June 5, 2025

Crime Wire Weekly 5/30/25 | Escaped Inmate Turns to Instagram, Captive Woman Rescued by Jersey Mikes (Preview)

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode of CrimeWire Weekly, hosts Jim Chapman and Kelly Jennings discuss a series of trending crime stories, including a the Instagram Video of Escaped Inmate Antoine Massey, The manhunt for a father accused in the deaths of his 3 children, a NY tourist is tortured over his crypto password and much more!

*This is a preview, links to listen to the full podcast by following "Crime Wire Weekly" are below.

Topics

Louisiana Prisoner Antoine Massey Posts a Video to IG
Manhunt for Father Accused in Death Of His 3 Children
Cryptocurrency Torture in Manhattan
Mother Stops Sex Offender From Ra&* of Daughter via Fire
Poisonous Family Dinner in Australia
Fatal Parasailing Incident
Dog Theft and Ransom Text
Tragic Parasailing Death in Florida Leads to Charges
Captive Woman Rescued by Jersey Mikes Employees

Follow “Crime Wire Weekly” on it’s new channel HERE:
Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crime-wire-weekly/id1815864889
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/3zyrgjtW6gLUVbicJaYXV9?si=0dbf4983938344a2
Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/3738411d-828e-4138-9976-223ab5de2c87/the-crime-wire-weekly

WEBVTT

1
00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:15.480
In Louisiana, the manhunt continues for the two remaining convicts

2
00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.719
that escaped a New Orleans jail, with one recording a

3
00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:24.640
plea for help and posting it on Instagram. In Washington,

4
00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:28.839
three sisters are found dead and a massive manhunt is

5
00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.839
taking place to locate the suspect, which you're going to

6
00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:35.000
be shocked when we tell you who is suspected. And

7
00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.679
a New York City tourist is urinated on cut with

8
00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:43.039
a saw and forced to smoke crack. And kJ is

9
00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:46.079
going to tell you why these stories and more let

10
00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.399
the headlines this week. Welcome to Crime Wire Weekly, and

11
00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:50.119
I'm Jim.

12
00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:51.679
Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings.

13
00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.399
Kelly Jennings. We're back, and look, we've got some wild

14
00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.200
stories coming your way today.

15
00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.359
Just seriously, just when you think, oh my god, you know,

16
00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:03.000
things cannot get much worse.

17
00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:04.680
Just when you think it was safe to go back

18
00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:08.640
in the water, it's not not. No, We've got some

19
00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:09.439
stories about it.

20
00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:12.640
I know. God, all right, So let's go start with

21
00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.319
these missing inmates that have escaped from the jail. So

22
00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.239
the search for the two remaining escaped inmates continues in

23
00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:22.079
today nineteen as a viral video on social media surfaces

24
00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:26.120
of one of the inmates and sparks speculation. Multiple enforcement

25
00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.719
agencies ramped up their manhunt for Derreck Groves and and

26
00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.560
Twine Massey. Who I'm gonna add I call Twan? I

27
00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:35.120
don't know, it's just like he needs to be called Twan.

28
00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:39.239
A recent Instagram post on the internet shows a man

29
00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.719
allegedly and Twine Massey venting his side of the story.

30
00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:47.000
Although the video cannot be authenticated, federal authorities are investigating

31
00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.799
this video. In the video, the man says he is

32
00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:52.200
quote one of the ones that was let out of

33
00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.159
OJC end quote. He also sought help from rappers Meek Mill,

34
00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.519
Lil Wayne, and NBA Young Boy, as well as President

35
00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.480
Donald tr Trump. At one point, the man says quote

36
00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:04.400
who I was in the past is not who I

37
00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.680
am today quote, while denying allegations that he threatened a

38
00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.280
maintenance worker with a weapon and called the jail system

39
00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:15.120
corrupted and referenced both OJC and Saint Tammany Parish jails.

40
00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:17.759
Eight of the ten inmates who escaped from the Orleans

41
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.000
Justice Center on May sixteenth have been captured. Authorities have

42
00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:25.560
also arrested sixteen accomplices accused of aiding the escape or

43
00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.319
hiding fugitives. Several of those individuals are now out on bond.

44
00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.960
Antoine Massey, who has a long history of escape attempts,

45
00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.719
including cutting off an ankle monitor and threatening a jail worker,

46
00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:41.000
is connected to the beginnings of the escape. Derrick Groves,

47
00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:45.400
convicted in a twenty eighteen double homicide, is the grandson

48
00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:49.280
of Kem Groves, whose assassination by a corrupt NPD officer

49
00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:52.080
became a national scandal back in nineteen ninety four, and

50
00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.879
both of these men are considered dangerous. Authorities have not

51
00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:59.000
released an official cost estimate, but experts say the total

52
00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:03.319
is mounting rapidly. State police they say that two hundred

53
00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:07.719
or more than two hundred troopers, investigators, DPS officers, and

54
00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:11.199
support staff have been deployed statewide in the ongoing manhunt.

55
00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:15.840
The FBI, US Marshall's Office atf and NOPD are also

56
00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.840
assisting in this effort. A threat to society, there is

57
00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.280
no cost on that because we have to make sure

58
00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.120
people like yourself or anybody else, we keep the community safe,

59
00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.280
said Chief Reggie Rowe, who is a private security consultant

60
00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:32.159
with ties to the NOPD, and according to the Cantrail administration,

61
00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:35.680
a financial review of NPD's involvement will not take place

62
00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:39.599
until the operation concludes. Despite the growing number of arrests,

63
00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:43.240
court records show that multiple alleged accomplices have already bonded out.

64
00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:48.120
That includes I'm probably gonna slay this, but v Duck Gwynn,

65
00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:51.520
who was arrested in Baton Rouge last week after surveillance

66
00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.479
footage allegedly showed him paying for a hotel room used

67
00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:58.719
to hide an escaped inmate. James Scooter Randolph was also charged.

68
00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.280
Court records indicated both men were released on bond shortly

69
00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:03.719
after their arrests.

70
00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.159
A couple things on this. First, I didn't realize that

71
00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:10.080
there was a connection, especially being at the grandson of

72
00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:14.840
Kim Groves, that made big news interesting. Has nothing to

73
00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.000
do with I'm sure what he's been charged with, but

74
00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:22.079
interesting nonetheless. And the second thing here, I think that

75
00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.120
twe as you call him, because I've.

76
00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.160
Been saying online Twin's going all the way bro, even

77
00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:28.160
with the face tats.

78
00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.959
Look Twin screwed up when Twan did that Instagram post,

79
00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:37.399
because I have it through pretty good sores that they've

80
00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:41.759
already searched the home and raided the home. That he

81
00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:47.519
put that Instagram post out where I film that time,

82
00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.759
the IP address and these videos have all kinds of

83
00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:56.319
hidden markings in them, locations everything. So man, you should

84
00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.000
have stayed off social media, Twan.

85
00:04:58.279 --> 00:04:59.600
But he's gone now, so.

86
00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.720
You don't to credit anybody for an escape. But I

87
00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:04.279
guess he's been pretty slick so far. I think his

88
00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:05.600
days are numbered.

89
00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:07.160
All right, Well, we're gonna put a bet in here

90
00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.480
now because I know Groves is laying low. But Twin,

91
00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.199
I think he got that dog in. Hey, I want

92
00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.319
to add this. I want to Hey, I want to

93
00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:14.800
add this real quick. I was on vacation with my

94
00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:16.920
kids recently, but I was still watching some videos. And

95
00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.079
this is all allegedly, of course, whatever I was watching,

96
00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:23.879
But supposedly Antoine's life when he was younger, when he

97
00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:28.519
was little bitty, his bio dad was close with I

98
00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:33.120
think Lil Wayne's family, and supposedly Twin and one of

99
00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.759
Lila Wayne's sons kind of ran not in the same crowds,

100
00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.959
but they just they knew one another, and that he

101
00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:43.160
watched his dad get assassinated in front of him, that

102
00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:45.480
his dad was killed, shot in the face right in

103
00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.279
front of him. Not that that makes any twine Ohwan

104
00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:52.120
Bruh horrible. So he's he's lived a rough life from

105
00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.800
the get go, and that's why I think he's I

106
00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.639
think he's he's gonna stick it out. But it's dangerous,

107
00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:58.319
that is what I think.

108
00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.040
Yeah, And it's you know, it's they've been on the

109
00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:03.800
run this long. With technology as it is today. I mean,

110
00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.720
you have everything from face recognition to license plate readers

111
00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:13.439
and cameras everywhere, and yet these two have been managing

112
00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.839
to give the slip rooves. There's nobody that's even reported

113
00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:18.079
laying eyes on him.

114
00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:20.639
I think he's gonna have a wig on somewhere, dressed

115
00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.120
as a woman, because those eyebrows look like punk eyebrows.

116
00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.600
I'm telling you, well, we'll keep you updated if that

117
00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:32.000
indeed happens, and we're going to go to Washington. Very

118
00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:37.560
serious story here. Three missing sisters have been found dead

119
00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:41.639
days after they were reported missing while visiting their dad.

120
00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.519
Authorities are being accused of failing the sisters by not

121
00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.279
issuing an amber alert for them, as cops launch a

122
00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:52.759
manhunt for their father, who is charged with kidnapping and

123
00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:57.279
killing them. Peyton who is nine, Evelyn who is eight,

124
00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:02.199
and Olivia who is five, found dead on Monday night

125
00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:06.399
as after cops swarmed Rock Island campground. Now, this is

126
00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:11.879
about an hour outside of Winnatchety, Washington. I believe I

127
00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:16.319
got that pronunciation correct. The girls lived there with their mother.

128
00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:20.519
Cops are now searching for Travis Decker, who is thirty two.

129
00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.120
The girls were last seen on what was supposed to

130
00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:28.480
be a three hour custody visit on Friday. Now, Decker,

131
00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.519
who police say is homeless, didn't drop his daughters off

132
00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.040
at the end of the visit. That prompted their mother

133
00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.160
to report them missing that night. Washington State Patrol then

134
00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:44.839
issued an endangered person, Missing persons alert for the siblings.

135
00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:49.000
After Decker was seen leaving with the girls, cops decided

136
00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:52.839
not to send out an Amber alert. Now, obviously many

137
00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.800
people I'm sure are familiar with Amber alerts. They are

138
00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.519
designed to warn of child abductions. When asked about this,

139
00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.399
Thelice said they thought it was a custody issue and

140
00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:05.439
that's why they didn't release an Amber alert. They were

141
00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:10.360
quoted as saying Amber alerts involved more imminency, like we

142
00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:14.120
know something will happen versus what we're dealing with over

143
00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:17.519
the weekend, which is more of an overdue child scenario

144
00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:21.639
that from Police Sergeant Joe Eaton. Police are still searching

145
00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:24.879
for their father, Travis Decker, after his truck was found

146
00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.720
abandoned on Monday. Now members of the public are lashing

147
00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.120
out against police for not doing more to alert people

148
00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:38.440
to this unfolding situation. Facebook, of course lit up with comments.

149
00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:42.279
One of those comments, this isn't just heartbreaking, it's infuriating.

150
00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:46.360
Another one. These girls are gone because the system failed them.

151
00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.120
The police didn't take it seriously, and the court system

152
00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.519
let them down as well. And you can just imagine

153
00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.559
the comments there. It's unclear how the three girls died,

154
00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.639
but Decker has been charged with their murders. Cops wore

155
00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:04.159
members of the public not to approach Decker, a veteran

156
00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.759
who they believe is mentally unstable. Peyton, Evelyn, and Olivia

157
00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.240
were found dead at that campground after they were last

158
00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.080
seen on that custody visit with their dad and just

159
00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.200
a quick timeline Friday, May thirtieth, at five pm. They

160
00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.000
were picked up at their mother's house by their dad,

161
00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:27.639
Travis Decker, at nine forty five pm, Whitney Decker called

162
00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:32.000
the police to report her daughter missing. Four and a

163
00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:36.639
half hours later a little over that Saturday May thirty first,

164
00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:42.200
WPD issues an endangered missing persons alert. Monday, June second,

165
00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.799
they fined Decker's truck at three forty five pm at

166
00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:49.480
a campground. Five o'clock pm, they searched the area and

167
00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.320
that's when they found the bodies of the three girls.

168
00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:56.919
Tuesday at nine thirty am, they notified the public of Decker.

169
00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:00.639
They issue all those you know, pictures and things of

170
00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.679
that nature, look for this guy. Decker's ex wife, the

171
00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.200
girl's mom, previously shared that there were never any problems

172
00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.759
with their daughters visiting him in the past. The first

173
00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.759
time anything like this has ever happened. She said, Travis

174
00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.679
has really struggled since he left the military, and his

175
00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.600
mental health has been hard. Sometimes. I think this is

176
00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:23.159
an effect on that. I don't personally think he's dangerous.

177
00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:27.120
That's pretty shocking to say. She added. I think he

178
00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.919
is impulsive and he loves his children very much. Of course,

179
00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.519
that was prior to those children being found dead. I

180
00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.159
can't imagine what I would be going through, but this

181
00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:44.960
is obviously every parent's nightmare. It's so disturbing to kill

182
00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.480
three children, much less your own children.

183
00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.080
Well yeah, and.

184
00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.600
The hell isn't deep enough for somebody that would do that,

185
00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:53.720
in my opinion.

186
00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.919
No, So to me, there's a lot of layers to this,

187
00:10:57.120 --> 00:10:58.879
and I know that people are jumping out and they're

188
00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:03.519
wanting to attack law enforcement. What I'm understanding though, you know,

189
00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:06.519
you can't just issue Amber alert without meeting certain criteria.

190
00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:09.639
And we've seen this in other child related cases where

191
00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:11.080
they're like, why was there such a delay and doing

192
00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.080
the Amber alert? Why was there such a delay? Well,

193
00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.639
you have to meet the criteria. And so when people

194
00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:18.120
call nine to one one and say my child was

195
00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.879
not returned. You heard her with her own statement. I'm

196
00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.039
not this is in no way blaming or pointing the finger.

197
00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.000
I'm just understanding from what I'm reading and hearing. But

198
00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.679
when she even said herself, I don't think that he's dangerous.

199
00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:31.639
He just she said it in her own words, the mom.

200
00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.360
So why would the police not believe her? She's calling

201
00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.120
and saying, you know, he didn't return the kids. I

202
00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.480
don't think he's dangerous. I wouldn't expect that of him.

203
00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:41.600
It sounds to me that in a tone she still

204
00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.240
cares for him, but he had a mental decline after

205
00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.919
the military, probably did not seek help. And I read

206
00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.799
somewhere else too that he had been diagnosed with borderline

207
00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.679
personality disorder and was known to not take his meds.

208
00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.679
So everything that's happening here seems to be like they

209
00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:00.000
even the mom didn't think he was capable. The police

210
00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.240
did issue that hey, you know, there's these children, we're

211
00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:06.039
looking for them, but there was apparently a court order

212
00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:07.759
that said that he had the right to the visitation

213
00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.519
of the children. And like I was going to say,

214
00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:11.200
when people call nine one one and say the child

215
00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:15.440
that wasn't returned, that's just basically a custodial abduction, is

216
00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.840
how we would, I guess classify it on the call.

217
00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:21.320
But that doesn't show an imminence of that they're in danger,

218
00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.159
because he did have a right to the custody of

219
00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.519
the children at that time, and his phone was just

220
00:12:25.559 --> 00:12:29.120
going to voicemail. So again, this is horrific, and I'm

221
00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.039
not trying to arms your quarterback, and I'm just trying

222
00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.320
to understand it in the moment, and I can see

223
00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:36.600
why in the exact moment the Amber alert was not issued.

224
00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.639
You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I do, And hindsight

225
00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.960
is twenty twenty. You look back on something, this should

226
00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.879
have been done. This is the way it was explained

227
00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:49.120
to me as it relates to amber alerts. And you know,

228
00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.399
you get these weather alerts all the time, tornado alerts,

229
00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:54.879
things like that. You get them so much. If you

230
00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:56.639
live in an area where you see all kinds of

231
00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:00.399
weird works, most of the time you kind of ignore them.

232
00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:03.159
You might look outside and see if it looks dark outside.

233
00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.919
But you know, human nature a lot of times is

234
00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.320
when you hear something over and over, you just tend

235
00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.240
to not take it as literal. That is why the

236
00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.120
amber alert is so stringent, because what they're trying to avoid,

237
00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:19.879
and I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, but

238
00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:25.080
what they're trying to avoid is the psychology of human

239
00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:29.159
beings to hear something over and over again and it

240
00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.679
stopped having less meaning because as it is now, if

241
00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.320
you hear an amber alert, it's serious. Shit. Yeah, it's

242
00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:39.080
a look around you and everybody stops, all of us.

243
00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:41.600
And when we look around, do I see this car

244
00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.240
or do I see someone that looks like this they're

245
00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.960
worried that it's going to lease some of its popule.

246
00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.639
It's desensitizing. Like kids that go missing that are old

247
00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.320
enough to take care of themselves. I'm not talking about

248
00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.320
small children. I'm talking about seventeen, you know, eighteen, nineteen, whatever,

249
00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.519
And I call those children because I'm old. Usually they

250
00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.120
return within twenty four hours. Usually they're back. And I

251
00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.240
don't mean small children. Vast majority, vast majority of people

252
00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.320
that are reported missing return. So that's the issue here

253
00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.879
is that they're little. But again, what are the court

254
00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.759
what are the courts to do to when everyone says

255
00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:15.480
you weren't necessarily violent, clearly having some mental health problems,

256
00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:17.919
But to say that, you're gonna just jump to say

257
00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.759
you're gonna hurt the children. But he was homeless, Yeah,

258
00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.639
And I can't understand how you could get get visitation

259
00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.879
without a solid place with food and water and shelter.

260
00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.480
I think that's why using to me three hours visitation

261
00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:35.120
right full days. But look, there's one person that fault here,

262
00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.440
and that's the gas did this absolutely, And my prayer's

263
00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:44.600
thoughts go out to everybody who knew and loved those children.

264
00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:49.360
It's just that Mama, I hope she is surrounded, all right,

265
00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:53.200
So let's go to New York now. A second cryptocurrency

266
00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.840
investor has been arrested and charged in connection with the

267
00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.360
alleged weeks long torture of an Italian tourist and an

268
00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:03.919
upscale Manhattan apartment. William Duplessi was taken into custody on

269
00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.240
Tuesday in New York City and charged with kidnapping, assault,

270
00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.279
unlawful imprisonment, and criminal possession of a weapon. He's thirty

271
00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:14.120
two years old, and he surrendered to police after his

272
00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:18.679
alleged co conspirator and fellow cryptocurrency investor, John Woltz, was

273
00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.000
taken into custody last Friday. Their victim, a twenty eight

274
00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.720
year old Italian tourist, reportedly escaped from the Manhattan apartment

275
00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:29.279
and ran to the nearest police officer he could find outside. Woltz,

276
00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.120
who's thirty seven, was charged with two counts of second

277
00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:36.120
degree assault and one charge each of kidnapping, imprisonment, and

278
00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.240
criminal possession of a firearm. The New York Police Department

279
00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:42.039
said in a statement that the two cryptocurrency investors are

280
00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.120
alleged to have been holding the Italian man captive in

281
00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.159
a Manhattan apartment while torturing him over the course of

282
00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:49.919
two weeks in an effort to get him to give

283
00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:53.399
up the password to his Bitcoin account. The victim was

284
00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.720
known to the two suspects and described their relationship as

285
00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.799
a business partnership gone sour over the course of two

286
00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:02.600
weas weeks, Waltz and de Plussi allegedly tortured their victim

287
00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:06.320
in a number of ways, including bounding him by the wrists,

288
00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.320
shocking him with electrical wires, cutting his leg with a saw,

289
00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.399
urinating on him, and pistol whipping him. On one occasion,

290
00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.159
the man reportedly told police his kidnappers dangled him by

291
00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:21.120
the feet from an eight bedroom, six story apartments top

292
00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.519
flight of stairs. On another occasion, the victim reportedly told

293
00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.159
police he was forced to smoke out of a crack pipe.

294
00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.559
New York City Police said in a statement over the

295
00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.840
weekend that the victim alleged he had been routinely assaulted

296
00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:36.320
during the captivity before finally agreeing to give up his password.

297
00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:39.440
When the two men went to get his laptop, the

298
00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:41.759
victim was able to escape and run out of the apartment.

299
00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.080
The victim, who has not been identified, ran up to

300
00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.159
the traffic guard outside of the apartment and told him

301
00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:49.399
what happened, leading to a police response. A video taken

302
00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.559
by a bystander showed the victim was dishoveled and shoeless

303
00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.200
when he approached the traffic cop begging for help. In

304
00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:59.480
YPD Chief John Chell said quote, the motive was over money.

305
00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.440
They knew each other, but under no circumstance in this

306
00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.039
world do you have the right to kidnap somebody. Investigators

307
00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.559
found a polaroid the suspects allegedly took, which appeared to

308
00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:12.799
show the victim being tortured. Police also discovered cocaine, chicken wire,

309
00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.319
a saw, body armor, and ammunition inside the Mount Manhattan

310
00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.480
town home where the victim escaped, which Woltz was renting.

311
00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:27.519
Unreaking believable. And look, first of all, never ever trust

312
00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:31.799
anyone outside of people you consider family to know your

313
00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:37.200
financial situation, because shit like this can happen. Apparently these

314
00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.599
guys not only knew that this guy had a Bitcoin account,

315
00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:44.440
but they also knew or I would suspect they knew

316
00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:49.039
he had a substantial amount of money in that Bitcoin account.

317
00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:53.480
Because you don't urinate on someone, cut them with a

318
00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:57.039
saw and do all this other crazy shit to somebody

319
00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:59.799
that you don't even know. You want their bitcoin pass

320
00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:02.440
and you don't even know what kind of money they

321
00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:05.240
have in there. Yeah, and this guy was a tourist, so.

322
00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:08.799
You know what I'm reading into this a little more.

323
00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.480
I don't think that he was just a tourist. To me,

324
00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.240
this might have been and I might be jumping here,

325
00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.000
but I think that they told him to come down

326
00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.680
in some way from Italy to them so they could

327
00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.279
get him. It's not by chance that he's from Listen.

328
00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:24.279
I do not think it's by chance that he's from

329
00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:26.839
another country and that he comes to Manhattan where he

330
00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:29.400
knows these guys they just happen upon him and get

331
00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:31.319
him and take him no freaking way.

332
00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:34.799
Well, I'll tell you what I speculate, because you're really

333
00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:39.519
going out there name. I speculate that they met this

334
00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:42.240
guy at a bar. They all did some drinking. They

335
00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:45.400
were talking about bitcoin and things like that, and this

336
00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.039
guy was mouthing off or maybe flexen that he has

337
00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.359
two hundred million bitcoin and they so they were like,

338
00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:56.599
oh shit, and they wanted that password. That is my speculation.

339
00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:01.000
Well maybe so, but because enough that he's like a tourist,

340
00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:03.920
makes me think he was down here for something completely

341
00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.759
different than the police have already determined that. The moral

342
00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.240
to the story is don't tell anybody, especially that you

343
00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.519
just meet, that you have a bunch of money.

344
00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:14.640
Yeah, And for the record, I am just piss poor.

345
00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:16.880
I have nothing, and I live in a van down

346
00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:17.079
by the.

347
00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:20.599
River, down by the river. I like it. All Right,

348
00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:25.319
We're going to go to another state, Kelly, the state

349
00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.960
of Indiana, Indiana.

350
00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:27.359
I like it.

351
00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.359
And actually I've got a wild story that I know

352
00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.359
you're gonna have some comments about. A mother has shot

353
00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.839
a convicted child molester when she allegedly walked in on

354
00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:42.319
him attempting to rape her twelve year old daughter in

355
00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:46.960
a hotel room. This according to multiple reports. The shooting

356
00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:52.559
happened in Indianapolis on Saturday at the Beymont Inn. The

357
00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:57.079
Indianapolis Metro Police Department confirmed that Bruce Pearce, who was

358
00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:00.880
thirty nine, was critically injured in that Cheetah. The twelve

359
00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.920
year old girl went with a family member to the

360
00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.279
hotel to find her mom. They found her mother at

361
00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.839
the hotel with Pierce. The mom then temporarily leaves her

362
00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:17.000
daughter alone in the hotel room with peers while she

363
00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.599
carried some items out to her vehicle. When the mother returned,

364
00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:24.079
she found Pierce on top of her daughter and he

365
00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:27.799
was in the process of taking her clothes off. He

366
00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:31.559
also had a gun in her hand. The girl's mother

367
00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:34.920
shouted at Pierce to stop, pulled out her own gun

368
00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:37.920
and shot him. The mom and daughter of them ran

369
00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.319
from the hotel. They drove away, then they called the

370
00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.319
police and returned back to the scene. Pierce was taken

371
00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:49.000
to the hospital in critical condition, while a warrant was

372
00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.680
issued for his arrest. Now an online court case summary

373
00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.440
filed by the state of Indiana showed Pierce was facing

374
00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:02.599
multiple charges, including attempted rape, attempt child molestation, unlawful possession

375
00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:07.079
of a firearm by a serious violent felon, and confinement

376
00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.000
of the victim under fourteen years old. Pierce is listed

377
00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:15.519
on the Marion County Sheriff's Office Sex Offender Registry. He

378
00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:19.880
was registered in twenty nineteen and is considered the level

379
00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:24.880
of a sexually violent predator. The registry showed he was

380
00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:29.640
previously convicted of two child molestation cases in twenty sixteen

381
00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:33.359
and sentenced two several years in prison. There's no word

382
00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.680
yet if the twelve year old's mother will face any

383
00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:38.319
charges in the case.

384
00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:41.359
All right, Well, people may not like what I have

385
00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:43.799
to say, but I don't care because in this case,

386
00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:47.880
the mother in me laying eyes on the photo of

387
00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:50.599
this guy. God is all I need to know is

388
00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:52.119
a mother. And I want to give you all a

389
00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:54.079
picture here if you haven't seen this in the news,

390
00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:56.799
this guy. And I'm not saying face tats me and

391
00:21:56.839 --> 00:21:58.960
you're a bad person, So get out of here with that. Okay,

392
00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:02.359
love one another. But this guy right here has face

393
00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:05.799
tats above his eyebrows. He's got a freaking tear drop

394
00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:09.960
tattoo under his own mean, so that's well, if you

395
00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:12.200
believe it, that's a murder. You know, you're you're you're

396
00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:15.759

Crime Wire Weekly 5/30/25 | Escaped Inmate Turns to Instagram, Captive Woman Rescued by Jersey Mikes (Preview)

Listen On

Recent Episodes