Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.23.24 | Man Forces Ex-GF to Watch While He Digs Her Grave
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Amy Hoague stops by your ex boyfriend Tony Charboneau's home
- 0:07Speaker 2: to collect her belongings. His new girlfriend, Brandy Luffy, antagonizes
- 0:13Speaker 2: Amy and an argument breaks out. Charboneau then attacks Amy Hoague,
- 0:18Speaker 2: punching and stomping on her. When Amy regains consciousness, she
- 0:23Speaker 2: finds herself tied to a wheelchair and Charboneau and Luffy
- 0:28Speaker 2: gathering shovels, tarps, a pickaxe, and a gun. The two
- 0:33Speaker 2: Ghules then drive Amy to a remote location and she's
- 0:37Speaker 2: forced to watch them dig her grave before Charboneau shoots
- 0:42Speaker 2: Hogue and.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Buries her body.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Nancy Hoak was reported missing by family members around the
- 0:48Speaker 3: time of the attack, and police found her purse on
- 0:50Speaker 3: the shore of a river about a month later. At
- 0:53Speaker 3: that point, investigators shifted their missing person's case to a homicide.
- 0:57Speaker 3: Charboneau was immediately a suspect due to a hit history
- 1:00Speaker 3: of abusing Hoke. Girlfriend Brandy Luffy eventually admits to the crime,
- 1:05Speaker 3: implicating Charboneau.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Tony Charboneau thirty six, and Brandy Luffy, forty, now charged
- 1:10Speaker 2: with kidnap and murder. A golf cart used to simulate
- 1:15Speaker 2: drunk driving does the job a little too well. At
- 1:18Speaker 2: wild Woodney, Jersey's Police National Night Out, officers set up
- 1:22Speaker 2: a driving course at the event and offer attendees a
- 1:25Speaker 2: chance to navigate the course on a golf cart while
- 1:28Speaker 2: wearing drunk goggles that replicate intoxication over the legal limit.
- 1:35Speaker 1: During his run.
- 1:37Speaker 2: A team veers off the course and takes down four
- 1:40Speaker 2: adults and a child with the golf cart. Thankfully, no
- 1:44Speaker 2: one seriously injured, but it's safe to say the team
- 1:47Speaker 2: will never drive quote drunk end quote again.
- 1:51Speaker 1: More crime in justice news after this.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Now with the latest crime in justice breaking news Time
- 2:00Speaker 2: Online's John Nlay.
- 2:01Speaker 4: We began in Nevada with a former professional football player
- 2:05Speaker 4: being sentenced to prison for his role in the death
- 2:08Speaker 4: of his girlfriend's five year old daughter in twenty nineteen.
- 2:12Speaker 4: We bring in Sidney Sumner of Crime Online for more.
- 2:15Speaker 3: The sentencing marks the conclusion of a legal case that
- 2:18Speaker 3: has drawn significant attention in Las Vegas. Sierra Wood, wants
- 2:22Speaker 3: a running back in the NFL and Canadian Football League,
- 2:25Speaker 3: was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of
- 2:27Speaker 3: parole after ten years. This comes after the thirty three
- 2:31Speaker 3: year old Wood reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, pleading
- 2:34Speaker 3: guilty to second degree murder and felony child abuse. The
- 2:37Speaker 3: charges stem from the death of Lara Davis, who died
- 2:40Speaker 3: of blunt force injuries on April ninth, twenty nineteen, according
- 2:44Speaker 3: to the Clark County Coroner's Office. Clark County District Court
- 2:48Speaker 3: Judge Jacklin Bluoth also sentenced Wood to an additional twenty
- 2:51Speaker 3: eight months to six years for the felony child abuse charge.
- 2:54Speaker 3: These sentences will be served consecutively. As part of the
- 2:58Speaker 3: plea deal, prosecutors dropped several other felony child abuse charges
- 3:02Speaker 3: originally filed against Wood. He entered an Alford plea ilegal
- 3:06Speaker 3: move allowing him to maintain his innocence while acknowledging the
- 3:09Speaker 3: evidence against him would likely lead to a conviction. Amy Taylor,
- 3:13Speaker 3: the child's mother, also faced charges in connection with her
- 3:16Speaker 3: daughter's death. Earlier this year. Thirty one year old Taylor
- 3:19Speaker 3: pleaded guilty to second degree murder and felony child abuse
- 3:23Speaker 3: as part of her own agreement with prosecutors.
- 3:25Speaker 4: Cier Wood's career in professional football included playing for the
- 3:29Speaker 4: University of Notre Dame and brief stints with three NFL teams,
- 3:33Speaker 4: as well as the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Thanks John.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Tiffany Raids sixteen, tries to wake up her older sister
- 3:41Speaker 2: DeAndre for a ride to school. Deandre's exhausted from a
- 3:46Speaker 2: late night shift, doesn't feel like driving, so Tiffany walks
- 3:50Speaker 2: to school. It's just a ten minute trip from their Shiprock,
- 3:54Speaker 2: New Mexico home. That afternoon, Tiffany does not come home
- 3:58Speaker 2: from school. She's not bad by the next morning and
- 4:01Speaker 2: mom didro learns she wasn't in school the day before.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Two weeks after Tiffany disappears, a family friend finds her
- 4:10Speaker 2: purse and its contents scattered along a road just across
- 4:14Speaker 2: the border in Arizona. There's no indication of where Tiffany
- 4:20Speaker 2: could be. Tiffany read Native American five three, black hair,
- 4:26Speaker 2: brown eyes, small scar under right eye, now missing twenty years.
- 4:32Speaker 2: If you have info on Tiffany, Reid called the Novajo Nation,
- 4:37Speaker 2: Shiprock Arizona PD five oh five three six eight one
- 4:42Speaker 2: three five zero. For the latest crime in justice news,
- 4:47Speaker 2: go to crimeonline dot com and please join us for
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- 4:53Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace