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Crime Alert 01.04.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Chicago
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  Speaker 1: cops find a woman's body dumped on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. Autopsy reveals she was sixteen weeks pregnant. Identified
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  Speaker 1: as Megan Lewis thirty nine. Surveilli's video scheff Lewis getting
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  Speaker 1: into a car with one Vega Montoya.
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  Speaker 2: The two argue.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators believe Vega Montoya stabs Louis dead.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy Lewis's body was found on the shoulder of Hunt
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  Speaker 3: Club Rode south of Route one seventy three in the
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  Speaker 3: northernmost end of Chicago. The Lake County Sheriff's Office says
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  Speaker 3: Viga Montoya drove home and left Louis's body in the
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  Speaker 3: car for two days before dumping her. Vega Montoya was
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  Speaker 3: picked up in connection with the murder during a traffic stop.
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  Speaker 1: One Vega Montoya thirty seven, now charged with murder and
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  Speaker 1: concealing a murder. Sandra Jimenez confronts her boyfriend about looking
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  Speaker 1: at other women. The two go to opposite ends of
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  Speaker 1: the home. After arguing, Hemanez grabs the needles used to
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  Speaker 1: give their dogs Raby shots and attacks the boyfriend, stabbing
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  Speaker 1: him in the eye. The boyfriend rushes to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: reporting the assault. Cops find he Menez at their home.
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  Speaker 1: She claims his injuries are self inflicted. Needless to say
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  Speaker 1: she Sandra he Menez, forty four, old enough to know better,
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  Speaker 1: now charged with aggravated battery. More Crime and Justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this now the latest Crime and Justice breaking Knees
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  Speaker 1: Crime on Lines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 2: According to a Texas Chief of Police, surveillance footage is
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  Speaker 2: believed to hold the key to uncovering the truth behind
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  Speaker 2: the deaths of an eighteen year old pregnant woman who
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  Speaker 2: vanished just before Christmas and her boyfriend. Both were discovered
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  Speaker 2: shot in the head, possibly dead for several days. With more.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 3: While family and friends have been grieving the killings of
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  Speaker 3: eighteen year old Savannah Nicole Soto and twenty two year
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  Speaker 3: old Matthew Gara, police have yet to release a line
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  Speaker 3: of suspects or a possible motive. According to Soto's family,
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  Speaker 3: she was overdue for the birth of her baby and
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to undergo an induced labor when she vanished
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  Speaker 3: last month. Both fatalities were determined to be homicides by
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  Speaker 3: gunshot wounds. To the head by the Bear County Medical
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  Speaker 3: Examiner's Office. The pair were discovered in Garret's vehicle outside
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  Speaker 3: an apartment building in San Antonio. Chief William McManus of
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  Speaker 3: the San Antonio Police Department called the crime very very perplexing.
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  Speaker 3: Police released a request for public assistance to identify two
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  Speaker 3: individuals seen on surveillance footage which featured the vehicle and
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  Speaker 3: was recorded before the victim's bodies were discovered. McManus declined
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  Speaker 3: to comment on whether detectives think the couple were deceased
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  Speaker 3: at the time the video was shot. Mcmannons says that
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  Speaker 3: the video shows Garret's vehicle momentarily pulling up next to
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  Speaker 3: a pickup truck at the location where the couple were discovered.
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  Speaker 3: Someone exits the truck and walks up to the car's
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  Speaker 3: driver's side. McMahon stated they do not think the individual
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  Speaker 3: who was briefly observed getting out of GARRA's car was
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  Speaker 3: one of the victims. He has referred to the case
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  Speaker 3: as a heinous act and labeled it as a capital
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  Speaker 3: mr inquiry. Our friends at KYNSTV interviewed family members who
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  Speaker 3: say Soda was supposed to have an induced labor at
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  Speaker 3: a hospital on December twenty third. However, her mother claimed
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  Speaker 3: that when she knocked on Sodo's apartment door earlier that
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  Speaker 3: day in the Leon Valley area, she received no response.
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  Speaker 2: The family spent Christmas Eve combing the neighborhood for the
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  Speaker 2: missing couple. Leon Valley police filed a missing person alert
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  Speaker 2: for Sodo on Christmas Day and later stated Gara could
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  Speaker 2: not be found. A man from southern Indiana who attempted
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  Speaker 2: to hit a police officer with his vehicle in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty and was subsequently shot by the officer has been
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  Speaker 2: given a sixteen year prison sentence once again crime Online
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 3: Sebastian Beck was given the maximum sixteen year term by
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  Speaker 3: a Floyd County judge, with the potential of parole after
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  Speaker 3: twelve years. This according to press reports. On December seventh,
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  Speaker 3: the man from New Albany entered a guilty plea to
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  Speaker 3: the felonies of attempted aggravated battery and domestic battery. It
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  Speaker 3: was on September twelfth of twenty twenty that New Albany
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  Speaker 3: police were called to a residence over reported incidents of
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  Speaker 3: domestic violence. Officers were informed by a woman that Beck
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  Speaker 3: had grabbed her arm when she said she wanted to
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  Speaker 3: break up with him and that he had threatened to
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  Speaker 3: murder her and their kids in the past. Officers discovered
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  Speaker 3: Beck sitting in his running vehicle and attempted to speak
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  Speaker 3: with them. However, Beck reversed his vehicle and drove over
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  Speaker 3: a shrub that officer John Davidson had moved behind for cover.
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  Speaker 3: Davidson fired at Beck injuring him before Beck drove off
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  Speaker 3: and crashed into a building in New Albany, Kentucky, a
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  Speaker 3: city on the Ohio River just five miles northwest of Louisville.
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  Speaker 2: According to Floyd County Prosecutor Chris Lane, the officer was
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  Speaker 2: attempting to protect someone in a domestic violence situation where
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  Speaker 2: children were present.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, Kiara Coles, pregnant with her first child, gets
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  Speaker 1: ready for work as a Chicago postal carrier, but then
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  Speaker 1: suddenly causing sick No one hears from her again. Kiara's
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  Speaker 1: car found park just outside her house, her phone and
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  Speaker 1: packed lunch bag inside like she intended to go to work.
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  Speaker 1: Her family says she was excited about the baby and
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  Speaker 1: the baby's father was her boyfriend of nearly five years.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Simmons. Police have since learned Simmons had a second
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  Speaker 1: partner who was also pregnant at the time of Kiara's disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: Police believe Coles was met with foul play and are
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  Speaker 1: concerned with her safety. Kiara Coles now missing over five years.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info, contact Chicago PD three one two
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  Speaker 1: seven four seven five seven eight nine. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news, go to crime online dot com
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.