Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / BF Forces Woman to Write "Goodbye" Letters to Her Children | Crime Alert 03.20.25

Transcript

BF Forces Woman to Write "Goodbye" Letters to Her Children | Crime Alert 03.20.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Illinois
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: cops get a disturbing nine on one call from a
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: woman who says her boyfriend's been holding her hostage three days.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: The bruised and bloody woman says Mercado Quintiro attacked her
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: when she tried to break up, then bound her hands
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: with electrical tape and rope. Quintiro threatened to kill her
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: and fired a gun into the floor inches from her foot.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Most unnerving, he forced her to write goodbye letters to
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: all of her children.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Nancy. The woman was finally able to call nine one
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: one when Quintaro left for work. Police found her with
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: two black eyes and other bruises. Officers recovered both the
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: goodbye letters and the handgun Quintaro threatened her with in
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: his home. Quinto was arrested when he returned to the
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: home that evening. The victims had to be released from
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: the hospital and recovering from the terrifying ordeal.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Mercato Cointero forty four, now charged with kidnapping, domestic abuse, assault,
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: and gun violations. Mechanics at Fort Myers, Florida, and arrived
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: to work to find their toolboxes missing the items inside
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: worth roughly one hundred thousand dollars. Detectives don't have much
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: to go on until one of the mechanics says he
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: left air pods in his toolbox and they're pinging from
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: a storage facility ten miles away. Officers tracked down the
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: AirPods to Michael Hohner's unit. Turns out Honer had recently
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: been fired from Nissan and blamed the other mechanics for
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: him getting fired. Cops fine Honer at his new job
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: with Audi, where he's arrested for grand theft and burglary.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Bye bye job at Audie More Crime and Justice news
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest Crime and Justice breaking
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: Knees crime onlines John Lenley.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: In the Idaho's student murder case, prosecutors say Daniel Koberger's
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: defense team will argue that DNA evidence tying him to
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: the crime scene could have been planted. Latta County prosecute
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: Bill Thompson claims in a new court filing that Coburger's
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: attorneys won't dispute the presence of his DNA on a
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: knife sheath found in the victim's home, but will argue
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: it doesn't prove he was there and may have been
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: placed by someone else. Coburger is accused of killing for
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Zana Kernodle, Madison Mogan,
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: and Kaylee Gonzalvez in their off campus home in November
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. Investigators say they use genetic genealogy to
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: link Coburger to the knife sheath. His defense tried to
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: exclude that evidence, but a judge ruled it will remain
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: in the case. Prosecutors say they won't present the genealogy
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: findings at trial, only that a tip led them to Coburger.
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: The trial is set to begin August eleventh and could
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: last more than three months. If convicted, Coburger could face
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: the death penalty. In Troy, Michigan, a deadly explosion inside
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: a hyperbaric oxygen chamber has lef led to criminal charges
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: against four individuals. Crime Online correspondent Sidney Sumner has the details.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: On January thirty, first, five year old Thomas Cooper was
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the Oxford Center in Troy, Michigan,
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: when a pressurized chamber exploded, killing him instantly. His mother,
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: standing nearby, was injured trying to save him. Hyperbaric therapy
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: delivers pure oxygen in a pressurized environment, making it highly combustible.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: While the FDA approves it for conditions like severe burns
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: and decompression sickness, the Oxford Center administered it for unapproved
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: uses such as ADHD and sleep apnea. Michigan Attorney General
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: Dana Nessel says the facility neglected critical safety measures. The
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: center's founder, Tamila Peterson, facility manager Gary Markin, and safety
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: manager Jeffrey mose Teller faced second degree murder and manslaughter charges.
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: Chamber operator Alita Moffatt is charged with involuntary manslaughter and
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: falsifying medical records. Investigators found the facility was operating outdated
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: equipment without proper accreditation.
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: The case raises serious concerns about the risks of unregulated
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: medical treatments.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Thanks John, Tiara McWilliams leaves her boyfriend shortly after the
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: birth of their daughter, Amira, moving from Houston to Wisconsin.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: After years of Amra's father asking, Tiara agrees to let Amira,
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: now five, spend the summer with dad. However, when summer ends,
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: he refuses to return the little girl. Tiera travels to
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: Houston to get Amira back, but dad refuses to leave
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: Amira alone with Tierra with no formal custody agreement. Police
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: refuse to assist Tiera, who eventually returns home confused. Four
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: years after dropping her off with her father, Tiara learns
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: he's been incarcerated for months. No one has seen Amira
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: for six months. Her dad claims he left Amir with
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: a woman in Waco, Texas, but police cannot locate anyone
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: matching his description at the address he provided. Emira African
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: American would now be sixteen. If you have info on
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: Ameirah Dedric, please call Houston p D seven one three
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: eight eight four three one three one or call Waco
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: PD about Amirah Deedric two five four seven five zero
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: seventy five hundred. For the latest crimesice news, go to
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com and please join us for our daily podcast,
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: Crime Stories, where we do our very best to find
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved traumicides. With this
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: crime alert, I'm Missy Grace