Crime Alert 09.15.23

Ex-convict murders jail buddy. Man in unusual vessel tries to cross the Atlantic. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Family
discovers Michael Garvin and mom Lucy Garvin shot dead in
their Vermont home. That afternoon, cops arrests Christopher Ellis when
they find him driving Garvin's missing truck. Ellis tells cops
he meets Michael Garvin in prison and was staying with
him since release. Ellis admits he came to hate Garvin

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and planned to kill him for weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Nancy Ellis added that he had no plan for retirement
and would rather spend the rest of his life behind
bars than in an old folks home. Ellis said that
he did not intend to kill Lucy Garvin, but as
she was home at the time of Michael Garvin's killing, she.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Quote had to go. Ellis, fifty four, are charged with
two counts of murder. One Nearly seventy miles off the
Georgia Coastguard officials come across the man in a giant
metal drum kept afloat by Booie's, equipped with paddles that
move as someone runs Think hamster will. The Coast Guard
deems the boat unsafe for travel, but the sailor inside,

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forty four year old Resa Balucci refuses to exit, saying
he's running across the Atlantic and claims to have a
bomb on board, threatening to kill himself if anybody tries
to remove him. After four days negotiating, Luci finally admits
there is no bomb. The Coastguard takes him back to Florida,
where he's charged with obstruction of a boarding foiling his

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fourth attempt to cross the Atlantic in a hamster ball.
More crime and justice news after this. Now with the
latest crime in justice breaking news Crime on Line is
John Limley.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
We begin in North Dakota, where a man has been
sentenced to five years behind bars for running over and
killing an eighteen year old following a small town street
dance last year with Moore. Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It was back in May that Shannon Brandt of Glenfield,
North Dakota, admitted to manslaughter in connection with the murder
of Kayler Ellingson in McHenry, North Dakota in September twenty
twenty two. According to court documents, Brandt first asserted that
he struck Ellingson following a political debate in that the
team was a member of a radical group and had
threatened him within day's authorities announced that there was little

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indication to believe that the altercation was political in nature.
Brandt was given a five year jail term by a
state district court judge, with credit for almost a year
already served. This was followed by three years of supervised
probation and one year suspension of Brandt's driver's license. The
maximum sentence for the offense is ten years in prison,

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a twenty thousand dollars fine, or both. Initial charges of
criminal vehicular homicide were dismissed. Later after being charged with murder,
he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
In a pleaar agreement. The charge of leaving the scene
of a fatality against Brant was also dropped. A man
convicted of murder in nineteen ninety three has been granted
a new trial by a Massachusetts judge after new DNA
evidence brought the verdict into doubt. Thomas Rosa was found
guilty of killing Gwyndelne Taylor, then eighteen years old, in

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nineteen eighty five. Rosa, who has consistently maintained his innocence,
went through three separate trials for the murder. Rosa's conviction
was overturned. By Suffolk Superior Court Justice Michael Richudi, allowing
for the possibility of a new trial. According to Richude,
new DNA evidence quote cast doubt regarding the reliability of

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the eyewitness testimony in the case. Milacunis and Ashton Kutcher
have now apologized after writing character letters in defense of
their fellow that seventies show starred Danny Masterson once again
crime online Sidney Sumner.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
The celebrity couple wrote the letters ahead of masterson sentencing
for rape. Masterson was handed a thirty to life term
by a judge in Lafe, Los Angeles, for raping two
women in two thousand and three. In a video sent
via Instagram, Kutcher and Cunis expressed regret for whatever hurt
the letters may have costed. According to Kutcher, the letters
requesting mercy quote were intended for the judge to read

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and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or
retraumatize them in any way. We would never want to
do that and we're sorry if that has taken place.
After the actor was found guilty of the assaults in May.
Kutcher claims that Masterson's family got in touch with the
pair and wanted them to write character letters supporting quote
the person that we knew for twenty five years. The

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Hollywood Reporter and other internet outlets then published the letters online.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Masterson was a star on the television program That seventy
Show from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and six,
alongside Ashton Kutcher, Meelacunis and Toper. Grace.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Candy Stargelds seventy five and best friench Reirly Weaver eighty
three often take drives in remote California to look at
the same Henry. The women mention their heading to Wendell
and take off in Candy's white Toyota Round four. When
they don't come home, their families report them missing. Two
weeks later, a pair of Nevada hunters discover their car

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parked on a remote road two hours northeast of their destination.
The car has a flat The hood was raised, and
help was spelled on the ground with objects from inside
the car. Surely, Weaver is found dead in the passenger seat,
Candy Sturgeon nowhere to be found. Authorities say Weaver's death
does not appear to be suspicious, but Candy has not

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been located nearly three years later. If you have info
on Candy Sturgel's disappearance, please call Lauren County Sheriff's five
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dot com. This crime alert I Mancy Grace