1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,720
Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime News. Now. A

2
00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,800
Speaker 1: group of Colorado teams playing around while they wait for

3
00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,000
Speaker 1: their food at an in and out. One of the

4
00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,440
Speaker 1: teams is splashing his friends with water. He accidentally gets

5
00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,120
Speaker 1: a few drops on a woman eating with her husband.

6
00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:22,560
Speaker 1: The boy starts to apologize when husband, Lucas Callisher, grabs

7
00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,880
Speaker 1: the team by the neck, slams his head on the table,

8
00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,120
Speaker 1: and throws the team backwards onto the floor.

9
00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,680
Speaker 2: Nancy If the teen victim initially did not want to

10
00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,080
Speaker 2: involve law enforcement, but his friends convinced him to call police.

11
00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,200
Speaker 2: After listening to witness statements. In reviewing video, cops decided

12
00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,440
Speaker 2: to charge Callisher, and Callisher turns himself in just before

13
00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,440
Speaker 2: ten thirty pm. Callisher has now been arranged on his

14
00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,800
Speaker 2: charges and reportedly posted a bond.

15
00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:53,280
Speaker 1: Lucas Kllisher, fifty five, now charged with strangulation and child abuse.

16
00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,080
Speaker 1: Robert Suggs thirty four, on the way to a Florida

17
00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,280
Speaker 1: public Defender's office to talk about us fell on the

18
00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,160
Speaker 1: animal cruelty charge, but he doesn't get past security. As

19
00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:09,200
Speaker 1: his backpack goes through the X ray, security guards notice

20
00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:14,000
Speaker 1: a gun the Pistols reported stolen and fully loaded. Sugg

21
00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,240
Speaker 1: claims the backpack belongs to a friend and he didn't

22
00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,480
Speaker 1: know there was a gun inside. Okay. During a pat down,

23
00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,840
Speaker 1: cops also discover a meth pipe in his pocket. Suggs

24
00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,240
Speaker 1: didn't know he had a meth pipe either. Robert Suggs

25
00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,920
Speaker 1: now charged with possession of, theft of, and concealing a

26
00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,400
Speaker 1: gun and drugs. Wow, you think the public defender is

27
00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,840
Speaker 1: going to take that case? Wore Crime and Justice News

28
00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:47,200
Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,

29
00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:48,760
Speaker 1: crime allnes to John Lemley.

30
00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,400
Speaker 3: In Lacrosse County, Wisconsin, a man has been convicted for

31
00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,880
Speaker 3: the brutal twenty twenty one shootings that left three men

32
00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,480
Speaker 3: dead near a local quarry. We turned to Sydney Sumner

33
00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,080
Speaker 3: of Crime Online for more.

34
00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,520
Speaker 2: Thirty seven year old Nia Tao of Analasco, Wisconsin, was

35
00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,920
Speaker 2: found guilty of three counts of first degree intentional homicide

36
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,079
Speaker 2: in one count of being a felon in possession of

37
00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,720
Speaker 2: a firearm. The verdict, delivered by a Lacrosse County jury

38
00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,519
Speaker 2: follows Tao's second trial. The first ended in a hung

39
00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,880
Speaker 2: jury last year. Tao, along with co defendant, com to

40
00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,040
Speaker 2: methra Tanasak was charged in connection with the deaths of

41
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,320
Speaker 2: Ping Lore and Nemo Yang, both twenty four and twenty

42
00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,080
Speaker 2: three year old Trevor Maloney. The three men were found

43
00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,920
Speaker 2: shot to death outside the entrance of a quarry approximately

44
00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,200
Speaker 2: fourteen miles northwest of Lacrosse, near the Minnesota border. According

45
00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,680
Speaker 2: to prosecutors, the violence was sparked by Ratannasac's belief that

46
00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,399
Speaker 2: one of the victims had stolen six hundred dollars from him.

47
00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,440
Speaker 2: A witness who was with the victims recounted to police

48
00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,400
Speaker 2: that Ratannasac ordered the men to their knees and handed

49
00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,280
Speaker 2: the gun to Tao, who then shot them multiple times.

50
00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,800
Speaker 2: Ratannasac pleaded guilty last October to one count of first

51
00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,520
Speaker 2: degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime, and

52
00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,560
Speaker 2: was sentenced to life in prison. In January, the Cross

53
00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,280
Speaker 2: County Sheriff John Siegel responded to the verdict, saying Tuesday's

54
00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,480
Speaker 2: decision brings closure to a horrific crime that impacted not

55
00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,520
Speaker 2: just the victims and their families, but our entire community.

56
00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,960
Speaker 3: Sentencing for Tao is set for October fourteenth. A federal

57
00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,360
Speaker 3: judge has ordered Louisiana State Penitentiary to take immediate action

58
00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,680
Speaker 3: to protect inmates working in the prison's agricultural fields from

59
00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,440
Speaker 3: extreme heat once again crime Online. Sydney Sumner, US District.

60
00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,519
Speaker 2: Judge Brian Jackson's ruling builds on a previous order issued

61
00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,920
Speaker 2: in July mandating enhanced measures to shield prisoners from the

62
00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,240
Speaker 2: dangerous conditions they face while labouring in the intense sun.

63
00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,680
Speaker 2: The order comes after alarming evidence was presented in court,

64
00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,760
Speaker 2: including photographs depicting inmates in the fields of Angola Prison Wants,

65
00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,240
Speaker 2: a notorious slave plantation, where they had minimal protection from

66
00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,680
Speaker 2: the sun. The images, provided by the advocacy group Voice

67
00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,040
Speaker 2: of the Experience show approximately twenty men huddled under a

68
00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,720
Speaker 2: single pop up tent with no seating available in limited shade.

69
00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,160
Speaker 2: Judge Jackson's latest directive highlights the dire situation, citing fifty

70
00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,240
Speaker 2: reported instances of heat related illnesses among inmates between July

71
00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,560
Speaker 2: second and August fifth, with seven cases severe enough to

72
00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,200
Speaker 2: require emergency medical attention. In response, Jackson ordered the installation

73
00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,280
Speaker 2: of additional tents near work areas, the provision of seating,

74
00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,640
Speaker 2: and mandated fifteen minute breaks every forty five minutes during

75
00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,760
Speaker 2: heat alerts. State Corrections officials have already appealed Jackson's initial

76
00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,800
Speaker 2: July ruling. The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals has

77
00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,719
Speaker 2: since modified parts of the original decision, but upheld key provisions.

78
00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,200
Speaker 2: This legal battle over the conditions on Angola's farm line

79
00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,119
Speaker 2: underscores a broader national conversation about the ethics of prison labor.

80
00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,680
Speaker 2: The practice, with its deep roots in America's history of slavery,

81
00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,640
Speaker 2: has drawn increasing scrutiny. A two year investigation by our

82
00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,559
Speaker 2: friends with the Associated Press revealed that the supply chains

83
00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,040
Speaker 2: of major corporations, including Walmart and Burger King, have been

84
00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,640
Speaker 2: linked to prison farms like Angola, where incarcerated workers are

85
00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,479
Speaker 2: paid little to nothing for their life. In response to

86
00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,240
Speaker 2: the growing outcry, several companies, including Cargill, have severed or

87
00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,960
Speaker 2: are in the process of cutting ties with these controversial

88
00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:08,920
Speaker 2: labor practices.

89
00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,120
Speaker 3: A spokesperson for the Louisiana State Corrections Department stated that

90
00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,440
Speaker 3: officials will withhold comment until they have thoroughly reviewed Judge

91
00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:18,479
Speaker 3: Jackson's order.

92
00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,159
Speaker 1: Thanks John, Maria and Nina Miller, thirty four, working at

93
00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,560
Speaker 1: the Dandy Mini Mart, where she plans to take two

94
00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,599
Speaker 1: days off to visit husband Kenneth's ill mother in Charleston,

95
00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:33,440
Speaker 1: West Virginia. Maria and Kenneth drive to the hospital, but

96
00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,480
Speaker 1: they have an argument in the parking lot. Kenneth claims

97
00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,160
Speaker 1: Maria insists on going to Virginia Beach, so he drops

98
00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,279
Speaker 1: her off at an unknown apartment complex there. Four months

99
00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,640
Speaker 1: pass and she's finally reported missing by the US Army

100
00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:55,880
Speaker 1: in June twenty eleven. Fast forward February twenty twenty three,

101
00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:00,719
Speaker 1: the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office, Pennsylvania State Police, and West

102
00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,520
Speaker 1: Virginia State Police collaborate, offering a seven thousand dollars reward

103
00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,200
Speaker 1: for information to resolve the case. Maria five point one,

104
00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,799
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five pounds, black hair, brown eyes.

105
00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,880
Speaker 1: She would now be forty six. If you have info

106
00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:23,159
Speaker 1: on the whereabouts of Maria Nina Miller, now missing thirteen years,

107
00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:28,520
Speaker 1: contact Pennsylvania Police five seven zero two six five two

108
00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,040
Speaker 1: one eight six. For the latest crime in justice news,

109
00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,920
Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com and please join us

110
00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,480
Speaker 1: for our daily podcast crime Stories with this crime alert.

111
00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,520
Speaker 1: I'm Missy Grace