Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Man Stabs Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend, Mom of 4 | Crime Alert 03.04.25
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: DeAndre Wilkins's ex girlfriend has four children, expecting her fifth.
- 0:07Speaker 1: She's out walking with friends when X Wilkins, thirty five,
- 0:10Speaker 1: walks up and punches her in the face. He then
- 0:12Speaker 1: allegedly pulls out a kitchen knife, stabbing her over and over,
- 0:16Speaker 1: saying I told you I was going to get you.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Wilkins stabs the pregnant mom ten times. The victim survives
- 0:23Speaker 1: and id's Wilkins in a lineup.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Nancy reportedly the two had been dating for about a year,
- 0:28Speaker 2: but broke up a few months ago. It's allegedly part
- 0:30Speaker 2: of a string of assaults and harassment. Wilkins has assaulted
- 0:33Speaker 2: the victim three times since July, has held the victim
- 0:36Speaker 2: and her four kids captive in their apartment, and threatened
- 0:39Speaker 2: to kill the woman if she left. Prosecutors say he
- 0:42Speaker 2: has previous convictions for aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, aggravated robbery,
- 0:47Speaker 2: and burglary.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Tennessee cops arrests Wilkins for a tempted murder and domestic
- 0:50Speaker 1: assault two million dollars bond. A Wisconsin woman confused when
- 0:55Speaker 1: she returns home to see lights on inside. The woman
- 0:58Speaker 1: who lives alone, calls cops and she says hek someone
- 1:00Speaker 1: walking around the kitchen. Joe Atta Lee calmly opens the
- 1:03Speaker 1: front door, telling cops she has permission to be there.
- 1:06Speaker 1: She identifies the homeowner by name, claiming the homeowner gave
- 1:10Speaker 1: her a set of keys after meeting her in a
- 1:12Speaker 1: coffee shop earlier that day. The homeowner has never seen
- 1:15Speaker 1: or heard of Lee before. As leeds led away from
- 1:18Speaker 1: home in handcuffs, the homeowner discovers Lee cooked aposta dinner
- 1:21Speaker 1: for two. Lee now charged with burglary and trespassing. Okay freaky.
- 1:27Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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- 1:36Speaker 3: John Limley, a judge in Idaho, has ruled that key
- 1:39Speaker 3: evidence in the case against Brian Coburger will stand. Coburger
- 1:44Speaker 3: is charged with murdering for University of Idaho students. In
- 1:47Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, Judge Stephen Hipler rejected defense arguments that
- 1:52Speaker 3: police violated Coburger's constitutional rights when they used investigative genetic
- 1:58Speaker 3: genealogy known as IGS to identify him as a suspect.
- 2:03Speaker 3: The defense claimed law enforcement improperly use public genealogy databases
- 2:08Speaker 3: without a warrant, but the judge rule that Coburger had
- 2:11Speaker 3: no reasonable expectation of privacy in the DNA found at
- 2:15Speaker 3: the crime scene. That DNA described as touch DNA was
- 2:19Speaker 3: recovered from a knife sheath found near the victims. Investigators
- 2:24Speaker 3: used IgG to trace possible relatives, eventually leading to Coburger.
- 2:29Speaker 3: Prosecutors call it a crucial link in the case. The
- 2:32Speaker 3: ruling removes a major obstacle for the prosecution as Coburger's
- 2:36Speaker 3: trial approaches in August. If convicted, he could face the
- 2:40Speaker 3: death penalty. In Arkansas, a grieving mother's discovery has prompted
- 2:45Speaker 3: legislative action to protect the sanctity of human remains. Crime
- 2:49Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner brings us the story.
- 2:52Speaker 2: A year after and during the heartbreak of a stillbirth,
- 2:55Speaker 2: Donisia Smith of Sure What, Arkansas, received devastating news her
- 2:59Speaker 2: infant side UN's body, intended for cremation, had been sold
- 3:02Speaker 2: in a multi state scheme trafficking human remains. The ashes
- 3:06Speaker 2: she cherished were not his. The perpetrator, former mortuary worker,
- 3:10Speaker 2: Candice Chapman Scott, pleaded guilty to selling twenty four boxes
- 3:14Speaker 2: of stolen body parts, including Smith's son to a Pennsylvania
- 3:18Speaker 2: man for nearly eleven thousand dollars. Scott was sentenced to
- 3:21Speaker 2: fifteen years in federal prison. Her experience has spurred Smith
- 3:24Speaker 2: and her mother to advocate for Lux's Law, named after
- 3:28Speaker 2: her son, Lux Solomam. The proposed Arkansas legislation aims to
- 3:32Speaker 2: make the sale of human remains intended for cremation or
- 3:35Speaker 2: burial of felony, carrying penalties of up to ten thousand
- 3:38Speaker 2: dollars in fines and imprisonment. State Senator Fred Love introduced
- 3:42Speaker 2: the bill, emphasizing the need to combat this form of trafficking. Currently,
- 3:46Speaker 2: only eight states broadly prohibit the sale of human remains.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Legal experts highlight the necessity for clear and comprehensive laws
- 3:53Speaker 2: to prevent such egregious violations. For Smith, the return of
- 3:57Speaker 2: her son's remains offers some solace, but she continued to
- 4:00Speaker 2: seek justice and awareness.
- 4:01Speaker 3: The Arkansas House is set to consider Lux's Law in
- 4:05Speaker 3: the coming weeks. Advocates hope it will prevent future crimes
- 4:09Speaker 3: and honor the memory of those like Lux Siloam.
- 4:12Speaker 1: Thanks John Hey, sus Mansilla Velez makes road trip plans
- 4:16Speaker 1: with Warner Robins Georgia friends, but he's a no show,
- 4:19Speaker 1: so the friends file a missing person report. Same day,
- 4:23Speaker 1: his Chevy Tahoe found abandoned forty miles two counties away,
- 4:26Speaker 1: Crawford County. The only lead inside the tahoe was a camera.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Police they belonged to that thirty five year old please say.
- 4:33Speaker 1: They're still looking for new leads and tracing Hayesus's route.
- 4:37Speaker 1: They believe he traveled in Houston, Peach, and Crawford County,
- 4:40Speaker 1: possibly Bibb. September five, twenty twenty, the day he went missing.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Hesus Mansillava Lez Hispanic five eight, black hair, brown eyes.
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- 5:18Speaker 1: solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace