Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 12.22.22

Episode Date: December 22, 2022

With all the evidence against him, a man changes his plea before trial. A couple driving home attacked by men with guns.  For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Oregon cops find Gilbert Gutierre dead in the bathroom of his home, then realize the body was staged like there had been a fall. Cops find Nebecker nearby playing a round of golf like nothing ever happened. A little background here, Nancy. Gutierre married Nebecker's mother, Karen, several years prior to the murder, and she was not immediately cleared of involvement due to her standing to inherit Gutierrez's substantial estate. Investigation revealed she was asleep at the time of the murder, and her son was suspected as solely responsible. The autopsy revealed Gutierrez died from ligature strangulation and was smothered. The DA's office said Nebecker's DNA was found on the murder weapons.

Just before his murder trial, Nebecker confesses to the murders and changes his plea to guilty. He's been sentenced to life behind bars, possibility of parole after 25 years. A couple gets in their car to head home from a party when men surround the car and threaten them. One of the men fires several shots, breaking the driver's window and striking nearby homes. The driver takes off and the shooter follows in his own car, firing many more times. Cops try to pull over the shooter's car and, of course, a chase ensues. No one was shot during the incident, Nancy, which allegedly began with an argument inside the party, but the victims were injured by shattered glass. Several bullets were found in the driver's side door and three homes were hit.

After a few miles, the shooter crashes the car. Cops find a stolen gun inside. Victor Muro, 18, Caleb Hill, 20, arrested for ag assault and grand theft. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. So, show up at a border crossing with Mexico and ask a U.S. official for asylum? Sign up online.

Go to a U.S. embassy or consulate. The Biden administration has been conspicuously silent about how migrants should enter the United States when Trump-era asylum limits end, fueling doubts about the government's readiness despite more than two years to prepare. Migrants have been denied rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law 2.5 million times since March 2020 on grounds of preventing COVID-19 under a public health rule that was scheduled to expire Wednesday, until U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ordered a temporary hold. Title 42 has been applied disproportionately to those from countries that Mexico agrees to take back. Guatemala, Honduras,

El Salvador, and more recently Venezuela, in addition to Mexico. People from those countries are expected to drive an anticipated increase in asylum claims once the rule is lifted. The man already imprisoned in Florida for another killing has pleaded guilty to the long unsolved 1991 slaying of a woman he met at a bar. State prosecutors say 53-year-old Michael Townsend was sentenced by a judge to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Townsend admitted striking and fatally choking Linda Lois Little after meeting her at a Daytona Beach night spot in October 1991. Little's body was never found.

A California judge has rejected a new murder trial for Scott Peterson, nearly 20 years after he was charged with dumping the bodies of his pregnant wife Lacey and the unborn child they plan to name Connor into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002. Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. 50-year-old Peterson alleged the resulting trial that gripped the world was tainted by a rogue juror who lied about her own history of abuse to get on the panel that initially sent him to death row. Superior Court Judge Ann Christine Mazzullo found that juror number seven, Rochelle Nice, committed misconduct by providing false answers during jury selection,

but that she did not commit enough misconduct to require a new trial because she wasn't biased against Peterson. Masullo ruled in San Mateo County's Superior Court that Nice did not intentionally conceal information about her life or misrepresent her financial situation to stay on the jury and did not appear vengeful toward Peterson in letters she later wrote to him in prison. Authorities investigating the disappearance of a North Carolina child have released video footage that appears to show her exiting a school bus November 21st, marking the final time she was definitely seen before going missing. Eleven-year-old Madalena Kojikari is now the focus of a widespread search. The silent school bus surveillance footage, which lasts just under 20 seconds,

sees Kojikari walk down the center aisle of a bus, surrounded by peers, before disembarking at her usual stop. John Bischoff is with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. We are helping in the poster distribution to keep her image out there in the public eye. The parents, Diana Kojikari and Christopher Palmeter, were arrested and charged over the weekend for failing to report their daughter missing until December 15th, more than three weeks after she was allegedly last seen at home. John Carlo wakes up to find the nativity scene in his front yard ransacked. The holy baby Jesus and several animals missing,

replaced by Halloween tombstone decorations. Ohio cops still on a search for the thief. I can tell you one thing, he's getting a lump of coal under the tree this year. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.