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True Crime Time For February 7. 2026 | Violence, Fraud, Child Abuse & Cold Case Justice
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Cindy Overton
Hello everybody and welcome to True Crime Time 4 Saturday, February 7, 2026 and I am Cindy Overton. And since Woody recorded his birthday episode by himself, I am going to take the time to tell him happy birthday. And I know he had a great day because it's it already happened. So I want to start off today by thanking everybody for liking, listening and sharing the podcast. It really means a lot. We are just so grateful for it. We're grateful for all of you lifers. Please do not forget to go into the app I have been creating for each episode. Fun little quizzes and polls that you can earn points with and then use your points. I actually have a poll about possible different ways for you to use your points that I can implement in the app. So go check that out. And we have a bunch of lifers in there that, you know, treat it as the community that it is and they share their daily life or they make their own post about what's going on in the app. You have immediate connection with Woody or myself, you directly can message us or just create a post and we immediately respond or someone tags us so that we see it if we didn't see it yet. But with that being said, we're going to start with this day in history. And so on February 7th of 1983, the ongoing harassment of Mary Gillespie escalated. Gillespie was picking up her kids when she saw an obscene sign about her daughter and attempted to remove it. Gillespie noticed a box with a loaded gun rigged to go off. The gun was owned by Paul Fraser Fresher Fresher, Gillespie's brother in law who was tried and convicted of attempted murder. Before this, Gillespie and her husband Ron received letters regarding an alleged affair between Gillespie and the school superintendent, Gordon Massie. So that is what happened on this day in 1983. And in Cindy Overton fashion, I'm going to start with a few quick news stories. A man was arrested for stealing a ceiling fan. Police say the situation quickly got out of control. Officers investigated a break in at a floor shop. Authorities say the suspect made off with several arrangements. A suspect was detained for stealing a treadmill. Police say he didn't make much progress. Police are investigating a robbery at a recycling center. Authorities say it was a waste. And finally someone stole a shipment of light bulbs. Police say the situation remains unclear. Some of those are way too corny, but in a far, far reach. But I think they're funny. And on a lighter note, and with that being said, we're going to get down into the heavy stuff and for this story we're going to New York and On Wednesday, a woman pleaded not guilty to charges that she stabbed a mother changing a baby's diaper inside a bathroom in Macy's flagship store in New York City during the Christmas shopping season. The woman, Carrie Ahearn, who is 43 years old, was charged with attempted murder, assault and child endangerment in connection with the December 11th stabbing inside Macy's Herald Square. As alleged, Carrie Ahern carried out a horrific and unprovoked stabbing of a mother who was simply caring for her 10 month old baby. This tourist was attacked inside one of the city's largest and most frequented department stores, posing public safety implications for employees, visitors and New Yorkers alike, manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. He goes on to say, I wish the victim a swift recovery. The 39 year old victim was visiting New York from California and prosecutors said she was changing her 10 month old diaper and in the seventh floor bathroom where a hearer approached her from behind and began stabbing her unprovoked. Ahern had the knife at Macy's moments before the attack, prosecutors said, and also according to the indictment, the victim eventually managed to grab the knife from Ahern and throw it to the other end of the bathroom. During the attack, the baby fell from the changing table onto the floor. Ahern was a str. Ahern was restrained by the victim's boyfriend and by store security workers until officers arrived to arrest her on the scene. The victim was taken to the hospital to be treated for two stab wounds to her back and lacerations to her arm and hand that required stitches and thankfully the baby was not hurt. A spokesperson for Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said that both the victim and her husband work for lasd. The Manhattan District Attorney's office said Ahern was previously arrested in Massachusetts for threatening to kill Senator Elizabeth Warren. The woman told police she had been hospitalized for psychiatric problems. Ahern was remanded into custody and she is next due in Court on February 11th. And I would possibly think that the woman working for the Sheriff's office, it doesn't say in what capacity, in what capacity they work for the Sheriff's Department. Maybe that was what gave her training to be able to fight for the weapon and and get it away from the attacker. So we will see what happens with that story. Now we're going To Nevada.
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Woody
It's time for effed up professional.
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Cindy Overton
A former Northern Nevada casino employee was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for embezzling more than $700,000 from multiple casino locations, according to the Washoe County District Attorney's Office. Thomas toner, who is 61 years old of Sun Valley, received a combined sentence of eight to 30 years after being convicted of six felony embezzlement counts, four involving losses of $100,000 or more with concurrent terms of six to 20 years, and two lesser counts carrying consecutive terms of two to 10 years. He was employed at Dottie's casino when Sparks police were called to one of the casino's locations in June following the report of embezzlement. Surveillance video provided by the casino showed him taking cash from office areas, investigators say. Detectives from Sparks Police department and the Reno Police Department later determined that Tonar had embezzled money from six different Dottie's locations, with total losses reaching the $714,713, according to the DA's office. Authorities said Toner left Nevada and traveled to California, and it was there that he was arrested in a motel in Sacramento. Investigators recovered $677,069 of the stolen money, along with three firearms during the search of his belongings, and District Judge Barry Breslow presided over his sentencing. That is a bad professional. I think that those. Those casinos have so many different systems of checks and balances. I know that one time I was there and I had a stack of twenties and I was trying to feed them into the machines and I was getting frustrated. So I went and tried to get hundreds for my twenties, and they didn't want to do it because of people doing that type of thing to. They do it as part of money laundering. So I can imagine the system that he had in place to get 700 over $700,000. But at least he was convicted and he was found and he had most of the cash on him, which is, I guess, good. Now, in the same kind of theme, we have a pyramid scheme from Texas. The conviction of the couple has exposed the full scope of the Blessings in no time operation. After a federal jury found a North Texas couple guilty of running a $25 million fraud that targeted more than 10,000 people nationwide. There was a jury in Sherman, Texas, that convicted Lashonda and Marlon Moore for running a massive pyramid scheme that prosecutors say stole more than $25 million from over 10,000 people nationwide. While families were already struggling during COVID 19. According to the case presented at trial, the Moores co founded and operated Blessings in no Time, which is also known as Bint. Between June 2020 and June 2021, they promoted it through weekly live streams that reached thousands, pitching the program as an invitation only community built on helping each other survive the economic shutdown. Participants were told to pay at least $1,400 as a blessing and were promised returns up to 800% within weeks, with guarantees that did not exist. What jurors heard was that the system only worked if new people kept joining. BINT ran on stacked playing boards with levels called fire, wind, earth and water. When boards filled, the person at the top got paid more than $11,000, while everyone else was pushed to recruit more participants to keep the cycle alive. Prosecutors showed that the Moores placed themselves in prime positions on these boards and siphoned off large amounts of money. While most participants never saw the promised returns, federal investigators said the scheme leaned heavily on polished appearances and trust, including public visibility that made the operation seem legitimate. Authorities also stressed that the scheme disproportionately impacted black communities, using familiar language about collective support and cultural trust to pull people in during a moment of widespread fear and financial instability. By the time it collapsed, more than 10,000 victims across the country were left with losses, like I've said a couple other times in this story, over $25 million. The jury convicted Lashonda and Marlon Moore on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, five counts of wire fraud, and three counts of money laundering. Sentencing has not yet been scheduled, but each count carries a potential for significant prison time. That's the worst of the worst. It's like, you know, taking advantage of elderly or taking advantage of people after storms. And you have these people that come in after hurricanes, and I'm going to fix your roof. Just give me a deposit and I'll come back with my workers on whatever day. And then they never show up. And, you know, they're fake fly by night operations. And it's very, very scary. And then at that time during COVID I mean, we all remember how that uncertainty felt to the world, and goodness gracious to take advantage of that. It's just horrible. And as I always say, all done in dark comes to light, and the light has been shown on them, that's for sure. I'm going to label this.
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Cindy Overton
This and. It might make sense once I get to the story. We're going to Georgia for this story and There was a woman attending a viewing with her grandchildren at a Georgia funeral home and she was fatally shot in a senseless drive by shooting while standing outside, according to her family. Ina Chambers and another woman were struck by sudden gunfire at the Gus Thornhill Funeral Home in East Point on January 9. Chambers, who was 55 years old, was remembered by her brother Ephrem Jenkins as a vibrant and very biblical woman who he described as the best while speaking with a local TV station. An investigation into the shooting is underway, police say in a January Police said in a Jan. 9 news release that Chambers had just dropped her grandchildren off at the viewing, which was for another family member, when multiple shots were fired while she was standing near the entrance of the funeral home. Chambers was declared dead at the property by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office, according to police. Another woman was treated for minor non life threatening injuries. Detectives are looking for multiple suspects involved in the shooting as well as their vehicles, according to police. East Point Police Chief Sean Buchanan said in a statement, I would like to express our deepest sympathy for the families who experienced this tragedy. It's an outrage that cowardly individuals chose to commit such senseless acts of violence while four families attending viewings were at their most vulnerable while grieving. Chambers, her loved ones let go of balloons at the families DeKalb county home on Sunday, January 11th. And of course the family is demanding justice for her. Jenkins, reacting to how no arrests have been made in her death, said, at this point it's hard for us to wrap our mind around any of that. It's just a couple of days in and you don't want to anger, but we need justice and we want justice, jenkins said. If you're out there doing senseless things like this, just know the world goes in a circle and it does come back around. You just never know how. So please stop. Please stop. Chambers husband Phil Chambers was married to her for eight years and he says he doesn't know what to do. He said I lost my wife. As a part of the investigation, detectives are watching local surveillance footage. They are also trying to determine if a separate drive by shooting that happened near the funeral home on January 9th is related to the shooting that killed Ina. Sherry Thornhill, which is the co owner of the Gus Thornhill Funeral Home, expressed her support and grief for Ina's family. She also shared a message to the suspects potentially involved in the shooting. We are looking for you and I believe in the city of East Point Police Department that they will hunt you down, buchanan said. Our team will not rest until justice is served. So East Point police are asking that anyone that might have any information call 404-761-2170. And people just need justice everywhere. It's so sad. But I have confidence that this one with today having all the ring cameras and all of the hopefully cameras at lights and just people there, you know, with cell phones, who knows what was found. And I hope that during their investigation they actually find the, the actual multiple killers.
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Woody
It's time for family matters.
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Cindy Overton
Okay, this is. I haven't read this whole. Oh my goodness. Okay, so a Waldorf, Maryland man who shot his wife in the back of the head after a late night argument sparked by his drunkenly urinating on the floor has been sentenced to life in prison plus 15 years. The jury sentenced Travis Edward Pashal wood, who was 36 years old on January 8 after his conviction for first degree murder and the use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence in the 2022 killing of Shonda Nicole Wood. And this is according to Charles County State's Attorney's Office. On the evening of December 8, 2022, Wood and his wife spent time with their three young daughters. They went out to eat and they did some shopping before returning home to put the children to bed. Later that night, the couple went out again and they went to a hookah lounge and they drank some alcohol and they returned home around 2am once back at the house, an argument broke out and according to prosecutors, Shonda confronted Wood for urinating on the floor outside the bathroom because he was drunk. During the dispute, she told him that he needed to be out of the house by that weekend. After the argument, Shonda just thought it was over. She went to bed and she fell asleep. Prosecutors said that Wood then retrieved his registered handgun, entered the bedroom and shot her once in the back of the head while she slept. Around 8:30am the following morning, Wood woke the couple's daughters and told them they were going to visit their grandmother. He instructed the children not to wake their mother or enter the bedroom, and he drove them to his mother's home. After dropping the children off, Wood returned to his residence and remained there for several hours. And then he went back to his mother's house, and that's where he confessed that he had shot and killed his wife. Wood then returned to the home before eventually going to the Charles County Sheriff's office District 3 station in Waldorf with his cousin. And at the station, Wood requested a welfare check. At the residence, he told an investigator he had been suicidal the night before and requested a lawyer, but did not initially disclose the killing. They had a master plan, apparently. When deputies responded to the home, they entered through an unlocked front door. Inside the bedroom, they found Wood deceased with a single gunshot wound to the back of her head and a silver and black handgun on the bed. Forensic testing later identified Wood's DNA on the firearm. During sentencing, Assistant State's Attorney Jack Stackhouse emphasized the lasting impact on the killing of Shonda woods family, particularly the couple's three young daughters. These three little girls had to be taken out of their house, school and neighborhood, Stackhouse told the court, describing the harm as generational trauma and saying Wood gave his family a life sentence. Before imposing the sentence, Circuit Court Judge H. James west described the crime as exceptionally callous. The loss is tremendous, the judge said. It was done in the coldest of blood. The level of violence was extreme. The callousness that followed is rarely seen. That's the truth. I mean, what did that. I just asked these questions like, what did that conversation go like when he confessed to his mom, Was she like, okay, son, well, we're gonna set this up. You're gonna go with your cousin and you're going to ask for a will. I mean, did they come up with this plan together or did she say turn yourself? These are the questions that I want to know. And Woody would be like, it doesn't matter. But that's the stuff that interests me is how, how you get to there. For this next one, we are going to California. And it is the end of a cold case. But let's start from the beginning. One Friday night in Southern California In April of 2001, 32 year old Suzanne Seitz Fenton took a break from her retail job. She walked out into the parking lot and that's where she vanished. This is 25 years ago, almost 25 years ago. Detectives would later find her body shot dead in a desolate patch of the Mojave Desert, but failed to trace her killer. But now, following a cold case investigation, authorities say they have finally identified the culprit. And who was he? Raymond Silva Gonzalez, who was 51 years old from Hespernia, which is in the high desert northeast of Los Angeles, was arrested last Thursday and charged with murder. And this is according to the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department. He is currently being held without bail and is due to appear in court on Tuesday. Jail records did not list an attorney, Susan Seitz Fenton was reported missing by her husband on Saturday, April 14, 2001 when she did not return home from her night shift at Mervyn's department store in Victorville, which is not far from Mervyn Hesperia. During the initial investigation, detectives learned Suzanne took a break and walked into the Mervyn's parking lot and never returned to work or home. The next day, detectives found Seitz Fenton's vehicle abandoned but with signs of a struggle. Later, they also found her body in the desolate area near Hesperia. The investigation determined Suzanne was shot and detectives learned she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted prior to her death. A suspect was never identified and the case went cold. But in 2025, her case was taken up by the department's cold case unit, leading officers to the arrest on January 15th of this year. So it is never, ever, ever too late. And I know there's going to be a follow up story. This is a shorter story and Woody usually ends up finding or getting. I know that sometimes you hear a story that I tell like the, I guess on I think the fifth, February 5 episode there was a story about the dogs that were euthanized by the, the husband when the they were the husband and wife were separated. And I had told that story a couple days prior but I did not have the details like all of the court details that Woody went into. So hopefully we'll get some more details on that, how the case was, how they found him, and all of that stuff. So a couple of stories ago, I was able to tell a wonderful story of a police officer that helped A woman did not know the circumstances that she was under, meaning she was homeless and she was actually sleeping in a tarp on her husband's grave. And that was horrible. And that was, you know, a really good thing that that police officer did. Well, we have. I don't think that this police officer did anything wrong here, but I was sent this story. I think it's very, very short. So we'll. We'll see. We have a New York police officer who shot a crazed raccoon as it charged at a group of bystanders on the Queen's Boardwalk last week, and he has actually been placed on modified duty while police investigate the incident. The unexpected encounter with urban wildlife unfolded shortly after 7:45am on Thursday when the unnamed officer responded to a 911 call of a vicious animal near Beach 121st street and Ocean Promenade in Bell Harbor. Cops spotted the animal when they got to the scene and tried to shoo the critter away. While attempting to guide the raccoon to a safe location, the animal suddenly charged towards a group of people in an aggressive manner and the officer discharged his firearm, striking the animal. But thank goodness there were no human injuries, Officials said the raccoon was struck three times and died at the scene. It is not immediately clear if the animal will be tested for rabies, but meanwhile, police say that they are investigating the encounter.
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Cindy Overton
The investigation remains ongoing by NYPD's Force Investigation Division and the officer's current status is modified. And if you had a wild animal coming at a group of people, I think, I think the officer did the best thing that he could have done. I mean I've seen videos on Facebook of like law enforcement getting a raccoon out of a house and all of the different little traps and things that they do to get the raccoon safely. But in those videos the raccoon is trying to get away away from them. It's not coming at them. It's not being vicious, which is a completely different situation and I hope that they test it for rabies as part of their investigation. Otherwise I don't feel like the investigation is thorough. But I'm not a police officer and I'm not a lawyer, so what do I know? Well, I don't know quite how to classify this. We have a 29 year old US army sergeant who was seen beating a 3 year old in Waco, Texas and once police got involved, the US army sergeant informed police that his action stemmed from the 3 year old not wanting to work on his A, B, Cs. The soldier in question was identified as Paul Thames and the incident happened at the legend apartments at 2400 Corporation Parkway on January 16th. The assault was captured on a ring doorbell camera and I know this says alleged but it's caught on camera and the footage was made available to police upon arrival. In the footage a man grabs a toddler's neck to pick him up and hits the miner's back. This is all in the warrant. Police said that the sergeant Thames Thames T H A M E S was identified as the man in the video, adding that officers asked him to explain his actions. He said that he's been staying with the toddler and the toddler's mother for just a few months and he stated that he took the boy outdoors to discipline him because he did not want to work on ABCs. And at the time that Thames was outside the apartment with the toddler, his mother was indoors and working. The incident was captured on a neighbor's ring doorbell camera, police said and they said that you could see the excessive force and the repetitive hitting of the three year old on the back. The warrant also states that Thames subsequently picked up the victim by the back of his neck and placed his hands over the victim's mouth. He then says are you going to stop playing? He asks the toddler and the toddler's heard crying in the video. The warrant states that Thames admitted to going overboard and understood what he did was not right. Well, that doesn't take away what that child went through. Police also said that Thames apologized to the minor and informed them that he did not disclose his actions to the miner's mother. The minor suffered neck pain and was treated at the hospital before he was discharged and Thames was ultimately arrested and charged with injury to a child. A 1st Division Cavalry Division spokesperson stated, we are aware of the arrest of Sergeant Paul Thames for abuse of a child. The 1st Cavalry Division is in communication with law enforcement. We are disgusted by the video that has been posted. The behavior of Sergeant Thames does not reflect the values of the 1st Cavalry Division or the United States Army. That poor, poor child. He's three. I don't, don't think that that's the way to get a three year old to actually learn his ABCs. But, you know, Woody sent me these stories today and now we've got unfortunately, another child abuse case. We're going to Palm Bay, Florida, and there's a 61 year old man who's been arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse after a child attempted suicide. The Space coast rocket, which is their little, I guess, newspaper there reports police were called to a home on January 20 for a suicide threat. Responding officers found a juvenile who had reportedly tried to hang himself with a belt, but was unsuccessful. He said he could no longer tolerate the ongoing mental and physical abuse in this home. Following the investigation, Joseph Anthony Mazzella was arrested and charged with one count of aggravated child abuse. The juvenile told investigators he reportedly stole a laptop from school and hid it under his mattress. And Mazzella became angry when he discovered it. Mazzella allegedly called the child worthless, hit and punched him repeatedly in the head and torso with fists and a broomstick, and threw a rack of clothes at him. Another child in the home told interviewers the victim was locked in his room for months and given a bucket to use as a toilet. A vice principal from the juvenile school corroborated the stories. Mazzella acknowledged locking up the victim for extended periods and hitting him. And he goes on to compare the victim to Mike Tyson during his interview and said the juvenile could take a hit to the jaw with little to no reaction. Because that's, that's okay. He can take it. He's like Mike Tyson. He can take a hit. So let's just keep on hitting him. Authorities have not specified the relationship Mazzella has to the individual. And Mazzella posted a $15,000 bond. And it is unclear when his next court date is. Thank you, Woody, for this one.
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Woody
It's time for Effed Up Professionals.
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Cindy Overton
I think I'm going to end it on this one today. We're going to Long Island, N.Y. and a law enforcement officer was accused of pressuring a man to rape his own daughter for him so he could watch it on a video call. 38 year old Robert Sacco, a Nassau county detective, was taken into custody following the three month long FBI operation. The report, citing court documents obtained by by the Post, states that Saka was unknowingly in communication with FBI agents using encrypted apps and offered money to whom he believed was the father of a 10 year old girl. Per the the Post. The suspect is also accused of demanding nude images of the child and pressuring the man to sexually abuse her while he watched on Friday. He was arrested on Saturday in Brooklyn. Sako reportedly admitted to having long been attracted to children and had a particular fixation on young girls and he stated that he intended on purchasing sex toys for the child. Sako attempted to set up a meeting with the 10 year old girl and engaged in the act of masturbation to de aged images of another undercover officer that gave them the appearance of a child. The details of the allegations against Mr. Sacco are absolutely vile. As a member of law enforcement, Mr. Sacco broke the very laws he swore to uphold and now he faces serious charges and significant time in federal prison. Sako was arrested and charged with the attempted sexual exploitation of a child and he's facing up to 25 years behind bars and a $250,000 fine. So as I said at the beginning of this one, thanks so much Woody for these wonderful stories today. But it is real life, real crime and this is true crime. And so thank y' all for listening. We are going to continue to ask for you to do what you can to support justice for Haley and Ms. Barbara's GoFundMe to get the evidence room to come and look at or to further investigate Haley's murder. If you cannot monetarily help out, that is perfectly fine. If you can share it with your friends and family on Facebook or wherever, that would be so helpful. We are 55% in and it's only been a couple weeks but we just, we we can't lose the momentum. And as always, justice for Bradley and hashtag justice for ao, justice for Barbara Blunt and as I always say, hashtag justice for everyone that needs justice. And thank y' all again for listening. I hope you have a wonderful Saturday. Woody will be here Monday, I hope. I'm not lying, but Woody will be here I think Monday and Tuesday for you. And I promise you we will get back together as soon as we possibly can and stay safe.
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Weight Watchers Member Haley
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