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

This special Monday episode is packed with some wild crime related stories. Rapper Boosie Badazz finds himself tangled up in a wild Trump pardon scam that’s raising more questions than answers. A Florida woman named Stephanie Perdue is convicted in a truly bizarre murder-for-hire plot that sounds like it was ripped from a bad movie.
Tempers flare hard at Taco Bell when one man’s rage boils over in spectacular fashion, while another woman completely loses it over a long wait time in a separate fast-food meltdown.  Online, the disturbing “Gooner” trend at Dollar Tree is producing some shocking new stats that have parents and shoppers on edge.
In this week’s True Crime Time Machine, we head back to the case that forever changed how America protects its children: the 1981 abduction and murder of Adam Walsh. Elsewhere, quick-thinking kids alert an adult just in time to stop an attempted drowning.  A former prosecutor is accused of repeatedly trying to poison people in a case that proves age is no barrier to alleged crime. Authorities finally catch a man on the most-wanted list after a jaw-dropping $600 million Medicare fraud scheme. And the son of the infamous Long Island Lolita is arrested in Florida, bringing a new chapter to a notorious family story.

Timestamps
04:00 Boosie Badazz Entangled In Trump Pardon Scam
13:00 Stephanie Perdue Convicted In Bizarre Murder For Hire Plot.
18:00 Man In Hot Water After Taco Bell Temper Boils Over.
22:00 Dollar Tree “Gooner” Trend Shocking Stats.
29:00 True Crime Time Machine: Adam Walsh Case
35:00 Kids Alert Adult To Attempted Drowning Incident.
40:00 Elderly Outlaws: Former Prosecutor Accused of Repeated Poisoning Attempts.
45:00 Man On Most Wanted List Captured After 600 Million Dollar Medicare fraud scheme.
50:00 Karan’s Gone Wild: Woman Loses It At Taco-Bell Over Wait Time.
53:00 Long Island Lolita’s Son Arrested In Florida.

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Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: Hey, sometimes a Monday can suck. We're gonna make it

better for you.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: I have a soft spot for him. I like him.

Speaker 1: 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.

Have you heard of that?

Speaker 2: I have now and don't mess with my dollar treat Yeah,

that is a place I love to be.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: I'm again we are in the wrong business.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: One off, a one hit wonder, but I'm gonna call it.

Speaker 1: 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?

Speaker 2: I do.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: That's right. That's right.

Speaker 2: We show back up.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: Hatch Torrance Torrance Hatch. Yeah yeah, he was at Angola

for a hot minute.

Speaker 1: That's right. He was yep, but he wasn't. He was out.

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.

Speaker 2: Down, White Me Down, is I'm all you're not.

Speaker 1: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: But I read too or did you say that there

were typos and stuff in the.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah, well they have money somewhere.

Speaker 1: Definitely have six hundred grand.

Speaker 2: 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?

I wonder if that was his nick nickname?

Speaker 1: It was get to it all right.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

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

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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: And to look at this lady's picture, I mean she doesn't.

I guess you never know what a killer looks like,

but she doesn't look like just a stone cold killer.

Speaker 2: Like to this level. To go keep going it, Just

divorce his ass and be done.

Speaker 1: Bro, move on. Even when you're in prison.

Speaker 2: You got a whole last boyfriend and you're still trying

to kill your ex.

Speaker 1: 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.

Upon their arrival, officers were told an employee had been

transported to.

Speaker 2: A burn center.

Speaker 1: 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

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.

Speaker 2: Sounds like it sounds just like high school because that's

exactly how the fights start, is those kids keep messing without.

Speaker 1: Boiling water.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

So gooner draws from an internet subculture centered on prolonged

compulsive masturbation known as gooning, like how how did we

get here? Guys?

Speaker 1: Like how are we masturbation? Gooning?

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

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.

He was tied up in the diddy thing, right, all right.

Speaker 1: So.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

Speaker 1: I can't agree with him more.

Speaker 2: I don't know how you could be that aroused.

Speaker 1: Yeah I don't either, And you know, belok, ladies be

vigilant in the dollars and hit him.

Speaker 2: Yeah that is not that I probably shouldn't say that,

but that is my unsolicited bad advice.

Speaker 1: Sure you should if somebody's masturbating by you kick him

in the ding.

Speaker 2: Dingy, kick him in the ding ding. Let's d gunham,

you gunham.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: I thought you're gonna say youll were friends.

Speaker 1: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Speaker 2: 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.

We don't know, and those unknowns are heartbreaking. But if

ever good could come out of evil, his dad got

it done.

Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And I'm not convinced

that Otis Tool actually killed Adam Walls.

Speaker 2: What did Otool?

Speaker 1: I want to because his first name started with A

could be that could be Otis too.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I don't remember being convinced either that he

did it, Like maybe he was just trying to take well.

Speaker 1: He was known for confessing the crimes he didn't commit.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: 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.

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.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

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.

Speaker 1: You know, that case right there is just disturbing. Why

trying to drowned this kid and thank god this other kid?

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: But I.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: I don't know whatever our our interests, what it should be.

Speaker 1: 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.

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.

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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: That she was his primary caregiver kind of RELI relied

on her. I mean, of course, that's no.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: Is seventy five years old.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: But an elderly, very elderly version of that. And so

there you have it. Elderly outlaws, Get off my lawn.

Speaker 2: I love it. You did a little vocal for us. Perfect.

That shirt's got you just films.

Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, y'all. Kelly hasn't talked about the shirt, but

she's in love with the shirt I have.

Speaker 2: I said he looked like gold Member from uh what

was that?

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: I said, you need some pants, you need some chan,

need some chains in a pinky ring.

Speaker 1: Broight, Hey, I'll do it, do it.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

Speaker 1: Wow.

Speaker 2: 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.

Officials noted possible ties or travel to locations including Houston, Atlanta,

Delray Beach, Florida, Dubai, the United Arab emortas.

Speaker 1: How do you say Emirates?

Speaker 2: Emirates? I don't think I've ever seen ab, Yeah, but

I but I have always.

Speaker 1: 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?

Speaker 2: Never, never, Well, I have, and that I've always said that.

As emeirodus in my heads.

Speaker 1: Cool, I've mispronounced many many words. I just didn't know

they were I was.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

And something like that ought to piss everybody, Yeah.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: Let me talk to the manager.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: Outside, catch me outside, howbut me outside.

Speaker 1: 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.

No one was injured, and the loaded hand gun was

secured by authorities.

Speaker 3: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

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.

Speaker 1: There go Ashley and Drewy straight from kJ or.

Speaker 2: 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

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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: Well, what we think is might be a pentagram. You

can't see the rest of it.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: Yeah, what a shock that this was the Long Islandlito's saw.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, you think she would just raised a gentleman.

Speaker 1: Imagine that.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 2: I sure do have some final thoughts. They are curious

about your final thoughts.

Speaker 1: 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?

Speaker 2: Who had the baby?

Speaker 1: Who had the baby?

Speaker 2: We welcome to the world, little one. We're glad you're here.

Speaker 1: 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.