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Grandfather Tries to Kill Man Responsible for Grandchildren's death | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 05.10.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
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  Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the bat allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed
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  Speaker 1: door meeting, he first named it a homicide. Why what
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  Speaker 1: happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.
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  Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Crime Art hourly update,
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  Speaker 1: Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jackie Howard. Mark Bauckner stands near the Danville, Indiana
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  Speaker 2: Courthouse as two Hendrix County deputies began escorting inmates from
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  Speaker 2: a transport van. The sixty five year old reveals a
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  Speaker 2: concealed weapon, a handgun. He fires at least once toward
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  Speaker 2: the group of inmates and officers. Two deputies returned fire,
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  Speaker 2: striking Vautner, who died there. No one else is injured.
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  Speaker 2: Indiana State Police take over the investigation and revealed the
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  Speaker 2: intended target thought to be on that transport had had
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  Speaker 2: his court date postponed. That intended victim was Saddani Pettus,
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  Speaker 2: who killed Aukner's young grandchildren in a fiery car crash
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  Speaker 2: during a police chase in February. While trying to evade
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  Speaker 2: the police, Petas twenty five slammed the stolen Honda Civic
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  Speaker 2: he was driving into a Ford Explorer containing Vaultner's three
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  Speaker 2: year old and two month old grandchildren. The Explorer was
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  Speaker 2: being driven by their dad, and it exploded in a
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  Speaker 2: fireball in the crash. The two deputies involved in the
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  Speaker 2: deadly shooting were placed on administrative leave. More crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice news after this, I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 3: A Texas mother is arrested after police find her seven
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  Speaker 3: year old daughter locked in a closet and starving, leading
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  Speaker 3: to the discovery that another daughter has been missing for
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  Speaker 3: seven years. Austin police responded to a call from a
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  Speaker 3: grandmother who found her seven year old daughter, quote malnourished, soiled,
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  Speaker 3: and barricaded in a bedroom closet. The girl weighed just
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine pounds and told hospital staff quote, my bones hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Police say she had been locked in the closet for
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  Speaker 3: a month and was only fed a corn dog or
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  Speaker 3: hot dog twice a day, along with half a cup
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  Speaker 3: of water. The closet had no light, no ventilation, and
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  Speaker 3: was blocked by boxes that weighed at least seventy five pounds.
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  Speaker 3: The child's mother, Virginia Marie Gonzalez, aged thirty three, was
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  Speaker 3: arrested and charged with serious injury to a child. Six
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  Speaker 3: other children were found in the home and appeared to
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  Speaker 3: be healthy, but when investigators began checking on all the
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  Speaker 3: children in Gonzalez's custody, they found that one was missing,
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  Speaker 3: nine year old Ava Marie Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 4: Austin Police Department's Missing person detectives are seriously concerned about
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  Speaker 4: Ava's welfare circumstances in which Ava's seven year old sibling
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  Speaker 4: was found. Did you have any information, please come forward.
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  Speaker 4: We are not trying to get anyone in trouble. We're
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  Speaker 4: in trying to ensure everyone's safety.
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  Speaker 3: Detective Russell Constable says Ava has not been seen by
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  Speaker 3: family or friends since December of twenty seventeen, when she
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  Speaker 3: was two and still in her mother's care. She was
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  Speaker 3: never reported missing. Police only learned that she was unaccounted
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  Speaker 3: for during the investigation into her younger sister's abuse. Virginia
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  Speaker 3: Gonzalez has given quote unquote conflicting information to family members
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  Speaker 3: about Ava's whereabouts. Police say Ava's father has not been identified.
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  Speaker 3: None of the children in Gonzalez's home were enrolled in school,
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  Speaker 3: according to police. They released a photo at age two
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  Speaker 3: and an age progressed rendering showing what she might look
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  Speaker 3: like now at age nine. She is Hispanic, with straight
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  Speaker 3: brown hair and brown eyes. Weight and height unknown. Anyone
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  Speaker 3: with information about Ava's whereabouts has urged to email Ava
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  Speaker 3: at Austin, Texas dot gov or call crime stoppers anonymously
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  Speaker 3: five one two, five seven, two eighty four seventy seven.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to leave your name.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Jennifer Goold. A horrifying discovery in a family's Alabama
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  Speaker 5: backyard has brought a missing childcase to a grim conclusion,
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  Speaker 5: revealing shocking details of alleged abuse and neglect. This neighbor
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  Speaker 5: spoke to ABC thirty three forty.
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  Speaker 6: I was just praying that I could find the little
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  Speaker 6: fella's knotty where they could put him, to put him
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  Speaker 6: to reis.
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  Speaker 5: The Fayette County Sheriff's Office announced that human remains believed
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  Speaker 5: to be those of one year old Caleb Collins, were
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  Speaker 5: found charred in a burn pilot the family's Highway one
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  Speaker 5: twenty nine residents. The announcement follows months of searches and
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  Speaker 5: paints a disturbing picture of the Toddlers' final days. Fayette
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  Speaker 5: County Sheriff Byron Yearby called it quote heartbreaking as forensic
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  Speaker 5: teams work to confirm the toddler's identity. The horror surfaced
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  Speaker 5: after a December eighth, twenty twenty four car crash that
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  Speaker 5: killed Caleb's father, Stephen Collins forty, and sister Riley iiO. Stephen,
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  Speaker 5: driving it ninety two miles per hour on a slick road,
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  Speaker 5: smashed into a tree, ejecting everyone. Wendy Bailey twenty three.
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  Speaker 5: Caleb's mom survived with injuries, Riley, unrestrained in a car seat,
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  Speaker 5: died instantly. Caleb's absence from the wreck raised red flags
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  Speaker 5: because he hadn't been seen since September fourth, and no
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  Speaker 5: one realized he was missing until the crash. Court filings
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  Speaker 5: lay bare a stomach churning tail. Stephen, the main abuser,
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  Speaker 5: allegedly tied Caleb with rope, battered him, and hung him
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  Speaker 5: from a ceiling. In July of twenty twenty four, he
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  Speaker 5: texted Wendy photos of Caleb, bloodied and dangling, writing quote,
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  Speaker 5: he won't move end quote. Wendy's chilling reply quote he
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  Speaker 5: just looks wore out end quote. She admitted Caleb's body
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  Speaker 5: was bagged, stored, and later dumped. Charged with aggravated child abuse,
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  Speaker 5: domestic violence, abuse of a corpse, and criminally negligent homicide
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  Speaker 5: for Riley's death. Wendy faces a one point eight million
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  Speaker 5: dollar bond, but prosecutors are seeking to hold her without
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  Speaker 5: bail under Anaya's Law, which allows for a denial of
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  Speaker 5: bond for certain violent offenses. John Bailey, fifty five, Caleb's
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  Speaker 5: grandfather and household resident, is also charged with aggravated child abuse,
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  Speaker 5: domestic violence, abuse of a corpse, and hindering prosecution. He
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  Speaker 5: allegedly zip tied Little Caleb to objects, struck him, and
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  Speaker 5: failed to report his absence. Prosecutors are also seeking to
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  Speaker 5: hold him without bail under Anaya's law. Arraignment for both
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  Speaker 5: is set for August seventh. Neighbors reportedly rarely saw little
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  Speaker 5: Caleb with Stephen, claiming he was with relatives. A November
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  Speaker 5: Facebook post by Stephen falsely suggested Caleb needed surgery. The
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  Speaker 5: Alabama Department of Human Resources had prior family contact, but
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  Speaker 5: details remained sealed.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Nicole Parton, a grandmother in Georgia, was reportedly murdered
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  Speaker 6: by an unknown assailant who followed her from a local
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  Speaker 6: Dollar General to her home, ultimately choking her to death
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  Speaker 6: by applying his full weight on her neck while she
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  Speaker 6: lay on the ground. Family members and police have described
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  Speaker 6: the crime as quote horrific and mind blowing. The suspect,
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  Speaker 6: twenty one year old Hector Revas, is accused of killing
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  Speaker 6: fifty two year old Camellia Williams sometime between eleven pm
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  Speaker 6: on March twelve and one am on March thirteen, As
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  Speaker 6: detailed in an arrest warrant obtained by an Atlanta affiliate
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  Speaker 6: of ABC WSB, Authorities in Cobb County alleged that Revas
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  Speaker 6: strangled Williams before abandoning her body in a yard near
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  Speaker 6: her residence in Marietta, where it was discovered the following
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  Speaker 6: Thursday morning, leaving her family in disbelieve. Camillia's brother, in
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  Speaker 6: an interview with w SB, spoke about the devastation of
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  Speaker 6: losing his sister, except.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard to believe that this is really truly happened,
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  Speaker 2: and I just really absorber right now.
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  Speaker 6: According to the victim's brother and other family members. Camellia,
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  Speaker 6: a native of Louisiana, contacted a relative the night before
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  Speaker 6: her death expressing concern that a man believed to be
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  Speaker 6: Reeves was following her. She didn't know him, stated Tony Williams,
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  Speaker 6: her brother. The night prior, while at the dollar store,
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  Speaker 6: she informed one of my nieces a man was telling
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  Speaker 6: me followed me home, she believed. Law enforcement has indicated
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  Speaker 6: that the suspect has yet to provide a motive, but
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  Speaker 6: has confessed to the crime. He reportedly detailed the incident
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  Speaker 6: to investigators, stating he used his knees during the attack
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  Speaker 6: after struggling to apply a chokehold. I can't fathom what
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  Speaker 6: would drive someone to commit such an act of violence,
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  Speaker 6: said Danielle Williams, Camilla's niece, when speaking to local NBC
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  Speaker 6: affiliate WXIA. What he did was truly horrific. It's mind blowing,
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  Speaker 6: she said. Rivs is currently in custody facing charges of
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  Speaker 6: felony murder. He has been denied bail and is awaiting
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  Speaker 6: the next court appearance for the latest crime injustice news,
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  Speaker 6: with this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Partner