Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 11.13.23

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

Man points a gun at children visiting the wrong address. Service-seeker turned down yet again when he mentions his horse.  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 Long Island mom takes her two children, 10 and 6, to leave Halloween goodies for friends. The mom drives the children to several homes so they can leave boo baskets on front porches. After dropping off one basket, the children realize they've got the wrong address, so they go back to the porch to retrieve it. The door opens and Michael Wynn points a gun at a six-year-old little boy. Nancy, sources close to the family say, quote, The kid is just traumatized. He couldn't sleep that night. It was very scary. Meanwhile, Wynn's attorney, William Zhu, says he's known Wynn for nearly two decades,

and the husband and father of three young children was on edge hearing unexpected noise outside his home. Zhu added that Nguyen is extremely regretful for what happened and immediately stowed the weapon when he realized it was a child at the door. Nguyen, 47, now charged with menacing and endangering a child. A Washington state sex worker calls cops when she receives a horrifying request from a screen named Hot Mare. Jad Shipman sent her a message seeking services for himself and his miniature horse. This apparently was not Shipman's first attempt to find a willing partner. Shipman tells cops he, quote, hoped she'd be more agreeable to the arrangement than others had been in the past. Investigators removed two miniature horses from Shipman and his wife's property.

The 48-year-old now charged with animal cruelty. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. Following a nine-day manhunt back in July after he escaped from a northern Pennsylvania prison, a homicide suspect has now entered a guilty plea. With more, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General says Michael Burham has entered a guilty plea to charges related to his escape, as well as a kidnapping case. Authorities say Burham transported an elderly couple from Pennsylvania to South Carolina in their stolen SUV while attempting to flee a homicide investigation in New York, the reason for his incarceration in Warren County Prison. The death of 34-year-old Kayla Hodgkin on May 11 and a subsequent arson in Jamestown, New York, led Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt to name Burham as the main suspect in June. On July 6, according to officials, Burham scaled

exercise equipment and slipped down a rope made of bedsheets to leave the prison through a metal ceiling with grates. During the time that Burham was on the run, authorities warned that he could be dangerous, calling him, quote, a self-taught survivalist with military experience. After hearing their dog barking, a couple encountered Burham and called the police. Officers apprehended Burham roughly two hours after that 911 call. By the time of his capture, Burham had avoided authorities for nine days. Burham's escape occurred just months before another highly publicized case in southeast Pennsylvania in which a killer managed to elude detection for about two weeks. Now to Texas, as the mother of a black transgender woman shot and killed in Dallas

sobbed as she told the man who entered a guilty plea for the murder that she will carry on the advocacy work that her 22-year-old daughter began. In court, Malaysia Booker's mother, Stephanie Houston, stated, quote, her body might not be here, but her spirit lives in her legacy here, and I'm going to keep my baby's name alive. It was just before jury selection was about to begin that 37-year-old Kendrell Lyles entered a guilty plea to the murder. He was then handed a 48-year prison sentence. Authorities have not disclosed Lyles' reason for killing Booker, and even Lyles' attorney has stated that he is unsure of his client's motive.

As his federal trial gets underway, defense attorneys for the man accused of breaking into the San Francisco home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last year and attacking her husband with a hammer say their client was the victim of conspiracy theories. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. It was on October 28th last year, just days before the midterm elections, that the attack on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi sent shockwaves through the political world. The confrontation between David DePapp and Paul Pelosi was captured on police body camera footage, leading defense lawyer Jody Linker to indicate that she will not refute the evidence.

Instead, she will contend that her client's actions came about because he felt, quote, with every ounce of his being that he was stopping government corruption, particularly stopping politicians and actors from abusing children. DePapp entered a not guilty plea to charges of attempting to kidnap a federal official and assaulting a federal official's immediate family member with the intention of exacting revenge on the official for carrying out their duties. The main contention being made by DePapp's defense is that the defendant is not accountable for the allegations because he did not pursue Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to prevent her from doing her official duties. Thanks, John. After a brief hospital stay, Lauren DeMolo returns to the Florida home she shares with her boyfriend, Gabriel Pina. Pina offers to take the day off to stay home with her, but she tells him she'll be

fine. He reluctantly kisses her goodbye and heads to work 6 a.m. 10 30 a.m. Lauren calls Gabriel, but no answer. When he gets home, Lauren's gone, her purse missing, but cell phone left behind. That afternoon, Lauren's purse found at Four Freedoms Park, just a six-minute walk from home. Lauren frequently does yoga and meditation there. Cops thoroughly search the park but find nothing. Weeks later, a shirt belonging to Lauren is found at the edge of a pond in the park. Her family says she was applying to jobs and had paid the rent just a few days before she disappears, giving no indication she intended to leave.

Lauren DeMolo now missing over three years. If you have info on Lauren DeMolo, please call Cape Coral PD 239-574-3223. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Race. This is an iHeart Podcast.