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Woman's Remains Found in "Makeshift Tomb" at Boyfriend's Home | Crime Alert 05.12.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace Breaking crime news Now. Family
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  Speaker 1: reports twenty nine year old Alexis Shuler missing after days
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  Speaker 1: no contact. Marilyn cos perform a search warrant at her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: DeVante Gray's home and notice an odd smell. They blame
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  Speaker 1: it on dirty conditions in the home. Then investigators review
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  Speaker 1: neighbour's surveillance footage and see Gray bringing heavy construction materials
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  Speaker 1: into the home. Second visit, they find a makeshift tomb
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  Speaker 1: under his stairs, concealing a storage container with Alexis's remains inside.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Alexis shared one of her three children with Gray,
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  Speaker 2: and her mother says she warned her to be careful
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  Speaker 2: around him, as she always had a feeling something was off.
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  Speaker 2: Gray admits that he killed Schuler. Officers believed the murder
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  Speaker 2: occurred during a dispute between the couple. Gray covered the
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  Speaker 2: storage container in soil and hay before encasing it in
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  Speaker 2: concrete underneath the stairs, then framed in the area and
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  Speaker 2: put up drywall using fake bricks.
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  Speaker 1: DeVante Gray, thirty, now charged with murder. A man staying
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  Speaker 1: in a Florida motel orders a pizza and is shot
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  Speaker 1: when the delivery driver rolls her eyes at the amount
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  Speaker 1: of tip and storms off. He brushes the incident off,
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  Speaker 1: but late that night he hears someone bust through the
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  Speaker 1: door of his room. Delivery driver Brianna Avello attacks him
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  Speaker 1: with a knife while her associate, armed with a gun,
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  Speaker 1: finds the man's wallet. The man calls nine one one
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  Speaker 1: when they leave. Brianna Alvelo twenty two, captured charged with
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  Speaker 1: attempted murder, kidnap, agasault. The cohort involves still unidentified, all
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  Speaker 1: over a pizza delivery tip. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice and
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  Speaker 1: breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: Crime onlines. John Limley in Minneapolis, a mass shooting believed
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  Speaker 3: to be gang related has left four Native Americans dead
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  Speaker 3: and a fifth wounded, rattling the city's Native community. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: say thirty four year old James Dwayne Ortley was riding
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  Speaker 3: in a car with the victims when he allegedly shot
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  Speaker 3: each one in the head. Four died, including twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: year old la Ross Francis Rainey. A twenty year old
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  Speaker 3: woman survived and identified Ottley to police. Ortley, who has
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  Speaker 3: alleged ties to the Native Mob gang, is now charged
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  Speaker 3: with multiple counts of second degree murder and illegal possession
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  Speaker 3: of a firearm. He's being held on two million dollars bail.
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  Speaker 3: A second killing just hours later and blocks away may
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  Speaker 3: have been retaliation. That case is under investigation. A handgun
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  Speaker 3: found in Ortley's apartment matched casings from the scene. Les Robinson,
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  Speaker 3: Rainey's father and a member of the Red Lake Nation,
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  Speaker 3: said the.
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  Speaker 4: Pain in the community is deep. A woman who vanished
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  Speaker 4: from Wisconsin and more than sixty years ago has been
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  Speaker 4: found alive and well in another state. We turned now
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  Speaker 4: to Crime Online Sidney Sumner for more.
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  Speaker 2: It was July seventh, nineteen sixty two, when twenty year
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  Speaker 2: old Audrey Backberg disappeared from her hometown of Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: She was last seen hitchhiking to Madison and boarding a
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  Speaker 2: bus to Indianapolis. For decades, her whereabouts remained a mystery
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  Speaker 2: that changed earlier this year when Detective Isaac Hanson of
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  Speaker 2: the Sauk County Sheriff's Office reopened the cold case. A
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  Speaker 2: breakthrough came when Hanson discovered an old arrest record in
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  Speaker 2: another state that matched Backeberg's birth date and social Security number.
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  Speaker 2: Using genealogical research from Backeberg's sisters, ancestry dot com account,
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  Speaker 2: and local records. Hanson traced the lead to a specific address.
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  Speaker 2: A deputy in that jurisdiction knocked on the door, and
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  Speaker 2: minutes later Hanson received a call. It was Bacheberg, now
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  Speaker 2: eighty two. She confirmed her identity and explained she left voluntarily,
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  Speaker 2: likely to escape an abusive relationship. She had lived under
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  Speaker 2: the radar for more than six decades, building a new
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  Speaker 2: life and avoiding contact with her past. Backberg declined to
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  Speaker 2: reveal much about her life since leaving Wisconsin, but confirmed
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  Speaker 2: she is happy and safe. While she has not decided
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  Speaker 2: whether to reconnect with family, she now has the option
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  Speaker 2: and the contact information if she chooses to do so.
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  Speaker 4: After sixty two years, the case is finally closed and
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  Speaker 4: Audrey Beckelberg's family has the answers they thought they'd never receive.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. John Justin Corsi, thirty five, stops by gas station
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  Speaker 1: Sail in Kentucky, speaks to an employee, but that December
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  Speaker 1: conversation is the last time he spoke directly with anyone.
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  Speaker 1: He was driving his grandma's vehicle at the time. A
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  Speaker 1: month later, the car found abandoned eleven miles from a
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  Speaker 1: paved road at a national forest in Utah that's twenty
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  Speaker 1: two hours away from Kentucky. No activity on his bank
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  Speaker 1: account or phone. This case CLASSI five as endangered. Missing.
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  Speaker 1: Justin white, male, brown hair, brown eyes, five four, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy pounds beard, last scene wearing glasses, burgundy
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  Speaker 1: and gray striped shirt, gray carpenter pants. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on Justin Corsi, contact McCracken County Sheriffs two seven
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  Speaker 1: zero four four four four seven one nine. For the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot com and
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  Speaker 1: we do our best with your help to find missing people,
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime of art,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace,