True Crime Time For February 19, 2026 | Mardi Gras Crime, Child Neglect & Execution Case

Summary

Podcast Summary: Real Life Real Crime – True Crime Time For February 19, 2026

Episode Theme:
A darkly entertaining look at Mardi Gras mayhem, shocking family crimes, "effed up" professionals, and recent execution news—all recounted with Woody and Cindy Overton's signature blend of law enforcement insight, Southern storytelling, and candid banter.

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Main Topics Covered

• Mardi Gras crime recap and recent high-profile murders in Louisiana
• Bizarre recent cases: An Uber babysitter and a deadly case of neglect
• Arrests of pickpockets and law enforcement challenges during carnival season
• “Effed up Professionals”: Retail theft by a pastor and sexual misconduct by a school secretary
• Execution case: The story and last moments of Kendrick Antonio Simpson
• Ongoing advocacy: Cold case updates and community calls to action

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1. Mardi Gras Crime & Louisiana Cases

[00:40–12:20]

New Orleans Murders During Mardi Gras

• [01:37] Woody: “On this day in 2023, a male body was discovered in a canal near Little Woods in New Orleans...31-year-old Glenn Joseph. He had been shot fatally and left in the canal.”
• A second victim, shot and later died, was also found within hours.
• Both cases remain unsolved.

Law Enforcement & Mardi Gras Craziness

• [03:28] Cindy: “And it’s Mardi Gras time.”
• [05:10] Woody: Tells the story of an arrest: “Agents...arrested a man from New Roads for allegedly carrying a small live alligator on Bourbon Street...also found a gun...and marijuana.”
• Commentary on the chaos, masked partygoers, and increased policing: “...every state agency sends cops for Mardi Gras...”
• Multiple stabbings on Bourbon and St. Charles during parade nights.
  • Example: [08:00] Fight at St. Charles and Terpsichore—man stabbed in the cheek.
  • Another: [09:20] On Bourbon, bump and fight leads to stomach stabbing.

Notable Quote

• [05:57] Cindy: “I mean, I don't think so.” (On bringing an alligator to Bourbon Street)
• [09:45] Woody: "Nothing says, I'm a man like I'm gonna stab you in the back."

Law, Order & Personal Stories

• [10:23] Woody: Recounts fraternity friend arrested after punching a Mardi Gras police horse: “They introduced him to some real estate. He got a good old fashioned NOPD beat down. We didn’t hear about him for a week...”

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2. Family Matters: Child Neglect Cases

[12:28–17:27] (Florida)

Uber Babysitter Incident

• [12:30] Cindy: “We have a mom who decided to use her Uber driver as a babysitter.”
• Mother, Emily Sabagal, arrested after leaving her two children with an Uber driver for two hours.
• Uber driver eventually called police.
• Sabagal found drinking at a bar; children, though in “good health and spirit,” were thirsty and hungry.

Notable Commentary

• [13:31] Woody: “I mean, what world do you think an Uber driver’s not gonna call the cops?”
• [15:47] Woody: “What if he was a pedophile? Or a murderer or something?”

Follow-Up Actions

• Children’s father seeking full custody; Cindy and Woody praise the Uber driver for responsible response.

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3. Pickpockets and More Mardi Gras Threats

[17:54–21:09] (Louisiana)

Cell Phone and ID Theft Ring

• [18:00] Woody: “A group of pickpockets stole over 70 phones in the French Quarter over the weekend...Four women and one man were arrested.”
• 71 phones recovered, property being returned, but many thefts unsolved; advice to “keep your ID and one card deep in your front pocket.”
• [20:33] Woody: “Pickpockets gotta eat too, I guess.”

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4. Effed Up Professionals

[28:37–34:36]

(A) Florida Pastors' Retail Theft Scheme

• [28:52] Cindy: “Former pastor...used their faith-based addiction recovery center as a front for a multimillion dollar retail theft scheme.”
• The Dales stole over $5 million of power tools from Home Depot; sold merchandise online.
• Facing up to 150 and 30 years respectively for RICO violations.

(B) Ohio High School Secretary's Inappropriate Conduct

• [32:00] Woody: “Secretary, Alicia Hughes...husband found her with an 18-year-old student...Investigators determined she’d also had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.”
• Charged with five counts of child seduction; held on $25,000 cash bond.

Notable Quotes

• [31:19] Woody: “Thank God they got the justice and thank God they broke up the ring.”
• [34:13] Woody (crude but direct): “She’s probably like a doorknob everybody got to turn, right?...I’m saying it’s wrong. Okay.”

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5. Family Matters (cont’d): Negligent Homicide in Michigan

[34:41–39:03]

Fatal Heat Exposure Case

• [35:16] Cindy: “A mother has been arrested in connection with the death of her one year old son...She turned the thermostat up to 90...left a space heater pointed at him.”
• Home’s conditions “deplorable,” with garbage and rotting food; forensic testing confirmed crib reached dangerous temperatures.

Notable Quote

• [38:50] Woody: “No rules…It’s horrible, I mean, being cooked to death basically.”

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6. Execution Case: Kendrick Antonio Simpson

[39:03–46:22]

The Story

• [39:47] Woody: “Kendrick Antonio Simpson...Katrina evacuee...executed...after he was convicted of the 2006 double murder of Glenn Palmer and Anthony Jones.”
• Prior criminal record; no clemency granted despite claims of a traumatic past.

Victim Impact

• [42:01] Woody: “When Kendrick Simpson took my brother’s life, he took all our lives.” -Victim’s sister
• Execution carried out; [44:31] Woody: “Smile on his face in the death chamber was the same one that tormented [the family] for two decades.”

Last Meal & Closing Thoughts

• [45:28] Woody: “Mr. Simpson...ordered a bacon cheeseburger and a large onion rings and a strawberry milkshake. I hope they put it in his diaper...”

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7. Advocacy & Cold Case Updates

[46:23–49:20]

“Justice for Haley” – Ongoing Forensic Work

• [46:23] Woody: “Hashtag justice for Haley. We got to raise the rest of this money...Scott Roeder and his people at the evidence room, they got to pay their bills, but they’re basically doing this pro bono.”
• Urges listeners to donate, share, and support forensic testing for the cold case.
• [48:32] Woody: “Scott said, I want them to challenge me and my work because I know my people are right.”

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Memorable Quotes (with timestamps & attribution)

• On Mardi Gras madness:
  [05:10] Woody: “In what world is it a good idea to bring a live alligator on Bourbon street when you got a million people there?”
• On child neglect through Uber:
  [13:31] Woody: “What world do you think an Uber driver’s not gonna call the cops?”
• On festival crime:
  [20:33] Woody: “Pickpockets gotta eat too, I guess.”
• On catastrophic neglect:
  [38:50] Woody: “No rules…It’s horrible, I mean, being cooked to death basically.”
• Victim’s voice on execution case:
  [42:01] Victim’s family via Woody: “When Kendrick Simpson took my brother’s life, he took all our lives.”
• On cold case advocacy:
  [48:32] Woody: “Scott said, I want them to challenge me and my work because I know my people are right.”

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Episode Highlights & Tone

• Gritty and sometimes irreverent true-crime realism: Woody recounts crime scenes, Mardi Gras chaos, and personal anecdotes in raw language, peppered with humor and Louisiana flavor.
• Advocacy and faith in evidence: The hosts consistently remind listeners about their activism for cold-case victims, especially “Justice for Haley.”
• Balanced with dark humor: There’s a candid, sometimes rough-edged banter that is both critical and humanizing, with unfiltered takes on both criminals and tragic parental failures.

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Key Timestamps for Quick Reference

• [01:37] – Murder discoveries in New Orleans during Mardi Gras
• [04:41] – Alligator on Bourbon Street arrest
• [08:00 - 10:00] – Stabbings and police/festival stories
• [12:28] – Uber babysitter child neglect
• [17:54] – Mardi Gras pickpocket ring busted
• [28:49] – Pastor-led theft ring exposed
• [32:00] – School secretary sex crimes
• [34:47] – Michigan baby heat death
• [39:03] – Kendrick Simpson’s execution details
• [46:23] – “Justice for Haley” cold case update and call for donations

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For Listeners New to the Show

This episode offers an unflinching, story-rich look at the underbelly of festival chaos, failed parenting, criminal enterprise, and justice at the ultimate level—all illuminated by law enforcement insights, grounded in real cases, and consistently laced with regional realism and pointed humor. For the true-crime faithful, it’s a raw ride; for newcomers, a compelling snapshot of how crime, community, and justice collide in the Gulf South and beyond.

Transcript

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[Woody Overton]

Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode of True Crime. Time for Thursday, February 19, 2026. And I'm Woody Overton.

[Cindy Overton]

I'm Cindy Overton.

[Woody Overton]

We're back in the studio together again. Yay. Finally. Wow. Mardi Gras season's over. Been a lot of crazy stuff going on. All good. Y' all continue to call in your tips. 313rlrctip on hashtag just for Bradley. Hashtag just for AO just miss Barbara Blunt. And if you haven't listened to the episodes from Tuesday and Wednesday, this one hashtag just for Haley. I'll listen to him. We've got it proven scientifically that she did not commit suicide. Well, the only other person in the apartment with her was Brooks Cleary. And you know, Scott Roeder in the evidence room are working on that. They still have a lot more testing to do. We have over 6,000 of the 10,000 we need and they've already. Ms. Barbara's handling that on the gofundme. So y' all go gofundme, please, if you can and donate. We need to bring this home. The. They have more testing to do before they present it to the Cobb county district attorney. Um, but it's huge. It's physically impossible. They, you know, said she was laying down. He's proven that's physically impossible from the blood spatter. And they are doing tests on whether a female her size was able to hold the shotgun and all the different stuff. It's amazing. It really is amazing. And Scott Rotter is amazing. Evidence room is amazing. These. This guy has got the receipts. Yeah, Right. And so it's very, very important. Every case is different. Every case goes a different way. And so we keep pushing, pushing, pushing. Never give up, never surrender, Right? So let's get down to some true crime. Time for February 19th. And on this day in 2023, a male body was discovered in a canal near Little woods in New Orleans, Louisiana. The body was later identified as 31 year old Glenn Joseph. And he had been shot fatally and left in the canal. Y', all, the canals, we call them bayou's. As you know, New Orleans is surrounded by the water. Right. A second victim was discovered less than eight hours prior, also suffering from fatal gunshot wounds. The victim was taken to the hospital where he died from the injuries in back in 2023. And even now, right. The investigators are still searching for any information regarding the murders.

[Cindy Overton]

Wow.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah. There's so many of them. That's New Orleans.

[Cindy Overton]

And it's Mardi Gras time.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So Mardi Gras time and hope y' all had a happy Mardi Gras. All y' all from Louisiana. And now it's Lent season in time to get down the business. Right.

[Cindy Overton]

Ash Wednesday.

[Woody Overton]

Ash Wednesday was yesterday. Today is the first day. There you go. This, that's the hangover from Mardi Gras. Right. And let's do a couple things and I'm gonna jump you on the Mardi Gras is just so crazy. And it's different everywhere. Of course, we all know about the shootings that happen here in Clinton, which is at the Mar. The Mar in the Country Parade Parade. But Mar brings out all the people, all walks of life. All every little community in Louisiana has their own Marty Gr Etc. And I'm going to just tell you a couple of little quick stories that happened this past week. So Mar really goes on for a month, y'. All. And then combination on Fat Tuesday. Well, I'm going to play this one. This is. We were talking about this yesterday, sir.

[News Reporter]

Around the state, agents from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested a man from New Roads for allegedly carrying a small live alligator on Bourbon street. They took 25 year old Urell Johnson into custody around one o' clock this morning. Authorities also found a gun, they say, and marijuana on the man. Johnson facing several charges, officials turn the alligator over to a biologist with the agency.

[Woody Overton]

Mardi Gras brings out. I mean, this guy drove from New Roads to New Orleans which is about two hours, two and a half hours and with a live alligator and walking down barbershop. Now listen, Mardi Gras, it doesn't matter if it's Fat Tuesday. Actually, crowds are probably less on Fat Tuesday than they are that big weekend, which is Endymion and Bacchus and all that. He. He's down there with a live alligator. Look, you're not just walking down the street by yourself. Their crowds are so thick they can literally force you to move one way or another. And you just. In what world is it a good idea to bring a live alligator on Bourbon street when you got a million people there?

[Cindy Overton]

I mean, I don't think so.

[Woody Overton]

And of course you're carrying a gun and marijuana too.

[Cindy Overton]

You would have to be carrying a gun for your safety in case that alligator went crazy and then you'd have to be hired.

[Woody Overton]

Think it Was good. Where the hell did he catch an alligator at? Oh, that's a big, big no, no. And you know, but most people don't know on Fat Tuesday. It used to be the law in your. That you had to wear a mask on Fat Tuesday or you would get arrested. And that's hence the Mar Ma Mass got started and all that. But just think out that you get behind a mask. Everybody's behind a mask. People act a fool. Yeah, they're gonna have to fool a Mardi Gras anyway. Right. And then so the couple of things. The great thing is there was no mass killings this year in. In. In New Orleans, at least the. For the most part. You know, it's just the usual drunk arrest and people peeing on the sidewalk or whatever they look, it's no secret that you show your breast and. And there's a lot of nudity and a lot of adult behavior going on, basically throwing down, partying. Just to give you a typical example. Now, it's not just nopd, New Orleans Police Department, the Sarah's Louisiana State Police, the National Guard, Department of Corrections, Wildlife and Fisheries, they were already there. Every. Every state agency sends cops from Mardi Gras and. But they said three stabbings were reported within five hours overnight on Sunday, including one on Bourbon street and two on St. Charles Avenue. Now, y', all, St. Charles Avenue is not that it's probably 10 blocks away from Bourbon street, but it's where the. The major parade routes are, which on Sunday night would have been. Would have been Bacchus and which is one of my favorite parades. But it's a million people, you know. And so here you have it. The. The incidents happen as the Crew of Bacchus parade brought out huge crowds throughout the city. The. A lot of times we would skip the parades and just go to Bourbon street because then the crowds have been a little bit less. But they said several people have been arrested in connection with one of the incidents. And both of the St. Charles stabbings were reported near the uptown parade route this court. NFPD. The just before 9pm Sunday, officers patrolling the parade route saw a large fight at the intersection of Turpishore street and St. Charles Avenue. And of course, they stopped it or intervened to stop it, but when they arrived, they found that a male victim had been stabbed in the cheek. And officers arrested several people, including the suspect and the stabbing. Meanwhile, 20 minutes later, on the 600 block of Bourbon street, which you and I just walked down the other day, over 20 minutes later, just after 9:20pm Two males bumped into each other on Bourbon street and began fighting. Well, if you're on Bourbon street during mar. You're going to get bumped into one person, took out a knife and stabbed the other one in the stomach.

[Cindy Overton]

Sounds legit, right?

[Woody Overton]

Yeah. Right. Just mar time. Let's do it. The victim was taken to the local hospital. No arrest have been reported as of as of Monday. Maybe they got him by now. And then. Meanwhile, a little bit later, in the 1300 block of St. Charles Avenue, a little before 2am Another stabbing occurred on St. Charles Avenue. Now, y', all, St. Charles Avenue is not. Is. Is one of the nicest streets in New York. It's where all the big homes are, right? It's not like this is the bad area. So anyway, the victim and his friends were involved in a fight with another group where he was stabbed in the upper back.

[Cindy Overton]

Goodness.

[Woody Overton]

Nothing says, I'm. I'm a man. Like I'm gonna stab you in the back.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah.

[Woody Overton]

The victim was taken to local hospital and of course, no arrest has been made. Let me tell you what does happen when you get arrested in your oils during Mardi Gras. You want to. You really want to, if possible, get arrested on Fat Tuesday. Because if you get arrested anytime, say, like Wednesday, the week before, which is the bigger parades, every night, they get bigger. The. You go to jail, they throw you in that central lockup, and your ass is not getting the adhering until today. Yeah, you don't even get to plead guilty. Not guilty. There's no bond. There's no. No nothing. No judges going to court. Everything is shut down. And I'll never forget, I brought my fraternity brother from. I'm not gonna say where he's from, Dan. And we were down there and he was damaged. Big dude. And I know I've told this before, and we were in the crowds and they have a lot of mounted patrol and the cops are on the horseback, so they can see and everything. And the horse, Dan was just walking by in his defense, and the horse bit him on the shoulder. And Dan turned around and punched the horse. And when he punched the horse in the face, they came out. I'm talking about the cops came out of the woodworks and they. They introduced him some real estate. He got a good old fashioned NOPD beat down. I'm talking about 35 years ago. They beat the shit out of him, threw him in a wagon. And we worry about him until the next week because we knew we couldn't get him out. You're done. And it's so Bad. So many people and such an influx of craziness that if you get in a wreck and. And there's not like you can walk away, you're not dead.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah.

[Woody Overton]

Then. Then they tell you to pull to the side and call a wrecker if you need to and exchange information because we're not coming.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah, they can't.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah.

[Cindy Overton]

They're trying to control those other people on Canal street and everywhere else.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah. The whole city. I mean, they got uptown parades and everywhere, but it's over with now. We survived another Mardi Gras, and it's all good. Yeah, we. We were really chill and behaved. We had some friends over and made a.

[Cindy Overton]

You call that chill and behave?

[Woody Overton]

Yeah, we weren't. We were behaved, but we. We did. We cooked a ton of food and got to do a little country hunting with squirrel dogs and all that. When it was a full day event. It was a good, good time, but I'm glad it's over with. Glad we're back in the studio together and glad we're doing true crime time for me, too. All right, why don't you give us a story? It's time for family matters.

[Cindy Overton]

We're going to Florida.

[Woody Overton]

All right.

[Cindy Overton]

We have a mom who decided to use her Uber driver as a babysitter.

[Woody Overton]

Nice, right? Yeah, I bet it's. You think it's cheaper an hour than getting a real babysitter? Probably so.

[Cindy Overton]

I don't know. I mean, thank goodness she got the Uber driver. That she did, but. A woman has been arrested on child neglect charges after police in South Florida say that she abandoned her two children in an Uber and left them in the vehicle with the vehicle's driver for about two hours. So on Friday, February 13, an officer with the Sunrise Police Department met with a man who said that the mother, Emily Sabagal, who was 32 years old, left her young children with him after she requested an Uber ride. The Uber driver decided to call the police when Sabagal would not come back for her children.

[Woody Overton]

I mean, what world do you think. An Uber driver's not gonna call the cops? I mean, the. I mean, he can't make any more money. You're probably not going to come back and pay him, and you left your kids in the car.

[Cindy Overton]

Right. So. And she showed no intent at this time, she had showed no intent of returning due to her lengthy absence, which is what the officer wrote in his filing. When the officer met with the children, he stated. I mean, this apparently happens often. They just left because he said they were in good health and Spirit. And he said they were thirsty and hungry, though.

[Woody Overton]

Right.

[Cindy Overton]

And they expressed their concern for their mother. But Sabagal was arrested on charges of neglect, as I said earlier, and desertion.

[Woody Overton]

And we don't know what she was doing.

[Cindy Overton]

Well, we did.

[Woody Overton]

Okay.

[Cindy Overton]

An attorney was not immediately listed for her in court records on Tuesday, but according to the affidavit, the Uber driver told police that when he picked Sabagal and her two children up on Friday the 13th, she was holding a cup, which we would call a roadie, that had some type of what he believed to be an unknown liquor.

[Woody Overton]

Like a red cello cup. Yeah, probably right.

[Cindy Overton]

And she was speaking in Spanish, and she kept on repeating in Spanish, he thinks I'm stupid. And I guess the Uber driver spoke Spanish as well because he could understand her. So she. He just kept saying, he thinks I'm stupid, whatever. So that was also put in the affidavit. Then she grabbed the Uber driver's phone and canceled the Uber ride.

[Woody Overton]

So she don't have to pay for it. Right. But the kids. Yeah.

[Cindy Overton]

And then she gave him $10 in cash and asked him to make a turn and stop the car. So he obliged. And Sabagal then told him that she would return in three minutes. So she got out of the car, left her children. I'll be back in three minutes.

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She's cancel the ride.

[Woody Overton]

So meter's not run running or nothing.

[Cindy Overton]

Right. So the Uber driver said that he watched Sabagal walk into a nearby parking lot and then lost sight of her. Then, obviously, then at that point, she has deserted her two children, putting them at unreasonable risk. We hear all the time about Uber.

[Woody Overton]

Drivers that go, what if she left him? What if he was a pedophile?

[Cindy Overton]

Exactly. And people, you know, or a murderer or something. There's a commercial on a radio right now. If you've been harmed by an Uber driver, please contact such and such.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah.

[Cindy Overton]

So obviously she put them at unreasonable risk of harm by leaving them alone with an unknown individual. He also said her children were at no moment afraid and seemed playful when she left the vehicle. That's why I was saying she just. It seems like normal behavior for her.

[Woody Overton]

Right.

[Cindy Overton]

After about an hour, the Uber driver called Sabagal and said that she would. Then first it was three minutes, now it's been an hour. He calls her. I wouldn't have waited that long.

[Woody Overton]

Right.

[Cindy Overton]

She says, I'll be there in 12 minutes, and then hung up. He tried to call her again. She didn't answer. She was ultimately located outside of a McDonald's where she was taken into custody. And during the investigation, police learned that she had visited Bob G's Wigs and Things on Sunrise with her children before she called for that Uber. And the staff told police that her children were left unsupervised running around the business before that Uber call. And she had enjoyed multiple alcoholic beverages at the bar.

[Woody Overton]

There you have it.

[Cindy Overton]

So she is considered the primary caregiver of her children, and the children's father was obviously very concerned for their safety, and he obviously also seeks to get full custody of the children.

[Woody Overton]

Well, I hope he does. So, I mean, and thank stupid. Yeah, I'll. I'll go ahead and give it. Pause and shout out to the Uber driver for not being a pedophile or killer and doing the right thing. Hell, he could have just kicked kids out of the car, right?

[Cindy Overton]

He could have.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah. Hey, real quick, back to the last thing I said about Mardi Gras this year. The. The big thing in yours when everybody comes in like we're the super bowl or national championship, whatever, but Mardi Gras specifically is why it's one of my rules when we go into order, not the comfortable shoes that's obvious, is what do we do? What are you. I put. I carry your ID and one card, and I put it deep in my front right pocket. And that's because pickpockets come from all over the world just to work Mardi Gras. And this year was no different. The. The you generally, they don't, you know, you have a lot of undercover cops that are watching for it and stuff. And generally the that nobody ever gets their shit back. They just don't. And it's very hard to rust. Pickpocket. But a group of pickpockets stole over 70 phones in the French Quarter over the weekend as residents and tourists flooded the streets during the height of carnival season. This cordon New Orleans Police Department. Four women and one man were arrested after detectives recovered 71 cell phones, multiple identification cards and credit cards that were stolen. The pickpocketing picked up in the French quarter starting on February 13, police said. And Christian Nola Noela, who's 31 years old, Get a real job. Rosa Ferrer is 59. You really need to get a job. Fernando Almagaro, 24, Jocelyn Soke, 29, and Andreas Ambo Chakoska, C18, have all been arrested in connection with the thefts. So they busted one. I don't know if you catch one and they flip on the rest of the ring. But NOPD said they've Returned some of the stolen properties to its owner so far, but several items still need to be given back. And if you believe your phone was maybe stolen, call the NOPD at 5046586080 or visit the NOPD's 8th District headquarters at 334 Royal Street. Another place you and I walk by the other day.

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[Woody Overton]

They look, I bet you. I bet you they were 5,000 phones stolen just in a quarter. And the thing is that anybody's ever been a victim of pickpocket. They hit you, you don't even know you've been hit.

[Cindy Overton]

And some people are just walking around like doing this and someone could just come by. I'm waving my phone in the air. But somebody like filming and they can just grab it and run.

[Woody Overton]

I mean, well, it's not pickpockets, baby. They're getting it when. When the people don't know it that that's how they get away. But they wouldn't have got a m is always, always conscious even to this day if it's not Marl I have our tucked in deep and no jury and all that other rules. But anyway, there you go pick pickpockets got to eat too, I guess.

[Cindy Overton]

Well, they need to.

[Woody Overton]

The next one's going to be all the, you know, they bring in prostitutes from the trafficking, human trafficking from all over during mar and every. It's just real. So. But anytime you have a big group of people, you're going to have the bad actors.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah.

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[Woody Overton]

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[Woody Overton]

All right, what you got? It's time for effed up professionals.

[Cindy Overton]

I'm going to stay in Florida.

[Woody Overton]

All right.

[Cindy Overton]

In St. Petersburg, Florida there was a former pastor of the Rock Church. The Rock and his name was Robert Dale and his wife's name is Jocelyn. They used their faith based addiction recovery center as a front for a multimillion dollar retail theft scheme.

[Woody Overton]

That's ought to be interesting.

[Cindy Overton]

And they have been convicted and are now facing possible sentences of 100 of up to 150 and 30 years in prison. So maybe respectively one being Robert at 150 and Jocelyn being at 30. They don't say that, but okay. Florida Attorney General James Udemyer announced in a release that he made on Friday that the Office of Statewide Prosecution secured the convictions following a two week trial. Robert Dale was found guilty of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. That's rico, right?

[Woody Overton]

Right.

[Cindy Overton]

Relating to a theft scheme from Home Depot which the company suspects was operated for more than a decade. And the cost and cost the company more than $5 million in losses.

[Woody Overton]

That's crazy.

[Cindy Overton]

Along with co conspirators Jessica Wild and Daniel Mace, the couple allegedly stole power tools from Home Depot locations across numerous counties in Florida. The stolen merchandise was delivered nightly to the Dell's house and then sold online.

[Woody Overton]

These are the Rock? Yeah, he's the pastors and shit.

[Cindy Overton]

This scheme generated over 2 million in proceeds from the years of 2015 to 2023.

[Woody Overton]

Wow. So that's how ongoing criminal organization.

[Cindy Overton]

These fraudsters hid the true motives behind faith and charity to laundry proceeds from their large scale criminal enterprise is what Udemyer said in a statement. He said, I am grateful to AG law enforcement, FDLE chief assistant statewide prosecutor Paul Donneville and assistant statewide prosecutors Eric Ross and Gianna Fina for ensuring that justice was served in this case.

[Woody Overton]

Well, thank God they got the justice and thank God they broke up the ring. And that's the reason we pay so much for everything is because they the. The lost stuff and like this and they're using it. I'm pretty sure, you know their people are in their rehabs and that's used to be a big scam. And Florida had all the rehabs and people as long as they had health insurance, didn't give a what they did, they checked them in and they took their money for however long the insurance and they let them out. But meanwhile they can give them drugs. Some of the, I know this from the case. Some of them, you know, they would sell them drugs on or. But they do shit like this. But you got to go to Home Depot and steal this, this, this.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah.

[Woody Overton]

Bring it back. I have a buyer for it and I'll give you your, your heroin for the day.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah. The story goes into more details about whatever. Yeah.

[Woody Overton]

All right, well I got another one. It's time for effed up professionals. This according to Union City Ohio and this according to the Gray News. So you were a teacher working small school and I'm pretty sure Union City Ohio is no different. But this was. You had secretaries right? In, in the, in the. Yeah, in the school office. Well, this secretary, it was married and she was. Her name is Alicia Hughes. And in her husband happened to find her with an 18 year old student. I guess you're 18 still in high school. Right. But the, the. And he confronts them. Right? So a high school secretary was arrested for inappropriate conduct with a minor after her husband found her with a student. Now according to the Union City Police department, at least Hughes husband, founder with 18 year old student confronted them and then they began an investigation. During the investigation, authorities uncovered evidence that Hughes had also engaged in a sexual relationship with a separate high school student who was only 17 at the time. Investigators determined that Hughes and the minor student had engaged in sexual intercourse on at least five separate occasions. And Hughes was arrested and charged with five counts of child seduction. She's being held on a 25000 cash only bond. You know what? I know one ain't buying her out. Her husband, he's the one that ratted her out. He's like he's just in there banging his kid.

[Cindy Overton]

I would hope that no whim effort would bail her out. I would hope they would let her sit. Who? If it was her mama, her sister, her brother, her best friend.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah. But it's going to be an ongoing deal because $25,000 cash only. And they're going to find more victims, if you will. Yeah, she's probably like a door knob everybody got to turn, right? Birthday cake. Everybody got a piece. I'm saying is wrong. Okay.

[Cindy Overton]

What's another one?

[Woody Overton]

I don't know.

[Cindy Overton]

Okay, those were two good ones. So we'll leave it there, right?

[Woody Overton]

What you got?

[Cindy Overton]

Family matters.

[Woody Overton]

It's time for Family Matters.

[Cindy Overton]

We're going to Michigan now.

[Woody Overton]

Michigan.

[Cindy Overton]

So Sophie and I are trying to learn. You saw us.

[Woody Overton]

That's our second old story. Yeah.

[Cindy Overton]

You walked in on us one day a couple weeks ago and we were trying to learn how to needlepoint in the kitchen. And the instructions are used to go from Houston to Maine for this stitch and then go from Florida to Washington state for this stitch.

[Woody Overton]

Stitch in the United States of America.

[Cindy Overton]

No, it was the way the angle of the, the thread should go in the, in the needle point, like thing, like in the little squares. And I was telling that to your sister Colette, and she said, well, what if you're geographically challenged?

[Woody Overton]

Like, what the hell?

[Cindy Overton]

What if. I don't know if it's Washington D.C.

[Woody Overton]

I can tell you who wasn't geographically challenged. The person who came up with this.

[Cindy Overton]

Exactly. I know it was very funny, but this story is not funny. We're in Michigan and a mother has been arrested in connection with the death of her one year old son. And this mother isn't a 14 year old mother, like a little girl that doesn't know anything. She's 36 years old. She turned the thermostat up to 90 degrees on a heater, on a space heater and left her baby in the crib next to the space, like next to that heater. And the heater was pointed at him. So. Deputies took Coralyn K. Elizabeth Peters into custody earlier this month and charged her with one count each of homicide by involuntary manslaughter and second degree child abuse and the death of Enzo James Peters. Police and emergency medical personnel responded to a 911 call from Peters home at the 1000 block of East 6th street around 9:48am regarding a deceased child. Upon arriving at the address, the first responders located the victim unresponsive and still inside of his crib. And the toddler was pronounced dead at the scene.

[Woody Overton]

That's crazy.

[Cindy Overton]

Prosecutors said that the 19 month old boy was at an unsafe level of heat, which led to his death. So authorities investigated the circumstances of Enzo's death for several weeks before placing Peters under arrest on February 2nd. Well, police at the scene reportedly noted that the inside of Peter's home was very warm with the heat set to 90 degrees. The bedroom where the child was found was especially hot due to multiple vents blowing hot air into the room. And in addition to the thermostat being set that high, it was reported that Peters had positioned a portable space heater in the room and had turned it to high and pointed directly at the boy's crib. Investigators used the same make and model space heater to conduct the test, turning it to at the highest setting and facing it at a crib. And inside they did the forensic. You know, it seems like we're doing for Haley right now.

[Woody Overton]

Right.

[Cindy Overton]

And the inside of the crib reportedly got as high as the middle mid-90s. That's like sitting your kid in a, in a car.

[Woody Overton]

I mean you can have heat stroke for sure.

[Cindy Overton]

Authorities further noted that the home itself was in deplorable condition, finding garbage, rotting food and dirty diapers throughout it.

[Woody Overton]

Imagine that.

[Cindy Overton]

And then they go through a top, a timeline of events, but essentially she killed her from heat exposure.

[Woody Overton]

Oh, no rules. No rules. It's horrible. I mean, being cooked to death basically. Right.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah, I just.

[Woody Overton]

Well, anyway, I don't know, I guess I'm gonna end this, this episode on telling you about a guys from New Orleans named Kendrick Antonio Simpson and he was a hurricane Katrina evacuee. Somehow he ended up in Oklahoma.

[Cindy Overton]

They went everywhere.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah, that's true. They did. The. I remember states were taking in different states were taking them in and flying them in and whatever that was, that was.

[Cindy Overton]

We had a lot admission that was.

[Woody Overton]

A hell of a time to be a cop in Louisiana.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah.

[Woody Overton]

But at some point in time he ended up on Oklahoma. And guess what?

[Cindy Overton]

He murdered somebody.

[Woody Overton]

He took his last breath in Oklahoma. Because Oklahoma executed the Katrina evacuee, Kendrick Antonio Simpson by lethal injection on February 12, 2026, after he was convicted of the 2006 of the year after Katrina double murder of Glenn Palmer and Anthony Jones. Now, the parole board denied clemency in a 3 to 2 vote despite his apology and claims of severe trauma from his troubled past. That not only did he kill those two, there was another, actually a third passenger, London Johnson, who survived the attack by crouching in the backseat. So Simpson who was New Orleans native fled to Oklahoma as a Katrina refugee in 2005. But prior to the 2006 murder, Simpson has served six years for a 1990 home invasion shooting he committed at the age of 16 in New Orleans.

[Cindy Overton]

Wow.

[Woody Overton]

Simpson is said to have fired as many as 20 shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the victim's car. Other than in that night in Oklahoma, he received a two death sentences. In 2007, two other men in the car were Simpson made plea deals for 20 years prison terms. And in 2019, the US Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal that argued Simpson's lawyer provided ineffective assistance during the punishment phase of his trial. Simpson's other efforts to avoid the death penalty have been unsuccessful. Well I told you the partner parole board denied the clemency and but if the board had voted to recommend clemency, Governor Kent Kevin sit Stitt would have been tasked with making the final decision on the matter. And Stitt has granted clemency only twice and once in 2021 to Julius Jones and last November to Tremaine Wood. Now Simpson's attorneys asked apart pardon parole board to consider clemency because they said he would suffer from post traumatic stress and he survived a difficult childhood. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and being shot himself. Well, I've been shot at. I survived Katrina. I survived difficult right. And I didn't kill all these people. But the victim's family showed up to the hearing to bore their support for Simpson's execution and they urged the board to deny clemency quotations When Kendrick Simpson took my brother's life, he took all our lives. At Telshia, Jones and London Johnson who survived the shooting told the board that a part of him died when his friends were killed. And the suffering replays in his mind. But Mr. Simpson for the parmar he said quotations he said although I don't deserve it, I ask for your collective mercy. I am not the worst of the worst. I am not a monster. Well the board didn't see it that way Mr. Simpson. And following the board's vote to not to recommend clemency, Attorney General Gettner Drummond commended their decision. He said this ruthless and violent killer hunted and executed his victims without remorse. And the victims families will finally see justice when the death sentence is carried out on February 12th. And of course the deaf penalty opponents will hold a visual outside. I didn't know executions like in Angola that you they, they have to physically separate the two sides. People out there screaming from and the people out there singing Kumbaya Right. The. So Kendrick Simpson was the first person Oklahoma's executed since 2006, the year when he committed his murders. Right. And they wheeled him into the death house. He said his supporters are in the. In the rooms to watch because you get allowed so many. Right. And he thanked his supporters for coming to watch him die, but he said nothing about the men he was convicted of killing or the friends and the family they left behind. But, you know, it did say, said love y'. All. And then he named the people that were there in attendance and his support. Right. I love y'. All. Now, remember, there's two sides of the people that are in that room. That Simpson side, and then the victim's side and the victim's relatives looked on. They said that. They later said that the smile on his face in the death chamber was the same one that tormented them for two decades. Right. I love y' all and thank y' all for being here to support me. Of course, he had a spiritual advisor, who's the Reverend Don Heath, and he read scripture. During the execution, which lasted less than 15 minutes, doctors determined Simpson, who had become a published poet, behind bars because he ain't got dick else to do on death row for 20 years. They said he was unconscious about five minutes in and later pronounced him dead. And so they pronounced him dead at 10:19pm Central Stand. No, I'm sorry, Am. So they did in the morning time. That's unusual. And. But always what I end these stories.

[Cindy Overton]

With is what the last meal.

[Woody Overton]

What do you eat? Your last thing you're gonna eat on earth. Mr. Simpson. He ordered a bacon cheeseburger and a large onion rings and a strawberry milkshake. I hope they put it in his diaper. No, they are. They already got the ultimate punishment, and it just took 20 years. Too long.

[Cindy Overton]

A lot. He did the crime before he even went there, you know.

[Woody Overton]

Yeah, but I'm talking about the murders he did in 2006, and it's now 2026 in Oklahoma. Oh, let me check and see on the chart. Oklahoma. Yep. There's some in the red. But evidently they hadn't killed anybody since 2006. Yeah, but he be dead and prayers for his victims families and all that stuff, right?

[Cindy Overton]

Yes.

[Woody Overton]

So there you have it, y' all again. Hashtag justice for Halo. We got to raise the rest of this money. And the. The. The money that's been raised already has been sent to the evidence room. And I have the testing that they've done thus far. We're going to release in the page of Patron and convicts, the images and. And what's been done this far. When we get the entire report, we'll do an episode on that for everybody. So Patreon and convicts will. We're going to post it for you and it'll be more detailed than anything else that comes out. Whatever Ms. Barber can post and what have you. The. I have more stuff.

[Cindy Overton]

Awesome.

[Woody Overton]

So let's give. Let's bring it home. And they. They still have to do the ballistic jail testing and then all the different stuff. And you know that costs money. And. And Scott Roeder and his people at the evidence room, they got to pay their bills, but they're not making. And he's like basically doing this pro bono. And then he was like, this is. And he said, but I have to remain objective because one day I plan on being an ally to the prosecution in having to testify to the validity of my scientist test results. But you know what? It won't happen if we don't continue to donate. So go to any of your social medias pin to top the crew page. It's in the app. Real life, Real crime community app, which you can download from the app store for free. It's on my personal page, just on all my public pages. Just go click on it that or go to gofundme and type injustice for Haley.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah.

[Woody Overton]

So I think the. We were. I know we were over 6, 000 something this last week when I was talking to Ms. Barbara. We were only at 5, so we got like less than 4, 000 ago.

[Cindy Overton]

Yeah.

[Woody Overton]

So y' all help us bring it home. If you can't give, then. Then share it. Tell the story. It's an egregious. I mean, all murders are egregious. But this is how this case has been handled was horrible in the fact that we're having to get the scientific people that the state should have paid for or maybe they'll pay it back. I don't know.

[Cindy Overton]

Right.

[Woody Overton]

But we. The. I read the other day at the end of the episode, thank you to everybody that had donated. I'll continue to do so because it's important and just. Just for everybody. But this is what's on deck right now. They. They're literally, as we speak, working to not only. I mean, they already have it in a scientific doubt, but they want to like hit them with so much. And not only what couldn't happen this way, it couldn't happen this way, couldn't happen this way. And now take that. And Scott said, I want them to take it to their best. And I want them to challenge me and my work because I know I'm or my people are right.

[Cindy Overton]

Right.

[Woody Overton]

So we love and appreciate each and every one of y'.

[Cindy Overton]

All.

[Woody Overton]

You have anything else I don't? Thank y'. All. It's great to be back in the studio for My bride and the Mardi Gras season's over and we'll just keep rolling with what we do.

[Cindy Overton]

That's right.

[Woody Overton]

It's time. And then now. And I'm Woody Overton. Cindy Overton, you host the True Crime Time for this Thursday, February 20th. We'll Holler Child later. Love you. Peace.

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