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Vanessa Richardson
Hi listeners, it's Vanessa Richardson. Real quick, before today's episode, I want to tell you about another show from Crime House that I know you'll love. America's Most Infamous Crimes. Hosted by Katie Ring. Each week Katie takes on one of the most notorious criminal cases in American history. Serial killers who terrorized cities, unsolved mysteries that keep detectives up at night, and investigations that that change the way we think about justice. Listen to and follow America's Most Infamous crimes Tuesday through Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Morgan Absher
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Vanessa Richardson
Good morning everyone. We have multiple breaking true crime cases this morning that you need to know about. And we're starting with the biggest one. Four men are on trial for the targeted birthday night killing of Jacksonville rapper Julio Fulio. And a witness who knew the victim since childhood just told the jury he got a phone call from one of the defendants shortly after the gunshots stopped. This is crime house 24 7, your non stop source for the biggest crime cases developing right now. Make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Vanessa Richardson and we have quite a lineup for you today. Here's what you need to know. Lately I've been trying to take the stress out of getting dressed. Just focusing on pieces that feel easy, comfortable and still put together without a lot of effort. That's really what's been pulling me toward quints. Their stuff just fits that effortless everyday vibe. I love their fabrics, linens, cottons, cashmere. 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He was talented, he was visible, and by his mid-20s he was also documented by law enforcement as a member of a Jacksonville street gang called Six Block. That affiliation put him squarely in the middle of a feud that Jacksonville investigators had been monitoring for years, a running conflict between Six Block and two allied rival factions, Ace's top killers known as ATK, and a group called 1200. The rivalry played out in the streets, but it also played out loudly and publicly online. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office detectives assigned to the gang unit spent their days tracking social media posts, cataloging music videos and monitoring what the true crime world has come to know as drill rap, a genre where artists directly reference rival gang members, mock people who have been killed and sometimes signal real world intentions through lyrics. Detectives testified during this trial that Jones was one of the accounts they actively watched. The tension between him and certain members of ATK and 1200 was not subtle. Officers had even recorded a Twitter spaces argument between Jones and defendant Isaiah Chance, a live public confrontation that captured escalating threats between rival groups in the period leading up to the homicide. Because when Jones decided to celebrate his 26th birthday in Tampa at the end of June 2024, his plans were not a secret. He posted about it. He shared Instagram stories advertising a pool party and an Airbnb gathering, and one of his later posts showed the location of a club called Truth 18 where he planned to spend the night. For someone being actively monitored by law enforcement, that kind of digital transparency was both very on brand for the world. He moved in. And according to prosecutors, the fatal because, they say the defendants were watching too. 23 year old Isaiah Chance, 20 year old Shawn Gathrite, 32 year old Rashad Murphy and 29 year old Davion Murphy all pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Prosecutors say all four men traveled from Jacksonville to Tampa on the night of June 22, following Jones as he moved through the city's clubs and Airbnb parties. Also along for the trip was 23 year old Alicia Andrews, Chance's girl girlfriend, who was tried separately and convicted of manslaughter in October 2025 for her role as a lookout and for tracking Joan's location throughout the night. Her sentencing has been tied up in an appellate dispute over the trial judge's conduct, but that case is on a separate track for the four men on trial this week. The prosecution's theory is methodical and precise, they say. This was not a crime of opportunity. It was a coordinated ambush. Shortly before 6am on June 23, 2020 four GU men exited vehicles at a home, two suites and Holiday Inn complex in Tampa and opened fire on cars associated with Jones. Forensics recovered 319 mm shell casings and projectile fragments at the scene, linking the gunfire to three shooters. Using two vehicles, a Chevrolet Impala and a Chevrolet Cruz, Jones was inside a black Dodge Charger when the attack began. The car fled under fire before stopping with Jones found inside in a defensive position. He did not surv. The medical examiner testified that his cause of death was gunshot wounds, specifically a fatal shot to the chest that passed through his heart, lungs and aorta, causing rapid blood loss and death. The scene was chaotic and sprawling. A blood trail led from the Charger through the hotel lobby and all the way up to the third floor where additional victims were found. Bullet damage was documented in occupied hotel rooms. Bystander vehicles were struck. A woman who had been in Tampa for a girls trip, someone entirely unconnected to Jones or his world was shot in the right arm while sitting in a car near the hotel. A family staying at a nearby hotel while helping their daughter move into the University of South Florida was awakened by what they thought was an explosion. Investigators say the evidence trail behind it is equally deliberate. Detectives used Tesla's sentry mode, the always on camera system built into parked Tesla vehicles along with hotel surveillance footage to reconstruct the timeline and track the shooter's movements before and after the attack. A silver Chevrolet Cruise identified as one of the suspect vehicles was caught on surveillance going through a McDonald's drive thru earlier in the night. Rashad Murphy was eventually taken into custody after a license plate reader flagged his vehicle as connected to a felony in Tampa. When officers located the car at a hotel, Murphy got out, saw them with guns drawn and ran. Officers deployed a Taser twice. The first attempt failed. The second succeeded when investigators obtained a warrant and searched a phone recovered from his vehicle. They found social media content, references to Jones, an AR style rifle, photo identification images and an Airbnb booking. During his post arrest interview, Murphy initially denied being in Tampa or having anything to do with the Airbnb. But he changed his story as detectives confronted him with the evidence. One detail stood out to investigators. During that interview, Murphy appeared to switch hands while wr, a detail that became significant because surveillance footage from the crime scene showed one of the gunmen firing with his left hand. Gathrite was stopped after a tip connected a gold Toyota 4Runner to the shooting. Officers found a Glock 9 millimeter in the center console and a bag in the back seat containing loose ammunition magazines and gun parts. That evidence gave probable cause for his arrest. The trial itself began on April 22, and for the first week, defense attorneys consistently challenged the quality and completeness of the evidence, pointing to gaps in the investigation, including no forensic confirmation from clothing DNA in certain areas, no search warrant for Murphy's home, and uncertainty about who actually controlled the digital accounts used to book the Airbnb. Chance's defense attorney has argued that the prosecution cannot prove Chance was present or involved and has sought to redirect blame toward Rashad Murphy as the architect of the plan. On May 4, day seven of the trial, the testimony took a significant turn when Robert Howard took the stand. Howard, who goes by the nickname Kenny Capps, told jurors he had known Charles Jones since they were children and that he grew up in the same Jacksonville neighborhood. He was in Tampa the night of the shooting, traveling with Jones's group. After the shooting, Howard said he received a phone call from Rashad Murphy. During that call, according to Howard, Murphy told him he had seen Howard at the club, that he had been paying attention. Murphy then allegedly said, that was him in front of that car. It's the kind of testimony that can land hard with a jury, a phone call placing one of the defendants at the scene in his own words, or at least according to a witness's account of those words. But the defense was quick to challenge it. Howard is currently facing federal charges of his own, and during cross examination, attorneys pressed him on the timing of when he came forward and what, if anything, he stood to gain. Also on Day seven, a senior crime lab analyst testified about DNA testing performed on tape recovered from a rifle connected to the case. The testing showed a mixture consistent with contributions from at least four individuals, with one major contributor identified as Sean gathrite. As of May 5, all four defendants remain on trial for first degree murder and conspiracy, and all four face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted. The ripple effects of this case go way beyond the four men currently seated at the defense table. It touches a prior murder. Detectives testified about a 2019 homicide investigation involving 17 year old Adrien Gaynor, who was shot multiple times on Jacksonville's north side. That shooting was determined to have probable gang involvement, and the case recently resulted in a plea by a man named Hakeem Robinson. The picture being painted for the jury is one of ongoing organized violence, a cycle that prosecutors argue culminated in a Tampa parking lot at dawn. The jury now has to decide whether the evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that these four men planned and executed that attack. Defense attorneys say the answer is no. The state says the answer is all over the surveillance footage, the phones, the DNA, and the witness stand. We have one more story to bring you today, and it is one that has stayed in the public consciousness since November of last year, where a cruise trip became a family's worst nightmare.
Katie Ring
Think about some of the cases that defined true crime in America. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, the Karen retrial. Some crime cases are so shocking, they don't just make headlines, they forever change a country. I'm Katie Ring, host of America's Most Infamous Crimes. Each week I take on one of the most notorious criminal cases, whether it's unfolding now or etched into America. American history, revealing not just what happened, but how it forever changed our society. Serial killers who terrorized cities. Unsolved mysteries that kept detectives up at night, and investigations that changed the way we think about justice. Each case unfolds across multiple episodes released every Tuesday through Thursday, from the first sign that something was wrong to the moment the truth came out or didn't. These are the stories behind the headlines. Listen to and follow America's Most Infamous Crimes available now wherever you get your podcasts.
Vanessa Richardson
Anna Kepner was an 18 year old cheerleader from Titusville, Florida. By every account, she was the kind of person who lit up a room. She had just graduated from Temple Christian School where she cheered and her whole life was still spread out in front of her. But on November 7, 2025, Anna died during a family vacation. Anna and her 16 year old stepbrother Timothy Hudson were abort the Carnival Horizon, a cruise ship that had departed from Miami on a Caribbean voyage and was making its way back to port. And sometime between the evening of November 6th and the early morning hours of November 7th, Anna was sexually assaulted and killed. Her body was discovered by a cabin steward on the morning of November 8th at 11:17am she'd been wrapped in a blanket, concealed under the bed and hidden further by life vests placed on top of her. The medical examiner determined the cause of death to be mechanical asphyxiation and bruising on her neck was consistent with an arm having been held across it. The FBI were later called in and the death was ruled a homicide. The ship returned to Miami that same day, November 8th, as originally scheduled. And that's where the immediate aftermath gets complicated in a way that's almost impossible to fully absorb. When the Carnival Horizon docked at Port Miami, Timothy was described by family members as an emotional mess. He was hospitalized for psychiatric observation after the ship returned to port and was later released to a relative. His mother's text messages, revealed in later court proceedings, showed her describing a brief conversation with Timothy at the facility in which he just kept repeating that he could not remember anything. Here's where the family structure becomes critical to understanding the full scope of what this case involves, because it's not a simple story of a stranger or an intruder. Anna Kepner's father is 41 year old Christopher Kepner. He's married to a woman named Chantel Hudson. Kepner and Chantel is Timothy Hudson's mother, which means the person accused of killing Anna is the biological son of Anna's own stepmother. The man who lost his daughter is now also, through marriage, connected to the family of the person accused of taking her life. That is the impossible reality. Christopher Kepner has been living inside since November. Behind the scenes. While the public knew only that a teenager had died on a cruise ship, a legal process was already unfolding. Timothy's parents were in the middle of a custody dispute in Brevard County, Florida, over their youngest child. In those proceedings, Chantel was advised by the FBI and her lawyers that a criminal case might be initiated against one of her minor children. She filed an emergency request to pause those proceedings. By December 5, 2025, a federal judge in that custody case stated openly that Timothy was considered a suspect in anna's death. On February 2, 2026, Timothy was charged as a juvenile. He appeared before a federal magistrate in Miami on February 6th and was released into the care of his paternal uncle and prohibited from being alone with anyone under the age of 18. The sealed status of the case meant the public only saw fragments. But on April 13, 2026, everything changed. A federal grand jury indicted Timothy Hudson as an adult on charges of first degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. The indictment was unsealed, and for the first time, his full name was made. The case moved formally to federal district court in Miami before U.S. district Judge Beth Bloom. Minors are rarely prosecuted in federal court. The fact that this case landed there speaks to the nature of the charges. Timothy waved his appearance at the formal arraignment and entered a written plea of not guilty. Judge Bloom then issued the trial date as June 1, 2026 in Miami. If convicted on both counts, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. On May 1, Christopher Kep gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which he was deeply candid about how he's approaching the trial. Ahead he said, quote, unless they ask for me to be there, neither my wife nor I will be attending. I've heard all the evidence. I saw it for myself. They have everything they need. It's going to be too painful to relive it all again. End quote. At the same time, he's been clear about what he believes justice looks like. He said publicly he wants to see Timothy Hudson in prison and that he poses a danger to women and to children. For a father navigating that particular grief, one made even more unbearable by the entanglement of two families, those words carry a weight that is hard to put into language. June 1 is now less than four weeks away. For Anna Kepner's family, the days between now and that courtroom are days lived inside grief with no real outlet, just the quiet, devastating business of waiting for a process they cannot control to do what they are hoping, hoping it will do.
Hannah or Saruti
If you like your true crime, like you like your coffee, Red Handed is the podcast for you. It's dark, intense, and might just keep you up all night. I'm Hannah. I'm Saruti. And every week on Red Handed, we break down a different fascinating case. From the most recent US Trials everyone is obsessing over, like Brendan Banfield, Karen Reid, and Ellen Greenberg, to the most unbelievable stories from around the world. There's nothing we love more than digging into every detail of the cases we cover, getting beyond a basic analysis and cutting to the heart of the story. Red handed has over 400 episodes ready to binge right now. Plus, be sure to check out our weekly sister show shorthand, where we unpack everything from the Black death to Area 51. If you're looking for smart, detailed true crime with personality, check out Red Handed wherever you get your podcasts.
Vanessa Richardson
Okay, before I let you go, you know we can't end without giving you a little something extra over on Clues. Today, Morgan and Kaelyn are diving into the murder of Relisha Rudd. An eight year old girl stops going to school. No one reports her missing for nearly three weeks. Not the shelter, not the school, not even her own family. In 2014, Relisha Rudd vanished from a Washington, D.C. family shelter. The only adult who claimed to know where she was turned out not to be a doctor, but a shelter janitor. Days later, his wife was found murdered. Weeks later, he was found dead in a park. Relisha has never been found. Morgan and Kaylin examine the surveillance footage, the hotel sightings, the trash bag purchase, and the systemic failures that may have cost a little girl her life. We grabbed a clip from today's episode. Take a listen and if you like what you hear, don't forget to follow clues.
Morgan Absher
So this case starts on Friday, February 28th of 2014. That day, eight year old Relisha Raised was absent from school. There was no excuse that was given, but this wasn't necessarily abnormal for Relisha because she had been missing a lot of school lately. The next day though, March 1st, her aunt Ashley reported that she spent a lot of time with Relisha at her own apartment. So even though she was missing school, she was still seeing family. Relish and her brothers would spend a lot of weekends over at their Aunt Ashley's because they wanted to get out of the shelter that they were living in. In that morning, Ashley did Relish his hair. She added pink and white bows to the top of her braids. Relisha was all smiles when her family got their phone out to record a quick video for her mother Shamika. In that footage, Relisha grins at herself in front of the camera and repeats after her aunt we chillin at Aunt Ashley's house. Hi Instagram. Shortly after that video was taken, Relisha put on her winter coat and pink snow boots and she said goodbye to her Aunt Ashley. And then she left. And Ashley had no idea that she would never see Relisha again. But before we get into how the second grader disappeared, we need to start at the beginning. So in 2014, Relisha Rudd was eight years old. She was the eldest of four siblings raised by her 28 year old mother, Shamika Young and Shemeika's then fiance, 28 year old Antonio Wheeler. Relisha and her oldest brother were full siblings sharing a mostly absent father at the time named Irving Rudd. The younger two boys were Relish's half brothers. Antonio's biological children though he played the role of dad in the lives of all four children. But things were incredibly tough for this family at the time of Relicious disappearance. They were all sharing a room in a crowded shelter for the unhoused in Washington D.C. but their problems, or rather Shamika's problems, started long before Alicia was born. Shemeka's family on all sides carried, I mean from the research we've done, it seemed to be like a massive amount of generational trauma. Her mother, Melissa Young basically raised herself coming of age on the streets of Washington D.C. in the early 1980s. This was right in the middle of the era that's now known as the crack epidemic. Shamika's mother Melissa gave birth to her when she was just 17 years old. And at the time she was addicted to cocaine and alcohol. Now, Shemeka Relish's mother went on to be the eldest of five, but was very close with her sister Ashley. Ashley. For a part of their childhood, they lived with Melissa in a shelter for homeless people. But as Shamika got older, things only got harder. She was diagnosed with a mild intellectual disability, along with emotional and behavioral issues. And eventually, in 1999, 13 year old Shamika was involuntarily committed to a pediatric mental health facility. After that, she went to a group home in Virginia. And Shamika eventually aged out of the system, as a lot of kids do, and she turned 18 in 2004. In her first few months as an adult, she started dating Irving Rund, who at the time was 34 years old. And just a warning. I mean, this episode's gonna get darker as we go, but the next part of the story does cover disturbing acts of child abuse. So skip ahead for about a minute if you need to. So Irving had been released from prison two years earlier, in 2002 after. And this, this hurts me so, so, so, so deeply to say, but he killed his 17 month old daughter, one of a set of twins. The story is heartbreaking behind this. So Irving was 22 at the time. He claimed that this was accidental. He said that he was trying to reprimand her for crying, which at 17 months old, you can't really reprimand a child for crying. They don't have the cognitive abilities to be like disciplined. He also confessed though that he spanked the surviving twins so hard once that, that it did break her leg. So Irving was charged with first degree murder. However, a jury ultimately convicted him of involuntary manslaughter. He went to prison for a little bit of time, and after he served his time, he reportedly got a job as a custodian at a place called Catholic Charities. It's a place that provides food, shelter and mental health support to people in need. While he was there, he met 18 year old Shamika and within a few months Shemeika was pregnant and Irving was, was having more children. It's so devastating because you look at how vulnerable of a position Shamika was in. Yes, it's unclear if she knew exactly what he had done in his past, though at this time, just to be an 18 year old and you have this 34 year old person who's working at the place you're living. Yeah, it's horrible. On October 29, 2005, Relisha Rudd was born and she looked, looked exactly like her 19 year old mom. They had the same light brown skin tone, the same naturally arched eyebrows, the same high cheekbones, and the same big eyes with very thick eyelashes. Shemeika's mom, Melissa, was actually at the hospital for the delivery. She cut the umbilical cord and she gave Shamika some parenting advice. After Relisha was born, she said, quote, be the best mom you can be because it's easy for your children to go into foster care care, but it's hard to get your children back home with you where they belong. It was a lesson that Melissa unfortunately learned the hard way. But she hoped that she could spare her daughter from the same suffering, like maybe stop that cycle in its tracks and maybe her daughter would have a better life than she had. And luckily, Shemeika had a few people in her life that she could lean on to help her and make sure that that didn't happen. One of the people Shamika and Relisha was closest to was her aunt Ashley. Shamika was embarrassed about becoming a teen mom. She felt like she was setting a bad example for her little sister, who was 17 at the time and was still in foster care. But Ashley and Relisha bonded instantly. Ashley referred to herself as Relish Rescue Auntie, because Relisha would always come crawling to her if she needed help with something. Shamika was glad that her sister liked to babysit though, because by the time Ashley turned 18, Shamika was pregnant with her second child with the now 35 year old Irving Rush. And that's when Relish's brother was born in 2007. But Shamika and Irving broke up soon after the birth. Then shortly after that, someone else came into their lives and that was 21 year old Antonio Wheeler. Now, like Shamika, Antonio had struggled with behavioral issues as a kid and he ended up in a group home. And he thought that he might never find someone who could relate to that experience. But that is until that day in 2008 when he got on a city bus and he saw Shameika sitting with two year old Relish. When their stop arrived, Relisha ordered Antonio to get off the bus and come home with her and Shamika and her little matchmaking attempt worked. Five months later, Shamika and Antonio moved in together. And around 2009 the two of them had a baby boy. Their second son after that came along the following year, Relisha, who was now the eldest of four and she was nicknamed Lil Mama because she acted more like a second mom than a big sister. It was Relisha, who told her brothers when they were eating too much candy, she was the one who got their baths ready at night. But despite her best efforts, Relisha couldn't protect her siblings from the grown up problems of her family. In 2012, when Relisha was six or seven years old, the family was evicted from their apartment after falling four months behind on their rent. And after that, Relisha, her mother Shamika, and at least one of her brothers lived in a car for a little while while Relisha's cheerleading coach, Shannon Smith, could tell that something wasn't right at home. She noticed that Relisha hadn't been bathing, and she seemed starved for affection. So Coach Smith did her best to help. Every morning before cheerleading practice, she would take Felicia to the school nurse's office to wash her up and change her clothes. And sometimes she would bring Relisha to the nurse's office for baths, basically. And Coach Smith could fix her hair and apply lotion. She even babysat Relisha once in a while. And Relisha loved Coach Smith just as much as she loved cheerleading, being girly, and dressing up as a princess on Halloween. Art and drawing also, you know, became a big part of her life. All of this served as a temporary escape, a way for her to forget, at least for a little while, that she didn't have a bedroom to go home to. And eventually, Relish's aunt Ashley stepped in to help them out too. Too. Ashley had just gotten an apartment in southeastern dc. It was a one bedroom, but Ashley was willing to squeeze seven people in there if she had to. So Relish, his whole family moved in. But the landlord was not thrilled to have six new tenants who weren't on the lease. And since Ashley was on a government housing subsidy, she couldn't take a chance at keeping the entire family there. So she told Shamika, Antonio and the four kids that they did have to find somewhere else to go. At least that is Ashley's side of the story. That's what she says happens, husband. In an interview with WAMU, Washington D.C. 's National Public Radio affiliate, Antonio claimed that Ashley kicked his family out of her apartment because she didn't like his relaxed parenting style. Either way, Shamika and Antonio were back on the street, literally. And this time they contacted the local family Resource center about going to a shelter. But there weren't any that could take in a family of six right away. That was a lot of people. And after a year of staying at a days in motel provided by the resource center, the family got word in 2013 that there was a spot ready for them. Unfortunately it was at the D.C. general Family Shelter. It was a spot that was notorious for being unsanitary. It was bug infested and above all it was unsafe. You know, despite that, it was a place where parents and kids could stay together unlike other shelter which typically would split men and women up. Plus this was really the only option that the family had. By late February 2014, eight year old Relish's family had been living at D.C. general for seven months. Relisha was a second grader at Payne Elementary School in the city's Hill east neighborhood. Hill east did have a persistently high crime rate, but Payne was the closest elementary school to D.C. general. One in five students enrolled at Payne for the 2013-2014 school year. Year was classified as unhoused, but Relisha seemed like she was handling the situation as well as she could. At least her brothers would sometimes get in trouble with their teachers, but Relisha never did. She paid attention in class. She always remembered her manners. She was popular with her classmates. She made some close friends at school. She also would get up early every morning and help her three little brothers get ready for the day. In the evening she wouldn't go to bed until they were all done with their homework work. And everyone who knew Relisha could see how important even at such a young age education was to her. She would get up early in the morning just to pick out her outfits for school before everyone woke up. And that is why it was so strange when one day she just stopped going to school.
Vanessa Richardson
That's Morgan Absher and Kaylin Moore on Clues. And that's just a taste. Their full episode on the murder of Relisha Rudd is out right now on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Just search clues and make sure you follow so you don't miss any episodes. You've been listening to crime house 247 bringing you breaking crime news. I'm Vanessa Richardson. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more developing stories. Stay safe and thanks for listening.
Katie Ring
I'm Katie Ring, host of America's Most Infamous Crimes. Each week I take on one of the most notorious criminal cases cases in American history. Listen to and follow America's Most Infamous Crimes available now wherever you get your podcasts.
Vanessa Richardson
Thanks for listening to today's episode. Not sure what to listen to next. Check out America's Most Infamous Crimes hosted by Katie Ring. From serial killers to Unsolved Mysteries and game changing investigations, each week Katie takes on a notorious criminal case in American history. Listen to and follow America's most infamous crimes now. Wherever you listen to podcasts,
Host: Vanessa Richardson
Date: May 6, 2026
This episode of Crime House 24/7, hosted by Vanessa Richardson, centers on the high-profile murder of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio (Charles Jones), who was killed in a coordinated ambush after publicly sharing his 26th birthday plans on social media. The episode delves into the ongoing trial of four men accused of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, examines the intricate dynamics of gang-related violence in Jacksonville, and explores the investigation and trial developments. The second segment covers the tragic death of Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship and the resulting trial, and concludes with a preview of another true crime case, the disappearance of Relisha Rudd.
Julio Foolio’s Background & Gang Feud
Digital Footprint & Fatal Birthday Plans
The Prosecution’s Case & Trial Details
Details of the Attack
Chaos & Aftermath
Suspect Arrests & Evidence Handling
Key Witness Testimony
Forensic Evidence
Larger Context
On Social Media’s Role in the Crime:
“Detectives testified during this trial that Jones was one of the accounts they actively watched. The tension between him and certain members of ATK and 1200 was not subtle.” [03:29]
On Surveillance and Law Enforcement Work:
“Detectives used Tesla's sentry mode, the always on camera system built into parked Tesla vehicles along with hotel surveillance footage to reconstruct the timeline and track the shooter's movements before and after the attack.” [07:04]
On Witness Testimony:
“It’s the kind of testimony that can land hard with a jury, a phone call placing one of the defendants at the scene in his own words, or at least according to a witness’s account of those words.” [09:54]
Overview
Complex Family Dynamics
Legal Proceedings
Victim’s Father’s Statement
Case Introduction
Preview Highlights
Quote from Preview “She was the kind of person who lit up a room... she was the eldest of four siblings... But despite her best efforts, Relisha couldn't protect her siblings from the grown up problems of her family.” [22:59]
This episode of Crime House 24/7 provides an in-depth, up-to-the-minute briefing on headline-grabbing true crime stories. The focal point is the chilling, targeted killing of rapper Julio Foolio in Tampa, the social media transparency that contributed to his death, and the complex trial now underway. The episode also highlights the ongoing trauma, legal complexities, and search for justice in the Anna Kepner cruise ship case and previews a deep-dive into the heartbreaking disappearance of Relisha Rudd. Through firsthand quotes, forensic details, and analysis, listeners receive a rich narrative that underscores both the personal and wider societal reverberations of violent crime.