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Crime Alert 01.30.25 | Woman's Remains Found in "Makeshift Tomb" at Boyfriend's home · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crimeal Art I'm Meancy Grace Breaking crime news Now Family
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  Speaker 1: reports twenty nine year old Alexis Schueler missing after days
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  Speaker 1: no contact. Marilyn Co's 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: neighbor'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 believe 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: Davante 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 Crime Onlines John Limlay.
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  Speaker 3: A pivotal hearing in Idaho could impact the prosecution of
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  Speaker 3: Brian and Coburger, charged with the murders of four University
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  Speaker 3: of Idaho students in November of twenty twenty two. Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner examines the defense's claims and the stakes
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  Speaker 3: for this high profile case.
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  Speaker 2: The trial of Brian Coberger, accused of killing four University
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  Speaker 2: of Idaho students, faces a major challenge as hearings are
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  Speaker 2: now underway. Coberger's defense team is seeking to exclude evidence
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  Speaker 2: they claim stems from unconstitutional investigative methods. Prosecutors used investigative
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  Speaker 2: genetic genealogy, or IgG to identify Coburger as a suspect.
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  Speaker 2: The technique involves uploading crime scene DNA to public genealogy
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  Speaker 2: databases to find relatives. The defense argues this violated constitutional rights,
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  Speaker 2: saying the case would not exist without IgG. DNA found
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  Speaker 2: on a knife sheath at the scene linked Coburger to
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  Speaker 2: the crime, but his attorneys also allege misconduct in securing
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  Speaker 2: search warrants for his home, car, and phone. Details of
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  Speaker 2: these remain sealed. Prosecutors maintain the IgG process was legal
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  Speaker 2: and argue that DNA left at a crime scene carries
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  Speaker 2: no expectation of privacy. The judge has restricted public access
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  Speaker 2: to much of the case, citing concerns about pre trial
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  Speaker 2: publicity affecting the jury. A coalition of news organizations is
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  Speaker 2: pushing for more transparency, but the court remains firm, with
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  Speaker 2: trials set for August. The outcome of these hearings could
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  Speaker 2: significantly shape the.
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  Speaker 3: Case, as the court way's critical evidentiary issues. Questions about
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  Speaker 3: genetic investigations and privacy loom large Crime Online will keep
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  Speaker 3: you updated on this developing story. A former Arkansas police
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  Speaker 3: officer has been charged in connection with the violent assault
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  Speaker 3: of a handcuffed inmate, an incident caught on video last year.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty nine year old Joseph Tucker Harris, a former Jonesborough
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  Speaker 3: police officer, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault, filing
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  Speaker 3: a false report, and third degree battery. He was released
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  Speaker 3: on a fifteen thousand dollars bond. Harris was fired last
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  Speaker 3: August after dashcam footage revealed him repeatedly punching, elbowing, and
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  Speaker 3: slamming a car door on the head of detainee Billy
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  Speaker 3: Lee Koram. The incident occurred as Koram, wearing a hospital gown,
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  Speaker 3: was being transported back to jail in Craighead County. The
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  Speaker 3: video shows Korum choking himself with a seat belt while
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  Speaker 3: in the patrol car. Harris pulls over, strikes Korum multiple times,
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  Speaker 3: and later slams the door on his head. Koram had
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  Speaker 3: been hospitalized after reportedly ingesting fentanyl and fleeing in panic.
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  Speaker 3: Koram has filed a federal lawsuit against Harris, the City
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  Speaker 3: of Jonesborough, and the police chief, alleging violation of his
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  Speaker 3: constitutional rights. The trial is set for May twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Justin Corsey, 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 classified as endangered.
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  Speaker 3: 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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