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Crime Alert 08.21.24 | Three 47-Year-Old California Cold Cases Solved · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crime US now. California
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  Speaker 1: cops desperate for a lead when Kimberly Fritz, Velvet Sanchez,
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  Speaker 1: and Lorraine Rodriguez all found strangle after each one disappears
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  Speaker 1: from an LA shopping center. The murders remain unsolved. Forty
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  Speaker 1: seven years across the country, Mississippi long haul truck driver
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  Speaker 1: Warren Alexander arrested for strangling known to Cobb in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander's DNA uploaded to COTIS and California cops finally have
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  Speaker 1: their suspect. Investigators believe Alexander has more victims across his
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  Speaker 1: truck routes.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Nunakobb's body was found dumped on I seventy seven
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety two. Cobb's case was solved with investigative
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  Speaker 2: genetic genealogy, a process that compares unidentified DNA to family
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  Speaker 2: members of the suspect to identify the suspect. At Alexander's arrest,
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  Speaker 2: his DNA was uploaded to COTIS the Combined DNA Index system,
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  Speaker 2: where it matched the unsolved California cases. Investigators are concerned
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  Speaker 2: that Alexander has many more victims spread across the Continental US.
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  Speaker 1: Barren Alexander seventy three, now charged with four counts of murder.
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  Speaker 1: I predict there'll be more. A Texas driver stops at
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  Speaker 1: BUCkies for more than snacks. A Fayette County deputy notices
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  Speaker 1: the odor of marijuana during a truck stop and searches
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  Speaker 1: Lugene Davis Junior's car. In the truck, he finds three
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  Speaker 1: BUCkies beaver stuffed animals and notice several seams are hand stitched.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they come that way at BUCkies. The
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  Speaker 1: deputy rips open the toys and finds packages containing more
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  Speaker 1: than two pounds of pot and ecstasy. Davis forty seven,
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  Speaker 1: now facing multiple drug charges. Sorry BUCkies. More crime in
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  Speaker 1: Justice used after this Now with the latest crime in
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  Speaker 1: Justice breaking news crime on launch, John Lenley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin and Wisconsin as the final suspect and the
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  Speaker 3: death of DeVante Mitchell has been apprehended more than five
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  Speaker 3: weeks after the fatal incident at a Milwaukee hotel. For
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  Speaker 3: the latest, returned to Sydney Sumner of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Herbert Williamson, a bellhop at the Milwaukee Hyatt Regency, was
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  Speaker 2: taken into custody just three days after he and three
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  Speaker 2: others were formally charged with felony murder. The charges stem
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  Speaker 2: from an incident on June thirtieth, when Mitchell, a thirty
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  Speaker 2: one year old black man, was forcibly removed from the
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  Speaker 2: hotel lobby by Williamson and his co defendants. Prosecutors alleged
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  Speaker 2: that hotel security guard Todd Ericson front desk worker Devin
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  Speaker 2: Johnson Carson, and another security guard, Brandon Turner, joined Williamson
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  Speaker 2: in restraining Mitchell. Surveillance footage reportedly shows the men piling
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  Speaker 2: on top of Mitchell as they attempted to remove him
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  Speaker 2: from the premises. Mitchell died shortly thereafter. According to the
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  Speaker 2: criminal complaint, Mitchell had entered the hotel and sought refuge
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  Speaker 2: in a women's restroom. It was there that he was
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  Speaker 2: confronted by hotel staf The situation escalated as employees dragged
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  Speaker 2: him outside, ultimately restraining him on the ground for eight
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  Speaker 2: to nine minutes. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office later
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  Speaker 2: determined that Mitchell died from restraint asphyxia, indicating that he
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  Speaker 2: struggled to breathe while being held down. The autopsy also
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  Speaker 2: revealed that Mitchell had ingested cocaine and methamphetamine prior to
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  Speaker 2: the incident, and noted that his obesity was a contributing factor. However,
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  Speaker 2: the examiner concluded that Mitchell might have survived have the
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  Speaker 2: staff allowed him to reposition himself. Ambridge Hospitality, the management
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  Speaker 2: company overseeing the hotel, has since terminated several employees involved
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  Speaker 2: in the incident.
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  Speaker 3: If convicted, Williamson and his co defendants face up to
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  Speaker 3: fifteen years and nine months in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, tensions high between Chantale Hudson and her mom
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  Speaker 1: after they moved from Bishop, California to Day, Nevada. Just
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  Speaker 1: after Chantelle's starts her junior year of high school, Chantale's
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  Speaker 1: mom thanks her teen girl has fallen in with the
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  Speaker 1: wrong crowd at her new school. Seven thirty Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: Chantelle leaves home on foot after an argument. Her mom
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  Speaker 1: reports Chantelle missing when she's marked absent from school. Searches
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  Speaker 1: of Chantelle's route to school turn up nothing. Several reported
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  Speaker 1: sightings turn out to be misidentifications. Chantelle's social security number
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  Speaker 1: no activity, and extensive driver's license searches don't provide any leads.
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  Speaker 1: Chantale Hudson now missing thirty six years chantal native American
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  Speaker 1: five five, brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, has a scar
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  Speaker 1: on her left ring finger a birthmark on her lower back.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Chantale Hudson, call Lion County,
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  Speaker 1: Nevada Sheriff's seven seven five five seven seven five zero
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  Speaker 1: two three. For the latest crime in justice news, go
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  Speaker 1: daily podcast crime Stories with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.