Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 12.19.23

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

Mentally-ill driver kills officer shielding behind patrol car. Man wearing "I just got out of prison" shirt caught stealing.  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. Chris Kramer takes son Ian Kramer to a North Dakota emergency room for mental health issues. Left alone in the car, Ian takes off leading a wild chase. Cops use a spike strip to pop two of his tires, but he keeps driving. Cops lay down a second strip, but Kramer swerves to avoid it, rams the cop car that Officer Paul Martin was using as a shield. Officer Martin dies on impact. Nancy Kramer reportedly suffers from severe paranoia and hallucinations,

and on the day his mother brought him to the ER, Kramer insisted on seeing his brother Ike, who died five years ago. Officer Martin was an 18-year law enforcement veteran who leaves behind wife Mindy, three children, and four grandchildren. North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley spoke at Martin's funeral, quote, Paul lived, Paul served, and Paul died selflessly. Ian Kramer, 42, charged with fleeing, reckless endangerment, and manslaughter. Florida cops catch Michael Gordon in the act, breaking into a car to steal a wallet. Gordon refuses to ID himself. Cops use a fingerprint scanner to learn he recently completed a sentence for a similar

crime. Another clue, he's wearing a t-shirt that reads, I just got out of prison. He changes out of the t-shirt before his most recent mugshot, but the shirt will be waiting for him when he gets out on his latest offense. And I bet he wears it again. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. According to authorities in Maine, two men have been charged in the 15-year-old cold case of a commercial fisherman's death in a Portland park. With details, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. It was early on August 16, 2008, that 37-year-old Frankie Williams was fatally stabbed by multiple men that police say

the victim knew. According to investigators, the father of two died after being chased across a soccer field, assaulted with a knife, and trying to flee by crawling through a hole in a fence. Officials have now announced that two men have been indicted in the case, 36-year-old Shane Hall and 30-year-old Kong Tran. The two were already incarcerated on other unrelated charges. Hall is behind bars at the Maine State Prison for the crimes of kidnapping, aggravated assault, and using a deadly weapon to threaten someone. Tran, who killed another man in 2012, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy last year and is currently serving time in a federal facility. Robert Martin, Portland's interim assistant police chief, expressed the hope that the arrest will provide some closure for Williams' family.

Following his partial 60-day sentence for assisting his son in applying for a firearm, the father of the suspect in the deadly suburban Chicago 4th of July parade shooting in 2022 has been released early from custody. According to police, Robert Cremo Jr. was freed due to good behavior. In Lake County Court in Waukegan, Illinois last month, Cremo Jr. was freed due to good behavior. In Lake County Court in Waukegan, Illinois last month, Cremo Jr. entered a guilty plea to seven misdemeanor counts of reckless conduct. Robert Cremo III, his son, is accused of killing seven people. He was therefore initially charged with seven felonies of reckless conduct.

Now to Nebraska, as a Gage County man has been found guilty in a retrial of first-degree murder connected to the death of another inmate during a 2017 riot at a Nebraska state prison, this after a mistrial was declared in 2018. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. A Saline County jury found Ramos guilty of the murder of 31-year-old Michael Galindo, one of two prisoners killed in the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution riot. According to our friends with the Lincoln Journal-Star newspaper, when he's sentenced in February, 33-year-old Eric Ramos may receive a life sentence. After the prisoner uprising was over, Galindo was discovered dead in his cell on March 2, 2017, and investigators discovered that he had been badly beaten and stabbed 130 times.

Galindo died, according to an autopsy, from smoke inhalation from a fire that broke out in his cell when other prisoners set towels on fire and shoved them through a damaged window. Ramos is the only prisoner charged in connection with Galindo's killing, despite the fact that investigators claim he was one among several inmates who attacked the man. After the judge in the first 2018 trial discovered that multiple detectives who were also witnesses in the case had met in violation of a court order prohibiting it, a mistrial was declared. Later, the Nebraska Court of Appeals decided that Ramos should be granted a second trial. Prosecutors in Ramos's

second trial mostly relied on surveillance footage of the assault, from which a jail guard recognized Ramos as one of the attackers. Shanna Peoples, 19, has severe bipolar disorder and the mentality of a 13-year-old due to a developmental disease. Peoples manages her bipolar with meds. To give the teen more freedom, her parents help her rent a Geneva, Alabama home just down the block from their own. She spends several hours, her parents help her rent a Geneva, Alabama home just down the block from their own. She spends several hours with her parents every day, also visiting a nearby corner store for sodas and candy. When Shanna doesn't stop by, her parents walk down the street

to find the door to her home wide open, the TV on. There's no sign of a struggle inside, but cops find her phone shut off at 4 p.m. that day. There's been no trace of Shanna since that day 12 years ago. If you have info on Shanna Peoples, contact Geneva PD 334-684-2777. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.