1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime News. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 2: Now. A group of Colorado teams playing around while they 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 2: wait for their food at an in and out. One 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: of the teens is splashing his friends with water. He 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: accidentally gets a few drops on a woman eating with 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 2: her husband. The boy starts to apologize when husband, Lucas Callisher, 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: grabs the team by the neck, slams his head on 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 2: the table, and throws the team. 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: Backwards onto the floor. 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 3: Nancy, the teen victim initially did not want to involve 11 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 3: law enforcement, but his friends convinced him to call police. 12 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 3: After listening to witness statements. In reviewing video, cops decided 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 3: to charge Callisher, and Callisher turns himself in just before 14 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 3: ten thirty pm. Callisher has now been arranged on his 15 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 3: charges and reportedly posted a bond. 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: Lucas Kallisher, fifty five, now charged with strangulation and child abuse. 17 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: Robert Suggs thirty four, on the way to a Florida 18 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: public Defender's office to talk about us fell on any 19 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: animal cruelty charge, but he doesn't get past security. As 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: his backpack goes through the X ray, security guards notice 21 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 2: a gun the Pistols reported stolen and fully loaded. Sugg 22 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 2: claims the backpack belongs to a friend and he didn't. 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: Know there was a gun inside. Okay. During a pat down. 24 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: Cops also discover a meth pipe in his pocket. Suggs 25 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: didn't know he had a meth pipe either. Robert Suggs 26 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 2: now charged with possession of, theft of, and concealing a 27 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 2: gun and drugs. Wow, you think the public defender is 28 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: going to take that case? More crime and justice news 29 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news. 30 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: Crime allized John Lemley. 31 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 4: In Lacrosse County, Wisconsin. A man has been convicted for 32 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 4: the brutal twenty twenty one shootings that left three men 33 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 4: dead near a local quarry. We turned to Sidney Sumner 34 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 4: of Crime Online for more. 35 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 3: Thirty seven year old Na Tao of Onalasco, Wisconsin, was 36 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 3: found guilty of three counts of first degree intentional homicide 37 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 3: in one count of being a felon in possession of 38 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 3: a firearm. The verdict, delivered by a Lacrosse County jury 39 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 3: follows Tao's second trial. The first ended in a hung jury. 40 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: Last year. 41 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 3: Tao, along with co defendant Comte meth for Tanasak, was 42 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 3: charged in connection with the deaths of Ping Lore and 43 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 3: Nemo Yang, both twenty four, and twenty three year old 44 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 3: Trevor Maloney. The three men were found shot to death 45 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 3: outside the entrance of a quarry approximately fourteen miles northwest 46 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 3: of Lacrosse, near the Minnesota border. According to prosecutors, the 47 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 3: violence was sparked by Ratannasac's belief that one of the 48 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 3: victims had stolen six hundred dollars from him. A witness 49 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,399 Speaker 3: who was with the victims recounted to police that Ratannasac 50 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 3: ordered the men to their knees and handed the gun 51 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 3: to Tao, who then shot them multiple times. Ratannasac pleaded 52 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 3: guilty last October to one count of first degree intentional 53 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 3: homicide as a party to a crime, and was sentenced 54 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 3: to life in prison. In January, the Cross County Sheriff 55 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: John Siegel responded to the verdict, saying Tuesday's decision brings 56 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 3: closure to a horrific crime that impacted not just the 57 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 3: victims and their families, but our entire community. 58 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 4: Sentencing for Tao is set for October fourteenth. A federal 59 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 4: judge has ordered Louisiana State Penitentiary to take immediate action 60 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 4: to protect inmates working in the prison's agricultural fields from 61 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 4: extreme heat once again Crime Online. Sydney Sumner, US District 62 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 4: Judge Brian Jackson's ruling builds on a previous order issued 63 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 4: in July mandating enhanced measures to shield prisoners from the 64 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 4: dangerous conditions they face while labouring in the intense sun. 65 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 4: The order comes after alarming evidence was presented in court, 66 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 4: including photographs depicting inmates in the fields of Angola Prison Wants, 67 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 4: a notorious slave plantation, where they had minimal protection from 68 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 4: the sun. The images, provided by the advocacy group Voice 69 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 4: of the Experience show approximately twenty men huddled under a 70 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 4: single pop up tent with no seating available in limited shade. 71 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 4: Judge Jackson's latest directive highlights the dire situation, citing fifty 72 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 4: reported instances of heat related illnesses among inmates between July 73 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 4: second and August fifth, with seven cases severe enough to 74 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 4: require emergency medical attention. In response, Jackson ordered the installation 75 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 4: of additional tents near work areas, the provision of seating, 76 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 4: and mandated fifteen minute breaks every forty five minutes during 77 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 4: heat alerts. State Corrections officials have already appealed Jackson's initial 78 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 4: July ruling. The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals has 79 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 4: since modified parts of the original decision, but upheld key provisions. 80 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 4: This legal battle over the conditions on Angola's farm line 81 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,119 Speaker 4: underscores a broader national conversation about the ethics of prison labor. 82 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 4: The practice, with its deep roots in America's history of slavery, 83 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 4: has drawn increasing scrutiny. A two year investigation by our 84 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 4: friends with the Associated Press revealed that the supply chains 85 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 4: of major corporations, including Walmart and Burger King, have been 86 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 4: linked to prison farms like Angola, where incarcerated workers are 87 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 4: paid little to nothing for their life. In response to 88 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 4: the growing outcry, several companies, including Cargill, have severed or 89 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 4: are in the process of cutting ties with these controversial 90 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 4: labor practices. A spokesperson for the Louisiana State Corrections Department 91 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 4: stated that officials will withhold comment until they have thoroughly 92 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 4: reviewed Judge Jackson's order. 93 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 2: Thanks John, Maria and Nina Miller, thirty four, working at 94 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 2: the Dandy Mini Mart, where she plans to take two 95 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 2: days off to visit husband Kenneth's ill mother in Charleston, 96 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 2: West Virginia. Maria and Kenneth drive to the hospital, but 97 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: they have an argument in the parking lot. 98 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: Kenneth claims Maria insists. 99 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,679 Speaker 2: On going to Virginia Beach, so he drops her off 100 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 2: at an unknown apartment complex there. Four months pass and 101 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 2: she's finally reported missing by the US Army in June 102 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: twenty eleven. Fast forward February twenty twenty three, the FBI 103 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Field Office, Pennsylvania State Police, and West Virginia State 104 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 2: Police collaborate, offering a seven thousand dollars reward for information 105 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 2: to resolve the case. Maria five point one, one hundred 106 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: and twenty five pounds, black hair, brown eyes. 107 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: She would now be forty six. 108 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 2: If you have info on the whereabouts of Maria Nina Miller, 109 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: now missing thirteen years, contact Pennsylvania Police five seven zero 110 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 2: two six five two one eight six. For the latest 111 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 2: crime in justice needs, go to crime online dot com 112 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 2: and please join us for our daily podcast Crime Stories 113 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: with this crime alert. 114 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.