Podcast appearances and mentions of drew nelson

A child rapist in California walks out of prison on the state’s elderly parole program—and walks right into another set of handcuffs. A grand jury declines to indict a federal immigration agent in the shooting death of a Texas man. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A New Hampshire mother is charged with murder nearly a year after a newborn girl was found floating in a Manchester pond. A woman already convicted of sneaking onto an international flight is accused of doing it again—this time crossing the Atlantic before anyone realized she wasn’t supposed to be there. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A judge in Tennessee hands down a lengthy sentence in the shooting of a Memphis pastor, saying heartbreak is no excuse for killing. Drivers in Pennsylvania are opening their mail to find toll bills for trips they never took, and the problem traces back to a tiny change on the state’s new commemorative license plates. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Florida judge orders a man held without bond after a three-year-old girl is found beaten to death inside a Marion County home where other children were restrained and caged. A New York federal case exposes a website that lets users instantly generate realistic fake government IDs using a simple form that looks like a normal sign-up screen. An Arizona college bar is suing its own city, claiming police raids and public accusations nearly destroyed the business. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Florida mother is charged with murder after deputies found her lying on top of her six-year-old daughter who had been stabbed to death inside their Milton home. In Manhattan, two white men are accused of targeting a woman with racist harassment and setting her boots on fire during a livestream. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A West Virginia mother is sentenced to spend at least fifteen years behind bars after her teenage daughter died weighing just fifty-eight pounds inside their home, as a result of intentional non-action. An Orange County, Florida man is jailed after deputies say he stormed into a restaurant with a shovel and attacked the owner over a COVID conspiracy. A Pennsylvania man is on the run after police say he tried to kill spiders inside his home by lighting fires and instead burned down multiple townhouses. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A woman’s first in-person meeting with a man she met online ends with police forcing their way into a Miami apartment after she calls for help for herself and her toddler. Police say a domestic argument in a small Pennsylvania borough turned into a frying-pan fight that leaves both spouses under arrest. A Long Island, New York grandfather wins a strange battle with the state after a bathroom joke on his license plate is OK’d by the Governor. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Tennessee lawmaker is pushing a proposal that would treat abortion as criminal homicide, opening the door to felony charges and—in rare cases—even the death penalty. A second-grade basketball game in Pennsylvania ends with a coach and her father in handcuffs after a fight leaves a family hurt, including a three-year-old girl. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An armed federal immigration officer calls 911 in Portland and warns dispatchers he may shoot a "kid" who was following his vehicle. A Texas man is jailed after deputies say he secretly slipped abortion medication to a pregnant woman, leading to the death of her unborn child. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A man calls 911 to report what he said was a robbery at his Duluth apartment, and ends up busted on unrelated charges. A twenty-year-old Orlando man now faces the possibility of life in federal prison after a jury convicts him of carrying out a sprawling online sextortion scheme targeting children across the country. Drew Nelson reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nancy Guthrie is missing for the twenty-fifth day as her family announces a $1 million reward for information that leads to her recovery. Kouri Richins returns to court after jurors watch body-camera video and hear detailed testimony about her actions in the moments after her husband was found unresponsive. The stepbrother of Anna Kepner is now the main suspect months after the Titusville teen was found dead during a family cruise. A three-year-old Arizona girl is found safe after a statewide Amber Alert led police to a Phoenix gas station and the arrest of a houseguest. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A man in Virginia is shot by police while stabbing his own family inside an apartment, leaving two relatives dead and one fighting for life. A Texas man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend and her young son to death—and left another child bleeding on the floor—is now scheduled to be executed. A Los Angeles County man is sentenced to jail after video showed him pouring alcohol into the mouth of a wild hawk. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The state of Florida has carried out its second execution of the year, putting to death a man convicted in the killing of a small-town grocery store owner whose final moments helped solve her own murder. A fleeing suspect almost ended up in a trash compactor after hiding inside a garbage can and getting caught on police dashcam during a search in Ohio. Two New York City police officers end up in the hospital and a political storm follows as a snowball fight goes viral. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Day twenty-five in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Investigators still without a suspect, but the New York Post reports a neighbor saw a suspicious young man weeks before the disappearance. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A violent online cult that targets children leads investigators to a California motel where deputies say a 13-year-old girl was rescued from a cross-country predator. In Texas, a breakup turns deadly and a young woman’s body ends up hidden inside a coffee table—now her ex-boyfriend will spend decades behind bars. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Orlando—a former police officer is now jailed after deputies say planning a cruise became the center of a deadly argument. In suburban Chicago, two daycare workers are charged after police say surveillance video shows them hurting multiple preschoolers. In California wine country, police say a driver crashed an SUV into a building while allegedly inhaling nitrous oxide—and kept huffing even while trapped inside the wreck. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two Missouri deputies are dead and two more wounded after a traffic stop turns into a nightlong manhunt and gun battle in the Ozarks. The online gaming platform Roblox is facing new criticism after its newly appointed parent advocate struggles to explain how the company plans to protect children from predators. Drivers near Buffalo did double takes Monday after loose cows risked becoming hamburger, shutting down lanes on Interstate 90 in Hamburg, New York. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An Ohio child’s birthday party turns violent when a fight in the bathroom spills into a crowded Chuck E. Cheese arcade and leaves a 22-year-old man in an induced coma. A Kentucky man is jailed after police say a passerby caught him performing a sexual act on a dead deer along a rural roadside. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A cross-country drive ends at a Nevada power substation where police say a 23-year-old law student carried out a planned terrorist attack and died by suicide inside a car packed with weapons and incendiary materials. Home Improvement actor Zachery Ty Bryan is heading to jail after yet another arrest, this time for drunken driving. Drew Nelson reports.. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Utah, a 23-year-old man is sent to prison for his part in the death of his 12-year-old brother. A 57-year-old Los Angeles man is sentenced to decades in prison after police say he groomed a child through online gaming and drove hours to abduct him. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Indiana, a father and his girlfriend are sentenced to decades in prison after a seven-year-old boy died inside the home where they were supposed to keep the boy safe safe. In South Carolina, a woman who once pleaded on TV for help finding her family’s killer now sits before a jury accused of slaughtering them herself. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A three-year-old Arizona girl was found safe after a statewide Amber Alert led police to a Phoenix gas station and the arrest of a houseguest. In Salt Lake City, police say a 34-year-old man crept into an elderly woman’s apartment in the middle of the night carrying an axe—and claimed he was there for a date. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tucson, Arizona—Day 23 of the search. A backpack found by volunteers is ruled out, DNA still has no match, and investigators continue working to identify the masked person seen outside Nancy Guthrie’s home the morning she vanished. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Flint Township, Michigan—a welfare check turns into a rescue after police discover two children abandoned inside a filthy home. A California man who hid dynamite in a cave and cooked meth in a trailer is now headed to federal prison. Drew Nelson reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ocala, Florida, demands answers after a three-year-old, Paisley Brown, dies from injuries investigators say were caused by abuse. A California surgeon sees his career end after a patient reports a follow-up exam turned into sexual assault inside a Fresno medical office. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Palatka, Florida woman is jailed after deputies say she pulled a gun on two boys and forced them into her car, all over a private fishing hole. Ohio detectives hunt down three accused child predators across the country and bring them back to face charges involving victims as young as nine. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Iowa, police at the University of Iowa responding to a fire alarm instead discover a large fraternity hazing ritual inside a campus house. In Texas, a former teacher pleads guilty after child sexual abuse, child pornography, and bestiality accusations. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Police rescue a kidnapped one-year-old and arrest the ex-boyfriend after a break-in in Atlanta. In Texas, deputies say a mother told her young child to walk nearly twenty miles to elementary school because she didn’t want to get up after a night of drinking. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A hero bystander speaks out in Rhode Island after a parent opens fire Monday inside a crowded high school hockey arena and is tackled by people in the stands. A Cherokee County jury convicts a Georgia man of murder after prosecutors say he waited outside in a bulletproof vest and shot a father arriving for his very first visit with his child. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An Ohio mother is sentenced to prison after her infant daughter was left with permanent injuries, as the child’s family confronts her in court. Florida schedules another execution after the governor signs a death warrant for a man who killed a police officer during a traffic stop. A Minnesota man who killed a neighbor and kidnapped a pregnant woman and four children during a Halloween-night rampage learns he will spend decades behind bars. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Florida teacher is in jail after deputies say she sexually abused a homeless student who moved into her home because he had nowhere else. A Wisconsin kindergarten teacher is charged after police say she snorted cocaine inside a classroom bathroom used by elementary age children. An Ohio mayor is charged after investigators say a hidden camera caught him entering a teen girl’s bedroom and smelling her underwear. Drew Nelson reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Florida father will spend decades in prison after a crash that killed a grandmother and her three grandchildren—a crash caused by his own unlicensed teenage son speeding through a stop sign. An arsonist torches a police speed radar trailer in an Arizona neighborhood. Florida Man is arrested after investigators say he struck a uniformed deputy during a confrontation after unsafe driving in the Sheriff’s department parking deck. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A huge distraction is now hanging over a Team USA skater at the Winter Games—after her former childhood coach is arrested back home in Texas on sex-crime accusations involving athletes. Police in Arizona say a fake “asset protection” scheme cost a woman a large amount of gold and ended with two young couriers in handcuffs. A North Texas dentist is charged after police say she performed a dental procedure on a child while showing signs of intoxication. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A traveler in Nevada is accused of tying up her dog at an airport counter and walking away to catch a flight, leaving the animal behind after failing to complete paperwork for service dogs. A Wisconsin school aide will spend decades in prison after admitting she sexually abused multiple students, including a preteen assaulted during a sleepover. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Washington, D.C., a mother of three is shot in front of her children and the suspect later dies after a police pursuit and Amber Alert for the victim’s missing toddler. In Florida, deputies say a woman pretended to be a child welfare worker and even called 911 trying to get police to help her kidnap a child from a babysitter. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Missouri, a police officer linked to multiple deadly shootings leaves the force with a payout while families and advocates argue his leaving is not accountability. In New York, a man runs up to a state trooper during a traffic stop and confesses he just stabbed a restaurant worker he had been waiting for outside a KFC. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A sixteen-year-old girl vanishes after walking away from temporary housing in an Ohio suburb, and her family believes she went to meet someone they’ve never heard of she contacted on a chat app. A Florida widow claims a strip club sent her husband home in a taxi while he was dying instead of calling for help. A recently paroled Ohio man who nearly killed someone is back in jail, accused of actually killing someone. A California repeat offender is back behind bars after deputies say he tried to run from a traffic stop—his thirty-sixth arrest. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A road rage case involving a congressman flips into a courtroom fight after a doctor pleads guilty, then turns around and sues. Self-driving taxis promise a safer future, but new federal crash data is raising fresh questions about whether the technology is ready for the road. Drew Nelson reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Day eighteen of the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie brings a new $100,000 reward, genetic genealogy testing, and a sheriff promising the case is not cold. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Wisconsin teenager admits he helped kill a five-year-old boy, bringing a major development in a case that sparked a statewide alert law change. A college basketball standout in North Carolina is off the court and facing felony charges after deputies say she was caught with drugs packaged for sale in a high school parking lot. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A judge grants bond to a South Carolina pastor’s wife accused of standing by during decades of sickening child sexual abuse. A Kentucky lottery winner who became an overnight millionaire is back in jail after a woman called 911 saying she feared he might hurt her. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Nevada, police say a Utah mother shot her young daughter inside a Las Vegas hotel room before killing herself during a trip for a cheer competition. A young woman is murdered and dismembered in North Dakota, but searchers have yet to find her remains. A woman searching for her missing dog learns the pet was beheaded after a viral Instagram post, sparking outrage and a SWAT standoff in northwest Atlanta. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A New York man is accused of planning for weeks to kill his sister before shooting her with a crossbow inside their Long Island garage, with the last straw being an argument about the thermostat. An armed teenager is in custody after police say he sprinted toward the U.S. Capitol carrying a loaded shotgun. In Seattle, police say “a felon with felony warrants was arrested for committing a felony”—in a case where the press release headline pretty much wrote itself. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Florida mother faces criminal charges after police say she left her young children inside a rideshare car for hours while she went drinking. Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s eldest son faces a second child abuse citation after his toddler wandered out of the family home. A Florida Valentine’s Day dinner went from date night to poultry in motion after police say a man turned a chicken sandwich into a projectile. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A woman searching for her missing dog learns the pet was beheaded after a viral Instagram post, sparking outrage and a SWAT standoff in northwest Atlanta. A California mother accepts a plea deal after leaving her baby inside a scorching car while she went into a medical spa for cosmetic injections. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Colorado, a grieving mountain town is rallying around a single mother after a seven-year-old boy is killed in a dog attack, with neighbors donating more than $135,000 to help his family rebuild. A 62-year-old Kansas man is accused of opening fire on Seattle police officers after his 18-year-old ex-wife called 911 to report he was following her through a neighborhood near an elementary school. A man is accused of pulling off a bizarre multi-state heist—stealing truckloads of snow crabs, blueberries and designer cologne worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A South Florida father says a high school coach crossed the line with his teenage daughter, and now the man is facing felony charges. A Savannah, Georgia school is grieving after a teacher is killed just outside campus when a driver fleeing federal immigration agents ran a red light and slammed into her car during the morning commute. Florida Man tries to burglarize a landscaping van—and ends up trapped inside screaming for help. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Nevada, police say a Utah mother shot her young daughter inside a Las Vegas hotel room before killing herself during a trip for a cheer competition. In New York, investigators now believe a Brooklyn mother of four’s dismembered remains found in a trash compactor were the result of a tragic accident rather than a killing. In Maryland, a former police chief will spend the rest of his life in prison after prosecutors say he spent nearly a decade setting revenge fires against people he believed wronged him. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A young woman is murdered and dismembered in North Dakota, but searchers have yet to find her remains. In Ohio, a middle school volleyball coach is dead after police say a burglary turned into a fatal shooting while her family was inside the home. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Donald Trump says the kidnappers holding 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie should release her alive or face the death penalty, as the search for NBC Today anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother enters its sixteenth day. Drew Nelson reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.