Crime Wire Weekly 5/29/26 | Santa Extradicted, Prison Nicknames, Ankle Monitor Mishaps

0:16 All right, folks, let's get into the crime news for today. Welcome back to Crime Wire Weekly. And in Iowa, Santa is facing a Louisiana extradition on six felony charges. I bet you never thought we'd start out the topics. That way negative. I don't know why Santa was in Iowa and not up at the poll anyway, because he had work to do. Well, we're going to tell you all about it. In New Orleans, a team has racked up forty nine ankle monitor violations in eighty three days. Of course he did, that's right, And you know we've been on kind of a tear with these ankle monitors lately. So we're going to expound on that. The killer in Hell on Wheels a podcast by exposed that you could go check out right now. Actually laughs at her new prison nickname that she has. So we're going to discuss that very interesting story there. Of course, that's a trending story all over the internet right now with that girl Louisiana. We're gonna go back there and we're gonna talk about a man with a lengthy criminal record being charged with rape recently in Baton Rouge.

1:27 It's almost like criminals keep committing crimes. Yeah, yeah, and we're going to talk about some solutions there. In Wisconsin, a man opens up opens up fire on his hunting buddies. Yeah, you should never do that, and he mixed whiskey with it, which is probably a lot of the reason we'll talk about some solutions there. In Arizona, a man breaks into a morgue and you're just not gonna believe what he did. We're not even gonna tell you. You could guess it without us even saying. Yeah. Well, in the True Crime time Machine, we're going to go back and we're going to talk about the death of Phil Hartman, which occurred this day, many years ago. In Utah, a father is accused of abducting two children and then fleeing to Mexico. Wild story.

2:13 That's the worst mother's worst fear, I would think right there. Yeah, we're gonna he's still on the leaves too, So we're going to cover that. Uh. The strangest accidental shooting you will ever hear occurred in Nebraska. Listen, we can take wagers right now nobody listening, nobody will be able to guess who was involved in that shooting right now and you're just think of your wildest story right now, and I bet you're not going to guess it. Yeah, well, we're going to tell you coming up sing in this one, nine point three million dollars in cocaine has been found hidden in Kim Kardashian's underwear. Listen, I knew I left it somewhere. Luck, you can in her underwear. You could probably hide at nine point three million dollars room in that back. Yeah, well, we'll talk about that too. Of course, we've got overtime come up after that on the Patreon channel. But we'll get into today's story and we're going to start out in well, I guess we're starting out in Iowa via Louisiana.

3:10 I guess you could say where a seventy three year old Ames man, widely known as Santa Ames for his longtime role in portraying Santa Claus, is facing extradition to Louisiana after a Story County judge. And that's a hell of a county to live in. When you're Santa Claus, you live in Story County. That judge ruled that he is the same person named in a multi count felony warrant out of Saint Gabriel, Louisiana, which is only about, I guess thirty minutes from where we record right here. His name is David Grulich, and he's been held inside of that Story County Jail since his arrest on April twenty sixth, twenty twenty six on a fugitive from Justice charge.

3:55 He's listed as the official contact for the Iowa chapter of the Inner National Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas. I had no idea that's the same. Yeah, And he operates a website promoting more than twenty years of experience as a trusted community Santa. According to the Saint Gabriel Police Department, Grillik is charged with six felonies in connection with the alleged theft of approximately thirty seven thousand dollars from a Louisiana woman's retirement account. The chargers in detail are theft over twenty five thousand dollars, identity theft, access device, fraud over twenty five thousand dollars, monetary instrument abuse, bank fraud, and money laundering. So it tells me there he's he's stolen. He's stolen her identity and got a debit card or something. And has been with drawing money or credit cards or something of that nature. Allegedly, the alleged offenses occurred on October fourth and November fourth of twenty twenty five. Police say the stolen funds were traced to an account in Aims and investigator's identity find Groulok as a suspect after contacting the involved bank. Saint Gabriel Police Chief Kevin Ambo said officers built a very strong case before seeking that warrant. Quote, we were able to gain evidence that he took part in the crime and how much he was going to get paid. I'm not making any mistake arresting Santa. We did our homework.

5:22 So Groulak has maintained his innocence. He told authorities he's never visited Louisiana, doesn't know anyone in the state. Court records have Wait a second, he's never visited Louisiana. Right now, children, if you are listening, that is a lie and this is not obviously the real Santa, because the real Santa has been to every state. There you go, all of them, all the states and around the world. Court records, however, showed the Louisiana warrant includes matching details, his full name, his address, his birth year, and his photograph. A Story County judge did confirm the identity match, and that cleared way for the extradition for seedings. And of course, if you're watching this on the Patreon, you can see the dude really looks like Santa Claus.

6:08 I mean, yeah, it's shocking the resemblance there. So well, listen, tuble. He's in a lot of trouble. And first of all, I was looking up I was very interested in in this u ib rbs that he's part of the Santa Claus thing. Did you know that there is a Santa Claus oath? Yes, if you're what is it? I don't know the oath. I didn't memorize it, but I looked up the same thing you did. Oh you did, I I did not know prior to today or yesterday. Rather, I shall be dedicated to hearing the secret dreams of both children and adults. I understand that the true and only gift I can give as Santa is myself. Blah blah blah blah blah. Well, Santa Claus can't be stealing stolen credit cards apparently so, But you know, teachers need to raise, and Santa Claus is acting like he hadn't make it enough doing what he does. It's supposed to be from your heart, Sanna, don't be stealing from people, right, frowned upon?

7:05 Yeah, crazy, twenty five thousand dollars nutting to sneeze at either, that's a lot of money. I wonder if this is someone that he knows or is related to or something like that. We'll see. I guess it'll come out. I was gonna wear my glasses goal, y'all, but I took them off because I don't. This is this is something that doesn't even need me to look that close. This is whild New Orleans. All. We're all familiar with New Orleans, right, high crime area, lots of fun and carnival, but also lots of problems there. And a nineteen year old man that is living there has racked up forty nine violations of his court ordered ankle monitor over an eighty three day period. So what's that like one every every day, every other day? I mean yeah, So he got forty nine violations over eighty three days before he was arrested following a swat standoff in the city's ninth ward Jamerian Banks was taken into custody after barricading himself inside of a home with at least one juvenile. The New Orleans Police were able to track him down using the signal from the electronic monitoring device during an investigation into a string of armed carjackings which were targeting ride share drivers. So, according to the police, Banks and these three other juveniles allegedly carried out multiple ride share related carjackings. The group would order a ride through these popular ride share apps, and then whenever the driver would pull up, they'd pull guns on them and then steal their car instead of getting in and taking a ride. So he's facing multiple counts of armed robbery, carjacking,

8:36 contributing to the delinquency of juveniles, and additional offenses tied to the standoff. Now this is the deal. He was originally arrested in December of twenty twenty five on charges related to illegal possession of stolen property. Then in February of twenty six, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Tracy Flemings de Villiers. I believe it's how you would say that, but this judge released him on an electronic monitoring device with the condition that he attends school. Well, the records that were obtained by this WWL Louisiana, they show that Banks violated the terms of his release forty nine times over the next eighty three days, and many of the violations were on consecutive days or multiple times in a single day. So the CEO of Assured Supervision Accountability Program, his name is Matt Dennis, that was the company that was supposed to be monitoring Banks, and he said that his firm reported all of these violations to the court and to the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office, But the DA's office has stated that they have no record of receiving any such notifications. So it's cases like this that are drawing sharp criticism from Louisiana's Attorney General, Liz Merle, And she said, this is a direct quote. It acutely illustrates the unnecessary and indefensible danger pose to law enforcement and the public by the failure to hold individuals accountable for violating the terms of release on an ankle monitor.

10:03 So during that Wednesday standoff, officers did recover a gun at the scene. A second juvenile get this wearing an ankle monitor as well. Was also taken into custody, and this incident has now renewed debate over the use and the enforcement of electronic monitoring in Orleans Parish, But the court officials have not commented publicly on this case. Yeah, so this is obviously not just a problem in Orleans Parish. It's a problem in the entire state of Louisian any probably a problem nationwide. A couple of couple of issues I have with this first, ankle monitors. The spirit of ankle monitors, I think has gotten so twisted since they've been introduced. Number One, ankle monitors, to me, should be something for someone that gets arrested for a drug charge, something like that. Non violate any non violent offense, put a on on an ankle monitor, and hey, you got to return to court. They're given these. In this case, this guy arm robbery, I mean arm robbery. They're freaking stealing cars from drivers of left and drivers of these ride share services. That is not ankle monitor worthy. In my view, I think that there's one way to fix us.

11:22 You pass a law that makes any type of ankle number one, any type of violation of an ankle monitor automatic ravocation of bond. And you're gonna sit in jail until your trial period, no exceptions. And if you are charged with a violent offense of any sort, you don't get the ankle monitor option. You just you either, I mean you. I know there's an argument there for everybody's entitled to a bond, and I get that. And yes, there are a small percentage of cases where somebody didn't actually do something and they get charged with it. I understand that. So I don't know what the answer is as far as the raison these violent offenders are still getting ankle monitors is because if they get a bond, at least you can track them with an ankle monitor, whereas if they get a bond and you don't track them, you know, it's actually worse. But I don't know, man, I don't think the whole ankle monitor thing is working anymore.

12:25 You've got problems not only from people just not following the restrictions that are placed on them with these ankle monitors, but you've also got problems with the companies actually monitoring the ankle monitors not doing what they're supposed to do. Yeah, So look, I don't know who's telling the truth. They're saying they sent it. The DA's office is saying they didn't get it. Maybe it's both. Okay, I'll give them both some grace there, But this is the thing, how in the hell are you going to take someone who at nineteen years old is already completely out of out of pocket doing things that I would never imagine doing at nineteen years old, thinks it's appropriate to pull weapons on people pull guns and is also fratnizing with other people who are on ankle monitors, which means they can't even pick the right friends to hang out with either.

13:14 This I think was bad judgment and we've got to go back to the drawing board with these ankle monitors, because it seems like they're just using it as a way to go find the like a dog with a with a you know, a what is it when you get micro chipped or something like, just so we can we can know where you are when we need to find you. More than I assume that an ankle monitor is going to be something that's supposed to inherently keep the person in line, right because we can check, we can check you, we can see what you're doing, so you should stay in line because of the ankle monitor. This guy doesn't care. This guy does not care. No, it's barn I mean, what more? Tell me? You know, what do you think is going on here? And when did the and I know I'm just kind of laboring the point here, but when did we think that someone who is peable of such violence deserves to be out running around because they have an ankle monitor that doesn't stop anything?

14:06 Well, I agree, and you know it's in this country that's the big issue is Look, everybody's titled to a bond and unfortunately except extreme cases, whether flight, rusk and things like that. But it sure creates a problem. I don't know what the answer is because I can see an ankle monitor being slapped on someone that Hey, they're bonding out anyway, so it's better to have an ankle monitor than nothing at all. But are they Because we don't know what the bond was said at, maybe he wouldn't have been out. We don't know if they could have afforded afford. Well, he would have had to bond out of jail once he was arrested and get an ankle monitor. If he could afford it.

14:47 He obviously could. He did. He got the ankle monitor after he was bonded out not before his arrest. He gets arrested, and then and then he bonds out and gets an ankle monitor penning court. I thought, it just says that the judge released him on electronic monitoring. So I don't know, you still have to bond out right now? Well, I mean he may not have paid a cash bond. I don't know how that worked, but I couldn't imagine the boy. Didn't you charged with arm robbery and you don't have a bond? I almost understood, Look, I don't have We obviously don't have all the information in front of us, but I almost understood this as because she felt like he was originally when he was a juvenile, because he's nineteen.

15:30 Now. I don't know when those first charges were. I don't know how. I don't know, so I can't even estimate on here. But but I mean, he could have sat his ass in jail until you know court date, and that I could have. But the problem is it's not that's not our system, and I think the system needs some some things need to be changed, because I mean, people get charge of murder, do you have a right to a bond? You did charge of a rate. I'm not I'm not saying no bond, but but we can revoke bond if we feel that the person is dangerous enough. Then he goes out and he's putting guns in heart Yeah, and he's putting guns in people's faces. So I think he qualifies as someone who you can just sit your ass right here. That would be that, And that would be my solution to that is I think that you need to take some serious steps when it comes to the first time you violate that ankle monitor in any way or the terms of your bond, you don't get a second chance.

16:26 Now you're in jail until your trial. Right, Because in twenty twenty five he was in possession of stolen property. That's not a violent crime. It's aggravating, but that's not violent. And so it was two months later that the judge released him with the electronic monitor. So maybe we need to back up what we're saying here. So it wasn't a violent crime that he was in for, but then he got out and then started doing or at least getting caught at that point for these very violent crimes. Yeah, so you know, I guess looking at it that way, Okay, I understand the judge says, you were in possession of just stolen property. That's why you're getting the monitor. But at this point, fafo, baby, you're too stupid to follow the rules while you're being monitored.

17:07 Good God, I hate to see what you're doing when you're not being monitored. Yeah, so let's go to Ohio and we're going to talk about Shrilla the Killer Slaill. That is Mackenzie Shirilla, who openly laughed and bragged about her dark prison nickname Schilla Thekilla. This was shortly after beginning a romantic relationship with another inmate at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. Now, of course, Mackenzie Shirilla right now huge documentary on Netflix discussing her case, which has raised a lot of interesting questions and people have differing opinions on maybe what caused that car wreck that killed two people two friends of hers, and nearly killed her. So Cheyenne Topping she is the girlfriend, apparently of Shirrilla the Killer, and she served time on drug charges. She dated her briefly while both of them were incarcerated. She's since been released. She said. The twenty one year old shared the moniker early in conversations that they have with each other, and was laughing as she told her fellow inmates had given her that nickname now her ex girlfriend said they started talking, Mackenzie told her she was Shila the Killer, saying that's what her bump makes call her, and Mackenzie would start to laugh as she told her that Shriilla, who was seventeen at the time of her crime, is currently serving two concurrent sentences of fifteen years to life after her twenty twenty three

18:40 conviction for intentionally crashing into a building at more than one hundred miles per hour and of course killing her boyfriend Dominique Russo and their friend mutual friend Davean Flanagan. Nineteen and twenty prosecutors described the crash as a deliberate murder suicide attempt stemming from relationships, and Topping described Shrilla as carrying herself with confidence in prison, almost arrogant demeanor behind bars, and she likened her to Regina George, who is a character forming girls, I've never seen minger, You. Never seen ming girls, Oh my god, you're missing out, and. She said that the killer showed little remorse during their time together. The revelations has surfaced amid renew public scrutiny following the release of the Netflix documentary I just mentioned called The Crash, and she's going to remain housed at the Ohio Reformatory for Women and will not be eligible for parole until twenty thirty seven.

19:43 I don't know what, Yeah, I don't know what more we expect from her. She makes poor decisions, she's killed two people, and now she's laughing about her nickname. Yeah, And it was it was interesting, you know, As I said, I did a full podcast on this, but it was interesting a lot of the things that she's doing in prison. She's coming out saying she wants Kim Kardashian to represent her in court. Hold your breath on that one. Yeah, although you never know with Kim, Kay she might, she might. She's come out in defense of a few people that raise an eyebrow to me. Yeah, but she couldn't pass the bar, so she can't defense. She can't since passed it. I don't know, but this is so tacky attack. He's probably not the right word, but this is very indicative of the mindset of a lot of people that go in and they're incarcerated. They feel like they're claim to fame as their crime and obviously they're doing a Netflix documentary on her, So she's feeling pretty pretty good about herself that she gets to be the focus of a Netflix documentary. Meanwhile, two boys are dead, two guys whatever, two men are dead and very selfish. It seems like an extremely selfish person behind all of that. So I actually have not watched the documentary. I need to go watch it. You told me too, So it's.

20:56 Pretty good maybe, I mean it's interesting. Yeah, sad story for obviously the families are the ones that were killed, but it's an interesting documentary. Make you think if you're a true crime person. And imagine if you were the family of those dead and you're getting to see her getting on her Netflix and run her mouth and people writing articles about it. Well, and they were on that documentary, all those families. Well I need to shut up then and I'll go watch it. Yeah, all right, let's go right here in our backyard. In Baton Rouge, a twenty six year old Baton Rouge man who was already free on bond in two pending cases, is now facing new felony charges after authority say that he tricked a woman that he already knew into coming to his mother's house, where he trapped her inside by locking the doors, repeatedly punched her in the face, and then sexually assaulted her. Devon Tyler was arrested and booked into the East batter Rouge Parish Prison on charges of second degree rape, false imprisonment, simple robbery, battery and theft. So the alleged assault happened at a residence that Tyler shares with his mother. Tyler contacted the victim and then claimed that he had some of her belongings, which prompted her to pick him up after work and then drive to the house. But once they got inside, Tyler allegedly locked the front door's dead bolt. Now here's the thing. Everyone's like, well, why don't you just unlock the door? She couldn't because this was a lock that only he possessed the key for. He then led her to his bedroom, where he locked that door as well, and when she refused his demand for sex, he forcibly removed her clothing, punched her multiple times in the face,

22:29 and then went on to rape her. He also took her cell phone and her car keys during the attack, so she's completely immobilized, you know, while all of this is happening. But Tyler briefly left the bedroom to get a towel after he noticed that her nose was bleeding. Well, the victim tried to run away but was unable to open the front door, so Tyler's mother, who was home while all of this was going on, She then tried to persuade her son to release the woman. At one point, Tyler allegedly grabbed the victim in a bear hug and tried to drag her back toward his bedroom. Well later, when his mother told him, look, police cars are passing by the house, Tyler unlocked the front door. The victim ran to her vehicle, but Tyler followed her outside and tried to enter the car, but he couldn't get in the car, so then he stood behind it to block her escape. I cannot tell you how quickly he would have become a speed bump if that would have been me in that car. But she was able to back up enough to drive away and immediately reported the incident to police. Now, Tyler had a criminal history that dated back more than a decade as a teenager, he was charged as an adult in connection with an armed robbery and a murder case in twenty fifteen. He has prior convictions for drug possession and illegal firearm possessions, and he was out on bond and at least two other cases, one from twenty twenty two and the other from twenty twenty five when this latest alleged assault occurred. So following his arrest, a judge placed a hold on Tyler to prevent his release from custody on the earlier bonds. That's good, and so he remains and is presumed innocent until he

24:00 has proven guilty. Yeah, I love how you included that last part. Yeah, it doesn't sound I don't think. I think it's gonna be a short stint before he's proven guilty. But a couple of problems with us. Number one, here we are again, this guy, arm robbery and murder charges, firearm possession. We got to start holding these violent offenders accountable. And you know, the federal system has really done a good job unlike the state mandated system when it comes to convictions. And I know in this case some of these charges are still pending, but the conviction thing is what gets me.

24:42 You get convicted of something in state court and the state charges. Maybe it's a murder charge and you sent it to thirty years, let's say, and you end up serving twelve and you end up getting out on parole. Okay, a case like this, if it's a federal case, you're going to serve. There is no parole. You serve eighty five percent of your sentence period and then if you're good the whole time up to eighty five percent, you can get released. I think they already look at doing that from a state level. Let's do away with parole altogether and say, hey, you're going to serve eighty five percent of your sentence. If you don't give us any problems, at the end of eighty five percent of your sentence, we'll let you out. And that's it. No more parole, no more. If you know chances to get out and redo this stuff and see how quick these kids tighten up, then, because this is ridiculous with the violent offenders getting slaps on the rest over and over and over again. Again, not a Louisiana only issue. I'm sure it's a national issue.

25:52 Her. You want to talk about out of control. You're at your house with your mother, You're willing to kidnap, Sorry about your mother with your mother that I bet she's afraid of him, I really do. I bet that she is afraid of him. But if I was this woman, okay, and this happened to me, and then I found out that he's already got a murder you know charge under his belt, arm robbery and all all of these things, my jaw would hit the floor. She could have lost her life. And I'm not trying to say, you know, I'm not I'm not pointing blame on anybody but him right now, but I am saying that I think you're right. We have got to go back to the drawing board here.

26:32 There is no reason that anybody should be out after these types of charges and and and and able to do these things over and over and over again. I understand they're pending charges, I get that, but still they're violent. They're violent. And in this case after case where these guys get convicted and they get released extremely hourly and they recommit again as recidivism, right is ridiculous on these crimes. And so you got to start holding these guys accountable. Man, you screw up like that, you go kill somebody or rape somebody you're going to serve the vast majority of your sentence, take the parole away.

27:17 Done like what I would do, like done. It's almost it makes me kind of equate to like the fact that we do suspensions, like at school, and the kids know that they get to go home for three days and that's their punishment. Yeah, like, oh wow, I don't have to sit in class for three days. You know, it doesn't work. We've got to do something that it's got to be. I know people don't like the word punitive, but it's got to be punitive in some way. They have got to realize or they've got to at least feel like the punishment is way worse than the crime that they have committed. If not, of course they're going to continue to commit well. And you would think that's what prison would do. But the mindset is all their friends are in prison, so they don't mind going to prison. Prison's a hangout for them.

27:59 You got to make it tougher on these guys and gals. And that's my opinion. The problem is we're looking at it from the standard of people who don't go to prison or jail, and we're thinking about how horrible it would be when you have people that are revolving door. You know they're in and out of a revolving door that sain't none but a thing. Three hots and a cot man and all my boys are in there, so you know they it's totally different. Mindset ridiculous. Let's go to Wisconsin and look, I'm gonna tell you a pretty wild story here. Seventy five year old man mind you, calmly warns his two longtime hunting companions, quote, I hope you'll excuse me if I have to kill you guys. And he was very polite. I mean that is a very polite. And that's a direct quote. Then he then pulled a handgun and opened fire and inside of a detached garage where the three of them were drinking whiskey and talking about deer hunting. Brent Hoffman gets charged with first degree homicide and attempted first degree homicide in the shooting that killed sixty seven year old Rick Roundie and a second man identify in court records only his victim number two.

29:03 He would escape unharmed after fleeing and later shooting Hoffman in self defense through a glass door, causing severe cuts to the suspect's face. According to the criminal complaint, the three men, who had known each other for more than a decade through neighboring hunting properties, were gathered in the garage with no prior arguments or issues with Hoffman. That according to Detective Rather Victim number two, but he did describe Hoffman as quote a bit weird and a quote hermit sort of dude, and he said that suddenly this guy just makes a pretty chilling remark talking about killing them, and begins shooting round. He was struck and died on the scene. Victim number two locked himself in the nearby building, armed himself with a twenty two caliber rifle, and called nine to one one while Hoffman starts pursuing him. Now, Hoffman was heavily intoxicated. He was taken into custody without further resistance, and he allegedly told the responding deputy quote, thank you, I love you, after asking why he had been shot. Hoffman pleaded not guilty to the charges during a court appearance in County Court, and he remains inside that county jail on a one million dollar cash bond.

30:23 Both charges carry enhanced penalties because of the victims These were all elderly people, y'all sixty seven seventy five. But because of that, it enhanced those charges. And obviously he's facing life in prison if convicted. And I mean, you know, whiskey large amounts. Seventy five year old man can't handle it. You know, I know we all act different whenever we're intoxicated. But like I get happy, I want to dance. I do not want to pull out a gun and shoot my friends. Well, and it's odd. Ends on what you're drinking. kJ I guess it drinking the whiskey. And you know the Indians called that fire water, that's who they called whiskey. Really yeah, and it made him mean if you have Adian blood in you, uh and you drink whiskey, you get mean.

31:16 As ship allegedly fact people. Look, my people are Irish and we like to we like to cheer and drink our beer. But yeah, I this is so odd. You know, it's not even like there was an argument leading up to it. It's not like there was a it's like three podenas sitting around. I mean, this is how I grew up. You know, people at the hunting camp drinking whiskey and and my Dad would always say, let's come over, drink some whisky. We put some dead ship on the pit, and we'll tell some lies. You know, it's supposed to be a good time. You kick back and you're eating, you're hanging out. What the hell man? Yeah, out of nowhere, years old, your whole life. And the picture the picture is injuries. I don't understand, did you. I mean you looked at it, but like it almost looks like a burn. Yeah, it doesn't look like last shadow. It looks like he's got a like a raccoon, but it's but it's like pink burns.

32:05 Yeah, it's pretty crazy and you'll see it if if you're watching the Patreon. But yeah, it almost look like a red mask on his face. Yeah, I guess that's where maybe he was treated for the glass prior to prior to cleaning it out or something, and calls these cuts. But okay, and then you plead not guilty. Okay, fam Like, what are posably gonna say? Oh, it's intoxicated. Well that's not an excuse. I mean, well, you're always gonna plead me you got nothing to lose when you played guilty and get life. Of course you're gonna plead not guilty. I know, but I'm just saying you're man own up to this. Come on, dude, you murdered somebody. Is Jim b made me do it? Yeah? What firewater?

32:46 Yeah? Every time? All right, let's go to Phoenix, Arizona, and this one is gonna give you a level of disc It should give you a level I guess of discomfort. That's out the box. So this thirty one year old guy has charged with four counts of sexual conduct with a dead body after authorities say he broke into the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner and had sexual contact with four corpses. Fenris Lou was arrested on Wednesday morning, May twenty first, after Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a reported burglary at the facility, which is in downtown Phoenix. This was about one thirty in the morning, and according to law enforcement, security footage captured Lou using a crowbar to gain entry. Once inside, and this is just this is so horrible. Once inside, he allegedly broke the seal on eleven body bags and had sexual contact with four of the bodies, all mail by the way before he was located during a search of the building and taken into custody on site. Lou faces one count of burglary, four counts of sexual conduct with a dead person, which, by the way, is just wild. We have that law like this has happened before. That's why we have the law of criminal damage, one kunt of escape, and one count of possession of burglary tools. His bond was set at five hundred thousand, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for May twenty ninth. Court records in the case have been sealed now. The Maricopa County and Medical Examiner's Office did confirm eleven bodies were tampered with during the incident.

34:17 Officials said the break in has disrupted ongoing autopsies and potential organ donations, forcing them to notify families of the deceased and review evidence. The spokesperson for the Sheriff's office said the investigations is still active and the authorities are working to determine how Lou access the secure facility and whether additional charges may be filed, and there's been no further details about Loo's background or a possible motive at this time. I mean, so obviously, so many things wrong with this story, but something that surprised me. You know, maybe I just am unaware of this, but I always have assumed that when you have bodies of loved ones at a facility, you would think someone would be there twenty four to seven.

35:03 In this case, the guy had to break in with a crowbar and get in there, which tells me it was closed quote unquote no one was there at the time, and that to me is disgusting because these things can happen. You would never think anybody would do anything as sick as this, But even I mean, who knows that should be like a place that it's a law that you have a guard there in twenty four to seven, I couldn't believe that someone wasn't there the whole time. But maybe that's more common than I think. Yeah, I don't. I mean, I don't know. I never guess I thought about that as a secure facility. I don't know how he got beyond the perimeter to be able to even get and he had to work at this, what.

35:45 Really, crowbarn? Just yeah, open the door. What really upsets me, though, even further about this is, now let's say that there were these bodies were in the midst of like a criminal investigation, that something happened to these people, that case is now completely and totally obliterated, right because any defense attorney would say, oh, no, my client didn't do that. You know, this is unconscionable. And then to know that God forbid your child or your dad or your you know, whoever is laying there, and that should be something of the utmost respect. And I know we know this, right, but to think that someone thought so little that they would break the body bag and then sexually assault a deceased body, this is this is disgusting on on so many levels. And then to say that it disrupted ongoing autopsies and potential organ donations too.

36:41 The organ donation I'm assuming here is probably gonna be like cadaver like they can take, you know, ligaments and things like that. Well, now if that's all contaminated, you've now taken away more people's ability to be life changing, you know, for the better. Yeah, like this is the This has a very large reaching effect. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And obviously it goes without saying I would say, this guy never, never, ever, ever needs to be walking amongst the free. Ever, No, people that do shit like that need to be locked up in jail for the rest of their lives or mental facility or something. Uh. Never again, does this guy need to be free? That needs to be a hard line in the sand. You do shit like that, you don't ever need to be a lot out of prison like you mental facility or whatever.

37:33 He legit was walking around and thought, you know what, I want to go have sex with dead bodies. Let me get my. Crowbuck that god disgusting. All right, let's go, let's lighten it up a little bit. We're going to take a ride on the True Crime time Machine. Let me do do Doo doo, and we're. Going to go to May twenty eighth of nineteen ninety eight. And I say, lightening up a little bit. This is kind of a sad story. But anything anything lightens up that yeah, story we just covered. So on the night of May twenty eighth, nineteen ninety eight, America woke up to the devastating news that beloved comedian and actor Phil Hartman, who was obviously very popular on Saturday Night Live. He was also the voice of Troy McClure and Lionel Hutts on The Simpsons. A lot of people don't remember that, but he was also a star of news radio. He had been murdered in his sleep by his own wife.

38:28 So just after three am, Brent Hartman, who was forty one, walked into the bedroom's couple the bedroom the bedroom of the couple's hillside home, and ensino and she shot her forty nine year old husband three times, once in the head, twice in the side while he slept. She then drove to the home of a friend, confessed what she had done, returned to the house, and there she shot herself with a single gunshot went into the head while still on the phone with nine to one one. The couple's two young daughters, shone and Virgin were asleep in the house. They were nine and six at the time, and thanked God they were unharmed now. Friends and family later described a marriage that had been increasingly volatile. Brenn was a formal model and aspiring actress. She had struggled for years, apparently with cocaine addiction and alcohol abuse and what a lot of people said were severe moodswain. She had been in and out of rehab and was taking the anydepressant Zoloft at the time of the tragedy. On the night of the killing, she reportedly used cocaine and alcohol before the fatal confrontation. Now, Phil Hartman, who had left SNL the year before to focus on his friends and family and voice work, was widely considered one of the kindness and most professional people in Hollywood. Colleagues remembered him as the steady, low drama of presence who could make anyone laugh.

39:55 And of course, this tragedy when it came out, it pretty much sent shockways through the entertainment world. Let distinctly remember Joe Rogan being very torn up about this. Of course, he was a co star on news radio with Phil Hartman. And today, twenty eight days later, Phil Hartman is still remembered, thankfully, not for how he died, but the laughter that he gave just millions of people. His children were raised by Hartman's brother and have largely stayed out of the spotlight. In the Encina home where the tragedy occurred was later sold and remains a quiet residential property. And before I get your comments, KJA, I would ask you my favorite Phil Hartman character of all time is one called Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. This was very popular on Saturday in the Live.

40:48 As a matter of fact, I'm gonna play clip real quick. One hundred thousand years ago, a caveman was out hunting on the frozen waists and he slipped and fell into a crevass. In nineteen eighty eight, he was discovered by some scientists and thought out. He then went to law school and became Unfrozen Caveman lawyer. Used to be a cave man, now hes a lawyer. Unfrozen Jane Man lawyer. Mister Key Rock, are you ready to give your summation?

41:32 It's just Key Rock, your honor, and yes I'm ready. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I'm just a cave man. I fell in some ice and later got thought out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me. Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW and run off into the hills. Sir whatever. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder did little demons get inside and type it?

42:13 I don't know, all right, kJ what's your favorite? So I actually I don't know that I can name like a direct favorite because I was actually really young. Whenever, what year was that? Again? That was SNL he was I don't know the exact year, but when he was killed, it was, oh, nineteen ninety eight, yeah. Ninety eight, So I mean I was born in eighty four, so I wasn't that old. So I can't tell you a specific favorite. You were like fourteen or fifteen? No, yeah, if you were born in eighty. Four, eighty four to ninety four, ten. Ninety eight will be fourteen. Oh shit, sorry, y'all. I don't do math, but I have a good personality anyway. Yeah, but I just remember being young watching it on Saturday Night Live.

43:01 And I do know this. I vividly remember my mom because I've always been a jokester. I love laughing, and Saturday Night Live was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid, and I do remember my mom breaking the news to me that Phil Hartman had been killed. I know that's weird, but I really I remember liking him a lot, and when my mom told me, I think that might have been one of my very first what is that very first people I remember being killed? Like as a kid. I remember that being one of That and Princess Diana were the two that actually stick out in my mind. And it's odd, but it's true. And that was a loss, you know, that was he seemed like a good guy wrapped up in a woman that he loved, but she had Hella problems.

43:42 She had obviously major issues. And uh yeah, everybody that ever knew Phil Hartman just said he was the greatest guy ever. Hilarious. I love how they say she was taking Zoloff. Okay, well, what about the cocaine and alcohol? Are we gonna just gonna we always blame in zoloff Man, I would argue that, you know, coke sometimes gets you a little ramped up too. Yeah, well, yeah, I guess they have found that they calls. A lot shows. Well I know, but I'm more inclined to think that cocaine and alcohol will get you wild and over the till offt But I could be wrong. Everyone can jump on me about that comment. Okay, We're gonna go to Sarah Soda Springs, Utah. And this is a mother's worst nightmare. Like I said earlier, but a forty six year old Sarah Tooga springs Man is facing felony charges after authority say that he picked up his two young sons for a scheduled visitation, failed to return them, and then fled across the US Mexico border in what investigators believe was a premeditated parental abduction. Dane Richmond is accused of abducting twenty two month old will Thomas Richmond and ten month old Wesley Dane Richmond on May sixteenth.

44:47 The boy's mother, who lives in Washington State, reported them missing after Richmond missed a court ordered custody exchange and scheduled deposition, and Amber alert was issued That was late on Saturday, May twenty third, and it expanded state wide by Sunday morning of the twenty fourth, and the warning was that the children were in quote an imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death. Police say cell phone data placed his black twenty twenty five Toyota Camery near the Mexican border. That was around four pm on the nineteenth, and the vehicle crossed into the Mexico or into Mexico later that day. They also had surveillance footage that showed the car being serviced in Carlsbad, California, just days earlier, so investigators say that Richmond had been planning the disappearance for days or weeks, and the reason they say this is because he abruptly quit his job on May eleventh, saying, look, I'm having troubles with this ongoing custody battle I'm in, and court documents noted that he was facing severe financial stress.

45:43 This included an upside down mortgage and recent home equity borrowing. He had sold all of his personal possessions, and he appeared to have abandoned his home, which was headed for foreclosure anyway. But the neighbors described him as someone who was comfortable living off the grid and said that he own in a satellite phone that he used. Richmond's boss told police he had been a very reliable employee, but became less reliable and more erratic in the months leading up to this incident, and the Amber Alert highlighted concerns that Richmond was seriously depressed. He is charged with two counts of custodial interference, which is third degree felonies. A warrant was issued Sunday night, and authorities are now working to distribute this alert throughout Mexico and if you're looking at our screen. We do have that amber alert up. Yeah, you to see them.

46:31 Very disturbing case and you know, obviously a very messy divorce, and it made me wonder, does this guy not even stop to think about what this does to his kids? No, not at all, taking them from you know, you are taking them from their mother, that's not a consideration. You get so emotionally wrapped up in these divorces. I've never been through a divorce, but it don't look like fun. And you steal your kids, You steal your kids, and you take them to Mexico. And this guy's still on the leasis of this recording with these children. Number one. I hope nothing happens to these children because obviously he's going out of his mind mentally to even do that.

47:18 But horrific story. He's on a clear spiral. I think that's the most terrifying part here. If he was just being a jerk and was like, ha, I'm taking the kids, I would almost feel better about it because he's just being a jerk. But this looks like a mental decline, a spiral. This looks like a man who's desperate. He has no money, he has no resources, and now he's got two kids to care for. Obviously those don't go hand in hand. My prayers are with the children, but the children's mother and I'm hoping and praying that they find these babies sooner than later and in whole condition, you know. Yeah. All right, So we've had some really heavy, heavy stories today, so I don't like to leave it with heavy star, So we're gonna lighten it up a little bit in here, and I'm going to take you to Scott's Bluff, Arizona, and I'm going to tell you about police because they received a call from reports of gunfire at a local convenience store. This was this past Saturday around noon. You might be saying, well, how does that lighten it up, Jim, You're about to talk about a shooter at a convenience store. Well, it was who the shooter turned out to be. The shooter turned out to be something far more unexpected.

48:31 It was a dog dog. Yes, so dog like dog. Officers from the Scott Bluff Police Department. They respond to what's known as the Shortstop gas station and convenience store after receiving a call about a possible shooting, and what they found was a pickup truck with a visible blast damage to one of its doors and a woman who had been struck in the arm by a shotgun pellet. So, according to investigators, the trucks owner pulled up to the store, stepped inside the store, and they had a loaded shotgun with a live round in the chamber inside the vehicle. They also had a dog in the back seat. We know what kind of dog, an Australian shepherd.

49:15 Ok. So, the Australian shepherd moved from one side of the back seat to the other and accidentally stepped on the trigger of the firearm. The firearm, obviously, the shotgun went off and the shot blasted through the passenger side door panel. Now, at that exact moment, a woman was stopped at a nearby traffic light with her arm resting outside her car window and a pellet, just one pellet from that shotgun shell struck her in the upper right arm. Her injury was not life threatening and a family member drove it to the hospital for treatment. Now, the incident, of course, remains under investigation, and police did note that it's illegal in Nebraska to transport a levy shotgun in the vehicle.

50:03 It's a violation that carries fines starting at just fifty dollars. It's a very small misdemeanor. Now, no charges have publicly been announced against the truck driver at this time or the dog. And I added that part that the unusual case has obviously caused a lot of attention online and chatter, many people calling it and I would have to agree with this the strangest accidental shooting on record. While the woman is expected to fully recover, it does kind of raise a question of having a loaded firearm in your vehicle unsecured even around man's best friend. But a dog.

50:45 For the first time I've ever covered a story of a dog actually shooting a gun. Look, you raise your dogs to be good pets, but you can't control what they do, Jim. Sometimes they just go out on their own. But look, if I was ever shot by do I'm not kidding you, I would not be upset. As long as I survived it, I would say, you know what, buddy. I'd be upset with the owner. I wouldn't be upset that. I would say, you're the goodest boy. You did not know. Can you imagine though, that what a what a great party trick like story to have in your back pocket whenever you're doing an icebreaker or something at work. Yeah, yeah, I got shot by a dog. Yeah, that's crazy to your dog and telling you know. He once was charged with attempted murder for shooting somebody.

51:29 I don't murder, but it'd be a negligent. Somebody else attempted murder. Well, not the not the person. What the person didn't shoot her? Well, no kidding, the dog did. I said, you introduced the dog and say the dog was attempted murder. I missed it, police mate. They call a shrill of the killer. I think Kelly's been drinking firewater. No, I just got the regular cocaine something. Don't start rubs. Uh No, that that that's uh, that's that's that's one for the books right there. I think that's that's pretty crazy. All right, speaking of cook gain, we're gonna do our segment of foolish felons, right, so foolish all right, and this is actually going to be in London, but it involves Kim Kardashian. So UK authorities have sentenced a Polish truck driver to more than thirteen years in prison after discovering nearly nine point three million dollars worth of Booger sugar hidden in a legitimate commercial shipment of Kim Kardashian's popular Skims shapewear and underwear line Jacob and I have to tell you to how he spells his name. Jk Ub Jacob Ja Cub Jan Conkle Jacob Jan Conkle forty was pulled over by border enforcement officials after his truck arrived by ferry from the Netherlands.

52:48 The truck was loaded with twenty eight pallets of authentic Skims clothing and underwear, but officers grew suspicious of the driver's behavior, and so they X rayed the vehicle, uncovering a specially adapted hidden compartment built right into the rear trailer, like into the doors. Inside, investigators found ninety tightly wrapped one kilo packages of cocaine. The UK National Crime Agency estimated the street value at approximately nine point three to nine point four million dollars. Conkle initially denied any knowledge of the drugs. Jim he didn't know, He had no idea he had almost ten million in cocaine in his truck, but he later played guilty to smuggling charges. Prosecutors said that he had stopped during his travel to collect the cocaine and was paid. How much do you think it's worth to I know you know the answer, But what do you think what would have cost you?

53:34 Jim? If you were going to transport ten million in cocaine? What do you think your payment should be? Uh, I don't know. Maybe ten thousand dollars. I'd be rolling percentage. I'd say, I want, you know, fifteen percent cut. I'm taking all the risk. Well, no, this cat was willing to do it for five thousand, two hundred and forty three dollars to be specific. Okay, for the transport and of the drugs. And but he got thirteen years and six months in prison. Brought five thousand dollars for a thirteen years not worth it now. NCA emphasized that neither Skims nor the legitimate clothing importer or exporter had any connection to the smuggling attempt, and the brand has publicly stated it had no knowledge whatsoever of the operation. Skims is a highly popular shapewear, lounge wear, and intimates brand co founded by Kim Kardashian in twenty nineteen and valued at five billion dollars.

54:25 Why are you reading that so weird. Because I feel like that's how they wrote it, like we don't care what it's worth. We want you to know that the butt of the shape was stuff with cocaine. Jactually I mean it. No, well that too. But if you're gonna first of all, if you're gonna hide the AAA, I guess Kim Kardashian branded spanks would be the place you will want to hide the freaking cocaine. But you know, you mentioned that company being worth five billion dollars and that's actually pretty freaking impressive man. And people can say what they want about Kim Kardashian, but that chick is all about the business. And it all started with a sex tape. They all started with a sex tape, and she has launched that into uh, fuck you money to say to say the least? Uh. And I'll tell you what, I don't know what to say about the story except for you're right, I mean ten thousand, five thousand dollars whatever he got paid to transport that now he may not have known, he knew, he may not.

55:22 Have known specialty compartment. And he took as question five. He made a stop and took five asked questions. He may have known it was something illegal, but didn't know it was cocaine. Man thought it was we If. I'm going to spend thirteen years in prison, I better damn sure get more than five grand. Yeah, I'm gonna be pissed. I agree one hundred percent with that. But you know he's going to want to spend his ass his time in prison because guess what, somebody's missing on nine point three million dollars worth of cocaine. Yep, and they gonna kill his ass if he ever gets out of prison. So he's probably like, please like me. Look, he might want to put on that about that. People don't think about that, but when they get busted into these runners like this, you owe someone nine point three million dollars, Yes, right, because your whole.

56:08 Job was not to get caught. Yeah, you're supposed to be smuggling it not. Look, he's going to need to put on some skims and change his appearance skims, you know, but look for for Kim's sake. I mean, any publicity is publicity, and so I'm sure she's like all over the master. She's a master of that. There's no doubt about six freaking six billion five billion dollars for that company, underwear company. I am in the wrong business. I'm in the wrong business, Channe. And that's legit there, that's a lot of money anyway, I hear you. All right, that's all we got for today on our on Crimewi Weekly. Uh, if you're a member of even one of our patreons, of course we're going to go right into overtime. Today we're going to be giving you another un utterly unrelated story that you'll find pretty interesting. Uh. We're going to tell you about a father who pulled a gun on a school bus driver.

57:02 A Georgia teacher accused of closet sacks now has new charges added, no surprise there, And a Michigan man who killed another over a Facebook marketplace argument has been arrested. Uh. And the argument itself is just mind blowing, at least to me. So if you're a member of those patreon sites, you can check us out on overtime. Otherwise, until next time, I'm Jim Chumman and I'm Kelly Jenny, and we're your host of Crime Weekly.