Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Lisa Banes' killer pleads guilty to all charges. Family fun center is plagued by crime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Questions are being raised about the impact of the new Netflix documentary, "Sins of Our Mother," on Lori Vallow's chances of a fair trial. Vallow's attorneys point to media coverage surrounding the case making it impossible for that to happen. To that point, Vallow's attorneys asked the judge to ban cameras from the courtroom, saying that the privilege had been abused by repeated "zooming in on V...

Maybe its time for this couple to pump the breaks on their relationship. How could this man stand, let alone drive? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Florida boy, JoJo Morales, 6, missing after being kidnapped by his religious fanatic dad. Police believe 45-year-old Jorge Morales planned his disappearance act for more than a year, before taking his autistic son. The senior Morales' mother, 68-year-old Lilliam Pena Morales, is also missing.  Mom Yanet Concepcion arrived at her ex-husband's home to pick up her son, finding it empty.  Last week, a...

Man shoots couple over puppy poop. This remorseful eluder is pretty cute! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A judge has been asked to set aside his ruling that an Iowa teen must pay restitution to her rapist's family after she stabbed him dead.  Pieper Lewis,15, was reportedly being sex trafficked when she killed Zachary Brooks. According to Lewis, her boyfriend pulled a knife on her and forced her to go to Zachary Brooks’ apartment in June 2020. Lewis claimed Brooks, 37, had raped her multiple times in...

A family meal turns into a brawl. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In April 2020, Katie and John Palmer, walking in their Denison, TX neighborhood are struck from behind by an F-250. The couple is knocked about 75 feet.  John Palmer, who suffers a broken back, crawls over to his wife, watching her take her last breath. The driver was later identified as Cory Foster, one of the Palmer's neighbors.  Foster tells cops that fog and sun glare prevent him from seeing t...

Toddler gets a hold of deadly weapon. This guy ruins his chances of a second date. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Amie Harwick, a sex therapist and former fiancé of actor Drew Carey, is found unresponsive under a balcony in her Hollywood Hills home on the morning of February 15th, 2020. She is rushed to the hospital, but unfortunately, passes away. The evidence at the crime scene and on Harwick’s body indicated signs of a struggle and her having been thrown from the balcony.   In this episode of Body Bags...

New details are coming out surrounding the death of Georgia mom Debbie Collier, who went missing after sending a bizarre text to her daughter.  Body cam footage of daughter Amanda Bearden's on-again/off-again boyfriend has been released after Bearden called the police. Andrew Giegerich was arrested for violating a no-contact order.  Giegerich also reportedly wrote a threatening handwritten message...

Electricity usage habits lead to double murder.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Dabate tells Connecticut State Police that a masked intruder broke into his home, shot his wife, Connie, and tied him to a chair. Investigators say however that data from the Fitbit tracker Connie was wearing contradicts those statements. Police put together a detailed digital timeline. Dabate told police his wife came home during the intrusion. He told her to run and said the intruder cha...

A 3-year-old Illinois boy is not expected to survive after being thrown off a Chicago pier into Lake Michigan. Police say the boy's aunt “stole the keys” to the family’s truck before sneaking “out of the residence without anyone knowing that she had left.”  Security footage captured the incident as Victoria Moreno, 34, pushed the child into the water and made no attempts to rescue him. Fire offici...

Dog attack leads to charges. Checker's employees so terrified cops get involved.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Georgia mom goes missing after sending a bizarre text to her daughter. Debbie Collier sends her daughter, Amanda Bearden, $2,385 using Venmo and included a message that read, “They are not going to let me go love you there is a key to the house in the blue flower pot by the door.”  After receiving the message, Collier’s daughter tried to call her mom but could not get through. Collier was found...

Homeowners attacked with their own weapon. Physical altercation turns bizarre.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The family of 21-year-old Allison Rice lays the college student to rest today. Rice was found shot dead in her car, just three miles from campus. The LSU student was stopped at a railroad crossing for a train when witnesses say the killer or killers walked up to Rice's car and started shooting. Police say she may have been in the middle of turning around when the shots were fired. Police also say...

Real life Big Bad Wolf attacks Grandma. Chick-fil-A really has the best service! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alleged kidnapping is even more sinister. This airport trouble maker sounds full of herself! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nicolas Cruz pleaded guilty to killing 17 people, including students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The penalty phase of the trial is underway with jurors being asked to decide whether Cruz should spend the rest of his life in prison or be sentenced to death. So far there have been 11 days of defense testimony, including the shooter's biological sister,...

A home intruder is finally caught. This isn't on my bucket list! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A jury find Missouri husband Beau Rothwell guilty of killing his pregnant wife missing. Jennifer Rothwell's  car is found abandoned just a mile from home. Beau Rothwell tells police he last saw Jennifer Rothwell, 28, that morning as she left for work.  Days later, Jennifer Rothwell's body is found in a wooded area along Highway 61 near Troy. An autopsy stated that she suffered blunt force trauma t...

First responders arrive at a “battle scene” in 77-year-old Barbara Steele's West Virginia home. Her body is beaten, eviscerated, and positioned on a makeshift altar by 28-year-old Joshua Drennen, who after leaving her residence, continues his string of assaults on unsuspecting civilians, until immobilized by a Charleston police officer.  In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott...

Jess Brooks calls 911 after finding her daughter lying face down in her bloody living room. Reagan Simmons Hancock, 21, and nearly 8 months pregnant with her second child, has a large slice across her stomach and the baby is gone.  On a nearby roadway, a Texas State Trooper pulls over a car for speeding, and inside he finds Taylor Parker giving CPR to a newborn. Parker tells the trooper that she g...