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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Recent Alabama High School Grads Bludgeons Grandmother to Death | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 08.08.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Breaking crime news as it happens throughout the day! Follow "Crime Alert Hourly Update" now on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/Crime_Alert

Here's some of our top stories this week:

Alabama teen beat grandmother to death with mallet. 

Four Pepperdine students killed by speeder. Suspect charged with murder. 

A 10-year-old Arizona girl dead,  after what doctors described as torture.  Her father and his girlfriend  charged with her murder after repeated reports to DCF. 

Stay informed, stay safe, and stay ahead with "Crime Alert Hourly Update.” 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News Now. I'm Jackie Howard, an 18-year-old Alabama woman

0:07.2

arrested for allegedly killing her grandmother. Police first arrive at 70-year-old Diane

0:12.9

Treesd Mobile home for a medical emergency. She was found unresponsive in her front yard with

0:19.8

head trauma.

0:24.4

A mallet lies near the victim who is pronounced dead.

0:32.8

As detectives interview witnesses, two people report being flagged down by a woman who says Jalen Lupin beat her grandmother to death.

0:39.1

Police locate a neighbor who beat off the teen herself with a mop after a frantic home invasion attempt. As the 18-year-old tries to push her way into Cheryl Edwards' home, she admits

0:44.8

the unthinkable. She had just killed her grandmother. Police say the teen tried to swipe the neighbor's

0:50.8

car keys for a quick getaway. The terrifying moments caught on home surveillance video.

0:56.5

Cheryl Edwards says she's been friends with Diane Treesed and next-door neighbor for almost 10 years.

1:02.4

Edwards says she often saw Trees with cuts and bruises, for which she blamed her dogs.

1:08.7

Jalen Lupin now charged with murder and second-degree burglary. She had just

1:13.3

graduated high school a few months ago. More crime and justice news after this. I'm Jennifer Gould. A high-speed

1:26.3

horror on Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway in Southern California

1:30.3

left four Pepperdine University sorority sisters dead. And now Frazier Michael Bome, the 23-year-old

1:38.3

Sion of a wealthy family, is fighting for his freedom with a top-tier defense attorney Alan Jackson by his side.

1:46.7

Boom, who allegedly plowed his BMW into the co-eds at a staggering 104 miles per hour,

1:54.3

has hired the same high-profile lawyer who just defended Karen Reed in her blockbuster murder case.

2:01.8

Charged with four counts of murder and vehicular manslaughter,

2:05.6

Bohm appeared in a Van Nuys courtroom pleading not guilty to the October 17th,

2:10.8

2023 tragedy that shocked the coastal enclave.

2:14.9

Your Honor, before the entry of a not guilty plea, which is what we expect,

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