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Mother Says Missing Woman’s BF ‘Extremely Abusive’ | Crime Alert 6AM 11.21.25 · 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: The mother of a missing Utah woman, Danielle Staley, who
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  Speaker 1: vanished in California earlier this month, says her boyfriend of
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  Speaker 1: thirteen years has been abusive. Thirty five year old Staley
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  Speaker 1: was lasting at a bonfire and aftos near Rio del
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  Speaker 1: Mar State Beach on November seventh at around eleven thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: Santa Cruz County deputy said Staley may be at risk
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  Speaker 1: and foul play is potentially involved. Earlier this week, Staley's
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  Speaker 1: longtime boyfriend, Alex Nunia, sixty two, said he had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with her disappearance, adding that he's helping search
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  Speaker 1: for her. Her family says Nunia's who accompanied her to
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  Speaker 1: the bonfire, is extremely abusive and manipulative. The pair had
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  Speaker 1: been staying on the coast living in a camper after
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  Speaker 1: arriving in the area at the end of October. Police
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  Speaker 1: later found her belongings on the beach, and there has
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  Speaker 1: been no indication she went into the water. Mom April.
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  Speaker 1: Miller says Danielle's family has been concerned the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: The pair has dated on and off for around thirteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Nunia's reportedly said he would take a polygraph test and
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  Speaker 1: fear Staley may have had a drug relapse. Quote. There's
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  Speaker 1: cameras there. There's a whole private subdivision there that is
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  Speaker 1: nothing but cameras. There has to be some video surveillance
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  Speaker 1: of something. Cars going in and out at that particular time,
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  Speaker 1: between around eleven o'clock and about six in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Police have not named Nunias as a suspect in Staley's disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: and he is cooperating with the investigation. Police are asking
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  Speaker 1: for security footage taken from Beach Drive, Rio del Mar
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  Speaker 1: Boulevard or the Esplanade between November fifth and seventh. Staley
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  Speaker 1: is described as a white female who stands five feet
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  Speaker 1: six inches tall and weighs one hundred and twenty pounds
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  Speaker 1: with blonde hair. She was last seen wearing a dark
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  Speaker 1: hooded sweatshirt and leopard print leggings. Anyone with information regarding
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  Speaker 1: Staley's whereabouts is urged to contact Santa Cruz County Police
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  Speaker 1: at eight very one four seven one one one two
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  Speaker 1: one more crime and Justice news. After this, a twenty
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  Speaker 1: four year old Ohio man was arrested in Canada after
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  Speaker 1: his Errands were found dead in their home on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell Andatra is already back in the United States behind
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  Speaker 1: bars in Michigan while he awaits extradition back to Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: The Crawford County Sheriff's Office in Ohio was called for
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  Speaker 1: a welfare check Wednesday morning at the home in Crestline
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  Speaker 1: after a coworker of Lisa Anatra, sixty one, reported that
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  Speaker 1: she had not come into work that day. The coworker
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  Speaker 1: had gone to the home to check on her and
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  Speaker 1: called nine one one when he saw what he thought
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  Speaker 1: was blood. Officers arrived at the home and made entry,
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  Speaker 1: discovering a Natra's body inside. A second victim, Lisa's husband,
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  Speaker 1: sixty three year old Matthew Einatra, was found dead in
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  Speaker 1: a detached garage on the property. Family members told police
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  Speaker 1: that their son, Maxwell and Natra had been at the
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  Speaker 1: home the previous night, but was now unreachable by phone.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators soon learned that he had gone to Michigan earlier
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  Speaker 1: that morning and maybe trying to flee to Canada. Detectives
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  Speaker 1: obtained a murder warrant for a Natra's arrest and contacted
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Department of Homeland Security late Wednesday afternoon, they
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  Speaker 1: learned that a Natra had been taken into custody by
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  Speaker 1: Canadian officials after he crossed the border. He is being
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  Speaker 1: held at the Saint Clair County Jail on the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: murder warrant. In another case of patricide, a Connecticut man
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  Speaker 1: was charged on Saturday with the death of his father,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not the first time he's been accused of
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  Speaker 1: violent crimes. Joshua Popielarchic's arrest warrant was sealed for two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: so details of the murder of sixty two year old
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  Speaker 1: David Pope Alarchic are unavailable. Police did say the elder
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  Speaker 1: man was found with stab wounds in his living room
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  Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. Joshua Popielarchic, thirty one, was convicted on a
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  Speaker 1: misdemeanor charge of strangulation and suffocation last year after the
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  Speaker 1: victim dropped her complaint on more serious charges. According to
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  Speaker 1: a warrant for that twenty twenty three arrest, police were
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  Speaker 1: alerted that Popi Alarchic had left the scene of a
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  Speaker 1: crash and the woman who was with him said he
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  Speaker 1: raped her at his apartment the night before. Avon police
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  Speaker 1: officers spoke to the sixty year old woman and described
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  Speaker 1: her as visibly shaken. She told them she had met
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  Speaker 1: Pope Pielarchik in rehab and they hit it off, so
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  Speaker 1: she spent some time with him after they were discharged
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  Speaker 1: from the facility, but Popi Alarchik began exhibiting what the
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  Speaker 1: victim called weird behavior, including going into trances and talking
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  Speaker 1: to himself repeatedly. She said he bought a drug from
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  Speaker 1: someone who came to his door, and when he took it,
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  Speaker 1: she described it as looking into the eyes of Satan.
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  Speaker 1: Popi Alarchic became increasingly violent, often pushing and slapping her
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  Speaker 1: and wrapping his hands around her neck. She said he
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  Speaker 1: punched her and strangled her, including once when she was
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  Speaker 1: lying down for a nap. She told Palie she wanted
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  Speaker 1: to call nine one one, but feared Joshua would hear
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  Speaker 1: her call and kill her. On September twelfth, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: they were listening to music when he started pacing, then
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  Speaker 1: shoved her over, pulled off her shorts, and raped her.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, he dragged her out of bed feet
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  Speaker 1: first and told her to hurry and get ready. He
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  Speaker 1: insisted on taking her with him to purchase marijuana at
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  Speaker 1: the threat of death. When they left the house, the
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  Speaker 1: woman said Popi Alarchik drove so erratically that she persuaded
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  Speaker 1: him to let her draw. When he did, however, he
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  Speaker 1: began ordering her to drive through stop signs in red lights.
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  Speaker 1: When she obeyed traffic laws, he punched her in the head.
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  Speaker 1: He gave her directions to his parents' house, where he
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  Speaker 1: reportedly banged on the door and confronted the woman, who
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  Speaker 1: answered in violation of an order of protection against him.
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  Speaker 1: He left his parents' home, and the sixty year old
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  Speaker 1: victim said he had been laughing maniacally while driving and
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  Speaker 1: punched her in the face and neck several times. He
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  Speaker 1: ran traffic lights and eventually crashed into another car before
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  Speaker 1: leaving the scene. The woman said she got away from
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  Speaker 1: him when an employee at a dispensary separated him from
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  Speaker 1: her after observing that something might have been wrong. Responding
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  Speaker 1: officers saw bruising and marx on her face and ear,
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  Speaker 1: but the woman soon began avoiding police, who didn't speak
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  Speaker 1: with her again until early October that year. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: she said she didn't want to pursue charges for the
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  Speaker 1: with this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.