1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Mikah 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: Eckert runs into his girlfriend as he's leaving a Houston 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: restaurant and goes to greet her, only to find out 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: she's therefore a date with her husband. Eckert argues with 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: the couple, the man start throwing punches. Ekert pulls a 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: knife stabs both his girlfriend and her husband until the 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: security guard separates him from the couple. 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: Nancy Eckert had no idea of the forty four year 9 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 2: old woman he was seeing was married. Her forty two 10 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: year old husband stepped in between the two of them 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: when Eckert began arguing with her, leading to a physical 12 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 2: fight between the boyfriend and husband. In a brief pause, 13 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 2: Ekert pulled a knife and stabbed both several times, but 14 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 2: they were reported to be in stable condition. 15 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: Eckert, twenty five, now charged with two counts a assault. 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: Ryan Smith and a coworker sent to a Nebraska apartment 17 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: complex to collect a body to take to the funeral home. 18 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: A building manager accompanies the staff to the unit, where 19 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: they find an extremely detailed blow up doll in the 20 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: bed next to the dead body. Smith tells the building 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: manager the sheriff's office asks him to collect the doll 22 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: for testing, but the manager is not convinced and sends 23 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: the workers on their way. Hours later, the building manager 24 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: finds the deceased man's apartment broken into. Cobbs arrived to 25 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: find Smith, the body collector, inside the unit, standing over 26 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: the blow up doll, his shirt untucked, his pants disheveled. 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: Smith forty one, now charged with felony burglary. If only 28 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: that plastic doll could talk. More crime and justice news 29 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking 30 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: news Prime Online is John Lemley. 31 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: A Texas mother who fled the country for India after 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 3: giving multiple excuses for what happened to her missing six 33 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: year old son, now stands charged with his murder. With more, 34 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. 35 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 2: According to Everman Police Chief Craig's, thirty eight year old 36 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: Cindy Rodriguez Singh has been indicted on one count of 37 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 2: capital murder, two counts of child injury, and one count 38 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: of abandoning a child with no intention of returning by 39 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: a grand jury in Terrant County. Noel Rodriguez Alvarez's body 40 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: has not yet been found, despite extensive searches by authorities 41 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: in and around Everman, the family's hometown located south of 42 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: Fort Worth. Noel was last seen, according to investigators, in 43 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: late October of twenty twenty two. Spencer expressed optimism that 44 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: the indictments would aid in the mother's apprehension an eventual 45 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 2: return from India to the United States. He stated that 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 2: federal authorities are investigating the matter, but is unsure if 47 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: she has yet been found. After receiving a tip from 48 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: Child Protective Services that Noel hadn't been seen in a while, 49 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: officers visited the family's house Back in March, Rodriguez Singh, 50 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 2: along with her husband and their six kids, boarded a 51 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: plane for India two days later. 52 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: Spencer said Noel, who had mental and developmental disabilities, had 53 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 3: never been enrolled in school. A woman from Long Islandland 54 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 3: has been found guilty of aggravated manslaughter in the death 55 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 3: of a New York City Police detective on the Long 56 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 3: Island Expressway in April of twenty twenty one. Hempstead resident 57 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 3: Jessica Bouvey was taken into custody shortly after the death 58 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,839 Speaker 3: of fourteen year police veteran Anastasio Sakos. The forty three 59 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: year old was hit and killed while assisting authorities at 60 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: the site of another deadly incident on the Queen's Expressway. 61 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 3: According to Queen's District Attorney Melinda Katz, thirty four year 62 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: old Bouvet was operating her vehicle with a suspended license 63 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 3: and was under the influence of alcohol. Bouvey fled the scene, 64 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: but was apprehended soon after the incident. On the forty 65 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: first anniversary of an Indiana man's murder, state police have 66 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 3: announced that they've apprehended a suspect in connection to the 67 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: cold case dating to Halloween nineteen eighty two. Once again 68 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 3: Crime Online, Sydney Sumner. 69 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: Police they detained a sixty one year old man from 70 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: the southern Indiana town of Seymour. He's being held on 71 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: charges of Clifford Smith's shooting death on October thirty first, 72 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two. Smith's wife reported her husband missing on 73 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: November fourth of that year, and almost a month later, 74 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 2: on December first, two animal trappers discovered Smith's body near 75 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: Seymour along the White River. Smith died, according to investigators, 76 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 2: from a gunshot wound to the head. When Sergeant Kit 77 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 2: Mayne started looking into the case in September twenty fifteen. 78 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 2: He discovered that on October thirtieth, nineteen eighty two, the 79 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: suspect and other individuals were at a house with Smith. 80 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 2: Police say the suspect took a shotgun from the premises, 81 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: loaded it, and drove away from the house with Smith 82 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: in the vehicle with him. This was the last time 83 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: Smith was seen alive. Following the investigation, the suspect was 84 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 2: placed under arrest after the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office issued 85 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 2: an arrest warrant for him. 86 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 3: The city of Seymour is located approximately fifty eight miles 87 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 3: south of Indianapolis. 88 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: Paul A Wad, a manager at Georgia Sam's Club, worries 89 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: her co workers when she doesn't show up to work. 90 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: She hadn't done that in five years she worked. They 91 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: when she doesn't show up again the next day, cops 92 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: head to her apartment. Wade had started packing for a 93 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: plan to move to Florida, meaning belongings in boxes, but 94 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: otherwise no sign of Paula or her three year old 95 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: son Brandon. Her wallet, keys, purse, glasses all left behind. 96 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: Paula Waite's nearly blind without her glasses. The only thing 97 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: missing is Brandon's car seat. Cops will reach out to 98 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: Wade's strange husband, but he had moved out of state 99 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 1: for the military and he had not heard from her. 100 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: Paula and Brandon Wade, now missing twenty one years. If 101 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: you have info on Paula Wade now forty six or 102 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: Brandon Wade now twenty four, contact the FBI seven seven 103 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: zero two one six three thousand. For the latest crime 104 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this 105 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.