UPDATE: Ex-Wife and Five Others Charged in Murder of UC Berkeley Professor in Greece | Crime Alert 2PM 07.17.25

The ex-wife of a UC Berkeley professor is jailed after allegedly arranging his killing during a custody battle in Greece. A man in Maine climbs onto a stranger’s roof and causes a seven-hour standoff, claiming he’s trying to find drugs in the chimney. Drew Nelson reports.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
The ex wife of a UC Berkeley professor, is jailed
after allegedly arranging his killing during a custody battle in Greece.
Chemswav Jeziorski, aged forty three, taught at UC Berkeley's High
School of Business. On July fourth, he was shot five
times at close range outside his ex wife's home near Athens.

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A masked man fled the scene with a getaway driver,
jezi Orsk. He died there. Greek police have arrested five
people in the killing, including his ex wife, Nadia Micheli Daki,
and her current partner. Her partner has confessed to the murder.
Police described the killing as premeditated, with signs that it
was a hired hitman.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Most of my career at Berkeley, they have spent together.
You really made students wanting to learn the subject.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Professor Jolt Katona, who hired yazi Orski at UC Berkeley,
spoke to Kgo.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Than come from Hungary. He comes from Poland. There's actually
even a proverb, the saying in Hungel Marian and Polish
saying Paul and Hungarian two good friends.

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The day before he died, jazi Orski attended a court
hearing in Athens about custody of his twin children. Yaziorski
divorced Mischladaki in twenty nineteen, but their custody fight has lingered.
In May, Yeziorski asked for a restraining order against his ex.
Robert Kowalski, a friend of yazi Orski, tells the San
Francisco Chronicle he once saw Micheladaki physically attack him in Athens.

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He said yezi Orski was afraid to return as he
feared quote getting beat up again. After the shooting. Kowalski
said Micheladaki did not contact her ex husband's family. He
called that quote very weird behavior. The other suspects include
a pair of Albanian men and one Bulgarian man. They
allegedly helped by giving the gunman a weapon and driving
him to the scene. Greek police have charged Misladaki with

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planning the killing. Her lawyer says she denies all accusations.
Yaziorski joined UC Berkeley in twenty twelve. He was highly
respected for his work in marketing and economics. He survived
by his two children and his mother and brother. More
Crime than Justice news After this, A man in Maine

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climbs onto a stranger's roof and causes a ruckus over
seven hours, claiming he's trying to find drugs in the chimney.
Stephen Nason, A thirty nine, was arrested on Wednesday in
Bangor after a standoff that started at four am and
ended around eleven thirty. He was charged with aggravated criminal mischief,
creating a police standoff, and violating probation. Firefighters brought in

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a basket lift trying to get him down. Police said
he jumped from the roof into the basket, grabbed an axe,
and then used it to hack holes in the roof.
Nason had climbed onto the roof using a ladder. The
homeowner and her boyfriend were woken up by the noise
and saw him up there. When they asked what he
was doing, he reportedly shouting that he was trying to
get drugs out of the chimney. It wasn't long before

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fire Chief Jeffrey Lowe tells WABI they made it to
the volatile scene.

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He started brandishing a knife and was threatening himself, so
physical contact or any type of close contact with him
for either our MS people or law enforcement wasn't.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Going to be an option.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Billy shut down a section of fourteenth Street. Nobody was
hurt during the standoff. After his arrest, Nason was taken
to the hospital for physical and mental evaluation. He's now
being held at the Penobscott County Jail. A three month
old baby vanishes from his crib after a woman offering
to help with childcare disappears with him. Matthew Wade Crocker

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was last seen June ninth of nineteen eighty three at
his home in Van Buren, Arkansas. His father was in jail,
and his mother had been introduced to a woman named
Kathy Johnson by a family friend. Johnson claimed she worked
for a traveling rodeo in Fort Smith and said she
had lost two of her own children at birth. She
offered to stay at the woman's trailer for a week
to help care for her three children. That night, there

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was a party at the home, and perhaps a bit
too much alcohol was served. When Matthew's woke up the
next morning, her baby, Kathy Johnson, and the family car
all gone. The other three children, including Matthew's one year
old sister, who shared a crib with him. We're still there.
The car, a nineteen seventy three Chevy Vega, was found
the next day at a rest stop near Salisaw, Oklahoma,

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but there was no sign of Matthew or Johnson. Police
believe Johnson may have taken the baby to raise as
her own. They think Matthew may still be alive and
unaware of his true identity, and that he is considered
a missing person. Johnson is white, about five four with
blonde hair. She had a chipped front tooth, a scar
on her shoulder blade, and another scar above her right knee. Tattoos,

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a green and yellow sunburst on her chest, a unicorn
on her upper left arm, and the name Kathy with
a ribbon above it on her upper right arm. She
may also go by the name Judy. Authorities believe she
may have traveled with Matthew through Utah to California. No
confirmed sightings have ever been reported. Matthew had brown hair
and brown eyes. He had a sunken chest. He was
about two foot five inches and weighed fifteen pounds at

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the time of his disappearance. The case remains open with
the Van Buren Police Department Call four seven nine four, seven, four,
twelve thirty four with any information. For the latest crime
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favorite podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson