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Dad Admits "Missing" Infant Son Strangled & Dumped in River | Crime Alert 03.20.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: An Oregon father allegedly admitted on Sunday to killing his
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  Speaker 1: eleven month old son after falsely reporting him missing. Jared Stoller,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, called Sutherland police, claiming he woke up and
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  Speaker 1: his baby was missing from a room at the Relax Inn.
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  Speaker 1: Stoller said his son had been sleeping in a car
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  Speaker 1: seat in the room, which had a window pushed in. However,
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  Speaker 1: once at the police station, Stoller admitted to lying about
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  Speaker 1: the suspected kidnapping. He then confessed to killing his infant
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  Speaker 1: son days earlier in dumping his body in the South
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  Speaker 1: Umpqua River. While Stoller initially told police that his son
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  Speaker 1: died during co sleeping, he later confessed to manually strangling
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  Speaker 1: his son. Stoller also agreed to take police to the river,
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  Speaker 1: where they eventually located the infant's body. An autopsy is pending.
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  Speaker 1: Stoller's charged with first degree murder and second degree abuse
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  Speaker 1: of a corpse. He's due in court later today. The
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  Speaker 1: suspect in the murder of an eighty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: Alaska man on Saturday was found dead in the woods
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  Speaker 1: not far away. A day later, Matthew Thomas Becker, sixty one,
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  Speaker 1: was the ex son in law of the man he killed,
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  Speaker 1: Romayne Clark. Anchorage Police believe he gunned Clark down minutes
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  Speaker 1: after trying to kill his ex wife as she tried
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  Speaker 1: to open her Anchorage hair salon. The ex wife told
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  Speaker 1: police that Becker had been living in Arizona since they divorced,
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  Speaker 1: and she was unaware he had come back to Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: She told police she thought someone had tampered with the
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  Speaker 1: lock to her business Saturday morning because she couldn't fit
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  Speaker 1: the key inside. Then she saw Becker in a car.
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  Speaker 1: He got out and started shooting at her, then jumped
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  Speaker 1: back in and sped away. As she fled, The woman
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  Speaker 1: contacted police and said she was concerned about her elderly father,
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  Speaker 1: who lived with her. Police say Becker apparently went directly
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  Speaker 1: to the home after failing to kill his ex wife.
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  Speaker 1: Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said, based on preliminary evidence,
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  Speaker 1: it appears the suspect went to the rear of the residence,
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  Speaker 1: fired a couple of rounds through a plate glass window,
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  Speaker 1: striking and killing the victim, and then fleeing the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Friends who had planned an outing with the older man
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  Speaker 1: found Clark's body minutes before police arrived on the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Case said officers were hailed by friends who were waiting
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  Speaker 1: to meet up with the victim, who went inside their
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  Speaker 1: residence because he hadn't come out yet. They discovered the body,
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  Speaker 1: and then they notified US. Police launched a man hunt
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  Speaker 1: for Becker, warning the public he was armed and dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: His body was found just before ten thirty am on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: The medical examiner will determine his cause of death. Becker's
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  Speaker 1: brother said the divorcee owned a comedy club in Bisbee, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: and had recently been diagnosed with cancer. More crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news After this, a ninety two year old millionaire
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  Speaker 1: developer was found dead and decomposing in a swanky beach
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  Speaker 1: home in California's Hermosa Beach last week, and a suspect
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  Speaker 1: was arrested after a seven hour standoff. Hermosa Beach police
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  Speaker 1: said they were asked to conduct a welfare check shortly
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  Speaker 1: after noon on Saturday after a landlord at the home
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  Speaker 1: reported that they hadn't heard from a tenant there in
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  Speaker 1: several days. Police said upon arrival, office observed evidence suggesting
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  Speaker 1: a possible deceased person inside. The property manager allowed officers
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  Speaker 1: access to the location, where they encountered an individual inside
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  Speaker 1: who was not the tenant. The individual was uncooperative, made
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  Speaker 1: statements indicating possibly being armed, and barricaded themselves inside the residence.
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  Speaker 1: SWAT teams responded to the home, and negotiators eventually persuaded
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  Speaker 1: the suspect to surrender. Once inside the home, investigators found
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  Speaker 1: the dead man, later identified as prominent real estate developer
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  Speaker 1: Demetrius de Culos. The suspect was identified by two names,
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine year old Robert Phillips Simmons and Eleanor Beaulou.
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  Speaker 1: During the standoff, residents and taurists were evacuated from the area.
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  Speaker 1: Simmons Bowlu finally came out of the residence looking like
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  Speaker 1: a Blues brother, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, sunglasses,
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  Speaker 1: and fedora. On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Simmons Bowlou with a
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  Speaker 1: single count of murder. The indictment said that investigators believed
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  Speaker 1: Culos was killed sometime between March seventh and March fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: A California woman and her boyfriend have been charged with
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven counts of torture and child abuse related to
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  Speaker 1: their treatment of the woman's eleven year old niece that
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  Speaker 1: included strangulation, dragging her around on a dog leash, and
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  Speaker 1: forcing her to sleep in an uninsulated garage. The Stanislaus
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office said it was contacted by someone who
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  Speaker 1: said the little girl was refusing to go home because
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  Speaker 1: her aunt had been physically abusing her. When the girl
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  Speaker 1: was interviewed, she disclosed physical abuse spanning an extended period
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  Speaker 1: of time. A search weren't on the home found surveillance
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  Speaker 1: footage that corroborated statements made by the victim. They also
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  Speaker 1: found evidence indicating that the child had been living primarily
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  Speaker 1: in the garage and the backyard. The Sheriff's office said
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  Speaker 1: the garage was not a converted living space, lacking heating
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  Speaker 1: and air conditioning and insulation, leaving the child exposed to
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  Speaker 1: unsafe temperatures year round. The aunt, thirty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: Priscilla Misstaz, and thirty six year old Anthony Machuka, told
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  Speaker 1: detectives they had custody of the girl since twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation was launched on January thirty first, and Manchuco
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  Speaker 1: was arrested when they made initial contact with the couple
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  Speaker 1: at the home. Miss Dazz's arrest was delayed because she
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  Speaker 1: was pregnant and near term. She was arrested on March twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: after the birth of the child. The newborn and a
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  Speaker 1: four year old child were taken into protective custody by
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  Speaker 1: Stanislaus County Child Protective Services. The Sheriff's office did not
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  Speaker 1: reveal the status of the eleven year old girl. The
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  Speaker 1: Stanislaus County District Attorney's office filed a criminal complaint against
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  Speaker 1: the pair on Monday, charging them with twenty seven felony
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  Speaker 1: and misdemeanor counts. The most serious charges include torture, conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: to commit torture, child endangerment, injury to a child, assault
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  Speaker 1: with the deadly weapon, and criminal threats. The Sheriff's office said.
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  Speaker 1: Among the Act's referenced are repeated physical abuse, including strangulation, punching,
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  Speaker 1: and slapping, with holding adequate nutrition, causing the child to
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  Speaker 1: become malnourished, forcing the child to perform strenuous physical exercise
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  Speaker 1: to the point of exhaustion under threat of assault, restraining
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  Speaker 1: and dragging the child with a dog leash, and subjecting
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  Speaker 1: the child to sustained verbal abuse and threats of injury.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say more charges are possible as they sit through evidence.
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