Crime Wire Weekly 6/27/25 | Texas Man’s Family Killing Spree, Liver King v/s Rogan, Sammy Kershaw Messed Up (Preview)

0:10 In Arkansas, a woman who disappeared over a year ago is found alive and subsequently arrested. In New York, two Good samaritans walk a woman home in the wee hours of the morning and then both get stabbed by the man who was following her. And in Texas, a high school student is charged with murder after he says he was defending himself. From a bully. These stories and more dominated the headlines this week, and we are discussing them today on Crime Wire Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings. And look, before we get into it, go Tigers CWS Champs the College World Series. And if you were in Louisiana this past week, you definitely had your eyes on that game.

1:03 That game was wild too, the coach being thrown out in what. The first, oh yeah out, all kinds of crazy stuff. And we told you about the Jello Shot Challenge last week, which, as I predicted, they did not break the record set in twenty twenty three, which was an unbelievable sixty eight thousand plus jello shots. However, they did win the annual crown this year. They consumed fifty two thousand three hundred and ninety jello shots, which if you're curious, at five dollars each, which I confirmed was the cost. This is a total cost of. Two hundred and sixty one thousand, nine hundred and fifty dollars jello in jello with a little bit of alcohol.

1:49 It is nice. Look, no one brings revenue to a city like LSH fans. I can promise you that. Look, Dallas loves us, Omaha loves us. My dad had a shirt he still wears it to this day, and I love it. It says that we're a drink in town with a football problem. That's always been my favorite because that's us. That's a great way to say that. It is absolutely true. So congratulations to LSU for that win, and congratulations to LSU fans for that win as well. They're probably still getting over it. Yes, indeed. All right, we're going to get to Arkansas for this first story. And an Arkansas woman who went missing a year ago recently turned up at a gas station. So police respond and then they promptly arrest her for an outstanding warrant. Tory Millsack, who is thirty five, walked into a gas station. This was about three pm last Thursday.

2:46 It was in Little Rock, Arkansas. She told the staff that she was a missing person. This prompted them to call law enforcement, which they did and an employee and the responding officer they said that mill Sack she appeared calm when they got there. According to the police report, Milsack told the officer she ran away from home a year ago, and she also made him aware she had a warrant out for her us. She was taken into custody and is currently being held at the Garland County Detention Center. Now, this outstanding warrant was a failure to appear, so she missed a coordinate And I have a little bit more on that for you in a second. Mill Sak's family members, who have been tirelessly searching for her, say they are relieved she's still alive, but shocked by her sudden reappearance. Shocked was the initial reaction because I had been told she might have been murdered multiple times, that from her brother Jason Hamil hope was lost. I mean, like everybody said, you hold on to that one percent she'd be found alive, and she's that one percent now.

3:57 In previous interviews, Hamill said his sister had for the most part, stopped communicating with her family in twenty twenty three. He said she was battling post traumatic stress disorder after a tragic event, and this led up to her disappearance in his mind. Milsak was reported missing on June sixth of twenty twenty four and was last seen in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Quote makes me. Very angry, not at Toy, but at some people. Now it's time to start the healing process and rebuild Tory's life. That from her brother. He said he had been haunted by his last conversation with his sister, which came amid a family crisis during which he and his father were faced with a tragic decision of taking another sibling off life support after a motorcycle accident. Quote Tory called, and she sounded like she was mad about something, and I told her I didn't have time to deal with her crap right now. She said, I'm sorry, I love you.

4:59 I'll call you in a week, and never heard from her. So that's hold of me for the last year, thinking that maybe if I took an extra five minutes, things could have been different. Hamill said his family has not yet had the chance to communicate with Millsack while she was in custody, but they're anxiously awaiting their first opportunity to speak with her in over a year. Quote. I'm nervous and I want to find out what happened which she held against her will. It's been a year. I want to see her, make sure she's okay. Millsack's next court appearance in Garland County. Is set for July. And I actually got really curious about what she was arrested for because I thought maybe that has something to do with her sudden disappearance. So I did pull up the probable cause report and it said on April eleventh of twenty twenty four, Officer Zach Huffman responded to Hillcrest Street in reference to a breaking and entering in Prior to the officer's arrival, the victim, Jamie Nash, advised our dispatch that an unknown subject was currently inside of her black twenty nineteen Ford Explorer. Upon the officer's arrival, contact was made with the vehicle and officers placed a white female under arrest, and she was sitting in the driver's seat of that vehicle. Millsack followed commands and was placed into custody without incident. Nash, who is the car's owner,

6:31 looked inside the vehicle and there were several items on the front driver and passenger side that did not belong to her. Upon collecting the items where Millsack had been observed, the officer located several credit cards and driver's license that all belonged to Millsack and displayed her name. A black container was located with several items Nash stated were containers of hers, but some of the items inside were not hers. Nash pointed out several of his items were scattered throughout the front seat and apparently looked like that vehicle had been ransacked. And so she likes to break in vehicles. You know, this is a situation. Her family, Her brother seems like he really loves her. He's and he's happy to finally see her reappear, if you will. But I don't know about the PTSD thing. It sounds to me like she may have been running because of that warrant.

7:25 I don't know. Something about this screams mental illness to me, maybe not PTSD related, But we don't know what type of lifestyle she lived either. But something about this is It doesn't seem like a woman on the run to me. It seems like a woman that's completely frazzled, disordered, not following any sort of you know, I'm trying to say, to go to a house and just open a car and go through it. I don't know what time of day it was either, that would matter to MENA. That's weird. And I'm analyzing this a lot. But with the brother dying, we don't know if that's related or not either. But I hope that they will look at her mental health for sure. She doesn't seem violent and like she's hurting other people either. I mean, breaking into someone's vehicle, rummaging through it's aggravating his hell.

8:07 Well, regarding time of day, was eight four seven, So it is eight forty seven in the. Morning, which is again a very bizarre time to be breaking in someone's car too. Most people would do it in the in the cloak of night. It yeah, me too, clearly when we go together. But yeah, this this is weird. And then to be gone for an entire year, how do you survive for a year. I wonder if she was reported missing, was she Oh, yeah, she was, so I wonder if they looked at her credit, but she was an adult or I know, but if she still reported missing and they take the report, I do wonder if they looked into that, because like a whole year. Think about that, a whole year and no contact with your family and they said she started no contact in twenty twenty three, correct the family, So that means that she was starting to decline even before she or she disappeared.

8:55 So I think that we got a mental health crisis on our hands with this girl. Most interesting thing to me about this whole thing is she disappeared in Hot Springs. She was found in Little Rock. They're less than an hour from each other. No, she's fifty four minutes according to what I looked up from where she disappeared to where she was found, So that was usually your found states over after years. Which also means there's more to this story, which also means when he says I'm not mad at her, I'm mad at some people. Well, okay, that tells me there's more to this and that somebody has been housing or allowing her to live off of whatever is going on. So you know, you know, I don't want to minimize it, but I'm glad she's alive. That's a great randomize it.

9:37 That's a great thing. And hopefully she can turn her life around and she still has time to get things going. Agree, all right, Hey, let's go to Texas real quick. Three people and two dogs are dead after a murder suicide in Texas over the weekend that left a law enforcement officer seriously injured. Leon County Sheriff Kevin Ellis identified the assailant as thirty eight year old James Scott Grigory and the victims as his mother and father. Grigory also shot deputy from the Leon County Sheriff's office before dying by suicide by turning the gun on himself. Deputies initially went out on a welfare check after receiving a call about a suicidal subject to alleged to have killed his parents in Normandy, a town with a population of less than five hundred located approximately one hundred and twenty miles east of Austin. When the deputies, who were joined by a trooper from the Department of Public Safety, attempted to make contact with someone inside the residence, Grigory allegedly opened fire.

10:28 According to Ellis, one deputy was struck in the face and the arm during the gunfire and had to be transported from the scene by helicopter to receive medical treatment. After that, law enforcements set up a perimeter around the residence, and soon a SWAT team arrived to take control of the scene. When the SWAT team entered the home, they found two dogs and a man later identified as Grigory's father, who had been shot dead. They also discovered Grigory dead from what appeared to be a self inflicted gunshot wound. While all of this was happening, deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office were performing a welfare check at the home of Grigory's mother. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the deputies arrived to the home and found Grigory's mother dead from an apparent gunshot wound. The Texas Rangers are now handling the investigation into the incident, and the deputy shot twice during the incident is in stable condition and awaiting surgery. Law enforcement has yet to release the names of the three victims.

11:22 Look I thought about the deputy who was shot in this situation. Of course, my hearts go out to everyone that was involved in this. But in the deputy's case, most deputies will tell you the most dangerous situations you can go on or domestics, and domestics can include parents and son, husband and wife, nuclear family, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, whatever. But in this situation, the heat is so high because the emotions are so high. In that type of situation with family involved, that would be cause I would not want to go on because you just never know who those can. Tell, especially when someone's suicidal. You know that it's already uh, you know, it's already amped up, it's ramped up. There's a lot of emotion involved.

12:09 Right in just a horrible situation. And Texas Rangers. Look, they're good and they're handling the investigation and they're going to get to the bottom of all of this. But I don't know what makes somebody kill their own parents and their dogs and shoot a deputy in the face and then kill themselves so they don't have to face responsibilities. I wonder if it was he was trying to do a suicide by cop and then he when he but you know, when he opened fire or something. But either way, God blessed those parents that suffered this. You know, that had to be traumatic before their passing, and then the people that love them now have to deal with losing a whole family. Right, That's that's heavy. Agreed. Let's go to Louisiana and look, have you heard of Sammy Kershaw?

12:53 I have for me. I love him. Back in the. Early nineties to really the mid to late night he was the bomb dot com in the country music world. I mean Sammy Kershaw. Everybody loves Sammy Kershaw. Well, he's in a little bit of trouble. Oh what Sammy do? Well, let me tell you what Sammy did. According to a news release, the former Louisiana lieutenant government candidate, which a lot of people don't remember, he ran for lieutenant governor of the state of Louisiana. He was on his way to a show. This was in Lafayette at the Lafayette Airport, and security stopped him and tsa flags his bag after finding a wayward firearm inside. The FBI gets called into the action. Kershaw offers an innocent explanation before the offense. He said, it was early. I was half awake, clearly not thinking straight. He said, I've sang a lot of songs about heartbreak and hard times. But forgetting to check my carry on for a loaded firearm, that's a new one.

13:56 Yeah, that was his exact words. Sammy Kershaw could have faced jail time and finds an excess of ten thousand dollars for that firearm that he said was a simple oversight. As it is now he must pay five thousand dollars. That's an automatic fine, and he's vowed to be more careful going forward. He said, I guess it's safe to say I won't be packing heat at my next show. He went on to say, let this be your friendly public service announcement. Check your bags, check them twice. Let's all stay safe out there. But Sammy Kershaw caught with a gun in his bag, and the police don't play when you're in an airport and you get caught with a loaded firearm in your bag.

14:42 But look, that happens a lot with travel and people forgetting just simply forgetting about a gun. Well, if you carry one consistently, if that's like your secondary thing, second nature thing, you carry a weapon with you all the time. I'm not saying that he was in anyway right, but I guess if it's just second nature to you. I could see how you might just inadvertently throw it in your bag, but not in an airport, like come on, sammy, you know, and it was loaded. It wasn't even like it was, you know, broken down or something or however. So yeah, that that was a big screw up there. We were going one time, we were flying to Vegas for a friend of ours wedding and I had another friend of mine with me and she was like sweating bullets while we were going through the check okay, at the at the at the airport, and I said, why are you so damn nervous? She said, oh my god, Oh my god, there's a thing in my bag. Oh my god. I said, what is in your bag? Because I automatically think drugs, you know, weapons, And she is the most Christian, like good girl, Okay, I mean when I tell you, tripping ball, she was tripping.

15:46 I said, what did you put in that in that luggage? Yes, yes, she had bought this thing and she put it in there. She goes, oh my god, if they find that magic rabbit, Oh my god, if they find that magic rabbit. Because everybody, you know, we're all going through together, and she's like I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. She bought it as a as a you know, we know what an interesting thing for her. You bought it an I go through adults do. Have magic rabbits. And with that right, well, I'll tell you, you know an interesting interview that I've always thought would be interesting with someone that did baggage check for like twenty years in an airport, wouldn't it be cool to sit down with them and just talk about the stuff that they have seen busted people with, et cetera over the years.

16:32 We need to do that work on that. We really do. We need to find Hey, do we have anybody listening that. Yeah, you don't even have to be local. If you're a baggage checked person from anywhere in the world, we can talk to you. And do it remotely. How can they contact Just. Send a message on on exposed or unspeakables. Yeah, get on there and send us a message. You were on Facebook and everything find us because I'm curious now my mind wants to know. Yeah, yeah, I'm curious too. That would be very very interesting. All right, let's go to Texas where we've got something going on here. The social media and fitness influencer known as the liver King was arrested in Austin, Texas. The liver King, whose name is Brian Johnson, was taken into custody on the evening of June twenty fourth, and is now being held on a potential charge of making terroristic threats.

17:23 The liver King was featured on Untold The liver King on Netflix. The liver King recently posted about Rogan talking about Joe Rogan. Okay, Joe Rogan, like supposed to the other famous Rogan. I'm an idiot, y'all Okay, he posted about Rogan. Joe Rogan, I'm calling you out. My name's liver King. Man de man. I'm picking a fight with you. I have no training in jiu jitsu. You're a black belt. You should dismantle me. But I'm picking augh fight with you. Your rules. I'll come to you whenever you're ready. End quote. It's not clear whether the Rogan comments have anything to do with the liver kings arrest, though. Well, and a couple of things here, and this is making big news, believe it or not, for several reasons.

18:05 But the first thing I'll say about this is Joe Rogan will beat that ass on the liver King. Uh, and are you familiar with who the liver King. Is at all? Really? I love Rogan, I don't know. Okay, while I'm living, while I'm telling you about the liver King, I want you to google liver king because it's very important that you see what the liver King looks like. Now, the liver King Kelly has made a living off of eating liver wrong liver only. He's only eat. Meat, kind of car for kind of guys ripped. Yeah, well, he claimed he made a claim that he never did steroids. Now he's he's fifty almost fifty something somewhere around there, claims he's never taken steroids.

18:50 Uh. Joe Rogan said, you know what everybody knew, which was that's bullshit. You're full of shit, you're the chemical kid. Well, this pissed him off and led to those comments. Is that really what terroristic threat? I don't know that the liver King would was really serious in that. But Brah, you can't be threatening people and posting it online. Don't. Technically that's that's a criminal charge. But I don't say that as a threat. Beat somebody's ass. Oh, it's a total threat. Yeah, I don't take it that way. I take this as a guy who's trying to get his fifteen minutes of fame. That's what I'm saying. I didn't think he intended to threat. I didn't think the intent to really beat his ass was there. But you flip that if Joe Rugan wasn't somebody that could take care of themselves, and you got to man that size, Yeah, telling you I'm gonna beat your ass. I'm gonna come to Austin and kick your ass. I mean, what are you gonna do all?

19:43 I be a little concerned about that. I don't know. I'm not saying I would, but. Well, he would beat my ass. Let's let's start there, Okay, he would be men, I'll come to you whenever you're ready. Like, I don't know, I get that they're gonna do it. He's gonna plead this down if it has anything to even do with that at all. And Joe Rogan, I'm on to watch it is Joe. Reagan would beat that breaks Yeah, anyway he beat him to a piece of river. Yeah, and terroristic threat. Seriously, we'll keep you posted. He's very ripped and very uh fake, which hey, you're fifty. Man, and it's okay if you want to do a little juice. He finally admitted it. Look, why don't you get some. He probably did what a lot of guys doing. And guys are gonna get mad at me for this, but he's gonna claim me as a low t.

20:29 Oh no, I T. I know, but that's still taking that's still going to affect your your body physique. Okay, so I know, but I'm just trt. Yeah, all right, So let's go to Washington, okay, and I'm gonna give you an update. Gosh, this story just infuriates me because we can't get resolution on it. We've covered this guy several times and I've got an update on the Matt Decker story. Still has not been caught, y'all. The Washington State father was wanted is wanted for the killings of his three daughters, but now police are saying he may no longer be alive in the remote wilderness, and I would probably venture he's not. Travis Decker, thirty two, as we told you, is accused of murdering his three daughters, Peyton, Evelyn, and Olivia. And the oldest of those three, Hall was nine that's how disgusting this asshole was. After their bodies were found near Decker's abandoned vehicle in a remote campground. Now, in a statement released Monday night, the Sheriff's office revealed that there is no certain evidence that Decker remains alive or even in that area, but insists authorities are continuing to search for him. Quote Seemingly strong early leads gave way to less convincing proofs over the last two weeks of searching. Still we can't and won't quit this search. Additionally,

22:01 authorities are set to deploy and this gives you a good idea of their mindset. A cadaver dog quote. In some search resources are being redirected to find and recovered Decker if he died in the rugged wilderness during this intense search, adding that it is a possibility that increases every day. So still looking for this guy, But when they start deploying that cadaverdogs, they're not real confident he's still alive. And luck you got you can only go three days without food. So look, I'm about to sound like an asshole, but I'll own it. I don't really care. I'm just appalled that someone could go through such a decline. And I'm saying that because I did look at photos of him past to future, and you can see the visual decline of this person taking better care of our military people when they come home. You don't think it has anything to do with that, No, not at all.

22:54 I don't think you think you like kids because you're not being taken care of. No, no, no, no, no no. I'm saying the mental health I don't after deployment. I don't. But who's insinuating he wasn't taken care of this dude. It's almost like you're giving him an out. No no, no, no, no, not at all. I'm just saying in general, if the men, if there was a decline mentally and this his wife or his ex wife went to the courts multiple times and said that it was alarming how bad he was declining, Yet nothing was ever done and he was still given access to his children. Like overall, I don't, I don't understand why more wasn't done. The children should have never been put in that position to begin with, like they were failed on.

23:34 So many agree with that. You don't think the mental health decline has to do with the with the military. I don't care. I don't think there's any excuse for what he did. Whether he was mentally declined because of the military. I think that there are hundreds of thousands of millions of guys that served in the military that don't kill their kids. Absolutely, but I children should have never. Been in mentally you know, they're scarred, but they don't kill their kids. Absolutely. I agree with your hundred but so no. I don't think it had anything to do with it. I just don't understand, like those children should have never been in his care. It was very clear the mother was speaking up saying that he was declining, yet he was homeless and still given access to these children, right.

24:15 I mean, it's a pointed that I agree, that's all that's hindsight, though Kelly his wife also said that he had never done anything that would indicate this. Ever. Yeah, so if he's never done anything to any indicate it, the police have no right to deny a dad access to his children. If you don't have a house or anywhere to take these children to properly eat and bathe and all that, you don't need to have access to the children. There's something wrong. But he wasn't taking them off. This was he had three hour visitations. We'll give it damn as a mother stand. Yeah, but you know, fathers have rights too. There's a lot of good fathers out there that do a lot of things. And I agree with you that this guy was a piece of ship. This is all hindsight. He showed none of this, The wife said he had none of this behavior.

25:04 When he first came back. Ever before this happened, he never touched a hair on his kid's heads. According to the mother, there was no sign. So you think he just flipped a switch and went from no problem to just major problem. Kill kids. I don't know what the fuck he did. I don't even want to. I'm not even trying to decipher his mind because I can't decipher it. It makes absolutely Z Ray sense. I know. I'm a sure is what I'm saying. So I don't give a shit if he's a live or dead is kind of where I'm at. I don't like this should have been avoided from the jump, like when he started showing this, these these symptoms of like giving up his life and not having a home and just roaming like that's a sign.

25:50 We're looking at this with the advantage of hindsight. Yeah, at the time, this guy did not seem like he would be someone that would ever be capable of doing. Something like that. Sadly, sometimes there's no way you could have stopped it. There's nothing that makes any sense. Sh It just happens. And I think this was one of those situations. Even they keep they keep harping to in the news about how he's got survival tactic training and all that, I know, but like, I don't think he's got something beyond you know, maybe when he's in his best closes. Well you know, yeah, and even even if you have you're an army ranger, okay, who are trained to live in the most horrible conditions for a long time, which he was not an army ranger. But even when you're that, I mean, there's a limit. Yeah, there, you're gonna run out of food. Eventually, you're gonna run.

26:41 You know. They just have to guess, meet their due diligence. You would see movement, you would see camps, you would see. But they have to do their due diligence and make sure that you know that the community is safe, excuse me, So they have to they have to keep looking until. They you know that's right, And and they to find bones or something if he's dead. I want them to find and know that this guy is nowhere near walking free. Yeah, and I'd be worried about that mom too, because you don't know as far as safety too. You don't know what his mindset, obviously true would be. Yeah, all right, Well, what if we take a little gander to Florida. How about that? Because Florida, Florida's handling business right now. A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar was executed Tuesday evening. Thomas Lee Goudinas, fifty one, was pronounced dead at six thirteen pm following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Stark, said Brian Griffin, a spokesman for Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. Hey, everyone, Crime Wire Weekly has moved to its own new channel.

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