Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 09.22.23

Episode Date: September 22, 2023

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You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Caitlin Cannon finds out from a former classmate nude photos of her are posted on a revenge porn site. Cannon took the photos herself, sending to her then high school boyfriend, who then lost his phone.

During investigation, the uploader is revealed as Cannon's high school math teacher, Christopher Doyle, still teaching at another New Jersey high school. Nancy, it's unclear how Doyle got a hold of Cannon's photos, but Doyle claims he discovered them on the site he visited daily and reposted them. However, Cannon's attorney contends that their investigation did not reveal any other instance of the images online. While Congress has since added a provision to the Violence Against Women Act allowing victims to sue perpetrators for damages of up to $150,000, it does not apply to Cannon's case due to the date her photos were published.

Math teacher Christopher Doyle now charged with criminal invasion of privacy and ordered to pay Cannon $10,000. Nyko Bo Marr goes in Walmart to shop, leaving her two children, three and six, in a locked car. Another shopper sees the children passed out in the back seat, calls 911. Firefighters break a window to get the children. Marr's returns to see her children being loaded into an ambulance. Cops cuff Marr, load her into their running cruiser while they finish speaking with a witness. When the officers get back in the car, Mar complains about the heat and wants the A.C. after she leaves her children in a burning hot car. Well, now she's charged with child abuse. More crime and justice news after this.

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Lindley. Two men have been found guilty of killing a toddler in his car seat in a drive-by shooting in Pittsburgh. Both have received life sentences without the possibility of parole. For more, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. 18-month-old Da'Avery Thomas was shot to death in downtown Pittsburgh last year. 25-year-old Marquez Anger and 27-year-old Londell Falconer were both found guilty of first-degree murder in June. It was in May of 2022 outside the well-known downtown complex PPG Place that the prosecution said Falconer, the driver, and his passenger, Anger, fired more than a dozen shots at another vehicle. Thomas, who was in the backseat of his mother's car, was hit by at least

one bullet. The child died at the scene. His mother was unharmed. As onlookers fled the area, security cameras captured Anger leaning out of the passenger side window and firing at the car that Avery was in, this according to the authorities. Later, it was reported that the car had 13 bullet holes. Falconer was seen exiting the driver's seat in security footage from the city's north side. Authorities said that the defendant's fingerprints were discovered on a can that had been thrown away and on top of the vehicle. Both defendants have promised to seek new trials while defending their innocence and lambasting their lawyers.

Overseas now, as federal prosecutors in Germany say a Syrian national has been charged with murder, attempted murder, and causing great bodily harm, in connection with two, quote, Islamic-motivated knife assaults. The man is charged with killing a man in Duisburg, Germany in April, and then carrying out a second attack a few days later in which five people were stabbed in a gym. According to German privacy laws, the individual, named only as Man D, is a supporter of the Islamic State Organization. The statement said that he was charged on August 30. He's suspected of first fatally stabbing a man in Duisburg's Old City in the early hours of

April 9 of this year. He allegedly then went to a gym in Duisburg on April 18 with the intention of killing as many, quote, infidels as he could. Authorities claim he left three gym visitors with life-threatening injuries after stabbing them multiple times in the upper body, in the shower, and changing rooms. After this, they claim he stabbed a first responder twice in the thigh. The culprit was taken into custody on April 24. A former CIA software engineer who had previously been found guilty in the largest theft of sensitive information in CIA history has now been found guilty of possessing photographs of child sex abuse.

Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Joshua Schulte was found guilty by a jury in federal court in Manhattan after prosecutors provided evidence that Schulte had over 3,000 photographs and films of sexual assault of children as young as two stored in encrypted parts of his home desktop computer. In addition to his conviction from last year for allegedly disclosing a wealth of CIA secrets through WikiLeaks in 2017, Schulte could be sentenced to decades in prison for these latest crimes on January 10. The Vault 7 breach made public the CIA's hacking of Apple and Android smartphones used in foreign espionage operations, as well as its attempts to use internet-connected televisions as listening devices.

As a programmer at the agency's Langley, Virginia headquarters, Schulte had contributed to the development of the hacking tools prior to his arrest. Alexander Kruk moves from Chicago to Milwaukee to live with friends. As Kruk settles in, he begins dating a woman. Alex's family grows concerned after their daily chats stop. The last reliable sighting of Alex was at a McDonald's where he had lunch with his dad. Five days later, Alex's grandma receives a text and a call from Alex, but due to dementia, she can't recall what they talked about. Others say they last saw Alex

leaving work on his lunch break in a white car, possibly driven by the girlfriend. She has not come forward. Kruk now missing over three years. No activity on his bank account, no evidence he left Milwaukee, and no leads. If you have info on Alex Kruk, please call Milwaukee PD 414-933-4444. 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.