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Crime Alert 02.11.25 | Man Kills Pregnant GF, Claims She "Chose This" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime US Now, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: cops respond to a welfare call from the doll Wagner
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  Speaker 1: to find a pregnant woman's body in his home. Wagner
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  Speaker 1: admits the woman's his girlfriend, Ariel Nevills, age thirty. When
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  Speaker 1: asked if he killed her, Wagner first says, quote, no, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. She did this to herself. He explains. When
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  Speaker 1: the couple first started dating, they discussed not having any children,
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  Speaker 1: but when she became pregnant, Ariel refused an abortion against
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  Speaker 1: his wishes. Wagner eventually tells police he strangled Ariel, who
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  Speaker 1: was seven months along Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Wegner says he used both hands and his forearm to
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  Speaker 2: strangle Novels in two different ways. Wagner doubles down in
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  Speaker 2: his interview that Nevills was somehow responsible for her own murder. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: I told her this is the way I had a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful future set up for us. She wanted to act crazy.
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  Speaker 2: She chose this. It didn't have to be that way.
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  Speaker 1: Needless to say. Vidal Wagner, twenty nine, now charged with
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  Speaker 1: two counts of murder. Florida Sheriff's investigating a car crash.
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  Speaker 1: When Sebastian Soarez twenty three, approaches and asks what happened,
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  Speaker 1: Deputies tell him there was a crash, but no one's
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  Speaker 1: injured and ask him to step back. Sarez responds with
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  Speaker 1: more cursing, demanding to know who caused the crash. When
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  Speaker 1: they ask him to back off, he yells, you can't
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  Speaker 1: tell me what to do. Deputies inform him he will
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  Speaker 1: be arrested if he doesn't leave, and he responds, you
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  Speaker 1: can't arrest me, I have an ankle monitor. Well. Suarez
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  Speaker 1: quickly learns his probation curfew does not prevent his arrest.
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  Speaker 1: He is now charged with interfering with a first responder.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime on Lines John Linley.
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  Speaker 3: A Detroit mother is facing murder charges after authorities say
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  Speaker 3: she's mothered her nine year old son and buried his
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  Speaker 3: body in the backyard. The remains of Zamar King were
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  Speaker 3: discovered January sixth, when a landlord was preparing to rent
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  Speaker 3: out the home. Police now say the boy was killed
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  Speaker 3: on October twenty fourth. Two weeks later, his mother left
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  Speaker 3: for Georgia with her three year old son. The forty
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  Speaker 3: one year old woman was arrested January tenth in Cobb County,
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  Speaker 3: Georgia on unrelated charges. She's now awaiting extradition to Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: where she faces charges including murder and child abuse. Detroit's
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  Speaker 3: interim police Chief Todd Bettison called the case unlike anything
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  Speaker 3: he's seen in nearly three decades on the force. Authority
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  Speaker 3: says Zamar's father only recently learned of his son's death.
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  Speaker 3: The investigation is ongoing. Alabama has carried out its first
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  Speaker 3: execution of the year, utilizing a controversial method. Crime Online
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner provides an in depth look at the case
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  Speaker 3: and its broader implications.
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  Speaker 2: Alabama has executed fifty two year old day Demetrius Fraser
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  Speaker 2: for the nineteen ninety one rape and murder of Pauline
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  Speaker 2: Brown in Birmingham. Fraser's execution at the Holman Correctional Facility
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  Speaker 2: marks the state's fourth use of nitrogen gas for capital punishment.
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  Speaker 2: In his final statement, Fraser apologized to Brown's family, stating
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  Speaker 2: what happened to Pauline Brown should never have happened. He
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  Speaker 2: concluded with I love everybody on death row Detroit Strong.
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  Speaker 2: Fraser also criticized Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for not intervening
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  Speaker 2: in his case. His family and death penalty opponents had
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  Speaker 2: urged the governor to allow Fraser to serve his life
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  Speaker 2: sentence in Michigan, a state without the death penalty. Governor
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  Speaker 2: Whitmer responded, noting that her predecessor had agreed to Fraser's
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  Speaker 2: transfer to Alabama, leaving the matter in Alabama's jurisdiction. The
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  Speaker 2: crime occurred on November twenty seventh, nineteen ninety one, when Fraser,
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  Speaker 2: then nineteen, broke into Brown's apartment, demanded money, and raped
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  Speaker 2: her at gunpoint. After taking eighty dollars, he shot her
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  Speaker 2: in the head and later returned to search for more money.
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  Speaker 2: A federal judge recently declined to block Fraser's execution, ruling
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  Speaker 2: that previous instances did not demonstrate excessive pain beyond what
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  Speaker 2: is inherent in any execution.
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  Speaker 3: The execution highlights the ongoing debate over nitrogen gas as
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  Speaker 3: a method of capital punishment. Critics argue that the method
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  Speaker 3: is experimental and may cause distress during the process.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Suzanne Lyell, nineteen, heads back to her state
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  Speaker 1: University of New York dorm from her job at Crossgates Mall.
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  Speaker 1: A classmate, Caes Lyell, get off the city bus around
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  Speaker 1: nine forty five at a stop just a short walk
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  Speaker 1: from the dorm. Next morning, her boyfriend tells her parents
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  Speaker 1: he thinks Suzanne never came back to the dorm the
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  Speaker 1: night before. He says, Susanne usually lets him know she
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  Speaker 1: got home safely, but she never called and she did
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  Speaker 1: not answer his calls. The family calls campus police to
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  Speaker 1: report Suzanne missing, but they're told it's common behavior. She'll
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  Speaker 1: probably quote turn up. Two days later, police finally accept
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  Speaker 1: a report. One of Suzanne's coworkers tell investigators about a
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  Speaker 1: month ago, Suzanne stated she thought she was being stalked.
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne Lyle white, female, five three, brown hair, blue eyes,
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  Speaker 1: light brown birthmark on left calf, a mole on left
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  Speaker 1: cheek beneath the ear lobe, and a surgical scar on
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  Speaker 1: her left foot. Suzanne last scene wearing a long black
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  Speaker 1: trench coat, a black shirt, blue jeans, and carrying a
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  Speaker 1: black tote bag. If you have info on Suzanne Lyle,
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  Speaker 1: please call the FBI's Albany office three one five seven
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  Speaker 1: three one one seven eight one. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and saw unsolved homicides. With this crimeal I means a grace,