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Felicia Johnson and the Fugitive Sought for Her Murder · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: Gone Call podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
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  Speaker 1: Listener discretion is advised. According to the National Organization for Women,
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  Speaker 1: and estimated, sixty three percent of sexual assault cases go unreported,
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  Speaker 1: though the number is likely much higher. In eight out
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  Speaker 1: of ten rape cases, the victim knew the perpetrator, and
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  Speaker 1: in about half of the cases the perpetrator was an
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  Speaker 1: intimate partner. Fifteen percent were perpetrated by a stranger. That
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  Speaker 1: number is slightly less when the crime studied is homicide.
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  Speaker 1: Although specific data for virtually every category is significantly lacking,
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  Speaker 1: for female sex workers, these numbers increase exponentially and the
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  Speaker 1: data points vary considerably. Sex workers have a forty five
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  Speaker 1: to seventy five percent chance of experiencing sexual violence on
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  Speaker 1: the job, according to the Sex Workers Project, with the
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  Speaker 1: chances increasing for those who work the streets as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to what's referred to as indoor work, or that which
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  Speaker 1: is solicited and closed spaces. Rape and sexual assault are
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  Speaker 1: far from the only dangers that sex workers face. In
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  Speaker 1: a study titled sex Work Related Homicides Insights from the
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  Speaker 1: National Violent Death Reporting System twenty twelve to twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: published in November of twenty twenty three, out of three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one sex worker homicides studied, fifty four
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  Speaker 1: percent were females. Among those, the perpetrator of the homicide
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  Speaker 1: was a client fifty four percent of the time. This
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  Speaker 1: means that generally speaking, female sex workers are more often
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  Speaker 1: killed by strangers than victims who are not sex workers.
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  Speaker 1: There is no clear cut data that analyzes the prevalence
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  Speaker 1: of sex workers being the victims of serial killers. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: in a profession that is well known for being victimized
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  Speaker 1: by those whose motive is the actual murder itself, the
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  Speaker 1: lack of statistical information is confounding. Throughout history, sex workers
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  Speaker 1: have been the target of serial killers for a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of reasons, from the societal stigma attached to the work
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  Speaker 1: and lack of resources, to their often lack of consistency
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  Speaker 1: keeping in touch with family members, and simply the work
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  Speaker 1: setting itself, and that fact hasn't changed in modern times.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, twenty four year old Felicia Johnson
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  Speaker 1: was targeted by a client, a disturbed individual who by
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  Speaker 1: all indications, was looking to start a career as a
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  Speaker 1: serial killer. Felicia Marie Johnson was born and raised in
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  Speaker 1: San Diego, California. Her father, Kevin, described her as loving,
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  Speaker 1: kind and beautiful, the type of person who brought joy
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  Speaker 1: to everyone she met. As a child, Felicia was responsible,
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  Speaker 1: so responsible, Kevin said that she had curated and maintained
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  Speaker 1: a routine at a young age. Felicia set her alarm,
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  Speaker 1: woke up in the morning, got dressed, and made her
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  Speaker 1: bed all by herself. She was five years old going
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  Speaker 1: on thirty, her father added. As a young adult, Felicia
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  Speaker 1: set her sights on the modeling industry, with dreams of
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  Speaker 1: becoming a model or dancer, anything that had to do
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  Speaker 1: with glamour. Loved doing hair and makeup. Her generous and
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  Speaker 1: charitable nature too, remained intact. Felicia was a very sweet person,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin said, a kind heart gives you the shirt off
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  Speaker 1: her back. That's basically who she was. In the spring
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, Felicia was doing sex work, apparently
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  Speaker 1: booking clients through OnlyFans and other social media websites. Three
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  Speaker 1: days after her twenty fourth birthday, on Wednesday, April thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, she flew to Houston, Texas from San Diego, California,
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  Speaker 1: to both celebrate by visiting family and look for work.
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  Speaker 1: Felicia booked a room at the Intercontinental, a four star
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  Speaker 1: hotel located on the sixty seven hundred block of Main
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  Speaker 1: Street in downtown Houston. On Friday, April fifteenth, she called
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  Speaker 1: an uber to take her to Cover Girls nightclub, located
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  Speaker 1: in the city's northwest. Cover Girls is a place that
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  Speaker 1: touts itself as Houston's premier gentleman's spot, where the clientele
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  Speaker 1: can unwind with drinks while enjoying the performances and company
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  Speaker 1: of the club's dancers. Felicia reportedly auditioned to be a
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  Speaker 1: dancer there and left sometime late that afternoon. At five pm,
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  Speaker 1: she arrived back at the Intercontinental Hotel. There, Felicia was
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  Speaker 1: active on social media until approximately eleven PM. Shortly thereafter,
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  Speaker 1: Beginning in the early morning hours of Saturday, April sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, she stopped using her phone. By ten
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  Speaker 1: thirty am, Felicia's lack of phone activity was noticed. It
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  Speaker 1: was both unusual and concerning, as Felicia, like a majority
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  Speaker 1: of folks these days, never went long without using it
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  Speaker 1: for something to log on to social media, text, etc.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, family members back in California became worried.
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  Speaker 1: They called Felicia's cousin's girlfriend, Adriana, and asked her to
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  Speaker 1: drive to Bear Creek Park to look for Felicia, as
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  Speaker 1: the app Find My Phone was showing that her cell
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  Speaker 1: phone was in that area. After being directed to a
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  Speaker 1: location near the corner of North Eldridge Parkway and Clay Road,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two miles west of the Intercontinental Hotel, Adriana found
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  Speaker 1: Felicia's iPhone lying screen down just off the street. At
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  Speaker 1: twelve twelve pm, Adriana called nine to one one to
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  Speaker 1: report what she'd found and that Felicia was missing. As
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  Speaker 1: she waited for officers to respond to the scene, she
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  Speaker 1: noticed what looked like blood on the sides and bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the phone, as well as on the back and
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  Speaker 1: inside of the case. The police never came. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: presumably after another call to police, Felicia Johnson's phone was
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  Speaker 1: turned over and Houston p D Missing Persons Unit Detective
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  Speaker 1: d Steigerwald began working the case as they sought to
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  Speaker 1: retrace Felicia's steps. Video surveillance footage was obtained from the
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  Speaker 1: Intercontinental Hotel. On the footage at two fifty four am,
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  Speaker 1: a gray colored Porscha Macon and Suv was captured pulling
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  Speaker 1: into the driveway of the hotel. Captured on another camera
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  Speaker 1: at two fifty five, Felicia is seen entering the elevator
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  Speaker 1: on the fifteenth floor. A minute later, her cell phone
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  Speaker 1: and purse in hand, she is seen exiting the elevator
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  Speaker 1: in the lobby. She then walked out the doors of
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. After that, Felicia entered the Porsche Macan, which
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  Speaker 1: drove off and out of range of surveillance. By the
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  Speaker 1: time the footage was being reviewed by detectives, family friends,
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  Speaker 1: and volunteers had been searching relevant parts of Houston. Social
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  Speaker 1: media presence was created almost right away, including a Facebook
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  Speaker 1: group by far the most active. Many there speculated that
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  Speaker 1: Felicia was the victim of sex trafficking. Her father, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: began to lean that way as well. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: his daughter had just interviewed at one of the city's
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  Speaker 1: most popular strip clubs only exacerbated the suspicion. The theory
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  Speaker 1: was a justifiable one, since Houston is in, if not
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the list of US cities with
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  Speaker 1: the most cases of sex trafficking. At this point, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: no one knew HPD detectives were hot on the trail
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  Speaker 1: of someone not connected to the club, someone whose motive
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  Speaker 1: was entirely different. Next detectives Steigerwald enlisted the help of
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  Speaker 1: HPD's Human Trafficking unit. There a recent post was located
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  Speaker 1: on skipthegames dot com, an escort service site. On the site,
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  Speaker 1: Felicia posted an advertisement at twelve twenty eight am on
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  Speaker 1: April sixteenth, twenty twenty two, just a couple hours before
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  Speaker 1: she was last seen on surveillance footage. Because of the
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  Speaker 1: direction the investigation was going, it was transferred over to
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  Speaker 1: Houston PD's Homicide Division. On April twenty first, detectives Blake
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  Speaker 1: Roberts and Logan Lang of Houston PD's Homicide Division arranged
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  Speaker 1: a Harris County Grand Jury subpoena to Uber requesting records
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  Speaker 1: pertaining to Felicia Johnson. Uber ultimately supplied detectives with that information,
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  Speaker 1: more specifically, that an Uber driver was dispatched to sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven to fifty Main Street or the Intercontinental Hotel. The
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  Speaker 1: Uber driver drove a gray Portia Macan, the same vehicle
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  Speaker 1: Felicia was seen entering on surveillance footage. According to uber records,
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  Speaker 1: she was to be dropped off at thirty two thirty
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  Speaker 1: three wind Chase Boulevard or the wind Chase Hamlet apartments,
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  Speaker 1: about sixteen miles west of the hotel. Felicia was dropped
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  Speaker 1: off at the apartment gate at three twenty eight am.
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  Speaker 1: The records showed the person who requested the uber was
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  Speaker 1: named Chuku Ebaka Nu Bourdoo. Upon arriving in Houston from
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  Speaker 1: California to help look for his daughter, Kevin Johnson gave
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  Speaker 1: multiple interviews to local media and, with the help of
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  Speaker 1: activists and leader of the New Black Panther Nation in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: quanel X, put pressure on the Houston Police to fully
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  Speaker 1: investigate the case. Quantel X lamented to reporters about the
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  Speaker 1: recent epidemic of missing and murdered black women involved in
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  Speaker 1: the sex industry in the past five months. Due to
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  Speaker 1: this pressure from both Kevin Johnson and quonell X, Texas
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  Speaker 1: Ecusearch and the FBI were asked into the investigation. Kevin
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  Speaker 1: hired a private investigator and partnered with the organization Crime
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  Speaker 1: Stoppers to offer a five thousand dollars reward for information
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  Speaker 1: leading to Felicia's whereabouts her description went out everywhere through
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  Speaker 1: both traditional media and social media. After determining Felicia Johnson
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  Speaker 1: was dropped off via an uber at thirty two thirty
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  Speaker 1: three wind Chase Boulevard, the address listed on the driver's
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  Speaker 1: license of twenty eight year old Chukuubuka Nuwuvoodoo, the man
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  Speaker 1: who requested the uber. Detectives began looking into the man.
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  Speaker 1: He no longer lived at an apartment at that address.
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  Speaker 1: Nuu Boodoo had since moved a couple miles west to
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  Speaker 1: an apartment on the one thousand, forty nine hundred block
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  Speaker 1: of South Richmond Avenue. On April twenty second, twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: detectives Roberts and Lang found and reviewed homeowners Association surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video footage that showed Nuu Boodoo arrive at the front
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  Speaker 1: entrance of the wind Chase Hamlet apartments at three eighteen am,
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes before Felicia arrived. When she got out of
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  Speaker 1: the uber, the Portcha Macan, Felicia headed toward and then
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  Speaker 1: entered Nu Boodoo's vehicle, a silver two thousand and nine
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  Speaker 1: Honda Accord, which proceeded to drive north toward South Richmond Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: The uber pulled off At three twenty nine am on
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  Speaker 1: the same day, detectives were reviewing the homeowner's association surveillance footage.
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  Speaker 1: A volunteer with Texas ECUSEARCH discovered Felicia's purse near where
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  Speaker 1: Adriana had located her cell phone. Felicia's California driver's license
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  Speaker 1: and credit cards were still inside, as was a face mask,
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  Speaker 1: eventually off of which they would pull Felicia's DNA. Crime
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  Speaker 1: scene investigators processed the area surrounding the purse. It's unclear
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  Speaker 1: if any clues were found. Meanwhile, the cops were looking
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  Speaker 1: into Chuku Ebuka nwu Boodoo's background. They learned that he
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  Speaker 1: was originally from Nigeria, but had lived in the Fort
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  Speaker 1: Bend County area of Texas since childhood. In twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: he graduated from high school and moved to Houston. A
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  Speaker 1: prior offense detectives discovered shone some light on the type
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  Speaker 1: of individual they were dealing with. In the early morning
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  Speaker 1: hours of November eleventh, twenty twenty, a woman who will
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  Speaker 1: refer to as Hope was at the Lodge at West
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  Speaker 1: Oaks apartment complex waiting for a friend. That friend apparently
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  Speaker 1: never showed. Nwou Boodoo approached Hope in his car and
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  Speaker 1: began a conversation with her. He gained her trust and
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  Speaker 1: she got into a car. Nuo Boodoo drove off, and
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  Speaker 1: minutes later they ended up parked on a dark, unlit,
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  Speaker 1: dead end street nearby. They both climbed into the back
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  Speaker 1: seat of the car, where Nuo Boodoo fondled Hope. She
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  Speaker 1: decided to get out of the vehicle and began to
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  Speaker 1: flee the scene on foot. Nwoo Boodoo jumped out of
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  Speaker 1: the car and chased Hope down the street. When he
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  Speaker 1: caught up to her, he grabbed her by the wrist.
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  Speaker 1: Hope was able to break free. She ran away and
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  Speaker 1: called the police to report the attempted rape. Nwoo Boodoo's
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  Speaker 1: story was different. He told police that he and Hope
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  Speaker 1: met at the apartment complex. They left in his car
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  Speaker 1: and then went to a gas station to use an ATM.
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  Speaker 1: He got out one hundred and fifty bucks. They drove
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  Speaker 1: to the unlit street and he placed the money on
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  Speaker 1: the dashboard. N Woo Boodoo claimed Hope then took the money,
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  Speaker 1: the man said, and they crawled into the back seat.
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  Speaker 1: She then left the vehicle without returning the money. Nuu
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  Speaker 1: Boodoo told officers, so he chased her down to get
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  Speaker 1: it back. According to him, Hope ran off and he
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  Speaker 1: returned to the place he met her and waited for
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  Speaker 1: officers to arrive. When it was all said and done,
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  Speaker 1: Hope declined to press charges. She just wanted to go home,
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  Speaker 1: she told police. A lot more was learned in the
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  Speaker 1: days to come as detectives continued to piece things together.
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  Speaker 1: They obtained Felicia's cell phone data. Her phone connected to
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  Speaker 1: a tower near the apartment of Chuku Ebuka Nuu Voodoo,
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  Speaker 1: they learned, but it was video footage that continued to
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  Speaker 1: break the case. Police were able to maintain a trail
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  Speaker 1: of surveillance video on which the suspect's movements can be traced.
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  Speaker 1: After picking Felicia up, Nuuvoodoo's car is seen heading toward
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  Speaker 1: his then current residents at the Richmond Estates apartment complex.
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  Speaker 1: He arrived at his unit there at three fifty one am, Felicia,
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  Speaker 1: of course with him. More than an hour later, at
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  Speaker 1: four fifty four am, Nuu Boodoo's silver Honda Accord can
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  Speaker 1: be seen leaving his apartment heading toward Highway six. Eighteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, at five twelve Felicia's phone connected to a
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  Speaker 1: tower located near Bear Creek Park, the same area where
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  Speaker 1: her purse and bloody cell phone would later be found
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  Speaker 1: a little more than twenty minutes later, Nu Boodoo arrived
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  Speaker 1: back at his apartment at eight fourteen am. He bought
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  Speaker 1: a pack of nitrial gloves at home Depot. A couple
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  Speaker 1: hours later, at ten twelve am, Nu Boodoo visited a
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  Speaker 1: medical clinic for a cut on his hand. He told
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  Speaker 1: the treating physician that he'd cut himself while opening boxes,
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  Speaker 1: but of course, detectives Robert and langnew oh it was
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  Speaker 1: common for the perpetrator of a violent crime to cut
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  Speaker 1: themselves upon the act or during an attempt to cover
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  Speaker 1: their tracks. Police determined the man also purchased a flashlight
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  Speaker 1: and t shirt on April sixteenth and on the seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: four hand towels, thirteen gallon trash bags, and thirty gallon
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  Speaker 1: trash bags. Footage obtained from Walmart showed Nuu Voodoo wearing
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  Speaker 1: a bandage around his right hand during both purchases. Also
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  Speaker 1: on April seventeenth, he purchased an eighteen inch pruning saw
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  Speaker 1: from home Depot. After reviewing her snapchat records, detectives learned
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  Speaker 1: that Felicia Johnson was going to be paid five hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars for meeting up with someone, an amount that matched
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  Speaker 1: two ATM withdrawals Chuku Ebu Ka Nuubudu had made one
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  Speaker 1: for three hundred dollars and another for two hundred. On
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  Speaker 1: May thirteenthly a month after Felicia vanished, detectives obtained a
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  Speaker 1: search warrant for Nuu Boodoo's car, as well as a
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  Speaker 1: warrant for his arrest. Later that day, Nu Boodoo was
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  Speaker 1: pulled over during a routine traffic stop and taken into custody.
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  Speaker 1: When executing the search warrant on his car, officers found
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  Speaker 1: a nine millimeter handgun, home depot receipts, a wal Mart receipt,
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  Speaker 1: several loose latex gloves, a large kitchen knife, and a shovel.
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  Speaker 1: Blue Star, a blood visualizing agent based on luminol was
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  Speaker 1: used on the car itself and on several items within.
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  Speaker 1: It lit up on the large kitchen knife and on
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  Speaker 1: the trunk and in the back seat. A search warrant
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  Speaker 1: was also issued on Nuboudou's apartment. There, crime scene investigator
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  Speaker 1: k Busak found blood stains on the floor, in the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: just outside the bathroom, on a flip flop in the bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: on the bottom of an office chair in the bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: on the bedroom floor, on the bottom of the bedroom
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  Speaker 1: door jam, on the bottom of the exterior bedroom door,
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  Speaker 1: and in front of the bedroom nightstand. Using blue star reagent.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, and perhaps the most telling, large areas of
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom floor and hallway just outside the bedroom and
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom lit up, indicating they were positive for the
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  Speaker 1: presence of blood. Blood found just outside the bathroom in
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  Speaker 1: the hallway was later determined to belong to both Felicia
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  Speaker 1: and Nuuburdoo, but blood in the other locations proved to
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  Speaker 1: belong only to Felicia. Their theory was a simple one
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  Speaker 1: to come to their suspect they believed had killed and
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  Speaker 1: then dismembered Felicia Johnson. Ultimately, the Houston Police claimed they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have enough evidence to charge him just yet, and
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  Speaker 1: nu Voodoo was released. Then he disappeared, becoming a fugitive.
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  Speaker 1: Though there were no direct phone calls between Felicia Johnson
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  Speaker 1: and chuku Ebuka Nuubudu on their cell phone numbers, Detective
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  Speaker 1: Roberts notes in his second affidaphit for the man's arrest
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  Speaker 1: that sex workers often use Google voice phone numbers or
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  Speaker 1: communications through Snapchat or Facebook Messenger to book meetings with clients.
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  Speaker 1: At the time of the affidavit, Roberts was still waiting
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  Speaker 1: on records from Google pertaining to Felicia's Google voice phone number.
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  Speaker 1: Upon obtaining a warrant for records associated with nuu Budou's
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  Speaker 1: Gmail address, damning Google searches were found. On April twentieth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, four days after Felicia Johnson disappeared, n
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  Speaker 1: wu Boodoo performed the following searches. Does bleach denature blood?
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  Speaker 1: Can bleach destroy DNA? What does bleach do to blood?
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  Speaker 1: What does vinegar do to blood? Does vinegar destroy blood DNA?
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  Speaker 1: The following day, he asked Google for the most forested
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  Speaker 1: part of Houston. On April twenty seventh, twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: nu Boodoo typed in the search bar how to delete
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  Speaker 1: your history completely, and on the twenty eighth, he was
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  Speaker 1: looking for more chilling information as follows. How to be
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer, fifteen cheapest places to live in the
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  Speaker 1: world one thousand dollars a month, How to get away
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  Speaker 1: with murder, How to kill without getting caught. Perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: most disturbing search was next on April thirtieth, when he
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  Speaker 1: typed in Houston Escort. He was back on the prow,
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  Speaker 1: likely keeping up with the news and perhaps social media
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  Speaker 1: regarding Felicia Johnson. Nu Boodoo googled the following on May third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Can police check phone records of a
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  Speaker 1: missing person? Can police check victims text messages? Can police
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  Speaker 1: check text messages of a dead person? Can police unlock
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  Speaker 1: a phone during an investigation? And there was other disturbing
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  Speaker 1: evidence beyond the Google searches. Nu Boodoo's cell phone remained
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  Speaker 1: in evidence after his release. Once a warrant was signed
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  Speaker 1: to search the Android device. What was found was shocking.
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  Speaker 1: In the gallery were the photographs of a dismembered woman
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  Speaker 1: and three dead bodies that have not been identified, at
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  Speaker 1: least not publicly. There was no meta or EXIF data
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  Speaker 1: associated with these photographs. Often, in missing persons cases where
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  Speaker 1: the victim is believed to be deceased, police and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: particularly those in political positions i e. District attorneys, are
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  Speaker 1: reluctant to file murder charges even when ample evidence exists.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of Felicia Johnson, However, the evidence against
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  Speaker 1: chuku Ebu Khan Nuwubodoo was overwhelming. On June ninth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, while remaining at large, he was charged with
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  Speaker 1: murder and tampering with evidence, namely a human corpse. At
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  Speaker 1: that point, the case had long been investigated as a murder. Nuubudoo, however,
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  Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found. The Houston Police utilized both
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  Speaker 1: the press and social media to try and locate the man,
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  Speaker 1: but if they received any information or tips, they ultimately nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Seven months after the warrant for Nuubudu's arrest was signed
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  Speaker 1: by a Harris County judge. On February seventh, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: at about noon, a landscape contractor hired by the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Department of Transportation called authorities to report they'd found human remains.
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  Speaker 1: The bones were discovered near the intersection of Flamingo Lakes
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  Speaker 1: Road and Highway one forty nine, in an area of
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  Speaker 1: the Sam Houston National Forest in Montgomery County. The Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: office there later released a statement regarding the remains, relaying
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  Speaker 1: that they were sent out for dental record comparison and
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  Speaker 1: DNA analysis. Twenty days later, on February twenty seventh, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office issued a press
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  Speaker 1: release stating that the remains had been positively identified as
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  Speaker 1: Felicia Johnson. Her family and friends, though always fearfu of
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  Speaker 1: this outcome, were devastated. When her father, Kevin, finally spoke
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  Speaker 1: with the media about a week after the discovery, his
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  Speaker 1: heartbreak was apparent. It was very difficult for me as
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  Speaker 1: a father to just know that I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: see my daughter ever again and ever talk to her again,
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  Speaker 1: he told reporters. I can't sleep, I can't stop before
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  Speaker 1: my daughter is found and this man is found. Kevin's
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  Speaker 1: frustration was also evident. He believed the Houston Police dropped
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  Speaker 1: the ball by releasing Nubodoo from custody without surveilling the
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  Speaker 1: man after he contemplated filing a lawsuit against the department
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  Speaker 1: or the state. On a go fund me set up
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  Speaker 1: to help the family with expenses such as flying into
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  Speaker 1: search and hiring the private investigator, Kevin said he'd received
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  Speaker 1: a tip that Nuuburdu had fled to Nigeria. Now I'm
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  Speaker 1: faced with the dilemma. What do I do as a father?
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  Speaker 1: He posted on the gofund me page. Do I depend
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  Speaker 1: on the police, do I hire a bounty hunter? Or
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  Speaker 1: do I put a price on his head in Nigeria?
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  Speaker 1: Once I find out what village he is in, I
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  Speaker 1: will not stop until everyone involved is brought to justice.
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  Speaker 1: Chuku Ebuka Nuubudu remains at large. He's a black man
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  Speaker 1: with black hair and brown eyes, stands six feet one
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  Speaker 1: inch tall and weighs two hundred and sixty pounds. If
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  Speaker 1: the tip Kevin Johnson received is correct, nuu Budo might
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  Speaker 1: still be in Nigeria, a country with which the United
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  Speaker 1: States has an extradition treaty. He is considered extremely dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any information about the murder of Felicia
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  Speaker 1: Johnson or the whereabouts of Chuku Ebuka Nuuboudo, please contact
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Police Department's Hamas Side Division at seven to
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  Speaker 1: one three three zero eight thirty six hundred or crime
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  Speaker 1: Stoppers at seven one three two two two tips. We'd
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