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Demonic Discovery: Witness Sees Rug Wrapped Corpse after Brutal Son-on-Father Slaughter| Crime Alert 6AM 01.01.2026 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I may see grace. An Indiana man behind
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  Speaker 1: bars after allegedly killing his father and injuring his mother.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Padigo, fifty four accused of killing dad, pouring wax
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  Speaker 1: on the victim's face, wrapping him in a rug, and
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  Speaker 1: stealing his truck. Police began a death investigation based on
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  Speaker 1: a nine to one one call made by a third party.
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  Speaker 1: When they get there, they find all the doors locked,
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  Speaker 1: no one home. They left, but they came back later
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  Speaker 1: after another witness calls claiming to see a dead body
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  Speaker 1: from a window. Jennifer Gould has the details.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, As you said, the horror began with a single
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  Speaker 2: spine chilling glands through a living room window. A witness
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  Speaker 2: peering into a home in the twenty one hundred block
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  Speaker 2: of South Catherwood Avenue was met with a sight of
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  Speaker 2: pure depravity, a human body rolled tightly inside a white,
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  Speaker 2: gray patterned rug like a piece of garbage. Behind those lines,
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  Speaker 2: authority say Brian Padigo fifty four had unleashed a quote
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  Speaker 2: demonic assault on his elderly parents just hours after being
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  Speaker 2: released from jail. When Indianapolis Metropolitan Police breached the home,
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  Speaker 2: the graphic reality was even worse than witnesses described. Inside
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  Speaker 2: that rug lay the battered corpse of eighty one year
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  Speaker 2: old John Lloyd Padigo. The elderly man had been strangled
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  Speaker 2: and beaten to a pulp, but in a bizarre and
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  Speaker 2: sadistic twist, the killer had poured molten candlewax over his
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  Speaker 2: father's face. Nearby, police found a second rug stuffed with
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  Speaker 2: bloody clothing and inexplicably an artificial tree, while blood and
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  Speaker 2: wax were smeared across the floor as evidence of a
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  Speaker 2: desperate struggle for life. The carnage, though, was not limited
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  Speaker 2: to the dead. In a recliner just feet away, his
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine year old wife, Olana Padigo, sat dazed and confused,
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  Speaker 2: her body covered in deep bruising. She was rushed to
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  Speaker 2: Esconazi Hospital suffering from a life threatening brain bleed. Shelley Gindling,
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  Speaker 2: john Padigo's niece, spoke to WTCHRNBC thirteen News.
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  Speaker 1: There have been warning signs, knowing that this was likelyhood
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  Speaker 1: of happening. To see these fears become reality is just unfathomable.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Padigo, who has a long history of mental health
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  Speaker 2: crises and prior restraining orders, filed by his own parents.
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  Speaker 2: Allegedly confessed to the killing to a friend over the phone,
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  Speaker 2: claiming he tried to stuff his father's body into the fireplace,
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  Speaker 2: but quote he wouldn't fit end quote. After the slaughter,
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  Speaker 2: he allegedly fled in his dad's gray two thousand and
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  Speaker 2: six Ford F one point fifty, leading police on a
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  Speaker 2: ninety mile chase before being nabbed in Green County. An
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  Speaker 2: autopsy by the Marion County Medical Examiner determined John Padigo
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  Speaker 2: died from multiple blunt force traumas. The fifty four year
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  Speaker 2: old is now charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery,
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  Speaker 2: and auto theft. When questioned, Padigo offered no motive other
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  Speaker 2: than a chilling claim that quote, something demonic was present
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  Speaker 2: in the house end quote. He's being held without bond
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  Speaker 2: in the Marion County Jail. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer more crime and justice news. After this,
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  Speaker 1: a Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Mom, convinced the world is ending, allegedly snatched her four
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  Speaker 2: young children and fled on a one way flight to Europe,
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  Speaker 2: leaving behind a sinister to do list for her getaway.
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  Speaker 2: Alicia Seymour, thirty five, is now the subject of an
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  Speaker 2: international manhunt after disappearing with her children, ages three to eleven,
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  Speaker 2: to seek refuge from a biblical apocalypse. The nightmare began
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  Speaker 2: on November thirtieth, when airport surveillance captured Seymour leading Landon Levi, Hazel,
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  Speaker 2: and Jacob through Salt Lake City International Airport. The group
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  Speaker 2: boarded a Delta flight to Amsterdam, with a final destination
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  Speaker 2: of Croatia. By the time their dad, Kendall Seymour realized
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  Speaker 2: they were gone, the trail was already cold. He spoke
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  Speaker 2: to KSL TV news.
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  Speaker 1: She thinks Salt Lake is going to be destroyed and
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  Speaker 1: she is trying to get the kids to safety. My
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  Speaker 1: only hope is that she has motivated to protect them
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  Speaker 1: is concerning that she's not in the right mind.
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  Speaker 2: That same day, Alisha left a haunting voicemail claiming she
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  Speaker 2: was in France hunting for a permanent residents to shield
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  Speaker 2: the kids from quote the end Times end quote. Inside
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  Speaker 2: her unlocked West Jordan home, investigators found a notebook that
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  Speaker 2: read like a manual for a fugitive. The to do
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  Speaker 2: list detailed steps to shred paperwork, destroy identifying photos, and
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  Speaker 2: discard cell phones in favor of untraceable prepaid devices. Detectives
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  Speaker 2: also found a quote unquote delusional message from God scrawled
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  Speaker 2: in her notes, promising she would reach Italy by Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities now believe Seymour forged passport documents to bypass custody
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  Speaker 2: alerts and smuggle the kids out of the country. Seymour
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  Speaker 2: is wanted on a no bail arrest warrant for four
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  Speaker 2: felony counts of custodial interference. While she remains off the grid,
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  Speaker 2: Her ex husband has raised over twelve thousand dollars via
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  Speaker 2: gofund me to find a private recovery mission, fearing her
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  Speaker 2: history of emotional breakdowns and hallucinations puts the children in
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  Speaker 2: imminent danger. The FBI and Interpol are also now working
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  Speaker 2: to track the family across the EU before the apocalypse,
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  Speaker 2: Seymour fears leads to a far more earthly tragedy, and finally,
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  Speaker 2: a holiday heist was truly a prime example of exposure.
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  Speaker 2: Kobe Watkins twenty four allegedly decided to go buck naked
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  Speaker 2: while sticking up BJ's Meat Market on Northwest Lake City
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  Speaker 2: Avenue in Lake City, Florida. Witnesses say Watkins entered the
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  Speaker 2: shop before nine pm, wearing nothing but a face mask
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  Speaker 2: and clutching a cloth wrapped weapon. At least something had
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  Speaker 2: clothing on it, the birthday suit Bandit allegedly sliced into
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  Speaker 2: the store's profits, snatching over one thousand bucks from a
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  Speaker 2: cash box before running off. Lake City police, though quickly
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  Speaker 2: blafed up their search, locating Watkins after finding his discarded
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  Speaker 2: duds nearby. Now booked into the Columbia County Detention Center,
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  Speaker 2: Watkins faces charges of armed robbery, grand theft, and exposure
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  Speaker 2: of sexual organs. It's a medium well mess that proves
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  Speaker 2: you should never bring your buns to a gunfight. Nancy.
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