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Fraudsters Kill, Dismember 71YO Victim | Crime Alert 03.06.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news Now. Florida
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  Speaker 1: cops investigating the disappearance of seventy one year old Joseph
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  Speaker 1: Romano catch Joseph Schilio. Going through the contents of Romano's mailbox,
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  Speaker 1: cops discover proof Shaaliro and friend Sylviano Christman transferred thousands
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  Speaker 1: of dollars from Romano's bank accounts into fraud accounts. A
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  Speaker 1: search of Shalleiro's home uncovers a freshly covered grave in
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  Speaker 1: the backyard inside Romano's dismembered remains, Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: It's unclear how the three men knew each other and
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  Speaker 2: what caused Shaaliro and Chrisman to kill their elderly victim.
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  Speaker 2: Police believe Romano possibly unearthed Shilero and Chrismin's scheme, leading
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  Speaker 2: to his death. The last day Romano was seen alive,
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  Speaker 2: officers proved that Shallero and Chrisman were together, providing the
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  Speaker 2: basis for the search warrant at Shilero's val Rico home.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation is still ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Shaliro, forty five, and Silviano Christman, thirty one, charged
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  Speaker 1: with murder, abuse of a corpse, conspiracy, exploitation, of a
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  Speaker 1: disabled adult and money laundering. Florida cops try to chase
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  Speaker 1: down their shirtless suspect, who avoids several taser shots or
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  Speaker 1: non to Lopez manages to avoid officers long enough to
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  Speaker 1: get in the driver's seat of a police cruiser, takes
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  Speaker 1: off with the lights flashing. Drivers pull over. Lopez abandons
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  Speaker 1: the cruiser, yanks a driver out of a red suv
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  Speaker 1: and takes off in that, then loses control flips the suv.
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  Speaker 1: Lopez taken into custody for domestic violence, resisting rest, impersonating
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  Speaker 1: a cop, and grand theft. Wow, next thing, It'll be
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  Speaker 1: a video game. More crime and justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Linley, a former Virginia police sergeant, is headed to
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  Speaker 3: prison for the fatal shooting of a shoplifting suspect. A
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  Speaker 3: Fairfax County judge has sentenced Wesley's Shiflett to three years
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  Speaker 3: behind bars for reckless handling of a firearm, a felony
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  Speaker 3: conviction stemming from the twenty twenty three shooting of Timothy
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  Speaker 3: McCree shiflet, then a sergeant with Fairfax County Police, open
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  Speaker 3: fire after a brief chase outside Tyson's quarters center, where
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  Speaker 3: Johnson was suspected of stealing sunglasses. Body camera footage played
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  Speaker 3: in court shows Shiflet shouting, get on the ground, then
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  Speaker 3: firing twice. Moments later, Johnson, wounded and bleeding, can be
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  Speaker 3: heard saying I was reaching for nothing. The jury had
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  Speaker 3: acquitted Shiflet of involuntary manslaughter, but prosecutors argued he acted recklessly.
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  Speaker 3: Commonwealth's attorney, Steve Descano, says accountability is critical for public
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  Speaker 3: trust in law enforcement. Shifflet insists he fired in self defense,
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  Speaker 3: believing Johnson was reaching into his waistband. His attorney plans
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  Speaker 3: to appeal. Johnson's mother, Melissa Johnson, says the sentencing brings
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  Speaker 3: some relief, calling it a David and Goliath moment. Handed
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  Speaker 3: down a five year sentence suspending two years, Shiflet is
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  Speaker 3: expected to serve three In a rare move, Alabama's governor
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  Speaker 3: has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted over
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  Speaker 3: three decades ago. Crime Online correspondent Sidney Sumner has the details.
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  Speaker 2: Governor k Ivy has commuted the death sentence of Robin
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  Speaker 2: Rocky Myers to life imprisonment without parole. Myers now sixty three,
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  Speaker 2: was convicted for the nineteen ninety one stamming death of
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  Speaker 2: his neighbor, sixty nine year old Ludy May Tucker, Indicator Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout his incarceration, Myers has consistently maintained his innocence. At
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  Speaker 2: his nineteen ninety four trial, the jury recommended a life
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  Speaker 2: sentence without parole. However, the presiding judge exercised judicial override,
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  Speaker 2: a practice since abolished in Alabama, to impose the death penalty.
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  Speaker 2: This marks the first time since nineteen ninety nine that
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  Speaker 2: an Alabama governor has commuted a death sentence. Attorney General
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  Speaker 2: Steve Marshall criticized the decision, expressing astonishment and disappointment, particularly
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  Speaker 2: for the family of Ludy may Tucker. He also noted
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  Speaker 2: a lack of direct communication from the governor regarding the commutation.
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  Speaker 2: Advocates for Myers highlighted several concerns, the absence of physical
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  Speaker 2: evidence linking him to the crime, the victim's failure to
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  Speaker 2: identify him despite prior acquaintance, and the jury's original recommendation
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  Speaker 2: for life imprisonment. Additionally, Myers, an intellectually disabled black man,
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  Speaker 2: was convicted by a nearly all white.
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  Speaker 3: Jury juror May Puckett, who now believes in Meyer's innocence,
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  Speaker 3: had urged the governor to intervene, stating quote, he is innocent.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks John. A.
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  Speaker 1: Tre Abarardi, sixteen, spends several months in foster care when
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  Speaker 1: her mom suddenly passes away. She moves in with her
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  Speaker 1: aunt and uncle in Rocklets, Florida, but struggles to settle in.
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  Speaker 1: She occasionally disappears a day or two, but always comes home.
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  Speaker 1: After two months, she packs a bag of just toiletrace
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  Speaker 1: and her cat and leays home on foot in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night. Her phone, her laptop, and most
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  Speaker 1: of her stuff left behind. Cops are convinced she's in danger.
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  Speaker 1: A Traya five four, one hundred and ten pounds, brown eyes,
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  Speaker 1: long brown hair, nose, piercing heart, tattoo, left thumb. Her
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  Speaker 1: cat is gray with a deformed ear. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on a Traya Bararti now missing eleven months, called
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  Speaker 1: Rockless Florida, PD three two one six nine zero three
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  Speaker 1: nine eighty eight