True Crime Time For December 19, 2025 | When Authority, Addiction, and Violence Spiral

Summary

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Real Life Real Crime – True Crime Time For December 19, 2025

Episode Title: When Authority, Addiction, and Violence Spiral
Host: Woody Overton
Date: December 19, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this solo Friday episode, Woody Overton brings listeners a dark, often disturbing – and sometimes darkly funny – look at real-world crime stories from around the U.S. and the U.K., focusing especially on crimes committed by "effed up professionals": dirty cops, corrupt lawyers, prison officers gone bad, and others who abused their positions. Throughout, Woody riffs on patterns of addiction, violence, and abuse of authority, tying several cases together with reflections on mental health, holiday stress, and the prevalence of suicide this time of year.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Holiday Season and Mental Health

• Acknowledgement of First Responders & Holiday Depression
  Woody opens by noting the pressures facing law enforcement and first responders near Christmas, emphasizing the spike in depression and suicide during the holidays.
  • Woody Overton [03:08]:
    “It's the week before Christmas, and I hope you all are getting ready… I want to give a shout out to all the first responders who have to work the holidays... Christmas week, which rolls into New Year's week—it is a shit show for law enforcement.”
  • Suicide Awareness:
    “Unfortunately, the suicide rate goes through the roof. I hate that. If you’re thinking about committing suicide, talk to somebody, right? Don’t do it. It’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
    (Hashtags: #JusticeForBradley, #JusticeForAO)

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2. Effed Up Professionals Series

Case 1: The Dirty Cop – Ivan Wayne Limdaugh (Madison County, TX)

• Summary:
  • Limdaugh, a former sheriff's deputy, was found guilty of raping a woman he pulled over in 2000. The case was reopened in 2017 due to DNA evidence finally tying him to the assault.
  • The penalty phase included emotional testimony from the victim, her daughter, and others who cited a history of abuse by Limdaugh.
• Woody’s Reaction [06:25]:
  “He pulled this lady over, y’all, for whatever pretense, used his lights and sirens, pulled her over, took her and brutally raped her and then threatened her to keep her mouth shut… Good old DNA came out and outed this fuck stick.”
• Notable Quote:
  "Bad cop. Raping women while you're in uniform, while you got your badge on. Fuck you." [08:10]

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Case 2: The Gambling Addict Lawyer – Jason Penrod (Polk County, FL)

• Summary:
  • Penrod, an elder-law attorney, stole nearly $2 million from clients’ accounts to feed his gambling addiction. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and permanently disbarred.
  • His scam unraveled when an associate discovered the missing funds, and Penrod himself reported his addiction, but sought (and was denied) a path for reinstatement as a lawyer.
  • The scale of his gambling losses was staggering: over $1.7M at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino, and a litany of financial and emotional devastation for clients and partners.
• Woody’s Commentary [13:23, 21:54]:
  "He had a gambling addiction and he lost more than $1.7 million y’all gambling… For somebody to go in and steal just because they want to go be a high roller at the Hard Rock… I’d rather deal with a murderer than a thief."
• Quote:
  "This professional effed it up." [10:30]

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Case 3: The Smuggling Prison Officer (Brixton, UK)

• Summary:
  • Shannon Day, a 24-year-old prison officer, was charged with drug smuggling, misconduct, and conspiracy after smuggling drugs, spice paper, and cell phones into Brixton Prison.
  • The story exposes the global issue of contraband facilitated by correctional staff.
• Woody’s Take [24:36]:
  "Prisons… always been my jam. They’re a whole different world… 99% of everything that gets brought in gets brought in through correctional officers."
• Memorable Line:
  "Now she'll spend Christmas inside the bars, right? And not carrying through the bars." [25:51]

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Case 4: Violence in Healthcare & Against Healthcare Workers (North Carolina)

• Summary:
  • A 25-year-old HIV-positive patient deliberately “used his blood as a weapon” against staff at UNC Rex Hospital.
  • Woody comments on the risks and alarming rise in violence against healthcare workers, drawing parallels to “gassing” incidents in prisons.
• Important Statistics [35:13]:
  “Healthcare workers are estimated to be five times more likely to be injured in workplace violence… 80% of nurses experienced at least one type of workplace violence; 36% physically assaulted.”
• Personal Reflection [34:19]: "I got tested for many years because HIV doesn’t always show up right away... you’re living under the spin of the gun, waiting—'is it going to happen to me?’"

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Case 5: Domestic Violence and Murder – Lorenza Inman Jr. (Charlotte, NC)

• Summary:
  • Inman was arrested for murdering his girlfriend, Friesia Baker, and abandoning her body in her car. Evidence included video footage and witness testimony.
  • The case highlighted the tragic impact—Baker leaves behind a two-year-old son.
• Woody’s Take [46:03]:
  “My personal advice to you would be to keep your mouth shut if you want to get away with it. But a lot of people have diarrhea of the mouth.”
• Quote from Victim’s Aunt:
  “She was just a good person who met a monster and she trusted a monster.” [46:45]

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Case 6: Double Assault by Deputies (Denver, CO)

• Summary:
  • Two married Denver sheriff’s deputies, Jason & Carla Gintempo, were charged with felony assault after punching, kicking, and knocking a paraplegic man out of his wheelchair—an act captured on surveillance video. Woody expresses particular disgust at professionals targeting the vulnerable.
• Woody’s Words [50:36]:
  “At what point do you feel the need to assault someone who’s paraplegic?... That’s evil and it’s, you know, it’s a crime. And it’s a double crime for me because they wear the badge.”

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Case 7: Murder Driven by Addiction – James Robert Hall (Holly, MI)

• Summary:
  • Hall smothered his mother to death, stole her belongings, and used the stolen money to gamble at a casino. He confessed the crime three times.
  • Woody links this to broader themes of addiction and personal accountability.
• Woody’s Reaction [54:56]:
  “He took the life that gave him life. Then he took her money, her jewelry, and her vehicle because he was challenged on his life choices. Then he … went to a casino.”
• Reflection on Suicide Cases [56:26]:
  "If you’re thinking about committing suicide, don’t do it. I’ve worked too many of them, y’all... what really sucks is the family doesn’t want to believe their family member would commit suicide."

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Law Enforcement at the Holidays:
  "Christmas week, which rolls in the New Year's week, it is a shit show for law enforcement." — Woody Overton [03:05]
• On Suicide:
  "It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem. As bad as it is, don't kill yourself, please." — Woody Overton [03:20]
• On Crooked Cops:
  “Bad cop. Raping women while you’re in uniform, while you got your badge on. Fuck you.” [08:10]
• On Gambling Addiction:
  “He had a gambling addiction and he lost more than $1.7 million y’all gambling… I’d rather deal with a murderer than a thief.” [21:57]
• On Professional Betrayals:
  “It’s not just unfortunate. It’s effed up. I just… I don’t get it.” [22:56]
• On Assaulting the Vulnerable:
  “At what point do you feel the need to assault someone who’s paraplegic? ... That’s evil.” [50:36]
• On Matricide and Addiction:
  “He took the life that gave him life. Then he took her money... and went to a casino. That’s crazy, y’all.” [54:56]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:45] – Woody’s Holiday reflections, shout-outs, and mental health message
• [05:38] – Case 1: Deputy Ivan Limdaugh’s 2000 rape conviction
• [10:14] – Case 2: Attorney Jason Penrod’s $2M theft and gambling addiction
• [22:56] – Reflection on betrayal in professional settings
• [24:36] – Case 3: Brixton Prison officer smuggling case
• [27:07] – Violence in emergency rooms, health worker assaults (North Carolina)
• [35:13] – Statistics on healthcare worker violence
• [42:48] – Case 5: Lorenza Inman Jr. and the murder of Friesia Baker
• [48:30] – Case 6: Denver deputies assault paraplegic man
• [53:22] – Case 7: James Hall kills mother for gambling money
• [56:23] – Woody’s reflections on suicide and closing remarks

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Structure & Tone

Woody's narration is blunt, raw, and peppered with dark humor, but underscored by clear moral outrage at abuses of authority and betrayal of trust. He draws personal parallels from his law enforcement career, offers frank warnings about addiction, and consistently returns to the importance of mental health. The episode weaves together individual stories into a somber, cautionary tapestry about how authority, addiction, and violence can escalate disastrously—especially when those in power cross the line.

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Final Thoughts

• Listeners are urged to look out for each other, especially around the holidays.
• Woody thanks his supporters, listeners, and Patreon community.
• He teases deeper dives and investigative content to come, especially regarding questionable suicides and unresolved cases.

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If you appreciate true crime stories that don’t shy from the ugly truth—especially about “effed up professionals”—this episode delivers Woody’s signature blend of honesty, outrage, and storytelling.

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Transcript

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So.

It'S time for effort of professionals. I'm gonn out this episode by going to Madison County, Texas. And this is a effed up professional, no doubt. And I hate a dirty cop. And this is the case of the state of Texas versus Ivan Wayne Lindbaugh. And thankfully, it ended with a guilty verdict on Tuesday. And this guy, y', all was a former Madison county deputy. So nine men, three women and one female alternate juror decided the fate of Lindbaugh after deliberating for just under two hours in the immediately the when they came back for the guilty verdict, the court began the second phase of the trial was is the punishment phase. Prosecutors told the jury this phase would allow them to see the full picture of who Limbaugh is and not just a snapshot. Okay, so you all know this, right, that there are certain things that they prosecutors cannot introduce during regular trial because the it would. They fear that the court fears that it would un, unfairly prejudice the jury against this. So but after you find him guilty, they get to tell you the meat of the. The meat on the bone, if you will. So defense attorneys for Line Ball def. Deferred their chance to give an opening statement in phase two, the pro the penalty phase. Prosecutors then began calling witnesses, including the woman at the center of the trial. She described to the jury how she lived in fear for at least 25 years since Limebaugh assaulted her. Her daughter also took the stand and she just told her how strong her mom was, an independent woman before Limeball attacked her. Now after she said her mother is very fearful and not the same person who raised her. Prosecutors ends the day with others who know Limbaugh testifying to how he hurt others in the past, including physical abuse. So they didn't bring out everybody out of the closet that they didn't introduce because they didn't charge them with these other charges. Right. And to protect the identities of those who testified, they, you know, not giving the names etc. But Judge Tracy Sorenson said they expect to wrap up the punishment phase on Wednesday in return for the sentencing of Lime Ball. Now what did he do? Ivan Linebaugh is accused of sexually assaulting. Rape, y'. All. That's a nice way of saying brutally raped, sexually assaulting a woman he pulled over while on duty for the Madison County Sheriff's Office way back in 25 years ago in 2000. They said the original incident happened on April 25, 2000, but it was reopened by the Texas Rangers in 2017 after My Favorite Thing DNA test and provided new evidence. The Texas Rangers then arrested Lindbaugh in 2020, and he was employed by the Madison county sheriff's office until 2011. The jury heard from multiple witnesses and learned how the DNA testing linked Limbaugh to the crime. In the Texas Department of Public Safety, DNA analysts Explain how DNA from Limbaugh saliva match the semen samples found in the victim's jeans that he raped. He pulled this lady over, y', all, for whatever pretense, used his lights and sirens, pulled her over, took her and brutally raped her and then threatened her to keep her mouth shut, which she did or in it. Then there wasn't enough evidence until good old DNA came out and outed this fuck stick. And I don't think he's going to get the death penalty, but he should write bad cop. Raping women while you're in uniform, while you got your badge on. Fuck you. It's time for effort of professionals. Bringing you a second effed up professional. And this time we're going back to our one, our favorite sheriff, Sheriff J.D. grudge down in Polk County, Florida. And you know Louisiana has a lot of gambling casinos and like that. And yeah, we got sports betting now and, and you know what, they have all the hotlines. If you have a gambling addiction, call such and such and they'll even like on my sports betting app, say, you know, you can set a budget for yourself or whatever. But unfortunately a lot of people, a lot of people live the gambling life and they can't afford it, right? And this guy in Florida was a lawyer, y'. All right, you go. Yeah, it takes a moment. My family are full of them. Everybody, including my mama are lawyers. And you got to be dedicated. You got to go to school and do your shit and save at a bar and pass it. And it used to be a pretty prestigious position. Well, this former Florida lawyer is accused of stealing nearly $2 million from clients accounts, right? Well, he pled guilty on December 12th to charges of grand theft and money laundering. Now, Polk County Judge Cassandra Denmark sentenced Jason Penrod to 25 years in prison, followed by 15 years of probation. In according to the state's Attorney's office for the 10th Judicial Street, Penrod pled guilty to two counts of grand theft and 19 counts of money laundering. And in Florida, grand theft involves amounts of more than a hundred thousand dollars. Penrod is 48 years old and he's the founder and owner of Family Elder Law, which is a firm with offices in Lakeland, Lake Wells and Sebring, Florida. The company specialized in estate planning and asset protection. You see where this is going? And Medicaid and nursing home care and probate and estate administration and special needs protection and planning. So basically you go in, we just had to deal with my dad's death. And you have to go in a lawyer and figure out all the stuff right. And the you trust in this person. Hey this is you know this is everything my family had. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Well this professional it up. So right after family elder law they abruptly closed this offices in July 2024 with no warning to clients. And the Polk County Sheriff's office arrested Penrod in September of 2024 on the charge of grand theft. And in January prosecutors added 30 counts of money laundering. So he's dipping a little bit into each one of his clients trust, right? In a filing from the state attorney's office accused Penrod of a second instance of stealing money from a client's trust fund between February and April of 2024. And he knowingly used or sought to use more than $100,000 belonging to Ms. Mary Ann Sparks and or the Kurt Sparks living Trust.

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Penrod. What did he do with all the money?

Well, I alluded to it already. He had a gambling addiction and he lost more than $1.7 million. Y' all gambling? On multiple visits to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa. And this, according to Sheriff Grady Judge Judd Penrod describes himself as a gambling addict. And now, naturally, you know, most people don't think about this, but lawyers carry like, malpractice insurance, like doctors have to carry, et cetera. So there are several lawsuits against this guy to try to recoup some of the money. But a former associate attorney discovered Penrod's misuse of clients funds and reported them to the Florida Bar Association. Penrod then reported himself to the Florida Supreme Court for misuse of funds from two clients. Penrod petitioned the Supreme Court for disciplinary revocation with leave to apply for readmission. Okay, yeah, okay, you know what? Go ahead and, and give me a slap on the wrist. But I would like to reapply to be a lawyer again and up some other people's lives. But the Florida Bar, they weren't having any of it. And they said, Mr. Penrod, go yourself. We are permanently revoking your license. And they did this in November of 2024, and they disbarred his ass. And he's been in jail on a 500, 000 bond since his arrest. But copies of Penrod's bank records show that he had wired more than 1.2 million to the Hard Rock and had withdrawn more than 24,000 from ATMs at the casino. The State Attorney's Office for the 10th Judicial Circuit said that Penrod engaged in money laundering through financial transactions intended to conceal the theft that was the source of the money or to avoid transaction reporting requirements. And this went on from April 2023 to April of 2024. Even before his arrest, Penrod faced a civil lawsuit which was filed in Polk county by the adult offspring of a client who had since died. And in the suit, Charles Anderson and Sherry Prevsnik accused Penrod of stealing nearly 1.8 million from the trust. So they're their father, David D. Anderson. You know, they. On a personal night, I sit around and I think about me and my daddy's gone. And he worked 48 years as a trial lawyer to build the life that he left behind for all of us and his family. And for somebody to go in and steal just because they want to go be a high roller at the Hard Rock and get free rooms and, you know, be a pimp player, you're stealing again. I'd rather deal with a murderer than a thief. But in the complaint, Anderson Prevsnik said that Penrod traveled to Pennsylvania and confessed to depleting the trust fund and using the money to gamble at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino. But he told me, say, hey, you know what? I'll pay you the money back over 10 years. Well, that didn't really go over right. The complaint quoted from a letter in which Penrod described himself as a raging in quotations gambling addict. Well, in June, Judge Michael McDaniel issued an order granting partial summary judgment and damages of 1.75 million to the family. Well, guess what? They're never going to see it, right, Unless they get it from insurance. Penrod's former business partner, Dennis Scavazio filed a lawsuit in June accusing him and related companies a breach of contract and other injuries in the complaint. And Scavazo says that he discovered in 2021 that Penrod was losing business and personal funds through gambling. Well, they didn't stop it until 2024. The two signed an employment separation agreement, but Penrod failed to remove Scavazio's name from a joint credit card account and other things. Right. So Cavazio incurred tax liabilities and a dramatic drop in his credit score and collection attempts from credit card companies, etc. Well, you know what? That is a effed up professional that you would never expect. You know, and it just, it's not just unfortunate. It's up. It just. I don't get it. It's time for effed up professionals. Rolling on with effed up professionals. And they're in all professions, prisons, you know, always been my jam. They're always said they're a whole different world. And I told you, I think it was just on, on one of the episodes this week, like a pin joint would cost $2 on the street of marijuana. It would, you know, sell us for like 100 bucks inside the prison and all 9% of everything that gets brought in gets brought in through correctional officers. Well, about to tell you about another one in the. This one, of course, I. I should have done Worldwide crime also this one. A female prison officer has appeared in court accused applauding with two inmates to supply drugs and smuggle phones into Her Majesty's Prison Brixton. Shannon Day, who's 24, of Sydenham, southeast London, appeared in the Croydon's Magistrates court on Wednesday and she is charged along with bertil Bellubia, who's 34, and Mark McBain, who's 62. The court heard that the trio are charged with a range of offenses including drug smuggling, misconduct in public office fraud and money laundering. And all three are accused of conspiring between September 1 and October 31 of 2022 to supply a quantity of cannabis, marijuana. And they are also charged with conspiring to supply a quantity of spice paper. Where y'. All. That's some bad. And I mean, you heard the story about the guy cuts his baby out of his wife's belly because he got on this, the synthetic. Anyway, spice paper, which is synthetic. Synthetic drug spice, which is designated as a class B. It's sprayed onto paper and is. They either smoke it or eat it like acid. And they are further charged with conspiring between the same dates to convey prohibited articles into Brixton, which are three mobile phones and the chargers. That wasn't a thing. Back in my day, nobody had a cell phone. But, you know, after Courtney Coco's Dateline thing, and I've told you all this before, people from all over the world reaching out to me to work for cases, including I had like four different inmates on, not the same person from across the United States. They, they, they were in prison on an illegal cell phone, asking me to help them with their case. And they sent it to me. Whatever the. I. How much are you in prison if you can sit in your cell and surf the Internet every day? I think that makes your time go by a lot faster. But back to it. Day is additionally charged with one count of misconduct in public office. Well, you know what? I don't know what the penalties for that are in Britain or wherever. England, and. But now she'll spend Christmas inside the bars, right? And not carrying through the bars. So there you have that. All right. When you work in law enforcement, you see all kinds of shit, right? You come in, usually the people you contact, they're having their worst day and sometimes not. But, you know, emergency rooms. And they always have to go there on homicides and rapes and what have you. And they're always A show. That's why they have law enforcement there and security guards and everything else. Because you're going to run across. I've been in an emergency room working on a homicide when people showed up and the cops had to put one guy's head through a wall in Charity Hospital. New Orleans was no longer there. But the. It's just, it's a shit show. And like when I was in the hospital last time, Sin told one of the staff that came in the room she was gonna go down to the car to get something. They're like, don't go outside, right? Because that's, that's like a bad place. On steroids. We're going to North Carolina, tell you about a special kind of in a hospital. And the officials with a North Carolina hospital reported that because violence against medical personnel is steadily rising, the facility has made employee safety a top priority. In the move to work more closely with security teams and city police came after her asshole, who was a 25 year old patient, guess what he did. He used his HIV positive blood as a deadly weapon against two staffers. Now he has been to court and he's just learned his fate, right? So. And I told you about this when it happened. But back in October, Cameron Gilchrist was in the middle of receiving diabetic treatment at the UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh when he attacked two workers, a man and a woman. And March 21, they said Gilcrease not only removed his IV, but he intentionally aimed his HIV positive blood at the victim's eyes. Then saw an arrest warrant, they said. It's unclear whether the two staffers contracted HIV after the exposure, but a warrant said they did incur physical injuries, including irritation. Well, let me tell you about that. The, the bites, times I was bitten and different, or I got cuts on me and mixed in the blood with the people I had to fight and stuff. The. I got tested for many years because HIV doesn't always show up right away, right. You know, this guy's got HIV or this girl's got hiv and it can take a long period of time. So now you're living under the spin of the gun, waiting at, you know, is it going to happen to me? Well, Gilcrease wasn't apprehended until six months later because he had been receiving both medical and psychiatric care in the time since and couldn't be arrested. He was held at the Wake County Detention center in lieu of a $25,000 bond. And he was initially charged with two felonies for assaulting emergency personnel and As I so often do, he went out like a little and he copped a plea deal. And on December 11, he pled guilty to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. And a judge sentenced him to 91 days in jail. But he immediately walked free because he got credit for time served. And if he hadn't taken the plea deal, he faced up seven years in prison. To me, that's, that's a fucking slap in the face. I'm gonna be so pissed off. But a spokesperson for the UNC Rex Health told People magazine said unfortunately, violent situations and threats of violence against health workers have become more common across the country. Health care workers are estimated to be five times more likely to be injured in workplace violence incident than workers in all other private sector industries combined. Y', all, that's a lot.

Everybody from Walmart to whatever your business.

Is, if you're a healthcare worker, you're five times more likely to be offended against. Nurses have also spoken out, calling patient violence a silent epidemic. In a 2023 survey found that over 80% of nurses experienced at least one type of workplace violence, with 36% being physically slapped, punched or kicked, and 30% having bodily fluids thrown on them. It's like the last war and you're in prison, they call that gassing. They'll, you know, the inmates save up their shit and their piss and wait for you to walk in front of the cell, get close enough and throw it on you. But you know, in the hospitals, the, this dude knew, knew he had AIDS and he was mad about whatever he throws it in their eyes. Well, y' all know the story about when we went after the guy who was a, who had HIV and he was a serial spitter and that was. He was known that. And you go to arrest him, we had warrants for whatever. You go to arrest him and he would spit on you to try to infect you with his hiv. And that's when we duct taped his head. So. And yeah, I got in trouble for it, but I don't care the. Because I don't have his hiv. Hopefully nobody else is either. So. All right, let's go out to North Carolina. And sometimes, you know, well, not sometimes, if you commit a crime, my personal advice to you would be to keep your mouth shut if you want to get away with it. But a lot of people have diarrhea of the mouth. And the North Carolina man is behind bars after police said he murdered his girlfriend and abandoned her body in her car. Lorenza Inman Jr. 38, was arrested on December 12th one day after the cops found the body of 31 year old Friesia Baker in her car behind a church in Charlotte. And according to an affidavit, Baker was reported missing after she was last seen by her family on December 4, which the same day her family heard Emman's voice in the background during a phone call with her. Emin's probation officer contacted police after a witness told her Quotations Lorenza told me that they got into an argument and the gun went off and Baker was shot in the head. Well, you know what, Guns don't go off by accident. You have to pull the trigger. But according to the affidavit, police started investigating Baker's phone and financial records after she was reported missing on December 6th. I always did it track them. See, you know anybody's using their debit cards or where they're at, et cetera.

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They tracked her to her activity to a mobile gas station on December 4th where she was seen on the surveillance video with inman. Just before 10:00pm Emin was seen shoving Baker several times into a display case and into the coolers and then throwing an item at Baker hard and hitting her in the back right as she's trying to get away. Emin and Baker were seen on the video getting into her car with Emin behind the wheel and leaving the mobile station. Police said they investigated two phone numbers which were registered to Baker and one of them stopped the activity at 10:30pm on Dec. 4. The other stopped at 8am on Dec. 5. I wonder what he was googling. Well, police received a tip through Crime Stoppers on December 9 that Baker was dead and her body was on the passenger side of her car. Baker was I don't know why it took him two days, but Baker was found on December 11th. And after they found her, that's when Emmons probation officer told police that she received the tip on December 9 from a known witness. And the witness told the probation officer, quotations, y' all looking for Fred Baker and that girl is dead. Don't know where her body is at, but her car is parked somewhere near my house. Lorenza told me that they got into any argument and the gun went off and she was shot in the head. Well, police then go to interview this witness in person and they said that Emman made the admission on the December 7. The witness stated that Emin told them about specific details that would only be known by someone with intimate knowledge of the scene. Naturally, they hold some stuff back from the media. Right. To prove it in court. So Emin, who has a he's a fine fellow, he has a history of domestic violence arrest and he was arrested on December 12 and charged with murder, assault on a female and domestic violence. And during a hearing on Monday, Emin was denied bond in order to remain behind bars. Well, that's good, but it doesn't make up for, you know, Baker's family and they were at the hearing and they told the local ABC affiliate WSOC or Aunt Told Outlet that her niece Quotations was just a good person who met a monster and she trusted a monster. And add Insult to injury, Ms. Baker has a two year old son that will not spend Christmas with her this year or ever again. Right? Fuck you, Emmanuel. It's time for Effed Up Professionals. We're gonna roll out to Denver, Colorado for a double effed up professional and a man and a woman both who will share deputies. Right. In Denver. And they were married. And then guess what? They've now been arrested and charged in connection with assault against a man in a wheelchair while they were on duty. Jason Gintempo is 44 and Carla Tempo is 43 were arrested last week and have been charged with third degree assault of an at risk adult, which is a Class 6 felony. The victim's name, they're not giving out y' all to protect this identity, right? In the report. But the report indicates that Jason and Carla assaulted the paraplegic man in a wheelchair on October 17th. That makes my blood bowl. So the exact location of the assault was also redacted from the report, but the victim identified the two suspects from a photo lineup after telling investigators what happened. The man in the wheelchair said he was outside his apartment building with his dog when one of the suspects told him, put your dog inside. Now, y', all, the report has a lot of stuff that's redacted, right? And the. But the man said that Carla punched him in the face with a closed fist and kicked him in the chest, causing him to fall backwards out of his chair. And then he naturally, he hit his head against the pavement. Well, what does her husband do? Jason also struck him while he was falling in his chair. And gal, guess what? They got it on security camera footage. But an investigator wrote that the victim fell out of the frame of the camera and Jason seen kicking and then stomping on the man's phone. Well, what do they do then? Our two deputies, they ran into a white truck they had left running nearby and took off. And they were arrested and booked into the downtown Denver Detention center and released on a personal, recognizable bond. I don't know about that. The attorney wasn't listed yet for Jason. Good tempo and court records, but a voicemail was left on the number associated with him in public records, and a voicemail was also left for Carl's attorney. Jason became a deputy in 2005 and is assigned to the downtown Denver Detention Center. Correctional officer, y'. All. Carl became a deputy in 2010 and is currently a sergeant assigned to the Denver Sheriff's Department Administrative Division. Both are on investigatory leave and both are due back in court on December 29th. Of course, naturally, if they get convicted, you know, they're going to lose their jobs and everything else. But the. I don't know at what point what happens in your life that you feel the need to assault someone who's paraplegic, right? Like a story I told you all about Davies, the nurse putting the stuff on the guy's penis. What the. And you know, there are evil people like that, like evil babysitters who nobody's in the room before they had nanny cams. They have slapped the out of the kid, make it cry and it, you know, whatever, it's just. I don't know. I. What I know is that's evil and it's, you know, it's a crime. And it's a double crime for me because they wear the badge or they will wear the badge. So it's time for effort of professionals. I told y' all about the lawyer who stole millions from his clients to go gamble at the Hard Rock casino, right? And gambling addiction is an addiction just like any other dope or whatever it may be. So I'm gonna tell you about a man in Michigan and he has been arrested under suspicion of felony murder of his mother and stealing her money to gamble. You know what, motherfucker? Get your own job. If you're going to blow your life, don't blow your mother's life and her money. James Robert Hall, 39, was arrested on November 26 by the Holly Police Department after his 59 year old mother, Christine Lynn hall, was found dead in her bed in the village of Holly, Michigan. The. Her body was found by her brother lying in bed fully clothed. And it initially appeared. And he thought she died of natural causes. Right? Well, officers arrive on the scene and they, they do a little bit of closer examination and they saw that she had bruising on the neck and there was evidence of a struggle. Now, the brother of the victim told police that Christine had allowed her son to move in with her roughly six months earlier, but that she was afraid of him, slept with her bedroom door locked at night and didn't let him drive her vehicle. Which just coincidentally, when they found her dead, her vehicle was missing. Now, her son this. This winter, he. Hall had an open felony warrant for breaking and entering. He was still in other people's for his mamas. Christine's vehicle was soon found in the Jackson, Michigan area. And the victim's daughter also told police that hall had reached out to their father. And guess what? He confessed to his dad that he killed his mother. The Kalamazoo department of public safety took James hall into custody under the open felony Warrant after officers found him in a parking lot of a store because an alert retail clerk notified them that a man using the store phone was talking about attempting suicide. And while talking with the officers on the scene, hall once again admitted to killing his mom. Let's see you get out of that one. Holly Police Department officers interviewed hall at the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety facility where he confessed to killing his mom for the third time. And according to a report from the police department, hall stated that on the Evening of Monday, November 24, he had a conversation with his mom where she told him off for his life choices and for not amounting to anything. Hall confess, they climbed on top of her and used a pillow to smother her to death. They all. It takes minutes. Minutes doesn't happen instantly sitting on top of the woman who gave you birth, gave birth to you and choking the life out of her. It's better to choke her to death with your hands than it is be smothered by a pillow. After the murder, he stole money and jewelry from her and, of course, her vehicle. And he drove to the Kalamazoo area and called his dad and he confessed to the crime for the first time. He then after, hey, dad, I. I killed mama and I stole her. He tells him that. Well, then he then goes to a local casino and he gambles the money away before he went to that store and got taken into custody. I mean, it was just unreal. So the. The cause of death was ruled as a homicide by strangulation and suffocation. And on the same day, hall was taken into the Holly Police Department custody and he was rained for one count. A felon, breaking and entering with intent. And on December 10th, hall was arraigned again for charge of relating to his mom's murder. And he's facing three felony counts. Murder in the first degree with the potential for life with parole, unlawful driving away in a motor vehicle with the potential for five years imprisonment and larceny in a building with the potential for four years imprisonment. And they said, on behalf of the Holly Police Department, we offer our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family who loved and cared for Christine, according to Chief Nars of the Holly Police Department. He said, I am proud of the dedication and determination of our officers who work continuously to bring closure to the case in less than 24 hours. We're also very thankful from the assistance from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety. So they said James hall was angry his mother was parenting him, so he killed her. He took the life that gave him life. Then he took her money, her jury and her vehicle because he was challenged on his life choices. Then he, I mean, his mama saying you're a little bitch or you're a zero. And then he went to a casino. That's crazy, y' all now. And I guess it kind of bundles it all up. If you got a gambling addiction, call somebody. This guy. You killed your mama. You're in a public store saying you're going to commit suicide so that the clerk calls it in. Well, I don't know. They. If you're thinking about committing suicide, don't do it. I've worked too many of them, y'. All. You know, I was the one who had to go tell the family members this person committed suicide and it sucked. Always sucked. And what really sucks is the family doesn't want to believe their family member would commit suicide. And I'm going to be bringing you a case in the near future on real life, real crime where the cops said it was a suicide and I can prove that it wasn't. That will come after justiceforbradley and hashtag justice for ao. And I think I was spreading enough holiday joy for one day. Y' all have a great weekend. Stay safe and get ready for Christmas next week and all that. Good. And I love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. Thank you for liking and sharing and following. And thank you for listening every day. Patreon Convicts love you. And I don't have anything else. And I'm Woody Overton, your host of True Crime. Time for this last Friday before Christmas. I'll holler at you later. Peace.

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