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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime news Now. Karen

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Speaker 1: Kasbaumb and Loreen Ferralo thought they could pull off a

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Speaker 1: weekend at Bernie's plot when they find their eighty year

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Speaker 1: old roommate, Douglas Leyman, dead in his room. The two

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Speaker 1: women prop Douglas up in the back seat of their

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Speaker 1: car and take him to the bank. There they withdraw

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Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars from his bank account. The two women

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Speaker 1: then make a stop at the hospital, where they dump

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Speaker 1: his body and drive off.

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Speaker 2: Nancy. Medical personnel had no idea who Layman was until

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Speaker 2: one of the women called hours later and identified him.

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Speaker 2: Police were immediately dispatched to Lehman's home, where they made

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Speaker 2: contact with Caspom and Ferrala. The women said that bank

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Speaker 2: tellers previously allowed them to withdraw money from Lehman's account

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Speaker 2: as long as he was in the vehicle, so they

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Speaker 2: thought they would stop by on their way to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: After admitting to the stunt, both Karen Casbaumb and Lauren

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Speaker 1: Ferralo charged with abuse of a corpse and theft. Surveillance

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Speaker 1: video catches the moment on Your Or Cityman tries and

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Speaker 1: fails to set a US and Disraeli flag on fire?

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Speaker 1: What is wrong with him? A man in a black

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Speaker 1: hoodie and face masks saying, crossing the street, climbing onto

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Speaker 1: a table to get the flags. He pulls out a

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Speaker 1: can of hairspray in a lighter and tries to ignite

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Speaker 1: the aerosol multiple times, but high winds blow out the

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Speaker 1: flame and pushed the flags out of reach. The attempt

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Speaker 1: at Arsines looks around nervously, puts away his tools and

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Speaker 1: SLINKs back down the street as he should. More crime

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Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime

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Speaker 1: and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines. John Lenley, one of

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Speaker 1: the final four individuals accused of participating in an international

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Speaker 1: scheme of murder for hire that resulted in the kidnapping

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Speaker 1: and death of a Vermont man in twenty eighteen, has

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Speaker 1: now entered a guilty plea. We turned to Sydney Sumner

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Speaker 1: with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Along with major suspect Sir Rod Gumrukchew of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: Burke Arite of Las Vegas was scheduled to go on

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Speaker 2: trial this past September. Arete entered a new plea to

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Speaker 2: allegations of wire fraud and planning the kidnapping and murder

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Speaker 2: of a third man, forty nine year old Gregory Davis,

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Speaker 2: of Danville, Vermont. Prosecutors claimed that Davis had been threatening

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Speaker 2: to report to the FBI details of Gumruccha's deception in

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Speaker 2: a multimillion dollar oil deal that Gamruccha and his brother

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Speaker 2: had entered into with Davis in twenty fifteen. Gumruccha is

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Speaker 2: a native of Turkey who emigrated to the United States

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Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen. According to Davis's wife, on January sixth,

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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, a man in a mass came to the

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Speaker 2: couple's Danville home and informed Davis that he had an

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Speaker 2: arrest warrant out for him due to allegations of racketeering.

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Speaker 2: She claimed that the two of them departed together. The

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Speaker 2: next day, Davis's handcuffed body was discovered on the side

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Speaker 2: of a snow covered Vermont country road. Investigators spent more

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Speaker 2: than four years trying to link the four suspects. After

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Speaker 2: the victim's death, the individual who had knocked on the

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Speaker 2: door was identified as Jerry Banks from Colorado. They also

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Speaker 2: learned that Banks had a friendship with Aaron Lee Ethridge

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Speaker 2: from Las Vegas, and that fa Thridge had a friendship

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Speaker 2: with Arita. They alleged that Arete worked for Gemruccha. In

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, Ethridge entered a guilty plea for his

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Speaker 2: involvement in planning Davis's abduction and murder.

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Speaker 3: Banks entered a guilty plea last year to conspiring to

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Speaker 3: commit kidnapping and murder for pay. Both men are awaiting

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Speaker 3: their sentences. The movie set armorer found guilty of involuntary

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Speaker 3: manslaughter in Alec Baldwin's deadly shooting of a cinematographer on

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Speaker 3: the set of the western movie Rust has now been

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Speaker 3: scheduled for sentencing next month. This according to court documents

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Speaker 3: once Again Crime Online Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: It was earlier this month that a jury found armorer

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Speaker 2: Hannah Gutiera's read guilty in the October twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: shooting that occurred at a rehearsal outside of Santa Fe,

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Speaker 2: New Mexico. A grand jury indicted Baldwin in January, and

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Speaker 2: he has entered a not guilty plea to an involuntary

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Speaker 2: manslaughter charge. His trial is scheduled for July. Judge Mary

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Speaker 2: Marlow Summer of Santa Fe has scheduled a two hour

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Speaker 2: sentencing hearing for Gutiera's reed to be held on the

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Speaker 2: morning of April fiftheenth Marlowe Summer is tasked with supervising

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Speaker 2: Baldwin's trial as well. A felony conviction for involuntary manslaughter

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Speaker 2: carries a maximum eighteen month jail sentence as well as

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Speaker 2: a five thousand dollars fine. According to a statement issued

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Speaker 2: by defense attorney Jason Bowles, Gutier's Reid intends to appeal

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Speaker 2: the conviction. Director Joel Suso was injured and cinematographer Helena

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Speaker 2: Hutchins killed when the gun fired as Baldwin was pointing

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Speaker 2: the revolver at her. Baldwin has claimed that while he

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Speaker 2: did pull back the gun's hammer, he did not touch

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Speaker 2: the trigger. During her two week trial, Gutier's read was

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Speaker 2: accused by the prosecution of inadvertently carrying live ammunition onto

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Speaker 2: the RUST set despite it being specifically forbidden. They alleged

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Speaker 2: she did not adhere to fundamental firearm safety procedures. Dave Halls,

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Speaker 2: the associate director of RUST and the safety Coordinator, entered

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Speaker 2: a plea of not guilty last year to negligent firearm

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Speaker 2: handling and served out his six month unsupervised probation.

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Speaker 3: Gutiera's reed is being held at the Santa Fe County

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Speaker 3: Adult Detention Facility pending her sentencing.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John, Ebney Spears tells her parents she's feeling paranoid

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Speaker 1: and anxious and asks them to meet her. She spends

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Speaker 1: the night at her parents Wilmington, North Carolina home. Next day,

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Speaker 1: feeling better, she heads to her home, promising to come

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Speaker 1: back for dinner that night, but then she calls to cancel.

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Speaker 1: Ebony starts acting strangely again, telling Wilmington cops someone's following her.

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Speaker 1: She uses the phone at the police station, but whoever

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Speaker 1: she calls doesn't pick up. She leaves the police station

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Speaker 1: on her own. Neighbors report having a brief conversation with her.

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Speaker 1: Ebone tells them she's making a quick run to the store,

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Speaker 1: but she never comes back. Ebony Spears thirty now missing

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Speaker 1: eight years. If you have info on missing Ebony Spears,

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Speaker 1: contact Wilmington, North Carolina PD. Nine one zero three four

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Speaker 1: three thirty six hundred. For the latest crime in justice news,

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Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com with this crime alert.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Grace