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North Carolina Man Beats Roommate to Death With Box Fan Because He Asked for Cigarettes | Crime Alert 6AM 08.01.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: A North Carolina man has been charged with first degree
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  Speaker 1: murder after he beat his roommate to death for asking
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  Speaker 1: him for a cigarette. William Francis Boardsen, forty, called nine
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  Speaker 1: one one shortly before eleven am on Sunday and said
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  Speaker 1: he'd been in a fight with his roommate, identified as
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  Speaker 1: sixty five year old Robert Murphy, and that he kicked
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  Speaker 1: his pretty good. First responders found Murphy dead on the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Boardsen told investigators that the fight started at about four am,
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  Speaker 1: when Murphy, allegedly drunk, came into his room and asked
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  Speaker 1: for cigarettes, and Boardsen refused and the two got in
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  Speaker 1: a physical altercation. Boards And said he punched Murphy in
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  Speaker 1: the head several times, then grabbed a box fan and
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  Speaker 1: hit Murphy repeatedly in the head with it. After Murphy collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: boards And said he kicked him in the stomach and
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  Speaker 1: face several times, telling police those last blows weren't needed
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  Speaker 1: and expressing some regret for them. Boards And allowed detectives
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  Speaker 1: to search his foe, where they found videos and photos
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  Speaker 1: taken about six hours before he called nine one one
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  Speaker 1: In one video, Murphy was still alive, but injured and
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  Speaker 1: lying in the same position where he was later found dead.
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  Speaker 1: Boardsen is heard in the videos speaking to Murphy in
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  Speaker 1: a derogatory tone. According to court documents, boards And is
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  Speaker 1: being held in the Mecklenbug County Jail on a four
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars bond. An arrest has been made in
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  Speaker 1: a deadly shooting in Washington State that left a twenty
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  Speaker 1: three year old mother dead last week. The Pasco Police
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  Speaker 1: Department said they responded to a nine one one call
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  Speaker 1: and found Lupita Ponza Penaloza dead in a garage apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Viegas, thirty, was identified as the suspect, and a
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  Speaker 1: warrant for his arrest on second degree murder charges was issued.
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  Speaker 1: He was eventually located in Pendleton, Oregon, about sixty five
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  Speaker 1: miles from the crime scene early Saturday morning. Court documents
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  Speaker 1: reveal investigators believe Viegas was one of two shooters who
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  Speaker 1: killed Ponce Penaloza. Those court documents say a friend of
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  Speaker 1: Lupita's told investigators that she went to a friend's apartment
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  Speaker 1: to meet vie Gus, who she called Truccha. A probable
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  Speaker 1: cause affidavit said in messages to the friend, Lupita questioned
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  Speaker 1: whether Trucca had tried to set her up. There was
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  Speaker 1: also a text message sent from Lupita telling this friend
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  Speaker 1: that she may need her to call nine one one
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  Speaker 1: if it goes down. The two roommates who lived at
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  Speaker 1: the apartment gave slightly different versions of what happened. One
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  Speaker 1: said that Viegus and Ponza Penaloza arrived together and that
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  Speaker 1: Viegues pulled a handgun from beneath the coffee table and
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  Speaker 1: shot her, then opened the door for another man who
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  Speaker 1: also shot her. The other roommate said they only saw
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  Speaker 1: one person shooting, while police have not released any information
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  Speaker 1: about a second shooter. Investigators say they found spent shell
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  Speaker 1: casings from forty and forty five caliber guns in the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Viegus has a lengthy criminal history dating back to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and nine and is prohibited from owning a gun
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  Speaker 1: because of assault and robbery convictions. Viegus awaits extradition to
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  Speaker 1: Washington in jail in Oregon's Umatilla County. More crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news after this, A Missouri education teacher has pleaded
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  Speaker 1: guilty after sending sexually explicit content to a sixteen year
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  Speaker 1: old student, which spared her jail time. Twenty six year
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  Speaker 1: old Ricky Lynn Laughlin sent nude photos to a teen
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  Speaker 1: over Snapchat in twenty twenty three, along with the video
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  Speaker 1: depicting her engaging in a sexual act. On Thursday, Laughlin
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  Speaker 1: pleaded guilty in Grundy County to first agree in endangering
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  Speaker 1: the welfare of a child with no sexual conduct. She
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  Speaker 1: was subsequently sentenced to five years of probation. Laughlin, who
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  Speaker 1: met the student while she taught at Saint James High School,
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  Speaker 1: was charged in October twenty twenty three for incidents that
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  Speaker 1: happened in both September and October of that year. The
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  Speaker 1: student reportedly told police that things began to escalate quickly
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  Speaker 1: between him and Laughlin, and that she kissed him inside
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  Speaker 1: a classroom. She allegedly pressured him into having sex, but
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  Speaker 1: the victim told police that he made excuses because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel comfortable. She also asked him to send nude
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  Speaker 1: photos of himself and later confirmed that she received them.
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  Speaker 1: The victim said that during the investigation, Laughlin asked him
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  Speaker 1: to delete the material, told him she could face jail time,
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  Speaker 1: and said people at the school had been talking about them.
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  Speaker 1: The student turned over two videos and a photo that
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  Speaker 1: Laughlin sent him to police. Laughlin initially denied the allegations,
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  Speaker 1: but later admitted she communicated with him on Snapchat. When
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  Speaker 1: investigator searched her phone, they found three incriminating videos. Prior
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  Speaker 1: to the Polea, prosecutors had charged Laughlin with statutory rape,
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  Speaker 1: tampering with or attempting to tamper with a victim, and
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  Speaker 1: a felony prosecution, child pornography, possession, sexual exploitation of a minor,
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  Speaker 1: sexual trafficking of a child, and tampering with physical evidence
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  Speaker 1: and a felony prosecution. For the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Sumner.