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Crime Alert 12.18.24 | Man Who Shot Mother In Front of Two Young Children Apprehended In Mexico · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Gray's breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: Joanna Peka agrees to meet her ex boyfriend Benjamin Williams
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  Speaker 2: in a public place so he can see their infant son.
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  Speaker 2: They set a cemetery in Saint Pete, Florida for the meet.
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  Speaker 2: She chats with Williams for the front seat of her
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  Speaker 2: car while holding their son her two year old daughter
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  Speaker 2: in the back seat. Suddenly, ben Williams pulls a gun,
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  Speaker 2: shooting Joanna in the face multiple times and takes off.
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  Speaker 2: She's found dead, the children unharmed. Williams evades police for
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  Speaker 2: years until a TikTok user recognizes him in a video.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy a TikTok user came across a short clip from
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  Speaker 3: a newscast regarding Williams and the murder of Johanna Pica.
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  Speaker 3: That's when they realize they recognize Williams and knew he
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  Speaker 3: was living in Mexico. US Marshalls find Williams in Mexico
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  Speaker 3: and extradited him to Miami, where he's now locked up
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  Speaker 3: in the Pinellas County jail. Pika's family expressed relief over
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  Speaker 3: the arrest, saying three years is too long, but they
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  Speaker 3: can finally rest, knowing that Williams is behind bars where
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  Speaker 3: he belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Benjamin Williams, forty one, finally behind bars for murder and
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  Speaker 2: child abuse. Mackenzie Keelling, thirty one, orders lunch to go
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  Speaker 2: for her family out of Florida raising canes, but drives
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  Speaker 2: away from the restaurant before realizing she's missing all eight
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  Speaker 2: of the famous cane.
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  Speaker 1: Sauces in her order.
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  Speaker 2: She turns around in demandstaff hand over her sauce, and
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  Speaker 2: employee apologizes and quickly provides a sauce. But Killing believes
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  Speaker 2: she is owed extra for quote wasted time and gas
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  Speaker 2: manager Tatiana Abear refuses the freebies, so Keelling attacks her.
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  Speaker 2: Of course she does, hitting Herbert in the leg and
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  Speaker 2: tries to rip Herbert's id and keys off her lanyard.
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  Speaker 1: Cops are called.
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  Speaker 2: Mackenzie Keelling, now facing felony robbery charges for the saucy skirmish,
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  Speaker 2: to talk about raising caine more crime and justice news
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  Speaker 2: after this now the latest crime and does his breaking
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  Speaker 2: these crime allied John Lemley.
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  Speaker 4: A major development in the Gilgo Beach murder case. New
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  Speaker 4: York architect Rex Huerman, already charged with killing six women,
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  Speaker 4: now faces charges in the death of a seventh. Twenty
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  Speaker 4: four year old Valerie Mack. Max's remains were discovered in
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  Speaker 4: two Long Island locations, initially in two thousand and later
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  Speaker 4: in Gilgo Beach more than a decade later. DNA testing
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  Speaker 4: identified her in twenty twenty, and prosecutors now claim hare
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  Speaker 4: found with her remains links to Huermann's daughter, though she
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  Speaker 4: is not implicated. Huerman denies all charges. His defense argues
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  Speaker 4: the DNA evidence is unreliable and disputes any connection to
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  Speaker 4: the crime. Scenes. Investigators allege huerman meticulously plan the murders,
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  Speaker 4: citing recovered documents and evidence tying him to the victims.
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  Speaker 4: Authorities continue to examine unsolved cases linked to the Gilgo
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  Speaker 4: Beach investigation, which began in twenty ten with the discovery
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  Speaker 4: of multiple remains along a barrier island. As San Francisco
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  Speaker 4: jury has convicted forty year old tech consultant Nimo MoManI
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  Speaker 4: of second degree murder in the stabbing death of Bob Lee,
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  Speaker 4: the founder of cash app Here's Crime Online Sidney Sumner
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  Speaker 4: with details.
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  Speaker 3: The verdict, delivered after seven days of deliberation, carries a
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  Speaker 3: potential sentence of sixteen years to life in prison. Lee
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  Speaker 3: a forty three year old tech innovator, was found gravely
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  Speaker 3: injured in the early morning hours of April fourth, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three. Staggering along a deserted street near San Francisco's
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  Speaker 3: Bay Bridge. He left a trail of blood while calling
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  Speaker 3: for help. He succumbed to his injury shortly after being
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  Speaker 3: taken to a hospital. Prosecutors described the attack as premeditated,
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  Speaker 3: alleging that Momane drove Lee to an isolated area and
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  Speaker 3: fatally stabbed him three times with a kitchen knife. Investigators
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  Speaker 3: say the incidents stemmed from Momanie's anger over Lee's interactions
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  Speaker 3: with his younger sister. According to testimony, Momanie believed Lee
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  Speaker 3: had introduced his sister to a drug dealer who provided
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  Speaker 3: her with narcotics, including GHB, before allegedly assaulting her. MoManI, however,
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  Speaker 3: took the stand in his defense, claiming the confrontation was
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  Speaker 3: sparked by Lee's irritation when Momanie urged him to focus
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  Speaker 3: on family instead of nightlife. Momiane, who was martial arts training,
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  Speaker 3: asserted that he acted in self defense after Lee attacked
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  Speaker 3: him with a knife. He claimed he was unaware Lee
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  Speaker 3: had been seriously injured. The high profile case captured national attention,
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  Speaker 3: partly due to Lee's prominence in the tech industry. Lee,
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  Speaker 3: who had relocated to Miami, was known as the creator
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  Speaker 3: of the widely used mobile payment service cash App, and
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  Speaker 3: served as the chief product officer of mobile Coin, a
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  Speaker 3: cryptocurrency company.
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  Speaker 4: Momaionie, who has been in custody since his arrest in
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  Speaker 4: April twenty twenty three, will remain behind bars as he
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  Speaker 4: awaits sentencing.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Tom Investigators.
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  Speaker 2: As sim Cynthia Wilkins, a beloved teacher, dies and a
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  Speaker 2: terrible fire starting in her apartment and destroying the entire Fulton,
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  Speaker 2: Illinois complex. Her car still parked outside and the charred
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  Speaker 2: remains of her purse and wallet found inside the unit.
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  Speaker 2: Extensive searches turn up no evidence of her remains. Cynthia
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  Speaker 2: last seen entering the building ten hours before the fire
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  Speaker 2: breaks out. Search dogs follow her scent through downtown Fulton
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  Speaker 2: and lose it at the entrance of the North Bridge
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  Speaker 2: crossing the Mississippi River to Iowa. Cynthia Wilkins fifty one
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  Speaker 2: five two, one hundred and sixty pounds, short brown hair,
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  Speaker 2: hazel eyes. She wears bronze oval shaped glasses and often
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  Speaker 2: wears stacked gold rings. If you have info on Cynthia Wilkins,
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  Speaker 2: called Fulton, Illinois PD. Eight one five five eight nine
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