Former boyfriend of cheerleader Laken Snelling submits DNA to authorities following the discovery of her deceased newborn in a trash bag.
16 year-old accused in stabbing death of 14-year-old after an argument of a PlayStation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime alert. I means he grace breaking crimes. Now straight
out to Nicole Parton for the latest.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Nancy, an ex boyfriend of Laken Snelling, a cheerleader at
the University of Kentucky, is undergoing DNA testing to establish
whether he is the father of a newborn found dead
in her closet last month. Isaiah Hall, twenty one, who
previously dated Snelling, provided a DNA sample to authorities as
(00:27):
part of the investigation into the baby boy that Snelling
is accused of concealing in a towel and placing in
a trash bag, then hiding in her closet at her
off campus home in Lexington. Lexington Police asked him to
come and provide a sample, said Justin Smith, the boy's father,
who declined to comment further, saying I have no information
(00:49):
on this matter and we don't know if Isaiah is
the father. Hall, a prominent quarterback at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee,
was in a relationship with Snelling before she began dating
Connor Jordan, a former basketball player, as reported by The
Daily Mail, The timeline of Hall's relationship with Snelling remains unclear,
(01:12):
and he did not disclose when they broke up. The
father said, I prefer not to discuss this in detail
at this time. Snelling, who played basketball at King University
in Tennessee, appeared in several of Snelling's social media posts
leading up to her arrest on August thirty one. It
is unknown when they started dating, and he has since
(01:32):
removed his social media profiles Following the arrest. Snelling faces
charges including concealing the birth of a child, tempering with evidence,
and abuse of a corpse, to which she has pleaded
not guilty. The incoming senior, who participated in the stunt team,
was arrested after police received reports of an unresponsive infant
(01:54):
at her home. She allegedly confessed to authorities that she
attempted to hide the birth by cleaning up the scene
and disposing of the related items in the same trash
bag as the baby. An autopsy has been conducted, but
the cause of death for the infant remains inconclusive. Snelling
was released on one hundred thousand dollars bond and is
(02:15):
now under house arrest in her parents' home in Tennessee
until her next court date on September twenty six. She
has since withdrawn from school and is no longer a
member of the stunt team, according to a report from
the Lexington Herald. The university, which commenced the new semester
on August twenty five, has not disclosed the date of
(02:37):
her withdrawal.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Nicole, thank you more Primate Justice news after.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This and now let's head to Florida, where a teenager
is facing adult charges for allegedly stabbing a fourteen year
old boy during a dispute over a PlayStation. This happened
at their share group home, according to police reports. Sixteen
(03:03):
year old Reuben Whitworth was arrested and charged with second
degree murder with a weapon for the fatal stabbing of
Jordan Dowdy on August twenty five. Dowdy was discovered with
fatal wounds that afternoon at a residence located on Northeast
Third Avenue in Oakland Park. Jordan's mother, Tiffany Simpson, shared
with Fox WSVN that her son had previously encountered issues
(03:28):
with Whitworth, saying he cried out for help and no
one would listen.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
He told you to know, shut the f up, or
I'm gonna stab you and kill you. Two weeks later,
he ended up dead and stop by. Nobody helped him. No,
they didn't take into consideration that he was stabbed or
not stabbed, that the kid kept threatening him. Disappointed in
the system, disappointed in the state, disappointed in the ARIIS office,
disappointed in many weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
A caregiver at the One Hope United Foster home where
the boys were living, witnessed the altercation and intervened just
before the stabbing occurred. I need paramedics immediately, she reported
to have said, during an emergency nine to one one
call where as he stabbed, asked the dispatcher, the caregiver responded,
I don't see the knife right now. I had to
(04:15):
break up the fight. She can then be heard trying
to keep Dowdy conscious during the call. Records from Broward
County Court labeled Dowdy's murder as a dangerous, depraved, and
lacking premeditation murder. As reported by ABC affiliate w PLG,
A neighbor of the group home, Bobby Pecora, recalled meeting
(04:36):
Dowdy earlier in the year, where he expressed feeling frightened.
He said it's scary. Pecor remembered she claimed that Dowdy
was subjected to ongoing intimidation before his death, and noted
that police had visited that group home multiple times regarding
incidents around the boy. Simpson also emphasized that Dowdy had
been threatened repeatedly, telling WSVN that she had raised her
(05:00):
concerns about others at the home. Witworth is said to
appear in court later this month and is currently being
held at the Broward County Jail in Fort Lauderdale without ball.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Nine year old Alexis Patterson walks from her Milwaukee, Wisconsin
home to school with her stepdad, Lauren Bourgeois. Bourgeois says
he watched Alexis walk towards the playground before heading home.
After school. Bourgeois and Alexis's mother, Arianna larn Alexis is
absent from school. Mom believes Alexis skipped class because she
got in trouble for not completing homework and could not
(05:33):
bring cupcakes to school that day. Fellow classmates say they
saw Alexis crying on the playground before and after school.
Alexis reported missing. Police suspect foul play, as Alexis has
no runaway history. Searches of the surrounding area turn up nothing.
Alexis bio Dad Kenya Campbell cooperates with police, as does
(05:54):
Ariana and Lauren Bourgeois, but police say Bourgeois fails upon
polligraf still no arrest. Alexis Patterson an African American female child,
brown hair, brown eyes, three feet eight inches, forty two pounds.
At the time she disappeared, a scar below her right
(06:14):
eye and a bump on her left pinky. That was
twenty two years ago. If you have info on what
happened to little girl Alexis Patterson, please call Milwaukee PD
four one four nine three five seventy four zero one.
For the latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot
com and please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories,
(06:38):
where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm
Nancy Grace.
Crime alert. I means he grace breaking crimes. Now straight
out to Nicole Parton for the latest.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Nancy, an ex boyfriend of Laken Snelling, a cheerleader at
the University of Kentucky, is undergoing DNA testing to establish
whether he is the father of a newborn found dead
in her closet last month. Isaiah Hall, twenty one, who
previously dated Snelling, provided a DNA sample to authorities as
(00:27):
part of the investigation into the baby boy that Snelling
is accused of concealing in a towel and placing in
a trash bag, then hiding in her closet at her
off campus home in Lexington. Lexington Police asked him to
come and provide a sample, said Justin Smith, the boy's father,
who declined to comment further, saying I have no information
(00:49):
on this matter and we don't know if Isaiah is
the father. Hall, a prominent quarterback at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee,
was in a relationship with Snelling before she began dating
Connor Jordan, a former basketball player, as reported by The
Daily Mail, The timeline of Hall's relationship with Snelling remains unclear,
(01:12):
and he did not disclose when they broke up. The
father said, I prefer not to discuss this in detail
at this time. Snelling, who played basketball at King University
in Tennessee, appeared in several of Snelling's social media posts
leading up to her arrest on August thirty one. It
is unknown when they started dating, and he has since
(01:32):
removed his social media profiles Following the arrest. Snelling faces
charges including concealing the birth of a child, tempering with evidence,
and abuse of a corpse, to which she has pleaded
not guilty. The incoming senior, who participated in the stunt team,
was arrested after police received reports of an unresponsive infant
(01:54):
at her home. She allegedly confessed to authorities that she
attempted to hide the birth by cleaning up the scene
and disposing of the related items in the same trash
bag as the baby. An autopsy has been conducted, but
the cause of death for the infant remains inconclusive. Snelling
was released on one hundred thousand dollars bond and is
(02:15):
now under house arrest in her parents' home in Tennessee
until her next court date on September twenty six. She
has since withdrawn from school and is no longer a
member of the stunt team, according to a report from
the Lexington Herald. The university, which commenced the new semester
on August twenty five, has not disclosed the date of
(02:37):
her withdrawal.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Nicole, thank you more Primate Justice news after.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This and now let's head to Florida, where a teenager
is facing adult charges for allegedly stabbing a fourteen year
old boy during a dispute over a PlayStation. This happened
at their share group home, according to police reports. Sixteen
(03:03):
year old Reuben Whitworth was arrested and charged with second
degree murder with a weapon for the fatal stabbing of
Jordan Dowdy on August twenty five. Dowdy was discovered with
fatal wounds that afternoon at a residence located on Northeast
Third Avenue in Oakland Park. Jordan's mother, Tiffany Simpson, shared
with Fox WSVN that her son had previously encountered issues
(03:28):
with Whitworth, saying he cried out for help and no
one would listen.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
He told you to know, shut the f up, or
I'm gonna stab you and kill you. Two weeks later,
he ended up dead and stop by. Nobody helped him. No,
they didn't take into consideration that he was stabbed or
not stabbed, that the kid kept threatening him. Disappointed in
the system, disappointed in the state, disappointed in the ARIIS office,
disappointed in many weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
A caregiver at the One Hope United Foster home where
the boys were living, witnessed the altercation and intervened just
before the stabbing occurred. I need paramedics immediately, she reported
to have said, during an emergency nine to one one
call where as he stabbed, asked the dispatcher, the caregiver responded,
I don't see the knife right now. I had to
(04:15):
break up the fight. She can then be heard trying
to keep Dowdy conscious during the call. Records from Broward
County Court labeled Dowdy's murder as a dangerous, depraved, and
lacking premeditation murder. As reported by ABC affiliate w PLG,
A neighbor of the group home, Bobby Pecora, recalled meeting
(04:36):
Dowdy earlier in the year, where he expressed feeling frightened.
He said it's scary. Pecor remembered she claimed that Dowdy
was subjected to ongoing intimidation before his death, and noted
that police had visited that group home multiple times regarding
incidents around the boy. Simpson also emphasized that Dowdy had
been threatened repeatedly, telling WSVN that she had raised her
(05:00):
concerns about others at the home. Witworth is said to
appear in court later this month and is currently being
held at the Broward County Jail in Fort Lauderdale without ball.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Nine year old Alexis Patterson walks from her Milwaukee, Wisconsin
home to school with her stepdad, Lauren Bourgeois. Bourgeois says
he watched Alexis walk towards the playground before heading home.
After school. Bourgeois and Alexis's mother, Arianna larn Alexis is
absent from school. Mom believes Alexis skipped class because she
got in trouble for not completing homework and could not
(05:33):
bring cupcakes to school that day. Fellow classmates say they
saw Alexis crying on the playground before and after school.
Alexis reported missing. Police suspect foul play, as Alexis has
no runaway history. Searches of the surrounding area turn up nothing.
Alexis bio Dad Kenya Campbell cooperates with police, as does
(05:54):
Ariana and Lauren Bourgeois, but police say Bourgeois fails upon
polligraf still no arrest. Alexis Patterson an African American female child,
brown hair, brown eyes, three feet eight inches, forty two pounds.
At the time she disappeared, a scar below her right
(06:14):
eye and a bump on her left pinky. That was
twenty two years ago. If you have info on what
happened to little girl Alexis Patterson, please call Milwaukee PD
four one four nine three five seventy four zero one.
For the latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot
com and please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories,
(06:38):
where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm
Nancy Grace.
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