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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 03.24.23

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Family's neighbor tries to assault little girl while she sleeps. A woman's father helps her murder newborn.

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, Breaking Crime News Now. A nine-year-old girl wakes up in the middle of the night to find a grown man in his underwear lying in bed beside her.

0:10.0

The girl runs to get her dad, dad chases the man from the apartment. Pennsylvania cops use the victim's description to identify the suspect, their neighbor, Patty Purcell.

0:21.0

Crime Alert is John Limley. Nancy, the father walked into his daughter's room to find the burglars sitting in her bed, wrapped in a blanket.

0:29.0

The father later described the man to cops as a white male with red hair weighing about 250 pounds and speaking with an Irish accent.

0:38.0

The girl told police she woke up because Purcell had touched her inappropriately.

0:43.0

In 1932, charged with burglary, trespass, and in decent assault of a child. Megan Stau, 25, has a healthy baby boy at her Iowan home but puts the knee-borne in a box for two days with no care.

0:56.0

Staued and her father Rodney Staued, then stuffed the baby in a trash bag, tossing that bag in a ditch.

1:03.0

Police received a tip about the murder from one of Megan Staued's co-workers who were concerned that Megan was back to work immediately after having the baby.

1:12.0

In a text message, one co-worker asked, was he alive when you left him? To which Staued replied, a little. The results of the baby's autopsy are still pending.

1:22.0

Both Megan and Rodney Staued now charged with murder. More crime and justice news after this.

1:30.0

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime on last John Limley.

1:34.0

A 17-year-old student was found dead in a wooded mountain area outside Denver late Wednesday.

1:40.0

After authorities say he wounded two administrators in a shooting at his Denver High School, with the latest year's Sydney Sumner with crime online.

1:49.0

The shooting occurred earlier Wednesday at East High School in Denver, not far from downtown, while two administrators searched Austin Lyle for weapons, a daily requirement because of the boy's behavioral issues.

1:59.0

Lyle fled after the shooting.

2:02.0

Park County Sheriff Tom McGross said the body was discovered Wednesday not far from the student's car in a remote mountain area about 50 miles southwest of Denver near the small town of Bailey in Park County.

2:13.0

The Park County Corners office confirmed in a Facebook post that the body was Lyle's. Cause of death was not released, pending the completion of a autopsy.

2:20.0

The parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan High School can face trial for involuntary manslaughter.

2:27.0

This, according to the State Appeals Court, in a groundbreaking case of criminal responsibility for the acts of a child.

2:34.0

The Appeals Court asserts that the murders would not have happened if the parents hadn't purchased a gun for Ethan Crumbly, or if they had taken him home from Oxford High School on the day of the shooting.

2:46.0

When staff became alarmed about his extreme drawings, James and Jennifer Crumbly are accused of failing to secure a gun and ignoring the mental health needs of their son before the shootings in November 2021.

2:59.0

Besides the deaths of four students, seven people were wounded. 16-year-old Crumbly has pleaded guilty to terrorism and murder and could be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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