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🗓️ 23 December 2024
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Lawyer claims he shot his disabled 20-year-old son in a terrible accident....then cleaned up the crime scene and cremated his body. Clothing store owner takes inspiration from shoplifter.
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0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Michael Howard leads |
0:34.5 | police to a burn pile on his hemp hill Texas property informing them he cremated his 20-year-old son with Down syndrome after shooting him in a, quote, horrible accident. He claims he mistook his son, Mark Howard, as a home intruder, and shot him, then used a backhoe to move his body to the burn pile two miles away. Michael Howard also |
0:57.6 | cleaned up the blood at the side of the shooting, then waited 17 hours to report his son's death. |
1:04.1 | Nancy, Sabine County Sheriff's Deputy J.P. McDonough says investigators found charred body parts and |
1:09.7 | bones in the burn pile. While Howard claims he cremated his son in accordance with what he felt Mark would have wanted, investigators took Howard's extreme lengths to clean the crime scene and dispose of Mark's body indicative of nefarious intent. Mark Howard was described as high functioning and worked regularly. Michael Howard 68, |
1:29.1 | charged with murder and tampering with evidence. Jared Engel, the owner of a Venice Beach |
1:34.3 | clothing store, Vardigan, is disgusted when he reviews surveillance footage and realizes a new |
1:39.9 | customer shoplifted. The suspect, a balding man with a mustache and a blue jacket, |
1:45.0 | clearly snatches a sweatshirt and a second item when he exits the store. Instead of reporting the |
1:50.6 | theft, Engle decides to take it as inspiration and creates a new clothing line, wanted, featuring |
1:57.7 | a caricature of the thief. While the thief has not yet been identified, |
2:03.1 | he's a suspect in several other Venice Beach robberies, |
2:06.2 | and LAPD is hunting him down. |
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