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Mom of 4 Strangled In Front of 5-Year-Old | Crime Alert 04.03.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Police
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  Speaker 1: in South Brunswick, New Jersey, respond to a call about
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  Speaker 1: an unresponsive woman at home on Route twenty seven. Inside,
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  Speaker 1: they find Lauren Saldona, thirty eight dead. Ex boyfriend forty
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  Speaker 1: one year old Roman Romanofsky is there along with their
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  Speaker 1: five year old son. He admits to strangling Saldona in
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  Speaker 1: front of her four children. The Middlesex Medical Examiner has
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  Speaker 1: yet to release an official cause of death. Police confirm
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  Speaker 1: it's no random act.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Lauren Saldona had just welcomed her fourth child into
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  Speaker 2: the world. She shared one other child with Romanovsky and
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  Speaker 2: had two more children from previous relationships. A GoFundMe has
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  Speaker 2: been set up to assist the nineteen sixteen, five year
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  Speaker 2: old and newborn after the loss of their mother. Saldana's
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  Speaker 2: five year old reportedly witnessed the murder, a trauma no
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  Speaker 2: child should endure. Saldana's oldest daughter, Madison, says her mother's
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Romanovsky was fullatile and unhealthy, but Saldana always
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  Speaker 2: returned after a breakup because she wanted to see her son.
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  Speaker 2: Madison is now seeking custody of her three younger siblings.
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  Speaker 1: Romanovsky now charged with murder one two counts child endangerment.
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  Speaker 1: Rats invade the Houston Police evidence room, eating seized drugs,
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  Speaker 1: jeopardizing nearly four thousand cases. The infestation, first discovered in October,
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  Speaker 1: reveals longstanding issues and a facility which stores one point
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  Speaker 1: two million pieces of evidence, some dating back decades. Rodents
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  Speaker 1: eating weed, coke, mushrooms. Efforts to remove the doped up
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  Speaker 1: rats have been challenging. Only one active case involving mushrooms
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  Speaker 1: appears impacted, but to prevent future contamination, evidence from active
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  Speaker 1: cases will be moved to the Houston Forensic Science Center.
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  Speaker 1: Crime and Justice News after this Now with the latest
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  Speaker 1: Crime and Justice breaking Knees Crime Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: Two teenage brothers have been sentenced to twenty years in
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  Speaker 3: prison for their roles in a drive by shooting that
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  Speaker 3: killed a five year old girl in Albuquerque. The shooting
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  Speaker 3: part of a surgeon violence in twenty twenty three led
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  Speaker 3: New Mexico Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham to declare a public
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  Speaker 3: health emergency, temporarily restricting guns in public parks and playgrounds.
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  Speaker 3: Authorities say Galilea so Diego was sleeping in a mobile
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  Speaker 3: home when the teens driving stolen vehicles opened fire, targeting
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  Speaker 3: another teenager inside. The shots struck Galilea in the head.
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  Speaker 3: She died at a hospital. The brothers, ages fifteen and
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  Speaker 3: nineteen at the time, were among five defendants who reached
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  Speaker 3: FLEA agreements. Prosecutors in Bernalillo Counties say another suspect received
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  Speaker 3: six teen years, while two others receive lesser sentences. Despite
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  Speaker 3: the crackdown on crime, Albuquerque continues to see deadly violence
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  Speaker 3: involving juveniles, leaving communities on edge. Hawaii's correctional system is
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  Speaker 3: under scrutiny as the state addresses concerns over inmate mental
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  Speaker 3: health services and staffing shortages. Our Sydney Sumner has more
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  Speaker 3: on the steps being taken.
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii has agreed to permit two national experts to inspect
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  Speaker 2: its prisons and jails to assess inmate mental health services.
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  Speaker 2: This initiative is part of efforts to resolve a twenty
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  Speaker 2: nineteen federal lawsuit concerning prisoner suicides. The experts will develop
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  Speaker 2: a plan to enhance the state's correctional mental health system,
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  Speaker 2: which currently faces significant staffing shortages. Tommy Johnson, director of
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  Speaker 2: the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports that twenty of
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  Speaker 2: twenty three psychologists positions are vacant, with one filled by
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  Speaker 2: an unlicensed provider. Inwenty five, there were five suspected or
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  Speaker 2: confirmed inmate suicides the HYA since twenty sixteen. Nationally, forty
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  Speaker 2: one percent of prisoners have a history of mental health issues.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Eric Sites, who filed the lawsuit, alleges that the
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  Speaker 2: state subjects inmates with serious mental illnesses to extreme isolation
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  Speaker 2: with minimal treatment. He emphasizes the urgent need for adequate
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  Speaker 2: mental health services in Hawaii's correctional facilities. The experts doctor
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  Speaker 2: beauchamp A Garcar of Atlanta and doctor Jeffrey Menzner of
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  Speaker 2: Denver are expected to arrive in Hawaii in June to
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  Speaker 2: begin their assessment.
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  Speaker 3: The state is taking these steps to address critical mental
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  Speaker 3: health issues within its correctional system, aiming for comprehensive reforms
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  Speaker 3: in the near future.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, seventeen year old Page Summer more known as Penny,
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  Speaker 1: vanishes from her broken era Oklahoma home page Lassaye at
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  Speaker 1: home in the early morning hours, wearing pink polka dot
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  Speaker 1: boxer shorts, a gray Googo doll's shirt with long black
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  Speaker 1: slips and red house slippers. She leaves with a few belongings,
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  Speaker 1: including her phone, but never shows up for summer school class.
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  Speaker 1: The missing seventeen year old initially classified as a runaway,
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  Speaker 1: now police think foul play. Page five four, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty pounds, blue eyes, pink dyed hair, multiple piercings.
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  Speaker 1: Page now twenty nine remains missing despite extensive investigations. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info, please contact Broken ARROWPD nine one eight
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  Speaker 1: two five nine eighty four hundred. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: our best with your help to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace