TRUE CRIME ROUNDUP: A new timeline of the Nolan Wells mystery, sexual exploitation cases and more

**Lauren Barry** (0:02)
This is a True Crime Roundup from The On Deadline Podcast. We explore crime stories reported on by Audacy's radio newsrooms across the country. I'm your host, Lauren Barry. This week we have updates into the Nolan Wells death investigation. Wells was an 18-year-old whose body was found after he went missing while partying on Horn Island in Mississippi for July 4th. His death has been met with rumors, conspiracy theories and questions about race.
Scoot from Audacy Station WWL in New Orleans has been following the story, and he put together a timeline this week that we'll share in this episode. Also in this episode, we'll look into recent developing crime stories around the country. From a man who was arrested near President Donald Trump's golf course, to a teenager in a clown costume arrested on murder charges.
First up is a report from Audacy Station KNX News in Los Angeles about the man who had a loaded weapon in his car and was arrested over the weekend after investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said he was taking videos and photos at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Pelos Verdes.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:26)
Then there's this arrest of federal weapons charges being filed against a man who was arrested near the golf course, the president's course over the weekend. He's expected in court sometime today. Sheriff's Department Secret Service looking into his background. He's from Downey. Here's Pete Demetrio.

**Pete Demetrio** (1:39)
The man in custody, 38-year-old Janine Taley, was spotted at Trump National Golf Course by Secret Service Advanced Team members on Saturday morning. Captain Calvin Maas with the LA. Sheriff's Major Crimes Bureau.

**Calvin Maas** (1:50)
He was kind of walking around the grounds. It didn't appear that he was there for any type of legitimate business. And then they called in the local Sheriff's Department, which was Lomita. Deputies responded, contacted, detained the individual.
And during the detention, they realized that he had an extended magazine, which was illegal on his person. A subsequent search of his vehicle produced another firearm, some binoculars, and things of that nature that made it seem that he wasn't there for legitimate purpose.

**Pete Demetrio** (2:19)
A search of Taley's home turned up a short-barreled AR-style rifle, a pistol, numerous high-capacity magazines, a large quantity of ammunition, body armor, and at least two radio devices that can be used to jam transmissions and journals with some disturbing comments written in them. As of now, Taley's been charged with state weapons violations, but the Secret Service is still not saying if he posed a threat to the president, or if he was working with anyone else who may have been planning a potential attack on the event. I'm Pete Demetrio, KNX News.

**Lauren Barry** (2:48)
In Chicago, Audacy's station WBBM Newsradio reported on the trial of a woman charged in the killing of police.

**Rachel Pierson** (2:57)
Jury selection is scheduled to begin in Kankakee County for the trial of Zandria Harris. She's charged in the 2021 killing of Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Ritmanick and the critical wounding of Officer Tyler Bailey. The officers were responding to a barking dog complaint at a hotel when they were shot. Prosecutors accuse Harris of helping disarm Ritmanick for her then-boyfriend Darius Sullivan fired the fatal shots. He's already serving life in prison. Rachel Pierson, Newsradio, 1059 WBBM.

**Lauren Barry** (3:26)
WBBM also reported on another woman facing serious charges this week.

**Roger Plummer** (3:32)
In November 2020, the DuPage County State's attorney says Rosa LaGrone suspected her boyfriend Darnell Mans was dating another woman. So she shot Mans in their Naperville home and then did a live video chat with the alleged other woman while Mans was seen on the floor in a pool of blood. Mans died a few days later. This year, a jury found LaGrone guilty of first-degree murder and a judge just sentenced LaGrone to 38 years in prison. Roger Plummer, Newsradio, 1059 WBBM.

**Lauren Barry** (4:08)
In Philadelphia, a murder conviction might soon be overturned. Let's hear about it from Audacy Station, KYW Newsradio.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:17)
Philly DA Larry Krasner says his office will appeal a judge's decision to overturn the first-degree murder conviction of the man found guilty of killing Officer Moses Walker 14 years ago. KYW Crime and Justice Reporter Kristen Johansson joins us live with the latest. Kristen?

**Kristen Johansson** (4:34)
Hey Matt, the hearing happened yesterday and we did ask Larry Krasner about it who didn't say anything about it but today he was flanked by both the mother of Moses Walker the police officer who died more than a decade ago and by the president of the FOP and he says that he will appeal the overturned murder conviction of Raphael Jones who was the accused shooter in this case.