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Father Convicted for Girlfriend's Bludgeoning: Her Daughter Still Missing | Crime Alert 05.27.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alart hourly update breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Jose Morales, high on PCP, strikes his
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  Speaker 2: girlfriend and the mother of his child, Christine Holloway, in
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  Speaker 2: the head, repeatedly brutally killing her. Morales spends more than
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  Speaker 2: a day disposing of the evidence, dumping a bloodstained diaper,
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  Speaker 2: Genie and a towel in a clothing donation bin. The
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  Speaker 2: couple's fourteen month old daughter, Vanessa, was last seen two
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  Speaker 2: days before authorities find Christine's body in the bathtub of
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  Speaker 2: their Milford, Connecticut apartment. Morales insists he is not responsible
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  Speaker 2: for Christine's murder, claiming two burglars broke in, attacked Christine,
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  Speaker 2: and kidnapped Vanessa. Prosecutors argue that Morales may have no
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  Speaker 2: memory of the murder due to his drug use, but
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  Speaker 2: the only logical explanation is that Morales killed Christine. Morales
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  Speaker 2: is found guilty of murder by a jury and faces
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  Speaker 2: up to sixty five years in prison for killing Christine.
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  Speaker 2: The father is still a suspect in Vanessa's disappearance, and
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  Speaker 2: legal experts say it's not likely he will receive any
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  Speaker 2: kind of sentence reduction in exchange for help finding his
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  Speaker 2: daughter due to his lack of memory regarding the incident.
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  Speaker 2: The Holloway family became emotional when they learned Morales was
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  Speaker 2: found guilty, saying they can now focus on bringing Vanessa home.
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  Speaker 2: The little girl would be almost six today. A woman
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  Speaker 2: frantically calls nine one one to report her ex boyfriend
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  Speaker 2: has kicked open her door and stolen her pet chicken
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  Speaker 2: while screaming, I've got Polly. She tells officers her ex
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  Speaker 2: just got out of prison and seems extremely fragile. When
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  Speaker 2: police catch up with the unnamed fifty year old, he's
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  Speaker 2: crying and hiding in a wooded area on the side
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  Speaker 2: of the road in Kitsap County, Washington, still clutching the chicken.
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  Speaker 2: Bodycam footage shows deputies approaching the man in the woods. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: show a shit hands, stand up, show me your hands.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. I just hold your chicken. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: hurt your chicken.
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  Speaker 2: LA put the chicken in her person. The officers allowed
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  Speaker 2: the man to safely place the chicken in a patrol
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  Speaker 2: vehicle before he's placed in cuffs for residential burglary and
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  Speaker 2: violating an order of protection. More Crime and Justice news.
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  Speaker 2: After this now at the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 2: news Krime Aignes John Lumley.
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  Speaker 1: We began with an update on this month's deadly shooting
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  Speaker 1: at a Las Vegas fitness center. Police have identified the
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  Speaker 1: victim as thirty one year old Edgar Keones, a longtime
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  Speaker 1: employee at the Las Vegas Athletic Club. Investigators now say
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  Speaker 1: Keones had no known connection to the gunman. According to
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  Speaker 1: Assistant Sheriff Jamie Prosser of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police,
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  Speaker 1: the shooter, thirty four year old Daniel Ortega, was a
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  Speaker 1: gym member who entered the facility armed with a rifle.
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  Speaker 1: He briefly interacted with a staff member before opening fire
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  Speaker 1: on Keones, who tried to run. Police say Ortega fired
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  Speaker 1: twenty four rounds says he moved through the building. Three
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  Speaker 1: others were injured, one critically. Ortego was shot by officers
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  Speaker 1: as he exited the gym and later died at a hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities say the motive remains unclear. The investigation continues. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: say the May sixteenth escape of ten inmates from a
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans jail wasn't just a case of faulty locks
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  Speaker 1: and staffing shortages. Now a jail employee faces criminal charges.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Online correspondent Sidney Sumner has the latest on what
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  Speaker 1: investigators say was a carefully aided breakout.
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  Speaker 2: A thirty three year old maintenance worker at the Orleans
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  Speaker 2: Parish Sheriff's Office has been arrested for allegedly helping ten
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  Speaker 2: inmates escape from jail. Sterling Williams is accused of turning
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  Speaker 2: off water to a jail cell at the Orleans Justice
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  Speaker 2: Center at the requests of one of the inmates. That move,
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  Speaker 2: according to the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, allowed the men
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  Speaker 2: to slip through a hole behind a toilet. Investigators saved
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  Speaker 2: the decision wasn't a mistake. In a statement, the AG's
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  Speaker 2: office said quote. Instead of reporting the inmate, Williams turned
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  Speaker 2: the water off as directed, allowing the inmates to carry
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  Speaker 2: out their scheme. Williams now faces ten counts of principal
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  Speaker 2: to simple escape in malfeasance in office. The breakout happened
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  Speaker 2: in the early morning hours of May sixteenth, while the
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  Speaker 2: only guard on duty left to get food. The inmates,
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  Speaker 2: some charge or convicted of violent crimes, including murder, shed
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  Speaker 2: their jail uniforms, changed clothes, and vanished According to the
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's office, at least one steel bar protecting the plumbing
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  Speaker 2: had been deliberately cut with a tool. Sheriff Susan Hudson
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  Speaker 2: has repeatedly called the escape an inside job. She suspended
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  Speaker 2: three employees and pointed to ongoing issues like broken locks
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  Speaker 2: and staffing gaps, but many state and local officials are
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  Speaker 2: pointing the blame back at her.
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  Speaker 1: The New Orleans City Council met with jail and law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement officials in recent days to question how ten men
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  Speaker 1: were able to walk scout of a locked facility.
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  Speaker 2: It's been more than two months since Irene Webster Fry
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  Speaker 2: walked away from her home in Shelby, North Carolina, on foot.
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  Speaker 2: She was last seen walking on Burke Road toward Cleveland Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: Police say Irene, who suffers from a cognitive impairment, may
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  Speaker 2: be en route to Morristown, Tennessee. It's not known what
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  Speaker 2: she was wearing. Irene, sixty five, is Caucasian, about two
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  Speaker 2: hundred pounds and five feet seven inches tall. Irene has dentures,
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  Speaker 2: but does not always wear them. She sometimes walks with
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  Speaker 2: a cane. Anyone with information about Irene Webster Fry's whereabouts
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  Speaker 2: is urged to contact the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office at
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  Speaker 2: with this crime Alert. I'm Sydney Sumner.