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Spin Cycle: Wife Bashes Hubby w Bat, Tries to Wash Away Bloody Evidence| Crime Alert 6AM 10.16.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
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  Speaker 1: A grotesque domestic tragedy unfolded in Fort Pierce, Florida, leaving
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  Speaker 1: a sixty four year old man dead from blunt force
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  Speaker 1: trauma and his wife in custody after an alleged attempt
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the evidence in a washing machine. Bonnie teaken sixty,
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  Speaker 1: faces charges of second degree murder and tampering with evidence
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  Speaker 1: in the savage bludgeoning death of her husband, William Teakan.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors say the couple, who'd been married for forty years,
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  Speaker 1: had a rocky relationship. Sue Roseman spoke to the media,
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  Speaker 1: you really don't think something's going to go that far.
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  Speaker 1: You know that it's as much as a drink and
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  Speaker 1: all their whole history, it finally came to that, and
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  Speaker 1: it's I just don't think that's going to happen. Saint
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  Speaker 1: Lucy County Sheriff's deputy swarmed the couple's Birch Drive home
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  Speaker 1: around ten thirty pm after a welfare check was called
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  Speaker 1: in by the couple's shocked adult children. Upon arrival, the
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  Speaker 1: scene was damning. Deputies found Bonnie in the garage stand
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  Speaker 1: near a washing machine, A blood soaked blanket lay on
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  Speaker 1: the concrete floor, and inside the appliance were blood drenched
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  Speaker 1: clothing and towels. Teetkins was reportedly in the process of
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  Speaker 1: pressing the start cycle on the machine, attempting a clumsy
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  Speaker 1: cover up of the brutal crime. A trail of blood
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  Speaker 1: droplets led from the garage through the living room to
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  Speaker 1: a bedroom, where deputies discovered William Teatkins lying face down
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. He had suffered multiple severe head wounds,
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  Speaker 1: consistent with being beaten with a billy club or a
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  Speaker 1: bat a weapon. She later admitted using the severity of
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  Speaker 1: the trauma confirmed he was beyond saving. The horror first
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  Speaker 1: came to light though earlier that evening. After trying to
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  Speaker 1: reach out to her adult sun by phone. Teatkins returned
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  Speaker 1: his call around nine pm, delivering a bone chilling confession.
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  Speaker 1: She allegedly told him quote dad's dead end quote and
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  Speaker 1: admitted to striking him with the wooden club. The traumatized
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  Speaker 1: children rushed to the scene and contacted authorities. In custody,
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  Speaker 1: teat Gins appeared intoxicated and offered vague statements claiming she
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  Speaker 1: had quote unquote, snapped and couldn't take it anymore end quote.
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  Speaker 1: She also provided accusations that her husband had sexually assaulted
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  Speaker 1: her earlier in the day. Official say the relationship has
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  Speaker 1: been marred by past domestic incidents. Teatgins is currently being
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  Speaker 1: held in the Saint Lucy Kenny Jail without bond as
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  Speaker 1: the investigation continues. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: and YouTube. More crime and justice news. After this, a
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina school therapists sinister scheme to poison her estranged
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  Speaker 1: husband with his favorite energy drink, guided by chilling chat
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  Speaker 1: GPD searches for lethal toxins, has landed her behind bars
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  Speaker 1: facing attempted murder charges. Parents whose kids attend Charlotte Mecklenburg
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  Speaker 1: schools are stunned and concerned. Sharonda Taylor spoke to w
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  Speaker 1: SOOCTV news. Is it just the fact that he crossed
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  Speaker 1: her the wrong way? And what if a child crossed
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  Speaker 1: her the wrong way? Would she do something to that child.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl Harris Gates, forty three, was cuffed by Charlotte Mecklenburg
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  Speaker 1: police on multiple felony counts attempted first degree murder, contaminating
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  Speaker 1: food or drink with intent to harm, stalking, and misdemeanor
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  Speaker 1: property damage. Court docs reveal a calculated, months long plot
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  Speaker 1: inside the couple's home where Gates allegedly turned to the
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence chat bought to mastermind a deadly cocktail against
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  Speaker 1: her spouse. From July to September, Gates used the AI
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  Speaker 1: chat bot to research for quote lethal and incapacitating prescription
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  Speaker 1: drug combinations end quote that could be slipped into drinks
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  Speaker 1: or injected. The arrest affidavit states her queries zeroed in
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  Speaker 1: on poisons like oleander risin and foxglove plants, notorious for
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  Speaker 1: stopping hearts. Investigators then found her workspace stocked with damning
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  Speaker 1: physical evidence, syringes, medical droppers, digital scales, a capsule filling kit,
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  Speaker 1: and prescription medications, all allegedly purchased online to execute her plan.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband, who was living separately at the time, suffered
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  Speaker 1: two terrifying episodes of incapacitation on July twelfth and August eighteenth,
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  Speaker 1: after sipping his Celsius energy drink, which later tested positive
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  Speaker 1: for a foreign controlled substance. Per the affidavit, he survived
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  Speaker 1: without hospitalization and aided police by turning over the tainted
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  Speaker 1: drinks and digital receipts linking Gates to the lethal purchases.
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  Speaker 1: The poisoning charges followed Gates's arrest for stalking after she
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  Speaker 1: allegedly planted a GPS tracker on her husband's car and
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  Speaker 1: smashed a window at his home. Gates, a pediatric occupational
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  Speaker 1: therapist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, saw her staff profile yanked
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  Speaker 1: from the district's website post arrest. She was initially released
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  Speaker 1: on bond after the first arrest, but was denied it
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  Speaker 1: after the attempted murder charges. Gates remains in Mecklenburg County Jail,
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  Speaker 1: held without bond as police scour her devices for further plots.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, a West Hollywood, California drama just went full
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  Speaker 1: takeout terror. Six year old Floky the Feeline was allegedly
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  Speaker 1: catnapped by a rogue food delivery driver right off his porch.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance video caught the perpetrator engaging with the below pet,
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  Speaker 1: then stuffing him in the trunk of his Prius and
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  Speaker 1: just speeding away. Owner Emir Eukrates was distraught, offering a
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  Speaker 1: high stakes one thousand dollars reward for the safe return
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  Speaker 1: of his meow missing baby. The shocking twist two weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: the driver returned Floky to the station. A police station
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  Speaker 1: then audaciously tried to collect that hefty reward. Emir spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Fox eleven News, they like almost like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of those movies where they kidnapped first, then they
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  Speaker 1: asked the money later on, like this, it's unbelievable. Emir
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  Speaker 1: refused to pay the alleged ransom. Now the West Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department is serving up a feline felony investigation. This
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  Speaker 1: was one delivery that definitely wasn't perfectly executed, and now
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  Speaker 1: the driver is facing a massive tip of jail time
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  Speaker 1: instead of a payout. For the latest crime and justice news,
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