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Father's Fury: Dad Sues Ex for Son's Road Rage Execution; Claims Her Middle Finger Doomed 6yo| Crime Alert 6AM 01.15.2026 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould, a grieving California mother who watched her
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  Speaker 1: six year old son die in her arms after a
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  Speaker 1: road rage shooter targeted her car, is now facing a
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  Speaker 1: fresh nightmare, a bombshell wrongful death lawsuit from the boy's
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  Speaker 1: own father. The lawsuit, filed by Jose Laos Junior in
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  Speaker 1: Orange County Superior Court, slams Joanna Kloonan's decision to flip
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  Speaker 1: the bird at a stranger on the fifty five Freeway
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  Speaker 1: in Orange County was the catalyst that sparked the fatal gunshot.
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  Speaker 1: It names Kloonan, shooter Marcus Aries, his then girlfriend Winnie Lee,
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  Speaker 1: and Kloonan's own mother as defendants, alleging that if Kloonan
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  Speaker 1: had not provoked the shooter, little Aiden Laos would still
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  Speaker 1: be alive today. Here's the prosecutor in court during the
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  Speaker 1: gunman's trial, Mister.
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  Speaker 2: Cluten Hov lane and began to move over towards the
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  Speaker 2: right to get off the freeway, and she gave the
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  Speaker 2: middle finger to the vehicle to the male passenger out
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  Speaker 2: of anger, something she'd come to regret.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond covering the whore unfolded. On May twenty first of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, when Kloonan was driving Little Aiden to
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  Speaker 1: kindergarten and Yorba Linda. After being cut off by a
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  Speaker 1: white Volkswagon, Kloonan extended her middle finger towards the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: In response, passenger Marcus Harries pulled a Glock seventeen and
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  Speaker 1: fired a single round. The bullet tore through the trunk
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  Speaker 1: and the back of Little Aiden's booster seat, piercing the
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  Speaker 1: boy's liver, lung, and heart. Kloonan pulled over, held her
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  Speaker 1: dying son, and called nine one one. Aiden was pronounced
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  Speaker 1: dead at Children's Hospital of Orange County less than an
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  Speaker 1: hour later. Ariz was convicted of second degree murder in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and sentenced two forty years to life,
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  Speaker 1: while Lee pleaded guilty to accessory charges and received a
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  Speaker 1: lighter sentence. Despite these criminal convictions, the boy's father insists
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  Speaker 1: Kloonan bears civil responsibility for the quote reasonably foreseeable retaliation
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  Speaker 1: end quote, adding insult to unimaginable injury. The lawsuit also
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  Speaker 1: accuses Kloonan a quote unjust enrichment end quote, alleging she
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  Speaker 1: hoarded nearly five hundred thousand dollars from a go Fundme
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  Speaker 1: meant for Aiden's burial and parental support. Klunan, who previously
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  Speaker 1: filed a restraining order against Laos for domestic violence in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, has slammed the suit as quote unquote torture.
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  Speaker 1: Her attorney described a suit as a quote outrageous abuse
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  Speaker 1: of the system end quote. Hearing an Orange County Superior
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  Speaker 1: Court is expected in the coming weeks. More crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news after this. A prominent Arkansas doctor, already a
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  Speaker 1: convicted wife beater, has been handed a final sickening victory
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  Speaker 1: after a judge gave him sole control over the remains
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  Speaker 1: of his six year old twins, leaving their murdered mom
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  Speaker 1: to be buried alone. Charity Ballis, forty, was laid to
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  Speaker 1: rest in Bonanza, Arkansas, separated in death from the young
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  Speaker 1: son and daughter. She spent her final breaths trying to
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  Speaker 1: protect her. Eldest son, John Powell, is now living a
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  Speaker 1: secondary nightmare, revealing that his mother's abusive ex husband has
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  Speaker 1: gone radio silent, refusing to even say if the kids
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  Speaker 1: have been buried or even cremated. The horror began on
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  Speaker 1: decem when a wellness check at the family's seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty thousand dollars mansion uncovered a scene of pure carnage.
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  Speaker 1: Charity and her twins were found executed, each suffering from
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  Speaker 1: fatal gunshot wounds. Charity's devastated dad, Randy Powell, spoke to
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  Speaker 1: k n WA NBC News, there's.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody else in the world at any reason.
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  Speaker 1: To harm her of those babies, but the timing was
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  Speaker 1: bone chillingly precise. The bodies were discovered just twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hours after a final bitter divorce hearing where Charity fought
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  Speaker 1: for soul custody to keep her kids away from doctor
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  Speaker 1: Randall bialis Fort records show the well connected family practitioner
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  Speaker 1: was convicted in October of twenty twenty five for domestic
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  Speaker 1: battery after strangling Charity in front of the children. Before
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  Speaker 1: she was silenced, you already posted a haunting public warning
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  Speaker 1: slamming a quote broken justice system and quote that shielded
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  Speaker 1: her high profile abuser while treating her like a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Adding to the mystery, a dumpster diver discovered a bag
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  Speaker 1: of the family's most intimate treasures, including a gold necklace
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  Speaker 1: engraved with the twins' names on it and their school artwork,
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  Speaker 1: all discarded in the trash about fifteen miles away from
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  Speaker 1: where the doctor lived. While the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office
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  Speaker 1: has served nearly twenty search warrants and is receiving help
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  Speaker 1: from the federal agencies, no suspects have been named. This
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  Speaker 1: is not the first time, though a woman close to
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  Speaker 1: the Good Doctor met a violent end. His second wife
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  Speaker 1: was found shot dead in twenty twelve, a case that
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  Speaker 1: was briefly reopened in twenty twenty one before stalling in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime. These three deaths are still under investigation. Police
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  Speaker 1: have not named Randall as a suspect, and finally talk
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  Speaker 1: about a high intensity interval from hell. Arilyn Martinez twenty
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  Speaker 1: four found herself in a massive plate of trouble after
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  Speaker 1: allegedly turning a routine trip to a Texas twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hour fitness into a full blown combat zone. Deputies say
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  Speaker 1: the domestic drama peaked on Lake Plaza Drive in Harris
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  Speaker 1: County when Martinez spotted a woman she recognized as her
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  Speaker 1: partner's side piece his other interest, if you will. The
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  Speaker 1: workout went from burn to battery when Martinez reportedly chucked
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five pound weight plate directly at the victim's head.
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  Speaker 1: That's a heavy metal meltdown. Authorities hauled the hot headed
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  Speaker 1: Hotty to the Harris County Jail, where a judge noted
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  Speaker 1: that alcohol likely fueled the heavy hitting heist. Now barred
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  Speaker 1: from the gym and the booze, Martinez faces aggravated assault charges.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weighted lesson in romance. When you try to
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  Speaker 1: crush the competition, the law will always do the heavy lifting.
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