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Kidnapper Locks Woman in Cinder Block Cell| Crime Alert Recap Sunday 10.13.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: In Oregon, a man accused of kidnapping a woman and
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  Speaker 1: locking her in a cinderblock cell is now facing trial.
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  Speaker 1: Nigasie Zuberi, aged thirty, is charged with kidnapping a woman
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  Speaker 1: from Seattle, driving her to his home in Klamath Falls,
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  Speaker 1: and imprisoning her in July of twenty twenty three. His trial,
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  Speaker 1: which began this week with jury selection, marks the latest
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  Speaker 1: of elements in a disturbing case that has captured national attention.
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  Speaker 2: The victim's focus, actions and her will to survive triggered
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  Speaker 2: a law enforcement response that may have actually saved many
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  Speaker 2: other women from a similar nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: The federal prosecution there, they say Zuberi posed as an
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  Speaker 1: undercover officer when he approached the woman in Seattle. He
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  Speaker 1: allegedly restrained her with handcuffs, transported her four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty miles across state lines, and held her captain in
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  Speaker 1: the cell he built in his garage. After hours in captivity,
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  Speaker 1: the woman escaped by breaking the cell's door with her hands.
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  Speaker 1: She managed to flee the property and found help from
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  Speaker 1: a passerby who called police. Zuberi was arrested the next
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  Speaker 1: day in Reno, Nevada, where police officers found him with
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  Speaker 1: one of his children in the Walmart parking lot. The
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  Speaker 1: trial also includes charges linked to another kidnapping in May
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, where Zuberr is accused of abducting
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  Speaker 1: a woman in Klamath Falls. Prosecutors say he used a
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  Speaker 1: taser to control the victim, then restrained and assaulted her
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  Speaker 1: during the drive. Evidence collected by investigators includes video footage
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  Speaker 1: of Zuberri purchasing cinderblocks, handwritten notes outlining plans to kidnap
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  Speaker 1: multiple women, and a list of quote unquote ideal victims.
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  Speaker 1: According to the FBI, he allegedly sought to create a
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  Speaker 1: quote underground army by holding women captive and forcing them
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  Speaker 1: to bear his children. Jerry Selection in Medford's U. S
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  Speaker 1: District Court has drawn considerable attention. Prosecutors have compiled over
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  Speaker 1: five hundred exhibits and are expected to call at least
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  Speaker 1: seventy witnesses. Witnesses include FBI agents, local law enforcement, and
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  Speaker 1: medical personnel who treated the victims. Zuberri has pleaded not
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  Speaker 1: guilty to the charges, set to face eight federal counts,
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  Speaker 1: including kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, and attempted escape. His
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  Speaker 1: trial is expected the last three weeks with a detailed
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  Speaker 1: look into what authorities described as a calculated and premeditated
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  Speaker 1: plan to capture and control vulnerable women.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Jennifer Gould, a Florida woman accused of killing her
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  Speaker 3: boyfriend by zipping him up in a suitcase, has rejected
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  Speaker 3: a plea deal and is now facing a trial that's
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  Speaker 3: been delayed multiple times, most recently due to Hurricane Milton.
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  Speaker 3: Sarah Boone, forty six, is charged with second degree murder
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  Speaker 3: in connection with the death of her boyfriend, George Torres,
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  Speaker 3: forty two, in February of twenty twenty. Torres was found
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  Speaker 3: dead inside a suitcase at the couple's in Winter Park apartment.
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  Speaker 3: Boone initially claimed that she and Torres were playing a
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  Speaker 3: drunken game of hide and seek when she accidentally zipped
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  Speaker 3: him up in the suitcase. She says she fell asleep
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  Speaker 3: and didn't realize he was trapped until the next morning. However,
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  Speaker 3: prosecutors believe that Boone intentionally killed Torres. A video discovered
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  Speaker 3: on Boone's phone after her arrest has recently gone viral.
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  Speaker 3: It shows Boone laughing and taunting Torres as he struggles
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  Speaker 3: to escape the suitcase. Here's part of that video.
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  Speaker 4: For everything you've done to me, soah, for everything you've
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  Speaker 4: done to me, so thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Sarah, You Sharo, stupid Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: That's my name, the learner.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, Boone has now rejected a plea deal
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  Speaker 3: that would have resulted in a fifteen year prison sentence.
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  Speaker 3: Without the deal, she faces a potential sentence of twenty
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  Speaker 3: two and a half years to life if found guilty.
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  Speaker 3: The trial was originally set to begin this week, but
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  Speaker 3: has been postponed now to October fourteenth due to Hurricane Milton.
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  Speaker 3: This marks the sixteenth in the case, which has been
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  Speaker 3: plagued by numerous issues, including the withdrawal of eight defense attorneys.
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  Speaker 3: The suitcase video also adds another layer of complexity to
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  Speaker 3: this case. Boone's defense attorney, James Owens, has indicated that
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  Speaker 3: he plans to use the battered spouse syndrome as a
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  Speaker 3: defense strategy. He argues that Boone was a victim of
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  Speaker 3: abuse and that her actions were the result of that trauma.
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  Speaker 3: In addition to the trial delays and the viral video,
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  Speaker 3: Boone has also faced other legal challenges. Just last week,
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  Speaker 3: a judge denied her request for professional hairstyling and makeup
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  Speaker 3: for her trial due to security reasons. Boone's legal team
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  Speaker 3: argued that the denial was unfair and would prejudice her case.
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  Speaker 3: Despite the numerous setbacks, Boone remains confident in her defense.
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  Speaker 3: Her attorney has stated he believes she's innocent and he
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  Speaker 3: will prove it at trial.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Nicol Parton. New details have emerged from court records
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  Speaker 4: in Jasper County, Indiana, shedding light on a death investigation
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  Speaker 4: that has been ongoing since September. Police began looking into
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  Speaker 4: the activities of Steve Valet, thirty one, and Samantha Sabella,
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  Speaker 4: twenty five after receiving a report on September twenty Valet
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  Speaker 4: was allegedly reported to have confessed to killing his two
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  Speaker 4: young children, burying them in a fire pit. It was
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  Speaker 4: also suggested that he smothered his first born and drown
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  Speaker 4: his second born child. Authorities visit a property in Wheatfield
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  Speaker 4: where Valet was said to have buried his children, but
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  Speaker 4: he no longer lived there. The current property owner allowed
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  Speaker 4: a search, leading to the discovery of bone fragments near
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  Speaker 4: a fire pit and in the garage. The materials were
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  Speaker 4: sent for analysis, which confirmed they were bone fragments, but
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  Speaker 4: could not determine their origin. A neighbor who wishes to
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  Speaker 4: remain anonymous, spoke to Fox fifty nine.
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  Speaker 5: I was hoping that it wasn't real when they started
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  Speaker 5: digging around. I was hoping that they wouldn't find anything,
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  Speaker 5: that this was just going to be a bad rumor.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm starting to feel like it wasn't and it
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  Speaker 5: just makes me feel very, very uneasy and sad and sick.
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  Speaker 4: Further investigation revealed messages on Sabella's phone indicating Valet had
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  Speaker 4: killed and burned multiple children. Valet later admitted to burying
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  Speaker 4: two children in his backyard after they were prematurely born
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  Speaker 4: and died. He claimed to have saved some of their
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  Speaker 4: ashes to make a necklace. Police revealed that Valet told
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  Speaker 4: them the children were buried for three to five years
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  Speaker 4: before he dug them up and burned them in his
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  Speaker 4: fire pit. Valet added that he saved some of those ashes.
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  Speaker 4: Valet and Sabella were both arrested and charged with murder
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  Speaker 4: and abuse of corpse, obstruction of justice, and failure to
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  Speaker 4: report a dead body. It was also noted that the
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  Speaker 4: deceased children may have undocumented as authorities could not find
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  Speaker 4: any official records of their existence. Another child currently in
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  Speaker 4: their care has been removed. No additional information is available,
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  Speaker 4: but police say this is an ongoing investigation. For the
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  Speaker 4: latest crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly update
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  Speaker 4: Nicole Parton.