Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Nancy Ng's family pleads for answers after the 29-year-old teacher’s aide disappears while on a yoga retreat in Guatemala. After she disappeared, members of the group allegedly made plans to quickly depart the country, leaving her relatives seeking closure. Nancy Ng is last seen in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala on October 19, 2023. She disappears during a kayak excursion while on a week-lon...

Ryan Routh, the Florida man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election, is seeking to represent himself at trial. During a July 10 hearing, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — a Trump appointee — took up the request but has yet to issue a ruling. Prosecutors warn Routh intends to turn the proceedings “into a circus.” He was...

Conspiracy theories swarm social media with curiosity claiming Ava Grace Baldwin might have been found and no longer missing because she is making rounds on Tik Tok videos.  Some have even questioned is this the same Ava, Sean 'Diddy' Combs blasted out on social media he adopted.  Ava Grace Baldwin disappears from her elementary school when she was just six years old, Ava's father, David...

Just a day after an amber alert was issued for 7-year-old Jamal White, he has been successfully located.  Minnesota authorities have unveiled a disturbing revelation regarding the death of a teenage boy, just days following the arrest of his father on murder charges linked to the incident. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Iowa TV news anchor Jodi Huisentruit fails to show up for her morning show, coworkers know something is wrong. Huisentruit's red  Mazda Miata  is still in the parking lot, as well as other evidence that suggests a struggle had taken place near the car. Her personal items, a hairdryer, lipstick, and red high heel shoes, as well as a bent car key, were strewn about the area. Police re...

AEA: Autoerotic Asphyxia - David Carradine gained fame on TV in the early 70s as Kung Fu. Michael Hutchence was the frontman for hitmaking rock group INXS. Both men died doing the same thing: Autoerotic Asphyxia. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss AEA as well as other public deaths by Asphyxia including the hanging of Jeffrey Epstein, suicide of Robin Williams, and a story about the death o...

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In 1960, Lady Bird Lake was built by the city of Austin. The river-like reservoir was created as a cooling pond for Austin's then-new city power plant. The 416-acre lake is now primarily used for recreation, but many in the area are now concerned is it the hunting ground for a killer. There have been multiple deaths reported since 2022.  The total now up to 38 deaths.   Even though...

The lead up to James Craig’s trial has been bizarre.....two postponements, three different attorney teams, five added charges and a crazy action from an attorney, who allegedly set his own house on fire. Still, the Aurora dentist’s trial finally got underway yesterday.  Craig faces six  felony counts:  Murder in the first degree  Two counts of solicitation to c...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs, disgraced music mogul, begins a new fight for a lighter sentence. It remains unclear when the rapper will learn his punishment. Currently, Combs is preparing for his sentencing, which is scheduled for  October 3, 2025 . Combs was sent back to jail to await sentencing after a dramatic verdict day that saw him cleared of the most serious charges he faced—a partial vict...

An Arizona man faces multiple charges after his girlfriend told police she had escaped from a shed where he’d held her while assaulting her for several days. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After Sherri Papini, a young mom and wife, pleads guilty to making false statements and one count of mail fraud in connection with lying about being kidnapped in 2016, she recently came forward to switch her story once again denying she was ever held captive Sherri Papini went to jail after admitting her alleged 2016 kidnapping was a hoax, but after her release, she’s giving a different expl...

From scoring perfect 10's and public adoration at the 1984 Olympics to public shock! Gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton's DUI arrest...is caught on camera & her behavior towards the cops is far from gold.  A husband poisons his Dementia-stricken wife's drink, then smothers her in a grisly murder -- her blue tongue gave it away. Plus, some real-life heroes rescue a pair of toddlers in a hot c...

Sean 'Diddy" Combs' legal team drops push for expedited sentencing. Defense attorneys sought to expedite Combs' sentencing after his verdict last week, but indicated they conferred with federal prosecutors and agree on the original date proposed last week by Judge Subramanian. The decision was made yesterday, Tuesday (July 8) during a virtual quick hearing that was scheduled after Combs’ leg...

Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced on October 3 in New York after a federal jury found him guilty on two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution. As new civil suits are piling up, Diddy's male escorts are spilling the tea. Brian Kohberger's signed guilty plea is now public. A California man is behind bars after police say he tried to slip back into the country ju...

A Colorado husband and father arrested again in connection with the murder of his wife years after previous charges were dropped, a grand jury indicts Barry Morphew on first-degree murder. In 2021, Morphew was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence after his wife, Suzanne, went missing on Mother's Day in 2020, but those charges were later dropped before his trial dat...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ next court appearance will be virtual hearing and take place later today.  This procedural session is slated to begin at 2 p.m. Eastern and will determine whether Combs’ sentencing—currently scheduled for October 3rd—can be expedited. A gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire Monday morning at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAl...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs, disgraced rap mogul, is denied bail after being acquitted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, the most serious charges against him that could have landed him life in prison, and found guilty only of transportation to engage in prostitution.  Judge Arun Subramanian set a tentative sentencing date of Oct. 3 but is considering the defense’s request for it to be...

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Recording artist R. Kelly is serving a 30-year sentence for his racketeering and sex trafficking conviction. In the last days, the Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on claims that prosecutors “stretched” the law in the convictions against him. The justices denied an appeal last month.  Now, Kelly wants to be released to home detention, claiming that federal authorities...

Anjette and Ben Lyles are a young married couple with two children. Ben is a WW2 veteran and together he and Anjette work in his family restaurant in Macon, Georgia.  When Ben sells the restaurant for below market value to settle a gambling debt, Anjette is furious.  A few months after selling the restaurant, Ben gets very sick, very fast, and dies without doctors figuring out what kille...

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: Barry Morphew makes his first court appearance with new charges. n Man confesses to killing child molestor California campaign aims to keep bar patrons safe from being roofied.    Stay infor...

In less than seven hours of deliberations, twelve Idaho jurors found Lori Vallow guilty of killing her two children and her current husband’s then-wife.    Vallow then faced charges of conspiring to kill Brandon Boudreaux, her niece's ex-husband.  It took a jury less then 30 minutes to convict her in that trial. It was Vallow's third criminal trial in less than three years.&nb...

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted for her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with financier Jeffrey Epstein.  Specifically the charges were conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and s...

Bryan Kohberger, in court this week, admits he killed four University of Idaho students: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Kohberger agreed to a plea deal when the death penalty was taken off the sentencing table. Family members of the victims were divided about the plea, some saying justice for their loved one was denied. During a court hearing, we learned that Bry...