Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime needs Now. Idaho
Speaker 1: cops called to a convenience store when Jeremy Best wanders inside,
Speaker 1: buck naked. Best taken to the hospital but released that afternoon.
Speaker 1: When his confusion subsides. The next day, his wife, Callie Randall,
Speaker 1: calls nine to one one. By the time cops get there,
Speaker 1: Randall is dead. Best and their ten month old baby,
Speaker 1: Zeke both missing. Two days later, hunters stumble upon Best
Speaker 1: naked in a sleeping bag on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: Little baby Zeke found yards away.
Speaker 2: Dad Nancy Bess, was originally charged with two counts of
Speaker 2: murder after his wife, who was six months pregnant, was
Speaker 2: found shot to death in their driveway. After Randall's murder,
Speaker 2: Best took off in an suv with Zeke, and the
Speaker 2: Bonneville County Medical Examiner has now confirmed the ten month
Speaker 2: old died from a mortal knife wound to his neck.
Speaker 2: After a court ordered mental competency evaluation, Best has been
Speaker 2: deemed fit to proceed.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Best, forty eight, charged with three counts of murder.
Speaker 1: Eric Thomas calls cops to report a theft. When they
Speaker 1: get there, he's holding over forty grams of pot, explaining
Speaker 1: someone stole ten dollars from him during his last pot sale. Well,
Speaker 1: he's promptly busted. Cops find this is not his first
Speaker 1: drug offense. While Thomas was heading to court to address
Speaker 1: previous drug offenses, the thirty three year old emptied seven
Speaker 1: bags of pot from his pockets when he was going
Speaker 1: through security, admitting it was all for sale. Eric Thomas
Speaker 1: now charged with multiple drug related felonies for the third time. Wow,
Speaker 1: he must have been high. More Crime and Justice news
Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
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Speaker 3: A preliminary hearing has now been held for an Illinois
Speaker 3: man accused of murder at tempted murder and a hate
Speaker 3: crime in connection with the October attack on a Palestinian
Speaker 3: American mother and her young boy. For more, we turned
Speaker 3: to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
Speaker 2: One one year old Joseph Cuba's charge with the fatal
Speaker 2: stabbing of six year old Wadia al Fayoumi on October
Speaker 2: fourteenth in Plainfield, Illinois, about fifty miles southwest of Chicago.
Speaker 2: In the attack, he also wounded Hanan Shaheen. Cuba entered
Speaker 2: a plea of not guilty to each of the charges.
Speaker 2: Shaheen survived the attack but was in the hospital at
Speaker 2: the time of her son's funeral service. She has since
Speaker 2: been released. According to Shaheen, Cuba, the family's landlord, was
Speaker 2: unhappy about the Israel Hamas conflict and attacked them after
Speaker 2: she encouraged him to pray for peace. An autopsy revealed
Speaker 2: that the boy sustained numerous stab wounds before his death.
Speaker 2: Investigators say the victims were singled out due to their
Speaker 2: Muslim beliefs and in retaliation for the war, which had
Speaker 2: started just one week prior to the attack. Before Cuba's hearing,
Speaker 2: a small group of Muslim residents from the Chicago area
Speaker 2: gathered and held up white electric candles outside of the
Speaker 2: Will County Courthouse in Juliet, Illinois. Odi al Fayoumi, Wadia's father,
Speaker 2: spoke to reporters in Arabic before having a translator interpret
Speaker 2: his words into English. Al Fayoumi he said Cuba should
Speaker 2: bear the maximum amount of responsibility and stated that his
Speaker 2: son deserves nothing less than that. Wadiya was attacked because
Speaker 2: he was a Muslim, he said, and people need to
Speaker 2: keep that in mind.
Speaker 3: During the brief hearing, Cuba remained silent. His next court
Speaker 3: date is set for the morning of March seventh. Now
Speaker 3: to New Jersey, as police search for the killer of
Speaker 3: a Muslim leader shot just before morning prayers outside his mosque,
Speaker 3: authorities are offering a reward to anyone who can assist
Speaker 3: them in making an arrest. Amid a surge in bias
Speaker 3: attacks around the country, officials are pledging to safeguard people
Speaker 3: of faith, even though they maintain they have no evidence
Speaker 3: that the imam's killing was motivated by religious hatred. A
Speaker 3: targeted dragnet of law enforcement has been created following the
Speaker 3: killing of Imam Hassan Sharif as he was readying to
Speaker 3: open the Masjid Mohammed Newark mosque. The Essex County Sheriff
Speaker 3: issued a twenty five thousand dollars reward, as New Jersey's
Speaker 3: Attorney General promised support to county and local officials. A
Speaker 3: court has decided that a New Jersey man accused of
Speaker 3: stabbing Salman Rushdi, author of this Satanic versus, may obtain
Speaker 3: information about Rushdie's plan memoir about the incident prior to
Speaker 3: going on trial. Once again, crime Online Sidney Sumner The trial.
Speaker 2: For Handi Matar's attempted murder and assault was initially set
Speaker 2: to begin with jury selection on January eighth. Now, the
Speaker 2: trial has been postponed because Matar's attorney contends that the
Speaker 2: defendant has a legal right to view the book in
Speaker 2: all relevant materials prior to standing trial. Rushdie's manuscript is
Speaker 2: scheduled for publication in April of twenty twenty four. Any
Speaker 2: witnesses written or recorded remarks regarding the incident are regarded
Speaker 2: as possible evidence, according to Matar's lawyers. Twenty six year
Speaker 2: old Matar of Fairview, New Jersey, has been detained without
Speaker 2: bond since August twenty twenty two, when authorities claim he
Speaker 2: stabbed Rushdie over a dozen times after barging onto the
Speaker 2: stage at the Chautauqua Institution, where the writer was scheduled
Speaker 2: to give a talk. The attack left seventy five year
Speaker 2: old Rushdi with injuries to his left hand and blindness
Speaker 2: in his right eye. In October t three, the author
Speaker 2: said that he has included details about the attack and
Speaker 2: his upcoming memoir Knife Meditatians After an Attempted Murder. The
Speaker 2: prosecutor stated that as part of the legal discovery process,
Speaker 2: he asks for a copy of the book at the
Speaker 2: time the trial was being planned. He added that Rushdie's
Speaker 2: representatives had turned down the proposal citing concerns over intellectual
Speaker 2: property rates.
Speaker 3: It's anticipated that defense lawyer Nathaniel Barone will subpoena the
Speaker 3: book material.
Speaker 1: Caden Black, nineteen, moves out of his dad's Pennsylvania home
Speaker 1: to live with friends after starting a new job. In
Speaker 1: the weeks leading up to Christmas, Caden becomes more reserved,
Speaker 1: spending time in his room instead of hanging out with
Speaker 1: those same friends. He calls his dad, telling him he's
Speaker 1: coming by the next day, but never shows up. Caden
Speaker 1: last seen by roommates at their home the night before
Speaker 1: the missed visit. Caden Black now missing from Ritsville, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: over a year. If you have info on Caden Black,
Speaker 1: please call Lower Windsor Township PD seven one seven two
Speaker 1: four four eight zero five five. For the latest crime
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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.