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Crime Alert 01.10.25 | BF Forces Woman to Write "Goodbye" Letters to Her Children · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime The Lord I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 1: Illinois cops get a disturbing nine on one call from
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  Speaker 1: a woman who says her boyfriend's been holding her hostage
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  Speaker 1: three days. The bruised and bloody woman says Mercado Quintiro
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  Speaker 1: attacked her when she tried to break up, then bound
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  Speaker 1: her hands with electrical tape and rope. Quintiro threatened to
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  Speaker 1: kill her and fired a gun into the floor inches
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  Speaker 1: from her foot. Most unnerving, he forced her to write
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  Speaker 1: goodbye letters to all of her children, Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The woman was finally able to call nine one one
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  Speaker 2: when Quintaro left for work. Police found her with two
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  Speaker 2: black eyes and other bruises. Officers recovered both the goodbye
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  Speaker 2: letters and the handgun Quintaro threatened her with in his home.
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  Speaker 2: Quinto was arrested when he returned to the home that evening.
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  Speaker 2: The victims had to be released from the hospital and
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  Speaker 2: recovering from the terrifying ordeal.
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  Speaker 1: Riccato Cinto, forty four, now charged with kidnapping, domestic abuse, assault,
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  Speaker 1: and gun violations. Mechanics at Fort Myers, Florida, Kneon arrived
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  Speaker 1: to work to find their toolboxes missing. The items inside
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  Speaker 1: worth roughly one hundred thousand dollars. Detectives don't have much
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  Speaker 1: to go on until one of the mechanics says he
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  Speaker 1: left air pods in his toolbox and they're pinging from
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  Speaker 1: a storage facility ten miles away. Officers tracked down the
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  Speaker 1: AirPods to Michael Hohner's unit. Turns out Honer had recently
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  Speaker 1: been fired from Nissan and blamed the other mechanics for
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  Speaker 1: him getting fired. CoP's fine. Honer at his new job
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  Speaker 1: with Audi, where he's arrested for grand theft and burglary.
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye job at Audie More Primate Justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest Primate justice breaking news, Primal Lunch.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, a man responsible for a deadly shooting spree
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  Speaker 3: on the streets of Detroit, has pleaded guilty but mentally ill,
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  Speaker 3: securing a plea agreement that ensures at least thirty years
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  Speaker 3: in prison.
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  Speaker 4: The case dates back to a Sunday morning in August
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  Speaker 4: twenty two, twenty two, when a string of seemingly random
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  Speaker 4: attacks unfolded over the course of two hours. Police say
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  Speaker 4: twenty one year old Dante Smith killed three people and
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  Speaker 4: wounded another, as well as a dog. Before fleeing the scene.
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  Speaker 4: The victims were found at locations including a bus stop
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  Speaker 4: and a doorway of a church. At the time, Detroit's
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  Speaker 4: police chief described the incidents as an act of terror
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  Speaker 4: against the community. Authorities say no nine to one one
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  Speaker 4: calls were made until after the second victim was discovered.
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  Speaker 4: Smith faced first degree murder charges, which could have resulted
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  Speaker 4: in life imprisonment. However, under this plea deal, he admitted
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  Speaker 4: to second degree murder, attempted murder, and related charges. His attorney,
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  Speaker 4: Maria Manario, says the attacks occurred during a severe episode
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  Speaker 4: of paranoid schizophrenia, leaving Smith convinced the victims posed a
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  Speaker 4: threat to him. Manario described the situation as quote very
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  Speaker 4: sad and tragic all around, adding that her client is
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  Speaker 4: now stable and competent to face the consequences of his actions.
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  Speaker 4: Smith's eligibility for parole begins after three decades behind bars.
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  Speaker 4: New Orleans is still reeling after a terror attack on
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  Speaker 4: New Year's Day left fourteen dead in the French Quarter,
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  Speaker 4: and city leaders are under intense scrutiny. As crime online
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  Speaker 4: Sydney Sumner tells US, questions are mounting about lapses in
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  Speaker 4: security and the city's response.
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  Speaker 2: The fallout from the New Year's Day terror attack in
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans intensified this week during a tense city council meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has stated that she will not resign,
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  Speaker 2: and has revealed that she had enlisted former New York
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  Speaker 2: Police Commissioner William Bratton as a consultant to address the
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  Speaker 2: city's glaring security failures. Kirkpatrick's declaration comes as the council
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  Speaker 2: prepares to investigate the city street barrier systems. The attack
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  Speaker 2: unfolded when an Islamic State inspired as Seilant drove a
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  Speaker 2: truck onto Bourbon Street by passing a police lockade. The
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  Speaker 2: barriers meant to prich the area had been removed for replacement,
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  Speaker 2: but reports suggests the new ones are insufficient to stop
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  Speaker 2: high speed vehicles. Mayor LaToya Cantrell admitted she could not
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  Speaker 2: confirm whether the new system would have prevented the tragedy. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: State Attorney General Liz Murle has launched a review of
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  Speaker 2: the city's New Year security measures, including those for the
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  Speaker 2: Sugar Bowl. Adding to the pressure, a coalition of law
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  Speaker 2: firms announced they are representing nearly two dozen victims the
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  Speaker 2: accused officials of failing to act on known risks, stating
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  Speaker 2: the public was left vulnerable.
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  Speaker 4: One of the firms, Romanucci and Blanden, previously secured a
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  Speaker 4: landmark settlement for George Floyd's.
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  Speaker 1: Family thanks John. Tiera McWilliams leads her boyfriend shortly after
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  Speaker 1: the birth of their daughter, Amira, moving from Houston to Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: After years of Amir's father asking, Tiara agrees to let Emira,
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  Speaker 1: now five, spend the summer with dad. However, when summer ends,
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  Speaker 1: he refuses to return the little girl. Tiera travels to
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  Speaker 1: Houston to get Amira back, but Dad refuses to leave
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  Speaker 1: Amira alone with Tiera with no formal custody agreement. Police
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  Speaker 1: refuse to assist Tiera, who eventually returns home confused. Four
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  Speaker 1: years after dropping her off with her father, Tiara learns
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  Speaker 1: he's been incarcerated for months. No one has seen Amira
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  Speaker 1: for six months. Her dad claims he left Ameera with
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  Speaker 1: a woman in Waco, Texas, but police cannot locate anyone
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  Speaker 1: matching his description at the address he provided. Emira African
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  Speaker 1: American would now be sixteen. If you have info on
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  Speaker 1: Ameirah Dedric, police call Houston PD seven one three eight
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  Speaker 1: eight four three one three one, or call Waco PD
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  Speaker 1: about Amira Deedric two five four seven five zero seventy
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