Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

A 51-year-old Tennessee man with an extensive rap sheet is being held without bond after allegedly shooting and killing Kentucky State Police Trooper Hayden Phillips during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 65. In Florida, a 29-year-old mother faces four felony child neglect charges after authorities discovered she allegedly left her four young children, including a two-month-old infant, alone...

Question are being raised about the owner of the Santa Monica sober living facility in which Presley Gerber died. Dr. Reza Nabavi's past personal drug history and his Resolutions Living facility are under scrutiny.   Presley died after checking himself in. Witnesses say he did not appear sober at the time.    Gerber died of a suspected overdose.   Joining Nancy Grace...

Lindsay Clancy's attorney makes a stunning argument in court. As Kevin Reddington argues for a judge to acquit the accused mom, he claims prosecutors failed to prove she killed her three children.  Reddington maintains Clancy has no memory of killing her children and the Commonwealth cannot prove she did. He says "This entire case is based on speculation."   Joining Nancy Grace toda...

A terrifying mid-air hijacking attempt was narrowly averted aboard a Flydubai flight after off-duty pilot passengers tackled a co-pilot who stabbed his colleague and sent the Boeing 737 into a 17,000-foot dive. In Massachusetts, a 29-year-old man faces kidnapping and human trafficking charges after allegedly locking a woman in an attic for six weeks and forcing her into sexual servitude. In Los An...

The Grand Jury report is Nolan Wells death has been released.  The jury released a  “no true bill” decision meaning there is insufficient evidence to prove probable cause for criminal charges in Nolan's death.      The report states that the position, condition, and location of Wells’ body are “consistent with drowning.” Both the state me...

Pima County investigators are probing a newly surfaced ransom note in the months-long disappearance of Today show host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy. In California, a New York Times executive was fatally shot in a Dublin parking lot, leading to the murder arrests of his elderly in-laws amid ongoing legal battles. Meanwhile in Mississippi, safety officials and lawmakers are pushing for a crackdo...

Caleb Flynn, an American Idol wanna be learns his fate today. He was arrested tried for allegedly murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn earlier this year. Prosecutors say he fatally shot her in their home, then staged the scene to look like a home invasion. His two children were home at the time.  Ashley Flynn, 37, was shot twice in the head.   Caleb called 911 claiming an intruder had b...

Former labor and delivery nurse Lindsay Clancy returns to court as prosecutors determine whether to retry her for the tragic strangling deaths of her three children following a deadlocked jury. Prosecutors in Tompkins County have reopened a 2024 Cornell University gang rape investigation following new allegations brought forward in a civil lawsuit. An Ohio man faces a nine-count federal indictment...

Two University of Mississippi students found dead in separate location, but both have kratom nearby.  Kratom is a tropical evergreen tree, native to Southeast Asia.  It's extract act as a psychoactive substanced. It's effects depending on the dose: at low doses it can act as a stimulant, and at higher doses it can act as a sedative.   As it it is not conclusion that kratom was...

911 received a call from Patrick "Ted" Barnett telling the dispatcher that his wife, Lindsey, "cut herself and her throat". First responders found Lindsey in the shower, dead, with a large laceration across the front of her neck and a serrated knife nearby. "Ted" claims his wife, Lindsey, had postpartum depression and killed herself. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the facts of the case...

Federal authorities, including the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI, have stepped in to review the controversial 2011 death of Ellen Greenberg. Federal agencies requested and subpoenaed documents and investigative records from the Philadelphia Police Department and other local entities.    Philadelphia's chief medical examiner reaffirmed the manner of death as suicide follow...

A Texas man faces capital murder charges after a five-year-old girl was killed in a roadway shooting in Harris County. A Northern Virginia real estate agent was shot to death inside her home, triggering a multi-state manhunt that ended with her husband's arrest in Pennsylvania. Officials in Oxford, Mississippi, are investigating after two Ole Miss students were found dead in separate incidents whe...

Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a second murder suspect and issued a warrant for a third in connection with the death of 29-year-old mother Tasia Fortune. In Washington state, a mother faces multiple manslaughter charges after her nonverbal, epileptic 8-year-old daughter was found dead in an overflowing bathtub. Meanwhile, DNA testing has confirmed human remains found in Caldwell Cou...

Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington is asking the trial judge to question holdout juror Michael Desronvi and review his phone records. Desronvil was the only juror who publicly stated that he “didn’t have any doubts” about Clancy’s criminal responsibility for her three children's deaths. With no unanimous verdict, a mistrial was declared following seven days of deliberation. &...

Hayden Panettiere's death has been ruled an accidental overdose involving fentanyl and several other drugs.   The Greenville County Coroner's office says Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effect of multiple drugs, fentanyl being number one in her system. Also found, Xanax and Seroquel.   According to this report from the coroner's office, Hayden Panettiere was found face do...

Convicted Delphi murderer Richard Allen is appealing his 130-year sentence, arguing that solitary confinement induced severe psychosis that led to false confessions. In Texas, prosecutors have dropped the death penalty against Lee Gilley, who is accused of killing his pregnant wife, in an effort to clear the path for his extradition from Italy. Meanwhile, the attorney for a Missouri woman charged...

Patrick Clancy speaks out about the loss of his children, describing how his 8-mon-old died in his arms. Clancy says he was thankful for the final four days in the hospital with Callan, but says the loss is something “from which there will never be closure.”   Patrick Clancy was the first witness called to testify in his ex-wife's trial. He recounted how he discovered his thr...

The family of Mississippi teenager Nolan Wells and attorney Ben Crump are demanding state officials continue investigating his mysterious death after a grand jury declined to issue indictments. In Ohio, American Idol alum Caleb Flynn broke down in court as prosecutors presented graphic crime scene photos and autopsy details in the murder trial of his slain wife. Meanwhile, controversial "looksmaxx...

It's the question on everyone's mind. How do you overdose in rehab?  Model Presley Gerber, son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber,  died Sunday at Resolutions Living, a Santa Monica treatment center. He was 27 years old.   Gerber died of a suspected overdose.   Joining Nancy Grace today: Philip Dubé - Former Court-Appointed Counsel, Los Angeles County Public De...

The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has spoken out following a deadlocked mistrial, asserting that physical evidence proves the Massachusetts mother knew exactly what she was doing when she strangled her three children. An 18-year-old freshman football player at UMass Dartmouth was fatally stabbed outside a Rhode Island restaurant following an altercation that originated at a...

The Grand Jury report is Nolan Wells death has been released.  The jury released a  “no true bill” decision meaning there is insufficient evidence to prove probable cause for criminal charges in Nolan's death.   Forty three witnesses were heard, 132 subpoenas issued, and extensive physical and digital evidence was reviewed.    The report states that the&nb...

In a poignant interview with 60 Minutes, Patrick Clancy reveals the heartbreaking final moments and last words he spoke to his eight-month-old son Callan after ex-wife Lindsay Clancy strangled their three young children. In Kissimmee, Florida, 68-year-old Marilyn Elise Therrell faces attempted murder and aggravated abuse charges after allegedly attempting to poison her two adult autistic sons befo...

Tonight, three women who crossed paths with the Horsch family, join our panel. Two went inside the home. One was a neighbor. Listen to their description of the inside of the home and the chemical smell that wafted throughout.  Eugene Horsch's arrest after a traffic stop leads to an extensive investigation into missing women.  When he was taken into custody, police found him with fake Dru...

Philadelphia police uncover over a million explicit files and five urns with cremated remains at the home of a father and son tied to an investigation into seven missing women. A Florida plastic surgeon representing himself in court faces the death penalty for allegedly murdering an opposing attorney and disposing of his body in an Everglades dumpster. Authorities in Indiana are searching for an a...

Jake Reiner speaks out, describing the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, as a "living nightmare.  His comments were published in an essay Substack. He writes that he still wakes up trying to convince himself his parents murder by his brother is not a dream. Nick Reiner killed his parents by slitting their throats as they slept. He's now facing murder charges.   Nick Rei...