Crime Alert 09.19.23

Estranged husband attacks children's mother during custody exchange. This guy grabbed a Snickers, but he wasn't hungry. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Crime Alert and Nancy Grace breaking Crime Needs Now. Steven
Giraldo takes his three children to their mom he's estranged.
Why As she walks toward the car to greet them,
he tells the children to buckle up and hits the gas,
running Mommy down, flipping the car. Giraldo then crawls over
his eleven year old son in the passenger seat to

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attack mom again, this time stabbing her through the liver.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Nancy, Giraldo's estranged wife, survived the brutal attack, but was
left with severe neurological damage, multiple broken bones, and of
course the stab wound. Queen's District Attorney Melinda Katz sudden
a statement that the fact that it was committed in
full view of the victim's three young children stirred outrage
and heartbreak across the city. The entire attack and a

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white Ford explorer caught on Seren Len's video around five
twenty am, just days after Christmas.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Giraldo, thirty six, plays guilty to attempted murder. A deal
cassodogized to buy a pack of SIGs that afford Walgreens,
but his id a driver's license expired. Employees refused to
sell to him. Frustrated, he argues with them, they ask
him to leave. He picks up an arsenal of Snickers
bars and begins launching them at employees, prompting a call

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to police. Cassada tailscops. He quote didn't mean to hit anyone,
but surveillance video shows his aim was pretty good. Cazada
twenty three charged with two counts misdemeanor battery, assault by snickers.
More crime and Justice news after this Now with the

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latest crime in justice breaking news crime Online is John Limley.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
We began in North Dakota, where a jury has found
a woman guilty of murder in connection with last year's
shooting death of her child's father. For more, we turned
to Sydney Sumner with crime Online.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's possible that twenty six year old Mina Air Force
Base resident Heather Hoffman could receive a life sentence without
the possibility of parole, according to our friends with KFYRTV.
The prosecution contends she confronted twenty two year old Alex
Eckert about a custody dispute in April twenty twenty two
and shot him once, killing him in the doorway of

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his manor apartment. The prosecution's account of what happened the
night of Eckert's killing and who was in possession of
the murder weapon at that time was contested by Hoffman's
defense attorney. The trials started on September sixth, and Mine not,
which is located in north central North Dakota. KFYR says
that the jury arrived at their decision after roughly two

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hours of deliberation. Hoffman is still behind bars while awaiting
her sentence. Meanwhile, a pre sentenced investigation has been requested
by a state district court judge.

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A court docket indicates that hoffman sentencing is planned for
December first. Overseas now as Greek police say that six
people have been shot and killed in an attack at
a beach resort close to Athens. A state run TV
station reported that officials believed the killings to have been
gang related. The victims were reportedly found near Artimieda, about

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twelve miles east of Athens. No other information regarding the
details behind the incident or the names of the victims
were given. Investigators have reported that the shooting may have
been related to a conflict between organized criminal gangs. This,
according to state run Ert television. According to the report,

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all of the dead were men with gunshot wounds and
were discovered in and around a vehicle. Back in this
country now, as authorities say that a California man's body
found in a northwest Arizona desert location more than twenty
seven years ago has been identified once again crime Online
Sydney Sumner.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Officials from the Mohave County Shop Sheriff's Office have reported
that it was in January of nineteen ninety six that
remains of a man between the ages of thirty and
forty were found close to Kingman, Arizona, about one hundred
miles southeast of Las Vegas. The man, who has since
been identified as Sherman George from Metro Los Angeles, was
buried in a shallow grave after dying from a gunshot

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wound to the head. Authorities believe he may have been
a victim of homicide. Until Sheriff's investigators sent a DNA
sample to a Texas based forensic research organization in February,
attempts to identify the remains had been fruitless. Scientists were
eventually able to confirm that the body was that of
George through cutting edge DNA testing. According to sheriff's officials,

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before his death, George was an Army veteran who was
known to frequently visit the deserts of California and Arizona
with his military friends.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Investigators say that George had never been reported missing and
was separated from his family, who last saw him. I'm
in late nineteen ninety.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Four, Marshall Lyle, a beloved youth group leader at her
Florida church, stops communicating with family, so they ask for
a welfare check. Please find Lyle at home in bed.
She appears fine, but still won't contact family. Two days later,
neighbors see lyle packer car drive away. Her mom follows

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the money trail from their joint bank account to a
gas station in Jasper, Florida. That afternoon. Marsha's caught on
a Jacksonville Walgreen security camera. Two weeks after that, her
car found abandoned in the parking lot of a strip center.
Marcia now missing over three years. If you have info
on Marshall Lyle, please call Russell County Sheriffs three three four,

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two nine eight sixty five three five. For the latest
crime in justice needs, go to crime online dot com
with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace