Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Layla Santanello, a young mother from Tennessee, has been missing now for over two years. She was last seen  June 27, 2023, in a field next to the Americourt Hotel.

Employees and guests reported that she appeared erratic and paranoid. Surveillance footage captured Layla walking around the hotel, reportedly knocking on doors and searching for someone.

Arsonists set fires for may different reasons; revenge, money, cover-up a Crime, pyrophilia. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how the crime is investigated, the evidence left behind, and why burning up the scene of a crime to get rid of evidence, often creates the evidence needed to catch the perp. 

Transcript Highlights
00:00:00.00 Introduction - Fire

00:05:08.55 Getting hurt at fire scenes

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Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin conned her way into Manhattan society.

Posing as Anna Delvey, a German heiress, she swindled banks, hotels, and friends out of more than $200,000. She forged checks to get money from banks and charmed people into paying for extravagant meals and travel.

Sorokin was convicted on a handful of grand larceny and theft of services charges. After serving her time, the 31-year-old was released from prison ...

The lead up to James Craig’s trial has been bizarre.....two postponements, three different attorney teams, five added charges and a crazy action from an attorney, who allegedly set his own house on fire. Still, the Aurora dentist’s trial began and ended after jurors heard from four mistresses who said James Craig told them his marriage was over, but a divorce would break him financiall. 

Crag faced six  f...

 Jayden Spicer, 10, was last seen at 9pm when he went to bed. He was reported missing the next morning, just over 12 hours later.

Jayden Spicer is 5 feet, 1 inch tall, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a slim build. He was last seen wearing blue "Sonic the Hedgehog" pajama pants and a matching shirt.

Jayden’s mother, Felicia Gross, too anxious to speak with the media, as...

Was it a random slaughter or is he a serial killer? Investigators are looking into if Devil's Den double slayer suspect Andrew McGann may be linked to other, unsolved cold case murders. A fugitive's twisted plot to fake his death & dodge rape charges crumbled...as he now faces his accuser in a Utah court. Plus, fake heiress Ana Delvey involved in a hare-raising scandal!  Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Young rich kid is the driver that causes a violent crash killing four Pepperdine college students, enters a plea in court. Fraser Bohm, of Malibu, hires  Alan Jackson, the high-profile celebrity attorney, recently making top headlines for securing a not-guilty verdict in what turned out to be one of Massachusetts most controversial murder trials.

Fraser Bohm, man accused of c...

Fraser Michael Bohm pleads not guilty in a Los Angeles County courtroom to four counts of murder and four counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence for the deaths of four Pepperdine University students preparing for a sorority party. New and disturbing details on a missing Oklahoma toddler allegedly sold to a meth dealer by her mother. The only person charged in Tupac Shakur’s killing changes his legal team as th...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs and his attorney continue to talk about plans for a big comeback when the disgraced rapper gets out of jail, but who knows when that will be?

Diddy will be sentenced on two felony convictions in early October.For now, he claims he's facing grim conditions with 'maggot-infested' meals behind bars at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn.

Alec Baldwin’s countersuit tied to the fatal shooting on the film "Rust" back in court. A judge rules on whether the actor was defamed by the charges files against him in Halyna Hutchins death. 

President Trump has announced that more than 500 federal officers from the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the U.S. Marshals Service are being sent to Washington, D.C., for at least a week.

The FBI’s latest Uniform Crime Rep...

Bryan Kohberger complains inmates are harassing him through vents in the prison. He was moved to solitary confinement, according to the Idaho Department of Corrections, housed in restrictive housing of the J Block in the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. Inmates live in single-person cells, provided a shower every other day and allowed one hour of outdoor recreation daily, according to IDOC. 

As more evidence is release, we ...

Jodi Arias stabs her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, 28 times, shoots him and leaves him to die in a shower. In 2025, she remains in jail, serving a life sentence for murder.  Currently held at the Arizona State Prison Complex - Perryville, Arias is appealing her conviction, alleging prosecutorial misconduct and a biased atmosphere during the trial.  

Nancy's expert panel weighs in:

• Judge Ashley Willcott: Judge &am...

The Connecticut River Valley serial killer is believed to be responsible for a string of brutal murders that occurred between 1978 and 1988 across the wooded border region of New Hampshire and Vermont. The killer targeted at least seven women, many of whom were young and found stabbed to death in remote areas.  

In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum sits down with Jane Boroski, the only know...

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Alabama teen beat grandmother to death with mallet. 

Four Pepperdine students killed by speeder. Suspect charged with murder. 

A 10-year-old Arizona girl dead,  after what doctors described as torture.  Her father a...

Two people were shot on the set of Alec Baldwin's movie Rust.

Director of photography Halyna Hutchins died, and director Joel Souza was wounded. Reports say first assistant director David Halls picked up one of three prop guns set up by armorer Hannah Gutierrez and yelled, “cold gun.”

"Cold gun" is industry slang meaning the gun does not contain live rounds. Halls gave the gun to Baldwin, who used it to rehearse a scene...

He's accused of being a serial killer, but some of his co-workers gave him a nickname, Sexy Rexy.

Reportely, Rex Heuerman was the 'perfect' co-worker and 'life of the party.  Now more potential new witnesses have come forward with information connecting  Heuermann to the Long Island Serial Killer murders.

One of the witnesses worked in a bank during the day and drove a taxicab at night. She signed an affidavit that she pi...