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Uber Driver's Dashcam Helps Convict Her Killer | Crime Alert 05.14.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crimes now. Uber
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  Speaker 1: driver Christina and Pezusa thirty eight, reported missing what she
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  Speaker 1: does to come home after a shift. Her body found Monrovl,
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania the next day, car abandoned in Pitcairn. Police investigate
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  Speaker 1: a learned that a man named Calvin CRU's girlfriend ordered
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  Speaker 1: Christina's last Uber drive. Dash cam captures the nightmare, which
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  Speaker 1: began just ten minutes into the ride.
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  Speaker 2: Why Fortina, how are you today?
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  Speaker 3: Christina greets Crew as he silently takes a seat in
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  Speaker 3: the back of her car. Then Cru slides to the
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  Speaker 3: center of the back seat and presses a gun to
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  Speaker 3: Christina's head.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to be joking.
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  Speaker 3: Keep driving.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: This is a gun.
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  Speaker 1: Keep dravving. No, it's not stop.
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  Speaker 4: Come man, I got a family.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing to draft?
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Please stop?
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  Speaker 3: Please?
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  Speaker 4: I'm begging you. I have four hans.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing? Bar Crew forces Christina to drive
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  Speaker 3: for over an hour as the mom of four begged
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  Speaker 3: for her life.
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  Speaker 1: Please call that offer me please, no.
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  Speaker 2: Key drug.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing everything will be.
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  Speaker 1: On police say. After Crewe tells Christina, quote just do
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  Speaker 1: what I say and everything will be fine. He marches
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  Speaker 1: her into the woods, then shoots her once in the head.
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  Speaker 1: He will now spend the rest of his life behind
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  Speaker 1: bars on murder one. Gordon pierced the third thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: bribes a homeless man with drugs to help him steal
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  Speaker 1: an eight hundred pound historic cannon Wichita why Peers needed
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  Speaker 1: to pay off a twenty thousand dollars drug debt. He
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  Speaker 1: plans to sell the copper in the cannon, so he
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  Speaker 1: cuts the cannon into five pieces to sell the metal
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  Speaker 1: for scrap. But Peers can't sell the copper because he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a specific ID required to sell scrap metal
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas. Needless to say, When Peers takes the pieces
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  Speaker 1: to his dealer's house's payment, the dealer is not happy. Terrify,
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  Speaker 1: Pierce confesses to his mother and falls asleep. When he
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  Speaker 1: wakes up, police are there. Gordon Pierce on a two
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars bond for theft, aggravated criminal damage to property,
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  Speaker 1: and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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  Speaker 4: More crime and.
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  Speaker 2: Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking nes crime
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  Speaker 1: Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 4: In Michigan, a mistrial has been declared in the second
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  Speaker 4: degree murder case of former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher
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  Speaker 4: Suhr after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
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  Speaker 4: Shr was charged in the twenty twenty two shooting of
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  Speaker 4: Patrick Leola, a twenty six year old black man and
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  Speaker 4: Congolese immigrant, killed during a traffic stop. Police bodycam video
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  Speaker 4: showed Sure firing a single shot into the back of
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  Speaker 4: Leola's head while attempting to make an arrest. The case
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  Speaker 4: sparked weeks of protest in Grand Rapids and drew national scrutiny,
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  Speaker 4: especially after the release of video evidence by police Chief
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  Speaker 4: Eric Winstrom. Leola's father, Peterleolas, speaking through an interpreter, said
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  Speaker 4: the family is heartbroken and vowed to continue seeking justice.
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  Speaker 4: Defense attorney Matthew Borgoula said most jurors appeared to favor acquittal.
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  Speaker 4: There's no victory, he told reporters. A man died that matters.
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  Speaker 4: The mistrial comes one day after three former officers in Memphis, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 4: were acquitted in the fatal beating of Tyree Nichols, raising
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  Speaker 4: new questions about accountability in cases involving police use of force.
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  Speaker 4: Prosecutors have not yet announced whether Sure will be retried.
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  Speaker 4: A controversial execution in South Carolina is raising questions about
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  Speaker 4: how it was carried out. Crime Online Sidney Sumner has details.
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  Speaker 3: On April eleventh, twenty twenty five, forty two year old
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  Speaker 3: death row inmate Mikal Maddy was executed by firing squad
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  Speaker 3: at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. Convicted
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  Speaker 3: of the two thousand and four murder of off duty
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  Speaker 3: police officer James Myers in Calhoun County. Matty had chosen
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  Speaker 3: the firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, but a
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  Speaker 3: report by forensic pathologist doctor Jonathan Arden, retained by Mahdi's attorneys,
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  Speaker 3: suggests the execution may have been botched. Arden's analysis, based
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  Speaker 3: on a limited autopsy that included only one photograph and
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  Speaker 3: no examination of Maddy's clothing, found just two distinct bullet wounds.
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  Speaker 3: That raises concerns that one of the three shooters may
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  Speaker 3: have missed the intended target over Maddy's heart, or that
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  Speaker 3: the target itself was misaligned. According to Arden, the result
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  Speaker 3: was a prolonged death. He estimates Matty may have remained
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  Speaker 3: conscious for thirty to sixty seconds, up to four times
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  Speaker 3: longer than expected suffering intense pain from collapsed lungs, fractured ribs,
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  Speaker 3: and a shattered sternum. South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesperson
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  Speaker 3: Christy Shane said all three bullets were believed to have
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  Speaker 3: struck Maudy, with two entering at nearly the same point,
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  Speaker 3: something seen before in training scenarios from the standar fifteen
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  Speaker 3: foot distance.
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  Speaker 4: Madi's attorneys argue the state failed in its duty to
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  Speaker 4: carry out the procedure humanely and have submitted Arden's findings
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  Speaker 4: to the South Carolina Supreme Court for review.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Stephanie Womack, fifty two, camping with her husband,
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  Speaker 1: goes for a hike Table Rock State Park, Pickins, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: When the husband leaves to get supplies. Stephanie spotted at
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  Speaker 1: White Oak Campground six pm, then never seen again, wearing
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  Speaker 1: a brown hoodie with the word with gap printed in
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  Speaker 1: pink letters, jeans, black Tennis shias, five feet tall, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred pounds. If you have info on Stephanie Womax, please
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  Speaker 1: contact Pickens County, South Carolina Sheriff's Office eight sixty four
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  Speaker 1: eight nine eight five five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 2: and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I Nancy
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  Speaker 2: Grace