Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 08.24.23

Episode Date: August 24, 2023

Man attacks police officer with a hammer. McDonald's customer throws a fit over 'unhappy' meal.   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. Detective Carly Travis with Middleton, Connecticut PD, first on the scene to a neighbor who complained about noise and breaking glass. She asked Wilson Tate to come out of his house and immediately notices he's carrying a claw hammer. Travis asked Tate to drop the hammer, but Tate charges the detective, beating her with the hammer until Travis fires a warning shot and Tate goes drop the hammer, but Tate charges the detective, beating her with the hammer, until Travis fires a warning shot and Tate goes back in the home. Nancy, Travis calls for backup and cops surround Tate's home, eventually getting him to surrender.

Tate, an Army veteran who was honorably discharged after serving in Iraq, has a history of manic argumentative behavior that resulted in many run-ins with police. Tate also carries a previous assault on an officer charged from 2018. Detective Travis was in stable condition after the attack and returned to work shortly after. Tate, 52, old enough to know better, now charged with assault on a cop. Miami-Dade cop Andre Perez and his wife pick up McDonald's, then get into an argument over money. The argument escalates.

Perez pushes his wife, then pulls a fresh cheeseburger out of the bag and throws it at her. Cops are called. Perez, 34, cuffed for a misdemeanor battery. I guess he's not loving it, being on the wrong side of the bars. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. As a wealthy dentist convicted of killing his wife during an African safari listened in court this week, her brother swore to relocate her remains to a location that Larry Rudolph would never discover.

For more, we turn to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. Shortly before a judge condemned Larry Rudolph to life in prison for Bianca Rudolph's killing in 2016, Vincent Fenizio prophesied Larry Rudolph would die alone and unmourned and that his future grandkids would never know he existed. U.S. District Judge William Martinez also assessed financial penalties totaling more than $15 million on Rudolph, who was also convicted of mail fraud for cashing in roughly $5 million in insurance plans for his wife as he established a new life with his longtime girlfriend. Rudolph has maintained throughout the case that his wife's death in Zambia,

a southern African country, was an accident. His lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, said he and his colleague, Margo Moss, were hopeful of winning an appeal. Prosecutors say Rudolph, the owner of a Pittsburgh-area dentistry firm, shot his 34-year-old wife in the heart with a shotgun on her final morning in Zambia, then placed the gun in its protective case to make it appear as if she had shot herself while packing. During their trip, the couple had hunted game. Rudolph faces a combination of restitution, fines, and property seizure as punishment. Rudolph also received a 20-itution, fines, and property seizure as punishment. Rudolph also received a 20-year jail sentence for mail fraud to be served concurrently with his life sentence for murder. Because of his undisclosed cardiac problems, Martinez ordered

Rudolph to serve his term in a prison with medical facilities. In a newly released video, the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronts police investigators as they search her home in a raid that gained national attention. The woman yelling at one point, get out of my house. Joan Meyer is seen on video shouting at the six cops inside the Marion, Kansas home she shared with her son, Marion County record editor and publisher Eric Meyer. She appears to be agitated as she stands with the assistance of a walker clad in a long robe or gown and slippers. It was on August 11th that the newspaper, along with the homes of Myers and a city council member's house, were raided after a local restaurant owner accused the newspaper of illegally collecting information about her.

Joan Meyer died the next day. Her son believes that stress caused by the raid played a role in her death. The lawyers for FTX founder Sam Bankman Freed have told a judge that their client can't fully prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate, and vegan food options. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner.

The lawyers filed their concerns at a federal court hearing in Manhattan after Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to seven charges, including wire fraud and various conspiracy counts, in advance of his October 3 trial. The attorneys told the judge that Bankman-Fried needs a better diet than bread, water, and peanut butter. of his October 3 trial. The attorneys told the judge that Bankman-Fried needs a better diet than bread, water, and peanut butter. Bankman-Fried was extradited from the Bahamas in December after prosecutors claim he sold billions of dollars in FTX customer deposits and spent tens of millions

on his business's speculative venture investments, charitable donations, and illegal campaign contributions aimed at influencing cryptocurrency regulation in Washington. This was the 31-year-old California man's first court appearance since Judge Louis Kaplan revoked his $250 million bond almost two weeks ago. After agreeing that the fallen Bitcoin whiz had repeatedly attempted to sway witnesses against him, the judge accepted prosecutors' plea to arrest him. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, who presided over the hearing, told Bankman-Fried's attorneys that she would not overturn Kaplan's rulings on computer access, but that she would investigate whether the Metropolitan Detention Center in

Brooklyn might provide medications in a diet more closely aligned with the defendant's vegan preferences. Bankman-Fried's attorney Mark Cohen told Netburn that he hasn't received the medications he needs to focus since he was arrested August 12th. Pepita Redhair's boyfriend gets violent after drinking too much, so Redhair spends a few nights with her mom. Mom, Anita King, pleads with her daughter not to go back home, but she insists everything will be fine. Three days later, Mom, Anita King, texts Redhair to ask how things are going, and she never responds. A few days after that, King texts again. Someone responds that a man had sold Redhair's phone to him. Nicholas K., the boyfriend, says he has not seen Pepita since her first night back home.

That they went out for a drink got in an argument, and she left with another man. Pepita Redhair now missing over three years. If you have information on Pepita, please contact Albuquerque PD 505-768-2020. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.