Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 09.20.23

Episode Date: September 20, 2023

Man shoots at driver turning around in his driveway. Joy rider steals an excavator.  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. A woman gets lost in a Missouri neighborhood, pulls into a driveway to get her bearings. As she pulls in, the homeowner, a convicted felon, Eric Kellan, starts shooting at her. She ducks down, tries to put the car in reverse, but is struck with shattered glass. Unable to see, she gets out of the car, tries to run, but trips and falls to the ground, breaking her knee. Nancy, as a result of his felon status from a 2012 drug conviction, Kellen is legally prohibited from owning guns. It's unknown how Kellen came to be in possession of a weapon. Neighbors called 911, but when cops

arrived, a family member said Kellen had just left the property. Cops eventually tracked Kellen down, and he admits to the shooting, claiming he thought the driver was trying to steal his car. Kellen, 36, now facing assault and gun charges. Jesse Smith spots an unsecured excavator at a construction site, decides to take it for a joyride. Of course he does. Smith plows through a storage unit with the excavator, taking out several power poles with the bucket as he drives down the street. He ends the joyride at Walmart, where he busts through the exterior wall, damaging the excavator so severely it won't operate. Smith, 47, charged with grand theft,

trespass, property damage, and criminal mischief. Clean up on aisle five. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A 14-year-old white boy who was indicted last month in Massachusetts on counts of attempted murder and assault after it was discovered that he allegedly tried to drown a black teenager in a pond on Cape Cod has now been released to his father. With details, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. The teenager was instructed to remain in custody without bail following a hearing in Barnstable Juvenile Court

last month. The 14-year-old's attorney, Kevin Reddington, stated that the boy will live with his father, follow curfews, and wear a GPS tracker. The teens, according to Reddington, were friends, and a fight between the two spiraled out of control. According to Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Gallibois, the incident unfolded on July 19 at Goose Pond in Chatham, where the 14-year-old met up there with the alleged victim in another minor. Investigators say that following their encounter, the 14-year-old white male juvenile picked up a stone, threatened the black teen, and used a racial epithet to address him. The black teen put on a life jacket and informed the others that he couldn't swim

before getting into the water, this according to authorities. Prosecutors claim that once in the water, the 14-year-old pulled on the victim's life jacket, submerging him four to five times and causing breathing problems. They also claim that the third juvenile laughed at the black teen, calling him George Floyd. Investigators say that the 14-year-old then dove behind the black child and attempted to grab hold of his feet in an effort to drag him under the water. A bystander on the beach stepped in to stop the incident. Overseas now, as five people have been arrested by Bosnian police on suspicion of taking part in the July 1995 genocide at Srebrenica, in which Bosnian Serb forces massacred over 8,000 men and boys during the inter-ethnic conflict in the Balkan nation.

According to a statement from Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, officers also carried out searches and confiscations during the operation in a number of cities in Republika Srpska, a Serb-run region that makes up nearly half of Bosnia. The Bosnian news portal Klix is reporting that those detained were former Bosnian Serb army officials and troops accused of aiding in the capture and execution of over 70 men, boys, and women during the massacre. As the Swiss church becomes the latest in Europe to deal with the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, a comprehensive year-long examination of abuse by priests and others in Switzerland has identified more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th

century. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Almost all of those accused of misconduct were male, and almost three-fourths of the papers analyzed revealed that minors were involved in the sexual abuse. The report, commissioned by the Swiss Conference of Bishops and overseen by two University of Zurich historians, takes a close look at the sexual abuse and harassment that has plagued the Catholic Church globally in recent decades, upsetting the lives of many victims and their families and tarnishing the institution's reputation. In a statement, the authors of the report claim to have found 1,002 situations of sexual abuse in the Swiss church, including allegations against

510 individuals. They claim that 921 people were impacted. The researchers combed through thousands of pages of classified records that church authorities had compiled since the mid-20th century, although they also added that a lot of the information sources have not been thoroughly examined. Researchers also say they identified some instances where records were allegedly destroyed to hide wrongdoing. Brooks Hawk turns over and goes to sleep next to his wife, Crystal Rogers, who stays up reading. When he gets up the next morning, she's gone. Two days later, the mother of five's car found abandoned in a part of town Rogers rarely visits. Her purse and cell phone inside. Police

initially suspect foul play from the husband. His brother, Nick Hawk, fired from the Bardstown Police Force for his behavior during the investigation into Crystal's disappearance, and he fails the polygraph. Others connected to husband Brooks Hawk have been charged with perjury, false reporting, most recently murder conspiracy and concealing evidence in connection with Crystal Rogers' disappearance. Crystal now missing over five years. If you have info on Crystal Rogers, please contact Nelson County Sheriff's 502-348-1840. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.

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