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FEDS: Chicago Man Who Lit Blue Line Traveler on Fire a Terrorist | Crime Alert 12.12.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: Federal authority stepped in on Wednesday and charged a man
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  Speaker 1: who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit
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  Speaker 1: train with terrorism. The federal charge against fifty year old
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence Reed carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty six year old woman was hospitalized in critical
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  Speaker 1: condition after the attack on Chicago's Blue Line train downtown.
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  Speaker 1: The incident took place just before nine thirty pm Monday,
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  Speaker 1: as the train pulled into the Clark Lake station. The
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  Speaker 1: suspect poured gasoline on the woman and lit it. He
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  Speaker 1: fled the train ahead of the woman engulfed in flames,
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  Speaker 1: who has not been named. Bystanders had extinguished the blaze
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  Speaker 1: by the time first responders arrived, but the victim was
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  Speaker 1: severely burned on her body and head. Although witnesses said
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  Speaker 1: the suspect in the woman argued before the incident, federal
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  Speaker 1: court records say Reed doused her with gasoline from a
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  Speaker 1: plastic bottle without comment, and tried to ignite it as
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  Speaker 1: she tried to fight him off. Surveillance video showed her
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  Speaker 1: running from one end of the train car to another
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  Speaker 1: before Reid lit the bottle he carried the gasoline in
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  Speaker 1: and used it to set the woman on fire. Chicago
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  Speaker 1: police said Reid made incriminating statements after he was taken
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  Speaker 1: into custody and had burns on his right hand. Reid
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  Speaker 1: was a ratic during his initial court appearance on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: claiming he was guilty, a Chinese citizen and that he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to represent himself. Federal officials complained at a news
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  Speaker 1: conference that Reid should have been in jail because of
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  Speaker 1: his violent criminal history and his pending criminal cases, although
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  Speaker 1: they declined to say what those were. Atf Special Agent
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Amman said quote, Reid had plenty of second chances
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  Speaker 1: by the criminal justice system, and as a result, you
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  Speaker 1: have an innocent victim in the hospital fighting for her life.
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  Speaker 1: US attorney Andrew Boutrow said that if the victim dies,
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  Speaker 1: Reid would be eligible for the death penalty because he's
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  Speaker 1: been charged in federal court. An Oregon woman was arrested
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  Speaker 1: last week after police found her eleven year old son,
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  Speaker 1: who was low functioning and nonverbal, unsupervised in the home
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  Speaker 1: filled with excrement, wrought garbage, and piles of clothes and trash.
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  Speaker 1: Ruby Atseyana Gadina Vellador, thirty two, was charged with three
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  Speaker 1: counts of criminal mistreatment. Police were initially called when the
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  Speaker 1: boy did not go to school that day and a
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  Speaker 1: nine year old sibling was not picked up after school.
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  Speaker 1: A family member asked for a welfare check, but no
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  Speaker 1: one answered the door, and the family member requested to
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  Speaker 1: file a missing persons report. Later, a neighbor called to
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  Speaker 1: say she could hear the boy moving around inside the apartment. Again,
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  Speaker 1: no one answered the door when police responded, but this
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  Speaker 1: time they made an emergency entrance. They found feces smeared
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  Speaker 1: on the walls, floor, and an air conditioning unit, and
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  Speaker 1: the home smelled overwhelmingly of urine feces and rotted garbage.
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  Speaker 1: The boy was sitting naked on a couch watching videos
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  Speaker 1: on his phone. His mother was not in the room,
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  Speaker 1: but police found her in another room, not wearing pants.
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  Speaker 1: Police said Gadeina Vellador got dressed and was taken into custody.
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  Speaker 1: It's unclear where either of the children are now. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news. After this, a sixty five year
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  Speaker 1: old Illinois woman was found dead wrapped in plastic in
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  Speaker 1: a garbage bin in a backyard shed and Her husband
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  Speaker 1: has been charged with concealing her death for nearly two years.
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  Speaker 1: Family members living in Texas sought a welfare check for
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Corbin, saying they hadn't heard from her in that
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  Speaker 1: time and feared her husband, fifty nine year old Adam Corbyn,
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  Speaker 1: may have harmed her. Adam Corbin first told responding officers
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  Speaker 1: that his wife was in Florida, then that she was
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  Speaker 1: staying with friends. Later, he said she was in the
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  Speaker 1: home and brought out a woman who claimed to be her. Officers, however,
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  Speaker 1: quickly determined she was impersonating the missing woman. That woman
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  Speaker 1: ultimately told police she had lived with the Corbyins and
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  Speaker 1: Nancy suffered from significant health issues. Adam Corbyn told her
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  Speaker 1: he found his wife dead in bed one morning and
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  Speaker 1: put her body in a blue trash bin, poured chemicals
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  Speaker 1: on it, and left it outside for nearly two years.
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  Speaker 1: Police said surveillance video showed Corbin moving the trash bin
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  Speaker 1: into a shed after police left. Inside the shed, officers
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  Speaker 1: found human remains in the trash bin. The Sangamon County
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  Speaker 1: Cordner identified the remains as Nancy Corbin. Corbin admitted to
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  Speaker 1: moving the body after police visited the home and admitted
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  Speaker 1: to receiving state's payment as his wife's caretaker long after
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  Speaker 1: she was dead. During their initial visit to the home,
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  Speaker 1: officers saw multiple firearms and plane view and then found
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  Speaker 1: that Corvin did not have a firearm owner's identification card,
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  Speaker 1: and during a follow up visit, he admitted he was
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  Speaker 1: a convicted felon. Police seized seven firearms. Corbyn has been
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  Speaker 1: charged with seven counts of unlawful possession of a weapon
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  Speaker 1: by a convicted felon, one count of abuse of a
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  Speaker 1: corpse removal without authorization, and one count of concealment of
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  Speaker 1: a death. Las Vegas prosecutors told a court last week
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  Speaker 1: that a teenage driver intentionally caused a twelve car pile up,
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  Speaker 1: killing his pregnant girlfriend and the driver of one of
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  Speaker 1: the other vehicles. They said they planned a charge nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Jose Guttia is with murder. Clark County District
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Steve Wolson told the court, quote, we believe he
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  Speaker 1: was not impaired by alcohol or drugs, and therefore we believe,
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  Speaker 1: based upon all the evidence to date, including a very
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  Speaker 1: descriptive video, that his actions were intentional, which gives rise
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  Speaker 1: to a charge of murder. Adeline Duran Rincon, twenty and
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  Speaker 1: Edward Garcia, thirty eight, were pronounced dead at the scene
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  Speaker 1: of the crash last Tuesday, and another person was hospitalized
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  Speaker 1: with life threatening injuries. Rincon was a passenger in Gutierras's
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  Speaker 1: Infinity Coup. Wolfson said Gutierras's view was not restricted and
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  Speaker 1: he did not appear to break as he approached a
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  Speaker 1: traffic light at a high rate of speed. Witnesses told
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  Speaker 1: police he appeared to be traveling around one hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: per hour. Gutierres was charged with two counts of murder,
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  Speaker 1: one count of attempted murder, reckless driving, and battery. For
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  Speaker 1: app with this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.