1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Crime alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Jose Morales, high on PCP, strikes his 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: girlfriend and the mother of his child, Christine Holloway, in 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,159 Speaker 2: the head, repeatedly brutally killing her. Morales spends more than 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: a day disposing of the evidence, dumping a bloodstained diaper, 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: Genie and a towel in a clothing donation bin. The 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: couple's fourteen month old daughter, Vanessa, was last seen two 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: days before authorities find Christine's body in the bathtub of 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 2: their Milford, Connecticut apartment. Morales insists he is not responsible 10 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: for Christine's murder, claiming two burglars broke in, attacked Christine, 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: and kidnapped Vanessa. Prosecutors argue that Morales may have no 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: memory of the murder due to his drug use, but 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 2: the only logical explanation is that Morales killed Christine. Morales 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 2: is found guilty of murder by a jury and faces 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: up to sixty five years in prison for killing Christine. 16 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 2: The father is still a suspect in Vanessa's disappearance, and 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 2: legal experts say it's not likely he will receive any 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 2: kind of sentence reduction in exchange for help finding his 19 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 2: daughter due to his lack of memory regarding the incident. 20 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: The Holloway family became emotional when they learned Morales was 21 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: found guilty, saying they can now focus on bringing Vanessa home. 22 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: The little girl would be almost six today. A woman 23 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: frantically calls nine one one to report her ex boyfriend 24 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 2: has kicked open her door and stolen her pet chicken 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 2: while screaming, I've got Polly. She tells officers her ex 26 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 2: just got out of prison and seems extremely fragile. When 27 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: police catch up with the unnamed fifty year old, he's 28 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 2: crying and hiding in a wooded area on the side 29 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 2: of the road in Kitsap County, Washington, still clutching the chicken. 30 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 2: Bodycam footage shows deputies approaching the man in the woods. Hey, 31 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: show a shit hands, stand up, show me your hands. 32 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: That's fine. I just hold your chicken. I'm not gonna 33 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: hurt your chicken. 34 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 2: LA put the chicken in her person. The officers allowed 35 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 2: the man to safely place the chicken in a patrol 36 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: vehicle before he's placed in cuffs for residential burglary and 37 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 2: violating an order of protection. More Crime and Justice news. 38 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: After this now at the latest crime and justice breaking 39 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: news Krime Aignes John Lumley. 40 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: We began with an update on this month's deadly shooting 41 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: at a Las Vegas fitness center. Police have identified the 42 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: victim as thirty one year old Edgar Keones, a longtime 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: employee at the Las Vegas Athletic Club. Investigators now say 44 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: Keones had no known connection to the gunman. According to 45 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: Assistant Sheriff Jamie Prosser of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, 46 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: the shooter, thirty four year old Daniel Ortega, was a 47 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: gym member who entered the facility armed with a rifle. 48 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: He briefly interacted with a staff member before opening fire 49 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: on Keones, who tried to run. Police say Ortega fired 50 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: twenty four rounds says he moved through the building. Three 51 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: others were injured, one critically. Ortego was shot by officers 52 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: as he exited the gym and later died at a hospital. 53 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: Authorities say the motive remains unclear. The investigation continues. Authorities 54 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: say the May sixteenth escape of ten inmates from a 55 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: New Orleans jail wasn't just a case of faulty locks 56 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: and staffing shortages. Now a jail employee faces criminal charges. 57 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: Crime Online correspondent Sidney Sumner has the latest on what 58 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: investigators say was a carefully aided breakout. 59 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: A thirty three year old maintenance worker at the Orleans 60 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: Parish Sheriff's Office has been arrested for allegedly helping ten 61 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: inmates escape from jail. Sterling Williams is accused of turning 62 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: off water to a jail cell at the Orleans Justice 63 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 2: Center at the requests of one of the inmates. That move, 64 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 2: according to the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, allowed the men 65 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 2: to slip through a hole behind a toilet. Investigators saved 66 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: the decision wasn't a mistake. In a statement, the AG's 67 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 2: office said quote. Instead of reporting the inmate, Williams turned 68 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 2: the water off as directed, allowing the inmates to carry 69 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: out their scheme. Williams now faces ten counts of principal 70 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 2: to simple escape in malfeasance in office. The breakout happened 71 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: in the early morning hours of May sixteenth, while the 72 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 2: only guard on duty left to get food. The inmates, 73 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 2: some charge or convicted of violent crimes, including murder, shed 74 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 2: their jail uniforms, changed clothes, and vanished According to the 75 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: Sheriff's office, at least one steel bar protecting the plumbing 76 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: had been deliberately cut with a tool. Sheriff Susan Hudson 77 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 2: has repeatedly called the escape an inside job. She suspended 78 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: three employees and pointed to ongoing issues like broken locks 79 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: and staffing gaps, but many state and local officials are 80 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: pointing the blame back at her. 81 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: The New Orleans City Council met with jail and law 82 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: enforcement officials in recent days to question how ten men 83 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 1: were able to walk scout of a locked facility. 84 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 2: It's been more than two months since Irene Webster Fry 85 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 2: walked away from her home in Shelby, North Carolina, on foot. 86 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 2: She was last seen walking on Burke Road toward Cleveland Avenue. 87 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 2: Police say Irene, who suffers from a cognitive impairment, may 88 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 2: be en route to Morristown, Tennessee. It's not known what 89 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 2: she was wearing. Irene, sixty five, is Caucasian, about two 90 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: hundred pounds and five feet seven inches tall. Irene has dentures, 91 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 2: but does not always wear them. She sometimes walks with 92 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 2: a cane. Anyone with information about Irene Webster Fry's whereabouts 93 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: is urged to contact the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office at 94 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 2: seven oh four four eight four four eight two two 95 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 2: for the latest crime injustice news. Be sure to follow 96 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast app 97 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: with this crime Alert. I'm Sydney Sumner.