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Son Charged After Roasting Mom's Corpse in Fire Pit| Crime Alert 6AM 10.23.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm missy Grace breaking crime needs now. When
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  Speaker 1: Nicholas Yates his mom went missing, he described her as
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  Speaker 1: the sweetest person ever. Now, Indiana police charged him with
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  Speaker 1: her murder. Human remains found in the burn pit in
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  Speaker 1: the backyard. Wow, that's original. The county coroner's office working
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  Speaker 1: to identify the remains, but police believe they do belong
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  Speaker 1: to Cheryl Yates, reported missing by her twenty year old son.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Gould has the details.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Nicholas Thomas Yates is now charged with murder after
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  Speaker 2: police say he brutally killed his own mother, Cheryl Yates
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  Speaker 2: then spent an entire day slow roasting her body to
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  Speaker 2: ash to cover the unthinkable crime. In Clinton, Indiana, Yates twenty,
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  Speaker 2: triggered instant suspicion when he reported his mother missing. During
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  Speaker 2: the call to cops, decalculating Sun, made a fatal verbal slip,
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  Speaker 2: telling detectives quote she was the sweetest person end quote,
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  Speaker 2: a chilling use of past tense that immediately flagged him
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  Speaker 2: as the prime suspect. The lies mounted as he offered
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  Speaker 2: bizarre excuses for why her phone and computer had been
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  Speaker 2: left behind, later confessing he sold both electronics at a
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  Speaker 2: local electronics store for quick cash the horrific motive. Cheryl
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  Speaker 2: had told coworkers she was furious with her son for
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  Speaker 2: wasting money while she paid his bills, and she planned
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  Speaker 2: to make a move out. This argument over his tendency
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  Speaker 2: and finances unfortunately escalated violently. Yates allegedly confessed he struck
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  Speaker 2: his mom in the throat, causing her face to turn blue.
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  Speaker 2: She reportedly fell backward, hitting her head first on a
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  Speaker 2: metal bed frame, then a wooden chest, and became unresponsive
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  Speaker 2: in a macab attempt At the spot US, Yates admitted
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  Speaker 2: to stuffing her body in a wooden box, leaving it overnight,
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  Speaker 2: before spending the entirety of the next day burning her
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  Speaker 2: remains in that outdoor fire pit. After the murder, he
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  Speaker 2: brazenly moved new roommates into the victim's bedroom, telling them
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  Speaker 2: his mother was quote moving out and he was quote
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  Speaker 2: afraid to be alone end quote. Police searched the backyard,
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  Speaker 2: discovering the bones in the burn pit, including a charred
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  Speaker 2: human spinal column. Confronted with the grotesque evidence, Yates allegedly
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  Speaker 2: admitted to the slang. He was taken into custody without incident.
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  Speaker 2: And is being held without bond. He has since pleaded
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  Speaker 2: not guilty to the murder charge. His next court date
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  Speaker 2: is in January. For more crime injustice news, watch Crime
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Thanks Jennifer. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: A California father's desperate, month long ordeal ended in handcuffs
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  Speaker 2: after he was charged in connection with the horrific death
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  Speaker 2: of his two year old son, Savior, who was fatally
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  Speaker 2: swept away at a torrent of floodwaters. Brandon Aguilera Padia,
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, was arrested following an investigation by the Barstow
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  Speaker 2: Police Department, which culminated in the Samber Dadino County District
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  Speaker 2: DA's office filing charges. While police initially booked the father
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  Speaker 2: on a murder charge, the final counts are vehicular manslaughter
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  Speaker 2: with gross negligence and child abuse endangerment under circumstances likely
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  Speaker 2: to cause great bodily injury or death. The latter count
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  Speaker 2: includes a special allegation of wilful harm resulting in death.
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  Speaker 2: The terrifying incident unfolded on September eighteenth, at seven fourteen
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  Speaker 2: pm on the twenty four thousand block of West Main
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  Speaker 2: Street in Barstow, when floodwaters violently overtook Aguilera Paedia's vehicle,
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  Speaker 2: carrying it into a wash. Reports indicate the father allegedly
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  Speaker 2: ignored explicit warnings and drove directly into the treacherous flood zone.
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  Speaker 2: After the car was overwhelmed, the father and son managed
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  Speaker 2: to exit, but were immediately separated by the surging current.
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  Speaker 2: This witness spoke to the media.
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  Speaker 3: The current kind of took his car into a ditch.
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  Speaker 3: When the car stopped, that's when he grabbed the baby
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  Speaker 3: and got out of the car, and the current ripped
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  Speaker 3: the baby out of his hands, along with his clothes,
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  Speaker 3: his underwear, his pants, and took off.
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  Speaker 2: First responders located the father on a small flooded island
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  Speaker 2: and rescued him, but the search for the highly vulnerable child,
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  Speaker 2: who suffered from autism and was nonverbal, continued through the night.
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  Speaker 2: The following day, the toddlers remains were tragically discovered in
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  Speaker 2: the San Bernardino County flood Control Channel. Aguilera Padilla was
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  Speaker 2: arrested at his home. He pleaded not guilty to the
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  Speaker 2: charges during his arraignment on October twenty first. He's being
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  Speaker 2: held on a two hundred thousand dollars bond. The next
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  Speaker 2: court date is October twenty seventh. Anyone with information about
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  Speaker 2: this incident has been asked to call Detective Bryce Carson
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  Speaker 2: at seven six zero two five five fifty one eighty three.
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  Speaker 2: And Finally, an eighteen year old cheerleader's life was tragically
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  Speaker 2: cut short, but her death sealed a monumental life saving legacy.
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  Speaker 2: Kimber Mills was fatally shot at a bonfire party in Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: suffering catastrophic wounds to her head and leg in the sudden,
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  Speaker 2: senseless violence that wounded three others and led to the
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  Speaker 2: arrest of twenty seven year old Stephen Tyler Whitehead. After
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  Speaker 2: three agonizing days on life support, her devastated family made
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate decision. Preparing to say their final goodbyes. On Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: Kimber was wheeled down the UAB hospital corridor in a
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  Speaker 2: heart wrenching honor walk. Shane McKay was there and spoke
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  Speaker 2: to CBS forty two News.
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  Speaker 3: It was emotional as soon as she turned that corner
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  Speaker 3: into the hull Hallway Crime. You can tell she was
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  Speaker 3: really loved by the whole community.
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  Speaker 2: Hundreds of staff and loved ones lined the hall as
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  Speaker 2: the beloved student who once aspired to be a nurse,
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  Speaker 2: was taken to surgery to become an organ donor. Her heart, lungs,
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  Speaker 2: and kidneys were given to others, ensuring her final mission
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  Speaker 2: was fulfilled, saving lives. In the meantime, the gunman Whitehead
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  Speaker 2: has been charged with three counts of attempted murder, but
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  Speaker 2: with Kimber's passing, charges are expected to be upgraded. Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories, where we do our best define missing people,
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.