Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 09.29.23

Episode Date: September 29, 2023

Police officer shot dead in random attack. Half-naked man uses stolen truck to rob a pharmacy.  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. L.A. Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Klinkenbroomer in his patrol car stops for a red light. A black Toyota Corolla pulls up next to the cruiser, fires shots, and drives off. Surveillance video shows Klinkenbroomer's cruiser rolling forward. The officer slumped over the steering wheel, dead. Nancy, a concerned citizen saw the cruiser seemingly parked in the middle of the intersection and went inside the nearby Palmdale Police Station to let officers know. Upon discovering Klinkenbrumer's shot, other officers rushed into the hospital,

meeting an ambulance on the way. Unfortunately, Klinkenbrumer was declared dead upon arrival. After sharing stills from the surveillance footage an anonymous tip led investigators to the car where they found numerous weapons including the gun used in the shooting investigators connect the car to kevin salazar 29 and after a raid on his home salazar arrested facing charges of murder eric eichbauer wearing nothing but a shirt is caught on surveillance video trying to break into a florida pharmacy sans pants eichbauer, wearing nothing but a shirt, is caught on surveillance video trying to break into a Florida pharmacy. Sans pants, Eichbauer uses tools to try to get through a glass wall for nearly an hour before getting back in his stolen truck. But Eichbauer doesn't give up. He rams the truck through the wall, getting access to the pharmacy.

Eichbauer stealing nearly $3,000 worth of drugs. Cops track him down and arrest him for the 16th time. 36-year-old Aaron Eichbauer charged with burglary, property damage, and grand theft. I'm still trying to find out, did he leave fingerprints or booty prints? More Crime and Justice news after this. Now with the latest Crime and Justice breaking news,

Crime Online's John Limley. Even though authorities say they still don't have any answers in the case, detectives have found the remains of a Colorado woman who went biking on Mother's Day 2020 and never returned. Here's Sydney Sumner of Crime Online. Investigators say they were looking into a completely different case when they discovered Suzanne Morphew's remains. It's the most recent development in a story that saw the prosecution accuse her husband of murder before dropping the case. A $15 million lawsuit

was subsequently brought by Barry Morphew against county officials. While searching in the Moffitt region, Colorado Bureau of Investigation detectives discovered the remains belonging to the missing 49-year-old mother of two. The distance between the discovery location and the Salida region, where Suzanne Morphew was reported missing, is roughly 40 miles. Barry Morphew had been charged with murder and other offenses in connection with his wife's alleged death, but just before his trial was set to begin last year, the prosecution dropped all of its charges against him. At a press conference, Sheriff John Spezzi of Chaffee County said that investigators are left with, quote, many more questions than answers. According to the arrest affidavit outlining the case against

Barry Morphew, his wife was pursuing a divorce and he altered his statements as the case's evidence accumulated. An ardent hunter, Morphew originally denied to authorities that he intentionally drove toward the location where his wife's bicycle helmet was later discovered. According to the affidavit, he later said that the reason he traveled that way after work was because he had observed an elk crossing the road. The accusations against Barry Morphew were dropped without prejudice in May, leaving room for prosecutors to reopen the case against him in the future. Now to Baltimore, where officials say police had already been looking for a man as a suspect in a separate rape and arson case when they determined he was also the suspect wanted in connection with

the murder of a tech entrepreneur. After gaining good behavior credits to shorten the time he served for a 2015 sexual assault, Jason Billingsley was released from prison last October. He's now charged with first-degree murder and the death of 26-year-old Pavel Leper. According to Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley, detectives think Leper was killed on the night of September 22nd. Her body wasn't discovered until after she was reported missing on September 25th. The graduate of Johns Hopkins University, who while still in college, created the internet company Ecomap Technologies,

was discovered dead in her apartment with evidence of blunt force trauma. Prosecutors have stated in court that DNA taken from the suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, Rex Heuermann, matches DNA previously taken from a pizza crust and used to connect Heuermann to one of the victims. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Rex Heuermann has now been identified as the main suspect in the death of a fourth woman. The 60-year-old was arrested on July 13th on murder charges in the deaths of Melissa Bartholomew, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello, three of the women whose bodies were discovered along a desolate coastal

route on Long Island. Heuermann entered a not guilty plea and is being held without bail in Riverhead at the Suffolk County Jail. Soon after Heuermann's arrest, the prosecution said that they had compared the DNA of hairs found on Waterman's body to those of a pizza crust that Heuermann had thrown away in a Manhattan trash can. Prosecutors later gained authorization from the court to gather DNA from Heuermann's cheek as additional evidence of the suspect's involvement in Waterman's murder. The architect's arrest came while detectives were searching for a missing woman, 13 years after authorities discovered 10 sets of human remains buried among shrubs close to Long Island's secluded Gilgo Beach. Alex Jackson, a farmer from Windham, Maine, spends time at a friend's home in Leeds on Friday evening.

When it starts to get late, he says goodbye and heads for home. He never makes it. Three days later, Jackson's dog, Hazel, found wandering 30 miles from the friend's home. Jackson's white pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer has not been located. His girlfriend recalls Alex mentioned he needed to go to Vermont soon, but with his cell phone dead and Alex only carrying cash, there's no way to track any movements. Jackson's family also got a ransom call threatening to kill Alex unless they sent $400,000. The call was a fake from someone who had seen the missing flyer. It didn't provide any new leads. Alex Jackson, 33, now missing over four months. If you have info on Alex Jackson, please call Wyndham PD

207-893-2810. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.