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00:00This is King Judah 23 of the Judah Life Podcast, and you're watching the Empire Network.
00:30This little black boy got arrested for unauthorized entry into the Empire Network.
01:00If you're from Florida, you see this a lot in the summer.
01:03Like you'd be driving down the street and you'll see the enormous Hispanic people and they selling fruit on the side of the road.
01:10This crazy behind boy, then blew away one of them people.
01:15He tried to rob him and he had a little pew pew on him.
01:18But I guess the watermelon man wasn't going.
01:20So he carjacked him, robbed him, and he shot him.
01:23And now the police have him and they charged him with first degree unalive and robbery and a list of other charges, too.
01:29Not only that, but they try him as an adult in court.
01:32This little boy threw away his life for probably what?
01:36One hundred dollars, two hundred dollars.
01:39And now he gone for the rest of his life to rot in a jail cell for unalive.
01:43And this man right here, a white man of all people.
01:46Anyway, you know, you get caught the man white.
01:48It ain't never worth it.
01:50And this was in Memphis.
01:51I don't know what's in Memphis, but I heard y'all doing a lot of pew pew and lately and I don't know why.
01:57What's going on over there?
01:58Rest in peace to that man.
02:00But it sucks to see another young black boy 30 life away for a few dollars.
02:05Get a job, bro.
02:07If you need money that bad.
02:09Get a job.
02:11Your grocery store is hiring.
02:12Somebody's hiring.
02:14Tamia Taylor was a 21 year old mother of two.
02:18On the evening of Saturday, September 9th, she embarked on a trip to Memphis, Tennessee, in celebration of her 21st birthday.
02:26She was accompanied by three friends.
02:28Allegedly, the three friends were Shankula Drake, Kanisha Poole and Quandara Jenkins.
02:35They boarded the Island Queen booze cruise at around 1130 p.m.
02:40And the cruise was a two hour cruise along the Mississippi River.
02:44Now Tamia was seen on video at the time that the cruise came back to the harbor in Memphis.
02:49But when the friends got out of the boat, Tamia was nowhere to be found.
02:53Initially, her friends informed her mother, Deborah Taylor, that they were uncertain about her whereabouts, saying that they had lost her.
03:01Additionally, they claimed that Tamia had gone upstairs to the second floor to use the restroom and she left her phone on the table.
03:09Now her friends say that they picked up her phone and they waited by the bathroom door for her to return.
03:14But eventually they left without Tamia.
03:17On Saturday, September 23rd, a body was found on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River.
03:23Sadly, the body was identified as Tamia Taylor.
03:27Now, according to a WREG article, the Memphis Police Department does not expect foul play, which is honestly baffling to me.
03:36And now at this time, no further details have been made public.
03:40The sources for this video were Action 5 News and WREG.
03:46This is such a sad update to this case and Tamia Taylor's family.
03:51They deserve answers because someone knows something.
03:55They know what happened to Tamia.
03:57My thoughts and prayers are with Tamia Taylor's loved ones, especially.
04:01Oh, my God. Have you heard the story?
04:04Memphis Police, the body of a person has been found in a burned out car at the police impound lot.
04:10Hello, I'm Stephanie Skerlon.
04:12And I'm Greg Hurst.
04:13Horn Lake Police say the victim was reported missing by his family on the same day.
04:18Horn Lake Police tell us that the case is being investigated as a homicide by the Memphis Police Department.
04:24And tonight they believe that victim is a 20-year-old missing man.
04:29Family and friends put out an urgent plea to find 20-year-old Jadarius Webb on Saturday.
04:34A burning car was found at Weaver and Tully on Saturday.
04:37Crews put the flames out and the car was towed to the impound lot.
04:41Memphis Police say an unidentified body was later recovered from the car.
04:45And this is not the first time something like this has happened.
04:48More than six years ago, the body of a shooting victim was found in the back of a van at the lot.
04:53It had been there for nearly seven weeks.
04:56The victim, Bardamiano Perez Hernandez, was found by his friend when he went to retrieve the van.
05:01Former Memphis Police Director Michael Rawlings called for major changes to policy.
05:06Inspections were to be made with cadaver dogs.
05:09Longer vehicle holds were put in place.
05:11And new crime scene training was put into place for officers.
05:14These changes will ensure that every vehicle is thoroughly checked.
05:18And we never let an incident like this happen again.
05:22The victim's family hired an attorney and filed a $300,000 lawsuit against the city
05:28saying Hernandez could have survived if he was found.
05:31Our evidence and the testimony of the medical examiner was it was possible for Bardamiano to survive
05:38had he received immediate care.
05:40Nine people were disciplined and eight officers were suspended.
05:45Now tonight, Horn Lake Police say DNA testing will be conducted to confirm that the body is webbed.
05:52Meanwhile, Memphis Police have not said how long the body was in the car at that impound lot.
05:58Now we're continuing to search for those answers and we'll bring them to you as we learn them.
06:02But for your news leader, I'm Ashley Paul.
06:04WREG News Channel 3.
06:06Still trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
06:08Thank you, Ashley.
06:09Did Jesse Jackson help murder Dr. King?
06:12There's effectively a Memphis...
06:14But they were local community organizing guys.
06:17And they were very helpful and they were there to help Dr. King.
06:20Then all of a sudden, what happened?
06:22About quarter to six on the 4th of April, 16 minutes before the shot,
06:28there's a knock on the door.
06:30The evaders are told, you have to leave.
06:33Because the King Organization, SELC, is no longer going to pay your bill.
06:37You're not needed. You have to go.
06:40And they're nonplussed. What is this?
06:42They've been having good meetings.
06:43They've been working well with SELC, with Hosey, and Jim Orange.
06:52And they said, what's going on?
06:54If they don't want us, fine.
06:55We'll just...
06:56And they were armed, by the way.
06:57Because they were always armed in self-defense.
06:59If we just fly, we'll go.
07:01But as they were getting ready, he got a second thought.
07:04As he had a second thought, he said, to the woman at the door,
07:07well, who was it who gave you these instructions that we should go?
07:12Because it's a bit silly.
07:13Quarter to six at night.
07:14When do you pay your hotel bill?
07:16I mean, this room's already been paid for.
07:18Now they don't want to pay our bill.
07:19How are you going to go now?
07:20Yes, now.
07:21Well, who gave you this instruction?
07:23She said, well, Brother Jackson.
07:25Reverend Jackson gave it to us.
07:27That's right.
07:28Reverend Jackson gave it to us.
07:30Reverend Jackson had nothing to do with that group.
07:33Why would he give that instruction?
07:36Over the shoulder, the woman had seen Reverend Jackson down in the parking lot looking at his watch.
07:42They thought that was very funny.
07:44Strange.
07:45But they packed up their things, and they left the hotel.
07:50There you are mocking Jesse Jackson at a speech.
07:54Oh, bootlicking, buck dancing, scratching, shuffling, messy Jesse Jackson.
08:00I am a somebody.
08:05I am a somebody.
08:07I don't rightly know who the hell I am, but I am.
08:17This Memphis woman fatally shot her husband during a fight over some keys.
08:21This is 44-year-old Alita Bean.
08:24Also, she shot her husband right in front of the children, too.
08:27On May 21st, around the evening time, police got a call about gunfire shots.
08:31When they arrived at the scene, they found a male, her husband, deceased.
08:35Police made contact with the children who were unharmed, and they said that their mother shot their father.
08:40The police then went to the kitchen and found Terrence Bean laying face down, dead.
08:45There were three gunshell casings all around him, and then the wife, Alita Bean, was in the kitchen and said they were fighting over the gun, and the gun went off.
08:52However, this story gets a lot weirder here.
08:54The children said that they were fighting over some keys, and then they were scuffling.
08:58Somehow, the male victim's pants was off, and then Alita was on the floor.
09:02Alita told the kids to get the gun.
09:04The kids got the gun, brought it to her, and told her to shoot him.
09:08She was booked into the county jail on a charge of second-degree murder.
09:11However, knowing the details, this makes this case very complicated.
09:15It seems like she was about to be assaulted, and this may have been some sort of self-defense.
09:20Like, those details are just very, very key right there.
09:23I'm not sure when she's set to go to trial. This is very new.
09:25This case literally happened, like, five or six days ago.
09:28But let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
09:30And as always, these videos are for informational purposes only.
09:33The body was found upside down with her head on the floor mat on the passenger seat of her own vehicle.
09:39Her murder has gone unsolved.
09:42Hello, true crimers. This is the case of Nancy Little.
09:46Viewer discretion is advised.
09:48This story happened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1989.
09:52Sadly, when this murder happened, it only got one news story roughly a week after it happened.
09:58And then the news went quiet for decades.
10:01Nancy Little was born in 1957.
10:04She was one of seven kids.
10:06She aspired to become a model.
10:08She loved music. She loved dancing. She loved singing.
10:11And she was just described as a really, really sweet person.
10:14At the time of the story, Nancy lived alone in Memphis, Tennessee.
10:17She had her own apartment, and she was nine months pregnant.
10:21The father of her baby was her boyfriend, but he was also married with children.
10:26The two of them had met at the U.S. Post Office, where they worked together.
10:31The boyfriend kept telling Nancy,
10:33I'm breaking it off with my wife. It's going to be over.
10:36But he never did that.
10:37Nancy was super excited about the baby.
10:39He did not seem as excited.
10:41She was going to take him to court for child support,
10:44which basically would have exposed him to his wife.
10:47On October 8th, 1989, at about 6 p.m.,
10:50roughly a mile or so from her apartment,
10:53Nancy's vehicle was found, and she was inside of it.
10:57And to the kids who found her, it looked like she was sleeping.
11:00They called police, and when police arrived,
11:02they knew right away she was not sleeping.
11:04Nancy was deceased.
11:06It was the position of her body that made this entire thing absolutely bizarre.
11:12She was in the passenger seat of her car.
11:15She was not facing forward, so she was flipped over,
11:18and she was face down.
11:20So her head was resting on the floor of the car,
11:24and her pregnant belly was on the seat.
11:27And then her feet and legs were actually hanging behind the seat.
11:30The coroner would notate many, like, contusions and bruises on her body,
11:35and they ruled her cause of death as positional asphyxiation.
11:38And the coroner therefore ruled this a homicide.
11:41He stated that someone had to have done this to her.
11:44The Memphis PD, however, just didn't really seem interested
11:47in investigating this case, at least not back then.
11:50Like, they didn't notify the media.
11:52They didn't hold press conferences.
11:54They didn't really say anything to the public about this at all.
11:57They didn't seem to care. No one seemed to care.
11:59One of the officers said, quote,
12:01Well, the doctor has ruled it a homicide, so we have to live with that.
12:05We've done everything we can to determine who's responsible,
12:08since the doctor says someone must have done it, end quote.
12:11Are you shitting me? Really?
12:13You find a body in a car in a way you have never discovered a body in a car.
12:18They're telling you this was murder, and you're like,
12:21Ugh, now we have to do things.
12:23Great, now he's making us work.
12:25Jesus Christ.
12:27By the way, two victims, right? Her baby also died.
12:30And the Memphis PD, back then when this happened,
12:34said we have no suspects at all.
12:36Really, not even the father of the baby.
12:39Seems like he would be a top priority to look into,
12:42but I guess not.
12:44As a matter of fact, it wouldn't be until about 2016
12:48when brand new detectives, the Cole case team,
12:50was working on this case when they said,
12:52Yeah, the boyfriend, the baby's father, is a suspect in this case.
12:56They're trying to figure out how Nancy even got to that location.
13:00I guess it was somewhat close to the boyfriend's apartment.
13:03According to Nancy's family, they said that Nancy actually called them and said
13:07she planned to stay at home all night.
13:09The detectives back then said,
13:11Well, the car is the likely crime scene.
13:13That's where she was murdered.
13:15But then there would be like, someone else would say,
13:17in the force, would say,
13:19Well, we think that her body was driven around in the car,
13:22it was being hidden in the car,
13:24in order for the killer to just leave her somewhere.
13:27Meaning that there would have been another crime scene.
13:29But they never said where the other crime scene may be.
13:32Apparently, back then, police did find a, I guess,
13:36a latex, blue latex glove near the car.
13:40The glove didn't have, I guess, some of its fingers on it.
13:43It was the same type of glove that was used at the post office
13:46that she worked at with her boyfriend.
13:48However, nobody knows if that glove was ever forensically tested.
13:52In 2016, when actually good detectives are working on this case,
13:56like actually working on it,
13:58they were able to, I guess, swab the steering wheel of Nancy's car
14:03and they said they obtained what appeared to be a DNA sample.
14:07However, it appears that DNA sample was too badly degraded.
14:11And then, like I said, in 2016,
14:13police announced that, I don't know his name,
14:15but they announced that that boyfriend, the baby's father,
14:18was a suspect, the suspect.
14:21However, they've never had any physical evidence
14:24to actually connect him directly to her murder.
14:26Allegedly, he had an alibi,
14:28but his only alibi witness was his wife.
14:31It's believed that his wife made up the alibi and lied about it
14:35simply because she didn't want to ruin her family.
14:39That, you know, back then during those times,
14:41keeping your family together at all costs was like top priority.
14:44So I guess that means lying about where your husband was
14:47if he's being investigated for murdering a person.
14:50But that's also the motive here.
14:52She was going to take him to court for child support.
14:54She was basically going to say that he was the father
14:57and then, you know, his wife would have found out.
14:59And then she ends up murdered.
15:01That's a little too convenient,
15:03especially close to where he lived.
15:05He's the only actual viable suspect.
15:08But police are still asking for the public's help.
15:11If you have any information about the murder of Nancy Little,
15:14please come forward.
15:16You can do so anonymously.
15:18If you have information, please call 901-636-2653.
15:25Help Nancy get justice.
15:29This is King Judah 23 of the Judah Life Podcast,
15:32and you're watching the Empire Network.
15:40Ooh, there's some beats. That's some fire.