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Crime Alert 09.02.24 | Woman Thrown into Highway Traffic in Random Attack · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Final alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. An
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  Speaker 1: LA woman riding the Metro to work when she's approached
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  Speaker 1: by a stranger, Juan Flores. Flores grabs the woman by
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  Speaker 1: the arm. She struggles to get away, screaming for help.
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  Speaker 1: As they approached the Allen Metro station. No one can
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  Speaker 1: subdue Flores, and he drags the woman off the train,
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  Speaker 1: crosses over the tracks, then hops the cement barrier onto
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  Speaker 1: the two ten freeway and throws the woman into oncoming
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  Speaker 1: traffic before he runs away. A bystander calls nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: The woman's transported to the hospital with deep cuts on
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  Speaker 1: her face.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. Police are calling this a random attack, with no
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  Speaker 2: idea what motivated Flores. Surveillance footage at the Allen Metro
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  Speaker 2: station captured the terrifying moment the victim was thrown into traffic.
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  Speaker 2: She is now reportedly in stable condition after receiving steeples
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  Speaker 2: for her cuts. She did have to return to the
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  Speaker 2: hospital when her wounds became infected and she was running
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  Speaker 2: a high fever.
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  Speaker 1: One to Flores, thirty three, now charged with attempted murder.
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  Speaker 1: Nikiya Davis upset when her sister only brings home food
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  Speaker 1: for herself and repeatedly asks the sister to share. When
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  Speaker 1: the sister refuses, Davis grabs the plate of ravioli and
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  Speaker 1: throws it at her sister's face. Cops are called and
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  Speaker 1: the sauce on Davis's sister is pretty clear evidence, but
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  Speaker 1: Davis also confesses. Nikia Davis twenty one, charged with domestic
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  Speaker 1: assault allah ravioli. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime in justice breaking news Crime
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  Speaker 1: onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: In southern California, a seventy three year old man, has
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  Speaker 3: entered a not guilty plea in connection with a series
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  Speaker 3: of cold case murders dating back to nineteen seventy seven.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Sidney Sumner of Crime Online with more.
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  Speaker 2: The suspect, Warren Luther Alexander, has been arranged on multiple
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  Speaker 2: murder charges following a breakthrough in the investigation through the
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  Speaker 2: Houston DNA technology. This according to the Ventura County District
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  Speaker 2: Attorney's Office. Alexander, a resident of Diamondhead, Mississippi, was extradited
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  Speaker 2: to California after being apprehended in Surrey County, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: where he was facing charges in another decades old murder case.
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  Speaker 2: From nineteen ninety two. The California cases involved the tragic
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  Speaker 2: deaths of three women, all of whom were sex workers
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  Speaker 2: in Ventura County and were found dead in nineteen seventy seven.
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Eric Noscerenko previously identified the victims as eighteen
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  Speaker 2: year old Kimberly Fritz, thirty one year old Velvet Sanchez,
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  Speaker 2: and twenty one year old Lorraine Rodriguez. The investigation took
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  Speaker 2: a significant turn last year when DNA evidence linked Alexander
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  Speaker 2: to the murders. The match was made after the DNA
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  Speaker 2: was uploaded to a national database, leading authorities to Alexander,
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  Speaker 2: who had been identified as a suspect through investigative genealogy
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  Speaker 2: in a separate North Carolina case. In that case, Alexander
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  Speaker 2: is accused of the murder of twenty nine year old
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  Speaker 2: Nona Cobb, whose body was discovered along Interstate seventy seven.
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  Speaker 2: Alexander was arrested for Cobb's murder in March twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: though that case has yet to go to trial. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: revealed that Alexander had ties to Oxnart, having lived there
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  Speaker 2: during the nineteen fifties and sixties and returned to the
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  Speaker 2: area in the nineteen seventies.
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  Speaker 3: During the time of the alleged murders, Alexander worked as
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  Speaker 3: a cross country truck driver, a job he held into
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  Speaker 3: the early nineteen nineties. Now to a recent court filing
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  Speaker 3: in Alabama in which a corrections officer detailed the nation's
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  Speaker 3: first nitrogen gas execution, revealing unexpected observations about the inmates
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  Speaker 3: blood oxygen levels. Once again crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The officer noted that the inmate, Kenneth Smith, maintained normal
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  Speaker 2: oxygen levels longer than anticipated before they abruptly dropped. Another
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  Speaker 2: document indicated that the nitrogen gas flowed for at least
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes during the execution. These filings provide new insights
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  Speaker 2: into the execution of Smith, the first person to be
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  Speaker 2: put to death using nitrogen gas. Alabama Attorney General Steve
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  Speaker 2: Marshall's office argues that the high oxygen reading suggests Smith
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  Speaker 2: held his breath as the nitrogen gas flowed, prolonging the execution. However,
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  Speaker 2: attorneys for another inmate contend that the state has no
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  Speaker 2: evidence to support this claim, accusing it of trying to
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  Speaker 2: justify a botched execution. Media witnesses, including the associated Press
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  Speaker 2: reported that Smith convulsed on the gurney for several minutes
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  Speaker 2: before gasping for breath. Alabama has assured a federal judge
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  Speaker 2: that the new method would include quick unconsciousness and death.
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  Speaker 2: As Alabama prepares for more nitrogen gas executions, controversy surrounds
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  Speaker 2: the method's efficacy and reliability. A federal judge is set
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  Speaker 2: to hear arguments on a motion to block the planned
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  Speaker 2: nitrogen gas execution of Alan Miller in September, which would
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  Speaker 2: be the second of its kind in the nation.
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  Speaker 3: Media witnesses, including our friends with the Associated Press, reported
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  Speaker 3: that Smith convultsed on the gurney for several minutes before
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  Speaker 3: gasping for breath. Alabama had assured a federal judge that
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  Speaker 3: the new method would induce quick unconsciousness and death.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Amanda Deguillo twenty four, excited to see her
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  Speaker 1: two young daughters when she returns to Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: after a short trip to Florida. Amanda spends time with
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  Speaker 1: her family and unpacks. That evening, she leaves the house
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  Speaker 1: on foot without her phone, purse, or any extra clothes.
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  Speaker 1: She never comes home. Family checks with Amanda's friends, no
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  Speaker 1: one knows where she is and no one's heard from her.
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  Speaker 1: Searches of the area turn up nothing. Possible sightings are
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  Speaker 1: not Amanda. Police perform digs at several of Amanda's friends' homes,
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  Speaker 1: always coming up empty handed. Amanda's family is desperate for answers. Amanda,
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  Speaker 1: now missing ten years, is five to one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen pounds, brown hair, blue eyes. She has a diagonal
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  Speaker 1: surgical scar across her abdomen. If you have info on
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Deguio, please call Upper Darby, Pennsylvania PD six one
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  Speaker 1: latest crime in justice needs, go to crimeonline dot com
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  Speaker 1: and please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.