Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Selma Blair In-Flight Altercation Leaves Two with Bite Marks, Bloody Nose | Crime Alert 10.13.26

Episode Date: October 13, 2026

Actress Selma Blair is in custody and hospitalized after allegedly leaving a passenger and flight attendant with bite marks and bloody injuries during a violent altercation aboard an October 11th Delta flight to New York. Incarcerated music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has his prison release date delayed following contraband violations, alongside a weekend emergency hospital visit for a head injury. In Boston, witness testimony begins in the federal murder trial of former police officer Matthew Farwell, accused of grooming, sexually exploiting, and strangling pregnant teenager Sandra Birchmore before staging her death as a suicide. Sydney Silvagni reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Sidney. A violent confrontation at 30,000 feet leaves two people injured and a Hollywood actress in custody.

According to 911 dispatch audio, actress Selma Blair allegedly attacked a flight attendant and a fellow passenger aboard an October 11th Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, leaving victims with a bloody nose and bite marks. As the flight approached New York, emergency dispatches revealed the pilot urgently requested police and medical personnel to meet the aircraft directly at the gate, reporting that the cabin disturbance had turned violent. We'd like to have some medical personnel

at the gate for a couple of the FAs involved in the passenger incident. They just need to get a couple things with that. Okay, I will pass it along just get an estimated station count for me, please. How many ambulances will need? No ambulances, just some medical personnel available should be fine. Sounds like there were two, yeah, one flight attendant and one passenger that sustained some minor injuries, a bloody nose as well as some light marks as well. So I don't think we need an ambulance or anything like that, but we just look at some medical personnel at the gate to look at their moments later, the pilot radioed back to emergency dispatchers with an alarming update, warning first responders that the disruptive passenger had also injured herself during the altercation.

Okay, Delta 938 heavy. We do have paramedics approaching the gate right now and the law enforcement already at the gate. And then one additional add on. It sounds like the disruptive passenger also bashed her head on the bulkhead or something like that. So, all. obviously having to get her potentially checked out as well as involved with law enforcement. Understood. I'll pass that along to PAPD. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed Blair was physically abusive aboard the flight. Police took the actress into custody and transported her to a hospital, while an injured flight attendant was also hospitalized.

Blair, famous for cruel intentions, legally blonde and Hellboy, was previously arrested following an outburst on an international flight in 2016, which she attributed to mixing alcohol with medication and called a big mistake. Blair publicly disclosed in 2018 that she is living with multiple sclerosis. More crime and justice news after this. You've heard the chaos. Now you can see it. Hello! My gosh.

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Cheers. Open the free IHard Radio app. Search video podcasts and tap watch. A weekend trip from prison to the hospital marks the latest blow for Sean Diddy Combs. Amid reports of high living indulgences in contraband behind bars at FCI Fort Dix, the Bad Boy Records founder has seen his release date pushed back by more than 40 days. Combs is now scheduled to walk out of the New Jersey

Minimum Security Facility on March 2nd, 2028, after his previous release date of January 21st was delayed. His release date has fluctuated since Combs was sentenced in September 2025 to a 50-month prison term, after a New York jury convicted him of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Bureau of prison sources warned Combs faced serious consequences for for sneaking a smartphone into Fort Dix, obtaining fine booze, and paying a staff of fellow inmates, landing him in solitary confinement.

Then on October 10th, Combs was rushed to a nearby hospital with a head injury, as first reported by TMZ, before returning to Fort Dix before dawn Sunday. The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on his medical condition, citing safety and security policies.

Spokesperson Judah Engelmeyer stated representatives are confirming the circumstances and prioritizing Combs's health. While acquitted two years ago of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking in a Manhattan federal trial detailing Cassie Ventura beatings, exploding cars, drug binges, and freak-offs, the 56-year-old Combs still faces multiple civil suits and a potential Los Angeles sexual battery indictment. In Boston, witness testimony begins on October 13th at the John J. Mockeley Courthouse in the federal federal. murder trial of former police officer Matthew Farwell. Sandra Birchmore dreamed of becoming a police officer when she enrolled in the Stoughton

Police Explorer's program at 13, where she met Farwell. According to detention affidavits, Farwell used his authority to groom Birchmore and began raping her when she turned 15, continuing the exploitation into her adulthood. Prosecutors say the relationship ended on February 1st, 2021, when Farwell arrived in a mask, strangled his pregnant mistress and staged the scene to look like a suicide. The plan initially worked with examiners finding no foul play. But in September 2024, federal authorities declared her death a homicide and arrested Farwell, who allegedly began raping Birchmore a month before his wedding and killed her hours before his wife gave birth to their third child. DNA tests in 2025

revealed Farwell was not the father of Birchmore's unborn child. Prior to criminal charges, Birchmore's aunt filed a wrongful death suit, alleging three program instructors exploited the teen, who was orphaned at 18 following the death of her chronically ill single mother. Farwell's twin brother, William, also an officer, admitted to a two-year sexual relationship with Birchmore and is named on the witness list alongside Farwell's wife, Angela. Farwell pleaded not guilty, maintains Birchmore committed suicide,

and faces life imprisonment in a trial expected to last a month. For more crime and justice news, be sure to join us for crime stories with Nancy Grace on Fox 1, YouTube, Sirius XM, and now streaming on 2B. With this crime alert, I'm Sidney. This is an I-heart podcast. Guaranteed human.