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Sacramento Husband’s Bogus ICE Arrest Story Collapses After Missing Nurse Found Burned and Buried | Crime Alert 10.21.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani. A California husband is behind bars facing
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  Speaker 2: murder charges after concocting a brazen lie to police about
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  Speaker 2: federal immigration agents kidnapping his estranged wife. According to the
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  Speaker 2: Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, 28-year-old Gurinder Gill claimed his 30-year-old wife,
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  Speaker 2: Jasmine Gill, vanished when immigration and customs enforcement agents arrested
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  Speaker 2: her right outside their Sacramento home as she stepped out
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  Speaker 2: to retrieve the mail. But detectives dismantled that story immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sgt. Edward Igoe revealed that investigators contacted
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  Speaker 2: ICE directly, and federal officials confirmed no enforcement operation had
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  Speaker 2: occurred at the residence. Detectives had already uncovered mounting inconsistencies
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  Speaker 2: in Gurinder's claims. Jasmine, an India-born registered nurse who followed
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  Speaker 2: her mother's footsteps into health care, was last seen on
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  Speaker 2: September 30th, and her cousin formally filed a missing person
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  Speaker 2: report on October 4th. But three days before that report
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  Speaker 2: was even logged on October 1st, search teams in neighboring
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  Speaker 2: El Dorado County uncovered a grim scene roughly 70 miles
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  Speaker 2: from the couple's home, burned and buried human remains. Forensic
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  Speaker 2: testing by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office confirmed those remains
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  Speaker 2: belonged to Jasmine. Authorities revealed the couple was embroiled in
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  Speaker 2: a bitter divorce and child custody battle over their eight-month-old infant.
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  Speaker 2: On October 14th, deputies arrested Gurinder Gill and executed search
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  Speaker 2: warrants at two homes tied to him. He is currently
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  Speaker 2: held ineligible for bail. A GoFundMe campaign has raised over
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  Speaker 2: $ 21, 000 to return Jasmine's remains to her mother in India
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  Speaker 2: and support her surviving baby boy. Organizers write that Jasmine
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  Speaker 2: was fighting for safety, freedom, and a fresh start for
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  Speaker 2: herself and her child before she was tragically murdered. More
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  Speaker 2: crime and justice news after this. In Union County, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 2: an 81-year-old homeowner is dead after an intruder disarmed him
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  Speaker 2: inside his own bedroom. Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards told
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  Speaker 2: Fox News Digital that Eric Basco broke into Bobby McGill's
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  Speaker 2: home around 4 in the morning on Thursday while McGill
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  Speaker 2: and his wife Peggy were asleep. McGill reached for a
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  Speaker 2: handgun kept in a chest at the foot of his bed,
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  Speaker 2: but a violent fight ensued. Sheriff Edwards detailed that confrontation
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  Speaker 2: to Fox News Digital.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it appears that there was a struggle that had
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  Speaker 1: ensued between the assailant and the homeowner. and he had
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  Speaker 1: a pistol that he kept in his chest there at
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  Speaker 1: the foot of his bed. You know, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: to us that what we're piecing together is that he
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  Speaker 1: may have tried to get that pistol, and the individual
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  Speaker 1: was fighting him, and they had a fight, and the
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  Speaker 1: guy got the pistol and shot Mr. Bobby with it
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  Speaker 1: multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: As gunfire erupted, Peggy McGill escaped safely, calling 911 to
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  Speaker 2: report that someone had invaded their home and attacked her husband.
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  Speaker 2: Basco then retreated to a bathroom, shot himself, and died
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  Speaker 2: at a hospital. Sheriff Edwards stated Basco's likely motive was burglary,
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  Speaker 2: noting he had no criminal history beyond minor traffic violations
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  Speaker 2: and appeared to have suffered an acute mental break. But
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  Speaker 2: investigators also uncovered chilling surveillance video filmed the evening before,
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  Speaker 2: showing Basco walking down a road a mile and a
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  Speaker 2: half away, throwing his hands up and screaming, God is dead.
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  Speaker 2: Pointing to religious signs on McGill's property, Sheriff Edwards addressed
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  Speaker 2: the disturbing question with Fox News Digital.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like on the video that we saw that
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  Speaker 1: he was saying God is dead. Now, You know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we're not 100% sure of that, but it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like that's what he was saying. And in Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby's yard was a cross and a sign that said,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is Lord. So did that help lure him to
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  Speaker 1: that house? I don't know. I'm not saying it did.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it had anything at all to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. But it, you know, it's a question that
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  Speaker 1: I have in my head if that, If that played
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  Speaker 1: a part or not, I don't know. We'll probably never know.
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  Speaker 2: Edwards lamented the tragedy as completely senseless, calling the McGills
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  Speaker 2: outstanding citizens. On Facebook, McGills' granddaughter shared a touching tribute,
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  Speaker 2: praising her grandfather as a man of deep faith. In Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: a fugitive manhunt is underway after a toddler died from
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  Speaker 2: a fatal dose of fentanyl. According to an October 19th
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  Speaker 2: statement from the Pickaway County Sheriff's Office, 30-year-old Brittany Stroud
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  Speaker 2: is wanted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, child endangering, and
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  Speaker 2: drug possession. Emergency crews responded to an Orient residence at
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  Speaker 2: 1114 on the morning of October 13th for an unresponsive
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  Speaker 2: one-year-old girl. Paramedics performed CPR and rushed the child to
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  Speaker 2: Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, where she was pronounced dead
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  Speaker 2: at 1156. Deputies contacted Brittany at the home, quickly learning
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  Speaker 2: a court order had granted legal custody to the child's
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  Speaker 2: maternal grandmother, 52-year-old Tammy Stroud, while legally barring Brittany from
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  Speaker 2: having unsupervised visits with her daughter. An October 14 autopsy
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  Speaker 2: revealed fatal levels of fentanyl in the 17-month-old girl's system.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators executed a search warrant, seized narcotics evidence, and charged
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  Speaker 2: both women on October 16. Tammy Stroud surrendered on October
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  Speaker 2: 18th and was arraigned in Circleville Municipal Court on a
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  Speaker 2: $ 250, 000 bond. Brittany remains on the run. Anyone with information
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  Speaker 2: on her whereabouts is urged to contact Detective Sergeant Robert
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  Speaker 2: Doberman at 740-420-5752. For more crime and justice news, be
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  Speaker 2: sure to join us for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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  Speaker 2: on Fox 1, YouTube, Sirius XM, and now streaming on Tubi.
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  Speaker 2: With this crime alert, I'm Sydney Silvani.