Crime Alert 07.11.24

Ph.D. Student kills family friends' newborn twin. This online-dater takes extreme measures to avoid a date!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime alert.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I mean see grace breaking crime news now. Ethan and
Savannah Katz ask a close friend, Nicole Verzi, to babysit
Leon and Ari. They're six week old twins, just for
the day while they catch up on sleep. After several
hours with the boys, the babysitter rushes the two to
the hospital. Nicole Versey claims Leon fell from his bouncer

(00:25):
chair while she was preparing a bottle. The baby has
a skull fracture and multiple brain bleeds. Leon dies. Doctors
say there's no way Leon's injuries were an accident. Ari
also shows signs of abuse.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Nancy Versy is a fifth year PhD student studying depressions
effects on human behavior and physical health. Visi's lawyer describes
her as a longtime family friend with the catsas adding
that his client is backed by a quote loving and
supportive family. Versy is now held at the Allegant County Jail.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Nicole Verse twenty nine, pleads not guilty to homicide, ag assault,
and endangering welfare of children. Samey or Thomas eighteen, chats
online with a potential date for about a week before
they decide to meet in person. As the date walks
up the front drive. She suddenly gets cold feet, but
instead of canceling, she calls nine to one one, telling

(01:24):
the operator her quote abusive ex boyfriend refuses to leave
and is threatening to hurt her. Iowa CAUs meet the
confused man as he's leaving Thomas's front yard. He shows
him the messages between the two to prove he's never
even met Sameya Thomas. Officers turn their attention to the
teen girl, Samaya Thomas, now charged with a fake nine

(01:46):
one one call and making false statements to police. Beware
date number two. More crime and justice news after this.
Now with the latest crime and justice break needs fime onlines,
John Linley.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
We began on the West Coast, as authorities say, a
man who prosecutors have accused of stabbing five people, two
fatally and a July fourth attack in a California beach town,
has now been charged with murder with Moore. Here's Sidney
Sumner of Crime Online.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Twenty six year old Logan Christopher Kelly faces charges of murder,
attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and battery on
a police officer. Prosecutors have applied the special circumstance of
multiple murders provision, which could result in the death penalty
or life without parole. The violent incident occurred just after
eleven pm in Huntington Beach, where a group was watching fireworks.

(02:38):
According to prosecutors, Kelly, under the influence of alcohol and
hallucinogenic drugs, began stabbing people with a knife. The attack
claimed the lives of forty two year old Eric Hodges
and forty seven year old William Collins. Three others were injured,
two thirty five year old men and one of their fathers,
aged sixty eight, who are expected to survive. Kelly, who
hails from nearby Redondo Beach, did not know any of

(02:59):
the victim. Bystanders, including a sixteen year old boy, managed
to detain him until police arrived. Kelly is also accused
of assaulting the boy, spitting on a police officer, and
using a racial slur during his arrest. The intersection where
the attack occurred is about five blocks from the beach.
On the fourth of July, thousands of revelers flocked to
the city to watch the annual Independence Day parade as

(03:20):
well as the city fireworks display, which began around nine pm.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
The horrific event was part of a series of violent
incidents across the country on the fourth of July, resulting
in at least thirty three deaths, including eleven in Chicago.
The holiday remains one of the deadliest days in the
United States each year thanks John.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Janet Walt, seventy, lives alone shell Er Township, Pennsylvania, but
she enjoys frequent visits from her daughter. Janet attends physical
therapy once a week to deal with mobility issues, but
calls to cancel her appointment the very next day. When
Janet's daughter shows up for dinner. The next evening, she
can't mom. Janet's silver twenty eighteen Chevy Tracks is missing

(04:06):
from the driveway, along with her purse, but her cell
phone is on the charger upstairs. Searches of the area
turn up nothing. Her car, with Pennsylvania license plate KKAP
of T TARUS W six zero zero seven has never
been found. Janet Walsh now missing four years five three, short,

(04:31):
white hair, hazel eyes, about two hundred pounds. If you
have info on Janet Walsh, called Alleghany County, Pennsylvania PD
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dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace