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Crime Alert 09.04.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace Breaking crime News Now. Andre Vasquez, nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: and her boyfriend part their car at a California park
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  Speaker 1: after dinner. Not long after, an armed man approaches the
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  Speaker 1: car and starts shooting at the couple. The boyfriend runs
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  Speaker 1: for help. When he comes back, a passenger seat is
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  Speaker 1: bloody and Andrea is gone. Cops track Andrea's phone and
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  Speaker 1: find her body in a field. Cops id the shooter
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  Speaker 1: is Gabriel Esparza Nancy. The attack appears to be entirely random.
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  Speaker 1: Vasquez was missing for nearly twenty four hours before officers
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  Speaker 1: discovered her body, alongside her cell phone, which they had
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  Speaker 1: been attempting to track her with. Asparza, who has no
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  Speaker 1: criminal record, apparently gave a detailed confession of the attack,
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  Speaker 1: and he was arrested the afternoon before Vasquez was discovered.
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  Speaker 1: As Sparza, twenty plays not guilty to murder, kidnap, and
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  Speaker 1: attempted rape. Florida cops pull over Jeffrey Kaufman for speeding
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  Speaker 1: and they're hit with a strong smell of pot As
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  Speaker 1: they approach the car. Kaufman pulls out americle marijuana ID card,
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  Speaker 1: but as cops searched the car, they discover a duffel
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  Speaker 1: bag with over thirty plastic bags full of marijuana, mushrooms,
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  Speaker 1: and several bottles of peals. When cops ask why do
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  Speaker 1: you have so much pot, Coffin replies, just take me
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  Speaker 1: to jail, man. Be careful what you wish for, you
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  Speaker 1: will surely get it. Cops haul in to jail and
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  Speaker 1: he's booked on possession. More crime and Justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking news
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  Speaker 1: Crime onlzed. John Limley, accused of poisoning his wife's protein
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  Speaker 1: drinks to kill her, a Colorado dentist, is likely to
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  Speaker 1: enter a not guilty plea in October to all charges,
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  Speaker 1: including first degree murder. This according to his defense attorneys.
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  Speaker 2: With more.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Aurora police have said that forty five year old James
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  Speaker 2: Craig started an affair before his wife died on March eighteenth,
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  Speaker 2: and had looked up information online, including is arsenic detectable
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  Speaker 2: in an autopsy and how to make a murder seem
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  Speaker 2: like a heart attack. District Attorney John Kellner set it
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  Speaker 2: a preliminary hearing in July that Craig's wife, Angela Craig
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  Speaker 2: immediately began googling her symptoms, which included vertigo, shaking, and
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  Speaker 2: cold lips. According to Kelly Lear, the coroner for a
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  Speaker 2: Rapahoe County, Angela Craig, a mother of six who had
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  Speaker 2: been married to her husband for twenty three years, died
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  Speaker 2: from cyanide and tetra hydrazelene poisoning. Tetra Hydrazelene is a
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  Speaker 2: chemical that may be found in over the counter eye drops.
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  Speaker 2: James Craig's defense lawyer, Andrew Hoe, predicts a jury trial
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  Speaker 2: following the hearing last week that resulted in the arraignment
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  Speaker 2: of Craig being postponed until October ninth. Craig's attorneys claimed
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  Speaker 2: at the July hearing that there was no concrete proof
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  Speaker 2: that Craig had put poison in his wife shakes, and
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  Speaker 2: that the lead detective was biased against Craig. The hearing's
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  Speaker 2: testimony in the affidavit did not mention how the investigators
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  Speaker 2: think that the tetrahydrazelene poisoning of Angela Craig came about.
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  Speaker 3: Craig has also been accused of tampering with the evidence.
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  Speaker 3: Those specifics of that charge have not been made public.
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  Speaker 3: A Connecticut man who spent time on death row before
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  Speaker 3: his conviction was overturned in twenty twenty, has now pleaded
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  Speaker 3: guilty to a murder charge and been given a forty
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  Speaker 3: six and a half year prison term. According to his lawyer,
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  Speaker 3: Joe Lopez, thirty eight year old Lazelle Ashby submitted his
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  Speaker 3: plea as part of a deal with the prosecutor and
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  Speaker 3: the family of Elizabeth Garcia, his twenty one year old victim.
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  Speaker 3: Prosecutors say that as her two year old daughter watch
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  Speaker 3: TV in a neighbor's apartment in two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 3: Garcia was allegedly murdered inside her Hartford apartment. Lazelle Ashby
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  Speaker 3: has already received three sentences for Garcia's murder. He was
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  Speaker 3: originally found guilty of several offenses, including a capital felony,
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  Speaker 3: sexual assault, and kidnapping. In two thousand and eight, he
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  Speaker 3: was given the death penalty. After Connecticut repealed the death
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  Speaker 3: penalty in twenty sixteen, he received a new life sentence.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty, the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered a new
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  Speaker 3: trial for Ashby after ruling that the judge had violated
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  Speaker 3: his rights by allowing testimony from another prisoner, who claimed
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  Speaker 3: Ashby had confessed to the crime while he was incarcerated.
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  Speaker 3: Lopez said Ashby denied kidnapping or sexually assaulting Garcia. Now
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  Speaker 3: to Alabama, as we're learning that the states suggested methods
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  Speaker 3: for carrying out nitrogen gas executions include covering the prisoner's
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  Speaker 3: face with a mask and replacing their oxygen with nitrogen
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  Speaker 3: until their heart stopped beating once again. Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: In a redacted court brief, Alabama detailed how the new
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  Speaker 2: execution method would work. The state is aiming to be
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  Speaker 2: the first to use nitrogen to execute a prisoner. In Alabama, Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 2: and Mississippi, nitrogen hypoxia has been approved as a method
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  Speaker 2: of execution, although no state has yet utilized it to
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  Speaker 2: carry out a death sentence. Humans breathed seventy eight percent nitrogen,
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  Speaker 2: which is safe to inhale when combined with adequate oxygen levels.
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  Speaker 2: According to Alabama's plan, a convict would be forced to
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  Speaker 2: breathe only nitrogen as part of the nitrogen hypoxia execution procedure,
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  Speaker 2: which would deprive them of the oxygen they required maintain
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  Speaker 2: their basic functions, and result in their death.
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  Speaker 3: Just this past week, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall requested
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  Speaker 3: that the state's Supreme Court schedule fifty eight year old
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  Speaker 3: Kenneth Smith to be put to death by way of
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  Speaker 3: nitrogen hypoxia. Smith was one of two men convicted in
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  Speaker 3: the nineteen eighty eight murder for hire killing of a
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  Speaker 3: preacher's wife.
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  Speaker 1: Echo Lloyd's adult daughter comes by her mom's Missouri home
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  Speaker 1: with flowers and a car to which here a happy
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  Speaker 1: Mother's Day, but Lloyd doesn't seem to be home. Her
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  Speaker 1: daughter leaves the gifts and a note asking mom to
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  Speaker 1: call her. Lloyd's daughter tries to call several times after
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  Speaker 1: and comes back the next day. When she can't get
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  Speaker 1: her mom, she breaks in through a window and notices
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  Speaker 1: it looks like someone other than her mom has just
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  Speaker 1: been inside. There's a pile of trash and rotting food
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  Speaker 1: left out, uncharacteristic off her mother. Her mom's car, purse,
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  Speaker 1: and most of her things are left behind, but her keys,
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  Speaker 1: her gun, phone, and medications all gone. The daughter discovers
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  Speaker 1: the Walmart receipt from mother Day signed by Echo, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no other indication where she may have gone. Echo
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd now missing over three years If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Echo Lloyd, please call Missouri Highway Patrol eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven seven three four five two. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Grace.