Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 12.13.22

Episode Date: December 13, 2022

Teenager shot to death at home. High school teacher has inappropriate and illegal relationship with student. Daycare owner's son molests small children.  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. Cynthia Elliott, 15, spends a quiet evening home alone until four men open fire on the home, killing the teen girl. Neighbors call 911 after hearing shots. Nebraska cops find Elliott dead inside. Shell casings littering the yard. Nancy, Omaha police say it's too early in their investigation to determine the motive behind the shooting or if Elliott was the intended target. The four suspects are young men with no known connection to the victim. Elliott's mother is devastated by the loss and has not returned home since the shooting.

Cops track a suspect's car, locate all four perps and the guns used. Cash Davis, Jarius Hill, Selassie Spencer, Latrell Washington now facing weapons charges and murder one. Ashley Waffle on the job as an Oklahoma high school teacher, just one month when the 22-year-old's fired. A rumor Waffle is having sex with a student, that's called statutory rape, makes its way to school officials. Police find out it's true. That's right. Waffle began communicating with a 16-year-old student over Snapchat just one week after starting work at Granite Public School. The woman allegedly met the boy at her home twice before Oklahoma police began their investigation. The district superintendent wrote in a letter to parents that the school is aware of Ms. Waffle's arrest,

but will not comment on the matter further. Waffle invited a teen student to her home for sex twice, now facing two counts of rape. Emily Hammerly tells staff at a Missouri daycare to, quote, remind students we don't talk like that, after a five-year-old girl tells them Hammerly's 18-year-old son molested her in the bathroom. An investigation reveals Joseph Hammerly regularly abusing students. Little Learner's daycare was promptly closed when the investigation began after the staff member,

appalled at Hammerley's response, called the girls' parents anyway. Court documents state both Joseph and Emily would face charges for the crimes themselves and failure to report them. Both Hammerley's mother and son pled guilty to multiple charges. Joseph Hammerley to spend nine years behind bars on statutory sodomy with a child less than 14. Emily Hamerly gets four years probation for endangering the welfare of a child. She is barred from contact with children other than her own under 17. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news crime online's john limley a libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down pan am flight 103 over

lockerby scotland in 1988 has been taken into u.s custody and will face federal charges in washington the arrest of abu aguila Massoud is a milestone in the decades-old investigation into the attack that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground. American authorities in December 2020 announced charges against Massoud, who was in Libyan custody at the time. No amount of time or distance will stop the United States and our Scottish partners from pursuing justice. The New York-bound Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on December 21, 1988. A man suspected in two fatal shootings that occurred less than two hours apart in a Maryland Eastern Shore community

was wounded by police before being taken in on murder charges. Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Snyder, who left office in 2019, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty. He was the first person in state history to be charged for alleged crimes related to service as governor. Snyder also is the eighth person to have a Flint water case thrown out after the Supreme Court's unanimous June opinion.

The two agencies also will investigate Thursday night's deaths. Investigators believe one victim was shot during an armed robbery around 7.15 p.m., while the other was killed around 9 p.m. A Kansas man has been charged in the 1980 shooting death of a 23-year-old neighbor after investigators who re-examined her death turned up new evidence. Kansas Bureau of Investigation officers arrested 68-year-old Stephen Hanks on a charge of second degree murder and the death of Mary Robin Walter, a wife, mother, and nursing school student. The KBI decided to reopen the investigation back in April into the January 24, 1980 murder. The killing happened

at a trailer park near the airport in Great Bend, a city in central Kansas. Hanks is currently jailed on a $500,000 bond. A judge has dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in the Flint water crisis. This comes months after the state Supreme Court said indictments returned by a one-person grand jury were invalid. Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. 22-year-old Tramell Lamar Williams of Cambridge is charged with first and second degree murder and other related crimes. Williams was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital when he was shot Friday night. The Cambridge Police Department has asked the State Police Homicide Unit to investigate the officer-involved shooting. Judge F.K. Beam signed the order Wednesday, a day after the U.S. Senate approved her nomination to

become a federal judge in eastern Michigan. A Texas man calls police after another driver crashes into him in a Walmart parking lot. Then he realizes the only one in the truck is a dog. The car was left running to keep the dog cool while owners went inside. The dog's leash caught on the shifter, putting the truck in drive. Two vehicles damaged by the dog crash, but thankfully no one injured. Is there really such a thing as doggy jail? For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.