Crime Wire Weekly 7/27/26 | Taco Bell Temper Tantrums, “Gooner” Trends & a $600 Million Manhunt

0:16 Everyone, Welcome back to Crime WHI are weekly excited to bring you the topics for today, and this is an extra episode. You might be thinking it's Monday. Hey, sometimes a Monday can suck. We're gonna make it better for you. That's true, that's right. Mondays are always active, but we're gonna make it better for you because you're gonna have a little news to listen to today. Just a lot going on that we couldn't cover only on Friday Show. So here we are, and we're gonna start it off with Boozy Badass. He is in the news again, Kelly Jennings. I have a soft spot for him. I like him. I like his music, There's no doubt about it. And uh he is apparently entangled in a Trump pardon scam that has gone absolutely viral. Pretty wild stuff there. We're going to talk about it. Stephanie Purdue, A lot of people are familiar with that case. She has been convicted in a bizarre murder. For higher plot, we're gonna go to Louisiana where a man has been arrested and has ties to some missing person cases in the area. We're going to talk about it. The Dollar Tree Gooner trend.

1:23 Have you heard of that? I have now and don't mess with my dollar treat Yeah, that is a place I love to be. Woman, And you're going in Dollar Tree, you better be aware of your surroundings. And we're going to tell you why some shocking statistics there. We're going to go on the true crime time machine. Of course, we're also going to go to elderly outlaws. These old people be wild and out there. We're going to tell you about a former prosecutor who is accused of repeat attempts to poison her husband. The FBI has arrested a man on the Most Wanted Less Look. They're killing it for one on Friday with the FBI arresting the boater. Yeah, if you'll remember the guy, it's been on a boat for twenty years. Well, they've now arrested a man who is accused of embezzling get this six hundred million dollars from medicare.

2:14 I'm again we are in the wrong business. We are in the wrong business. We're going to talk about that. I came up with a new segment and it might only be a one episode, so. One off, a one hit wonder, but I'm gonna call it. Karen's gone wild, Karen, Karen's gone, because there is a Karen that you're gonna have to hear about the Long Island Lolita. You remember her? I do. She might have been a little before you, it was, but I know it. Okay, Well, her son has been arrested in Florida, so we're going to talk about that. A lot of interesting stuff to get to. So welcome to Crime War Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings. Kelly second day, well not the second day in a row because we had a weekend mixed in, but we're bringing him even more entertainment.

2:58 You know what, I really I really like doing these stories, you know, because we get to stay up to day. But do you know when people always reach out to us and they go, y'all are like siblings. One person asked me if you were my brother the way that we like from another. Yeah. So no, we're just friends. So we just you know, we'll banter and argue with each other, but we get over it. That's right. That's right. We show back up. That's right, We show back up all day every day. All right, let's get into it. We're gonna start off in Baton Ridge, Louisiana and Boozy Badass also known as Torres. Hatch Torrance Torrance Hatch. Yeah yeah, he was at Angola for a hot minute. That's right. He was yep, but he wasn't. He was out.

3:38 He's out and then he made something of himself. Well. He is suing two controversial political operatives after paying them six hundred thousand dollars to secure a presidential pardon from Donald Trump that never materialized. The Baton Ridge native known for hits like Wipe Me. Down, White Me Down, is I'm all you're not. Going to continue to sing I fuck? Kelly was going to continue singing it? Well, he's known for that song. He has become embroidled in this deal with these guys that's led to some pretty ongoing problems. Boozy. He pleaded guilty to being a felling in possession of a firearm, and we brought you that story, I believe on this show.

4:23 Actually it's stemmed from a twenty twenty three arrest and in January of twenty twenty six, he was sentenced to time serve ten days plus three years of supervised release, but he sought a full pardon to clear his record now. According to the lawsuit, Boozy signed the agreement with Jacob Wall and Jack Berkman of jam Berkman and Associates. This is in late September of twenty twenty five. The firm pitched itself as having deep connections in Trump's orbit. Quote, they were real aggressive and they act like they had Trump on speed dial, Busy said. The contract reportedly required the full six hundred grand up front, with a provision for three hundred thousand refunds if no pardon could be secured by a specified deadline. Now. Tensions escalated around the new year. On New Year's Eve, Bertman allegedly texted that the pardon was quote in hand and ready to sign.

5:20 Boozy's lawyer Meghan Blanco received to call, claiming Trump signed it and the White House simply hadn't announced it yet, but that pardon never surfaced. A White House aid later confirmed to Blanco that no application for Boozy had been filed and the clemency team had never heard of Wall or Bertman. Row officials reportedly warned that their involvement could harm applicants' chances. Boozy filed for arbitration in March of twenty twenty six through the American Arbitration Association to recover the three hundred thousand dollars. While and Bertman had refused, disputing the refund claw and claiming their firm is effectively bankrupt due to millions and prior fines from a robocall scheme targeting black voters and other issues, Bertman defended their efforts, saying, quote, Boozy has no reason to be unhappy. In thirty years of lobbying, I doubt we have ever done more work or harder work. The provision in the contract he is referencing was never agreed to at all. The other factors that Boozy's quest for a pardon was made much tighter and tougher by an arrest for a crime of violence in Texas earlier this year, we tried very very hard.

6:35 Boozy had taken the social media to voices frustration. He posted messages, you know, basically questioning where this money went and alleging the operatives claims were false. And so as of now he has not received a pardon and continues his legal battle to recoup refunds. So, you know, at first, when I jumped on you know, reading or the story I'm thinking, how can cold he be? How could he just give up six hundred grand like that for something so easily. But you know, I looked up online too. There's a it's this website OpenSecrets dot org. But it does say that this agency is a lobbying firm.

7:16 But when you look at so total compensation that says in twenty twenty five was up ninety two point eight percent. So I'm like, well, how did they get they have such greater gains than they had in the in the past. And it said that they have fifty one clients on file, but Boosey wasn't his their number one client. Their number one client was a guy it says, Joseph Schwartz, and he gave nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars to their agency. And then there's there's a doctor on here. There's even a Rhino like general contractors with the I don't know if it's I'm not saying it's Rhino lining, but it's Rhino. So there's there's other groups in here too that have given a lot of money. Alpush Patel eighty five grand, uh Rhino Inc. Forty five grand, Eclipse Therapeutics, and So this is all I'm going to say allegedly because I don't you know, I can't confirm that anything that's on the site is true. But it looks like there's only fifty one clients, but a lot of these clients it has zero dollars next to their name. So it seems to me like this really might be a scam, because why would you say, give me six hundred thousand and then if we can't get it done, I'll give you back three hundred thousand. I mean that just sounds like, well, give me three hundred thousand.

8:27 This is what it sounds like to me. It sounds like this is a it's definitely a legit firm. I mean, they're robbing firm. All they do is they basically speak on your behalf and lobby for you to get a pardon. Yeah, but they can't guarantee that. If they could guarantee it, everybody be paying them a million dollars. So what they say is, Okay, we're gonna invest this much time in getting you a pardon, so boozy, give us six hundred thousand. If we can't secure it, we're going to give you three hundred thousand back. Because they've done all this work, and I guess get compensated for that. But I read too or did you say that there were typos and stuff in the. Count where typos in the contract? Uh? Yeah, it was definitely sketch, sketch and not very well. I think all that sketch. I don't think you should have lobbying firms for pardons. Yeah, I mean it just average.

9:20 Joe couldn't do that, you know. And and that's not the law is supposed to be in this Country's supposed to be, you know, blind to what your status is or you know, and it's supposed to be weighing you and measuring us all on an equal playing field. And when money becomes the deciding factor of a pardoner, not that that's not fair. Right, and it certainly there's pardons throughout history where it was legit pardons like like the person wasn't rich, it's just their story got out and they got a pardon for whatever reason. Uh. In this case though, it seems like Boozy was getting taken advantage of it. But it seems like he's fighting back to you soon them uh in court. And and maybe he'd get some money for that if they're on good financial footing.

10:04 Yeah, well they have money somewhere. Definitely have six hundred grand. Yeah, yeah, he gave it and it said they made over three million on that thing that I was looking at last year. So yeah, I'm on team Boosey right now, and I say we do this. Boozy. Tell them that I said this, and I'm just going to pull this out of the sky. But if they want to talk shit, they want to run their mouth, they want some gangsters outside their house. Set that bitch off, Set that bitch off. There we go take it too, fut I did, But I like Boozy, all right. So let's go to Milton, Florida, where a Santa Rosa County jury has convicted Stephanie Michelle Perdue of orchestrating a brazen murder for higher scheme from behind bars to kill her then husband Sean Perdue after she allegedly shot him in the throat in a separate domestic violence incident that he miraculously survived. So the verdict brings a dramatic clothes to one of Santa Rosa County's longest running criminal cases, spanning years of delay, continuances and intense legal maneuvering. Prosecutors argue that Perdue was driven by a toxic relationship and a desire to eliminate her husband as a witness or an obstacle. So she first tried to kill him herself, and then when that failed, she enlisted others, including her boyfriend, to finish the job using lethal fentanyl doses and cash incentives. So the case traces back to April of twenty twenty two, when deputies responded to a domestic disturbance at little Man's Paint and Body Shop in Milton. First, that's what a name for little Man?

11:34 I wonder if that was his nick nickname? It was get to it all right. So, according to authorities, Stephanie Perdue, then fifty years old, arrived unannounced and shot her husband Sean in the throat. Sean survived the attack. Perdue was arrested and charged with aggravated battery involving great bodily harm by discharging a firearm. She claimed self defense, alleging her husband had become violent during an argument. She was released on bond, but later violated a domess violence in junction obtained by her husband, landing her right back in the Santa Rosa County Jail. So while incarcerated, prosecutor Say Perdue hatched the murder for hire plot with the help of her boyfriend, So this guy at the time he was fifty one, David Paul Ballier.

12:15 She allegedly approached at least two inmates who were confidential informants who reported her to authorities, and she promised them thousands of dollars in cash, her home, her husband's business, and she would also promise them protection if they would kill Sean, who is referred to by Purdue as little Man, by using those lethal doses of fentanel upon their release. So one informant was reportedly promised ten grand and they were using code words like attorney and references to quote unquote party planning for her quote unquote grandma, And that was all used to just hide the plot as they discussed it. Baller reportedly assisted by sharing personal details about Sean and attempting to help bond an informant out of jail.

13:00 Investigators staged a fake death notification to Purdue, which I love when they do that, I love it. And then sometimes when they go to the extent of like having pictures that they put makeup. That shit is so legit. I love it. But they staged a fake death notification to Purdue, noting that she didn't appear overly upset When informed he was alive. She reportedly expressed relief, and evidence prosecutors used to really underscore the scheme's seriousness of what was going on. Purdue and Ballyer were arrested in February of twenty three on charges including criminal conspiracy to commit a felony, a capital felony, and criminal solicitation to commit a capital felony. Each charge carries up to thirty years in prison. The conspiracy case, which is being handled by the Assistant State Attorney Mark Alderman, was repeatedly delayed and described as his longest pending matter in the county. A key pre trial ruling allowed evidence from the shooting to be introduced into the murder for hirer trial to establish motive, specifically that produce sought to eliminate the key eye witness in the initial attack. So you know, if you're not aware of this, you know, just because you have a past, it doesn't mean that that pass can be used in you a future case. But in this instance it's got to be used in the scope of establishing Look, she tried before, and now she's doing it again. So Purdue pleaded not guilty to the charges, and defense attorneys argued against the admissibility of certain evidence, citing potential prejudice, but the court went ahead and moved forward. After hearing testimony

14:30 from investigators, confidential informants, and others detailing the jailhouse communications, offers for payment, and the fentnel plan, the jury returned a guilty verdict on the conspiracy and solicitation charges. Details of the exact counts and any recommendations for sentencing were not available at the time of this recording, but convictions on these felonies typically result in significant prison time. The aggravated battery case from the shooting remains separate but tied with that same underlying motive. According to the process secutors now, Sean Perdue, who has endured years of delays while seeking to move forward with his life, has expressed relief at the outcome. In statements leading up to this resolution, the sheriff's officials, including the former sheriff Bob Johnson, had publicly described this case as a twisted love story, including Purdue and volar rather than her marriage, which is kind of an interesting take. The sentencing for Stephanie is expected in the coming weeks before a Santa Rosa County Circuit judge.

15:29 I mean, why can't we all just get along talk about a rough divorce. It's gotta be one of the worst shows up. Sheots her husband in the neck and he miraculously survives that, and she ends up going to jail for it and recruits two other dudes to kill him. To know that somebody is willing to go to such links to end your life must be just a nerve racking, you know, experience, because you don't know who's after you. She's hired, trying to hire people and the scum of the earth and telling them where you live, you know. And to look at this lady's picture, I mean she doesn't.

16:09 I guess you never know what a killer looks like, but she doesn't look like just a stone cold killer. Like to this level. To go keep going it, Just divorce his ass and be done. Bro, move on. Even when you're in prison. You got a whole last boyfriend and you're still trying to kill your ex. Let's go to Tennessee and a nineteen year old Taco Bell employee in Tennessee was arrested after she allegedly through boiling water on a coworker. Malaya Henderson was arrested on aggravated assault. This is on Sunday, July nineteenth, according to the Shelby County Criminal Justice Division, so the Memphis Police Department responding to an armed person call at a Taco Bell in Memphis. This is shortly after five pm that day.

16:56 Upon their arrival, officers were told an employee had been transported to. A burn center. After employees and officer spoke with the man at the hospital, he alleged that Henderson had thrown a pot of bowling water onto his lap. Police said they reviewed video footage showing Henderson throwing the pot of bowling water at that mail employee and advised the man and they were advised at the man sustained second degree burns following the alleged incident. The mail employee, who was not scheduled to work that day, was visiting the business while Henderson was on the clock. Henderson told the police that he had been at the restaurant since early that morning and he said this guy kept getting mad at him. That day. He just kept saying a whole bunch of inappropriate things that I did not like. He kept coming into my personal space. I kept telling him, hey, man, can you back up. Police said that Henderson and the mail employee, who was not identified, were engaged in a kind of like a playful banner before the incident took place. The man claimed while speaking to police, and Henderson playfully snatched away a second T shirt he was carrying, which caused him to respond by grabbing Henderson's iPad, which was located near the register. The victim then proceeded to place the iPad in a trap near a trash can inside of that business. Henderson became upset with the victim and told him that she was going to burn him with hot water. Henderson is accused

18:27 of them retrieving the pot of hot water from the kitchen and threw it at the mail employee as he sat inside the restaurant. Henderson said the last straw was when he took her iPad. Quote, before you know it, I blanked out after asking him many times to give me my iPad. Right before you know it. Once I blanked out, I was just pouring water on it. Henderson was released from jail on Wednesday, July twenty second after pasting a five thousand dollars mind and has the next court date schedule for August twenty seven. Sounds like it sounds just like high school because that's exactly how the fights start, is those kids keep messing without.

19:07 Boiling water. That's what I was about to say, though, because but I always the boys would start play fighting. I'm like, y'all, quit, it's going to turn into something that you know it doesn't need to turn into. And that's exactly how that goes, even if they said it. But you know, you go to the extent of injuring somebody like that. I mean, second degree burns is more than just a superficial like burn. I mean that goes down to this blisters down to the second layer of skin. So, uh, you know, you might need some anger management, ma'am. You can't flash out and be burning people like that, even if they touch your iPad. Yeah, that's that's actually pretty horrific. And look, bowling waters no joke. I mean that's a bad way to to get a beaty. You know, I have to tell you this real quick. My we need dog at my house. Toby Okay, he is a noble steed, and so he will follow you and he will protect you around the yard. Well, my husband was boiling crawfish, okay, and I went inside the house and next thing I know, I hear my dog's screaming bloody murder. And I go running out there and my husband's like, I don't know what happened, And I look down. Poor Toby was when he pulled the crawfish out.

20:10 He was walking, you know, escorting my husband, and it poured on his back. It melted my dog's back, and it took us weeks to like like, sure, get it better or whatever. Do you know, I mean, he still hasn't grown any of his hair back or anything. And they said that it was second degree burns that he got, and you know that to this day is like this destroyed patch on his little back. He did make it through. So I can't imagine if they poured it down your whole lap, that must have covered his whole, like his thighs and everything. Huh ew, that's gonna be a long recovery. That was a long story about that. But like burns ain't no damn joke. Right, all right, we're about to talk about a story now that should get the attention of every woman in America, not only for what happened, but where it's happening. Because a new investigative report has brought attention to a disturbing pattern of sexual assaults targeting women at the Dollar Tree. But this is across the United States, with some incidents tied to an online subculture and men filming the acts. So, according to a lengthy investigation by the Guardian, multiple women have reportedly been assaulted while shopping at various Dollar Tree locations, and the trend has been referred to online as this is a direct quote the Dollar Tree. Gooner. Okay, gooner goo n e R so I know, especially when you hear what it is.

21:31 So gooner draws from an internet subculture centered on prolonged compulsive masturbation known as gooning, like how how did we get here? Guys? Like how are we masturbation? Gooning? You got to get a good gooning in every now and then, I guess so. Related acts of public sexual misconduct tarting unsuspecting women have been described in some online communities, with the t such as tagging or sharking tagging to me means when you go when you spray paint the side of a building, you know, like gangs will go tag the buildings in their neighborhoods. But now it's we're masturbating.

22:14 So one case highlighted the reporting involving a woman who was shopping at a Dollar Tree in Texas. Now this was in twenty twenty three, and she reported that a man assaulted her in a manner that involved bodily fluid So when she informed store employees, she overheard a worker remark in Spanish something to the effect of we've got another one, according to the account, so that would tell you what it's been happening over and over. So the woman later learned of similar reports at other locations, and her attorney and A. Greenberg, told The Guardian that the scale of the problem was larger than initially expected. Greenberg has represented multiple women alleging comparable assaults at Dollatry stores in different states, so this included Texas, Florida, California, and Colorado.

22:57 In a separate high profile incident that was in Philadelphia in twenty twenty four, a woman recorded the aftermath of an alleged assault in which a man had ejaculated on her inside a dollar tree. Video of her pursuing the suspect and reacting in distress was online. It circulated wildly, and the man was identified as thirty five year old Gary Miles, who later turned himself into police and faced charges including indecent assault, indecent assault. What type of assault is decent? We don't know, guys, all right, so indecent assault, open lewdness, and harassment. The case gained attention after the rapper, meek Mill, publicly offered a bounty for information leading to the suspect's location. Meek Mill man, he made the new memory.

23:44 He was tied up in the diddy thing, right, all right. So. Additional reports and lawsuits have documented similar incidents in other cities and Houston, a woman said she was assaulted by a man who approached her from behind, made explicit comments, and then left bodily fluids on her clothing while she was shopping with a friend. That was in twenty twenty three, and store staff allegedly indicated it was not an isolated event at that location. Other cases have been reported in places including Miami and San Diego, with some of the women stating they only realized what had occurred after the fact and after reviewing footage, which grosses me out. It makes me feel like they went and got in their car and looked down and found, you know, fluid on their clothing. So attorneys and victims have pointed to factors such as understaffing limited security at the stores that are contributing to the vulnerability of shoppers. And there's lawsuits against the Dollar Tree and related parties that are alleging negligence and addressing reports of these such crimes.

24:41 Yeah, first of all, with technology comes a lot of these issues with these bad actors just figuring out how to exploit it. But besides all that, these challenges, man, these social media challenges are getting way out of hand, not only with gaining or whatever they call that, but you've got the team takeover stuff that they do on TikTok and all of these things. I don't understand them. I don't get it. And to blame the Dollar Tree, I'm not sure I'm on board with that, because you know, if these people are coming in, I think that this should actually be an upgraded charge. I think that this should be considered a sex offense, not just an assault because if you're willing to. It's not like you just flashed yourself, you know what I'm saying, which is not cool either way. But I mean like you're depositing your bodily fluids on somebody, then that's predatory. And when you look at like a sex charge, it'll say, you know, penetration, no matter how slight is the wording in a lot of your sex crimes. So to me, there doesn't have to be penetration for this to be considered a sex crime.

25:55 And so I don't know. I think this should be upgraded and I don't think that it should just be considered just like an indecent assault. This to me, you should be on a registration for shit like this. I really believe that. I truly believe that if you have the gall to go in and publicly ejaculate on somebody, that's more than just being obnoxious. I can't agree with him more. I don't know how you could be that aroused. Yeah I don't either, And you know, belok, ladies be vigilant in the dollars and hit him. Yeah that is not that I probably shouldn't say that, but that is my unsolicited bad advice. Sure you should if somebody's masturbating by you kick him in the ding.

26:35 Dingy, kick him in the ding ding. Let's d gunham, you gunham. All right, let's go on the True Crime Time Machine by Boo booty boo boo boo boom, and we're going to go to South Florida where uh, we're actually going to take you to July twenty seventh of nineteen eighty one. And look, y'all, I remember this like it was yesterday because me and the boy that I'm about to talk about on here were the same age. I thought you're gonna say youll were friends. I don't know why, but we were the same age. And this scared the living daylights out of me because they made it was all over the news, and then they had like TV movies and all these sorts of things. But what occurred was on Monday, July twenty seventh of nineteen eighty one, a six year old boy vanished from a department store in a matter of minutes. What followed would change the way America searched for missing children forever.

27:29 Adam Walsh's mother had taken her son, Adam shopping at a Hollywood mall in Hollywood, Florida, and inside the Seers store, she left him for just a few minutes in the tour department, where a group of older boys were playing video games. When she returned, Adam was gone. A security guard had ordered the boys out of the store for causing a disturbance, and Adam, who was a shy child, apparently left with them or was somehow separated in the confusion outside the store. He disappeared. By the time his mother realized the boy was missing, the boy had already been taken. What Thalib was one of the largest manhunts in Florida history. Posters of the freckle faced boy in the baseball cap flooded the region, and John Walsh, Adam's father, made an emotional public plea as the nation watched. Two weeks later, on August tenth of nineteen eighty one, two fishermen found a child's severed head in a drainage canal off of the Florida Turnpike near Vero Beach, more than one hundred miles north of Mall. It was Adam. His body was never recovered. Now this case remained unsolved for decades.

28:39 In nineteen eighty three, convicted serial killer Otis Toole confessed to the crime, claiming he had lured at him into his car with promises of toys and candy, and then killed him. Now Tool later recanted. Key physical evidence, including bloodstained carpeting from the Cadillac, was lost, and in December two thousand and eight, Hollywood police officially closed the case, saying they were satisfied Tool was responsible. The murder about Adam Walsh did more than devastate the family or one family. It really forced the country to confront how it treated missing children. At the time, there was no national system to quickly share information about abducted kids. There were no Amber alerts, Pictures of missing children didn't appear on milk gardens.

29:28 Adam's parents refused to let their son's death be forgotten. John Walsh became one of the most visible victim advocates advocates in America and later hosted If You'll Remember, the long running TV series America's Most Wanted. The family helped push for the Missing Children's Act and the creation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The image of that little boy left alone in the toyisle still haunts the public imagination on July twenty seventh, nineteen eighty one, a few minutes of ordinary parenting turned into a national tragedy and the beginning of a movement that has helped recover thousands of other children. And that, y'all, happened forty five years ago today, on July twenty seventh, nineteen eighty one.

30:17 I wasn't even born yet, because I wasn't born, you know, until eighty four. But the fact that I grew up knowing this story shows you the impact that this had on everybody. And you know, when when tragedies like this strike, there's nothing you can say or do. I mean, my god, his head was all that was returned to his parents. I mean, how do you even how do you even respond to that or wrap your mind around it? But this much, I know, I am such a fan of people, and I'll say parents, but people that look at a tragedy and then recognize all of the problems that led up to it becoming such a problem, and then they take the they take the initiative to go, oh, hell no, my child is gone. But I refuse to let another parent go through what I have gone through because it has hurt me so bad and so deeply and then to be to just make something of this level out of the loss of Adam. I think that his parents, especially his dad, created a legacy that Adam would be so proud of. And we don't really know what happened to him, you know, we don't know what he went through.

31:25 We don't know, and those unknowns are heartbreaking. But if ever good could come out of evil, his dad got it done. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And I'm not convinced that Otis Tool actually killed Adam Walls. What did Otool? I want to because his first name started with A could be that could be Otis too. Yeah. Yeah, I don't remember being convinced either that he did it, Like maybe he was just trying to take well. He was known for confessing the crimes he didn't commit. Yeah. Uh. He was a horrible serial killer. There's no doubt about it. He was a transiit and he and another serial killer actually would ride the country just killing people.

32:06 Whole another story. But it didn't surprise me that he confessed to it because he was known for confessing to high profile crimes. And this was in nineteen eighty three when he made that confession. And it was a kind of the height of this case, and so it would be typical of him. Now I'm not saying he didn't, but I guess we'll never know. But you're right, I mean in saying turning lemons into lemonade is a really corny way of describing it. But his family really ram with that and did everything they could and made it their life's work in business to like you say, stop this from happening to other children. Horrific. Could not imagine it, and I'm telling you it scared the hell out of kids. Yeah, and remember everybody, parents changed the way they even allowed their kids freedom inside of malls. After that. You didn't take your eyes off your kids, not even if they were on an aisle. You were on the aisle. It never was like that before nineteen eighty one. No, and you never thought somebody would steal your kid. It's crazy how society changed after that incident.

33:23 Even moving forward from that. You know, as a kid in the eighties, you know, Mama let me ride my bike and I'd be gone all day long with my with my buddies in the neighborhood. You know, we check in every now and then, but we got to just play, and the rule was like that, you know, be home when the street light came on. Now you can't even let your kids go play outside really without a fear in the back of your mind that a predator might snatch up your kid. And it's not that it's happening more now. A lot of people go, oh, man, crimes just out of control. Now, I don't think that's the case. I think that just with technology, yeah, and with social media and all that, more we need if you will, we know, and where we used to have to not have to, but where this used to be more hidden in things that you didn't want to share, like the public couldn't take it. Now it's in our face. It's everywhere, and so you know, you have to watch your kids and they unfortunately learned a very very tragic lesson that day that evil's out there. Yeah, you know, all right, let's go to Tennessee where something just mind blowing occurred.

34:27 So tragedy was averted at an afternoon pool party in Tennessee last Wednesday when a child stepped up and went and got help. Because this child witnessed a woman trying to drown another child. Deputies were called to the scene and spoke with multiple witnesses who identified the suspect as thirty one year old mckaylee and I think this is Barny. She had already left the home by the time that deputies got there, but she was Eventually they were able to track her down and take her into custody, where she was charged with aggravated ch wild abuse and neglect. So According to the release, a group of children were left alone in the pool with this woman around five pm that day when one of the children came inside to alert the other that Bernie was forcing one child underwater.

35:15 The adult witness ran outside to the pool and demanded that she released the child, but she wouldn't do it. She wouldn't let go of the kid, and the witness then grabbed Bernie and assisted the child out of the water. Once the child was safe from harm, the adult moved all of the children inside the home and called law enforcement. The Sheriff's Department said another adult arrived and had a brief interaction with Barnie before she left in her vehicle and deputies arrived on scene. Deputies observed that the child had minor injuries and bruising consistent with the alleged attack described to them by eyewitnesses, and Barnie is now being held on a fifty thousand dollars bond at the Washington County Detention Center. You know, that case right there is just disturbing. Why trying to drowned this kid and thank god this other kid?

36:04 Yeah, you know alert, Yeah, what a hero? Seriously, what a hero? I have questions like, and I know we don't know this, but was it a public pool where they had an apartment complex? What was going on? And I don't want to be judgy, but the woman looks like she might be someone who likes to, you know, partake in maybe drugs or something. But I. For sure. But I've mentioned this before, but you know, I have a family member whose child, his life was tragically altered in a situation just like this. But a woman was on drugs and she grabbed I'll say it's my nephew, but it's not quite right, but grab my nephew, jumped in the deep end of the pool and drowned him.

36:47 And so they oh, yeah, they were able to pull him out and he survived, but he's not His life was ruined. I mean, he's you know, he was very much alter. Yeah, he's blind, he's in a wheelchair. He doesn't you know? And why there's no answer. The woman was just I think she was on drugs, but she just snatched him out of his little stroller where he was sitting and jumped in the deep end. There's something to this, evil drugs, whatever it was. But let me tell you whoever that child is deserves an award because he saved a life that day. Absolutely one hundred percent. Let's go to Coleman, Alabama for this week's edition of Elderly Outlaws. And that was kind of a weird get off my lawn.

37:36 I don't know whatever our our interests, what it should be. A seventy five year old Alabama attorney and former prosecutors stands accused of attempting to kill her husband by lacing his food and drink with fentanyl on multiple occasions. Fentanyl again. I'm second story today. Sarah Baker, a longtime lawyer in Coleman, Alabama, with the experience in criminal defense, divorce, and custody cases, was arrested on eleven felon accounts including conspiracy to commit murder, three counts of attempted murder, second degree domestic violence elderly abuse in several drug related offenses. According to the criminal complaint, Baker allegedly put fentanyl in her husband, James Doule Baker's food and drink on at least three dates in September of twenty twenty five, September fourth, the twelfth, and the twentieth.

38:31 The conspiracy charge spans from early September through late November, so she was trying to poison him over time to where it would be harder to detect. Prosecutors claimed Baker engaged with one or more individuals to obtain fentanyl with the intent to cause her husband's death. James Baker reportedly suffered a stroke and relied on his wife as primary caregiver, and he survived the alleged attempts but suffered physical impairment. Of thirty nine year old woman identified as one of Baker's clients and a witness in the case, faces separate charges related to that investigation. She is accused of get this hold onto your seats, swallowing fentanyl in an attempt to destroy the evidence, and processing possessing rather burglary tools.

39:21 Baker was taken into custody on Tuesday, night and later suspended from the Alabama bar I'm gonna get that. The Alabama Supreme Court appointed a special judge to preside over the case. Now, the couple had been married for thirty years, and despite the serious allegations, reports indicate James Baker has expressed a desire to stand by his wife. Why he's a better man than me. Authorities obtained evidence, including a safe containing purple powder that tested positive for fentanyl. Investigators also reviewed communications and witness statements detailing Baker's alleged efforts to procure that drug.

40:04 Former prosecutor, Yeah, that's probably how she learned what to do here and who to contact and all that kind of stuff. But you know, part of me wonders, what, what? What the motive here was? Because didn't I say he suffered as stroke, Yeah, and. That she was his primary caregiver kind of RELI relied on her. I mean, of course, that's no. Motive to kill him, No, no, no, no no. I'm curious though. My mind was going to what is her defense going to be? And I'm want to Yeah, I bet she's going to come back and say compassion, you know, I bet she comes back and says the doctors weren't giving him, you know, what he needed, and this was compassion. And I always trying blah blah blah blah blah blah blah whatever, lady, that ain't how you go about it. And for shame, here for shame. You know, you're there's a lot more expected of someone who is a member of the bar and who.

40:54 Is seventy five years old. Yeah, seventy. This is a absolute page right out of the book of Corey Richins, you know, when she tried to murder her husband and finally got him with the fentanyl. But an elderly, very elderly version of that. And so there you have it. Elderly outlaws, Get off my lawn. I love it. You did a little vocal for us. Perfect. That shirt's got you just films. Yeah, oh, y'all. Kelly hasn't talked about the shirt, but she's in love with the shirt I have. I said he looked like gold Member from uh what was that? Look? If you're watching the Patreon this is l Su gold and it is the last day of SEC media Days and I always wear this every year for that.

41:41 He is the most uh what is the not flamboyant what is it you're you're probably he's got bright He's like bright colors and all that. I come in in my black shirt, you know, every time, and like we're opposites attracting. She's got her yoga pants on her T shirt. She's like, look, gee, what are you wearing that? And I'm like, girl, don't hate on me because I got style and you don't. I said, you need some pants, you need some chan, need some chains in a pinky ring. Broight, Hey, I'll do it, do it. Heartbeat, all right, speaking of being fancy, maybe I could afford better than these leggings in this T shirt if you and I could come up with a scam like this guy. All right, look, I'm telling you I've got I've got our futures planned. A man accused of masterminding a massive Medicare fraud scheme involving more than all right, y'all count okay, five hundred and forty seven million dollars Jesus, oh my god in billings through diagnostic laboratories, including one in Louisiana, has been captured overseas and returned to the US after nearly four years as a fugitive. Khalid Satari was taking it a custody Monday and transported back to the US on Tuesday. According to the FED, The Department of Justice was expected to release further details on the capture.

43:04 Satari has been listed on the FBI's Most Wanted Fraudster list, with a reward of up to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars offered for information leading to his arrest and conviction. So hopefully someone's one hundred and fifty thousand dollars richer right now. Satari was indicted in September of twenty nineteen by the US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, and he faced charges including conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the US and to pay and receive illegal healthcare kickbacks and bribes, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. You know how much paper it takes just to print out his charges. Prosecutors alleged that between twenty sixteen and twenty nineteen, Satari owned and operated multiple diagnostic testing laboratories across the country, including performance laboratories in Oklahoma, Cleo, labs in Georgia and Lazarus services in Louisiana. The labs allegedly build Medicare for expensive, medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests, often generated through telemarketing campaigns, patient recruiters, health farees, and telemedicine arrangements. Tests were sometimes ordered by doctors who did not examine or even speak with the patients. According to the indictment, that's some dirty shit right there.

44:21 Wow. So the laboratories collectively submitted approximately five hundred and forty seven million dollars in claims to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans. Authorities said the programs reimbursed roughly one hundred and thirty four million. Sataried and alleged co conspirat conspirators purportedly paid millions in illegal kickbacks and bribes to doctors and recruiters in exchange for patient referrals, DNA samples, and orders that enabled the billing. Federal authority sees sixteen bank accounts and restrained real estate. That was restrained real estate. I'm sure it's that they took into their custody real estately to Satari as part of the original case. After his indictment, Satari was arrested and released on bond with conditions that prohibited him from working in the healthcare field. While on pre trial release, he allegedly continued involvement with Houston area labs that submitted additional fraudulent genetic testing claims. A federal arrest warrant was issued on November twenty third of twenty twenty two for violating the conditions, but he failed to appear in court and then became a fugitive. The FBI added Satari to its Most Wanted Fraudster list in twenty twenty six, amid a broader national health care fraud enforcement effort.

45:33 Officials noted possible ties or travel to locations including Houston, Atlanta, Delray Beach, Florida, Dubai, the United Arab emortas. How do you say Emirates? Emirates? I don't think I've ever seen ab, Yeah, but I but I have always. Have you ever read a University of Alabama, bir Have you ever read Have you ever read a word wrong your whole life and knew that you didn't know how to pronounce it? No? Never, never, Well, I have, and that I've always said that. As emeirodus in my heads. Cool, I've mispronounced many many words. I just didn't know they were I was. Tested and I'm not perfect, so either way. And so Dubai was listed as one of his possible locations and they got him. He's a little bitty dude.

46:19 Yeah, and uh, you know, when you're wondering why your healthcare is so expensive, there's a good reason for it. Look, five hundred and forty seven million dollars, y'all is a boatload of money. And I know we all know that, but we can't even wrap our minds around the amount of money that this sucker stole. What a piece of trash. And I think you should go to jail for the rest of your life for shit. Like you know what else. I think that these doctors should be held accountable if they didn't even if they didn't even have those patients. You didn't even review those records. But yeah, absolutely no, and I would imagine they will be in the in the end. They're going to run up other people. He was just a ring Later sounds like he owned the companies. But that is a boatload of money, and that is the reason. You know, these frauds that take place, whether it's insurance fraud for cars, you know, car insurance things like that. That is why these things cost so much money for US regular citizens.

47:21 And something like that ought to piss everybody, Yeah. Because we're the ones that are paying the price. And I'm gonna tell you I had to get Jeanetta why they called him. I had to get genetic testing done myself back in the gap because of a cancer issue, and so you know, they drew my blood. I went through the whole process, and you know, they lost it. So the lab contacted me and I had to go through the whole thing again to get that genetic testing done. Now I want to go back and see was that the lab? Yeah, I'd be curious. Might well be? All right? Look, I told you all at the beginning of this one that we were going to have maybe even just a one episode segment. It probably come back every now and then every once in a while we running closs these stories. But we're gonna call this our Karen's Gone Wild segment.

48:07 Let me talk to the manager. There's a sound for you. Very good, Kelly. Well, we've already, as I said, talked about Taco Bell, but we're gonna bring you another one. A thirty year old woman faces multiple charges after pulling a handgun and threatening taco bell employees during a dispute over how long her food order was taken. Ashley Andrews became frustrated while waiting at a Taco Bell when deputies say she engaged in a verbal altercation with staff before escalating the situation dramatically. Restaurant workers told investigators Andrews told them to meet her. Outside, catch me outside, howbut me outside. Lifted her shirt and revealed a loaded firearm and placed her hand on the grip in a threatening manner. Deputies responded quickly detained her without incident. She was arrested and charged with get this several missdemeanors, including that's involving a dangerous weapon, which should be a felony. A second person was involved in the verbal dispute and they were also detained.

49:08 No one was injured, and the loaded hand gun was secured by authorities. So this right here looks like a little care Yeah, this is what bothers me right here, You, ma'am are the prime example of why we have so many gun issues and discussions. In the United States of America. When I'll tell you right now, I am all about carrying a weapon. I'm all about it, but there are there is expectations with a weapon, and that bullshit right there isn't one of them. You know what I'm saying. That is to protect your life or the life of someone else in a liver dye moment. And then you're going to run around wanting to threaten people with a gun. First of all, that is the number one thing that a coward does. A coward flashes a weapon in their pants over fucking taco bell.

49:56 It really bothers me too long, I don't care. They should have taken the dad gum taco and smacked her upside of damn headway. Yeah, well, okay, whatever, But for real, you ma'am, are the You are literally the reason that dumb shit happens. And then law abiding citizens who just want to have a way to protect their families are the ones that are getting shit on because you can't control yourself. There go Ashley and Drewy straight from kJ or. So that's right, let me talk to the manager. All right, This one here is one that I think a lot of people may be familiar with. But the Long Island Lolita, right, yep, So her son, Amy Fisher. Her son is accused of killing his family's pet cat in a manner investigator say may have involved a microwave. So Brett Anthony Bellera twenty five, and his girlfriend, Jennifer or Menti thirty six, are each charged with aggravated animal cruelty in connection with the December twenty twenty four death of their cat, who's unfortunately his name Reaper. It's kind of dark, I do you think all right? So Bellera is the eldest son of Fisher, who pled guilty to aggravated assault in the nineteen ninety two shooting of Mary Joe Buttafuco during an affair with Buttafuco's husband, Joey Well. Fisher was released from prison in nineteen ninety nine after serving seven years. According to a probable cause affidavit, Broward County Animal Care contacted Fort Lauderdale police after Armenti reported that Reaper had died. Armentti allegedly

51:29 told investigators that she woke up and found the cat dead on the bathroom floor. When animal care officers arrived, they allegedly found Reaper's body inside a plastic laundry basket on the back patio with blood pooled at the bottom of the basket. Billera allegedly told investigators that Reaper may have consumed cleaning products and died from accidental poisoning. The cat's body was sent to the ASPCA for a forensic necropsy, according to the affidavit. Well, when that was done, they concluded that Reaper died from UOTE involuntary heat exposure in quote, which the forensic veternarian said may have resulted from microwave radiation, Oh my god, submersion in hot water, or exposure to hot water vapor. The veternarian also concluded that Reaper did not die immediately and experienced severe pain and suffering before his death. Balera was charged in the case while he was already being held on unrelated charges. Our Many was arrested on June seventeenth. So court record show Billera had previously faced charges in Broward County, including burglary, drug possession, and domestic battery. A judge ordered Billera not to possess any animals while on pre trial release in this cruelty case.

52:40 Yeah, and you know what surprised me about that one was mayn they, I guess shout out to the Florida police for taking it that fall. Yeah, they had this, They basically had another an autopsy done on this cap. Yeah, they were so suspicious something was not right here. Yeah, and you look at the tattoos. We have the pictures obviously up if you're watching this podcast, and Jennifer's got a big cross tattooed on her neck. Well, what we think is might be a pentagram. You can't see the rest of it. But you know, like, you're way too damn old to be, first of all, acting like this. You got burglary charges, but obviously y'all are a bunch of numb nuts who are not being official to society. But then to torture something that's supposed to be your pet shows me that y'all are both.

53:33 Yeah, what a shock that this was the Long Islandlito's saw. Yeah, I know, you think she would just raised a gentleman. Imagine that. Who could have thunk it? Never saw that coming, Joey. But if you remember that case, I do very much so. And that poor woman still Fisher, Yeah, suffered a. You know, yeah, shot that woman in the head. She was just in high school at that time, senior in high school. Wild yeah, crazy case. All right, Uh that's all we got for you today. We're not going to go into overtime since issues. This is a just a regular uh you know, extra episode. But Kelly, any final thoughts.

54:13 I sure do have some final thoughts. They are curious about your final thoughts. Sorry, I was all right. Well, my final thoughts are thank you so much for listening. I don't really have any final thoughts this week except very appreciative for all of you that didn't take the show every week. And I want to shout out Miss Laurie Johnson who became a grandmother today, So congratulations Lori Johnson, bestie check thinking about you today. And Miss Bailey, who is the best softball player I ever saw in my life? Is that? Who had the baby? Who had the baby? We welcome to the world, little one. We're glad you're here.

54:54 Yep, yep, And until next time. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings, and we are your host. Of course, I'm Wire Weekly.