Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 10.18.22

Episode Date: October 18, 2022

Teacher tells fifth grade girl that she's on the teacher's kill list.  Two men get into a road rage incident and end up shooting the other's daughter.  Florida postal works schemes to send cocaine through the mail.  Mom arrested after allowing her 10-year-old to get a huge tattoo. For more crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. A 10-year-old girl tells school counselor her teacher has a kill list and that she, the student, is on it. How does she know that, John Limley? 25-year-old teacher Angelica Carrasquillo Torres told her, Nancy, adding that the little girl was on the bottom of the list. Torres said she wanted to choke several students, kill employees, and herself.

Well, Illinois cops charged teacher Torres with a felony count of intimidation. Two stupid grown men, cops were not mine, get into a road rage incident ending with both men's daughters shot. What? Well, William Hale and Frank Allison drive recklessly, brake checking and cutting each other off before bullets begin flying. A five-year-old is shot in the leg. A 14-year-old suffered a collapsed lung after being shot in the back. Both dads are charged with attempted murder. Well, thank goodness the girl's mother's called 911. John, a Florida postal worker and her boyfriend have a grand scheme to sell cocaine. What happened? So Angel Koss gives his suppliers in Puerto Rico addresses with Natasha Prito's postal route to mail the drug.

Then Preto removed the packages from the mail stream for Koss to sell. Both Koss and Preto are now charged with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute. John Lindley, are you serious? A New York mom facing charges for letting her 10-year-old son get a tattoo? How did that happen? So police say the large tattoo of the boy's name in block lettering was discovered when the boy asked his middle school nurse to put some Vaseline on top of it.

Turns out the artwork was not completed in a studio, but inside a room at the hotel where Crystal Thomas and her two children live. 33-year-old mom Crystal Thomas now charged with endangering the welfare of a child, her child. More crime and justice news after this. The bodies of four Oklahoma men missing for a week have been found. Investigators say their dismembered bodies were pulled from the river. The men went missing after leaving an Oak Mulgee home on bicycles. An official cause of death has not been released,

but Oak Mulgee Police Chief Joe Prentiss says each victim suffered gunshot wounds. Relief in Stockton, California, where police say they have captured a serial killer just in the nick of time. Authorities say when Wesley Brownlee was apprehended, he appeared to be out hunting for another victim. Police say they recovered a gun the suspect carried. The mayor said she shed tears of joy over the arrest and credits the community with helping to crack the case. ABC's Mona Kosarabdi leads us off from California. Police arresting 43-year-old Wesley Brownlee early Saturday as they allege he was prowling the streets in search of his next victim. They say Brownlee is connected to five murders in Stockton and one in Oakland. All of the victims were men between the ages of 21 to 54, except one woman, Natasha,

who police say Brownlee shot in April of 2021 and survived her injuries. Brownlee will be arraigned on a homicide charge this week. At this hour, investigators are trying to find out what motivated a 15-year-old suspect to shoot and kill five people in East Raleigh, North Carolina. That teenager remains in custody, with law enforcement officials telling our friends at NBC News that he remains in grave condition. Officials also say it's unclear how the alleged gunman sustained his injuries. Thursday's mass shooting left this community at a standstill for hours. Over the weekend, tributes poured in for the victims. Today, we're learning more about the case of a California woman that's raising concerns nationwide about how law enforcement is using DNA evidence collected from crime victims.

The woman submitted her DNA as part of a rape kit after she was sexually assaulted. But years later, that unique genetic code was used to charge her with a crime. Here's our friends at Crime Online. The woman so far has not been identified. She gave her DNA to San Francisco police after being raped in 2016. Then last year, the woman was arrested and charged with theft after police used her DNA to link her to a crime. Charges were dropped after the DA found out how the charges came about.

Now, attorney Dante Poynter is filing a federal civil rights lawsuit on the woman's behalf against the city and county of San Francisco and some employees, claiming use of her DNA was on lawful search and seizure. Now to Pennsylvania, as prosecutors have dropped plans to seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a man and wounding a woman when he opened fire inside a movie theater almost three years ago. 23-year-old Anu Malik Johnson is charged with first and third degree murder, aggravated assault, reckless endangering, and related offenses in the December 2019 shooting of 22-year-old Andre White Jr. at Regal Cinemas 13 in West Manchester Township. For more crime and justice news, visit us at CrimeOnline.com.

With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. You're listening to an iHeart podcast.