1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now Nearly 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: two hundred bodies left to decompose and a maggot infested 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: storage facility by funeral home owners in Penrose, Colorado, John 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: and carry Halford take cremation in burial money from families 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: of the deceased to use as their own personal. 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 2: Piggy bank Nancy. The couple purchased two cars worth more 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 2: than one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The money stolen 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: from families of the deceased is reportedly at least twice 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 2: the cremation costs for the bodies found. Prosecutors say text 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: messages from John to Carrey indicate he was worried about 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: consequences as early as four years ago. One reads, my 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 2: only focus is keeping us out of jail. He leader 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: suggests that they get rid of the bodies by treating 14 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 2: them with fly and dumping them in a big hole 15 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 2: or setting them on fire. 16 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: John and Carey Hawford is charged with one hundred and 17 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: ninety counts of abuse of corpse, five counts theft, four 18 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: counts of money laundering, and over fifty counts forgery. Win 19 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: customer gets more than a burger and fries with the order. 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: A drive through customer argues with the Wendy's employee, Leon Johnson. 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: Johnson walks out of the store and starts punching the 22 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: customer while he's in the car. The driver grabs a 23 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: hammer and gets out to scare off the employee. Leon 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 1: Johnson then jumps into the customer's car and drives away. 25 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: Moments later, he returns and hits the customer with his 26 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: own car, then grabs the hammer and beats the customer. 27 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: Police arrive. Johnson bites two of them while he's being arrested. 28 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: Leon Johnson, former Wendy's employee, now facing multiple charges, including 29 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: first degree assault. More crime and Justice news after this 30 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime onlines. 31 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 3: John Lemley, according to a story published by Russia's official 32 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 3: news agency Tasks, the mother of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navlny, 33 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: has filed a lawsuit in the Arctic city of suckle 34 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 3: Had challenging the authority's refusal to release her son's body. 35 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 3: With the latest here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. 36 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: The Russian news story quotes court authorities as saying that 37 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 2: a hearing behind closed doors has now been said for 38 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: March fourth. Since her son's death on February sixteenth in 39 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: a penal colony in the far north of Russia, Ludmila 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 2: Novelnaya has been attempting to recover his remains. Navalney's team 41 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: says that she has been unable to find the location 42 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: where his body is being housed. This week, novel Naya 43 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 2: made a request to Russian President Vladimir Putin to allow 44 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 2: her to retrieve her son's body and bury him with dignity. 45 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 2: Members of Navalney's team have indicated that Russian officials have 46 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: stated that the cause of Navalney's death is still unknown 47 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,399 Speaker 2: and have refused to release his body for the next 48 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 2: two weeks while the preliminary inquest is ongoing. They say 49 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 2: that the Russian government is trying to conceal evidence by 50 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 2: stalling Ulia Navalney, the widow of the opposition leader, published 51 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 2: a video in which she accused Putin of killing her 52 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 2: husband and asserting that the government's reluctance to reveal his 53 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 2: body was part of a cover up. When spokesman Dmitri 54 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 2: Peskov rejected the allegations of a cover up, telling reporters 55 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 2: that quote, these are absolutely unfounded, insolent accusations about the 56 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 2: head of the Russian state. Navalney's death has deprived the 57 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 2: Russian opposition of its best known and inspiring politician less 58 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 2: than a month before an election that is all but 59 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,399 Speaker 2: certain to give Putin another six years in power. Many 60 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 2: Russians had seen Navalney as a rare hope for political 61 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 2: change amid Putin's unrelenting crackdown on the opposition. 62 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 3: Since Navalney's death, about four hundred people have been arrested 63 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 3: across Russia as they tried to pay tribute to him 64 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 3: with flowers and candles. This according to OVD Info, a 65 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 3: group that monitors political arrests. President Joe Biden has established 66 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 3: a federal rule and issued an executive order to strengthen 67 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 3: the defense of US ports against potential cyber attacks once 68 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 3: again crime Online Sidney Sumner. 69 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 2: The administration is laying out a set of national cybersecurity 70 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 2: regulations that port operators in this country must abide by. 71 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: These directives are similar to national safety regulations that aim 72 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 2: to avoid harm to people in infrastructure. According to White 73 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: House Deputy National Security Advisor and Newberger, ports across the 74 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 2: country contribute five point four trillion dollars to the economy 75 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: and employ almost thirty one million people. But they are 76 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 2: also subseptive. But they are also susceptible to ransomware and 77 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: other cyber attacks. The purpose of the uniform set of 78 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 2: requirements is to aid in preventing that. The new regulations 79 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 2: are a part of the federal government's effort to update 80 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 2: the security measures for vital infrastructure such as ports, pipelines, 81 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 2: and power grids, which are increasingly managed and controlled online, 82 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 2: frequently from a distance. 83 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 3: There currently is no national standard that specifies how operators 84 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 3: must defend themselves against prospective cyber attacks. 85 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: Thanks John, Joshua Ian Larkin, thirty eight, leaves his mom's 86 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: home in Kirbyville, Texas to go hunting at a friend's 87 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: private property in Call, Texas. The next day, that friend 88 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: calls Larkin's mom to ask where is Joshua. He says 89 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: cars parked outside, but Joshua's not there. Joshua Larkin not 90 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: seen or heard from since November twenty twenty two. He's 91 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: six feet tall, brown hair, green eyes. He's got a 92 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: tattoo of his last name Larkin l A R K 93 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: I N on his back. If you have info on 94 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: Joshua Ian Larkin. Please contact Newton County, Texas Sheriffs four 95 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: zero nine three seven nine thirty six thirty six for 96 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice needs. Go to crime online 97 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.