Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 02.24.25 | Woman Killed by BF Over Haircut
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace Breaking Crimes Now. Carmen Martinez Silva
- 0:05Speaker 1: shows off a new haircut to boyfriend Benjamin Garcia, but
- 0:08Speaker 1: he threatens to hurt her for quite ruining her hair.
- 0:11Speaker 1: She spends the night at her daughter's home and goes
- 0:13Speaker 1: to her brother Louis's home for advice. The next morning,
- 0:16Speaker 1: Soon after Carmen arrives, boyfriend Garcia shows up looking for her.
- 0:21Speaker 1: When Louise tells him she's not there, Garcia stabs him repeatedly.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Carmen rushes out and tries to stop Garcia, he starts
- 0:29Speaker 1: stabbing her too. By the time cops arrive, Carmen Martinez
- 0:33Speaker 1: Silva is dead, her brother severely injured.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Nancy Carman goes to her brother's house seeking a friend
- 0:39Speaker 2: of Garcia's, Hector Burgos. Carmen tells Burgos to relate to
- 0:43Speaker 2: Garcia that their relationship is over. Burgos then leaves to
- 0:46Speaker 2: find Garcia, but Garcia isn't home or answering his phone.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Because Garcia is attempting to locate Carmen and already on
- 0:54Speaker 2: the way to her brothers. After the attack on Carmen
- 0:57Speaker 2: and Luis, Garcia is found standing outside the home knife
- 1:00Speaker 2: still in hand.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Benjamin Garcia forty three, now charged with murder, attempted murder,
- 1:06Speaker 1: ag assault, and endangerment over a haircut. Texas cops try
- 1:12Speaker 1: to pull over Terrren had Not, who's behind the wheel
- 1:15Speaker 1: of a stolen suv. Instead, he hits the gas, leading
- 1:18Speaker 1: a chase at over one hundred miles an hour. When
- 1:21Speaker 1: he runs out of gas, he flees the car on foot, predictable,
- 1:25Speaker 1: heading into a field. He shows off his acrobatic skills
- 1:28Speaker 1: when he front flips over a fence and keeps running,
- 1:32Speaker 1: but by the time he crosses the field and officers
- 1:34Speaker 1: waiting on the other side, Terran had Not twenty nine quiet,
- 1:39Speaker 1: a gymnast, now charged with evading arrest and unauthorized use
- 1:43Speaker 1: off a car.
- 1:44Speaker 3: More crime and Justice news after this.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news crime
- 1:53Speaker 1: Online is John Limley.
- 1:54Speaker 3: A Colorado dentist already charged with poisoning his wife, now
- 1:58Speaker 3: faces new allegations, this time for allegedly trying to arrange
- 2:02Speaker 3: multiple murders from behind bars. During a court hearing, Prosecutors
- 2:07Speaker 3: said James Craig offered a fellow inmate twenty thousand dollars
- 2:10Speaker 3: to kill Aurora police detective Bobby Olsen, calling her the worst,
- 2:15Speaker 3: dirtiest detective. He allegedly made similar offers to have a
- 2:19Speaker 3: police officer and two inmates killed. Prosecutors also claim Craig
- 2:24Speaker 3: sent letters to the ex wife of his cellmate offering
- 2:27Speaker 3: money for false testimony, specifically to say that his wife,
- 2:31Speaker 3: Angela Craig, had planned to die by suicide. Defense attorneys
- 2:36Speaker 3: argued there's no proof Craig wrote those letters. A judge
- 2:40Speaker 3: rule there is enough evidence to move forward with new
- 2:43Speaker 3: charges solicitation to commit murder and perjury, adding to the
- 2:47Speaker 3: first degree murder charge. Craig already faces. Angela Craig, a
- 2:51Speaker 3: forty three year old mother of six, died in March
- 2:54Speaker 3: twenty twenty three after ingesting cyanide and a chemical found
- 2:58Speaker 3: in eye drops. Gregg has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
- 3:03Speaker 3: A shocking murder case in upstate New York, five people
- 3:06Speaker 3: now charged in the brutal killing of a transgender man.
- 3:10Speaker 3: Authorities call it one of the worst crimes they've ever seen.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Our correspondent Sidney Sumner has more on this story.
- 3:17Speaker 2: New York State police say twenty four year old Sam Nordquist,
- 3:20Speaker 2: originally from Minnesota, endured more than a month of torture
- 3:24Speaker 2: before his body was dumped in a field. Nordquist had
- 3:27Speaker 2: traveled to New York in September and was last known
- 3:29Speaker 2: to be staying at Patti's Lodge motel in Canandagua. He
- 3:33Speaker 2: was reported missing on February ninth after losing contact with
- 3:36Speaker 2: his family. Major Kevin Suker, who leads the state police
- 3:39Speaker 2: troop in the Finger Lakes region, called the case beyond
- 3:42Speaker 2: depraved and by far the worst his office has ever investigated.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Five suspects, thirty eight year old Precious Arzuaga, thirty year
- 3:50Speaker 2: old Patrick Goodwin, thirty three year old Kyle Sage, thirty
- 3:53Speaker 2: year old Jennifer Keihano, and nineteen year old Emily Motika,
- 3:57Speaker 2: were arrested after police searched a room at the motel.
- 4:00Speaker 2: They are charged with second degree murder and remaining custody.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Captain Kelly Swift, head of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation,
- 4:06Speaker 2: says police are still working to determine the suspect's relationships
- 4:10Speaker 2: with Nordquist and each.
- 4:11Speaker 3: Other authorities have not ruled out hate crime charges. The
- 4:15Speaker 3: investigation is ongoing.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Thanks John Amanda Martin, forty shares her Blotcher, Indiana home
- 4:21Speaker 1: with a close friend and sends them to the store
- 4:22Speaker 1: for groceries Friday afternoon. When he gets back an hour later,
- 4:26Speaker 1: she's not home and the house is a mess. An
- 4:29Speaker 1: ac unit is even ripped from the window. Amanda's roommate
- 4:33Speaker 1: tries to call her, but here's the phone ringing from
- 4:36Speaker 1: her room. Her purse, clothes, even her dentures are still there.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Deputies use dogs, drones, boats to search nearby areas. They
- 4:45Speaker 1: drain a local pond no trace of Amanda Martin, mother
- 4:49Speaker 1: of two. Amanda's tall and thin, long brown hair, hazel eyes,
- 4:54Speaker 1: freckles on her face. If you have info on Amanda Martin,
- 4:58Speaker 1: please call Scott County in Diana Sheriffs eight one two
- 5:02Speaker 1: seven five two fifty five five zero. For the latest
- 5:07Speaker 1: crime instice needs, go to crimeonline dot com and please
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- 5:14Speaker 1: and we do our very best to find missing people,
- 5:17Speaker 1: especially children, and solved unsolved homicides with this crime alert.
- 5:22Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace