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Houston Remains Identified as Missing Trafficking Victim Kristen Galvan | Crime Alert 07.30.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvoni.
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  Speaker 1: A painful cold case mystery that spanned over six agonizing
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  Speaker 1: years has finally brought heartbreaking answers to a Texas family.
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  Speaker 1: Human remains discovered along a Missouri city jogging trail back
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  Speaker 1: in January twenty twenty have been officially identified as fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Kristin Galvan. According to reports from the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General's Office, the Houston area teenager vanished on January second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, disappearing from her grandmother's residence in Spring. Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Investigator state that Galvan was a victim of human trafficking
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  Speaker 1: and had been rescued by law enforcement on Bissinette Street,
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  Speaker 1: an area notorious for child sex slavery, just weeks before
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  Speaker 1: she went missing a second time. Desperate to protect her
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  Speaker 1: child and fine proper care, Kristin's mother, Robin Corey, encountered
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  Speaker 1: severe obstacles while trying to locate a treatment facility equipped
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  Speaker 1: to deal with human trafficking trauma.
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  Speaker 2: So the holiday, you know, came, and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: were looking for facilities for human trafficking victims. There's ultimately
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  Speaker 2: zero in Houston or you have to pay fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars a day for your child to get the treatment
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  Speaker 2: she deserves. And of course nobody works during the holidays,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everybody's so busy. And I have my victim
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  Speaker 2: child who you know, nights hair screaming, just she wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the same child, and I can virtually get no help.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas passes, and you know, you try taking the phone
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  Speaker 2: away from your fifteen year old. You know, it's their lifeline.
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  Speaker 2: They'd used it for school, and so we gave it back,
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  Speaker 2: and she was only allowed to have it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the kitchen where everybody could see her. And then
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  Speaker 2: we went to take my sister. My sister's a general
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  Speaker 2: in the army, and we went to take my sister
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  Speaker 2: back to Fort Hood after the holidays January first, and
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  Speaker 2: my dad was left there to watch. Kristen was gone
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  Speaker 2: that night.
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  Speaker 1: Following Kristin's second disappearance, Corey refused to wait on law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: taking to the streets herself to search for her daughter.
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  Speaker 2: So when Kristen disappeared the second time, I didn't wait
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  Speaker 2: on police. I went out to Bissonette Street myself and
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  Speaker 2: scoured the streets of this net. I had a private
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  Speaker 2: investigator showed me the ins and outs of Businette Street.
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  Speaker 2: He told me, I don't normally take parents. I said,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to take me today. You're going to show
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  Speaker 2: me this net. You know, I grew up in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: I love Houston, but we're number one. We have the
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  Speaker 2: number one baseball team right go Asstros, but we are
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  Speaker 2: literally number one, and child sex slavery. Enough of the trafficking.
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  Speaker 2: This is slavery. So when I went out there, I
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  Speaker 2: was not expecting to find girl after girl and a
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  Speaker 2: line of cars waiting to buy these people.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven days after Galvan disappeared, partial human remains were
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  Speaker 1: discovered near a jogging trail in Missouri City on January
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth, twenty twenty. In November twenty twenty two, Missouri
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  Speaker 1: City Police requested help from the Texas Attorney General's Cold
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  Speaker 1: Case and Missing Persons Unit. An autopsy in anthropological examination
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  Speaker 1: determined the remains belonged to a female between thirteen and
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  Speaker 1: eighteen years old who died in a homicide. Authorities initially
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  Speaker 1: struggled because their remains condition prevented a standard DNA profile,
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  Speaker 1: but the Cold case unit worked with the University of
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  Speaker 1: North Texas to develop a mitochondrial DNA profile. Advanced forensic
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  Speaker 1: genetic genealogy testing by BODE Technology, Astria Forensics, the DOUGH Network,
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  Speaker 1: and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children neckmec
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  Speaker 1: finally confirmed her identity. Corey's advocacy for her daughter and
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  Speaker 1: others was recognized by Houston Mayor John Whitmyer and councilmember
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  Speaker 1: Mary Nan Huffman, declaring April twenty third, Kiki's Day. In
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  Speaker 1: a statement to neck Mech, Galvan's family shared that while
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  Speaker 1: their hearts are shattered by on words, they are grateful
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  Speaker 1: Kristen will finally be home. Anyone with information is asked
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  Speaker 1: to contact the Attorney General's Cold Case Unit. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and Justice news after this. Authorities in California are searching
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  Speaker 1: for two nine year old children, Solomon and Marazina Sconic,
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  Speaker 1: warning there is concern for their well being. According to
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the twins were abducted
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday by their father, seventy one year old David Seconic.
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  Speaker 1: The children were last seen around eight pm near the
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  Speaker 1: one thousand block of West Avenue J eight in Lancaster.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators report the suspect as traveling in a black twenty
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  Speaker 1: eleven Lincoln town car with California license plate. Soloist Soyst
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  Speaker 1: Marazena is described as a white girl four feet four
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  Speaker 1: inches tall, ninety pounds, wearing pink shorts and a white shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon is a white boy four feet four inches tall,
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  Speaker 1: ninety pounds wearing blue shorts. David Seconic is five feet
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  Speaker 1: sei seven inches tall weighing one hundred and thirty five pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Concern mounted after a July thirteenth Facebook photo posted by
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  Speaker 1: Sconic prompted a commenter to write that the children looked miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone with information is urged to call the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department at six sixty one nine four zero
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight fifty five or crimestoppers. In Utah, a bride
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  Speaker 1: to bee is facing severe charges after allegedly taking drastic
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  Speaker 1: measures to avoid her wedding. Court documents revealed twenty five
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  Speaker 1: year old Linita Tessa Joy Moreno was arrested following a
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  Speaker 1: fire at the church where she was set to be
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  Speaker 1: married the next day. On July tenth, Moreno, her groom
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  Speaker 1: to be and family members were setting up when the
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  Speaker 1: fire alarm sounded. Flames under a chair in the relief
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  Speaker 1: Society room were extinguished using water from decorations and a
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  Speaker 1: fire extinguisher. Investigators determined the fire was started using a tampon,
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  Speaker 1: and security footage caught Moreno stealing lighters from a hardware
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  Speaker 1: store earlier that day. Authorities also revealed Morena lied about
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  Speaker 1: obtaining a marriage license, Facing over one hundred and eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in damages, Morena is charged with aggravated arson,
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  Speaker 1: retail theft, and providing false information to an officer. For
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