Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 11.06.23

Episode Date: November 6, 2023

Wealthy man rolled the dice and lost on this 'hot date.' Driver nearly has a heart attack over hefty ticket fine.  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 55-year-old man meets 27-year-old Haley McNally on a dating site seeking. He offers McNally $2,500 to spend the weekend with him in Vegas. They spend the day gambling at Caesars before heading to a U2 concert. At the concert, McNally steps out to use the restroom. She never returns. When the man gets back to their shared hotel room, $50,000 cash, $7,000 casino chips missing. Nancy, 15 minutes after McNally left for the restroom, the man texted her to see if she was okay. When she didn't respond, he called Caesars Palace to lock down his room, but McNally had

already emptied the safe. The dating site was formerly known as Seeking Arrangements and typically pairs an older man or woman with a younger match. On top of what he paid her for her time, McNally gambled on the man's dime and she had learned the passcode to the safe when she asked if she could leave her purse in it. McNally now charged with burglary and grand larceny. Georgia's traffic ticketing system nearly gives an offender a heart attack. Connor Cato pulled over in Savannah. A state trooper clocks him at 90 and a 55, earning him a super speeder ticket that he must resolve in court.

Since a court appearance is a must, super speeder tickets use a placeholder of $999,000 as the fine. But when Cato spoke to the Department of Driver Services, they said he was looking at a $1.48 million fine, all fees included. After clearing up the misunderstanding, a spokesperson for Savannah said the placeholder is not a scare tactic. But I know one thing, I'm not speeding in Savannah. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley.

Pennsylvania prosecutors have announced that a registered nurse in the state has been charged with giving multiple patients, including a 104-year-old, lethal or potentially lethal amounts of insulin over the course of the previous three years at health care facilities across the state. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. In May, 41-year-old Heather Presti was charged with the murders of two nursing home residents and the injuries of a third. She waived her right to a preliminary hearing and was arraigned on the extra counts, which included two new allegations of homicide. She's now behind bars in Butler County being

held without bail. Presti's defense lawyer, James DePasquale, stated that they are attempting to avoid the death penalty and that the additional charges were expected. According to the most recent accusations, since 2020, 19 more patients have allegedly been mistreated at five different care facilities. Presti was charged with 17 counts of attempted murder and 19 counts of neglecting a person in need of care, in addition to the two first-degree murder accusations. It is said that Presti, a resident of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, over-prescribed insulin to patients, some of whom were not diabetics. State Attorney General Michelle Henry says that Presti usually gave out the insulin during night shifts when personnel was limited and the

emergencies wouldn't require medical attention right away. Henry reported that 17 of the patients she treated, whose ages ranged from 43 to 104, had died. Presti's nursing license was suspended shortly after the original allegations were filed earlier this year. Now to Texas, where a 61-year-old man has been found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a Moroccan immigrant who had pulled into a driveway. A jury in Caldwell County dismissed a murder allegation against 67-year-old Terry Duane Turner, convicting him instead of a lesser crime in the October 2021 shooting death of 31-year-old Adil Deguga outside Turner's home in Martindale, located approximately 30 miles south of Austin. Deguga's family stated that the victim was lost at the time of the incident.

Prosecutors contend he was trying to back out of the driveway when he was shot. Turner said that he believed Deguga was pointing a gun at him and that he fired in self-defense, but no weapon was discovered inside the car. If found guilty, Turner could spend two to 20 years behind bars. After entering a plea of not guilty in the 2021 killings of his parents, whose remains were discovered buried at a state wildlife area, a man from western Michigan has received a lengthy prison sentence. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Nicholas Johnson was given a jail term ranging from 29 to 69 years by a Kalamazoo County court.

According to our friends with WWMT-TV, before being eligible for release, the Portage man must complete a minimum of 29 years in prison. Following the deadly shootings of his parents, 65-year-old Gary Johnson and 64-year-old Laura Johnson, in February of 2021, Johnson last month entered a plea of no contest to both counts of second-degree murder. Authorities have stated that the couple were killed at their Portage, Michigan home, which is located roughly 55 miles south of Grand Rapids. Court records reveal that Johnson's parents had placed a no-contact order on their son following a break-in in September 2019. Personal protection orders against Johnson were also in place,

although they expired before the parents disappeared. Paul Sanders moves in with dad in Mesa, Arizona, the summer before junior year high school. The year goes well, but Paul misses his mom in Missouri and wants to move back before senior year. Paul's father thinks moving schools again might hurt his chances of getting athletic scholarships. After a heated debate, Paul takes off in dad's truck, drives to his grandma's house where he spends the night, telling her he'll go back in the morning. When she wakes up, Paul is gone. Two days later, a cop tries to stop dad's truck, but it takes off. The cop never confirms it's Paul behind the wheel. The next day, the truck found crashed in the Sierra Catalina Mountains, two hours south. He's inside with

Paul's wallet and cell phone. Paul Sanders now missing over 22 years. If you have info on Paul Sanders, call Mesa PD 480-644-2211. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.