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True Crime Time For March 5, 2026 | Cleveland Suitcase Murders, Fraud Scams & International Crime
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Cindy Overton
Hello everybody and welcome to True crime. Time for Thursday, March 5th 5th, 2026. And I am Cindy Overton and riding solo. And there's a lot going on in this world today. But let me tell you what happened on this day in 1989. And in 1989, a severed head was discovered in a paint can by a member of the Hopewell Valley Golf Club. It was later discovered that Joel Rifkin, the Long island serial killer, admitted to killing a young prostitute named Susie in March of 1989. He also dismembered her corpse, severed her fingertips and removed her teeth to conceal her identity. The victim was unidentified until 2013, when the victim was then identified as Heidi Balch. So now in present day, Rifkin is serving 203 years to life in prison in New York because he was already incarcerated for killing multiple people. And authorities never pursued a separate prosecution in New Jersey for Balch's killing. So that's what happened on this day in history There's a quite a few more things that happened on this day in history, if I'm not mistaken, the Boston Massacre. I'm pretty sure this is also the day that Patsy Cline died and a few other things like that. But I'm going to get straight to CURRENT news. We're going to Cleveland for this first story. The bodies of two young girls were found stuffed inside suitcases and buried in shallow graves on the east side of Cleveland on Tuesday. One of the bodies is believed to be between the ages of 8 and 13 and the other around 10 to 14 years old. And so far, neither have been identified. The Cleveland police chief, Dorothy Todd, said we're hoping to find answers. This is terrible. This is a tragic situation. And the bodies are in the custody of the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office. And Chief Todd says at this time there are no clear identicators of the cause of death of these two young females. We don't know how long the juveniles had been at this location. It was some time. So it's not just something that was recent. The girls haven't been linked to any active missing persons case in the area. And a dog walker stumbled across the first body in the vicinity of East 162nd street and Midland Avenue and notified police around 6pm on Monday. And while searching the area, Cleveland homicide detectives found the second shallow grave with a suitcase containing another body. Todd said the girls were in the area. That does not get a lot of foot traffic and detectives have been actively canvassing the area. But the problem is the timeline. Todd said authorities don't have any leads or suspects and asked anybody with information to call the Cleveland Police Department Homicide unit. And I'm going to give that number because what's suspicious to me is that there have not been any, you know, reported missing girl cases that match up to this. So it's 216-623-5464. You can also leave tips on Crime Stoppers at 216-252-7463. And I truly hope that these poor young ladies bodies are identified and they get a proper burial and whoever did this is brought to justice and prayers for their families and friends. Somebody knows that they're missing. I mean, I know I'm stating the obvious, but they're missing from somebody. We're going to Tennessee for this next story about another missing person. But a man has been charged after a missing girl from Tennessee was found in his home in North Carolina. On Monday, March 2, the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office revealed that they received a report about a girl from Memphis who had been reported missing on Sunday, March 1. Her parents reported the child missing as most parents would. Taking me back to the story in Cleveland, you would think that parents would report those children missing. But back to this one. Her parents reported the child missing to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee. Officials from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said they located the girl with a 27 year old man and this man is identified as Dakota Wayne Vetter and they were in a residence in Stoneville, North Carolina. Shelby County Sheriff's Office was immediately notified of the juvenile being located as were her parents and authorities added the juvenile was questioned in regard to her being reported missing. And the Rockingham County Department of Social Services was contacted, as was the Rockingham County District Attorney's Office. After being taken into custody at the Rockingham County Department of Social Services, the girl was picked up by her parents. Stoneville is a 670 mile drive northeast from Memphis. That is a long way in my opinion. Court documents indicate that the girl went missing from the home of her parents on Saturday, February 28 and she was reported missing to the authorities the following day. It still remains unclear how she actually got to Vetter's home, which is like I said, It's 670 miles away, which is obviously approximately a 10 hour drive. Authorities interviewed Vetter before charging him with felony abduction of children and placing him in the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office detention facility under no bond. And he is set to appear in the Rockingham County District court court on March 10th at 8:55am The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office says this matter is still under investigation at this time and officials say more charges are expected. And they expressed gratitude to Shelby County Sheriff's Office, the Rockingham County District Attorney's Office and the Rockingham County Department of Social Services for their assistance in this matter. So thank goodness she was found and returned home. And I know that there is more to that story being ten hours away, unfortunately. You think of all of the things that happen online, the way these pedophiles reach out through games or apps and you know, create this fictitious fantasy world for these juveniles to think that, you know, they need to leave with them and all of the grooming that happens. So thank goodness that she is safe and I pray for her to get whatever help that she needs and that her family is okay as well.
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Podcast Host
It's time for effed up professionals.
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Cindy Overton
So for this next story of a bad professional, we're going to Cherokee County, South Carolina. And there's a beautiful South Carolina boutique owner. They have her picture and the thing and she's accused of scamming customers across the state. I have one story that says 12 times and one story that says 13 times. I'm going with the one that says 12 because the headline for the 13th is not loading. That might have been redacted, I don't know. But we'll go with what we've got, which is Pamela Brooks Schrontz has been arrested 12 times since New Year's Day. Not over 12 years or 12 months. 12 times in under two months. She's a 30 year old owner of Thomas and Turner Boutique in Belton, South Carolina. She faces fraud charges from law enforcement agency in nearly a dozen counties across the state. Her most recent arrest came on February 25 when she was booked into the Pickens County Detention center on one count of obtaining property under false pretense valued at less than $2,000 and she was granted a $2,000 bond. The charges all stem from the same accusation. Customers paid the boutique for children's and women's clothing and they never received what they order and they got nowhere when they asked for a refund. The Anderson County Sheriff's Office said Schront scammed at least 54 victims who placed online orders but but never received their merchandise. Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller didn't mince words when his office booked schrontz for the 11th time on February 23. He said a victim in his county had ordered $360 in products and received nothing. This victim, just like the others, tried repeatedly to get an answer from the suspect but eventually was blocked and they would not respond, mueller said. So investigators were able to secure an arrest warrant and we waited in line with all the other agencies to get her book. Schrontz has not publicly responded to the allegations, but the boutique is Thomas and Turner Boutique and it sold or sells for fake sales, smogged children's clothing and women's apparel out of Anderson County. And again, it's largely through online orders, which is a lot these days. A lot of boutiques are doing that. But and when customers describe and the same they what customers describe is the same story. Repeatedly they place an order, they paid, nothing gets shipped. And when they follow up, they were told refunds or store credit were coming. Then the communication stopped and Schrontz allegedly blocked buyers on the boutique's Facebook page, ignored emails or just went silent entirely. In one early case, a Fairfield county woman said she paid one $1153 for an order placed in 2024 that never arrived. Her last contact with Schrontz was a November 2025 email, and then after that she was blocked on Facebook. The Anderson County Sheriff's Office, meanwhile, said a single customer had paid more than $920, that the agency was investigating at least eight individual cases as early as January. A Richland county case involved a customer who paid four for four separate orders in October and November of 2025 totaling just over $202, including one that was listed ready to ship. And then of course, she received none of them. And of course Schrontz stopped responding around mid December. So there's been, like I, like I said, 12 arrests for what amounts to be the same alleged scheme. And people are going saying that, you know, this is redundant, but and it seems redundant until you look at how South Carolina handles criminal charges. Each case has to be filed in the jurisdiction where the victim lives. And Shranch's customers were scattered from Fairfield county in the Midlands to Cherokee county near the North Carolina border. So every single agency where a victim came forward had to file and process its own charges. And the result was exactly what Sheriff Mueller described a queue of law enforcement agencies waiting their turn to book the same woman.
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Cindy Overton
And these charges fall under South Carolina code 1613 240, which covers obtaining property through false pretense and misinterpretation with intent to defraud. Because each individual victim's losses were under $2,000, every charge is classified as a misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine up to $1,000 and up to 30 days in jail or both. And that's also why Schrontz kept walking out. Bond amounts across her arrest have ranged from 1,000 to 6,000 and she posted bond multiple times only to get picked right back up by the next county in line, and on February 5th, she was released from the Spartanburg County Jail at 6:25pm and rearrested by the Easley Police Department roughly an hour later in Greenwood. The charges looked slightly different, police Chief Chodwon said. Schrance was charged with three counts of breach of trust with fraudulent intent, a related but distinct offense, and and she was then given a $6,000 total bond. Each individual order was modest, anywhere from $200, $360, $920. But the Anderson County Sheriff's Office count of at least 54 victims makes clear Shaunce's stance, and it's something else entirely. So she's alleged to have taken at least $10,000 plus in scam dollars, and the story goes on to list all of her arrests. I won't go into each one, so here's a little bit of what to do if you are caught in a similar circumstance. The FTC's mail, Internet or telephone order merchandise rule requires sellers to ship within the timeframe they promised or within 30 days if no date is given. If there's delay, the seller has to notify you as the buyer or offer a full refund if you want to cancel your order. If you paid with a credit card, the Fair Credit Billing act lets you dispute the charge as a billing error and you have 60 days from the date the first statement containing the charge was sent to you. So you send the dispute in writing to the billing disputes address listed by your card issuer, not to the payment address and debit card protections are weaker under federal law, so contact your bank right away. And some issuers voluntarily offer buyer protections beyond what's required. You can also report the seller to the report fraud.ftc.gov and file a complaint with your state's attorney general's office and keep everything order confirmations, receipts, screenshots of messages and the shipping promises make a paper trail. So that's how you avoid a similar situation. That was a long story to get to that, but I think it was worth telling because fraudulent activity happens so often these days. I recently have canceled. I was just telling my son Elay about this yesterday. I have recently canceled four different subscriptions that I signed up for different things for the podcast. Different like social media creation tools or a the voice generation thing that we used for Bradley's case when, you know, anonymous people would want. People would want to be anonymous. I canceled that and I would just get like I would cancel on my phone and I would just get a notice of cancellation and I didn't, you know, screenshot that because I took, you know, their word that it was canceled or at least the computer's word that I canceled it and I didn't receive an email. This is four different companies that did this one. I actually screenshot for whatever reason, and I'm glad that I did. But anyway, I was charged again this month. So when I went back to cancel this month, I screenshot every single one. And then I emailed the companies individually and sent the screenshot of the cancellation and I explained what had happened the previous month and we'll see if I get charged again. One company actually offered a refund, but the others did not. So again, now I have my, you know, receipts, so to speak, and we will see what happens with that. But we, unfortunately, as consumers, we have to make sure that we are the ones keeping the paper trail to back up our, you know, what we've done, what we've bought, what we've asked for a refund on, et cetera. So that was definitely a bad professional.
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Podcast Host
It's time for worldwide crime.
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Cindy Overton
We're going across the pond to Hong Kong, where a British woman is facing jail time in Hong Kong after being convicted on Tuesday of blackmail and perverting justice for untruthworthy reporting. She has been raped by a banker in the city. So Isabel Rose is 25 years old, and she met the British man involved in the case in Thailand before linking up with him again in Hong Kong in January of 2024. She filed a rape report in February that year, days after the encounter with the banker, and he was subsequently arrested. But he was reportedly released without charge, and instead, Rose was charged with one count of blackmail and and one count of perverting the course of justice. Prosecutors accused her of threatening to make a false report to the police to extort up to £100,000, which is equivalent to $133,000 from the man and District Court Judge Adrian Noel say. Ching said the prosecution had proved both charges beyond all reasonable doubt and the demands were unwarranted. The alleged rape was false. The defendant knew that her allegation was false. Ching said Rose was remanded in custody pending sentencing on July 22. And under Hong Kong law, both crimes can result in prison time. Apparently, Rose burst into tears as the verdict came through, and she said, I want to go home. I'm scared. I'm really scared, she said, and the defendant stalk Is it really happening? Well, Rose and the man stayed in the same bed in a Hong Kong flat on January 31 of 2024, according to the court documents, and on February 2, the man transferred £5,000 to her and said more cash was coming. But Rose began asking for escalating amounts of money and later filed the police report. And Ching ruled that they had engaged in consensual intimate acts, adding that a medical examination at the time could not confirm or disprove whether sexual intercourse had taken place. Rose's mother, Isha Bell, told reporters after the verdict she was concerned for her daughter's physical and mental health, and the mother said she will now spend her 26th birthday in prison and we'll see what follows with this story. If anything but. Fraudulent I can't this story. I just read the headline and it really reminded me of the end times, like Mad Max type stuff. But I haven't read the story so we will see A group of moped riding teenage muggers held up other youths using a machete and their fist in a string of terrifying broad daylight Brooklyn crimes last month. So one of the thugs as described in this article even grinned during the stick up of a 14 and 16 year old group of boys in the First street robbery. Two of these bad guys approached a 19 year old victim, one of them flashing a machete as they grabbed his motorized scooter. And at 17th Avenue and 65th street in Bensonhurst around 12:40 in the afternoon on February 10th, there are pictures of this. Then around 9:15am on February 13th, four suspects rolled up to a 16 year old boy at Ridge Boulevard and 86th street in Bay Ridge and demanded his jacket. And as they tried to grab the jacket they tore part of it off before zooming away on their little moped scooters. The youngest victims were two 13 year olds, one of whom was punched in the face when he refused to hand over his jacket to five members of this little moped crew. And this happened around 3:30 in the afternoon on February 16th in Brighton Beach. Then another guy flashed a knife before grabbing both of those teens jackets. The suspects then rolled off and both victims refused medical medical attention at the scene. And then in the final heist, four of the bad guys approached two boys aged 14 and 16 just before 3pm on Feb. 21 at Ocean Avenue and Oriental Boulevard in Manhattan. Reminds me of Monopoly game. One of the punks pushed the older victim off his E bike and snatched the Nike backpack from the younger victim and then they sped away. The New York Police Department on Monday released photos of two of the suspects as seen during the final stick up, one of whom is grinning and the other one has a black mask covering half of his face. All of these guys are believed to be between the ages of 16 and 18 according to police. And again, if you have any information, and I know we've got some New York and New Jersey lifers up there, call 1-800-577-TIPS or 8477. And that is NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline.
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Podcast Host
It's time for Family Matters Foreign
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Cindy Overton
to take us to California for this story and A woman has been convicted of second degree murder and felony child neglect and the drowning death of her two year old daughter. Kellyanne Brassert, who's 45 years old of Turlock, was found guilty following a trial in Stanislaus county and the District Attorney's office announced the conviction on January 9. She faces a sentence of 15 years to life in prison. I pray it's life, prosecutor said the child, Danielle Perez, drowned while Brassert and Perez here spelled P I R E S drowned while Brassert was intoxicated with a BAC level of 0.246%. The district attorney, Jeff Lugaro, said Brassert was inside the residence phoning men she met on dating apps while the child was unattended outside. Evidence presented at trial showed Brassert was on probation for child abuse at the time of the incident and according to prosecutors, Bratzert called authorities on September 12 and reported that her daughter was floating in the pool but she did not attempt to rescue the child. She goes on to tell investigators she was unable to help because of a leg injury that required her to use a wheelchair, but prosecutors said that evidence showed she was actually able to drive and attend nail and other appointments without assistance. And video evidence also showed Brassert walking and standing without aid. There were also empty and full liquor bottles found hidden throughout the home when they did a search of the property.
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Podcast Host
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Cindy Overton
Brasserd had also been found to be talking to men on dating apps for 45 minutes while her daughter was left alone. And after receiving the 911 call, the Turlock Police Department immediately responded to the home and pulled Danielle's lifeless body from the pool. Despite life saving measures being performed, the little girl was pronounced dead. She died a week before her third birthday and it's also noted that Brassard was displaying signs of impairment when authorities arrived when after she called 911 and evidence at trial demonstrated that Brassert's, which already said her BAC was 0.246 at the time of the drowning on December 22. Brassert, who has five surviving children, took the witness stand in court and said that she had asked her daughter to let the dogs out on September 12th. And the girl then went into the backyard with the dogs and and was unsupervised for almost 30 minutes. The little girl then struggled for some time after entering the pool before she stopped moving and was eventually pulled out by an officer. And as I said before, Brassert was already on probation for child abuse after a child in her care was hospitalized for nearly one week after taking medication. This is a case where the defendant knew and she just didn't care. This is a direct quote from Deputy District Attorney Sarah Salsa. And she said that in her closing statement she didn't care that her daughter was at risk. She didn't care that she wasn't watching her because all she wanted to do was be selfish and get drunk. So our sentencing was actually on February 5th. Well, all I can find is that she has 15 years to life expected. Let's keep going with another
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Podcast Host
it's time for family matters.
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Cindy Overton
I'm going to take us to New York and I if you just want to skip through this one, I'm just warning you now, I cannot see how I will not cry after this story or during this story. Going to Jamestown, New York and a father pled guilty to slamming his toddler into a pack and play with enough force that the child died. His spinal column came out in pieces during the autopsy. Officers responded to the home of 27 year old Matthew Nuttall on April 15th of 2024 after receiving a report of a suspicious death of a child. And this is according to Jamestown Police Department. Police said Nuttle, who was 25 at the time, caused the death of a 16 month old child by means of blunt force trauma. Apparently Nuttall was frustrated that his child would not stop crying. So he just slammed his toddler into the pack and play. The name of this baby, 16 month old baby was Isaac and he was slammed. Isaac was slammed with so much force that his spinal column came out in pieces during the autopsy. And this is according to District Attorney Jason Schmidt. Nuttall was arrested on April 17th of 2024 and pled guilty to first degree manslaughter on February 18th, 2026. And I actually got through that without crying. But how do you that man needs to be just slammed, slam him into his cell then let his spinal column break into pieces. Well, looks like Woody's just on a roll with me with this today. Going to take us to Florida. Jensen Beach, Florida. We have a teenage girl that was arrested for battery after she struck her mother with a pork chop during an argument. According to the probable cause affidavit. A deputy with the Martin County Sheriff's Office responded to her residence on January 22 regarding a verbal dispute between a teenager and her mother. At some point during the argument, 18 year old Farrah Kernan slapped her mother across the face with her right hand. And this is all seen on a video recorded by one of the mother's friends. Kernan had apparently consumed alcohol earlier that day. The 18 year old, the mother told authorities that before she was slapped, Kernan threw a pork chop at her. And the responding deputy said that the observed food residue on the mother's left shoulder was consistent with her story. When the deputy confronted Kernan, she actually tried to look confused and provided statements that were inconsistent, were inconsistent with the evidence and not related to the battery. She reportedly continued to be uncooperative and eventually started screaming and crying. But she was arrested and charged with domestic battery, as she should have been. Can you imagine slapping your mama? Well, first throwing a pork chop at your mama and then slapping her. And thank goodness, not that it needed to be because obviously the evidence was on the shoulder, but that there was a family friend there to to record it. Hate that. We live in a world that you have to record things, But we do.
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Podcast Host
It's time for worldwide crime.
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Cindy Overton
We're going to Sydney and offers. Officers in Brisbane, Sydney and Newcastle shot three people and which killed two of them across three separate incidences on Tuesday morning. The latest report of a Brisbane man who is 21 years old being shot has emerged on Tuesday afternoon. And Queensland police responded to a welfare check request at a home in Tangalpa east Brisbane around 10.30am Officers at the scene were threatened by the man. And he had a knife and he was wielding it and he attempted to negotiate. And the officers attempted to negotiate with the man, you know, flinging his little knife around. However, the man was shot after making continued threats at the police. Medical assistance was immediately rendered. But on the man did die at the scene. And Queensland Police Union President Shane Pryor told reporters the attending officers had attempted to subdue the man with a Taser before opening fire. And they have pictures of what happened outside of the house, you know, when police were there, you know, doing, you know, like the crime scene. While trying to detain that person, that male person lunged at the police with the knife. The entire incident has been caught of course on the body cam footage. And the Queensland Police Union President Shane Pryor goes on to say these officers were confronted with an extraordinarily dangerous situation and they should be very proud in the way that they have responded. Our deepest sympathies go to the family of the male person that is deceased today. Now, Acting Chief Superintendent Heath McQueen similarly justified the officer's actions and he said these incidents are often dynamic in nature and split second decisions need to be made. He said, my thoughts are with all of the officers involved, emergency services in attendance and the family of the man involved in this incident today. And then the news broke just hours after NSW Police shot two men. The first incident occurred at a unit block on Honeysuckle Drive in Newcastle around 8.30am the northern operations Support Group and Northern Region Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team attended the property to arrest a man wanted on five outstanding arrest warrants. And when officers forced entry into the unit, a 36 year old man confronted them with a knife. Two tasers were deployed but both were ineffective against this man and the man continued threatening officers with the knife before a police officer discharged a firearm, shooting the man. The 36 year old man sustained a gunshot wound to his shoulder and he was taken to John Hunter Hospital in stable condition while under police guard. And officers were called to a unit block of Saint no Avenue following reports of an armed man had entered the complex and assaulted two men, two women with a knife. And the man threatened attending police with the knife before an officer fatally shot him. The two women were hospitalized for head and facial injuries and all incidents are being investigated by ethical standards commissions. I mean Woody always says things happen in threes, just sometimes. It's not threes in one day.
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Podcast Host
It's time for effed up professionals.
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Cindy Overton
We're going to Wales now and there's I'm this, you know, La Wl is going to go to driving school to get his learner's permit and I hope this doesn't happen to him but we have a driving instructor in Wales that was over four times the country's legal alcohol limit when he crashed into trees while on his way to collect a student for a lesson. Thank goodness there was no students in the vehicle. The man is identified as Timothy Howells, he's 54 and he's a Buryport in southwest Wales and he was arrested on suspicion of DUI after crashing his car on the on Monday, February 20th. Officers went to the scene around 7:38am local time that day after they received a report of a single vehicle collision where a car was found on a roadside ditch and Howells was the local driving instructor and he appeared to be very heavily intoxicated to officers and provided an initial roadside breath test reading of 110 and was arrested on suspicion of drinking while driving. A short time later, while in custody, Howells provided a second breath testing reading of 132 which is four times over the country's limit. So to explain that in England, Wales and Northern Ireland the level of alcohol limit is 33 micrograms per 100 milliliters of breath. So Howells was driving a Volkswagen Polo from Red Driving School when he crashed into the ditch and there's images of this shared on people.com Police said that Howells admitted that he was arrested by officers and he was on his way to collect a student for a driver's lesson. After appearing in Lynelly Magistrates Court, Howells has been given an eight week custodial sentence suspended for 18 months and he's also been banned from driving for 30 months. Chief Inspector Christina Fraser said of the case, Mr. Howes was operating in a position of great trust and responsibility. Roads policing officers have worked quickly in conjunction with colleagues which these colleagues are the Crown Prosecution Service, cps. CPS is the Crown prosecutor service drivers and vehicle standards agencies to ensure the learner drivers and other road users have been safeguarded from an individual who presented a serious risk of harm. So thank goodness again he did not have those a student with him and then that he is not able to drive for 30 months. We're going to do one more story today Foreign. We're going to Japan and on Monday, March 2, prosecutors at the Nagoya District Court claimed that a 25 year old woman joined Itaya Hiroki for a drink after he asked a server at the bar in Nagoya's Naka Ward to introduce them. So Hiroki was 44 years old, was a regular at the bar and is accused of having encouraged the woman to drink 32 shots of tequila within 90 minutes of them sitting together on May 7th of 2023. Hiroki has been accused of intentionally getting the woman drunk before taking her to a hotel in a taxi with the intention of having sex with her. And he says it is true I encouraged her to drink but I didn't have any sexual intent. Prosecutors alleged that he ordered the tequila because the woman nodded when asked if she could drink alcohol. You can still drink, right? He supposedly asked her before encouraging the woman to keep drinking and this is what the prosecution said to the court. The woman supposedly refused his invitation to go to the hotel while Hiroki made sexual advances, including touching her breast over her clothes during the drinking session. And when they later went to the hotel, he apparently gave up on trying to have sex with her because he realized that she was in serious condition due to alcohol consumption. And the woman was found collapsed at a hotel in Naca ward and later confirmed dead. She died of hypoxic encephalopathy caused by acute alcohol poisoning on June 21. And how Hiroki has denied allegation of indecent assault causing death and kidnapping for indecent purposes amid the ongoing court trial. So that's. Yeah, I don't think 31 shots. I. Yeah, I don't even think I should have a shot. But anyway, so that is true crime time for Thursday, March 5th of 2026. And you know that Woody started the what Happened to Madison series. This Saturday, our Patreon Convict subscribers will receive episode two as an early release and the regular episode will come out on Tuesday for everyone. So we're mixing it up a little bit so you'll get true crime time for Monday, then what happened to Madison? Episode 2 on Tuesday and then true crime time for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and I think Saturday, we'll figure that out. I think that's what Woody said to me. But I've got 50 million things going through my head and I'm pretty sure that's how it is. And Saturday, this Saturday, all of our subscribers will get it early release and commercial free. And the first one was a hard listen, the family aspect of it, getting to know who Madison was. The second part gets into some stuff and I'll just leave it at that. And I think a lot of people have been messaging. I heard this, I heard that. Why have. I was hoping you would bring this up. I think that when you listen to episode two, you will hear what you were hoping to hear. And as always, justice for Bradley, justice for Haley is coming. Please consider donating to the GoFundMe. Every little bit helps. Again, if you cannot donate, we completely understand that. Please just send it, share it. It doesn't take 10 seconds out of your life to share it and you don't know who of your friends and family it will speak to, who will want to donate or they can share it and you know, let's get, we're over the seven thousand dollar mark. We need to get to ten. And big things truly are coming. I know you heard in the episodes and a lot of things have been put together. Pieces have been connected through, you know, the evidence room since then And I know Ms. Barbara will be posting that or Woody will be posting it when it's time, but we need to get some more actual information to put it all together before that's posted. And sometimes there's going to probably be a point where maybe it stops being posted because it's going to go to court. I don't know how that's going to work. This. If Woody was here, he could answer that. So anyway, continued Hashtag justiceforbara Blunt and to hashtag justice for anyone and everyone that needs it. Stay safe out there.
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