Crime Alert 6AM 11.21.24 | Couple "Finishes Off" Landlord for Cash, Cars
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
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A Texas couple kills their landlord for his cash and cars. "Bear" destroys LA residents luxury cars.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, Breaking Crime News Now. Leo Moore and Haley Barber rent the extra room in Johnny Ross Jr's Texas condo. Days after they move in, neighbors realize they haven't seen Ross, and there's a horrible stench coming from inside. Cops find Ross's body wrapped in rugs and sheets stabbed dead. Moore and Barber, who stole his Mercedes, lead cops on a high-speed chase |
| 0:22.3 | that ends in their arrest. Nancy, after the couple's apprehension, Barber admits that they |
| 0:27.4 | wanted to kill Ross to rob him of his cars and money. Barber says Moore slipped something |
| 0:32.4 | in Ross's drink than stabbed Ross in the neck when he passed out in the living room. The couple |
| 0:37.3 | left the condo for the |
| 0:38.4 | night, but when they returned more than eight hours later, Ross was still alive. Barber asked Moore |
| 0:44.1 | to finish off Ross, so Moore stabbed him in the back several more times before the couple |
| 0:49.0 | wrapped him in the materials and left him to rot. Both, now charged with murder. Several L.A. residents living on the same |
| 0:56.5 | block file insurance claims after a bear damages their luxury cars. Four provide pictures of |
| 1:02.4 | torn up seats and doors along with pictures of what looks like a bear in the cars. But insurance |
| 1:07.3 | investigators uncover surveillance footage that tells a very different story. |
| 1:11.4 | The video is showing a person in a bear costume, getting in each car, while owners take photos. |
| 1:18.2 | Cops find the costume in one of the claimant's homes. |
| 1:21.6 | The four involved in the scheme charged with insurance fraud for the bear brain scheme. |
| 1:26.4 | More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:31.8 | Now with the latest crime injustice breaking news, crime online's John Limley. In New York |
| 1:36.5 | City, authorities have announced charges against 30 people tied to violent gang rivalries in |
| 1:42.5 | Upper Manhattan that have left four bystanders dead in the past 18 months. |
| 1:47.9 | Police say the violence stems from a cycle of retaliation |
| 1:51.3 | that began with a 2018 killing, |
| 1:53.9 | escalating into a wave of shootings, robberies, and other crimes |
| 1:57.6 | involving three rival groups known as the 208 block, six block, and |
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