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Crime Alert 10.31.24 | Men Kidnap, Torture Roommate over Money Dispute · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I'm Nancy Grace breaking crimes nowt. Denver PD
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  Speaker 1: get a tip a man may be in danger from
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  Speaker 1: his housemates.
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  Speaker 2: They perform a welfare.
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  Speaker 1: Check, but the two men that open the door claim
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  Speaker 1: they haven't seen their roommate in days. In the back bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: the man's two other roommates are holding him down. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't let him leave in two days Later, that afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: the man makes it to a police station missing a finger.
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  Speaker 1: He says his roommates refuse to let him leave due
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  Speaker 1: to a dispute over money.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy authorities did not have the power to enter the
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  Speaker 2: home based on the evidence at hand, forced to take
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  Speaker 2: the two residents at their word. The victim says his
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  Speaker 2: roommates cut off his finger after he had been held
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  Speaker 2: captive for roughly twelve hours. The suspects left the shared
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  Speaker 2: home hours after the welfare check and the victim was
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  Speaker 2: able to escape his restraints. Investigators are still working to
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  Speaker 2: determine if the kidnapping could be gang related, but currently
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  Speaker 2: believe it to be an isolated incident.
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  Speaker 1: Roommates Panada Moreno. Nineteen in Darwin Gonzales thirty four now
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  Speaker 1: charged with kidnap, assault, and criminal extortion. Ohio cops check
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  Speaker 1: out to report a giant jack o lanterns blocking traffic.
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  Speaker 1: They find a giant inflatable pumpkin had flown from someone's
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  Speaker 1: yard and is now blocking half the road. As an
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  Speaker 1: officer tries to remove the pumpkin, the gigantic inflatable knocks
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  Speaker 1: into the ground and he can't get out from under
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  Speaker 1: it until his partner steps in with backup. The cops
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  Speaker 1: managed to return the decoration back to its owners, who
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  Speaker 1: plan to add extra tise to keep it down next year.
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  Speaker 1: More at Crime and Justice News after this Now with
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 2: John Lenley, a Tennessee man, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping
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  Speaker 2: and killing Memphis school teacher Eliza Fletcher during her early
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  Speaker 2: morning run near the University of Memphis in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Forty year old Cleota Abstin faces life in prison without
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  Speaker 2: parole after entering guilty please for first degree murder and
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  Speaker 2: aggravated kidnapping. Fletcher, a thirty four year old kindergarten teacher
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  Speaker 2: and mother of two, was forced into an suv while
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  Speaker 2: jogging before dawn on September second, twenty twenty two. Her
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  Speaker 2: body was discovered days later near a vacant duplex. Abstin's
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  Speaker 2: DNA was linked to the scene, and an autopsy confirmed
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  Speaker 2: that Fletcher died from a gunshot wound to the head. Abstin,
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  Speaker 2: also known as Cleiote Henderson, has a lengthy criminal history
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  Speaker 2: dating back to the nineteen nineties and was previously sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to eighty years for a twenty twenty one rape conviction
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  Speaker 2: delayed by a backlog in processing a sexual assault kit.
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  Speaker 2: Fletcher's death spurred new legislation in Tennessee mandating timely sexual
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  Speaker 2: assault kit testing reports from the state's Bureau of Investigation.
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  Speaker 2: A seventy three year old man from Mississippi has been
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  Speaker 2: charged with the strangulation murders of three southern California women,
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  Speaker 2: crimes that date back to nineteen seventy seven. We bring
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  Speaker 2: in Sydney Sumner of Crime Online for details.
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  Speaker 3: California authorities have now revealed that Warren Luther Alexander was
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  Speaker 3: linked to the cold cases through a DNA match, raising
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  Speaker 3: concerns that there may be additional victims. Alexander, who hails
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  Speaker 3: from Diamondhead, Mississippi, has yet to be arraigned on the
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  Speaker 3: three first degree murder charges. The arraignment has been postponed
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  Speaker 3: until later this week, and he remains in custody without bail.
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  Speaker 3: According to the Ventura County District Attorney's office, the path
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  Speaker 3: that led to Alexander's arrests began when he was extradited
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  Speaker 3: to California from North Carolina, where he is also a
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  Speaker 3: suspect in another cold case murder from nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 3: Ventura County District Attorney Eric Nassarenko disclosed during a press
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  Speaker 3: conference that the California victims were found dead in Ventura County.
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  Speaker 3: Each woman had been strangled with a ligature, a detail
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  Speaker 3: that has haunted investigators for decades. The victims have been
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  Speaker 3: identified as eighteen year old Kimberly Fritz, whose body was
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  Speaker 3: discovered in Port whu nameI on May twenty ninth, nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety seven, thirty one year old Velvet Sanchez, found dead
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  Speaker 3: in Oxnard on September eighth of that same year, and
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  Speaker 3: twenty one year old the Rain Rodriguez, whose remains were
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  Speaker 3: uncovered in an unincorporated area on December twenty seventh, nineteen
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  Speaker 3: seventy seven. Authorities were finally able to connect Alexander to
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  Speaker 3: these heinous crimes after a DNA sample entered into a
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  Speaker 3: national database last year provided a match. This breakthrough was
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  Speaker 3: made possible through the use of investigated genealogy, a technique
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  Speaker 3: that had previously linked Alexander to the unsolved North Carolina
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  Speaker 3: murder of no Nakab in nineteen ninety two. Kabb's body
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  Speaker 3: had been abandoned along Interstate seventy seven. Records indicate that
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  Speaker 3: Alexander lived in Oxnard during the late nineteen fifties and sixties,
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  Speaker 3: and he later returned to the area in the nineteen seventies.
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  Speaker 2: During the seventies and extending into the early nineteen nineties,
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  Speaker 2: Alexander worked as a long haul truck driver, a job
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  Speaker 2: that often took him across the country, a detail that
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  Speaker 2: may now hold even greater significance, as in BEA, investigators
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  Speaker 2: explore the possibility of other unsolved crimes connected to his travels.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Tony Williamson, seventy two depends on care she
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  Speaker 1: receives at her Independence, Missouri nursing home. She suffers from dementia, schizophrenia,
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  Speaker 1: and other medical conditions. Two am, she gets out of bed,
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  Speaker 1: leaves her room, and walks out of the facility staff
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  Speaker 1: doesn't realize she's missing until six am. Police put out
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  Speaker 1: a silver alert and search extensively find nothing. That afternoon
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  Speaker 1: at tipster says she saw Tony near Prospect Plaza Park
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Tony Williamson five to two, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventeen pounds long, blonde hair, blue eyes. She was
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  Speaker 1: wearing clear frame glasses. Last scene on surveillance video wearing
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  Speaker 1: light blue blue jeans, a light blue or gray zip
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  Speaker 1: up hoodie and a face mask. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on seventy two year old Tony Williamson, now missing three years,
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  Speaker 1: called Independence, Missouri PD E eight one six eight three
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  Speaker 1: six thirty six hundred. For the latest crime injustice news,
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  Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com and please join us for
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  Speaker 1: our daily podcast Crime Stories with this crime alert. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace