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Informant Recants Confession During Tyler McCain's Preliminary Hearing | Crime Alert 6AM 09.19.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: Testimony continues in a preliminary hearing for Tyler McCain, a
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  Speaker 1: California man accused of killing his wife, Nicki McCain. Superior
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  Speaker 1: Court Judge Thomas Bender is tasked with determining if the
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  Speaker 1: murder case against Tyler will proceed. As of today, Nicki
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  Speaker 1: is still missing and presumed dead. The Writing Police Department
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  Speaker 1: said Nikki last spoke to her family on May seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: before someone picked her up from a home in Redding
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  Speaker 1: near the Wind River Casino. Her truck was also reported missing,
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  Speaker 1: but police later found it a two thousand and two
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  Speaker 1: Chevrolet Avalanche on May twenty fifth in western Tahama County.
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  Speaker 1: During a check of Nicky's avalanche, the vehicle was put
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  Speaker 1: up on a lift where investigators discovered blood pooled on
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  Speaker 1: top of the fuel tank. There was so much blood
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  Speaker 1: some of it dripped down from the fuel tank. Shasta
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  Speaker 1: County authorities reclassified Nicky's disappearance as a homicide and charged
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  Speaker 1: Tyler McCain with the murder. Last month. Shasta County District
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Stephanie Bridget said that Tyler McCain's motive had been
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  Speaker 1: to keep Nicky, a mother of four, from testifying against
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  Speaker 1: him in a domestic abuse case. On Wednesday, Tyler McCain's
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  Speaker 1: former friend, Albert Nelson, took the stand and stated that
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  Speaker 1: Tyler admitted that he had killed Nicky after wrestling her
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  Speaker 1: in bed then strangling her. On May eighteenth, twenty twenty four, Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: who has an unrelated felony warrant, arrived at the Redding
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  Speaker 1: Courthouse in shackles. Nelson previously told investigators that he thought
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  Speaker 1: Tyler McCain had been taking met at the time of
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  Speaker 1: Nicky's death, and that Nicky had screamed I'm dying during
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  Speaker 1: the scuffle. During his testimony, however, Nelson recanted and claimed
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  Speaker 1: he fabricated the incident in an attempt to get out
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  Speaker 1: of jail. He also admitted he was on drugs when
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  Speaker 1: he made the incriminating statements against McCain. Nelson also previously
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  Speaker 1: said that his sister saw Tyler McCain suspiciously driving the
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  Speaker 1: Avalanche during the time Nicky was last seen. Nelson told
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  Speaker 1: the court that he lied about the incident. The preliminary
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  Speaker 1: hearing is scheduled to conclude next week, a Florida man
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  Speaker 1: was arrested after he allegedly chased and shot at a
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  Speaker 1: man test driving a motorcycle in Lake County. Isaiah MacDonald
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  Speaker 1: was charged with multiple counts relating to the incident, including
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  Speaker 1: aggravated assault with the deadly weapon, discharging a weapon into
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  Speaker 1: an occupied vehicle, and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: The Lake County Sheriff's Office said they were told by
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  Speaker 1: the victim that he was test driving the bike when
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  Speaker 1: he noticed a white jeep Cherokee following him closely and
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  Speaker 1: behaving aggressively, prompting him to speed up and make multiple
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  Speaker 1: turns in an attempt to evade him. At one point,
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  Speaker 1: the jeep's driver pointed a firearm out the window, and
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  Speaker 1: the biker said he heard two gunshots. The writer identified
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  Speaker 1: the driver as MacDonald, who he said was a childhood friend,
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  Speaker 1: but that they hadn't been in contact in recent years.
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  Speaker 1: The victim showed officers a text he received from MacDonald
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  Speaker 1: after the incident, asking when's a good time to come over.
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  Speaker 1: The writer confronted him about the incident, but MacDonald denied involvement.
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  Speaker 1: Police later located him and he again denied involvement. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: say his story didn't add up, however, and they saw
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  Speaker 1: a box of ammunition in the car. MacDonald consented to
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  Speaker 1: a search of the vehicle, and deputies found more ammunition, drugs,
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  Speaker 1: and drug paraphernalia. In addition to charges related to the
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  Speaker 1: shooting incident, MacDonald also faces drug possession charges. MacDonald was
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  Speaker 1: released Monday on bond More Crime and Justice News after this.
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  Speaker 1: Police and the Adirondacks are looking for a man they
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  Speaker 1: say stabbed to his girlfriend over the weekend and fled.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Beaschond, fifty three, was last seen in Brighton, New York,
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. His truck was located later that day at
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  Speaker 1: the intersection of County Route sixty in State Route eighty six,
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  Speaker 1: where it apparently had been sitting abandoned for hours. Amanda Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 1: forty one, was found dead Sunday morning at the home
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  Speaker 1: she shared with Beshond, a landscaper in Cohos. Police said
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  Speaker 1: that Rodriguez's mother had not heard from her and sent
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  Speaker 1: a friend to check. The friend found her body. Authority
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  Speaker 1: said they believed the murder took place on Saturday and
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  Speaker 1: launched a manhunt for the suspected killer, whose truck was
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  Speaker 1: seen at the home at that time. They put out
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  Speaker 1: a call for tips Tuesday. New York State Forest Rangers
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  Speaker 1: and US Border patrol are assisting in the manhunt, which
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  Speaker 1: is focused in the Franklin County area where the truck
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  Speaker 1: was found, which is about fifty miles from the Canada border.
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  Speaker 1: Coho's mayor, Bill Keeler provided an update on the search.
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  Speaker 1: Uniformed troop patrols are blanketing the area and BCI investigators
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  Speaker 1: are continuing to conduct interviews and search the area in
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  Speaker 1: unmarked cars, so there is a full court press going on,
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  Speaker 1: but there have been no sightings to date. Beshond is
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  Speaker 1: described as nearly six feet tall and about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty pounds with brown hair. Police say he may
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  Speaker 1: be armed and is definitely dangerous, so anyone who sees
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  Speaker 1: him should steer clear and call police. An eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old Massachusetts man accused of making threats to shoot up
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  Speaker 1: a school was released on bond Wednesday and sent home
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  Speaker 1: to await trial. Concerns about Ian Fotheringham began in October
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  Speaker 1: when he allegedly threatened to shoot up his former high school.
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  Speaker 1: Last month, school counselors contacted investigators saying that the teen
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  Speaker 1: wanted to shoot up a school and that he'd said
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  Speaker 1: he was refurbishing weapons in his room, but when Falmouth
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  Speaker 1: police searched his room, they found no illegal guns. Safety
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  Speaker 1: monitors again contacted authorities on September third, saying they'd seen
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  Speaker 1: a man identified as following him behind t Ticket Elementary
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  Speaker 1: School and that he appeared to be casing the building.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities obtained a search warrant for the teen's entire home
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  Speaker 1: the next day and found photos in a journal referencing
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  Speaker 1: the Columbine High School shooting, as well as a large
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  Speaker 1: three D printer capable of making guns. Cape and Island's
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  Speaker 1: Assistant District Attorney, Tom Flanagan said there are photographs that
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  Speaker 1: police indicate were from the dark web, showing bloody victims
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, to include the Columbine killers themselves. Fotheringham
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  Speaker 1: was arrested on September eleventh, charged with threatening use of
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  Speaker 1: a deadly weapon in a public building. Following a court
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  Speaker 1: appearance on Tuesday, he was granted a twenty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars bail and released. He was ordered to wear a
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  Speaker 1: GPS monitor and not leave home except of legal or
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  Speaker 1: medical reasons. For the latest crime and justice breaking news.
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