Crime Fix with Angenette Levy

Alan Zhang is a children's services case worker in Kentucky who is facing criminal charges after the Gallatin County Sheriff said he saw that two little girls had been abused and sent them home where they harmed more. The mother of the girls, Phyllis Culp, and her boyfriend, Kyle Reynolds, also faces charges. Now there are questions about what Zhang's supervisors knew and when. Law&Crime's Ang...

Tennessee Murderer Christa Pike is alive and able to speak after her lawyers believed she would be taken off life support and pass away. Pike's lawyers said she regained consciousness on Tuesday and has swollen arms and hands. They also say she has pneumonia. Pike received the death penalty for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Pike's attorneys argued that all evidence of the botched execution s...

Christa Pike remains in critical condition in a Nashville hospital nearly a week after an attempt to execute her for the horrific 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer went wrong. The botched execution has led to calls for Pike's sentence to be commuted. But the man who oversaw the Slemmer homicide investigation says the real victim in the case is being forgotten: Colleen Slemmer. Law&Crime's Angenet...

Competency examination results for Christina Siders, the grandmother of 16 children found living in squalor in a home on Ohmer St. are in and now her lawyer wants an expert to examine her. Siders faces 19 counts of child endangering and has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Her lawyer say Siders may be at risk for dementia. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks at the request in this episode of Cr...

Leslie Wilson faces a felony murder charge in Alabama related to the death of her 12-year-old daughter, Mya Bell Christopher. Gadsden Police said the girl weighed 32 pounds when she died, had marks on her body and maggots in her diaper. Mya died in June. After a months-long investigation, Wilson has been charged with her daughter's murder. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the horrific c...

Christa Pike, 50, was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Tennessee on Tuesday, September 30, 2026, for the brutal 1995 of Colleen Slemmer, 19. But Pike did not die after being injected with two typically lethal doses of pentobarbital. Now questions are surfacing about what went wrong and how this could have happened after Pike's legal team raised concerns about her veins and other potential i...

Erica Grove, a military veteran and former nurse, has learned her fate in a case involving allegations of child rape. Grove pleaded not guilty to the charges and claimed texts about the sex acts involving the child were "a fantasy" to please her reality star ex-boyfriend, Tony McCollister. McCollister is now on trial for similar crimes. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy has the new details in this ep...

A married plastic surgeon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is facing serious legal trouble after being accused of using high-tech tools to spy on a former flame. Doctor Mark Blake was arrested by Glendale police following allegations that he placed an Apple AirTag in a co-worker's car and installed hidden cameras in a medical spa's locker room. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the disturbing de...

Ohio dog breeder Daniel Miller is facing a dozen misdemeanor charges — including animal cruelty, neglect, and bestiality — after authorities seized dozens of dogs from his Loudonville property. Bodycam footage shows investigators discovering dogs left in the sun with no water, and a deputy stating that Miller obstructed the investigation and hid dogs in the woods and weeds. Law&Crime's Angenet...

Elizabeth Siders, 34, appeared in court for an arraignment on 19 counts of child endangering involving allegations of neglect and abuse involving her own children. She also faces charges of sexual battery and unlawful sexual conduct with other victims who were in her care but are not her children. Siders is visibly pregnant with another child and pleaded not guilty to the charges and her attorney...

Gary Siders, Jr., 37, and his wife, Elizabeth Siders, 34, now face charges of sexual battery and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. The allegations do not involve one of their 16 children. However, court documents outline how Gary Jr. and Elizabeth were acting as parents to the alleged victim, standing "in loco parentis." Gary Jr. has pleaded not guilty to the charges and Elizabeth is due in co...

Hassan James Abbas pleaded no contest to several felony charges related to an incident involving his ex-girlfriend in December 2024. Abbas, a surgeon in Toledo, Ohio, held down the woman and forced abortion pills down her throat days after the woman told him she was pregnant. Now Abbas has been sentenced but there are questions about whether the woman was actually pregnant. Law&Crime's Angenet...

Sadie Baker, 37, faces a child endangering charge and a charge related to possession of drug paraphernalia related to an incident involving her 4-year-old son. A police officer in Terrace Park, Ohio, said she found Baker's son crying at their home and then discovered Baker overdosing on drugs in the kitchen. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy talks with Officer Maggie Quinlan about the disturbing case...

Gary Siders Sr., the grandfather of 16 children found in a home in Vinton County, Ohio, has been found incompetent to stand trial. An independent forensic reviewer determined that Gary Sr. could not be restored to competency. This development comes as four of Siders Sr.'s other family members face sex crimes charges. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks at the new developments in the cases in this...

Police in Hoover, Alabama, were called to an upscale apartment complex on Thursday, September 3, 2026, after a 70-year-old woman was found unresponsive in the swimming pool. Despite efforts to save 70-year-old Terry Walker-Zuniga, she died. Police arrested an acquaintance of Walker-Zuniga's, Anastasia Sudarsana. 30, and charged her with murder. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks at the questions...

Gary Siders Sr., 73, will return to a Vinton County courtroom this week as results of a mental competency evaluation will be discussed in his child endangering case. The hearing comes as Ohio's governor has announced a review of the Siders case to determine what went wrong in the system that allowed 16 children to be "hidden" for years. Meanwhile, Gary Sr.'s grandson, Josh Saunders, will return to...

When 23-year-old mother Emily Rogers vanished shortly after sending an ominous text message to a friend, police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, immediately began searching for answers. Bodycam footage captures detectives confronting her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Matzen, whose suspicious behavior, changing stories, and bizarre claims raise immediate red flags. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy breaks down the f...

Asad Zahir has resigned from his position as a police officer in Shively, Kentucky, after being charged with misdemeanors related to an allegation that he used the Flock Safety system to search for a woman's car. A citation claims Zahir searched for the woman's registration more than 2,000 times in 2026. The document says the woman was the mother of Zahir's child and that she had been granted a pr...

Paisley Brown, 3, died in February 2026 in Marion County, Florida. Prosecutors and detectives said The boyfriend of Paisley's mother, Jeroen Coombs, abused her and beat her to death. Paisley's mom, Jennifer Kendrick, is also charged in her death. Now, a woman who was caring for Paisley's relatives is charged with abusing one of them. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy has the details and talk with Pai...

Golf legend Tiger Woods entered into an agreement that with the State Attorney's Office in Martin County, Florida, that allowed him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor reckless driving charge rather than an OVI. Woods' Land Rover rolled over in March 2026 when he tried to avoid hitting a truck. At the time, deputies found two Vicodin pills in his pocket but the elected state attorney said Woods had a...

Allison Havemann-Niedrach is going to prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy who was a student at the school where she taught in New Jersey. Havemann-Niedrach pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual assault. The judge had once said Havemann-Niedrach was "obsessed" with the boy after she exchanged 25,000 sexually explicit text messages with him. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks at t...

Laura Owens, the woman who claimed she was pregnant with the twins of "The Bachelor" contestant Clayton Echard, has pleaded guilty to felony charges related to the case. Owens admitted to using another woman's ultrasound to try to convince Echard and another Arizona man, that she was carrying their twins. Owens had long maintained she was actually pregnant. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks a t...

Erica Grove, 43, is a decorated military veteran, a nurse and a mother. She spent the week on trial in Warren County, Ohio, for serious sex crimes involving sexual abuse of a young girl. Grove pleaded guilty to misdemeanors related to her having sex with dogs with her boyfriend, ex-reality tv star, Tony McCollister. Grove's attorney argued at her trial that tex messages discussing sex with the chi...

James Kenney, 75, was once a judge and is a licensed attorney. In early August 2026, the sheriff in Clermont County, Ohio, said Kenney met with an male inmate in the jail and smuggled in chewing tobacco and vape products. Sheriff Chris Stratton said Kenney later admitted he traded the contraband for sexual favors with the inmate. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks at the strange case and why the...

Gary Siders, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth, face 19 felony and misdemeanor counts of child endangering related to alleged abuse and neglect of their 16 children. However, years ago, children's services workers in neighboring Gallia County opened investigations into the the Siders went they had nine children in 2020 and 2021. New records detail what case workers found and how they tried to help the...