Handcuffed Over Hot Dogs: Child Chained to Basement Oil Tank After Mom Says He Ate Too Much | Crime Alert 6AM 01.21.26
In Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Chazzity Candelario says she was trying to keep her son from eating too many hot dogs when she chained him to an oil tank. A Louisiana child abuse case is unfolding after a kindergarten age boy is found dead weighing less than a house cat, and investigators say his parents starved him to death. Human trafficking fears intensify in the search for a missing Texas teenager after a nonprofit group says it received a phone call believed to be from the girl herself. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
21 Tammi 7min
Man Continues to Stalk "Terrified" Nashville Teen After She Receives Letter From Behind Bars | Crime Alert 12PM 01.20.26
First, he watched her through her window, took her bike, was caught hiding in the woods behind her home, now the accused stalker sent a teen a letter from prison. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20 Tammi 5min
Man Guilty of Stabbing Woman In DC Hotel During Random Act Of Violence Gets 40 Years in Prison | Crime Alert 8AM 01.20.26
Christy Bautista, 31, had arrived shortly before 5:30 p.m. on the day of the incident, having traveled from her home in Harrisonburg, Virginia to attend a concert in the city. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20 Tammi 5min
A Dispute Turns Deadly: Missouri Man Says He Shot His Neighbor in Self-Defense | Crime Alert 6AM 01.20.26
A Missouri man is charged with gunning down his neighbor in a violent confrontation that ended a lengthy history of harassment. A Tennessee church deacon was arrested and charged with nine counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor after his wife found photos and videos on his phone of a teenage babysitter using their bathroom. A US Bureau of Land Management officer has been charged with second degree murder after a drunken brawl at a Wyoming bar last week left a man dead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20 Tammi 6min
A Dispute Turns Deadly: Missouri Man Says He Shot His Neighbor in Self-Defense | Crime Alert 6AM 01.20.26
A Missouri man is charged with gunning down his neighbor in a violent confrontation that ended a lengthy history of harassment. A Tennessee church deacon was arrested and charged with nine counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor after his wife found photos and videos on his phone of a teenage babysitter using their bathroom. A US Bureau of Land Management officer has been charged with second degree murder after a drunken brawl at a Wyoming bar last week left a man dead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20 Tammi 6min
Restaurant That Served Federal Agents Shuts Down After Feds Return to Arrest Them | Crime Alert 4PM 01.19.26
Federal immigration agents sit down for lunch at a family-owned Mexican restaurant in small-town Willmer, Minnesota—then return hours later to detain the people who served them. A Texas fugitive wanted in a death investigation is arrested wearing a hoodie with a message that stuns investigators: “I will put you in a trunk and help people look for you. Stop playing with me.” Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
19 Tammi 5min
An Alabama Mystery Endures as Three Men Who Vanished in 1956 Have Yet to Be Found | Crime Alert 6AM 01.13.2026
• Seventy years later, an Alabama disappearance remains the state’s longest-running cold case • Mississippi authorities charge a suspect after six people are killed in a series of shootings • A former federal agent goes on trial in Virginia in the deaths of his wife and another man • Florida schedules its first execution of the year in a case dating back to 1989See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
13 Tammi 6min
Judge Reverses Course: Luigi Mangione Wins, Judge Will Conduct Backpack Search Hearing | Crime Alert 3PM 01.12.26
In a surprising turn of events on Monday, a federal judge announced plans to conduct an evidentiary hearing to assess whether the seizure and search of Luigi Mangione's backpack at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during his arrest was conducted legally.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12 Tammi 6min
