Driver found with a dead body in his car during a traffic stop isn't collared, free to leave! Bear escapes the LA fires in the crawl space of a home!

For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.com

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sudiksha Konanki and five college friends arrive in the Dominican Republic on March 3. They have booked rooms at the all-inclusive resort Rio Republica in Punta Cana. A couple of days later, Sudiksha and her friends are dancing in a disco, when the resort experiences a 25-hour power outage in some areas. Some reports say that’s when the group of 6 women and two men decide to go for a moonlight walk on the beach. Surveillance videos document Sudiksha Konanki and 5 women, along with 2 men walking toward the beach. About an hour later, surveillance footage shows five women and one man leaving the beach. Konanki apparently stays behind on the beach with Joshua Riibe, a 24-year-old spring breaker from the U.S.

After the night on the beach, Konanki's friends, go on an excursion that Konanki had not signed up for, so they don't miss her as they head out. It is only after Sudiksha's friends return that afternoon, they realize they don't know where Sudiksha is. Tracking down Joshua Riibe, he says he passed out on the beach and when he awoke, he was alone and went to his hotel room assuming Konanke had already done the same, but it had been 12 hours since she was last seen.

Joshua Riibe spent hours being questioned by Dominican Republic authorities over the weekend, including hours of grilling by Attorney General, Yeni Berenice Reyunoso and Navy Vice Admiral Agustin Morillo Rodriguez. Now, Riibe’s passport has been confiscated, and he is not free to leave. Reportedly, Riibe is escorted by police wherever he goes.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

• Sheriff Mike Chapman - Loudoun County, Virginia, hometown sheriff
• Eric Faddis - Trial Lawyer and TV Legal Analyst, Founding Partner of Varner Faddis Elite Legal, former felony prosecutor and current criminal defense and civil litigation attorney
• Dr. Chloe Carmichael - Clinical Psychologist, Author: ‘Nervous Energy: Harness The Power of Your Anxiety”, Twitter: @DrChloe, drchloe.com
• Irv Brandt - Former Senior Inspector, US Marshals Service International Investigations Branch, Chief Inspector, DOJ Office of International Affairs; Country Attache, US Embassy Kingston, Jamaica. Author: “SOLO SHOT: CURSE OF THE BLUE STONE” available on Amazon
• Ben Dobrin - Emergency Response Diving Instructor and Instructor Trainer, Police Diver, Emergency Services Diver
• Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", @JoScottForensic
• Emily Leayman - Northern Virginia Local Editor for Patch.com, patch.com, X: @EmilyLeayman

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boss found standing over his employee with a gun in a McDonald's parking lot. Scorned woman vandalizes the wrong car!

For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.com

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kouri Richins' defense alleges the Summit County Sheriff’s Office illegally obtain evidence while investigating the death of Eric Richins. Defense attorneys Kathy Nester and Wendy Lewis say detectives violated Richins' constitutional rights and are arguing that evidence be ruled inadmissible during the her murder. At the center of the motion is the "Walk the Dog" letter, and data from her phone and Apple accounts.

Defense attorneys argue investigators took Kouri’s phone without a proper warrant and did not inform her right to remain silent, her right to ask for a lawyer and her right to refuse questioning.

This case begins when on more than one occasion, Eric Richins gets violently ill after having dinner with his wife, Kouri.

Then the pair, who own a successful real estate business, is celebrating a big sale when Kouri Richins fixes her husband a drink. She then goes to take care of the children. Hours later when she goes to bed Eric Richins is dead.

Investigators believe his wife killed him, putting an overdose of fentanyl in his drink. Police also discover that Kouri Richins tried to change the beneficiary to her husband's life insurance.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

• Jeffrey Wolf - Criminal Defense Attorney; Twitter: @JeffWolf5280 and @WolfLawLLC
• Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA.- Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital
• Bobby Chacon- Former Special Agent FBI, Screenwriter for “Criminal Minds;” Instagram/Twitter: @BobbyChaconFBI
• Dr. Paul Christo - Opioid Expert, Associate Professor for The John Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine; Author and Host of "Aches & Gains: A Comprehensive Guide To Overcoming Your Pain"
• Dr. Kendall Crowns- Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
• Jen Smith- Chief Reporter for DailyMail.com, Twitter: @jen_e_smith

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On a camping trip to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary, Joseph Ferlazzo, 42, and his wife, Emily Jean Schwartz, 22, got into an argument. This much is understood.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and the evidence that will reveal who is telling the truth—the prosecution or the defense. The defense claims the couple argued, and Emily stormed out of the converted bus, never to be seen again.

Prosecutors allege that Ferlazzo shot his wife twice in the head and dismembered her on the bus.

Transcribe highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

03:29.92 Sharing camping stories

08:00.53 Husband twice as old as wife

14:20.33 Returns home without wife

19:16.42 Relax by getting away

24:26.58 Wife is supposedly in the woods, alone for days

28:35.69 Husband claims he is the victim

33:06.37 Dismembering the body

37:49.67 Father's wife died, never charged

41:25.68 Conclusion

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Franke and his two oldest children have opened up for the first time together to tell their story of living with infamous vlogger Ruby Franke. Hulu's docuseries Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke reveal the disturbing details of the abuse endured by the Franke children and how husband Kevin was isolated from his children during his year-long separation from their mother.

We learned of the horrendous abused when Franke's 12-year-old son climbs out of a window in a home, belonging to Franke's business partner Jodi Hildebrandt. The boy running to neighbors begging for food and water.

Neighbors called police. Officers said the boy looked emaciated and malnourished. Cops also noted that the boy had “deep lacerations from being tied up with rope” and duct tape around his wrists and ankles.. After searching Hildebrandt’s home, police found Franke’s 10-year-old daughter in a similar condition. Both children were taken to a hospital.

Franke's parenting channel "8 Passengers," which at one time boasted over 2 million followers, doled out parenting advice, and in her video, she admits to withholding food as a form of punishment.

Both women charged and convicted with aggravated child abuse. Kevin Frank admits he is still in love with his soon-to-be ex-wife.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

• Donna Kelly – Former Utah Senior Deputy District Attorney and Attorney for Crime Victims Legal Clinic; Helped form the Utah County Sex Crimes Task Force
• Dr. Dana Anderson – Forensic Psychologist and consultant, court appointed expert witness, Twitter: @psychologydrcom, TikTok: @psychologydr
• Jason Jensen – Private Investigator (Jensen Private Investigations), Cold Case Expert (Salt Lake City, UT), and Co-founder: “Cold Case Coalition;” Investigations; Twitter: @JasonJPI, Facebook/Instagram: “Jensen Investigations”
• Dr. Free N. Hess – Pediatrician/Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Child Safety Expert & Consultant, Founder of www.PediMom.com
• Emily Ashcraft- Reporter for KSL.com in Utah; Twitter: @emilyjaneen3

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Breaking crime news as it happens throughout the day! Follow "Crime Alert Hourly Update" now on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/Crime_Alert

Here's are some of our top stories this week:

Sudiksha Konanki and five friends are staying at the Rio Republica in Punta Cana. The young woman doesn't return after a late night walk on the beach.

Sean "Diddy" Combs appeared in court this week, grey-haired and defiant, pleading not guilty to an expanded indictment.

The death of a Columbine High School survivor has been classified as a homicide

Remains of missing 16-year-old Miranda Corsette found in a dumpster.

In Washington state, a man is shot during an argument over discarded chicken bones outside a grocery store

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elizabeth Johnson gives birth to a boy on May 3.

She and Logan McQueary name him Gabriel. Logan says Johnson has trouble adjusting to motherhood. When Gabriel cries, Johnson sometimes puts him in a room by himself so she does not have to hear him.

After a heated argument with Logan in June over her parenting, Johnson flies to Boston with Gabriel to visit her grandmother. Returning to Arizona in August, she meets Tammi Peters Smith during an airport layover in Indianapolis. Johnson, crying and holding Gabriel, attracts Smith’s attention, leading to a conversation about Smith and her husband adopting the baby.

Johnson returns to Arizona without Gabriel. The baby is later found safe at the Peters Smith residence. After Gabriel’s return to Arizona, a family court judge grants joint custody to Johnson and Logan, with Johnson having Gabriel first. Three days later, when Logan tries to pick him up, Johnson tells him he will never see his son again.

Johnson initially claims she smothered Gabriel and dumped his body, but Logan does not believe her. Police confirm Johnson drove with Gabriel from Tempe to San Antonio, Texas, and was last seen with him nine days later. The next morning, she boards a Greyhound bus to Miami alone. She later tells officers she gave Gabriel to a couple at a park near their hotel. Despite extensive searches and investigations, Gabriel, who would now be 15, has never been found.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

• Logan McQueary - Father of missing Gabriel Johnson
• Sandy Peters - Great Aunt of missing Gabriel Johnson
• Tim Maloney - Logan McQueary’s Lawyer, Law Offices of Maloney & Campolo;@MaloneyCampolo (X, FB)
• Caryn Stark - Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; @carynpsych (Insta), Caryn Stark Private Practice (FB)
• Abel Peña - Former FBI Agent, Director of Project Absentis [a nonprofit organization with a mission to offer investigative assistance to families of missing persons]; Project Absentis (FB, TikTok, Linkedin)
• Yami Virgin - Anchor / Reporter at KABB and WOAI in San Antonio; Facebook: @yamivirgintv (FB) @Yami_Virgin (Insta)

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.