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California Man Tortured Girlfriend Before Killing Her · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back. Ready for a deep dive and
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  fair warning on this one. Listeners. The case we're looking
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  at today.
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  Speaker 2: It's rush, Yeah, really heavy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking murder conviction out of California. Sal Nova might
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  ring a bell, been in the news a lot, and
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  the details, well, let's just say, the court documents and
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  the DA statements, they paint a pretty grim picture.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And you know, we go through a lot of
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  these cases and it's easy to get well, not numb exactly,
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  but to see the same patterns. Yeah, but this one,
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  this one really gets under your skin because of how
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  clearly it illustrates this whole idea of coercive control.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and that's what we're going to try to unpack today, right,
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  how this goes way beyond just like a crime of passion.
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  This is about systematic, calculated abuse exactly. So okay, let's
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  rewind to the beginning, lay it all out. Christmas Eve
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  twenty twenty one, sal Nova murders his girlfriend, Alison tacx Escobar. Brutal,
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  absolutely brutal, and we see these horrible details in the reports,
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  degrading words tattooed on her, signs of torture like extensive bruising.
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  The DA's office didn't hold back. They mentioned a head
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  laceration too, And this is.
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  Speaker 2: Where it becomes clear this wasn't just a heat of
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  the moment thing, right, This was torture, plain and simple,
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  and the evidence backs that up. Sadly. We're talking baseball bats, hammers, screwdrivers.
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  The DA's office found evidence of all of it. But
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  then you add on the videos. Oh got the videos, Yes, Nevava,
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  he filmed himself taunting Alison and she's clearly injured, in pain,
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  just awful, And that's where that element of torture, it
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  just becomes undeniable.
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  Speaker 1: And the worst part, this wasn't even the first time
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  Nava had done something like this. When the investigator started
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  digging into his past, oh boy, turns out he had
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  a history of violence with other girlfriends. And the stories
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  are he really similar. Like one woman described being locked
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  in a closet and beaten. Another one talked about being
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  pressured and having an abortion and then being abused afterward.
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  Speaker 2: And this is why it's so important we're talking about this.
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  This pattern, this is textbook coercive control, and it's insidious.
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  It's not always as straightforward as just physical violence. Right,
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  It's about control. The abuser isolates their victim, makes them
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  totally dependent financially, emotionally, in every way, and then they
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  use whatever they can, threats violence to maintain that power.
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  We see that in every single one of Nov's relationships.
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  Speaker 1: It's terrifying, honestly, and the thought that keeps coming back
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  to me is could this have been prevented, Like if
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  someone had known what Nava was capable of, if the
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  signs have been recognized sooner. It's heartbreaking, right, And.
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  Speaker 2: That's why this case is so crucial. It forces us
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  to really confront this issue head on. Domestic violence, course
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  of control. It's more common than we want to admit.
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  But if we don't talk about it, if we don't
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  educate ourselves on the signs, it's just going to keep happening.
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  And that's why those resources are so important, domestic violence
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  hotline support groups. People need to know they're not alone,
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  that there's.
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  Speaker 1: Help out there, absolutely one thousand percent, So listeners, if
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  any of this is hitting home, if you see yourself
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  in Allison's story, or if it reminds you of someone
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  you know, please please please reach out for help. You
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  are not alone and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, what really stuck with me through all of this
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  the fact that Nava filmed himself, Like, that's the world
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  we live in now, where this kind of violence gets
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  intertwined with technology and it's just, I don't know, it
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  makes you think.
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  Speaker 2: It really does. It's a whole other layer to this
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  conversation about abuse and responsibility, Like what do we do
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  when we see this kind of content online? Is our
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  responsibility to report it, to intervene? It's a tough question,
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  but it's one we all need to be thinking about.