The courtroom agitator who has hosted her program for nearly 13 years is about to say goodbye to the network.
Nancy Grace announced that she will leave HLN in October. She had gotten her start on CourtTV before striking it on CNN and then its sister network HLN.
She told the executives that her departure will be on October 13. She will focus on digital content programming.
"This fall, I'll be leaving HLN, my longtime TV home, with a full heart and endless gratitude," Grace said in a statement Thursday. "The network has been my extended family for nearly a dozen years, and I am proud of the amazing work we've produced together."
The host of one of HLN's most popular shows went on to say, "We created an unparalleled platform that gave crime victims a voice and succeeded in helping to find missing people and spotlight unsolved homicides."
Grace, a native of Macon, Georgia, came to her career via a personal tragedy.
She was only 19 when her then-fiance, Keith Griffin, was murdered. After his death, she abandoned her studies in Shakespearean literature to seek a career in law.
After graduating from Mercer Law School and completing an LLM in constitutional and criminal law at New York University, Grace became a special prosecutor for the Fulton County District Attorney's Office in Atlanta.
Her reputation handling high-profile cases in Atlanta courts caught the attention of Court TV executives, who put her on air and eventually created "Cochran and Grace," which she co-hosted with Johnnie Cochran of O.J. Simpson trial fame.
She became known as a tough-as-nails advocate for crime victims on her eponymous nightly show.
Her coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, in which Anthony was accused and eventually acquitted of the murder of her young daughter Caylee Anthony, helped make Grace even more of a household name.
The fame also made her a target for parody.
Grace told CNN in 2009 that she didn't mind the "Saturday Night Live" sketches or You Tube videos that poked fun at her.
"It's very flattering that they would think enough to make fun of me," she said. "I want [rapper] Eminem to make fun of me, but I don't think it would be very nice."
Grace, who will leave in the fall when her contract ends, did not share specifics about her next venture. She did say, "I will continue my fight for justice across a variety of traditional and new media, where victims' voices can reach an entirely engaged audience."
In an internal note to employees, CNN executive vice president Ken Jautz celebrated Grace's time at HLN, CNN's sister network.
"Nancy has worked tirelessly on behalf of the missing and exploited for more than a decade on HLN," he wrote. "She gave a voice to the voiceless and we are extremely grateful for her contributions to the network. During her remarkable career at HLN, she led the coverage of two of this century's most talked about and infamous trials, Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias.
The junk food media is returned back to Brentwood, Los Angeles for the speculation.
A man turned over a knife to the Los Angeles Police Department. That knife was located on the old property of a former football star who was acquitted of murder.
Many believe that the knife could be the murder weapon used in the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
The development conjured up a cast of characters from the trial that gripped the nation's attention in the mid-1990s: Remember the televised slow-speed chase of O.J. Simpson in the white Bronco? His all-star legal team? The glove that did not fit? Judge Lance Ito?
And who can forget the ongoing crusade of Goldman's outraged family against Simpson, who is now imprisoned in Nevada for armed robbery and kidnapping in a separate case.
Emotions still burn fiercely about the case and its underlying issues that sound remarkably familiar today: race, justice and policing in America.
The O.J. Simpson murder trial was one of the biggest tabloid courtroom drama in American history.
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death and the murder weapon was never found.
Simpson, a former NFL football player/actor/media mogul who was accused of murdering his estranged wife and her friend.
Simpson was found not guilty in the murder of Nicole and Ron. That case divided among racial and political lines. Many in the Black community at the time believe that O.J. was being railroaded by a White jury.
Whites believed that O.J. used his fame and his high profile attorneys to buy his way out of murder.
Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, Alan Dershowitz, Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey became household names. Kardashian's celebrity gave way to his ex-wife Kris. Of course the Kardashian name comes well with the main act Kim Kardashian-West. It also gave celebrity to sisters Khloe, Courtney, brother Rob and their half sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.
Erica Crippen went missing for nearly three months. Not one peep from the junk food media. Her body was found in rural Maryland. The suspect Kyle Crosby is facing murder charges. He was the husband of the victim.
Thanks to The Black and Missing Foundation for dropping this one. If it wasn't for Black and Missing this story would be watershed for a missing pretty White girl.
S. Baldwin and I have long talked about how the junk food media often ignores missing people cases.
These type of missing people stories that attract agitators such as Nancy Grace have to be the perfect formula.
VICTIM (WHITE WOMAN AGE 17 - 35) + SUSPECT (WHITE MAN/BLACK MAN) + SITUATION (COLLEGE, VACATION, INTERNATIONAL TRAVELING, STRANDED MOTORIST) + TIMING (DAY/NIGHT/HOLIDAY) + LOCAL ACTIVISM (REWARDS, MEDIA DRIVEN BIOGRAPHY) = JUNK FOOD MEDIA SENSATION.
No matter how you put it, the junk food media will obsess over missing White women.
Hence the term Missing White Woman Syndrome. It's used by social scientists to describe the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases that involve young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls.
Sociologists define the media phenomenon as the undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases concerning missing women of other ethnicities and social classes, or with missing males of all social classes and ethnicities.
The PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill is said to be the originator of the phrase.
Although the term was coined to describe disproportionate coverage of missing person cases, it is sometimes used to describe the disparity in news coverage of other violent crimes. The concept is similar to hierarchy of death, in which certain types of deaths garner more news coverage than others. Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of tough on crime measures named for white women who went missing and were subsequently found harmed.
Since New Year's Eve, no one could have imagine New Jersey mom Erica Crippen would have just disappeared. Some believed that her abusive husband Kyle Crosby may have something to do it.
This week the law found Erica's body on the side of a rural Maryland road near Sykesville.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Erica Crippen.
The AP reports that investigators used a GPS device that was in a New Jersey man's vehicle to find the body of his wife, who had been missing since New Year's Eve, along the side of a rural road in Maryland, a New Jersey prosecutor said Wednesday.
The body of Erica Crippen, 26, was found under branches and brush in Sykesville, Maryland, on Tuesday; she was wrapped in a blanket; her arms, legs and neck were bound with an electrical cord and duct tape was on her face and nose, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi said.
Crippen's husband, Kyle Crosby, 28, was charged in January with murder in his wife's death after investigators found items of "evidential value" in the trunk of his car in connection with her disappearance. They haven't disclosed what was in the trunk. He remained in county lock up Wednesday. Court and lock up records didn't list a lawyer for him.
Bernardi said that after Crosby's arrest, investigators found a GPS device in his car that contained 8,600 points, or what the prosecutor characterized as "bread crumbs" that showed where the vehicle had stopped. Crippen's body was found less than 100 feet from one of the points, Bernardi said.
Kyle Crosby is in lockup. He murdered his wife Erica after she was threatening to leave him.
It's unclear how or when Crippen died but authorities believe Crosby dumped her body either on the evening of Jan. 10 or morning of Jan. 11, Bernardi said. An autopsy was scheduled in Baltimore.
Investigators searched three times in Maryland for her body, but their efforts were hampered by the brutal winter, the prosecutor said.
A business card from Gloucester Township, where Crosby is from, was found near the body along with discarded food in a box from Royal Farms, a gas station chain, Bernardi said.
Investigators also found surveillance video from one of the stores in Maryland showing he had been there, Bernardi said. Phone records also showed he made a call from the store.
The couple lived in Mount Laurel with their infant daughter and Crippen's 7-year-old daughter. Crippen's body was found the same week her husband's 67-year-old mother, Jo, was charged in the case with hindering and tampering with physical evidence.
Authorities allege Jo Crosby deleted several text messages from her phone sent to her son the morning police believe he killed his wife.
According to an affidavit, at least 15 text messages between her and her son on New Year's Eve were retrieved during a forensic examination of their cellphones. The two also had an 18-minute phone conversation, according to an affidavit obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. Jo Crosby eventually admitted deleting the messages when she learned authorities were coming to interview her, the affidavit said.
Kyle and Erica have a daughter. Now that child will not have a mom or a dad to raise her. Her dad murder her mom and threw away all the opportunities to see his child become a beautiful woman.
She has been released on $12,500 bail. It wasn't clear Wednesday if she had an attorney who could comment on the charges. No one responded to a note left at her house seeking comment.
A story that the racist right agitator Colin Flaherty missed was the death of Erica Crippen.
She was a married woman from New Jersey. She was reported missing for over a month. Her body was found in Maryland, and the suspect is in custody.
The shocking twist it was her husband.
But even more shocking was the fact the woman was Black and the suspect is White.
So where is Colin Flaherty?
Somewhere in the cesspool trying to find his next bombshell featuring a Black criminal inflicting harm on a White victim.
For publicity purposes, Atlanta based rapper 2 Chainz is considering a run for mayor in the nearby suburb of College Park. The rapper proving to the world that he's more than an entertainer, but an informed individual who believes in doing something good for the public.
After the latest bout with Nancy Grace, the Atlanta Constitution Journal is reporting that Tauheed Epps (aka 2 Chainz/Tity Boi) is testing the water.
“I am looking forward to running at the end of this year or next year. [I’m] waiting to see if I meet all of the qualifications!” the “Mercy” rapper told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday.
Word of 2 Chainz’s political ambitions initially surfaced in an interview with XXLMag.com.
“I’m supposed to be running for mayor in College Park. I got everybody wishing,” he told the site.
But the 37-year-old also has a few arrests for narcotics possession on his resume. His quest for mayoral supremacy would pit him against Jack Longino, who has served as College Park’s mayor since 1996.
Earlier this month, 2 Chainz announced the creation of his own record label, The Real University (aka The Real U, aka T.R.U.), which he plans to use as a platform for rising talent.
Is the Feds Watching?
2 Chainz is an artist on Def Jam. He was a part of Ludacris' label Disturbing Tha Peace for fifteen years. He left the label in 2011 to strike it on his own. He released two albums Based on a TRU Story and BOATS II: Me Time on Def Jam.
I'll bet you that if he intends on running, expect the racist right to make noise about it!
This must be one of the most desperate attempts for courtroom agitator Nancy Grace.
She would host rapper 2 Chainz on her program to discuss marijuana and the children.
Don't forget that you must be 17 years old to purchase an album with the parental advisory label.
So I don't see the point in saying the children when you have to be an adult to buy a 2 Chainz album?
HLN is dying and I guess to siphon off those age 25 -54 demo from Loserville, they'll host a A-list rapper who frequently talks about hip-hop and weed.
Since I don't have the cable news, I often look at the websites such as Mediaite and The Huffington Post for the most outrageous moments in cable news.
The last time I've mentioned 2 Chainz was the fact he was shot at in San Francisco. Yeah, don't forget that appearance on the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls.
Yeah, he preparing for his third album on Def Jam and releasing his newest mixtape T.R.U. Jack City in late January. He also launched his own imprint called T.R.U. - The Real University (or The Real U).
