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Midnight Golf Cart Horror: Retired NYC Restaurateur Charged After Wife’s Fatal Fall | Crime Alert 6AM 12.10.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grayce breaking crime is now a former New
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  Speaker 2: York City restaurant owner charged in a golf cart crash
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  Speaker 2: that leaves his wife dead. According to reports, she falls
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  Speaker 2: from the golf cart, hits her head on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: and dies after being airlifted to a local hospital. Straight
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  Speaker 2: out to Drew Nelson for more Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: It happened inside a neighborhood where residents feared a deadly
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  Speaker 3: accident was only a matter of time. Angelo Theodoso, sixty four,
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  Speaker 3: was arrested in Saint John's County after the November thirtieth
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  Speaker 3: crash that killed his wife, Christina Theodoso. Deputy said Theodoso
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  Speaker 3: showed signs of impairment and refused to breath test. He
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  Speaker 3: is charged with misdemeanor dui. Authority said Christina filled from
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  Speaker 3: the cart and hit her head on the concrete. She
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  Speaker 3: later died at the hospital. Neighbor Christopher Barnes said residents
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  Speaker 3: woke to chaos in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 4: We woke up to all the lights out here, came outside,
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  Speaker 4: saw that, in fact, she was already loaded the AMBLCE.
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  Speaker 4: I think by the time we got out here.
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  Speaker 3: According to the Saint John's County Sir OF's office. The
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  Speaker 3: crash happened around ten forty five pm on Recollection Drive
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  Speaker 3: in Knokate. Christina was airlifted to Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, but
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  Speaker 3: died the following day. Barnes says Angelo was visibly distraught
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  Speaker 3: at the scene.
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  Speaker 4: Her husband was out here and the police were talking
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  Speaker 4: to him. He was pacing around and the golf cart
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  Speaker 4: was alway down with the mailboxes.
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  Speaker 3: Theodos Who's attorney, el Lee Lockett, told the Saint John's
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  Speaker 3: Citizen that his client maintains his innocence. Quote, he didn't
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  Speaker 3: cause the accident. He was not impaired. He also said,
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  Speaker 3: theodos who is heartbroken, adding quote he's distraught. He's depressed
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  Speaker 3: as he can be. The couple had recently retired to
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  Speaker 3: Florida from New York, where Angelo previously owned a restaurant
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  Speaker 3: in Jackson Heights, Queens. According to our partners at the
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  Speaker 3: New York Post, residents continue to raise safety concerns about
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  Speaker 3: speeding golf carts, a lack of stop signs, and growing
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  Speaker 3: traffic on nearby greenway paths. Barnes says neighbors had worried
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  Speaker 3: about the area long before the crash.
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  Speaker 4: We kind of imagine it's only amount of time before
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  Speaker 4: there's an accident at this intersection.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Dreue. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 3: A murder trial is under way in California after a
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  Speaker 3: one year old boy died in a hot car while
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  Speaker 3: his mother got lip filler injections. Opening statements began Monday
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  Speaker 3: in Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield. Prosecutors and defense
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  Speaker 3: attorneys outlined sharply different views of what happened. The defendant
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  Speaker 3: is Maya Hernandez, twenty, of Isalia. She is charged with
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  Speaker 3: second degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and child cruelty. The case
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  Speaker 3: centers on the death of her one year old son,
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  Speaker 3: Emilio Gutierrez. Her two year old son, Mateo survived. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: told jurors that Hernandez left both children trapped into their
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  Speaker 3: car seats inside a Toyota Corolla for more than two
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  Speaker 3: hours on June twenty ninth. Outside temperatures were in the
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  Speaker 3: triple digits. Investigators say the inside of the car reached
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  Speaker 3: as high as one hundred and sixteen degrees. Emilio was
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  Speaker 3: later pronounced dead from heatstroke. Stephanie Toconi of the Kern
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  Speaker 3: County District Attorney's Office describes Hernandez sitting inside the spa
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  Speaker 3: socializing while the children were outside.
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  Speaker 5: Person who was supposed to protect, supposed to put her
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  Speaker 5: two sons above everything else, chose herself. She knew before
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  Speaker 5: she got out of her car that if she left
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  Speaker 5: them in the car that they.
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  Speaker 3: Could die to Cony told jurors the cosmetic procedure itself
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  Speaker 3: took only twenty minutes, but she said Hernandez stayed in
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  Speaker 3: the building for nearly two hours and never went outside
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  Speaker 3: to check on the children. Text messages shown in court
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  Speaker 3: show the spa had told Hernandez she could bring the
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  Speaker 3: children inside to wait. Witnesses described the waiting area as
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  Speaker 3: child friendly. In fact, several parents were inside with their
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  Speaker 3: children at the time. One man testified that he walked
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  Speaker 3: his service dog near Hernandez's car earlier in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: The windows were tinted, he couldn't see inside. He said
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  Speaker 3: the pavement was so hot he worried about his dog's feet.
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  Speaker 3: At exactly four point thirty three pm, Hernandez left the
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  Speaker 3: spa and returned to the car. Witnesses said she came
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  Speaker 3: back inside moments later. Carrying amelia. They described him as
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  Speaker 3: limp with blue lips and limbs. Mateo was red, drenched
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  Speaker 3: in sweat, gasping and lethargic. Police bodycam video showed first
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  Speaker 3: responders performing CPR. Emilio was pronounced dead at five forty
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  Speaker 3: eight pm. Mateo survived in the hospital. The defense does
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  Speaker 3: not dispute that Emilio died from heat exposure. Assistant Public
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  Speaker 3: Defender Terrell Wakeman told jurors this case is a tragedy
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  Speaker 3: caused by a mistake, not murder.
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  Speaker 6: Before she went into the business, mister Nandez left her
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  Speaker 6: keys under the seat, the car was running, the air
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  Speaker 6: conditioning was on. Mister Nandez thought that the car would
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  Speaker 6: stay running, that the air conditioning would likewise remain on.
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  Speaker 3: Investigators learn the Corolla model automatically shuts off after an
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  Speaker 3: hour if it remains in park and is not manually restarted.
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  Speaker 3: Wakeman has said he will concede the involuntary manslaughter and
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  Speaker 3: child endangerment charges, but will challenge the murder count. Hernandez
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  Speaker 3: has pleaded not guilty to all charges. If convicted of
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  Speaker 3: second degree murder, she faces a potential sentence of fifteen
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  Speaker 3: years to life. A California family is now suing a
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  Speaker 3: cruise line after a drunken outburst on a ship ends
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  Speaker 3: in a death ruled a homicide. Michael Virgil, thirty five,
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  Speaker 3: died aboard Royal Caribbeans Navigator of the Seas on December thirteenth,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. He had boarded the ship in Los
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  Speaker 3: Angeles with his fiancee, Connie Aguilar, and their young son,
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  Speaker 3: who had autism. They were headed for Ensnata, Mexico. Their
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  Speaker 3: cabin was not ready, so they were directed to a
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  Speaker 3: bar to wait. Virgil remained at the bar while Aguilar
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  Speaker 3: took their restless son to check on the room. Attorneys
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  Speaker 3: say Virgil was served thirty three alcoholic drinks over the
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  Speaker 3: course of a few hours. The report states he became belligerent.
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  Speaker 3: He was violent with staff and guests. The report says
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  Speaker 3: he tried to rip sealing panels down to use as
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  Speaker 3: a weapon. Security guards took him into a stairwell. Several
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  Speaker 3: guards placed their full body weight on him.
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  Speaker 7: To get German's part.
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  Speaker 3: The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. The cause
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  Speaker 3: was mechanical asphyxiate with ethanol intoxication and underlying medical conditions
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  Speaker 3: listed as contributing factors. The FBI has investigated, the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Justice declined criminal charges against the guards. This week,
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  Speaker 3: Virgil's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Royal Caribbean.
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  Speaker 3: Their attorney, Kevin Haynes, spoke to KCBS.
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  Speaker 7: They were hoping to create the best memories and then
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  Speaker 7: the worst possible memory was created.
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  Speaker 3: The TV station asked if Virgil should have stopped himself drinking.
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  Speaker 7: They have an undeniable, non deligable duty not to overserve him.
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  Speaker 7: That's the law. He is not pouring the drinks. They
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  Speaker 7: have one hundred percent control over whether they stopped pouring
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  Speaker 7: the drinks.
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  Speaker 3: The lawsuit claims Virgil was overserved, restrained with excessive force,
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  Speaker 3: pepper sprayed, and injected with the sedative haloperidol. The drug,
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  Speaker 3: also known as haldahl, is a powerful antipsychotic medication used
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  Speaker 3: mainly to control severe agitation, psychosis, and violent behavior. The
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  Speaker 3: lawsuit aledges those actions directly led to his death. The
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  Speaker 3: family argues that the situation would not have escalated if
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  Speaker 3: the room had been ready and if alcohol service had
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  Speaker 3: been cut off. His body remained in a refrigerator on
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  Speaker 3: board until the ship returned to Los Angeles at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the voyage December sixteenth of twenty.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, Imansi Grace