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Vanessa Richardson
Hi, it's Vanessa. If you're drawn to true crime stories about disappearances, there's a new Crime House original you should check out. It's called the Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turney and Courtney Nicole. Sarah's an advocate for missing and murdered victims whose own sister disappeared in 2001. And Courtney is a true crime storyteller who's seen firsthand how crime can change a family forever. Together, they bring lived experience to every case, examining the moments just before a person disappears. The routines, the timelines, the small details that often get overlooked because every disappearance has a moment where everything still feels normal until it doesn't. Listen to and follow the final hours on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every Monday. Foreign. This is Crime House. 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 ones. With no DNA matches and no suspects, the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance enters a troubling new phase. While a jury in Quebec has acquitted former UFC fighter Eduardo Icho Larenas in a deadly home invasion case, 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.
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Vanessa Richardson
On February 20, law enforcement officials said there are no confirmed suspects and no DNA matches in the disappearance of 84 year old Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of Today co anchor Savannah Guthrie. Authorities confirmed that DNA recovered from a glove found about two miles from Guthrie's Tucson home, believed to resemble gloves worn by a masked person seen on surveillance footage the night she vanished did not match any profiles in the FBI's national database. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI are now turning to investigative genetic genealogy in an effort to identify the unknown male DNA recovered from the glove. Authorities have publicly cleared the Guthrie family as suspects, emphasizing they are cooperating fully and are considered victims in the case. Law enforcement officials also say there's no evidence Guthrie was taken across the US Mexico border. Despite speculation about cross border abduction theories, Mexican authorities confirmed they are not conducting an active search because they have not received a formal request for assistance and a reported lead into Mexico has been ruled out by the FBI. And as investigators in Arizona continue to pursue forensic leads in Guthrie's disappearance, a courtroom in Quebec has delivered a verdict in a high profile homicide case involving a former UFC fighter. A four year legal battle involving former UFC fighter Eduardo Icho Larenas has finally reached its end. On Thursday, February 19th, a jury in Quebec found Lorenas not guilty of second degree murder in the 2022 stabbing death of a 17 year old inside his own home. For four years, the now 45 year old athlete fought against the allegations, arguing he killed the boy in self defense. He it all started in the early morning hours of May 24, 2022 at a residence on Place du Coran in Laval Santro District. According to evidence heard at trial, Lorenas and his wife Gladys Rosana Lopez were inside when they were targeted in what the defense described as two home invasions within hours of each other. Lorena's mother reportedly died less than two weeks before the alleged attempted robbery, and in testimony, Lorena said he believes the assailants were looking for, quote, an inheritance. At 1:55am police responded to a 911 call from the couple. Lorenas and Lopez were not at the residence when officers arrived. Court testimony later revealed they had left and told police they had gone to a family member's home for refuge. Inside the home, officers discovered a 17 year old boy suffering from stab wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Lorenas would later tell the jury that he did not know about the body until police told him because he was a minor. A public publication ban prevented the release of his identity during the court proceedings. The following day, May 25, 2022, Lorenas was charged with second degree murder and Lopez was charged with being an accomplice after the fact. When the jury trial began in Quebec Superior Court in Laval in January 2026, both pleaded not guilty. Addressing jurors at the outset, the presiding judge reminded them not to draw conclusions based on Appearances. He told them, quote, in you might have noticed that they are not detained, but you shouldn't let that influence your decisions, end quote. From the beginning, the central issue was whether the fatal stabbing was murder or self defense. Lorenas took the stand in his own defense. He described confronting an intruder armed with a knife during the second alleged invasion. He testified, quote, I wanted him to keep a distance. That was the goal. I wanted to defend myself, my wife, end quote. He told jurors the confrontation became physical, with both men grappling for control of the weapon. Quote, that was the first time I had control of the knife, end quote. Describing the moment he believed he had managed to disarm the teen, he added that he, quote, didn't see any blood, end quote. Lorenis testified that the two struggled and fell. He said he did not recall deliberately stabbing the 17 year old, explaining the confusion he experienced during the altercation. He told the jury that he event bent the teenager's arm behind his back and they both fell to the floor. He said that was the moment the boy, who was wearing a mask, was injured. He described the immediate aftermath and said, quote, I had the knife. He didn't move after that, end quote. Under cross examination, prosecutors pressed him on the force used and the sequence of events. Lorenus maintained that he was overwhelmed during the altercation. He told the jury, quote, I was in shock. A battle for a knife is not normal, end quote. Jurors heard testimony about his reaction when police later informed him that someone had died inside the home. Lorenas testified, quote, I asked how many bodies, end quote Recounting his words during questioning. Photographs entered into evidence showed minor injuries to Lorenas, including cuts and bruises. The defense argued those injuries were consistent with a violent struggle with the Crown, argued that the level of force went beyond what was reasonable in self defense. During the trial, the Crown referenced Lorena's background as a mixed martial arts fighter, explaining elements of grappling and physical control to the jury. The defense, meanwhile, focused on what it described as a chaotic and violent struggle inside a home that had already been targeted earlier that night. Midway through the proceedings, the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence for the charge against Lopez, Lorena's wife, to continue before the jury. She was acquitted and the trial proceeded solely on the murder charge against Lorenas. On the third day of deliberations, the jury reached its verdict and Lorena was found not guilty. As one jury clears a defendant in Quebec, another jury in Houston has returned a very different verdict in a murder trial without a body. One day after returning a guilty verdict for murder on February 20th, a Harris county jury sentenced 33 year old Aldo Ramirez to life in prison. Jurors found him responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of 38 year old Dulce Martinez. Prosecutors said Martinez had been in a tumultuous relationship with Ramirez before she vanished nearly three years ago after leaving work. Martinez was last seen on October 1, 2022, leaving a McDonald's in Hempstead while still in her uniform, according to Prairie View Police. She did not return home and family members reported her missing when they could not reach her. Police and detectives from multiple agencies soon began tracing her whereabouts that night, piecing together cell phone pings and video feeds. Prosecutors told jurors that hours after Martinez left work, surveillance footage captured her walking into Ramirez's North Houston AP on North Line Drive. That was the last confirmed sighting of Martinez alive. Investigators then tracked additional video of Ramirez shortly thereafter handling Martinez's vehicle, a white 2015 Chevrolet Traverse. Court records indicate that footage showed him opening the hatch of her car and placing a heavy object inside that resembled a rolled rug secured with duct tape and an object prosecutors argued was consistent in shape and size with a human body. Further surveillance evidence shown at trial placed Ramirez leaving the vehicle outside a business near the intersection of Broadway and Brockton streets on October 3, 2022. Authorities testified that blood was found outside the car, linking the scene to Martinez's disappearance and supporting their assertion that something had gone horribly wrong after she entered Ramirez's apartment. Prosecutors outlined a volatile relationship between Martinez and Ramirez that spanned more than a year before her disappearance. Though they were involved romantically, the relationship was not exclusive and there was no clear evidence Ramirez was the father of any of Martinez's four children. Ramirez was initially charged with tampering with a corpse as the investigation unfolded, and later the charge was elevated to include murder. As prosecutors built their case throughout the trial, defense attorneys challenged the state state's heavy reliance on video and circumstantial evidence, noting that Martinez's body has never been recovered and that key pieces of physical evidence remained absent. Prosecutors told jurors the case represented a no body homicide prosecution, stressing that circumstantial evidence can be just as powerful as direct evidence under Texas law. They pointed to Ramirez's actions in the days following Martinez's disappearance as proof that the chain of events left no reasonable alternative explanation. Jurors ultimately agreed, returning a guilty verdict and ensuring Ramirez will spend the rest of his life in prison. For Martinez's family, the sentence marks a significant legal milestone in a case that has left them without closure since late 2022. With Martinez's remains still unrecovered, critical questions persist about what happened inside that north Houston apartment after she walked through its doors that night. As proceedings in this Houston court conclude, a separate tragedy has unfolded in Los Angeles, where a renowned Caltech scientist was shot to death outside his home last week.
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Vanessa Richardson
See terms A prominent Caltech scientist has been identified as the victim of a homicide in Antelope Valley, California. 67 year old astrophysicist Carl Grill Maire was shot and killed last week in front of his home as deputies investigated what authorities described as an assault with a deadly weapon call around 6am in the unincorporated community of Llano Grill. Mayor was found lying on the front porch of his home with a fatal gunshot wound to the torso, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and medical examiner findings. Paramedics attempted life saving measures, but Grillmere was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers began an investigation into what would be determined a homicide while deputies were investigating the shooting. They also responded to a nearby carjacking. The carjacking suspect they arrested was identified as 29 year old Freddy Snyder, authorities said. Snyder was linked to both the fatal shooting and the carjacking, according to deputies. Snyder ran from Grilmar's home and then allegedly committed the carjacking. And on Wednesday, February 18, the LA County District Attorney's Office formally charged Snyder with murder, carjacking and a separate first degree burglary charge from a December 2025 incident. Snyder is now being held in custody on $2 million bail. Carl Grillmare was a widely respected research scientist at the California Institute of Technology's Infrared and Analysis Center, a division that partners with NASA and other institutions to advance astronomical science. According to his website, Grilmare was dedicated to understanding the structure of the Milky Way, galactic streams, stellar populations, dark matter and distant exoplanets, including publishing a 2007 study that identified water on a planet outside our solar system. Grilmar's contributions spanned more than four decades of research and scholarship. He earned the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work in astrophysics, and most recently he was reportedly studying comets and asteroids that could pose a hazard to Earth. Fellow scientists remembered him not only for his scientific acumen, but also for his mentorship, passion for teaching and curiosity about the universe. A colleague, Sergio Fajardo Acosta, told the LA Times that Grilmar enjoyed stargazing from his property, where he maintained personal telescopes and an at home observatory to peer into the sky. It remains unclear what, if any, connection Snyder had with Grilmar, and no motive has yet been publicly disclosed. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, a man has admitted in federal court to trying to bribe a juror in a drug trafficking case tied to a former heavyweight boxer In New York, a man accused of trying to bribe a juror in the federal drug trafficking case against former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogik pleaded guilty on February 19 to obstruction of justice. Mustafa Feah admitted in federal court that he participated in a scheme to corrupt the Brooklyn prosecution of Gogik, who was facing charges tied to one of the largest cocaine seizures in U.S. history. Prosecutors said. Feet Joe was among three men charged in November of 2025 in connection with the attempted jury tampering, according to court filings. The scheme involved approaching a prospective juror and offering as much as $100,000 in exchange for influencing deliberations in Gogic's pending case. Authorities alleged the men tracked down the juror and attempted to deliver the bribe, triggering an investigation that ultimately exposed the plot before the drug trial began. Gogik was arrested in 2022 and charged with participating in an international cocaine trafficking operation stemming from three major drug seizures, including nearly 19.8 tons of cocaine discovered aboard a cargo ship. Federal prosecutors alleged Gogik helped coordinate the shipments as part of a broader smuggling network. He has pleaded not guilty and his trial has not yet taken place. Feetja is scheduled to be sentenced on June 23, 2026, with Feetja now admitting to the bribery attempt. Prosecutors say the scheme could have jeopardized one of the largest cocaine trafficking trials in recent years and serves as a warning about the consequences of trying to corrupt a federal jury.
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Vanessa Richardson
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Vanessa Richardson
if you're drawn to true crime stories about disappearances, there's a new Crime House show for you to check out. It's the new Crime House Original Series series the Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turney and Courtney Nicole. Sarah is an advocate for missing and murdered victims whose own sister disappeared in 2001. And Courtney is a true crime storyteller and investigator who witnessed firsthand how crime can change a family forever. Together, they bring lived experience to every case, looking not only at what happened, but what led up to it. Each episode examines the moments just before a person person disappears, the routines, the timelines, and the small details that often get overlooked. Because every disappearance has a moment where everything still feels normal. A text that doesn't raise concern, a routine that goes unchanged, a door that closes just like it always has. Until it doesn't. The Final Hours puts those moments under a microscope because when it comes to justice, there's no such thing as overanalyzing. Listen to and follow the Final Hours on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen. New episodes every Monday. Lastly, let me tell you about what else is happening at Crime House today. The Final Hours launches with a deep dive into the disappearance of 24 year old Jennifer Kessie. The show Examines her case. A story driven by grainy surveillance images, stalled leads and unsettling silence. Some disappearances feel unpredictable. The Jennifer Kessie case feels calculated. On the morning of January 24, 2006, 24 year old Jennifer Kessie left her Orlando condo for work. She just returned from a vacation with her boyfriend. She sent routine messages the night before. She laid out clothes for the next morning. By 9am she hadn't shown up to the office. By evening, her parents were driving to Orlando, knowing something was deeply wrong. What followed wasn't just a missing person investigation. It became one of the most frustrating and eerily precise unsolved cases in modern true crime history. There are no ransom demands, no chaotic crime scene, no extended digital trail stretching into the night. Instead, there are small, controlled details that make the case feel almost engineered. Here are five bizarre details you need to know that continue to haunt this case. Number one, the surveillance video that almost solves everything. Jennifer's car was found parked at the Huntington on the green apartment complex about a mile from her home. Security cameras captured someone parking the vehicle around noon on the day she vanished. This should have been the breakthrough. Instead, it became one of the most maddening pieces of footage in true crime. The camera system captured still images at fixed inn intervals and in every single frame. Where the suspect's face should have been visible. It was obscured by a gate post. Not once, not twice. Every time. Investigators later described it as terrible luck, a timing coincidence created by the spacing of the fence and the camera's capture rate. But when you watch it, the effect feels unreal. The person's body is visible. Clothing is visible. Their build appears slight, possibly between 53 and 5 5. The way they walk is vis but the identifying feature, the face, is completely hidden. It's one of the closest near identifications in a major missing person's case. A suspect recorded, a vehicle placed, a timeline narrowed, and still no name. Number two, the timeline window is shockingly small. Investigators believe Jennifer was taken sometime between when she locked her condo door and when she would have reached her car. Her vehicle was found with personal items still inside, including some of her belongings that suggested she intended to go to work as usual. There were no confirmed signs of forced entry inside her condo. No evidence she struggled inside the apartment. That means the abduction likely happened outdoors in broad daylight in a residential parking area. The gap between normal routine and disappearance may have been only minutes. That compressed window is chilling. It suggests someone either knew her schedule or was watching closely enough to act quickly and decisively. In many disappearances Time stretches. Here it collapses. And once those minutes passed, Jennifer was gone. Number three. The car appears to have been deliberately staged. When Jennifer's black Chevy Malibu was discovered, it wasn't dumped randomly. It was parked neatly within the lines of a space at another apartment complex. The suspect walked away calmly after parking it, heading toward a side area rather than a main road. This detail matters. The location wasn't far from Jennifer's condo, but it wasn't adjacent either. It creates distance without drawing attention. The vehicle wasn't abandoned in a panic. It was placed. There were a few usable fingerprints inside. No obvious signs of a chaotic struggle in the car. That suggests planning. If the vehicle wasn't the primary crime scene, it may have been used as a secondary transport point. And if it was wiped down, that indicates foresight. Calm behavior and careful placement point towards someone who was thinking ahead, not reacting emotionally. That level of composure after a daytime abduction is deeply unsettling. Number four. Her phone and digital trail went quiet almost immediately. Jennifer's phone stopped generating activity shortly after she vanished. There were no outgoing calls for help, no late night pings in unfamiliar areas, no attempts to access voicemail or contact family. The phone appears to have gone dark early in 2006. Cell tracking was not as sophisticated as it is now, but even then, devices often left some trace of movement. Here, the silence came fast, and that abrupt digital cutoff narrows the critical window even further. It suggests that whatever happened happened quickly, before Jennifer had time to process, resist, or reach out. In a case centered on final moments, that silence becomes one of the loudest details. Number five early investigative delays complicated everything. One of the most debated aspects of the Jennifer Kessie case is the early handling of the investigation. Her family has spoken publicly about initial delays in treating the case with urgency. Critical early hours in missing person cases are often the most important. By the time law enforcement escalated the case fully, some opportunities had already passed. Construction workers at the condo complex had rotated out. Potential witnesses were harder to locate. Surveillance footage from other nearby locations may have been overwritten. Jennifer's parents later fought for and won the right to access her case file, taking a more active role in pushing the investigation forward. Few families ever receive that level of involvement. It underscores how much ground may have been lost in the earliest phase, the final hours before the trail began to fade. Why this case still feels different the Jennifer Kessie case doesn't have dramatic twists or shifting suspect lists. It has precision. A short timeline. A parked car, a suspect caught but hidden. A phone that stopped. A routine interrupted everything about it feels contained. That containment is what makes it so disturbing. It suggests someone acted with confidence and clarity in a narrow window of opportunity. Nearly two decades later, there's still no definitive public explanation for what happened in those minutes between her condo door and the parking lot. Jennifer Kessie left for work on an ordinary morning and vanished within what may have been a matter of minutes. Her car was moved deliberately, a suspect was captured on camera but never identified, her phone went silent and the critical early hours slipped by. The Final Hours launches with a full breakdown of Jennifer's disappearance, the timeline, the evidence, the surveillance footage, the investigative questions, and what may have happened in that narrow and terrifying window. If you want the complete story of what could have unfolded in those final moments, head over now to the final hours. Because sometimes the most chilling mysteries aren't chaotic, they're controlled. You've been listening to Crime House 24 7, 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.
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Hi, it's Vanessa. If you're drawn to true crime stories about disappearances, check out the new Crime House original the Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turney and Courtney Nicole. Listen to and follow the final hours on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop Drop every Monday.
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