Crime Wire Weekly 11/6/25 | Texas Bayou Serial Killer Theory, Louisiana Fake Doc Sentenced, Wal-Mart Hero Saves The Day (Preview)

0:00 Hey everyone, and welcome back to Crime Wi Weekly. We're just going to kind of spitball these topics today and have time to write them down. We've just been blowing and going here at Envision Podcast Studios. But we're going to talk about a former paramedic in Louisiana claiming to be a doctor that was finally sentenced to federal prison. This week, we're going. To talk about a private investigator that is challenging officials on the Bayou serial killer theory. For those of you that are unaware, sixteen people have been thrown in byues in and around Houston, Texas. We're going to talk about that a little bit. We've got an update on Disney World deaths that have increased in the last three weeks.

0:48 Of course, we brought you one story of suicides, just tragic suicide from Disney World. Four people total have died since We're going to talk about that and so much more today on Crime Wire Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings. Well, Kelly, this is our first episode since Halloween. Any exciting Halloween stories for. You, No, not not necessarily exciting, but I brought y'all know I love my my cockatoo Teddy. He's a he's a cool dude. And I brought him out to see the Halloween festivities because he loves being outside. Pruss him up. Oh he's always dressed to impress, but you know he was, Oh my god, he's just majestic. But no, my daughter wanted to bring him out. And we didn't think this one through because she had put on makeup like a cougar, you know, like, and she had caddiers. And when I walked outside, he was like and he freaked out and how to fly away? I was like, take off your ears, and so she took him off and then he calmed down.

1:49 But man, instincts, that's crazy. You know. He's hand raised. Yeah, but he still knew he did not like that cat. All right, let's get into the crimes for today. We're gonna start out in Louisiana, and an ex paramedic has been sentenced for impersonating a doctor in a striking case that raises serious concerns about medical integrity. Samat Muckerge, a former paramedic, has been sentenced to federal prison after admitting to posing as a doctor for multiple years. On November fourth, a federal judge ordered Muckerg to serve six months behind bars following his guilty plea to charges of making false statements.

2:33 The sentencing marks a culmination of an investigation that had actually been going on since late twenty twenty two. Now. Mukerjee's deceit came to light when his employer, Akkadian Ambulance Service carried out inquiries prompting prompted by discussions among staff regarding his self proclaimed medical credentials. It was during this investigation they uncovered he had no legitimate medical qualifications. This resulted, obviously in his termination that was on December ninth of twenty twenty two, and in an effort to distance himself from fabricated claims, Muckerg subsequently surrendered his paramedical license to the Louisiana Department of Health. Well, that was real nice of him, because they were going to likely suspend it anyway between May nineteenth and May of twenty nineteen. Rather, in November of twenty twenty two, Muckergee's fraudulent activities reached alarming proportions. He claimed to be a licensed medical doctor and concocted a variety of false documents He even had a fake medical degree and a fabrication of a residency match letter. Now even more disturbing than that he participated in a celebratory event perpetrating to mark his graduation from an institution he never attended. Wow. His actions even extended to prescribing meta medications illegally. Muckergee called in prescriptions for

4:03 himself and others using a fellow physician's National Prescription Identify Our number that's known as an NPI number. And essentially this is an identify identify or used by real doctors to manage prescriptions. It's tied to one person he was using that pharmacy. Claims for these prescriptions were submitted for healthcare benefit programs including Medicaid and Blue Cross. In one instance, in October of twenty twenty two, Mukerjee actually wrote a cancer prescription for a cancer patient without without consulting the oncologist. And this guy's not even a doctor.

4:45 Yeah, And you know, as someone right now, real quick who has a mom who has cancer and is taking chemo, that pisces me off. It pisses me off too. And I only you know, I don't have anybody's reliable now. Yeah. Fortunately yeah, he forged another doc her signature on the prescription. Now, Mukagie's actions could have resulted in a potential sentence of up to five years in federal prison and a fine of as much as two hundred fifty thousand dollars. How much you think he got kJ FA can being a doctor prescribing scripts for even. What was thet he could have gotten fifty five. Years and two hundred and fifty dollars fine, two hundred fifty thousand dollars five. I mean, if I was the judge, you would have got all of it.

5:27 Okay, Well he got six. Months shame, jail for shame because we won't know the long term effects until they happen to these people, right. If there's a hopefully. It's none, right, but you know, but you won't know. You won't. But yeah, six months, well you know. And I'm looking at photos of him online and this is really creepy too. He's in a flight paramedic suit and I zoomed in on his ID and he does have his name and then MD after it. He also, yeah, there's. Another picture of him in his white coat and he's in the blue scrub or blue scrubs and another one in green. But he went and had those those shirts monogram than things to say MD. And he had a fake degree.

6:09 Yeah, he had his own party for his medical graduation. This is a level of deceit. That's scary because now nothing he ever says, you know, I would believe or trust nothing, nothing. So good, God, that's crazy. I'm sure lawsuits are going to be filed all. Over the lady if they already. Right, all right, well let's take it to Texas. It's too soon to rule out a potential serial killer behind a string of mysterious deaths in Houston's Murky Bayous. According to a local private investigator, they're saying they don't have a serial killer, but I'm not sure this is according to Coleman Ryan, who is working with the family of twenty two year old Kenneth Cutting Junior, maybe their objective isn't sexual assault, it's not robbery, but they're just throwing people in the Bayou. Authorities have not yet accessed Cutting's phone or location records, Ryan said. With Cutting's calls and manner of death ruled undetermined in the autopsy and negative toxicology results, Ryan believes geolocation data and other digital clues should shed more light on his final hours. Houston leaders have downplayed the possibility of a serial killer following a rash of recent deaths involving the city's twenty five hundred miles of byus, with Mayor John Whitmeyer blaming homelessness and substance abuse. Sixteen bodies, that's crazy, huh. Sixteen people have been recovered from the VYUS so far this year, including a University of Houston student named Jade McKissick, who was last seen leaving a downtown bar on September eleventh. The twenty year old McKissick was found dead in Braze BYU

7:40 days later. Neither McKissick nor Cutting was homeless, Ryan said, and neither of them had signs of trauma. I think they're just too quickly dismissing it, he said. Cutting was seen leaving Pete's Dueling Piano Bar on January twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, after an apparent argument with one of his roommates. They reunited that evening, and at around two am, his roommate's text his father to say that he had gone quote unquote crazy and got out of their car on a highway outside town. Days later, police recovered his remains from Buffalo by You, about a mile from where the roommates said he got out. A toxicology report found no drugs in his system. Now there are alleged discrepancies in his autopsy, and that's raised additional questions from his relatives.

8:22 Lauren Freeman is his cousin and said that a reference to orthopedic hardware in his neck had perplexed the family. No one was aware of him ever undergoing a surgery that would have placed it there. Now she claims that someone from the Medical Examiner's office told her the line was the result of a clerical error and that no such hardware had been found in Cutting's neck after looking over everything in detail. There are other odd things, according to this cousin. For example, her cousin stood at five foot three inches tall, but was listed as four foot eight inches tall in the autopsy report. Although he was small. She also took issue with the official weight of his remains at eighty nine pound. According to his father, Kenneth Cutting Senior, the victim weighed about one hundred and fifteen pounds when he went missing three days before being found in the Bayou. To me, his credibility is shot. Freeman said, each cause has to be dissected on its own merits, time, timelines, reinterviews, and autopsy reports. Said Joseph Jack Jackaloone Jockolone. I believe that's how you would say this, a retired NYPD sergeant and criminal justice professor at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Those reports and autopsies now come with a whole host of new problems.

9:33 Yeah, and you know, if you gorse, we do a lot of research on this stuff, and those numbers, that's sixteen shocking enough, but some people's some articles I came across say. It's as high as twenty eight. Wow bodies. And you know, initially they were tracking these or they were chalking these up to transients and people that were homeless. But you know, Kylie, students, I ain't homeless. And now there have been several of those end up in that by you. And do we know if they're all the sex of them? Are they male and female or are they all male? I think I think it's a mixture, but I'm not one hundred percent more on that.

10:14 Yeah, because I mean, we had our serial killer down here in New Orleans years ago, and you know, he was knocking off men that were, you know, homosexual male. He was a homosexual male, and then he was targeting certain groups. So I was curious if there was a commonality maybe between these victims. But to dismiss that many bodies as something not connected seems very interesting. That's a lot of bodies and I don't believe a lot. Of bodies in it. You know, it's said twenty five hundred miles of by you, so that's also a. Lot of area. Yeah, but like historically with. One hundred miles is almost the entire I mean, think about it, that's almost from here to California. Well, yeah, I guess, but historically, how many bodies are they pulling out at this rate? Because in comparison, if we look at the last say twenty years, and they've pulled out nine, and now in this short period of time we've pulled out sixteen to twenty whatever the number is, there's something going on there. Trends need to be looked at.

11:10 You know, I agree one hundred percent, and I'll say this. You know, several of those were Houston students, went to college in Houston. Well, if that's the. Case, then they were probably in the same general area that they were found. They weren't twenty five hundred miles from each other. And not to be a total that's going on, Not to be a total and complete nerd here, but I'd also be interested. Even if the toxicology came back and was saying nothing in the system, what if they are being drug with something with a very very short half life and so by the time they get the body it's gone, Because that could be a link that's not there because it's not there, but it was, So that would be something too. I'd be interested. Not to be a total nerd. All right, we'll dig into it, Okjay, I'm going to see that episode on Let's Go to Florida, And of course we brought you a tragic story about a woman who committed suicide in Florida. Well, people are now in utter shock as a fourth person has died at Disney World in Florida. The most magical place on Earth, has been home to some tragedies. As of late, four people have reportedly died at the popular theme park over the last three weeks. A deceased person was reported most recently on November two now. The call was reportedly placed shortly after two am in the morning, and a spokesman for the Sheriff's office set a woman in her forties have passed away, noting that there were no signs of foul play.

12:39 A thirty one year old woman woman was found dead at the park after being reported missing. She was later to have been found dead by suicide. And that was the one that we reported to you. A week later, a sixty year old man was found dead at Disney's for Wilderness resort and campground. Stayed there, been. There too, I love it too. That was great. A couple of days after that, a twenty eight year old man died from multiple traumatic injuries resulting from what they're calling an intentional fall. So I guess that's a suicide as well, and an investigation into the latest death is taking place. But ma'am, what is going on in the happiest place on earth lately?

13:21 I guess when you look at mass volumes of people coming through, I mean, the chances go up that things would go wrong. But one was the old lady or I don't say old lady, but the lady that was on the haunted mansion right that she just suffered a medical emergency while on the ride. Correct. Then we have the female that jumped to her death, which is horrible. Then we've got someone at Fort Wilderness, but he was in his sixties. Correct, he was sixty. Yeah, that ain't no. But I'm saying Fort Wilderness doesn't have rides or anything, you know. Yeah made you know. I'm not saying they all committed suicide of that chilled. I'm just saying that's a lot of people in three weeks. And yes, they have a lot of people that go in and out of there, but that that's never happened in the I mean, they've had a lot of people going into there for years. Yeah, I don't think I'm if they were. I never used to read things like this. Yeah. Anyway, I'm not saying anything's going on crazy, And I'm just saying, wow, you know, prayers out to all those people.

14:14 That's just horrible, and prayers for their families and everyone involved. So we're now going to take it to Oklahoma. A still Water teenager convicted. Oh this one irks me, all right. A still Water teenager convicted of ten rape related charges, including domestic assault and battery by strangulation, attempted rape in the first degree, and rape by instrumentation, and one charge for violating a protective order. Faces no jail time after he pled no contest. Initially, eighteen year old Jesse Butler faced a seventy eight year sentence, but he was granted youthful offender status. Now you will not face jail time if he does the requirements, such as community service and attending counseling. Bodycam footage shows the seventeen year old Butler being arrested at his home and still earlier this year.

15:01 Records showed the charges stem from incidents with two separate victims. People gathered at the Payne County Courthouse on Wednesday with signs in their hands, making their voices heard as they called for justice. The justice system here in Stillwater has allowed a violent sex offender to walk free. Not only he's he currently free and loose on the streets. He's a virtual student at Stillwater Public Schools as a senior, and after he finishes having the slap on the wrist, he doesn't even have to register as a sex offender, said protester Tory Gray. People lining the street outside of the courthouse, including students. It really may it really means a lot to show that there's a lot of people out here that really care and really want to make this world better and get people like him off the streets. And this was according to Stillwater High School student Gabrielle McKenzie.

15:46 Justice was top of mind for students in attendance. I want him to get what he deserves. He needs to be prosecuted. Worthington needs out of office, Stillwater High School student Tristan Turner said. A former Stillwater High School student named kay Foula Schanold was speaking about how much it meant to see other people out protesting. It makes me more hopeful that in these situations we might get more justice for people. Yeah, that is not only injustice. I'm probably going to do a case on Exposed about this guy. I really dug into him after I saw that story. And I'm going to tell you right now, if. You're having problems by the age of eighteen of raping several different female co students or whatever people at your high school, you got a problem. Brother, huge, you got a major problem, and it's just going to get worse.

16:38 And you know, Kelly and I both cover crime in one way, shape or form, and we see this all the time, with these things escalating from there. I think this is horrible. Shout out to the students and whoever else was protesting out there saying this is some bullshit. Well, because it is. And okay, rape is her. I'm not gonna I'm not saying anything about that. But when you are doing assault and you're adding the strangulation element to it, yeah, you know that removes life. You can survive rape. That's terrible and it should never happen. But this guy has got a violent, violent streak in what he is doing, and it seems that he's escalating. And this is where my issue comes in. If you're not abreast of this, I want to tell you because status offenders. Status offenses are intended to be applied to juveniles who are committing crimes that maybe in and of themselves aren't a huge deal for an adult or a problem for an adult, but for a youth person it's a big deal. So, for example, youth offenders, if we're just going to give him youth status, usually I'm thinking something along the lines of being out later than curfew, being mischievous, spray painting you know, property or a minor in possession of alcohol. You know, that is youth their status offenses, because if an adult did it, it's not illegal. Now I understand that they also go to jail for other things, but they have.

18:05 Do you mean if an adult, then it's. Not like you can be in possession of alcohol you're an adult. It's not at least no, I know. But when we say a status offense, usually like, you're not going to get charged with being mischievous, you know, or ungovernable. Okay, you know what I'm saying, you're just an asshole if you're an adult, you're spray painting shit, but it's illegal. Yeah, yeah, it's still property damage. But but you're not going to be looked at as, oh, he's just a mischievous fifty year old. No, you're you're you know, you're not ungovernable where an adult should have you, you know, wrangled in so too sche though to what you're saying, but you know, we we kind of slap him on the wrist, hight. If an adult is out spray painting walls, you're looking at you like what the hell's wrong with you? Like you should what are you doing? So for them to take an eighteen year old and just give him this youth status and then let him walk every victim he has from this point forward, which he will. Uh, it's on your shoulders. Ever made that decision?

19:01 Yeah, and you know, not registered as a sex offender. That really blew my mind. You should attier one. Come on, Yeah, there's three tiers of sex. If you don't. Yeah, that that's wrong. That is dead wrong. And I've seen people go to jail longer for smoking a blunt. There you go, you know, sick. All right, Let's go to Mississippi and look, we brought you a story of monkeys last week, and I want to give you an update on that. Anytime there's breaking stories come out over the news, especially the monkey story from Mississippi, where everybody picked that up in the whole country.

19:42 It was a national story. Uh. There were some reports that were coming out and they would constantly change. At first, all three monkeys were caught, then they weren't caught, et cetera. Yeah, well there was three that has actually escaped, five were caught on. The scene, and then fifteen. Were still in the cages after the wreck or five were killed. Rather in the wreck so. Initially we thought, in many other people that all these monkeys had been caught, but come to find out they hadn't been caught. They have now though, and some of them in kind of a tragic way. And I'm gonna tell you about this one particular story. One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi highway was shot and killed by a woman who said she feared for the safety of her children. Man, I get it. Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted by her sixteen year old son, who thought he had seen a monkey running around in the yard outside their home.

20:45 This is near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She gets out of bed, she grabbed her firearm and her cellphone, and she stepped outside where she saw the monkey about sixty feet away. Bon Ferguson said she and other residents had been warned about the escape monkeys caring diseases, so she fired her gun. Quote, I did what any mother would do to protect her children. Now, Bob Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from four to sixteen, Wow, she told the associated Price. I shot at it. It just stood there and I shot again. He backed up and that's when he fell. The Jasper County Sheriff's office confirmed in a social media post the homeowner had found one of the monkeys on their property Sunday morning, but said the office didn't have any other details. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fisheries took possession of the monkey.

21:39 Now before bomb Ferguson had gone out the doors, she did call police and she was told to keep an eye out for the monkey, but she worried that if the monkey got away, it would threaten children at another house. Quote, if it attacked somebody's kid, or I could have stopped it, and I could have stopped it, that would be a lot on me, said bomb fergus and a thirty five year old professional chef. It's kind of scary and dangerous that they are running around and people have kids playing in their yards. Now, the Reesus monkeys have been housed at the Twulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, which routinely provides primates to scientific research organizations that according to a university and if you'll remember, in a statement last week, Tulane said the monkeys do not belong to the university, and they were not being transported by the university.

22:34 A truck carrying the monkeys, of course, when we told you, overturned on I fifty nine north of Heidelberd. So there you have it. That seems to be the last of the monkeys that were loose. And this lady took, I guess things into her own hand. You just know that monkey stood there because he was like, what the hell, I've been thrown out of a truck. I've been through a wreck, I'm getting shot. Like, yeah, nature, you're scary looking. And she's cute. The mama look at her. I'll look at the picture of her. I saw that. Well, you can't look at it when they're lessening. I'm just telling y'all she cute. Well put it on Facebook, all right, we'll do so.

23:15 She basically y'all heard her dog barking as well, and her kid and her went outside, and she said the dog was almost fighting the monkey. It barked in monkey then growled at it, and the monkey swung on him, swung on the dog. Yeah, look, I told you monkeys, listen. I know that this is a little different, but I watched a thing just this morning, a little short of I survived. Have you watched that show? No, okay, this man they're going to like a chimpanzee rescue place to go see these rescue chumps. What they didn't know was that thirty of them had escaped. Wow. So they go riding up on this truck and this is like an Africa or something, and all of a sudden, a six foot one, two hundred and forty pound like eight comes running out.

24:05 Of a monkey. That's well freaking silver back. Well, this sucker came, listen to me. He attacked their truck like multiple times. He killed the driver, like shredded him. He bit off the hand and foot of another guy, and then the one like you don't mess with it like a sixty seven year old man. Because the one man he got out, he's like, oh hell no. He picked up a tree limb. He went to war with a tree limb and fought that that whatever big old monkey, and the monkey ran off. It ain't a monkey, it's a It was a gorilla. No, it was a chump, they said, but it must have been a goal anyway. So he runs off. Turns out, y'all, he had fought and dominated the like mail the ultimate male monkey, and so all the other ones in the pack like retreated bro. He he beat up a monkey with a stick, but people died and he lived.

24:57 You keep saying monkey. Is crimeate gorilla or if I have to go hand to hand combat with anything that looks at me with expression and can punch me. I went to a zoo one time and they had a silver back gorilla, and uh, this sucker was laid back in that cage and he didn't look happy about it. And you can almost touch him. He was that close to you. And let me tell you that dude would beat that ass. Look any any human man. One hundred men, he'd whooped them. Yeah, you're very strong. Two things. I ain't messing with a kangaroo because those things have abs and claws and a big old silver back.

25:37 Tear some money up to look about it. Get it all right, now, let's go to Illinois where we need to bring a silver back to beat this woman's ass. Okay. An Illinois woman is accused of giving birth to a child she conceived with a drummel please fourteen year old boy. Robin Poulston, forty three years old, is charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault with a victim between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, and two counts of possession of child pornography. These charges, which can each carry a prison sentence of up to fifteen years, all stem from Polston's alleged abuse of her daughter's friends. Hey everyone, Crime Wire Weekly has moved to its own new channel.

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