Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Linley
Speaker 1: Polus and dog Tequila head to a dog friendly bar
Speaker 1: in Dallas. After a few drinks, Polus heads home but
Speaker 1: runs a red light, slamming into another car and killing
Speaker 1: the driver, Honor Wallace, just nineteen. Polus and Wallace's passenger
Speaker 1: taken to the hospital. Texas cops noticed Polus has glassy
Speaker 1: eyes and slurred speech.
Speaker 2: Nancy Wallace was a sophomore at Southern Methodist University in
Speaker 2: downtown Dallas, and while a bystander tried to perform CPR,
Speaker 2: Wallace was gone by the time ems arrived. Wallace's passenger
Speaker 2: suffered a broken collarbone, but is expected to recover. Polis,
Speaker 2: who only suffered minor injuries, is said to have been
Speaker 2: more intoxicated than she believed herself to be because of
Speaker 2: her ADHD medication. Stimulants like adderall, Riddlin and vibance can
Speaker 2: blunt the effects of alcohol, meaning it takes more time
Speaker 2: for users to feel intoxicated.
Speaker 1: Polus twenty seven, now charged with DUI manslaughter. Ted Stein
Speaker 1: and Prize open an air vent on the roof of
Speaker 1: a Florida urgent care and climbs down in the building
Speaker 1: well he tries, He falls fifteen feet, dusts himself off,
Speaker 1: and piles some medical goods and the cash box into
Speaker 1: a wheelchair to take with him. That's some getaway. He
Speaker 1: bolts after being discovered by an employee, leaving the goods behind.
Speaker 1: Cops catch up to him, now wearing a cast and
Speaker 1: using a cane. Then he claims officers have him confused
Speaker 1: with his quote identical twin Steinman thirty six now charged
Speaker 1: with burglary, larceny, property damage, and a really bad lie
Speaker 1: to cops. More crime and justice news after this. Now
Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news by my
Speaker 1: line John Limley.
Speaker 3: California authorities are reporting that two men have been shot
Speaker 3: in a parked automobile outside Los Angeles, leaving three others
Speaker 3: injured and two dead. Details now from Sydney Sumner with
Speaker 3: Crime Online.
Speaker 2: According to our friends at KABCTV, Inglewood Mayor James Buttz
Speaker 2: suggested that the attack might have been a deliberate strike.
Speaker 2: The Los Angeles County Fire Department says that the five
Speaker 2: victims were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds by
Speaker 2: paramedics who arrived at the scene, Although it's unclear whether
Speaker 2: there were multiple shooters, but said the Mails, in their fifties,
Speaker 2: were inside the car when a shooter pulled up and
Speaker 2: started firing in a parking lot. KABC is reporting that
Speaker 2: one of the survivors was in critical condition. Several nearby
Speaker 2: blocks were shut down by the Inglewood Police Department at
Speaker 2: the area, which was roughly ten miles southwest of downtown
Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: A car with broken windows was visible in the parking
Speaker 3: lot in aerial TV footage. A federal appeals court has
Speaker 3: now upheld a decision postponing at Texas prisoners execution this
Speaker 3: week for killing an eighty year old woman more than
Speaker 3: two decades ago. Forty eight year old Jedediah Murphy was
Speaker 3: scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday night at
Speaker 3: the State prison in Huntsville for the murder of Bertie
Speaker 3: Lee Cunningham. Her shooting death and a carjacking occurred in
Speaker 3: the Garland neighborhood of Dallas in October two thousand. Murphy's
Speaker 3: attorney had filed a complaint asking for DNA testing a
Speaker 3: material linked to his two thousand one trial, but this
Speaker 3: week of federal court in Austin issued in order postponing
Speaker 3: Murphy's execution. The judges directive was upheld by the Fifth
Speaker 3: U s Circuit Court of Appeals. According to the three
Speaker 3: judge panel, a different Texas row inmate brought an appeals
Speaker 3: court lawsuit that raises questions that are identical to Murphy's.
Speaker 3: In a case that question long standing protections for news organizations,
Speaker 3: the US Supreme Court has declined to consider a request
Speaker 3: from a prominent former West Virginia mining company executive to
Speaker 3: make it simpler for public figures to sue for defamation
Speaker 3: once again, Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
Speaker 2: The justices rejected Donald Blankenship's appeal of a lower court's
Speaker 2: decision to dismiss his defamation lawsuit against media outlets like
Speaker 2: Fox News and MSNBC for referring to him as a
Speaker 2: felon during his unsuccessful twenty eighteen race for the US Senate.
Speaker 2: Blankenship was the former CEO of Massy Energy. After a
Speaker 2: twenty ten mine explosion that claimed the lives of twenty
Speaker 2: nine coal workers, Blankenship was found guilty by a jury
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen of a federal conspiracy crime that is
Speaker 2: categorized as a misdemeanor, not a felony. Blankenship had requested
Speaker 2: that the Supreme Court reversed its unified decision from nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty four in the pivotal case New York Times Versus Sullivan,
Speaker 2: which placed strict restrictions on defamation claims by public officials
Speaker 2: under the First Amendment safeguards for freedom of speech and
Speaker 2: the press provided by the US Constitution. In a written opinion,
Speaker 2: Justice Clarence Thomas supported Tuesday's decision to reject Blankenship's appeal.
Speaker 3: Nevertheless, Thomas maintained his belief that the nineteen sixty four
Speaker 3: decision should be taken into account in a quote appropriate case.
Speaker 1: Edna Quintana splits time between her adult children in Central
Speaker 1: Colorado and a new boyfriend in Sago's, Colorado. When Edna's
Speaker 1: daughters don't hear from her in over a week, they
Speaker 1: call the boyfriend, who says he hasn't seen her since
Speaker 1: they went hiking. He says Edna went back down the
Speaker 1: mountain before him, and when he got back to the car,
Speaker 1: she wasn't there. Investigators searching for Edna when they discovered
Speaker 1: Suzanne Morpheus remains. The Kintana family hopeful they too will
Speaker 1: soon have answers about their mom, Edna Quintana, now missing
Speaker 1: five months. If you know anything about Edna Quintana, please
Speaker 1: call CBI Colorado Bureau Investigations seven one nine four one
Speaker 1: six five eight one five. For the latest crime in
Speaker 1: justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.