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Sources claim Nick Reiner was diagnosed with Schizophrenia before parents were murdered and the recent medication change "made him erratic and dangerous"
A scathing lawsuit is calling out a hospital - accusing them of gross negligence after a granny's skull chunk it tossed out - in a bone blunder. They offered a $25 gas card to make up for the error.
The individual suspected of last week's mass shooting at Brown University has been discovered deceased in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, following a six-day multi-state manhunt.
The arrest of sixty-eight-year-old Joe Campbell, a once-celebrated children’s pastor now accused of first-degree rape and lewd acts involving a child under sixteen, marks what survivors say is a long-overdue reckoning more than forty years in the making.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alard hourly update breaking crime news.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now. I'm Nicole Parton with breaking details in the shocking
Brentwood double homicide involving Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his
wife Michelle Singer Reiner. According to TMZ, their son Nick Reiner,
who's now charged with their murders, had been diagnosed with
schizophrenia in the weeks leading up to the killings. His
(00:24):
behavior reportedly became erratic and dangerous after a change in medication.
Two sources with direct knowledge say Nick was under psychiatric
care and had recently been treated at a Los Angeles
high end rehab facility specializing in mental illness and substance abuse.
That facility cost about seventy thousand dollars a month, and
(00:46):
it's known for catering to wealthy families. TMZ reports that
about a month before the murders, doctors adjusted Nick's medication
in an effort to stabilize him, but instead his condition worsened.
One source set quote Nick was out of his head.
Substance abuse reportedly compounded his schizophrenia. Legal experts believe this
(01:07):
case is headed toward a not guilty by reason of
insanity plea. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has
released the Reiners' bodies to their family. Funeral arrangements will
be announced later. The autopsy confirmed both victims died from
multiple sharp force injuries. Nick Reiner remains in custody without
bail and is scheduled for arraignment in January.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Freut Hospital did not just drop the ball on a
grandmother's recovery. They allegedly tossed a chunk of her skull
in the trash and tried to pay off the family
with a measly twenty five dollars gas card. Edna Burton,
a beloved nana and twenty year veteran employee of Ascension
(01:53):
Saint John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is now at the
center of a scathing negligence loss suit after a routine
medical procedure devolved into a grotesque administrative blunder. Daughter Erica Burton,
spoke to News for Detroit, it ain't.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Even about the may y'all don't even know what y'all
took from us.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The nightmare began when Burton was rushed into emergency surgery
following a devastating stroke. To save her life, surgeons performed
a hemicraniectomy, removing a significant section of her skull a
bone flap to allow her brain to swell safely. Standard
(02:35):
protocol dictated the bone be preserved and reattached once the
pressure subsided. However, when doctors prepped for the follow up
procedure months later, they made a stomach churning discovery the
bone was gone. According to the lawsuit filed on December
sixteenth and Wayne County Circuit Court by the Oliver Bell Group,
(02:59):
staff allegedly confused Burton with another patient named Edna Brown
and misplaced or discarded the vital anatomy. Forced to improvise,
medics installed a synthetic plastic plate instead of her god
given bone. The result has been catastrophic. Burton's family says
(03:22):
the prosthetic has left her in agony, largely bedbound with
painful sores, unable to eat, and stripped of her voice.
Adding insult to the literal injury, hospital Hanchos reportedly offered
the family a twenty five dollars gas card as an apology,
a gesture her daughter slammed as beyond insulting, to say
(03:44):
the least. While henry Ford Health, which took over operations
in twenty twenty four is trying to distance itself from
the previous administration's botch. The Burton family is demanding justice
for the loss of their matere Criarch's quality of life.
The suit seeks unspecified damages from medical malpractice and emotional distress.
(04:08):
Ascension says they cannot comment on pending litigation.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The individual suspected of last week's mass shooting at Brown
University has been discovered dead in a storage facility in Salem,
New Hampshire, following a six day multi state manhunt. According
to law enforcement officials, the suspect has been identified as
forty eight year old Claudio Nevas Valente, a Portuguese national
(04:35):
who attended the university in Providence, Rhode Island, approximately twenty
five years ago. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez stated that
video surveillance and tips from the public guided investigators to
a car rental facility where they matched Valente's name to
their person of interest. Authorities also suspect that the man
(04:56):
was involved in a murder of a professor at Massachusetts
Institution of Technology met just two days after the December
thirteen shooting at Brown. No motive has been disclosed for
either incident. Brown University President Christina Packson confirmed that Valente
was enrolled at the university from fall two thousand until
(05:16):
spring two thousand and one, pursuing a PhD in physics,
but he did not have any current affiliation with the institution.
Officials suspect the man fatally shot MIT Professor nu No
Gomez forty seven in his Brookline home, located roughly fifty
miles from Providence. Both the victim and the suspect were
reported to have studied at the same university in Portugal
(05:40):
in the late nineteen nineties. The connection between the two
cases was established when Valente's vehicle was identified through CCTV
footage and a witness account from Brown University. Rhode Island
Attorney General Peter Narona reported that Valente was found with
a satchel and two firearms. Evidence discovered in a near
(06:00):
vehicle matched that from the Providence scene, and that same
car was seen close to the site of the professor's shooting.
Preliminary investigations suggests that Valente died from a self inflicted
gunshot wound, but police have not commented on how long
he may have been inside that storage unit. Although the
suspect has been found dead. Our investigation is far from over.
(06:22):
There are numerous questions that still need to be answered,
said Special Agent in Charge Ted Dox, noting that approximately
five hundred agents had been deployed to aid local authorities.
Lea Foley, the US Attorney for Massachusetts, remarked that Valente
was using a cell phone that obscured tracking, indicating he
(06:43):
was skilled at evading detection.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Federal agents found niece valente Dad from a self inflicted
gunshot wound. This is what we learned during this multi
jurisdictional investigation. Needs Valente studied at Brown University in Providence,
Rhode Island, on an F one visa around two thousand
to twenty twenty one. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status. Previously,
(07:10):
he attended the same academic program as the MIT professor
Nunou Lurierro in Portugal between nineteen ninety five and two thousand.
Although Nieves Valente appeared to reside in Florida between November
twenty six and November thirty of this year, he rented
a hotel room in Boston. On December first, he rented
(07:32):
a great Nissan CenTra with Florida plates from a car
rental agency in Boston. That same day, he drove to
the vicinity of Brown University, where his car was observed
intermittently between December one and December twelfth. On December thirteenth,
Neves Valente entered an auditorium on Brown University's campus during
(07:54):
his study session and began shooting at students.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
In response to the shoe, the US has suspended its
Green Card lottery program, with Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome
asserting that Valente quote should never have been allowed in
our country. Nom explained that Valente entered the US in
twenty seventeen through the Diversity Lottery immigrant visa program and
subsequently received a green card. The program grants up to
(08:22):
fifty thousand visas each year through a random selection that
countries with low immigration rates to the US, and Nome
has paused that program under President Donald Trump's directive to
prevent further harm to Americans. She says, public frustration grew
over the investigation into the Brown University shooting, which occurred
when a gunman opened fire in the engineering building during
(08:44):
a study session before finals. Two students were killed and
nine others were put in the hospital. Six of them
still listed in critical condition. The victims have been identified
as nineteen year old Ella Cook from Alabama an eighteen
year old muhammad U Mirzova, a USBEC American first year student.
Police say the investigation is still ongoing.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
The arrest of a once celebrated children's pastor now stands
as the latest reckoning in a case survivors say took
more than forty years to reach this moment. Sixty eight
year old Joe Campbell was arrested Wednesday on child sex
abuse charges after US marshals took him into custody in Missouri.
He is charged with first degree rape and lude or
indecent acts involving a child under sixteen. Oklahoma prosecutors say
(09:31):
the case centers on abuse alleged to have occurred decades ago,
when Campbell was a rising Pentecostal preacher working closely with children.
Authorities say Campbell is being held in the Green County
Jail in Springfield while awaiting extradition to Oklahoma. If convicted,
he faces life. Campbell's arrest follows months of renewed scrutiny
triggered by an NBC News investigation into abuse allegations within
(09:54):
the Assemblies. Of God. Five women say Campbell sexually assaulted
them as children. Ins in the nineteen seventies and eighties.
Nine more people, including four men, reported that he showed
them pornography, made sexual comments, or touched them inappropriately while
acting as a trusted youth minister. At the center of
the case is Carrie Jackson, who says Campbell abused her
(10:16):
repeatedly in Tulsa, starting when she was about nine years old.
Prosecutors revived the case using a frontier era Oklahoma law
that pauses the statute of limitations when the suspect leaves
the state. In sermons aired nationally for years, Campbell often
described himself as a man chosen by God after surviving
a violent car crash, and one recorded message obtained by
(10:39):
NBC News, he framed his survival as a divine bargain.
NBC News reporters say Campbell used that testimony repeatedly to
build credibility with congregations and parents. Survivors say the same
language was later used to gain access to children, foster trust,
and silence victims. In sermons reviewed by invests instigators, Campbell
(11:01):
repeatedly emphasized authority, obedience, and loyalty inside the church. One
message delivered at a men's conference.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Don't show me your building and thank God for buildings.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Don't show me all your equipment and your drama on
your pretty props. Show me your men. Don't tell me
about your bank account, tell me about your disciple account.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Show me your churches.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The allegations against Campbell are not new, according to church
records and interviews reviewed by NBC News, Complaints reached Assemblies
of God leaders as early as nineteen eighty three. One accuser,
by the name of Phedra Creed, reported abused to police
in Missouri in the late nineteen eighties after living with
Campbell and his family as a teenager. A medical examination
(11:47):
confirmed she had been sexually assaulted. Campbell was arrested at
the time, but the case never went to trial. After
Creed withdrew her case under pressure, the Assemblies of God
expelled Campbell from the denomination in nineteen eighty nine. Despite that,
he continued working with children. He later founded a non
denominational church and a youth camp in the Missouri Ozarks.
(12:09):
The camp became a gathering place for people accused or
convicted of sex crimes. Campbell also joined the PTL television
network in twenty sixteen, the one made famous by Jim
and Tammy Fay. His sermons were broadcast nationwide until earlier
this year. NBC News says its Pastors and Prey series
prompted Oklahoma investigators to reopen the case. Attorney General Gentner
(12:33):
Drummond called the allegations horrific and said his office would
pursue accountability for survivors who said they were ignored for decades.
Drummond said in his statement, quote, this arrest is about
justice delayed, not justice denied. The Assemblies of God said.
It is grateful to those who came forward and hoped
the legal process brings healing. Campbell has not responded publicly
(12:54):
to the charges. More Crime and Justice News after this
Crime Alard hourly update breaking crime news.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now. I'm Nicole Parton with breaking details in the shocking
Brentwood double homicide involving Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his
wife Michelle Singer Reiner. According to TMZ, their son Nick Reiner,
who's now charged with their murders, had been diagnosed with
schizophrenia in the weeks leading up to the killings. His
(00:24):
behavior reportedly became erratic and dangerous after a change in medication.
Two sources with direct knowledge say Nick was under psychiatric
care and had recently been treated at a Los Angeles
high end rehab facility specializing in mental illness and substance abuse.
That facility cost about seventy thousand dollars a month, and
(00:46):
it's known for catering to wealthy families. TMZ reports that
about a month before the murders, doctors adjusted Nick's medication
in an effort to stabilize him, but instead his condition worsened.
One source set quote Nick was out of his head.
Substance abuse reportedly compounded his schizophrenia. Legal experts believe this
(01:07):
case is headed toward a not guilty by reason of
insanity plea. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has
released the Reiners' bodies to their family. Funeral arrangements will
be announced later. The autopsy confirmed both victims died from
multiple sharp force injuries. Nick Reiner remains in custody without
bail and is scheduled for arraignment in January.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Freut Hospital did not just drop the ball on a
grandmother's recovery. They allegedly tossed a chunk of her skull
in the trash and tried to pay off the family
with a measly twenty five dollars gas card. Edna Burton,
a beloved nana and twenty year veteran employee of Ascension
(01:53):
Saint John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is now at the
center of a scathing negligence loss suit after a routine
medical procedure devolved into a grotesque administrative blunder. Daughter Erica Burton,
spoke to News for Detroit, it ain't.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Even about the may y'all don't even know what y'all
took from us.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The nightmare began when Burton was rushed into emergency surgery
following a devastating stroke. To save her life, surgeons performed
a hemicraniectomy, removing a significant section of her skull a
bone flap to allow her brain to swell safely. Standard
(02:35):
protocol dictated the bone be preserved and reattached once the
pressure subsided. However, when doctors prepped for the follow up
procedure months later, they made a stomach churning discovery the
bone was gone. According to the lawsuit filed on December
sixteenth and Wayne County Circuit Court by the Oliver Bell Group,
(02:59):
staff allegedly confused Burton with another patient named Edna Brown
and misplaced or discarded the vital anatomy. Forced to improvise,
medics installed a synthetic plastic plate instead of her god
given bone. The result has been catastrophic. Burton's family says
(03:22):
the prosthetic has left her in agony, largely bedbound with
painful sores, unable to eat, and stripped of her voice.
Adding insult to the literal injury, hospital Hanchos reportedly offered
the family a twenty five dollars gas card as an apology,
a gesture her daughter slammed as beyond insulting, to say
(03:44):
the least. While henry Ford Health, which took over operations
in twenty twenty four is trying to distance itself from
the previous administration's botch. The Burton family is demanding justice
for the loss of their matere Criarch's quality of life.
The suit seeks unspecified damages from medical malpractice and emotional distress.
(04:08):
Ascension says they cannot comment on pending litigation.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The individual suspected of last week's mass shooting at Brown
University has been discovered dead in a storage facility in Salem,
New Hampshire, following a six day multi state manhunt. According
to law enforcement officials, the suspect has been identified as
forty eight year old Claudio Nevas Valente, a Portuguese national
(04:35):
who attended the university in Providence, Rhode Island, approximately twenty
five years ago. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez stated that
video surveillance and tips from the public guided investigators to
a car rental facility where they matched Valente's name to
their person of interest. Authorities also suspect that the man
(04:56):
was involved in a murder of a professor at Massachusetts
Institution of Technology met just two days after the December
thirteen shooting at Brown. No motive has been disclosed for
either incident. Brown University President Christina Packson confirmed that Valente
was enrolled at the university from fall two thousand until
(05:16):
spring two thousand and one, pursuing a PhD in physics,
but he did not have any current affiliation with the institution.
Officials suspect the man fatally shot MIT Professor nu No
Gomez forty seven in his Brookline home, located roughly fifty
miles from Providence. Both the victim and the suspect were
reported to have studied at the same university in Portugal
(05:40):
in the late nineteen nineties. The connection between the two
cases was established when Valente's vehicle was identified through CCTV
footage and a witness account from Brown University. Rhode Island
Attorney General Peter Narona reported that Valente was found with
a satchel and two firearms. Evidence discovered in a near
(06:00):
vehicle matched that from the Providence scene, and that same
car was seen close to the site of the professor's shooting.
Preliminary investigations suggests that Valente died from a self inflicted
gunshot wound, but police have not commented on how long
he may have been inside that storage unit. Although the
suspect has been found dead. Our investigation is far from over.
(06:22):
There are numerous questions that still need to be answered,
said Special Agent in Charge Ted Dox, noting that approximately
five hundred agents had been deployed to aid local authorities.
Lea Foley, the US Attorney for Massachusetts, remarked that Valente
was using a cell phone that obscured tracking, indicating he
(06:43):
was skilled at evading detection.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Federal agents found niece valente Dad from a self inflicted
gunshot wound. This is what we learned during this multi
jurisdictional investigation. Needs Valente studied at Brown University in Providence,
Rhode Island, on an F one visa around two thousand
to twenty twenty one. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status. Previously,
(07:10):
he attended the same academic program as the MIT professor
Nunou Lurierro in Portugal between nineteen ninety five and two thousand.
Although Nieves Valente appeared to reside in Florida between November
twenty six and November thirty of this year, he rented
a hotel room in Boston. On December first, he rented
(07:32):
a great Nissan CenTra with Florida plates from a car
rental agency in Boston. That same day, he drove to
the vicinity of Brown University, where his car was observed
intermittently between December one and December twelfth. On December thirteenth,
Neves Valente entered an auditorium on Brown University's campus during
(07:54):
his study session and began shooting at students.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
In response to the shoe, the US has suspended its
Green Card lottery program, with Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome
asserting that Valente quote should never have been allowed in
our country. Nom explained that Valente entered the US in
twenty seventeen through the Diversity Lottery immigrant visa program and
subsequently received a green card. The program grants up to
(08:22):
fifty thousand visas each year through a random selection that
countries with low immigration rates to the US, and Nome
has paused that program under President Donald Trump's directive to
prevent further harm to Americans. She says, public frustration grew
over the investigation into the Brown University shooting, which occurred
when a gunman opened fire in the engineering building during
(08:44):
a study session before finals. Two students were killed and
nine others were put in the hospital. Six of them
still listed in critical condition. The victims have been identified
as nineteen year old Ella Cook from Alabama an eighteen
year old muhammad U Mirzova, a USBEC American first year student.
Police say the investigation is still ongoing.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
The arrest of a once celebrated children's pastor now stands
as the latest reckoning in a case survivors say took
more than forty years to reach this moment. Sixty eight
year old Joe Campbell was arrested Wednesday on child sex
abuse charges after US marshals took him into custody in Missouri.
He is charged with first degree rape and lude or
indecent acts involving a child under sixteen. Oklahoma prosecutors say
(09:31):
the case centers on abuse alleged to have occurred decades ago,
when Campbell was a rising Pentecostal preacher working closely with children.
Authorities say Campbell is being held in the Green County
Jail in Springfield while awaiting extradition to Oklahoma. If convicted,
he faces life. Campbell's arrest follows months of renewed scrutiny
triggered by an NBC News investigation into abuse allegations within
(09:54):
the Assemblies. Of God. Five women say Campbell sexually assaulted
them as children. Ins in the nineteen seventies and eighties.
Nine more people, including four men, reported that he showed
them pornography, made sexual comments, or touched them inappropriately while
acting as a trusted youth minister. At the center of
the case is Carrie Jackson, who says Campbell abused her
(10:16):
repeatedly in Tulsa, starting when she was about nine years old.
Prosecutors revived the case using a frontier era Oklahoma law
that pauses the statute of limitations when the suspect leaves
the state. In sermons aired nationally for years, Campbell often
described himself as a man chosen by God after surviving
a violent car crash, and one recorded message obtained by
(10:39):
NBC News, he framed his survival as a divine bargain.
NBC News reporters say Campbell used that testimony repeatedly to
build credibility with congregations and parents. Survivors say the same
language was later used to gain access to children, foster trust,
and silence victims. In sermons reviewed by invests instigators, Campbell
(11:01):
repeatedly emphasized authority, obedience, and loyalty inside the church. One
message delivered at a men's conference.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Don't show me your building and thank God for buildings.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Don't show me all your equipment and your drama on
your pretty props. Show me your men. Don't tell me
about your bank account, tell me about your disciple account.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Show me your churches.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The allegations against Campbell are not new, according to church
records and interviews reviewed by NBC News, Complaints reached Assemblies
of God leaders as early as nineteen eighty three. One accuser,
by the name of Phedra Creed, reported abused to police
in Missouri in the late nineteen eighties after living with
Campbell and his family as a teenager. A medical examination
(11:47):
confirmed she had been sexually assaulted. Campbell was arrested at
the time, but the case never went to trial. After
Creed withdrew her case under pressure, the Assemblies of God
expelled Campbell from the denomination in nineteen eighty nine. Despite that,
he continued working with children. He later founded a non
denominational church and a youth camp in the Missouri Ozarks.
(12:09):
The camp became a gathering place for people accused or
convicted of sex crimes. Campbell also joined the PTL television
network in twenty sixteen, the one made famous by Jim
and Tammy Fay. His sermons were broadcast nationwide until earlier
this year. NBC News says its Pastors and Prey series
prompted Oklahoma investigators to reopen the case. Attorney General Gentner
(12:33):
Drummond called the allegations horrific and said his office would
pursue accountability for survivors who said they were ignored for decades.
Drummond said in his statement, quote, this arrest is about
justice delayed, not justice denied. The Assemblies of God said.
It is grateful to those who came forward and hoped
the legal process brings healing. Campbell has not responded publicly
(12:54):
to the charges. More Crime and Justice News after this
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