Couple Toasting Engagement Chased Down, Murdered, PERP TO WALK FREE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In May 1983, Stephen Hynes and fiancee', Catherine Moore, are toasting their engagement with champagne and a cookout on the patio of her apartment. The couple is ambushed by Henry Albert Hamilton and Michael Fortson. Both men are armed with pistols and came through bushes onto the patio, something they had been doing often. In fact, the men had ambushed and robbed three others that night alone. As the men try to force the couple inside, Hynes and Moore run away, but the couple trip. Moore gets up and keeps running but looks back and sees Fortson shoot her fiancee'. Moore runs to a neighbor's apartment and calls police.   Hynes, who is shot twice, dies before police arrive. Now, will these perpetrators get parole?
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Catherine Moore - victim, former teacher
- David Hynes - victim's brother
- Renee Rockwell - Criminal Defense Attorney, Facebook: "Renee.Rockwell"
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, www.drbethanymarshall.com, Netflix show: 'Bling Empire'
- Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"
- Daniel Horowitz - Trial Lawyer, Legal Commentator, LawyersInLafayette.com
- Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, Lead Stories dot Com, Twitter: @swimmie2009Â
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to imagine when you take your family outside to grill out. |
| 0:19.3 | Maybe steaks, maybe hamburgers, a really festive occasion, you're celebrating something. |
| 0:26.6 | Maybe your recent engagement, you've got your family out there on a beautiful, cool evening. |
| 0:38.2 | And suddenly out of nowhere, your husband, your boyfriend, your brother grabs your arm and |
| 0:47.4 | looks over and you look over too. And you see a quote, long, shiny, black gun pointing at you |
| 1:01.8 | and your family out of nowhere. Then you run, you run to save your life and you hear gun shots. |
| 1:16.9 | Bringing out behind you and then you find out that everything you long is dead. |
| 1:29.0 | Just hold that thought. I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox |
| 1:40.2 | Nation and Sirius XM 111. I'm telling you a story, a true story. A story I note intimately. |
| 1:50.3 | It's a story of a gorgeous young guy, Stephen Hines, and a beautiful young woman, his fiance, |
| 2:03.0 | Catherine Moore. It's a story of Stephen Hines's family. You have joined together to stop the parole |
| 2:19.3 | of the killers that gun down Stephen Hines in the prime of his life. And we, I, here at Crime Stories, |
| 2:33.2 | we are all joining the fight. Why? Not just because of Stephen's murder of Catherine's |
| 2:47.2 | fear, but because the two perps that murdered Stephen had just gotten out of jail on Guess What? |
| 2:59.5 | Parole. They served a very, very brief portion of a long sentence, a hard thought case for multiple |
| 3:12.1 | armed with weapons, robberies, a string terrorizing the city of Atlanta. They go to jail and then they get out. |
| 3:25.0 | And what do they do as soon as they get out? Get a gun, two of them and shoot down Stephen Hines. |
| 3:36.8 | What do you think they're going to do when pardoning parole? Let's them walk free. What? Go work at |
| 3:45.6 | Walmart? Go go to Costco as a greeter? Oh hell no. They're going to get out and get a gun. |
| 3:54.0 | Please help us stop this parole. With me, not only an all-star panel to dissect what we know now and how we can stop this thing, |
| 4:09.7 | but with me is a very special guest, Catherine Moore. The fiancee I told you about. Also with me, David Hines, |
| 4:23.0 | this is Stephen's brother who has never stopped fighting for justice. With me, Renee Rockwell, |
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