1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Lawrence 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: Anderson stabs Andrea Blankenship dead in her home, then cuts 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: out her heart. Anderson cooks the heart with potatoes and 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: tries to serve it to his aunt and uncle for dinner. 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: When they refused to eat it, he kills his uncle, 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: Leon Pye and his four year old granddaughter, Chaos Yates 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: Crime Alines John Lemley. Nancy Anderson was released from prison 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: just three weeks prior to the attack as part of 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: a mass commutation effort in Oklahoma. District Attorney Jason Hicks 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: commented that the OSBI has a masked evidence in the 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: case that kept him up at night for weeks. Prosecutors 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: did not pursue the death penalty for Anderson as they 13 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: felt a trial would continue to harm the family. Lawrence Anderson, 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: forty four, pleads guilty three counts of murder, one count 15 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: assault and battery, one count maiming. He will spend the 16 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: rest of his life serving five consecutive life sentences. Jennifer 17 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: Long's father says good morning, and which is our happy 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: forty first, and in response, Long stabs him with a 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: kitchen knife. Dad calls nime on one to report the 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 1: attack and is concerned for Long's eight year old son. 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: When cops arrive, they find the little boy stabbed dead upstairs. 22 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: As she was cuffed, Long told police officers that she 23 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: had taken meth days prior and had not slept. Long 24 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: advised them that her son was dead and when police 25 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: found him, the child still had the knife in his chest. 26 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: Neighbors and teachers remember the third grader as a sweet 27 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: boy who will be greatly missed. Long now charged with 28 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: capital murder and attempted murder. More Crime and Justice news 29 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and Justice breaking 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: Knees Crime Onlines. John Lemley, a former's student, shot through 31 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: the doors of a Christian elementary school Monday, killing three 32 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: children and three adults after elaborately planning the massacre by 33 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: drawing out a detailed map and conducting surveillance of the building. 34 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: For more, now, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. 35 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: The massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville was the 36 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: latest in a series of mass shootings in a country 37 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools. The 38 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: victims included three nine year old children, The school's top administrator, 39 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: a substitute teacher, and a custodian. Police say the shooter's 40 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: name is Audrey Elizabeth Hale and his transgender The suspect 41 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: gained entry by firing into glass doors on the building, 42 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: shattering them. The shooter was armed with two assault style 43 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: weapons as well as a handgun. At least two of 44 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: them were believed to have been obtained legally in the 45 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: Nashville area. This according to investigators. Police say a search 46 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: of the shooters home turned up a sawed off shotgun, 47 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: a second shotgun, and other unspecified evidence. Prosecutors say they 48 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: will pursue the death penalty if a Tennessee man is 49 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: convicted of first degree murder in a day long shooting 50 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: rampage that paralyzed Memphis and left three people dead and 51 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: three others wounded. The announcement by Shelby County District Attorney 52 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: Steve Mulroy came during a press conference in the case 53 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: of Ezekiel Kelly, who has been charged in a series 54 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: of shootings in September twenty twenty two that led to 55 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: a citywide shelter in place order and a frantic manhunt. 56 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: Twenty year old Kelly was charged with murder in the 57 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: deaths of Duane Tunstall, Richard Clark, and Alison Parker. He 58 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: has pleaded not guilty. Mulroy listed factors for his decision 59 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: to file a notice to seek the death penalty, including 60 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: that it was a random mass shooting and that Kelly 61 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: had a prior conviction for aggravated assault. A Wisconsin man 62 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the 63 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six killing of a young woman whose body 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: was found in a swamp at a Green Bay nature 65 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,119 Speaker 1: area crime on lines Sidney Sumner. Sixty seven year old 66 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: lou A. Griffin pleaded no contest January twenty seventh in 67 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: Brown County Circuit Court to a charge of homicide by 68 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: reckless conduct, and a judge found him guilty. Griffin originally 69 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: was charged in October twenty twenty with first degree intentional 70 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: homicide and Lisa Holstead's killing. Her body was found in 71 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: August nineteen eighty six. Holsteads slaying had been Brown County's 72 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: oldest unsolved murder case. Investigators said that at the time 73 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: of her killing, Griffin lived within a few miles of 74 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: where her body was found. Griffin was identified as a 75 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: suspect in holsteads slang after Green Bay police sent DNA 76 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: evidence found on her body to a company that performs 77 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: forensic genetic genealogy testing. That testing provided information on the 78 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: suspect's heritage and possible relatives. Griffin was eventually placed under 79 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: police surveillance in DNA that was collected from cigarettes and 80 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: beer cans that he had discarded matched the DNA collected 81 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: in the murder case. Griffin told investigators he might have 82 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: had sex with Holstead, but denied killing her. People who 83 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 1: were sexually abused as children in Washington State may soon 84 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: be able to bring lawsuits against the state schools or 85 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: other institutions for failing to stop the abuse, no matter 86 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: when it happened. House Bill sixteen eighteen would remove time 87 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: limits that have stymied lawsuits by some people who frequently 88 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: do not fully confront childhood trauma until years later. The 89 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: bill has passed the House on an eighty two to 90 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: fourteen vote and cleared a Senate committee last week. Washington's 91 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: current statute of limitations requires victims of child's sexual abuse 92 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: to file lawsuits within three years of when the abuse 93 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: occurred or three years from when they discovered harms it caused. 94 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: Such as depression, addiction, or suicidality. Two men still a 95 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: three foot long foam carrot from an easer display at 96 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: a Pennsylvania mall. Security guards try to stop them, but 97 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: when one officer tries to open the door of their truck, 98 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: the officers dragged nearly a quarter mile at thirty five mph. 99 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: Cops track the thieves the license plight to their home, 100 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: where they turn over the stolen carrot and are charged 101 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: with theft, criminal mischief. I mean, who are they going 102 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: to blame it on the Easter Bunny for the latest 103 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: crime and desice go to crime online dot com with 104 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.