Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 11.02.23

Episode Date: November 2, 2023

Man stabs 'girlfriend' and her husband when he learns she's married. Funeral home worker can't get a client's 'personal item' off his mind.  For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Micah Eckert runs into his girlfriend as he's leaving a Houston restaurant and goes to greet her, only to find out she's there for a date with her husband. Eckert argues with the couple.

The men start throwing punches. Eckert pulls a knife, stabs both his girlfriend and her husband until a security guard separates him from the couple. Nancy Eckert had no idea the 44-year-old woman he was seeing was married. Her 42-year-old husband stepped in between the two of them when Eckert began arguing with her, leading to a physical fight between the boyfriend and husband. In a brief pause, Eckert pulled a knife and stabbed both several times, but they were reported to be in stable condition.

Eckert, 25, now charged with two counts of ag assault. Ryan Smith and a co-worker sent to a Nebraska apartment complex to collect a body to take to the funeral home. A building manager accompanies the staff to the unit where they find an extremely detailed blow-up doll in the bed next to the dead body. Smith tells the building manager the sheriff's office asked him to collect the doll for testing, but the manager is not convinced and sends the workers on their way. Hours later, the building manager finds the deceased man's apartment broken into. Cops arrive to find Smith, the body collector, inside the unit, standing over the blow-up doll, his shirt untucked, his pants disheveled.

Smith, 41, now charged with felony burglary. If only that plastic doll could talk. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A Texas mother who fled the country for India after giving multiple excuses for what happened to her missing six-year-old son now stands charged with his murder.

With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. According to Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer, 38-year-old Cindy Rodriguez-Singh has been indicted on one count of capital murder, two counts of child injury, and one count of abandoning a child with no intention of returning by a grand jury in Tarrant County. Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez's body has not yet been found, despite extensive searches by authorities in and around Everman, the family's hometown located south of Fort Worth. Noelle was last seen, according to investigators, in late October of 2022. Spencer expressed optimism that the indictments would aid in the mother's apprehension and eventual return from India to the United States. He stated that federal authorities are

investigating the matter, but is unsure if she has yet been found. After receiving a tip from Child Protective Services that Noel hadn't been seen in a while, officers visited the family's house back in March. Rodriguez-Singh, along with her husband and their six kids, boarded a plane for India two days later. Spencer said Noel, who had mental and developmental disabilities, had never been enrolled in school. A woman from Long Island has been found guilty of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a New York City police detective on the Long Island Expressway in April of 2021. Hempstead resident Jessica Bouvier was taken into custody shortly after the death of 14-year police veteran Anastasios Sakos. The 43-year-old was hit and killed while assisting authorities at the site of another deadly incident on the Queens Expressway. According to Queens

District Attorney Melinda Katz, 34-year-old Bouvet was operating her vehicle with a suspended license and was under the influence of alcohol. Bouvet fled the scene but was apprehended soon after the incident. On the 41st anniversary of an Indiana man's murder, state police have announced that they've apprehended a suspect in connection to the Cole case dating to Halloween 1982. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Police say they've detained a 61-year-old man from the southern Indiana town of Seymour. He's being held on charges of Clifford Smith's shooting death on October 31, 1982. Smith's wife reported her husband missing on November 4 of that year, and almost a month later, on December 1, two animal trappers discovered Smith's body near Seymour along

the White River. Smith died, according to investigators, from a gunshot wound to the head. When Sgt. Kit Main started looking into the case in September 2015, he discovered that on October 30, 1982, the suspect and other individuals were at a house with Smith. Police say the suspect took a shotgun from the premises, loaded it, and drove away from the house with Smith in the vehicle with him. This was the last time Smith was seen alive. Following the investigation, the suspect was placed under arrest after the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant for him. The city of Seymour is located approximately 58 miles south of Indianapolis. Paula Wade, a manager at Georgia Sam's Club,

worries her co-workers when she doesn't show up to work. She hadn't done that in five years she worked there. When she doesn't show up again the next day, cops head to her apartment. Wade had started packing for a planned move to Florida, many belongings in boxes, but otherwise no sign of Paula or her three-year-old son, Brandon. Her wallet, keys, purse, glasses, all left behind. Paula waits nearly blind without her glasses. The only thing missing

is Brandon's car seat. Cops reach out to Wade's estranged husband, but he had moved out of state for the military and he had not heard from her. Paula and Brandon Wade now missing 21 years. If you have info on Paula Wade, now 46, or Brandon Wade, now 24, contact the FBI, 770-216-3000. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.