Crime Wire Weekly 10/23/26 | Laken Snelling Sentenced, Chainsaw Carnage, & the People’s Court Murder

0:16 Hey, everyone. Welcome back to CrimeWire Weekly. A look at some of the topics. I'm not going to give you all of the topics because that's been kind of, I mean, it's been taking a little while longer than normal. Hit them with the highlights. I'm going to give you some surprises this episode. You're not going to get all of them, but some highlights. A man has been extradited to Louisiana after a horrific online exploitation case has come to a wrap after two months of Terrible case that we're going to talk about there. In Alabama, a double chainsaw killing. You know? In October, close to Halloween. It's terrifying. Which is a strange sequence of events. It didn't have anything to do with this case, but I found it ironic.

1:03 I was going to say, it's an unfortunate event. Yeah, it's like a real-life horror movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kentucky cheerleader Lakin Snelling has been sentenced. We're going to talk about that. The People's Court Killer has been caught after 10 years on the run. We're going to tell you all about that story and a ton of other stuff today. Of course, we've got lustful lawbreakers. We've even got an utterly unrelated that's a pretty unbelievable story today. Bringing you all that, welcome to CrimeWire Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman. And I'm Kelly Jennings. I'm that woman. As I was referred to. That girl. That girl. Sally. That girl. You got to be our age bracket to know what that means. That was a great song back in the day.

1:47 Hey, but if you're listening right now, I do want you to know you really missed out because before he hit play, we were beatboxing. Yeah. Our attempts at it on their own. We'll spare you our excellence, but. Yeah, that's right. All right. So let's get into it, Kelly Jennings. Unless you got any thoughts you want to. No thoughts in my head whatsoever. Yeah. I do want to thank everybody for wishing me a happy birthday. I know Kelly had posted on something. It might have been your regular unspeakable page. I did. Thank you so much, y'all. How old are you? I appreciate it. 52. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You're going to be there one day. I like hanging out with my elders, bro. It makes me feel very— I'm 52, but I act 22. It's all good. That's right. All right, let's get into today's podcast. We're going to start out in Plaquemine, Louisiana, and Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi stood with state and federal partners. He had a press conference. This was just this past Tuesday, and he talked about a 31-year-old Florida man as the suspect in a multi-agency child exploitation investigation that started with One local parent's discovery of suspicious activity on a child's device. Imagine that. Timothy Barnes of Fort Myers faces 27 counts, y'all, of production of child CSAM material involving a child under 13.

3:14 So this is a little one. Under 13. Disgusting. One count of computer-aided solicitation of a minor and one count of indecent behavior with juveniles. All 29 charges relate to a single 12-year-old Iberville Parish girl. Barnes was arrested in Florida. This was on September 29th. He was just extradited yesterday, as of this recording, to Louisiana. where he was booked into the Iberville Parish Jail. And get this, $ 1 million bond. As it should be. Yeah. That's a predator. Tells you how serious this is. That is a predator. The investigation started when the girl's mother noticed something unusual on her daughter's online activity, and she contacted authorities. Sheriff Stassi repeatedly credited that action as the turning point. Quote, in this case, a vigilant parent noticed something suspicious and actually reported it. That parent's involvement is what started the ball rolling on the predator being put behind bars. Now, the FBI's New Orleans field office later recognized the mother as well, stating her quick report will no doubt end up helping her child and other victims across the country. Well, yeah.

4:28 So that tells you that there's apparently other victims. I wouldn't doubt it anyway, even if they didn't have an inkling on this, you know. Very rarely is it just one time. Right. From there, local investigators determined the activity extended beyond Iberville Parish. They brought in the Louisiana State Police, the FBI's Violent Crimes Unit, even the popular, I guess popular is the wrong word, but the organization, and it slipped my mind, Kelly, that all the sheriffs in the state of Louisiana. Are a part of, Louisiana Sheriff's Association? No. Directly related to childhood, children and all of that when they get CSAM materials.

5:11 Like the ICAC teams? That's exactly right. Oh, okay. Internet Crimes Against Children. So that organization also got involved and local investigators determined the activity extended far beyond this parish. They brought in Louisiana State Police, as I said, and according to authorities, Barnes used multiple online platforms to contact and manipulate this 12-year-old girl into creating and producing sexual content. He was three states away at the time. Investigators say 27 production counts reflect multiple separate instances involving just this one victim. 27 counts.

5:54 Tony Clayton, who is the district attorney in West Baton Rouge Parish. And the prosecutor in Derek Todd Lee, if you follow that series. That, yeah. That's right. Unbelievable guy. Also the defender of the guys in college football that are actually fighting the fact that they were pros and all that. He is the head attorney. Tony's a cool dude if you've never looked him up, by the way. Very cool, awesome guy. Been in the studio before. Super cool guy. Tony Clayton described the evidence in stark terms at a press conference, saying the images were taken in the darkest place of your mind. It's a disgusting display of what he did to our children. Whatever you can imagine, that's what he did, and even worse. Clayton, who has roughly 35 years of experience, called it one of the worst cases he's seen. For that guy to say that?

6:45 Right. Holy smokes. He added that the formal charges don't do the facts justice and vowed the case would be prioritized. Stassi called Barnes one of the most vicious predators you're ever going to meet. Said the investigation was putting a name and a face on a boogeyman our parents warned us about and noted the distance provided zero protection. Distance offered no protection to this young child. Officials said the case is far from closed. Stassi told reporters he expects the investigation to identify additional victims, lead to more arrests in more jurisdictions. And he said if convicted on the production counts alone, he could face a sentence of 25 years to life on each of those 27 charges. Stassi told parents locking, locking your doors and windows is no longer enough. You can patrol every street in this parish, lock every door, every window. The internet allows predators into our home. He urged parents to monitor social media, gaming platforms, messaging apps, and other online activity and look beyond screen time limits. So, uh, Look, this guy was doing a lot of horrific things. I didn't get into a whole lot of it. But everything up to and including trying to get her to kill herself.

8:09 Right. How sick is that? It's beyond. Look at this. Piece of shit. I know. I know. I'm showing a picture of Kelly right now. He looks like a little punk. He is, and he's going to get his. Just wait. He's going to get punk. He's going to be a punk. But the way that they worded this tells me so much. When they say the deepest corner of your mind, that's where this went. The way they worded that, I think they nailed it. Because obviously we haven't seen any of this imagery or anything like that. But this guy went to the core with this kid. Grooming of a child does not have to be in person. It can start online. Often does. Often does. And then you've got to think about the mindset of this victim, 12 years old. I don't have case facts in front of me. I'm just going off of knowledge from, you know. a long time looking at these cases and what starts out as trying to befriend this kid then turns obviously into sexual stuff but I bet you I would be willing to bet my paycheck there were threats involved in this and that kid felt that she could not manage at this point but it had gotten too far to be able to tell her parents because of the embarrassment or whatever and thank God for that parent who got involved looked in that device and said oh no no no no because you cannot expect a 12 year old mind to think like an adult mind and um you know my my daughter was talking to my dad last night matter of fact she got it we got her new cell phone and she came downstairs and said daddy we were sitting there daddy

9:40 my phone's not working and he goes what do you mean it's brand new and she turned it around and there was an alert on it that's that stopped the phone call and i think it's a new thing on the new phone i have to i haven't had time to look up what exactly the the the feature is But it stopped the phone call, put an alert on the screen, and it froze it. And it said um something to the effect of um uh scary activity may be uh involved in this convert in a conversation and she had to bring yeah and she brought the phone and we looked at it and my they were. Just was she talking to someone she was. Talking my dad but they were talking about something that was not scary in like on its face but i guess maybe it was um it could have been interpreted that way or something.

10:22 It was weird. I don't know what the features, that's what I'm telling you. I have not researched. I'm going to have to look at what it was, but this is a new iPhone, brand new, brand new iPhone. I know. I was like, my phone's going to probably implode if it looks at what I've got on it. But I thought it was very interesting that, wow. Okay. What is this? So we're going to look into that. The phone was on speaker. They weren't talking anything crazy. So I'm not sure what alerted it. I don't know if maybe his TV, he listened to the TV loud. And I don't know if maybe it picked up what the TV was saying on a, because he was listening to like the news or something. And it, I don't know what it was, but the good, the best advice I would give a parent is, To say. To them, don't give your kid a fine.

11:03 Well, yeah, it would be. But when your kids have practice and all this kind of stuff and you got to be in touch with them, but you can mitigate that as a parent. But what I like to think is good advice is to tell your kids, look, I get it. You know, you want to have freedoms, but you need to be smart enough to recognize that the second you feel like whatever has happened needs to be hidden from me. That is the moment that you need to come to me. Yeah. The moment you feel you need to hide it or it's scary to you or you don't know what to do with it, that's when you come to me and I will help you. You're not in trouble. I will help you. Well, that's right. That's good advice. And, you know, the issue here now is AI. They're making new pictures of these kids. And then they're sending them to the kids and saying, I'm going to tell your mom and send this to all your classmates. And they're not going to know this ain't really you. So unless you do what I say, this is what's going to happen. 762 group is very infamous for doing that and causing these girls and guys to like cut themselves and do all this crazy shit. And in this case, it's despicable. I hope this there ain't. There ain't much I wouldn't do to this guy if I got my hands on him sick.

12:17 He doesn't deserve to be breathing oxygen, in my opinion. Put your hands on him. Or all this shit to a 12-year-old kid. Sorry. Right. No, I'm with you 100%. And this could have been so much worse. That's the scariest part. This could have been so much worse. That child could have ended her life. Yeah. It happens. Yeah. Yeah. So be in your kid's business, obviously. And to this fella, good riddance. You deserve everything you've got coming. And I know with Tony Clayton on the case, your ass is grass. All right, let's take it on to Alabama. And Mobile police have arrested a 47-year-old man accused of killing his aunt and his grandmother. with a chainsaw inside a West Mobile home. Thomas Steele was detained at the scene and charged with two counts of capital murder after officers responded to a death investigation. Officers found two women dead inside the residence. So court documents allege that Steele used a chainsaw to decapitate his victims. His aunt was 65-year-old Christy Deloach, and his grandmother was 85-year-old Dora Boone. Police initially described the weapon as a, quote-unquote, bladed instrument used to intentionally cause the deaths of two family members. And Steele did live with these two women. He made his first appearance last Tuesday or this past Tuesday, really, where a judge ordered a mental competency evaluation to the Alabama Department of Mental Health. And he was denied bond. The evaluation could take 30 to 90 days. And when told he would be appointed a public defender, Steele spoke up and he responded, no,

13:51 kill him before being escorted from the courtroom. So Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood said prosecutors are prepared to pursue the case regardless of the competency findings, saying over the years I've heard a lot in the courtroom. This is a case that we are prepared to prosecute whichever path it goes. Additional evaluations may address Steele's mental state at the time of the killings. But real quick before I finish this, I don't care what his mental state was at the time of the killings. You took a chainsaw to two people. You know what I mean? Like, I know we got to do that. I know there's procedures and all that, but I'm just saying, would it matter? Would it even matter if you were crazy? You know? I mean... I wish not. I know. Apparently it does.

14:34 Well, I mean, yeah, of course it does. People get out of prison all the time. I know. I know. But I'm just saying in the big scheme of things, I get why he's saying, look, we don't care what happens. We're going through with this. We will prosecute this to the fullest extent. But a 911 call made the morning of the incident indicated that Steele was not taking his lithium medication and was behaving erratically, giving away his phone and car and saying he was just going to live for the Lord. Or for God. He was just going to live for God. A neighbor described the victims as kind people who often worked in their yard and said Steele stood out in the neighborhood, rarely making eye contact or waving. Deloach, who was a hairstylist, had worked at a local salon for more than 15 years and was remembered by her employer as a beautiful person and friend. The salon owner said she had previously mentioned that Steele had bipolar disorder.

15:22 You know, I don't know what we're going to what we're going to do about this in this country relative to every, you know, I've got 400 cases of bloody Angola that I've covered. Just a plethora on my other podcast, Exposed, where the system is totally bogged down because everybody that kills somebody they do this mental evaluation. And this is not a one-day process. This is years. Years. That's why we get the backlog that we get in this country. I mean, clearly, if somebody's going to cut someone's head off with a chainsaw or two people and do all these horrific things, they got mental problems. There's something wrong with them. I agree. They're freaking crazy. You don't have to evaluate them. I'll tell you. That sucker's crazy. Anybody that kills somebody with a chainsaw is crazy.

16:19 And if they were alive when he started doing this dismemberment, you know what I'm trying to say? Like if he chased them with that chainsaw, can you imagine? It's horrific. But I don't know what the answer is because this is happening all the time now. You got mothers killing their kids like the case we just covered. Lindsay Clancy. That you just covered on Unspeakable, Lindsay Clancy. Yeah. It seems like they're on the perpetrator's side rather than the victim's, some people, because they had mental issues when they did it. Yeah. So, okay, to be clear, though, we're not saying we should not be following the Constitution. You know, we should do all of these things so that they can hold them accountable. We're not saying— I' m not saying skip over the whole process.

17:04 I don't think you should skip over the process. But it's clear. It seems like everybody uses that now as a backup. This guy was apparently on lithium, which tells me he had an issue prior to this where he's probably got some mental issues. I don't debate it. Yeah. Okay. But here's the thing. This is where I think that there's a big breakdown in the country. So let's say that he had these mental health issues his whole life. I'm not saying he did, but let's just say he did. You've got an aunt and you've got a grandmother, at least in your life. I don't know about his mother, but you've got these people in your life. Let's say that they're helping to medicate you. They're helping to keep you on track. They're taking you to appointments because they have custody of you. But then when you become an adult, the issue becomes no one no longer has custody of you.

17:51 And then the cost associated with someone like this. If he's not committing a crime in the moment, then he's not a criminal. He's crazy. But the problem is, it's okay to be crazy. You can walk around and you can twirl and you can be as crazy as a by God. But once you start being criminally insane and you're killing people, We've got to stop it from getting to that point. And what is often seen, very often seen, and I would love for listeners to comment on this online and give their opinion on this. But once this person becomes an adult, or maybe they have late onset mental illness, that happens in your late 20s or your early 30s. But there's no procedure in place for other than like a Baker Act or something when the police have to get involved, but then they get out. And so who is in control of them? What do you do with them? What is the treatment here?

18:48 Where people get lost is, you know, no matter what your mental stability is, that doesn't mean that you can walk around killing people with chainsaws and get away with it. Yeah. And that's where people get lost. This is, you know, a lot of people have mental issues that know right from wrong. And they don't hurt people. Yeah, this isn't, this isn't, people sometimes conflate this with like when you're a drug addict. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is a completely different thing because if you're a drug addict, okay, you're not infringing on my rights by being a drug addict. Until you steal from me. Right. But I mean, your addiction is on you.

19:32 Right. And it's not necessarily affecting me. It has side effects, obviously. Yeah, direct. This particular situation, this guy is killing people. Which is. And his own family, the people who are caring for you. Yeah, and so I'm pretty sure he knew... that was wrong. I don't think he's been so out of his mind his whole life that he didn't know you're not supposed to kill people. Very few people that get arrested for killing people don't realize they didn't know any better. And that's why they look for, did you try to cover it up? Did you pre-plan in advance? Because all of that proves that you weren't so crazy you didn't know it was wrong or right.

20:16 Now, if you start saying that he heard voices and he'd been hearing voices and there's a long documentation of that, they are going to look at that if the voices told me to kill you if you're a schizo or something like that. But the problem here, back to the main question, though, you asked, though, is like, what do we do about this? You have a 65-year-old and a damn near 90-year-old. taking care of this guy. And I'm going to assume they loved him. It's their nephew and grandson. And just like the case last week where the man bonded his son out and then his son beat him to death and that he's got a long history of problematic behavior, I feel for these ladies because I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. They worked in their yard. You know what I mean? They just seemed like old ladies. They love him. They don't want anything bad to happen to him. But what do you do with a grown-ass adult who's not breaking the law but crazy? And what if you don't have the funds or the ability to put them somewhere.

21:09 Yeah. I mean, the police can show up, but the police are there for criminal matters. If this is like just like civil discourse in your house where you're like arguing or where he's not behaving, and then you get tied up in that position where you can't kick him out or you feel like. You feel like you can't kick him out because he can't take care of, you know, he's got all these problems, and love will get you killed. Yeah, well. You know, love will get you killed, but what do you do? Right. We need to address this in this country. I don't know what the answer could be to that, though. Is there an answer? I mean, people much smarter than me. Can work on that problem. Yeah, but if you've ever had a family member or a loved one.

21:50 But once you commit the act and you kill somebody. I'm done. I'm kind of done at that point. Because what's the rehabilitation going to be? What? We're going to get you back on your meds and you're going to be, oh, I feel so remorseful. Then we let you go. And then what? You stop taking your meds because it's common. Mental health people stop taking their meds whenever they start feeling better. Oh, I don't need this medicine. I feel better. And then they're back in the cycle. Yeah. This isn't just like a little bit of depression. This is like he's on lithium. Right. Serious stuff. All right, well, let's go to Lexington, Kentucky, in a very popular case that I'm sure everybody out there is at least somewhat familiar with. Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Lakin Snelling, 22, was sentenced Friday, October 16th to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of her newborn son, whose body was found hidden in a trash bag inside her bedroom closet. Now, Snelling also pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, concealing the birth of an infant. The additional charges carried a one-year sentence, but Fayette Circuit Court Judge Diane Mennefield ordered all four sentences to run concurrently, resulting in a total of 10 years. Snelling is not eligible for probation and must serve 85% of the sentence before being parole-eligible. She's also going to receive 415 days as she's already spent that under house arrest in Tennessee.

23:19 And just an update for those that have been under a rock and maybe hadn't heard about this case. It started on August 27th, 2025. Snelling's off-campus residence in Lexington, Kentucky. Roommates reported hearing loud noises from her bedroom early that morning. After Snelling left the house, they went in her room. saw a blood-soaked towel on the floor, and found a body of a newborn baby boy wrapped in the towel and stuffed in a trash bag in her closet. Police were called. The infant was pronounced dead on the scene. The medical examiner later determined the baby had been born alive and died from asphyxia by undetermined means. The infant was identified as McCoy Cade Hall. His father is Isaiah Hall.

24:05 In court during her guilty plea, Snelling said she had been under emotional stress and that the baby arrived unexpectedly. I mean, okay. Does she mean early or she didn't know? Unexpectedly. You know what I mean? Like that's kind of. Unexpectedly. It was full term from what I understand when I was born. Yeah. Instead of helping him, I ended his life, she told the court, adding that she deprived him of oxygen before cleaning up the scene and telling no one. She'd initially told investigators she passed out on top of the baby after the delivery and awoke to find him turning blue and purple. So she admitted she lied. A Fayette County grand jury indicted her on manslaughter in March of 2026.

24:47 In addition to the earlier counts and prosecutors recommended a 10 year term as part of a plea agreement. Snelling did not speak at her October 16th sentencing, but the judge did. And I have that clip, and I'm going to play it for you quickly, and then I'm going to let Kelly talk about it. So here's that clip. Took the life, you know, of a baby innocent that had no, you know, did nothing. You know, did nothing but come out and breathe. And that's it. And so you pled guilty to the Commonwealth's recommendation. Ten years on count one. One year. abuse of a corpse on count two, and one year on count three, tampering with physical evidence, and 12 months on concealing the birth of an infant.

25:44 I'm going to run these all concurrently for a total sentence of 10 years in order that you serve the 10 years in the custody of the Department of Justice. So you will be remanded into custody today to begin your service. And You know, you're going to have a lot of time. You know, you're young. You're 22 years old. You're going to have a lot of life. This family of Kate is going to have a lot of life ahead of them. But this hole will never, ever go away. This loneliness, this just nap in the pit of your stomach, it's never going to go away. You're going to have to find ways to live with it. And all of that's only going to come by God, you know, to figure out how you're going to Move on. And I wish you the best. And we're in your custody to start your sentence. Ten years.

26:41 Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, Kelly, you heard that one. The listeners have heard that one. What do you think? I was taken aback by her tone, by the judge's tone, because it almost seemed like she was. She was babying her, in my view. Yeah, or that she– I don't know how to explain what I'm trying to say. That it almost seemed like she was like, you know, I think you recognize– because she admitted it finally, I guess. She's like, well, because you recognize what you did, you're going to have to go to jail. But, you know, this is going to just be real bad, and you're going to have to live with that. Well, yeah.

27:26 You're going to have a hole in your heart. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I– I don't... If that baby had been 12 years old... Now, I know that's weird because she's giving birth, but just if she had done that, if she had killed a 12-year-old, cleaned up the scene, and hid him in a trash bag in her closet, we would not be having the same discussion. Why? Because that child would have had a developed personality. He would have... You know, people would have loved him, would have known him, and this would have been a loss to a lot of people. But it seems like because that baby... never even got a chance to cry. I mean, as far as I know, I mean, the baby never got a chance to even be known. It's almost like it's been so easy to dismiss his relevance to the world. And that's why she was being so sweet almost about the sentencing. But I think that what happened here was that there was reasonable doubt as to whether she believed that the baby was alive or not. And that was her, her saving grace here.

28:31 And I think that's why she only got 10 years for this case, because even though the medical examiner says the baby was asphyxiated, she started out by saying, oh, I didn't, you know, I didn't, I didn't realize that, you know, I thought the baby was gone. And then it was, oh, well, you know, I should have helped him and I didn't. But what I'm trying to get is there's a totality here in my mind of, I just don't, it's so cruel. What happened here is so cruel. And she's almost being pitied by her response. And I'm just, I'm, I don't think she's a danger to the rest of society. So I think she was a danger to that baby because that baby was going to mess up her life and her reputation and her whatever. And she couldn't cheer.

29:13 And I just think that's so. She's a killer. Yeah. She killed a baby in 10 years. I'm going to say it. 10 years is fucking ridiculous. What would you give her? I would give this chick right here who killed a baby... At least 40 years in prison. I was going to say I would have given 30 to 40. I take that back. 25 to life. And I want her to come back in 25 years and go to a parole hearing. and look at it then. 10 years? People get 10 years for a bag of weed. Yep. That's crazy in this situation. You know why this chick got 10 years? I'm going to tell you why she got 10 years. Because of how she looks. Because she's fine as hell, 22-year-old girl. If this would have been a guy that strangled a baby, it would have been a different story in my opinion.

30:01 I think that they minimized this because she was a cheerleader. She's not a dangerous person. But if she would have had. Tattoos— She's clearly a dangerous person. I know. I'm telling you. But if she would have had a sleeve of tattoos— and she would have been on drugs, there's no way she would have gotten 10 years. There's no way. So I fully would have expected 35 to 40 years, 35 to 40 years, a mandatory 20 years to be served. Because at least at that point, you've, her juvenile life would be over. And I know that's weird, but in my mind, okay, so you've had to give up your youth. The baby gave up his whole life. At least you're gonna have to give up your entire youth life. And when you can come back as a woman and then maybe as a woman, We can talk about this at a parole meeting. Ten years is not enough.

30:49 I was trying to understand how could they get to that conclusion of ten years. I'm trying to level here and say why only ten years. But I think it's because they looked at her. She's young and she's beautiful and she doesn't look like a threat. And that is why they went easy on her. This girl killed her baby and went and ate McDonald's immediately after. I know. She didn't care about her baby. I have no. Sympathy for her. And it seems like this judge had said, going as far as to, you know, you're going to feel guilty for the rest of your life and just lean on God. You should feel guilty. You did it. You should have felt guilty that day. We're now in a society, and I don't care what anybody thinks. You can come at me on any platform you'd like. and slam me all you want. But we're living in a society right now where a mother kills her three kids and whatever it was, 11 out of the 12 jurors have no problem with it because of her mental stability. And you've got Lake and Snellen over here admitting that she killed her baby and she gets 10 years. She'll be out probably in seven because she's got time served and she's only got to serve 85% more.

32:04 This chick will still be She won't even be 30. That's what I'm saying. She's still going to get to have her young life. Kill her, baby. I would have rather her go to prison and let her become a woman in prison. And then maybe when you come back before the parole board. But why are we in a society where all of this is so acceptable? Why? Why? I don't have an answer. Why does nobody have a problem with people killing their kids anymore or people killing other people for that matter? Everybody looks at the offender instead of the victims. Whatever. Come at me. It's bullshit. Well, anyone who's going to come at you is going to be somebody that... is not seeing the big picture here.

32:49 They're focusing only on what her feelings are. I look at it as if you're capable of doing that to your own baby, you're capable of doing that to anybody. Well, the media, I think the media plays a role in this too, because I read a follow-up And I believe it was on this case. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But we've had so many young people killing their babies lately that I can't keep along straight. The whole world's desynthesized to it. But I think it was this case where they said that after it all went down, that they had a private burial, like in their backyard or something like that. And like they buried him and they had a private service. Well. That's all good and gravy. But the media painted that like she was just like this poor mother that lost her baby and didn't know how to deal with it.

33:30 But that's not what happened. You caused that loss. And now you want to be the poor mom. Like, I just, I'm with you. I don't get it. I think that she had, she was given the grace of this deniability of why she did what she did. And it's her youth and her beauty that gave. It to her. That's exactly what I said. Let's go to West Virginia. Okay. All right. And a 65 year old man has been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the 2016 killing of 25 year old Ivan Vanya Perlis in rural West Virginia, nearly a decade after the victim's remains were found. So Richard William Nichols was arrested in Indiana and is being held without bond at the Potomac Highlands Regional Jail. Perlis's remains were discovered by a hunter on November 12th of 2016.

34:16 Investigators recovered an intact skull, but it had three gunshot wounds to the back of it. Five bullet fragments recovered from the skull were determined to have come from a. 22 caliber bullet, and the West Virginia Medical Examiner's Office estimated Perlis was killed between October 3rd and October 5th of 2016. Now, Nichols became a suspect early in that investigation after police learned of a heated dispute between the two men over a bandana. We are literally talking about a bandana right now, guys. But both had been staying on a property in the months before Perlis disappeared, Perlis in a garage and Nichols in a camper on that same property. In September of 2016, Nichols allegedly confronted Perlis after accusing him of taking the bandana that belonged to a deceased friend. During the confrontation, Nichols allegedly picked Perlis up by the neck and shook him. Nichols later acknowledged the altercation but claimed the two men had reconciled. Over the years, Nichols gave conflicting accounts of the last time he saw Perlis. In a May 2017 interview, he claimed that he had driven Perlis to meet a man in a brown Volvo, initially saying that Perlis got into that vehicle and then was later seen walking along a road.

35:24 He later changed that story, claiming the man, whom he referred to as quote unquote snowman, threatened both of them with a gun and ordered Nichols to leave. A significant development came in interviews with Lester Mook. Mook told investigators he saw Nichols and Perlis leave the property together in Nichols' truck on the day that Perlis disappeared and that Nichols returned alone roughly four hours later, saying Perlis would not be back. In July of 2024, there was an interview and Mook added that Nichols had returned wearing different clothes and said he had changed because his previous clothing was covered in blood. In a December 13, 2024 interview, Mook said that Nichols explicitly admitted to the killing, telling him he had put, quote, three bullets in his head, end quote. Nichols also allegedly told Mook he had to burn his clothing because it was bloodstained. Mook said that he had withheld some information earlier because he didn't want to become involved in the case. Investigators cited Mook's statements along with Nichols' own account of driving Perlis the last time that he was seen alive as grounds for the arrest, and the case had remained unsolved for nearly a decade before the recent developments occurred. led to the charges.

36:33 Yeah. Um, and they got some nicknames on that one. Snowman. And, uh, another guy that looks like Santa, exactly like what you would think would, would kill somebody in a heartbeat. Um, yeah. Okay. So 10 years, 10 years. And, and they didn't give up on it. And I think that's pretty cool. They always had it in the back and I'm talking about the police here. Always had it in the, in the back burner there, just trying to gather more evidence. It's not what you know, it's what you can prove. Yeah. And when they felt like they got that, they put the guy in cuffs. And that's something that we don't see a lot these days. And people tend to give up because every year, as that case goes along, the percentage is solving, it gets less and less and less.

37:23 If you don't see a case solved within six months, usually it's going to be six years. I mean, that's You know, all your evidence is at the beginning. So glad to see they didn't give up on it. I am too. But I just want to say this. Over a bandana. Over a bandana. And he got first degree murder. And we have just, you know, a skull with bullets. But that first degree murder charge can carry, you know, a life sentence. And then we turn around and here's. And he's not a death sentence. Well, yeah, I don't I didn't know in that state if they have it or not. But we look at this guy and because he's whatever, you know, he gets the first degree murder charge and he's going to go and he's facing, you know, life in prison. But here's Miss Thang in the previous article that you read. She admits to what she did and gets 10 years. And that's kind of the point I'm trying to.

38:10 There's like she was charged with manslaughter. Right. And I don't understand that. And it's because she was given that plausible deniability of whether she thought the baby was alive or not. I feel I feel that that's the big hang up here. But I just don't that is that is that's not fair. Senate. I don't know the charging here. There's disproportion in charging. But I guess it's not what you know. Again, it's what you can prove. But this is only hinging on MOOC's statements. Yeah. As far as what we know in this article, don't don't come at me. You know, obviously, I haven't seen the whole the trial yet or anything, but that's just it shows the disparity. All right, well, let's go to Rhode Island, and ladies, lock up your panties. Oh, my. Yeah, because a maintenance worker at an apartment complex in Rhode Island, he was caught on security cameras entering a residence unit on the complex, rummaging through her belongings, and masturbating while handling her underwear and clothes. That, according to a police report. Now, the woman's name is Natalie. She's of Raymondville, Texas. And she reported the incident, which involved 57-year-old Noe Vasquez, who was employed as a maintenance worker.

39:20 Vasquez reportedly had access to apartment keys throughout the complex. And on the day of the incident, although Natalie hadn't requested. any maintenance services and there was no scheduled work that would have required anyone to enter her apartment, he did. He allegedly used his access to enter her home without permission while she was at work. She had a ring camera actually installed the night before the incident in her living room because she was She had some suspicion someone might be in her home. Maybe something was not quite where it used to be. Maybe she folded her panties a certain way and one wasn't folded that way and it caught her eye. Whatever it was, she did install a ring camera. She gets a motion notification at work in her house now. So she's like, oh crap. She opens the footage and she discovers something horrifying. The maintenance worker was sitting on her couch performing a sex act on himself and He actually had the hamper that she puts her clothes in and he had her panties out and he was masturbating with them. He proceeded to complete this, if you will. And then he basically put the underwear back in the hamper and helped himself out the door like nothing ever happened. Uh, deputies were obviously called when she saw all of this and they questioned, uh, they questioned Natalie's boyfriend because he actually, she called him as well.

40:48 Cause you're going to call your boyfriend. So you ain't gonna believe this. He goes over there and he actually confronted Vasquez near a storage area. And he told him, Hey, the police are on the way. And this guy denied everything. And he said, Oh no, we got you on camera boss. There's a camera in the living room. Rather than expressing concern at that point, Vasquez allegedly laughed, denied the accusations, and walked away. Investigators then spoke with an employee at the front office who confirmed there was no maintenance request for Natalie's apartment, so he didn't have any reason to be in there. The employee also checked the locker where the spare apartment keys were stored, and guess what? Natalie's key was missing.

41:31 Shocker. The employee contacted Vasquez, says you need to come to the office. And when he got there, cops were there. They confronted him with the surveillance footage and gave him an opportunity to explain why he went in the apartment. And Vasquez initially claimed he had gone inside to work on a water heater. However, investigators found no work order supporting that. Is that what he called it, his water heater? Yeah, it was his water heater. Vasquez eventually admitted to the incident. He was charged with criminal trespass of a home. His bomb was reportedly set at $ 2, 000, which is very low, it seems like to me. And he was subsequently released following the incident. He was obviously fired from his position with the housing authority and So the lady, Natalie, was interviewed.

42:22 She said it was a very emotional toll on her. She said my home was supposed to be my safe place. Instead, I was left feeling disgusted, violated, uncomfortable and unsafe in my own home. Yeah. And so it's really hard to look. You feel that things are so something's just not right up in your apartment enough that you put a camera. That guy's been going in that house. I'm sorry. Yeah. And I think I've told him his first word. No. And I think that I may have told this before. If not, you know, if I did, I apologize. But I have a very good friend. This exact same thing happened to her mother that she noticed something was different with her underwear drawer in her house and put cameras up.

43:02 And sure enough, the neighbor was coming over. and going through her underwear, and they caught him sitting in the recliner and masturbating to her mother's underwear. These are elderly people, too, by the way. These aren't, like, young people. So this right here, with that extremely low bond, is crazy, because to me that should have some type of sex offense added to it. I know the laws don't have it that way, but that right there is a sex offense to me. And that might be something they need to look at, you know, in the legislature or something, that if there is a sexual component such as this, that that should be, you know, what's the word I'm looking for? I'm trying to say an aggravator, but an aggravating circumstance in this because that's predatory. He had to think through it.

43:45 He had to go get a key to access your home He didn't know if you were home or not. You don't know if there were children. You don't know what was in that home. He's lucky that that man wasn't home because I know what would have happened in my house. Well, we're assuming he lived there. He may not have lived there. It was a boyfriend. But he might have stayed over. I'm just saying he's lucky that, you know, nothing happened to him, but incredibly low bond. And then obviously they're going to have DNA. So it's going to cost more to prosecute him than he paid to get out of jail and Well. The scary thing about this whole case is that's how it starts when they become rapists. And serial killers. It always starts with peeping times and going in houses and smelling underwear and all those sorts of things.

44:28 Listen, if you a freak, you wave that freak flag. But I'm going to stand on business when I tell you sniffing someone's damn underwear is not ever going to be on my bingo card as something I'm going to do. Yeah, there you go. No, thank you. Absolutely not. I remember I had a friend whose dog would steal her underwear. And when she told me that story, I was horrified that the dog would snatch the underwear. Now we got people doing it. Disgusting. Shit, they got them. They buy the shit online. Wait a minute. What? I can sell my underwear online? You can sell them online. I've read articles about that. Somebody. These OnlyFans girls be selling. I told you I'd stick my feet in peanut butter. I'll send you some draws. What you want? Oh, my gosh. Not my own. Don't say that. You're about to get a thousand messages, girl.

45:11 You're going to have a whole other career. I'm going to go to Walmart. I'm going to buy a pack of underwear. I'm going to go rub them in the mud outside of my male ID. In about six months, Kelly's going to start buying random things. I've got gold chains and shit. Where is she getting the money to buy this camper and selling her paint? Come in with a big old boob job looking like a fake person. What are you doing? Nothing. What are you talking about? And then the news. Strange idea here, but we've got a shortage of underwear at the Walmart in Denham Springs, Louisiana, and investigators are investing. Took it too far. Too far. Okay. Let's go to Corona, California. And you want to talk about taking shit too far? This is another thing we got to get. A grip on. Two 15-year-old girls have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after authorities say they spent months researching school shootings and discussing a potential attack at Corona High School in Riverside County. How many times are we going to read these stories?

46:05 Right. Well, it's rare that it's two girls. It's very rare that it's girls. And thank God it was stopped. But the investigation began on October the 6th when the FBI notified the Corona Police Department about social media communications indicating a possible threat to the campus. A collaborative effort included the local police, the FBI, and other agencies that led to quick arrests. of a 15-year-old female that went to Corona High School, but further investigation included numerous search warrants for electronic devices and searches of residences across Riverside County, and that identified a second suspect, which was another 15-year-old female student at nearby Norco High School, and she was taken into custody. So according to the police department news release, the evidence obtained showed the two suspects had spent several months researching school shootings and and discussed how they could carry out a potential attack at Corona High School on an unspecified future date. Communications also showed the teens discussed methods of obtaining weapons, though the investigators believe that they had not been able to do so. No weapons were recovered during those searches. Both girls remain in custody on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. Because they are minors, their identities have not been released, and the Riverside County District Attorney's Office is reviewing the case. The investigation remains ongoing in coordination with the FBI, the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, and the Corona Norco Unified School District. Police have not released any details on whether the girls had identified specific

47:38 targets at the school, and Corona High School, sir, it's a pretty big school. You know, it serves more than 2,000 students, and this is a 9th through a 12th grade. In their statement, authorities urged parents and students to immediately report anything they see or hear that could be concerning, noting that awareness plays a vital role in school safety. And anyone that may have some information that might be possibly listening to this, you need to contact the Corona police at their online number. But officials emphasized that the plot was disrupted before any weapons were obtained or any attack could occur. Good. And it sounds like they got to this one early. Yeah. You know, there's people out there that may say likely they were just talking crap. They didn't have any guns.

48:22 And that could be the case. But all it takes is that one where they're not and they're serious. You don't see it a whole lot with girls, though. No. I don't know of– do you know of any school shootings? Absolutely. A couple. The trans shooter at the school that went in that was a female. But she wasn't a student. She was a former student. Oh, that was a student. Not off the top of my head, no. I was just curious. It's pretty rare. But I will tell you, I look at this from a little bit of a different lens because we have these tag groups, these threat assessment groups, and they give, you can look this up too, and there's certain things that historically school shooters have done that seem to be pretty big red flags that they're not joking.

49:07 And one of the bigger ones is called leakage. And leakage is whenever they go on. I know sounds wide has to be that word. I don't know. Why didn't the word disclosure? I don't know. But it's where they start getting to the point that there will be. to freely online or on social media openly like discuss what they want to do. Which you would think that was so stupid. Like if you're going to try something like that. But, you know, I bet you this wasn't on. But these are 15-year-old kids. I bet you that this was not on, like, Facebook or something. It's probably on Discord or something like that, because that's actually a very common... And I'm not hating on Discord. If you love it, whatever. You can send me hate mail. I don't give a shit. But I'm saying it's a very common place where these types of discussions go down. And so kudos to the FBI for watching, you know, and thwarting this.

49:56 Before it became... Because it could. Have been another headline with a bunch of kids killed. That's right. All right, let's go to Orlando, Florida. A guy by the name of Dale Smith Jr., 55, was arrested. This was on Wednesday, October 14th, and charged with second-degree murder in the 2011 disappearance of his former fiancée, Michelle Parker, who was a 33-year-old mother of three whose case had remained unsolved. for 15 years. Parker was last seen on November 17, 2011, after she dropped off her three-year-old twins at Smith's house. She never arrived for a scheduled evening shift at a bar in Sanford. Her Hummer was found abandoned the next day, and the decals were removed off of that. Her cell phone was recovered from the water in what's known as Belle Isle, A few weeks later, and her remains have never been found. Now, the same day that Parker disappeared, a prerecorded episode of The People's Court.

51:01 Everybody's seen that. It aired in which she and Smith disputed a $ 5, 000 engagement ring. Smith was identified early as a prime suspect, and he was the last known person to see or hear from her, but he was not charged at the time. He has long denied any involvement. Now, Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith, no relation, said in a news conference investigators expanded their team over the past year, reexamined testimony and conflicting statements by Smith, and applied advances in digital forensics to vehicles, electronic devices, phones, and computers, saying the case never stopped being a priority. While Michelle has not yet been located, all evidence leads to Dale Smith Jr. as the person responsible. Detective Philip McCann noticed the technology now allows investigators to interpret digital evidence more effectively than was possible in 2011. A search in August of 2023 of property owned by Smith's father included the excavation of a concrete slab. Turned up no human remains.

52:12 Smith was taken into custody at his business by Orlando Police. And he made his first court appearance October 15th, pleaded not guilty. Of course, he's going to do that. And he was ordered held without bond, which is a good thing. So they have got this guy after 15 years post the people's court. And, you know, the next day she disappears. And I'm looking at a picture of her. Gorgeous. Absolutely. Beautiful girl. And he actually looked better. Terrible. When you look at the pictures here, obviously she's frozen in time, okay? Sure. So she's going to be younger. But he did not age well. But when they're on the people's court, you can see it, okay? You can see how they were a couple. It's off-putting when you see them with the age difference here and all that. But he's got a harshness to him that even when he was on the people's court, you could– because I remember watching that episode, actually.

53:07 You could feel it. And I think it was Judge Millian, which is my favorite one. That was the judge on that one, I believe. I like that. the first one. Ooh, I love Judge Millian, though. She's Latina, and when she gets mad, you can yerk them out in her voice, and I love it. I love the way that she'll clap back at people. But, yeah, it makes you worry, not worry, but it makes you just feel bad for these kids. You know, they went 15 years without their mother, and now they're going to lose their father. I mean, they're not going to have parents, right? Because didn't she drop off the twins at his house? Because they're his kids, right? It's her former fiance. I mean, I assume they were, yeah. But I just, you know, these poor kids, No mom. And they don't know what happened to her. They don't have her body. There's no closure there or no... No answers.

53:48 Well, again, the great thing about this case is they didn't give up. And 15 years later, they actually went and re-looked at this case last year, and they said, okay, we've got all this technology that didn't exist in 2011, and they've got enough now to charge this guy. I love it. That's exactly what these police departments need to be doing, especially with AI and all these things that you have now that you didn't have five years ago. Yeah. There's no telling how many cases will be solved. What I love about crime solving is that you may be able to, I guess, quote unquote, beat the science right now. But just wait, because every time it's progressing and it's getting better, you don't know what you're going to have to beat in the future. And I love that because it may take time, but they'll get you.

54:38 That's right. All right. Let's go to this is ironic. Safety Harbor, Florida. OK. All right. And 40 year old safety harbor man is facing a first degree murder charge after authorities say he shot his girlfriend in the face and then ran her over with his vehicle outside of a local bar. And the whole time he's doing this, his five year old daughter and the family dog were in the car. That is beyond tragic. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, the incident occurred around 8.45 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13th near Harbor Bar. Christopher, who goes by Dodge Smith, entered the bar. Goes by Dodge? He goes by Dodge. D-O-D-G-E. Dodge.

55:18 I didn't want to say Christopher Dodge Smith. It's his nickname. Right, I get it. But he entered the bar after leaving his five-year-old daughter and their dog in the parking lot. He later exited with his 30-year-old girlfriend, Jessica Antolini, and the two were seen arguing outside. During the argument, detectives say that Smith shot Antolini in the face through her left eye and it blew out the back of her skull before then getting in the car and fleeing. As he drove away with his daughter and the dog inside, he ran her over. Witnesses describe Smith as acting strangely and appearing to be hunting for Antolini inside the bar and some saying he looked possessed. What kind of image does that put in your mind if someone looks like possessed?

55:59 Yeah. So there were multiple 911 calls reporting the shooting and provided details about Smith's vehicle. Deputies located him a short time later. When he didn't stop, the vehicle was immobilized, which sounds to me like they did a pit maneuver type situation. But police body camera and dash cam footage released by the sheriff's office shows the arrest and the young girl is crying out for her dog as deputies removed her from the vehicle. That hurts my heart. And the child later told investigators daddy shot Jess. Oh my gosh. So Smith reportedly called His mother afterwards saying he had messed up and shot Jess and that he was bringing his daughter to her. Neither the five-year-old nor the dog were injured. The child was placed in the care of other family members and a judge ordered Smith to have no contact with her. Antolini was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and was pronounced dead at 9.14 p.m.

56:48 on October the 15th. Following her death, Smith's charge was upgraded from attempted first-degree murder to first-degree murder. He remains charged with child abuse and is being held without bond at the Pinellas County Jail. Yeah, and shout out to him for making it so easy for prosecutors. They don't even need any evidence outside of the fact that he said, I messed up and shot Jess to his own mama. Right. There you go. Got him on, got him, it meant it right there. You got a witness to the crime. What a piece of shit. To do that in front of, to do that period, but even to go as far as to involve your daughter in seeing it is despicable. I don't know what was going on. Maybe she was at the bar with another man.

57:32 Maybe she was working there. Maybe, but it seems like he was on a mission going there, you know, so I suspect maybe something was going on in there. In their relationship, but what an idiot. But you shot a woman you supposedly are in a relationship with in the face. In the face with your daughter in the car. And so what is mind-blowing? You're willing to throw your whole life away and your daughter. No contact with your daughter now because you were mad at a woman who was your girlfriend. I mean, you're not even married to her, right? I don't believe. I don't think they were either. And you just throw your whole life away. Anger management needs to get handled here. And now a woman lost her life over it. Yeah, it was his girlfriend. I looked at the headline again. So, horrible.

58:16 All right, let's go into lustful lawbreakers. All right. Sorry about the delay there. Yeah, there was a little bit of a delay on that one. Because I wanted to go, ow. All right. So this time we're going to bring you to Lake County, Florida. And I'm going to tell you about Stanley Spink. He's 71 years old. Sheila Pavlik, she is 66 years old. Okay. So a little bit more seasoned couple here. They've been dating on and off for about a year. In May, they actually got engaged.

59:10 Oh, wow. And so Stanley, he's fired up about this. He moves into her place in what's known as Lake Griffin Isles, Mobahone community. One morning in mid-June, police, they get called out for physical altercations. And officers do what they do. When they arrive, they want to talk to them separately, right? They separate them so they can get, you know, if a woman's being abused, they don't want her to be in fear of saying something in earshot of the guy or vice versa. Right. So cops separate them. And both of them kind of say the same thing as far as the story. Their stories match. And they both say the reason is a missing dildo.

59:52 The missing dildo. A missing dildo. So according to the arrest affidavit, Spink, who is the male in this case, he told police his fiancee, Sheila, got upset because she couldn't find her dildo. She was worked up. Well, she blamed him for stealing it. And so she told officers basically the same thing, that he took it and she couldn't locate it. And the argument escalated from there. She said she slapped him in the head. He said he grabbed her left forearm hard enough to leave a red abrasion. And because both of them are over the age of 65, they actually each got charged with felony battery on a person 65 or older. 100%. Felony, third degree felony. They were booked into jail and a no contact order was then put in place. Now, a circuit court judge later granted a defense request to lift that no contact order so they could have contact again. Court records don't say whether the dildo ever turned up or whether the wedding is even still happening, but Here's where it ends, at least for now. Prosecutors filed a notice and said that even though the evidence is legally sufficient, the facts of the case make conviction in a trial unlikely and continued that the case would not be an appropriate use of resources. So, shout out, look, shout out

1:01:22 to the prosecutor. He's like, you know, they're fighting over a deal there. Now, I don't know personally, nobody's ever said what caused the fight why were was she so upset well first of all her damn dildo but why did he hide it he didn't or take it. She misplaced it and that is why he took it oh he did take it he did take it what did he do with. It well i don't know he's never said but personally i think he was jealous of. The dildo i mean wouldn't you be no she's willing to fight you over her dildo i don't have. I mean you know i don't have a problem i Listen, I think my wife's fat, happy.

1:02:03 She's a happy lady. But what I can tell you is, uh, that was my suspicion on it was this dude. Cause they just moved in together. So he probably was like, wait a minute. What's this dildo doing in here? She's got me. And he probably took it. I'm telling you. Some old man like that probably. Instead of realizing you can have some fun with that thing, he doesn't go to that. He goes to, wait a minute, that's competition for me. I mean, they could have sword fought. I mean, they could have done so many. Things with that thing. I don't know about that. Look, look. Took it too far again. Why? No. Sword fight with Nick Dane. That's why she wanted it, as far as I know, because, I mean, my grandmother would have never, never. That's horrific. Okay, look, this much I want to tell you is that there are things to get felonies over, and there are things not to get felonies over. And I can just imagine if I had gone to law school and put all that work and effort and intelligence, and I studied for the bar, and I did everything I had to do just to sit behind the bench to watch two fools fight over a dildo, I would be very upset with myself.

1:03:13 Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. All right. But nobody died. So that's a good outcome. Right. They made peace. All right. Let's go to our international indiscretions. And this one's going to take us to Montreal, Canada. Okay. Have you been to Canada? I have been to Canada. Yes. You have. I think you might have told me that. Canada, British Columbia. Yeah. Canada, eh? All up that way. Beautiful. Canada is beautiful. I learned, you know how down here we call our little hats beanies? Mm-hmm. They call them toques. Did we already talk about that? I knew that. I don't know if we, I don't think we talked about it. Well, I didn't know that. I didn't know what a dadgum toque was. I heard it in a 911 call, and I said, what the hell's a toque? And do you want someone taking your toque? But it was a hat.

1:03:56 All right. Anyway. A 33-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Canada Review agency employee who was killed inside her Montreal apartment while participating in a virtual work meeting with colleagues. So we're talking about like a live shooting here, right? Like a Zoom death. That's crazy. All right. Yousef, is it Moussaoui? That's what I derived. All right. If I got that wrong, apologies. But Yousef Moussaoui was arrested on October 15th after Montreal police issued a warrant He appeared in court the following day and was charged in the death of 45-year-old Layla Salem. He remains detained with his next court date set for December 21st. Police have said the killing was not related to intimate partner or domestic violence, which is wild, right? Didn't you automatically think this would have been like a couple fighting? But an exact motive has not been publicly detailed, though investigators have indicated that evidence has suggested that this was a financial dispute. Police responded to a wellness check at the apartment building after being alerted by others inside the virtual meeting, which Officers found Salem unresponsive and pronounced her dead at the scene. She was reportedly beaten with a blunt object after someone gained access to her condominium, which was undergoing renovations, and the attack happened while she was on that work-related video call. Salem immigrated to Canada in 2013 and worked for the Canada Review Agency and was participating in a training or a meeting session at the time. She has been separated from her husband since 2023 and had only recently moved into that condo. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

1:05:30 offered condolences in the House of Commons, stating that Salem was a valued member of the Canada Review Agency dedicated to serving Canadians, which she was doing at the time of her assault, and vowing that the perpetrator of the shameful crime would face full accountability. Massawi, who reportedly worked as a concierge in a nearby building and does not appear to have a prior criminal record, is still being held, I guess, and the investigation remains ongoing. Yeah, that's, could you imagine seeing somebody getting killed on a Zoom meeting? You know, you're sitting there doing business with colleagues. And she's beaten to death, too. I mean, this is just brutal.

1:06:11 And you're witnessing this live, essentially. Golly. Horrific. I accidentally saw something. She's beautiful as well. Yeah. I accidentally saw that happen. I was watching a video. I didn't know what I was watching, so that's my clue there. But I was just scrolling through Facebook, and this guy was sitting there eating on camera. And the next thing I know, someone just, boom, shot him in the head. And I was just stunned because I wasn't prepared for it. So I'm sure they were just like, oh, my God, you know, our coworker. Yeah. Terrible. All right. We're going to go into overtime. I'm ready to go. All right. Let's get to the nut cook. I was like, I'm ready to go. I'm so bad at this job. I am just that woman that people hate.

1:06:52 All right. We're going to go to Ecuador for this one. And this is not obviously a crime, but it's a pretty wild story and crazy. And I'm bringing it to you now. A Roman Catholic priest actually died after being struck in the head by a heavy wooden crucifix that fell from a wall during a live streamed evening mass at a church in Ecuador. So Father Patricio Molinari, who is a parish priest of what's known as Our Lady of Perpetual Help, was addressing the congregation when the large crucifix fell actually detaches from the wall behind the altar and hit him. Video from the service was streamed on his Facebook page, and it showed him facing the congregation and unable to see the fallen cross. He collapsed and did not get back up. Parishioners can be heard on the video screaming, obviously, in panic. Father, father, call an ambulance before the broadcast cut out. The archdiocese confirmed his death in a Facebook statement. saying he has left to the house of the Father to enjoy his presence and glory.

1:08:05 The Archdiocese expressed solidarity with his family and friends, and he was 53 years old, so he's still relatively young, belonged to the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, which is a redemptorist version of a Roman Catholic order founded in 1732, and it's represented in 80 countries, and just, you know, of there's things in life where people are killed and I'm like, what are the chances of that? And this was one when I read it. Did you see the video? No. Okay. I want to tell, I want to warn people that I did see this video and I'm not one shook by videos. I'm not saying this one like rocked me to my core or anything, but this is brutal. This is not like a little two foot crucifix, you know, that just kind of falls off the wall and gets this head injury. This is a crushing injury where he is no more. like this is probably that crucifix is probably as tall as that wall is behind you it is massive and he is just talking and you just see it start falling and there's nothing you can do and the injury is it is um it is not as simple as this uh as this makes it out to be that it fell and hit him on the head and he collapsed. No, he was, he was incapacitated straight to the ground by this thing.

1:09:26 I would imagine probably weighed a thousand pounds. Oh, it's, it's just, it's unbelievable. And then you sit back or I do at least. And I go, there's gotta be a message in that. I would think, and I don't know, I don't know what it is, but it's breathtaking. I mean, of all the things that could happen to somebody to be standing in In the exact spot. Yeah. If he would have been one foot to the left or one foot to the right, the top of the crucifix wouldn't have hit him. Well, it's like when Trump was assassinated and he turned his head. Attempted assassination. Yeah, sorry. Attempted and he turned his head right at the last minute. I mean. I mean, 99.999% of the time, that would have been. Yeah. Yeah.

1:10:14 The end of it. I don't know, it hurt my soul because that's a man of God standing there and he's doing exactly what God would want of someone, I would think. And then to go out that way, I don't know, it hurt my heart. But I bet you right now he's in heaven and he's going, you know what, if I had to go, what a way, you know, right there in my church. I don't know if he'd want to go in front of all those people. Well, no, not the other people, but I'm saying at least it wasn't, I don't know, actually it's terrible, I don't know the words, but Yeah, it's horrific. He died in the house, the Lord's house. It's horrible what he died. Yeah. I would imagine. Yeah. All right. And we're going to wrap this one up in Buckeye, Arizona, where an Ohio mother fought off a 20-year-old man who entered her home, grabbed her by the neck, struck her toddler, and demanded she remove her clothes, an encounter partially captured on home security cameras as the struggle spilled out into the driveway. Bella Torres says she was preparing to take her children to trunk retreating this past Friday evening, when her front door alarm sounded. Her husband had briefly left the house, so Torres initially thought that he had just returned.

1:11:17 But within seconds, she was face-to-face with a stranger, later identified by police as Adrian Ayala. All he says is, can I use your restroom? And as he says restroom, he starts to charge at me and grabs my neck, Torres says. She said Ayala forced her to the ground inside the home, kicked her roughly one-year-old daughter, and then demanded that she takes off her clothes. My first instinct was to protect her, Torres said of her child. Torres managed to get outside and scream for help. Security footage shows the physical struggle continuing into the driveway, with Torres demanding to know who Ayala was and what he was doing. In the video, Ayala can be heard saying, I am on drugs and claiming that Torres's boyfriend had sent him and that the encounter was wanted or that this was a form of role play. Torres has denied knowing him and said neither she nor her husband had ever seen him before. Her husband returned home during the confrontation and Ayala ran. A neighbor who heard the screams contacted police.

1:12:16 Ayala was arrested the next day at the home after a relative recognized him from the video of the incident that circulated on social media. He faces charges including sexual assault, burglary, and other related offenses, and he was later released on a $ 25, 000 secured appearance bond. During an arraignment, his attorney raised the role play claim. That's dirty. Your attorney's going to, ugh, okay. Torres has rejected it, and reports indicate it. A judge noted that even if such permission had been given, it would not serve as a valid legal defense. Yeah. Anyway, he kicked a baby. That was role-playing. Role-playing. The hell?

1:12:56 I know. I kicked your baby at a role play. Look, he tried to rape that woman. Yes, he did. And then I don't know, man, even if I was a defense attorney, even if I was, I'd be like, you can kick bricks. I'm not defending that. Give me a break. Now, if he was going to say, oh, I was on drugs and OK, well, let's defend you. You shouldn't have taken drugs. But to then try to act like the victim was in on it. I don't know, man. I'm not. I wouldn't have taken that. Torres has described the entire incident as lasting less than 10 minutes. Buckeye police continue to investigate, and the case is ongoing. Well, and you know, maybe you're not taking that, but if you're a public defender, you have to take it. Yeah, no, no, yeah. But I'm saying as a private, if he had hired a defense attorney.

1:13:39 I would probably guess he was publicly defended. And then why are you going to show up to role play in black shorts and a black polo? Well, how do you show up in role play? Okay. Well, if I was going to do a role play and I told you to come in and take me. And be the UPS man? Yeah. Put that man in uniform. Down. Be a something. Don't show up looking like you're about to go in and have a conference at a school meeting or some shit. He doesn't even look good for a role play. Dress better, sir. Be a fireman? Yeah. Yes. I mean, like, you know, if my husband happens to be listening. Okay. You know, it's costume season. It's Halloween, Jim. Maybe we need to get us a fireman costume. But as soon as you kick my kid.

1:14:22 Somebody call about a fire. As soon as you kick my kid and you punch me and start trying to rape me, I mean, choke me or whatever he did, then I'm going to have a problem with it. Yeah, yeah. I need my fireman husband to come through the front door, make sure the kids are away, and then politely lock my bedroom door before the attack. Oh, my God. TMI? TMI? I've opened up a can of worms with this one. I'm sorry. I'm just kidding. Allegedly. I do have an older child who might hear that. Right. I don't care. All right. Any final thoughts? Those were my final thoughts. I'm scared to go on. I'm scared to go on. All right. Well, thank you so much for listening, and please share the show. If you're enjoying the content. And until next time, I'm Jim Chapman.

1:15:08 And I'm Kelly Jennings. And we are your host of Crime. Wire. Weekly.