Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert - 11.09.23

Episode Date: November 9, 2023

Woman poisons man for his fake inheritance. Stolen forklift leads incredibly slow chase. 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, Stephen Riley Jr., 51, thinks he's going to inherit nearly 30 million dollars and shares the news with his longtime girlfriend, Ina Kinoyer. Kinoyer thinks she's entitled to some of that money as Riley's, quote, common law wife, quote, but Riley does not intend to share and breaks up with Kenoyer. The day he's supposed to meet with the lawyer, Riley becomes ill.

The next day, paramedics find him unresponsive and Riley dies at a hospital. Nancy, it turns out the inheritance was a scam and there was never any money. Riley was instructed to meet the lawyer of an unknown distant relative at the Minot Airport to sign off on the money, but the lawyer never showed. Riley's five sons, with whom he planned to split the money, rushed to North Dakota when they learned their father was in the

hospital, and he died hours later. After Riley's cause of death was determined to be poisoning, detectives found a beer bottle filled with antifreeze at the home he shared with Knoyer. Stephen Riley's autopsy shows he was poisoned in a Knoyer 47 charged with murder. As it turns out, it was all for naught. California cops try to pull over a suspect driving a stolen forklift, but Wayne Mathurne refuses to stop. Cops pursue him in the slowest chase ever, never exceeding 10 miles an hour. Then he goes off-roading onto the bike path in a neighborhood park, taking out a fence, disabling the forklift. He's taken into custody a little over half an hour after the chase starts. Mathern 47 now charged with evading, resisting, and vandalism. More crime and justice news after this.

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. June 3rd is the date set by a Nevada judge for the murder trial of a former street gang leader from Southern California. The only person ever charged with the 1996 Las Vegas murder of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur. With details, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Before entering a not-guilty plea, DeJuan Kepe D. Davis made a brief court appearance in shackles and had a private conversation with his court-appointed counsel. Charles Kano and Robert Arroyo, his public defenders, announced that they plan to submit paperwork asking for his bail release prior to trial. Outside of court, the attorneys declined to discuss the matter,

citing a lack of time to review the, quote, voluminous evidence, as described by prosecutor Mark DiGiacomo. Sixty-year-old Davis is a native of Compton, California. On July 17, authorities served a search warrant at a house in the Las Vegas area where he was taken into custody on September 29. In a 2019 tell-all memoir and in other public statements, Davis claimed to have planned the drive-by shooting that left Shakur dead and injured rap entrepreneur Marion Suge Knight. Due to his involvement in the 2015 death of a Compton businessman, 58-year-old Knight is serving a 28-year sentence in California. The only surviving member of the group inside the car when the rounds were fired is Davis, who claims he has received a cancer diagnosis. Davis is still behind bars in Las Vegas. The captain of a scuba diving

boat has been found guilty of criminal negligence in connection with the deaths of 34 passengers in a 2019 fire aboard the vessel, an incident that now ranks as the deadliest maritime accident in recent U.S. history. Following a 10-day trial in federal court in downtown Los Angeles, 69-year-old Jerry Boylan was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer. A pre-Civil War statute known as Seaman's Manslaughter served as the basis for the charge. A statute intended to hold steamboat commanders and crew accountable for maritime tragedies. Boylan is the sole person being prosecuted for the fire. When sentenced February 8th, he could receive a term of 10 years in prison. Boylan does have the right to an appeal.

The Biden administration has levied penalties against four Sonora, Mexico-based companies and 13 members of the strong Sinaloa cartel, said to have been smuggling fentanyl and other drugs into the United States. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. This current case follows a string of actions taken this year against Sinaloa cartel members, cash couriers, and cartel fraud operations. Authorities say those sanctioned include a manager of cartel operations in Nogales who oversaw the trafficking of multi-ton quantities of cocaine, along with members of the manager's family and associates. A restaurant, stone, and mining companies, and an import-export firm have also been sanctioned. The sanctions prevent the parties from using American banks, prohibit them from cooperating with Americans, and block

their American assets. Undersecretary of the Treasury Department for Financial Intelligence and Terrorism Brian Nelson says that the United States, quote, will aggressively pursue all who are complicit operators and facilitators of these illicit fentanyl networks. Nelson added that the Treasury, quote, will continue to use its authorities to expose and isolate those who profit from deadly fentanyl sales in the United States. Now the deadliest drug in the United States, fentanyl is a potent opioid. Thanks, John. Kenneth Reed heads home after spending time with nearby relative, but his truck breaks down.

He takes off walking, trying to thumb a ride, but he never makes it home. Mississippi cops find Reed's truck abandoned and search dogs follow his scent about a mile. The trail goes dead, meaning Reed likely got in another car. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation put out a silver alert for Reed, but it turned up nothing. Family members say Reed has a medical condition that could impair his judgment. Reed, missing since February, last seen wearing a green t-shirt and black sweat pants. His family's offering a $7,000 reward for info leading to his discovery. If you know anything about Kenneth Reed, contact Nook's Uppeak County Sheriff's 662-726-5332. For the latest crime

and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace.