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Arizona Man Accused of Holding GF Hostage, Torturing Her for Two Weeks | Crime Alert 6AM 07.11.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: I'm sending you somewhere early update and Arizona Man's faces
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  Speaker 1: multiple charges after his girlfriend told police she had escaped
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  Speaker 1: from a shed where he'd held her while assaulting her
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  Speaker 1: for several days. Police received a nine one one call
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  Speaker 1: late in the afternoon on July second from a home
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood where thirty six year old Timothy James
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  Speaker 1: Wood lived. The woman who called said that Wood, her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: had locked her into the shed behind his father's home,
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  Speaker 1: keeping her there by tying a toe strap to her ankle,
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  Speaker 1: chaining the shed's double doors, and stacking bricks outside. She
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  Speaker 1: told police that would beat her when she refused his
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  Speaker 1: sexual advances and forced her to wear makeup to cover
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  Speaker 1: the injuries on her face. He also used an electrical
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  Speaker 1: cord to hit her and cut her foot with a woodsaw.
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  Speaker 1: She further said that he knelt on her neck while
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  Speaker 1: threatening to kill her, and at one point buried her
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  Speaker 1: in a crawl space beneath the shed for two days.
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  Speaker 1: Court documents say she was finally able to escape the
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  Speaker 1: shed through a rear access door that he left unlocked.
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  Speaker 1: She fled to a neighbour's home and called nine one
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  Speaker 1: one police, who responded to the call noted several visible
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  Speaker 1: injuries to her face and other parts of her body,
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  Speaker 1: including bite marks. Hospital staff confirmed other injuries, including a
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  Speaker 1: broken rib. Wood was arrested and charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment,
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  Speaker 1: sexual assault, criminal threats, assault, and aggravated assault. In court,
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  Speaker 1: Wood denied the allegations, claiming the woman just got out
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  Speaker 1: of the looney bin. Investigators, however, said they found evidence
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  Speaker 1: corroborating the victim's story, including toe straps and a mattress
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  Speaker 1: in the shed. A forensic nurse said the woman's injuries
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  Speaker 1: were consistent with her story. Wood was ordered held on
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars cash only bail.
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  Speaker 1: A Nebraska man was denied bond on Monday, days after
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  Speaker 1: he allegedly killed his elderly father with a sword. William
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  Speaker 1: Pay fifty three reportedly admitted to investigators to stabbing his
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  Speaker 1: father Sung Pay eighty five at the family's home in
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  Speaker 1: Omaha on July third. Responding officers found William Pay sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a chair in the living room before locating his
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  Speaker 1: father with stab wounds at the bottom of the stairs
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  Speaker 1: in the basement. Sung Pay was transported to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: but he succumbed to his injuries. Pay allegedly confessed to
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  Speaker 1: attacking his father with a sword during an argument. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: reportedly discovered the weapon in the home. Pay's public defender
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  Speaker 1: claimed their client is reported to have mental health issues. However,
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  Speaker 1: specifics regarding his mental health were not disclosed at monday's
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  Speaker 1: court hearing. Pay, who has a clean criminal record, is
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  Speaker 1: charged with first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 1: He's due back in court on August twelfth. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news After this, new court documents provided additional
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  Speaker 1: details in connection with the death of a one year
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  Speaker 1: old California child who was left inside a hot car
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  Speaker 1: last month, with temperatures that reached one hundred and two
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  Speaker 1: degrees that day. According to ABC thirty, twenty year old
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  Speaker 1: Maya Hernandez is accused of leaving her two children, as
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  Speaker 1: one and two, strapped inside car seats inside her vehicle
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  Speaker 1: as she visited the Always Beautiful med Spat in Baker's
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  Speaker 1: Field on June twenty ninth for a lip injection procedure.
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  Speaker 1: At around four point thirty pm, Hernandez allegedly returned to
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  Speaker 1: her car. A twenty twenty two Toyota Corolla hybrid and
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  Speaker 1: discovered one year old Amelio Gutierras in distress and foaming
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  Speaker 1: at the mouth. A customer took his two year old
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  Speaker 1: brother into a restroom and poured water on his face
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  Speaker 1: while first responders arrived. Although the two year old survived
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  Speaker 1: the incident, Amelia was pronounced dead after failed resuscitation attempts.
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  Speaker 1: Their grandmother, Katie Martinez, is devastated by the loss in
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  Speaker 1: Hernando's's actions.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't stop screaming. I just kept picturing them alone.
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  Speaker 2: They were strapped in their car seats. They couldn't even
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  Speaker 2: get up to save themselves. She literally locked them in
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  Speaker 2: their car seats and shut the doors. I can't even
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  Speaker 2: imagine what they went through.
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez told police that she left the children inside the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle with the air conditioner on, while an employee reportedly
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  Speaker 1: said the children could have stayed in the waiting room
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  Speaker 1: during the procedure. The employee said when booking the appointment,
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez asked if she could bring her children with her,
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  Speaker 1: to which she replied that wouldn't be a problem and
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  Speaker 1: they could stay in the waiting room during her procedure.
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  Speaker 1: A nurse at the spa said that Hernandez made no
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  Speaker 1: mention of the children being with her when she arrived.
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  Speaker 1: A bystander who grabbed the two year old from the
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  Speaker 1: car said that the AC was not turned on. The
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  Speaker 1: vehicle's manufacturer indicated that the air conditioner automatically turns off
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  Speaker 1: after an hour of inactivity. According to what an expert
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  Speaker 1: told Bakersfield police, the lit procedure typically takes around fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty minutes. The police said Hernandez left the children
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  Speaker 1: in the car for over two hours, since the day
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  Speaker 1: in question at the SPA had been unusually busy.
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  Speaker 2: She just stood there with her lips done. That's what
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  Speaker 2: she gives their light. His life for was to have
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  Speaker 2: that on her.
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  Speaker 1: Police said Hernandez failed to check on the children the
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  Speaker 1: entire time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what she was doing. She wasn't like that.
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  Speaker 2: She was a really loving mom. She those boys loved her.
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  Speaker 2: They really loved her, and they relied on her.
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  Speaker 1: On July seventh, Hernandez pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and
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  Speaker 1: not guilty to two counts of willful cruelty to a child.
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  Speaker 1: She remains behind bars at the Kern County Jail on
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  Speaker 1: a one million dollar bond. She's due back in court Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Grandmother Martinez has a warning for other parents.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you just take twenty minutes out of
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  Speaker 2: your day and go in your car and sit in
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  Speaker 2: your car and feel how it feels, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing that will teach you how to know
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  Speaker 2: what a kid feels, because I've done it like four
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  Speaker 2: or five times already, and it's crazy now.
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  Speaker 1: In San Antonio, another manslaughter investigation is underway after a
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  Speaker 1: five year old boy was reportedly forgotten in a hot
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  Speaker 1: car and died. Aiden Martinez was found deceased in a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle outside Pinnacle Kids, a cain aatmy in San Antonio.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Police Chief William McManus said the boy's twenty two
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  Speaker 1: year old mother thought she dropped him off at school,
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  Speaker 1: but she had left him in the back seat while working.
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  Speaker 1: Martinez's mother worked near the boy's preschool. She is believed
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  Speaker 1: to have driven to the preschool to pick up her son,
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  Speaker 1: unaware that he had been in her car the whole day.
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  Speaker 1: That afternoon, Martinez's mother learned from preschool staff that she
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  Speaker 1: had not dropped him off that morning. The boy was
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  Speaker 1: discovered in the vehicle shortly after. Police are investigating whether
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  Speaker 1: Martinez was accidentally or intentionally left in the car. He
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  Speaker 1: is the fifteenth child to die in a hot car
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  Speaker 1: this year. According to No Heat Stroke, thirty nine children
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  Speaker 1: died in hot cars in twenty twenty four. For the
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  Speaker 1: with this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.