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A Year After Alexis Nelson's Disappearance, Husband Charged with Murder | Crime Alert 05.22.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: A chilling investigation out of Wisconsin has culminated in a
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  Speaker 1: major arrest. More than a year after a woman vanished
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  Speaker 1: without a trace, leaving a trail of disturbing behavioral patterns
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  Speaker 1: and forensic evidence. The Dodge County Sheriff's Office announced that
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  Speaker 1: forty three year old Aaron Nelson was taken into custody
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, May eighteenth. The Dodge County District Attorney's office
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  Speaker 1: has officially hit Nelson with heavy charges, including first degree
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  Speaker 1: intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. Although prosecutors are moving
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  Speaker 1: forward with a murder case, authorities admit that the body
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  Speaker 1: of his wife, forty two year old Alexis Nelson, has
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  Speaker 1: still not been found. Nelson is currently being held in
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  Speaker 1: the Dodge County Jail on a staggering one million dollar
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  Speaker 1: cash bond, with a court appearance scheduled for May twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Officials added there with holding additional details out of respect
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  Speaker 1: for the family and the ongoing integrity of the judicial process.
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  Speaker 1: As reported by local news outlet wisci Ais, Nelson was
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  Speaker 1: last seen alive in May of twenty twenty five. Behind
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  Speaker 1: closed doors. Prosecutors allege a history of volatile domestic abuse,
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  Speaker 1: noting that Alexis had previously filed a restraining order against
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  Speaker 1: her husband following an alleged domestic incident. A neighbor who
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  Speaker 1: lived near the couple's beaver Dam apartment spoke with WITI
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  Speaker 1: for calling frequent intense arguments echoing from the home before
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  Speaker 1: Alexis disappeared. The timeline constructed by investigators reveals a dark
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  Speaker 1: series of events. According to a criminal complaint, the couple
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  Speaker 1: was last captured together on surveillance footage at a beaver
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  Speaker 1: Dam quick trip on March twenty ninth, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: From there, the digital and physical evidence began to pile up.
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  Speaker 1: Phone records allegedly track Alexis's cell phone traveling to sun Prairie, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 1: before going dark. The very next day, Aaron Nelson was
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  Speaker 1: spotted purchasing a thirty two gallon trash camp. Shortly after
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  Speaker 1: his wife's disappearance, Nelson allegedly created a fraudulent Facebook profile
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  Speaker 1: under the alias James Nelson, changing his relationships at it
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  Speaker 1: to widowed within weeks. In April of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: Nelson matched with another woman on the dating app Tinder,
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  Speaker 1: and moved into her residence by the end of May. Shockingly,
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  Speaker 1: investigators later noticed that this new girlfriend was actively wearing
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  Speaker 1: Alexis's stolen wedding ring. In June, a search warn't executed
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  Speaker 1: at the girlfriend's home uncovered the thirty two gallon trash can,
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  Speaker 1: which forensics confirmed tested positive for Alexis's blood. A certified
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  Speaker 1: cadaver dog also alerted handlers to a shed on the
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  Speaker 1: property where that exact trash can had been hidden. While
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  Speaker 1: the Dodge County Medical Examiner's Office confirms there is no
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  Speaker 1: official record of Alexis's death within the state, the evidence
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  Speaker 1: was more than enough to secure a homicide charge. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. In Orange County, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: a prominent figure who once led a controversial national religious
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  Speaker 1: movement is now behind bars, caught in a high stakes
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  Speaker 1: Internet crime sting operation. Alan Chambers, the former high profile
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  Speaker 1: president of Exodus International, a now defunct minute street that
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  Speaker 1: infamously advocated for conversion therapy, was arrested in winter Park
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, May eighteenth. Court records revealed that Chambers is
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  Speaker 1: facing severe felony charges, including soliciting a minor via computer,
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  Speaker 1: transmitting information harmful to a minor, and the unlawful use
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  Speaker 1: of a two way communication device. According to an arrest affidavit,
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  Speaker 1: chambers downfall was the result of a meticulous, months long
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  Speaker 1: sting operation spearheaded by cybercrime detectives. Investigators alleged that Chambers
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  Speaker 1: was actively communicating with an undercover detective who was posing
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  Speaker 1: online as a vulnerable fourteen year old boy. Per the
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  Speaker 1: arrest documents, Chambers utilized multiple digital platforms to maintain contact,
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  Speaker 1: including Snapchat, text messaging, and the encrypted app Telegram. The
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  Speaker 1: explicit nature of their interactions escalated significantly when Chambers allegedly
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  Speaker 1: transmitted an explicit photograph displaying a man's torso and genitals
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  Speaker 1: to the undercover agent. The affidavit further claims that Chambers
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly initiated conversations about arranging an inn person meeting with
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  Speaker 1: the person he believed to be a young teenager. Throughout
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  Speaker 1: these digital exchanges, Chambers reportedly voiced calculated paranoia, explicitly expressing
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  Speaker 1: deep concern over being discovered. Chambers is currently being held
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  Speaker 1: at the Orange County Jail. This arrest marks a stunning
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  Speaker 1: chapter for a man who made national headlines back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve when he publicly renounced his support for conversion therapy,
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  Speaker 1: later offering a formal apology to the gay community in
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen for the undue suffering in judgment caused by
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  Speaker 1: his former ministry. Chambers, who authored three books throughout his
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  Speaker 1: career detailing his shifting stances, has not yet entered a
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  Speaker 1: formal plea. An international phone call has exposed a brutal
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping and execution in Chicago, leaving Area one detective searching
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  Speaker 1: for answers. The investigation unfolded on Tuesday night when Chicago
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  Speaker 1: police officers responded to a requested well being check around
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  Speaker 1: nine pm inside an apartment located in the sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred block of South Perry Avenue. Upon entering the residence,
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  Speaker 1: officers made a gruesome discovery, finding the body of an
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  Speaker 1: unidentified eighteen year old male inside a bathtub. According to
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  Speaker 1: an official Chicago police report, the teenager was found lying
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  Speaker 1: face down with his hands tightly bound behind his back.
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  Speaker 1: The victim had sustained multiple fatal gunshot wounds to his
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  Speaker 1: chest and leg. Officers processing the scene recovered three nine
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  Speaker 1: millimeters shell casings adjacent to the bathtub. The sequence of
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  Speaker 1: events leading authorities to the crime scene began with an
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary and terrifying phone call received by the victim's mother.
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  Speaker 1: A police report indicates that the mother was contacted by
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  Speaker 1: an unknown individual placing a call from Venezuela. The anonymous
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  Speaker 1: caller claimed that her eighteen year old son had been
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  Speaker 1: kidnapped on Monday afternoon around three pm near a basketball
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  Speaker 1: court and the seventy one hundred block of South King Drive.
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  Speaker 1: The foreign caller then provided the exact address of the
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  Speaker 1: Perry Avenue apartment, stating that the young man could be
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  Speaker 1: found inside Area one. Detectives are currently working to unravel
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  Speaker 1: the connection between the local kidnapping, the execution, and the
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  Speaker 1: mysterio CALLAR broadcasting from South America for the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Silvani.