a new investigation of the gun, as well as other guns and ammo recovered from the set of the film Rust, which was relocated from New Mexico to Montana. A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty to conspiring to breach Russian sanctions by working with an oligarch he once investigated

after the official's retirement. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. 55-year-old Charles McGonigal told a federal judge in New York City that he was deeply remorseful over work he conducted in 2021 for Russian entrepreneur Oleg Deripaska. McGonigal told the judge that he accepted more than $17,000 to assist Deripaska in gathering damaging information about another Russian oligarch who was a business adversary. Deripaska has been sanctioned by the United States since 2018 for reasons linked to Russia's takeover of Crimea. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Dell, McGonigal was also trying to help Deripaska get off the sanctions list and was in negotiations with co-conspirators to receive a fee of $650,000 to $3 million to hunt for electronic files revealing hidden assets worth

500 million dollars belonging to the oligarch's business rival. McGonigal pled guilty to a single count of money laundering conspiracy and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. He could be sentenced to up to five years in prison. Judge Jennifer Reardon set his sentencing date for December 14th. Tracy Bradley goes to work leaving two daughters, 10-year-old Tionda and 3-year-old Diamond, at their Chicago apartment with strict instructions to stay inside and not answer the door. Bradley calls home three times to check on the girls. No one picks up. When Bradley arrives home, 1130, there's a note from Tionda that she took Diamond to the store and playground.

Bradley frantically searches the neighborhood no sign of the girls cops find a voicemail from tionda asking if she could let george inside george could have been diamond's father or a neighbor who regularly babysat the bradley family also believes tionda was coached into writing the note. Diamond's father, George, continually denies being involved in the girls' disappearance, but purchased 42-gallon trash bags and was seen burning something in a 55-gallon drum the day the girls disappear. Tionda and Diamond Bradley now missing 22 years. If you have info on these little girls, Tionda and Diamond, please contact the FBI 312-421-6700. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com.

For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.