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Crime Alert 01.29.25 | Mom of 4 Strangled In Front of 5-Year-Old · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Police
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  Speaker 1: in South Brunswick, New Jersey, respond to a call about
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  Speaker 1: an unresponsive woman at home en Route twenty seven. Inside,
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  Speaker 1: they find Lauren Saldona, thirty eight dead. Ex boyfriend forty
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  Speaker 1: one year old Roman Romanofsky is there, along with their
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  Speaker 1: five year old son. He admits to strangling Saldona in
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  Speaker 1: front of her four children. The Middlesex Medical Examiner has
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  Speaker 1: yet to release an official cause of death. Police confirm
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  Speaker 1: it's no random act.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Lauren Saldona had just welcomed her fourth child into
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  Speaker 2: the world. She shared one other child with Romanovsky and
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  Speaker 2: had two more children from previous relationships. A GoFundMe has
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  Speaker 2: been set up to assist the nineteen sixteen, five year
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  Speaker 2: old and newborn after the loss of their mother. Saldana's
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  Speaker 2: five year old reportedly witnessed the murder, a trauma no
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  Speaker 2: child should endure. Saldana's oldest daughter, Madison, says her mother's
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Romanovsky was fullatile and unhealthy, but Saldana always
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  Speaker 2: returned after a breakup because she wanted to see her son.
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  Speaker 2: Madison is now seeking custody of her three younger siblings.
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  Speaker 1: Romanovsky, now charged with murder on two counts. Child endangerment
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  Speaker 1: rats invade the Houston Police evidence room, eating seized drugs,
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  Speaker 1: jeopardizing nearly four thousand cases. The infestation, first discovered in October,
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  Speaker 1: reveals long standing issues and a facility which stores one
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  Speaker 1: point two million pieces of evidence, some dating back decades.
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  Speaker 1: Rodents eating weed, coke, mushrooms. Efforts to remove the doped
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  Speaker 1: up rats have been challenging. Only one active case involving
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  Speaker 1: mushrooms appears impacted, but to prevent future contamination, evidence from
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  Speaker 1: active cases will be moved to the Houston Forensic Science Center.
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  Speaker 1: Crime and Justice News after this Now with the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice and breaking news. Crime on Lines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: In a case that has spanned decades, two Native Hawaiian
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  Speaker 3: brothers ursuing Hawaii County alleging they were wrongly convicted in
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  Speaker 3: the high profile nineteen ninety one murder of a Virginia tourist.
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  Speaker 3: As Crime Online Sydney Sumder tells us, new evidence and
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  Speaker 3: advancements in DNA technology have reignited questions about justice in
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  Speaker 3: a case that has haunted Hawaii's Big Island for more
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  Speaker 3: than thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: Albert Ian Schweitzer spent over twenty years in prison, insisting
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  Speaker 2: he had no role in the brutal nineteen ninety one
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  Speaker 2: killing of twenty three year old Dina Ireland, a Virginia
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  Speaker 2: tourists found raped and beaten along a remote fishing trail
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  Speaker 2: on the Big Island. She later died at a hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Schweitzer was released in twenty twenty three after DNA
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  Speaker 2: evidence pointed to another man. His brother, Shaun Schweitzer, had
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  Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to lesser charges in two thousand to avoid
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  Speaker 2: harsher penalties. Now the brothers are suing Hawaii County and others,
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  Speaker 2: alleging police frame them under pressure to solve the high
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  Speaker 2: profile case. The lawsuit claims investigators ignored the lack of
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  Speaker 2: physical evidence linking the brothers to the crime and later
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  Speaker 2: mishandled new DNA findings. Attorneys say the DNA identified a
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  Speaker 2: new suspect, Albert Laura Junior, who lived just two miles
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  Speaker 2: from the crime scene. Laura reportedly took his own life
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  Speaker 2: after DNA linked him to the case, yet police failed
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  Speaker 2: to investigate him further. The lawsuit seeks damages for constitutional violations,
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  Speaker 2: malicious prosecution, and conspiracy. Ian Schweitzer is also pursuing state
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  Speaker 2: compensation for his wrongful conviction, which could amount to fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars per year he spent in prison.
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  Speaker 3: A Wisconsin man has been charged with arson and other
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  Speaker 3: felonies after allegedly setting fire to the office of Congressman
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  Speaker 3: Clinn Grothman. Prosecutor say nineteen year old Cadence Statuets admitted
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  Speaker 3: to the act, citing anger over federal efforts to ban TikTok,
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  Speaker 3: which he claimed violated his constitutional rights. According to the complaint,
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  Speaker 3: Statuts attempted to break into Grothman's Fondilac office but failed.
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  Speaker 3: He then set fire to the exterior using gasoline and matches.
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  Speaker 3: Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, limiting the damage. Statuets told
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  Speaker 3: police he targeted Grothman because of the congressman's votes supporting
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  Speaker 3: TikTok restrictions, but stated he did not want to harm anyone.
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  Speaker 3: Facing multiple charges, including making terrorist threats, he could face
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  Speaker 3: over fifty years in prison if convicted.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, seventeen year old Page Summer more known as Penny,
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  Speaker 1: vanishes from her broken Era, Oklahoma home. Page lassane at
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  Speaker 1: home in the early morning hours, wearing pink polka dot
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  Speaker 1: boxer shorts, a Googoo doll's shirt with long black sleeves,
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  Speaker 1: and red house slippers. She leaves with a few belongings,
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  Speaker 1: including her phone, but never shows up for summer school class.
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  Speaker 1: The missing seventeen year old initially classified as a runaway,
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  Speaker 1: now police think foul play. Page five four, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty pounds, blue eyes, pink dyed hair, multiple piercings,
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  Speaker 1: Page now twenty nine remains missing despite extensive investigations. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info, please contact Broken ARROWPD nine one eight
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  Speaker 1: two five nine eighty four hundred. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: our best with your help to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, Imansi Grace
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