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Grisly Cause of Devastating Wildfire Revealed | Crime Alert 6AM 05.30.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: Priscilla Castro thirty two meets a Victor Seratino, thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: on a dating app and they agree to meet in Vaucaville, California.
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  Speaker 1: After that day, Priscilla, a mother of a nine year
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  Speaker 1: old little girl, stops contacting her family, stops answering her
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  Speaker 1: cell phone, and stops posting on social media. Two days later,
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  Speaker 1: her Mercedes C two thirty found abandoned on a vacable street.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. Investigators used Priscilla's cell phone records to determine her
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  Speaker 2: last location was in a rural area of Solano County
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  Speaker 2: near Lake Barriessa, where a giant wildfire is burning. It
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  Speaker 2: ultimately torches over three hundred and sixty thousand acres.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities find burne remains in a canyon recognizable only by
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  Speaker 1: the angel pendant Priscilla War Police arrest Victor Serantino for
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  Speaker 1: dumping Priscilla's body in the Putah Creek wildlife area and
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  Speaker 1: setting her on fire to hide the crime. The burning
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  Speaker 1: body in turn started the Markely Wildfire, burning over a
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  Speaker 1: quarter million acres. Seratino pleads no contest in Priscilla's death.
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  Speaker 1: He's also found guilty for the death of Leon Bone
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  Speaker 1: and Douglas May, who will die in the Wildfire. Seratino
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to seventy three years to life behind bars. Aiden
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  Speaker 1: O'Ryan White twenty five, first hits his neighbor's seven year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter with a three and a half feet long
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  Speaker 1: metal and thick plastic lightsaber as she plays in the
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  Speaker 1: front of her Auburn home. When mom, Sondra Lunzeman thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: confronts him, he yells at her then charges her, hitting
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  Speaker 1: her on the right arm and shoulder. He's now charged
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  Speaker 1: with two felony assault counts by star Wars lightsaber. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now with the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, the armorer convicted in the fatal shooting on
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  Speaker 3: the set of the movie Rust, is now out of prison.
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  Speaker 3: Hannah Gutiera's read was released from the Western New Mexico
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  Speaker 3: Correctional Facility in Grants after completing her eighteen month sentence
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  Speaker 3: for involuntary manslaughter in the twenty twenty one death of
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  Speaker 3: cinematographer Helena Hutchins. She's now on parole and probation, which
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  Speaker 3: includes mental health evaluations and a ban on firearms. Gutierra's
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  Speaker 3: reed was held responsible for bringing live ammunition to the
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  Speaker 3: RUSS set outside Santa Fe, where actor Alec Baldwin was
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  Speaker 3: rehearsing with a gun that discharged, killing Hutchins and injuring
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  Speaker 3: director Joels Suza. She is appealing her conviction. Baldwin's charges
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  Speaker 3: were dismissed last year. The film finished shooting in Montana
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  Speaker 3: and was released earlier this month. After nearly two decades,
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  Speaker 3: a Georgia cold case sees a major break with the
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  Speaker 3: arrest of the victim's husband. Here's Crime Online correspondent Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with how investigators unraveled the mystery.
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  Speaker 2: In Douglas, Georgia, authorities have arrested fifty eight year old
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  Speaker 2: John Warrel for the two thousand and six murder of
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  Speaker 2: his wife, Doris Warrel. At the time, John claimed he
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  Speaker 2: found Doris fatally shot at their business, John Sports Park
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  Speaker 2: after returning from errands, and the killing was initially believed
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  Speaker 2: to be a robbery gone wrong, but over time evidence
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  Speaker 2: mounted pointing to John, who fled to Costa Rica with
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  Speaker 2: the families live in nanny Paola Yarberry, with whom he'd
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  Speaker 2: been having an affair. In two thousand and eight, two
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  Speaker 2: employees were briefly charged in connection to the killing, but
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  Speaker 2: the case stalled due to lack of evidence. That changed
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  Speaker 2: in April when investigators traveled to Costa Rica and spoke
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  Speaker 2: with Yarberry, who was no longer in a relationship with Warrel.
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  Speaker 2: According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, her new statements
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  Speaker 2: corroborated long standing suspicions that John Warrel wanted his wife
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  Speaker 2: dead rather than risk losing custody of their children in
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  Speaker 2: a divorce. Warrel was arrested in Mayrville, Missouri, waived extradition,
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  Speaker 2: and is now in custody in Coffee County without bond.
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  Speaker 2: Doris's sister, Leanne Tuggle, thanked law enforcement for their persistence,
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  Speaker 2: calling her sister a devoted mother whose generosity may have
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  Speaker 2: been what ultimately led towards death. Authorities have not yet
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  Speaker 2: determined who pulled the trigger. One previous suspect has died
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  Speaker 2: and another is recently out of prison on unrelated charges.
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  Speaker 3: Investigators say Yarberry is not considered a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, mom, Deborah Garcia makes plans to celebrate her
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  Speaker 1: son Benjamin reposed his seventh birthday at her boyfriend's home.
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  Speaker 1: After work, the boyfriend goes to get supplies, leaving Garcia's
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  Speaker 1: other daughters with Benjamin. The boyfriend returns and while he
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  Speaker 1: and the girls are putting away groceries, Benjamin slips out
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  Speaker 1: the door. Benjamin nonverbal, autistic, wearing only a white diaper
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  Speaker 1: decorated with a small spaceship and rocket figures. Benjamin never
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  Speaker 1: seen again. A five thousand dollar reward offered for info
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  Speaker 1: on his disappearance. Benjamin Hispanic meal, brown hair, brown eyes,
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  Speaker 1: three feet tall, sixty pounds. He has a small scar
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  Speaker 1: on the left side of his head a brown mark
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  Speaker 1: on the right side of his head. He went missing
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  Speaker 1: in two thy nineteen when he was just seven. Now
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  Speaker 1: he would be twelve years old. If you know or
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  Speaker 1: think you know anything about Benjamin Ropose's disappearance, please call
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  Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace