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Husband Beats Wife, Dog to Death with Clothing Iron | Crime Alert 04.09.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. Early morning, Houston,
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  Speaker 1: Texas driver's spot. Free dogs frolicking along the Katie Freeway.
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  Speaker 1: The fate of their owner, thirty two year old Kristen
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  Speaker 1: Chevez much darker. Police called to her home. When they arrive,
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  Speaker 1: her husband, thirty four year old chance Zane Chevez, stands
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  Speaker 1: in the doorway covered in blood, hands up. He surrenders
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  Speaker 1: without incident. Inside, they find Kristin unresponsive in a bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: She suffered blunt force trauma. A broken clothing iron lies nearby.
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  Speaker 1: Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. The fourth dog,
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  Speaker 1: a docs and named Peaches, also dead on the roadside.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Kristin was so badly beaten she had to be
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  Speaker 2: identified through DNA analysis. Kristin's mother, Laura Bell, says the
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  Speaker 2: Shaveaza's marriage deteriorated and it was not a good situation,
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  Speaker 2: but Kristin remained by her husband's side, hoping things would improve.
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  Speaker 2: Chavez is charged with murder and his bond initially set
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  Speaker 2: at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. However, a second
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  Speaker 2: hearing on bail arguments, Chauvez refused to leave his cell
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  Speaker 2: for the appearance, delaying the hearing for several hours. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: a judge agreed to raise the bond amount.
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  Speaker 1: Bond five hundred thousand dollars. Prosecutors say animal cruelty charges
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  Speaker 1: to follow. For a m Memphis, gunshots ring out, jerking
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  Speaker 1: Gerald Kirkwood and his female friend awake in bed. Kirkwood,
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  Speaker 1: thirty three, looks down to find his one year old pitbull,
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  Speaker 1: Orio with a paw caught in the trigger guard of
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  Speaker 1: a gun and what he calls a freak accident. The
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  Speaker 1: gun goes off, grazing Kirkwood's thigh. Police respond. Pyramedics treat
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  Speaker 1: Kirkwood at the scene, then transport him in non critical condition.
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  Speaker 1: Companion leaves before officers arrive, reportedly taking the gun with her.
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  Speaker 1: Police haven't said if the firearm or the woman was located.
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  Speaker 1: A reporter doesn't find Kirkwood home, but gets a chance
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  Speaker 1: to meet Oreo State's witness. More crime in Justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this it's latest crimeate Justice breaking news Crime Onlines
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  Speaker 1: John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We began in New York as a Brooklyn mother and
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  Speaker 3: her two young daughters are dead, struck and killed while
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  Speaker 3: out for a walk by a driver police say had
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  Speaker 3: no business being behind the wheel. A four year old
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  Speaker 3: boy also hit as now fighting for his life. The
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  Speaker 3: crash has devastated a community and sent shockwaves across the city.
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  Speaker 3: Authorities say Miriam Yuremi was driving on a suspended license
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  Speaker 3: when she sped through a red light at a busy intersection,
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  Speaker 3: rear ended another car, and then careened into the family
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  Speaker 3: in the crosswalk. The impact was so violent that her
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  Speaker 3: audie flipped over. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tish called
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  Speaker 3: it a horrific tragedy, adding that Euremi should never have
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  Speaker 3: been on the road. Mayor Eric Adams described the loss
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  Speaker 3: as extremely painful and said the entire city mourns for
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  Speaker 3: the victims. Uremi, who was among those injured in the crash,
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  Speaker 3: now faces multiple charges, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
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  Speaker 3: In a significant development on the Las Vegas Strip, Resorts
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  Speaker 3: World faces a hefty penalty over allegations tied to illegal
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  Speaker 3: gaming activities. Our Sydney Sumner delves into the details surrounding
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  Speaker 3: this landmark case.
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  Speaker 2: Resorts World Las Vegas, a prominent fixture on the strip,
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  Speaker 2: has been fined ten point five million dollars by Nevada
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  Speaker 2: gaming regulators. This marks the second largest fine ever imposed
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  Speaker 2: by the Nevada Gaming Commission. The penalty addresses allegations that
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  Speaker 2: the casino engaged with individuals linked to illegal book making
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  Speaker 2: in those with prior gambling related felony convictions. Central to
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  Speaker 2: these allegations is Matthew Boyer, a Southern California book maker.
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  Speaker 2: Boyer accepted thousands of sport bets from Epei Mizuhara, the
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  Speaker 2: former interpreter for Baseball Star Show hey Otani. Mizuhara was
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  Speaker 2: convicted of bank fraud and tax eVision after embezzling nearly
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  Speaker 2: seventeen million dollars from Otani to cover gambling debts. He
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  Speaker 2: was sentenced to fifty seven months in federal prison in
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  Speaker 2: order to pay restitution. The Nevada Gaming Control Boards complaint
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  Speaker 2: highlighted that Resorts World permitted Boger to gamble over an
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  Speaker 2: eighty day span across approximately fifteen months. During this period,
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  Speaker 2: Boger incurred losses exceeding six point six million dollars. Despite
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  Speaker 2: these substantial losses, the casino extended various incentives to Boger,
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  Speaker 2: including complimentary gifts, discounts, and private jet flights. In response
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  Speaker 2: to the settlement. Resorts World and its parent company neither
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  Speaker 2: admitted nor denied the allegations.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Resorts World has agreed to implement leadership changes and
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  Speaker 3: enforce stricter anti money laundering protocols.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Rice. Still cooking on the stove the first
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  Speaker 1: sign something's wrong. December sixteen, forty four year old Chen
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  Speaker 1: Sook Kim aka Gina Basher's vanishes from her Homewood, Alabama home.
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  Speaker 1: She lives in the basement of her hair salon. Sheer exposed,
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  Speaker 1: which police say is also a front for a brothel.
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  Speaker 1: Just one week before she disappears, the business is rated.
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  Speaker 1: When police check her living area, they find no signs
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  Speaker 1: of struggle, but it doesn't look like she leaves willingly.
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  Speaker 1: Her id personal items and both of her cars left behind,
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  Speaker 1: but Shears has black hair, brown eyes, facial scars from
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  Speaker 1: chicken pox, a circular scar on her upper arm or shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Shears Asian five to two one hundred and fifteen pounds.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info, please contact Homewood PD two zero
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  Speaker 1: five three three two sixty two hundred. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: We do our best to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides with this crime alert. I'm Nancy
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