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Foreign. Hello, everybody, and welcome to this episode of True Crime. Time for Thursday, October 30, 2025. And I'm Woody Overton. I'm Cindy Overton bringing you the crime news, the stories from around the world.
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Yes.
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All the juice, if you will. And that's how it happens, right? And we're like, what, number 44 in the world? And. And Daily News. And that love, that's because of you lifers. And we love and appreciate each and every one of you and thank you for liking and listening and sharing, and we appreciate it. Right. So the. That being said, hashtag just for Bradley, hashtag just for ao. It's all the same stuff, y'.
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All.
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We gotta keep it rolling, keep the tips coming in. And, you know, it's not just us now. And I forgot to mention this on the episode that dropped on Wednesday for all lifers, episode 21. But there are other people that are taking up Bradley and AO's calls, and I think one was called the no Nose of Brown came out and. And she's just. She's. She's bringing heat. Right? And. But this other lady, there's another one, I think it's called Cajun Grit. This. That's doing, like, tick tocks and stuff about it in Facebook. And then there's this other lady, Cajun with a K, K, a J, U, N, gals, G, A L, Z, and then Creations, and she's. She's burning it down to talking about us and in the case and everything that's going on. The. So y' all keep it up. But the heat brings heat, you know, and unfortunately, it's Bradley's murder bursary. And what a horrible time of the year for the people that actually love Bradley. Right?
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Yeah.
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And. And to think that he's been sitting out there in the cold and the heat and whatever for all these years. Just want to bring them home, get him buried, and then let everything else will take care of itself.
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Exactly.
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So that being said, Halloween's tomorrow.
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I know.
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And you're gonna do some trick or treating at our daughter's house, right?
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Yeah.
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All the kids come in, you take them on. Popcorn machine. Yeah, popcorn. All right, well, let's get down to some true crime time for today. What you got? It's time for beast mode.
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I have a story. Something that happened on Tuesday, October 28, very close to us. In fact, way too close to us. And there was a truck transporting some monkeys.
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Oh, Lord. I heard about that.
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I did, too. I saw a friend of ours, in fact, chase Tyler that does our opening music for Real Life, Real Crime.
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His wife Lynn, shout out to them.
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Yes. His wife Lindsay did a post on about this. A truck transporting monkeys overturned on Interstate 59 near mile marker 117.
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Y', all, let me tell you, Interstate 59, it runs from basically the Slide L area. It's almost as far east in Louisiana as you can get. And then you have 55, which runs to Hammond, and then you keep going down Interstate 12 to get to the slide. Oh, and 59 will take you north into a whole different part of Mississippi.
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Yeah. So this was around in Jasper County, Mississippi.
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And it's all. It's all very rural because 55 takes you straight up. About halfway up is Jackson, Mississippi, you know, their biggest city. And I don't even know what they got over off of 59. It's not much.
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Right. Well, the vehicle that was transporting these monkeys was marked with signage that said live animals, and it lost control and flipped over, and it caused several of the primates to escape into the woods. So the Jasper County Sheriff's Department initially warned the public that the monkeys were aggressive and might carry hepatitis C, herpes, and Covid.
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Yeah. So they're lab monkeys, literally.
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And he stated that they weighed about 40 pounds each and required protective gear to handle. But then in a later statement, Tulane University clarified that the monkeys were not exposed to any infectious agent and that the primates did not belong to their institution, nor were they transported by it. According to officials, all but one. One is too many. All but one of the escaped monkeys have been recovered or euthanized. The remaining monkey is still at large, and authorities have warned residents not to approach it. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, and there's questions about who owned the animals and how were they transported.
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I heard that they came from Tulane.
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Yeah, well, Tulane from the labs. Yeah. Tulane is saying no now. And before I did this, I asked for any updates on this story because I read about that one missing one. I was hoping they had found it, but according to the update, they have not at this. At the time that we recorded this.
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Yeah.
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And that's all really rural. And so I know Bo bow season is open for them for white tailed deer. And can you imagine sitting in your stand in the elevated position and then a monkey comes swinging in. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure you're allowed to shoot that monkey, especially because, you know, they put him in labs and then it's no secret. They inject them with diseases to see, and they inject Them with different medicines to see how they respond. But that means they got an infected monkey, literally a monkey of a different feather or whatever. They're running around in the great state of Mississippi. So y' all stay safe over there, Mississippians. All right, let's go to New York City now. The, you know, the weather's cooling off and everything. The wind's blowing hard outside, y'. All. If you hear that, we're going to go to Queens, New York. How much do you think is too much as far as valuables to have in your home?
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I can't really.
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It's not really fair. Right.
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Yeah.
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But, I mean, you should be able to have however much you want you.
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You should.
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Yeah.
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And what's valuable to you might not be valuable to someone else.
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Something that's practicable. I'll tell you this, for what I'm about to say is valuable to everybody. And police in New York City are searching for three men who stole a safe and jury valued at $3.2 million from a house in Queens.
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Well, did they have it insured?
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Well, I'm sure you would think the Heist happened around 2:20pm on Thursday afternoon in the New York Police Department saying all this. So bad guys got there and they forced their way into the rear door of the home, and they were seen on camera getting into a blue Hyundai Elantra and taken off. Two of the men were disguised as construction workers, wearing vests, mask, black sweatshirts, black pants, and black backpacks. The third man was seen wearing a white hoodie, black pants, black gloves, and was a getaway driver. And fortunately, no one was at home during the time of the burglary, and no one was injured. So I just thought this was kind of a crazy story. I do love safe. But they got the pictures of all of them, and these are obviously professional. Professional, y'.
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All.
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It's not crackheads, of course. You know, cops are asking about one with information to come forward. I don't know. The. The. The 3.2 million, I mean, to think some of that is cash or Mama's got a lot of bling, or probably both. Daddy's got some bling.
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They probably both. They all probably have some bling. And there probably is cash.
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I can assure you we don't have $3.2 million in bling in our house.
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No.
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Yeah. No.
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And we never will.
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Yeah.
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No, we don't. That's not. If we had 3.2 million or something, it would not be bling. That's not who we are. Sorry.
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Yeah. What? 3.2 million. And then you could go steal everything in our house. And it's not $3.2 million.
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No. And if you ever see me with bling on, I'm not ashamed to say it. My bling is not real because I am not going to have it stolen. I mean, some of it. Some of it. No, no, no. I'm talking about bling. Like if I have one, like a huge ring. That is not.
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If you ever see me with jury on, it is real. And. And it is expensive. And I will kill you because I got it from my father.
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And it is insured.
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And it is insured. Yeah, but you can't replace it.
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Well, no, but you will die. Don't. Don't try it.
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Yep. You will be filled with lead.
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Yes.
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Spring leaks.
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Yes.
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All right. What you got?
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Foreign.
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So, speaking of stealing bling. Now, a bling that I would like to have is not necessarily a bling, but what kind of car would I want if I could have any, carry enough. I know.
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Well, that's not true.
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That's true. There's two that I want.
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No, that's not true. The. If you wanted it, we would go get it, but you. You don't want it. You like what you have. But you're right. You want. You want a Range Rover. Absolutely. I want a Lamborghini, but it's not practical. And.
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And, yeah, I would want a Rolls Royce Cullinan or a Range.
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I don't even want a Lamborghini. I want an old fat. But it's. It's not practical because I'm old.
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Yeah, right. Well, Shaquille O' Neal ordered because, you know, he's 7ft tall or 7ft 1 inch or something like that. He had special order, and I'm sure he has special order all of his vehicles. He had a special ordered Range Rover completely customized to fit him. And it. They say it was valued at 180,000. I probably would go a little bit higher, but this happened in October, and this 2025 Range Rover vanished while being shipped from Georgia to Louisiana. According to the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office, the SUV was being transported by a company out of Georgia, and the thieves hijacked the shipment using a hacked dispatch system to redirect the vehicle before it ever reached its destination.
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Professionals. They had an order for it. They knew it was coming in, so now they just gave the driver different paperwork delivered to this address. Not that address.
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Investigators believe that that obviously, like you just said, was highly organized and obviously not a random crime. The vehicle was specially modified to fit o' Neill's seven foot one frame, complete with extended legroom and a custom interior built for his height and comfort. And it was being delivered from Effortless Motors in California, a California based shop that builds custom cars for celebrities and athletes. The company says that this kind of theft has never happened to them before in history. They've been working closely with law enforcement and there's a $10,000 reward being offered for information leading to the SUV's recovery.
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Low Jack on them and everything else or GPS or what have you. I'm sure they disabled as soon as they got in. But the that car is in Argentina.
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Or somewhere and Right, because they said. Authorities have executed multiple search warrants and are tracking the vehicle's route through digital freight and GPS data to find that there's the truck to find nothing like they, they tried all exhausted all measures and they can't. They still haven't found it. So that's that.
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Well, there you have it. It's time for family matters. Going to Colorado and everybody hates Cho Mo's child molesters. Yeah, right. And there's nothing that I want good for any of them.
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And I don't think anybody else does either. Well, this one lady in Colorado feels exactly like I do and. But she just got sentenced to life in prison. Cousin 2024. She had an unrestrained hatred of child predators and this led her to kill and dismember an alleged wanted sex offender. Well, right, so Deka Siemens Simmons, who was 38 years old at the time of her sentence last year, was arrested in April of 2022 for the murder of 48 year old Daximo Siha whose body had not been recovered at that time. A year later police found the body which they identified to be him after they received an anonymous, anonymous tip about suspected human remains being in a bag inside a drainage in Colorado Springs. Well, prosecutor said Simmons shot see how in a garage before dismembering his body and storing it in a freezer. And then she moved his remains in a van. And, and I've said this before and I guess because I mess with meat so much and cleaning animals and stuff like that and cutting them up and butchering, it's hard to do what I do.
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Yeah.
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And, and if you don't have the skills to pay the bills, I mean I could do it and do it in animals in record time. Right. And because I've done a thousand plus times the. I can't imagine doing my first human.
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No.
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How long it would take. Especially if you. If. I mean it would take me less time than this lady. But it's not easy to cut anything up that's got bones in it.
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No.
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Yeah. So. But anyway, she did it and. Or they're saying she did it. So she had learned that Siha had a relationship with a 17 year old girl. Allegedly had a relationship with a 17 year old girl when he was 25 in California. And this according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. Now, under Californian law, the age consent is 18. So the alleged act would constitute statutory right. And at the time of her conviction, prosecutors describe the woman as someone who has unrestrained hatred for anyone who would molest a child. That's kind of like all of us. But they noted that she was also terrified of her daughter being a victim of sex trafficking. They said Mr. Seha had previously been identified in a homicide. CSPD made an arrest in April of 2022 and that suspect is in custody. And we just didn't know the location of Mr. Sehi's body at the time and have been searching for him since then. That Colorado Springs PD said. And at the time of his death, CI Had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to register as a sex offender. See how his parents spoke in court at the citizens saying Simmons killed their son for something he did decades ago. Okay. They said he was a good person. He didn't deserve to go out this way. That's what his father said. See how I was killed for something he did 24 years ago? The mom, Karen Pratcher said. And he won't. Simmons the murder won't be on the street to hurt anyone else's families like she has done her whole entire life. And Simmons was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, with an additional 24 years for tampering with a deceased body and three more years for tampering with physical evidence. And authorities linked her to the murder through DNA from the blood found in the garage. And they said the successful outcome in this case against a woman who has proven herself to be a danger to members of our community took the dedication and perseverance of many members of my offices, according to the D. A Michael Allen. So you know what? Hating them, unless you're like in prison, you get to stick a shank in them and you're doing life already or whatever. And that's the saddest thing. Now look, if somebody did Your own kids. A different story. Yeah, that. But this woman is just like. She cut a dude up.
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That was excessive.
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Yes.
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Sorry. I mean, even for a chomo.
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The. And he was. Yeah. I mean, he had a warrant for failure to register. He probably was still doing what he did or whatever. But. Yeah, she just took a little. Little bit of act into her own hands.
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Well, there might be more to the story that people don't know. She might have suspected him being with someone. Oh.
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You know, she won't be getting anybody else because she's gonna die. And then. And then she dies and comes back to life. She's got. Still got another two years to do, and she's coming back to life. That's not gonna happen. So.
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Goodness, Grace.
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Family matters. She's. She was worried about her daughter.
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Yeah.
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Getting raped.
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Well, the best way is to teach your children what to look for and how to be safe and. Well, don't you think?
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Oh, we all know. We all know.
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That is true knowledge is power.
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I don't. Do not dispute that.
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Well, you want a Halloween story?
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Sure.
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Okay. We're going to Florida. And there's been a heated dispute among neighbors for a Halloween front porch display. And this display features skeletons posed in smoking and stripping positions.
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All right, let's talk about that. And we were just talking about. You're going, you know, to one or our daughter's neighborhood, and it's their first time. They bought their first home. And all the kids are coming. They only have kids. And then kids come to trick or treat.
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Treat.
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And they get, you know, so excited. They got a closet full of candy and. And all that. I don't know what their yard looks like or what have you. But, like, in Wisconsin, when I was up there for Halloween. Holy. Every yard was like a haunted house. I mean, just like, elaborate. This place. Like, I was slowing down video. And that's like, I can't believe. There's got to be 15, 20 grand in. In decorations and music and all this playing. So these people are doing the same thing, but it's strippers and.
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And smoking and strippers. Yes. And Sophie's neighborhood is that way. Just like what you described as strippers and smokers. Oh. The way you describe Wisconsin, it's like they go all out. They lock off the neighborhood. There's no driving cars. They have people on the side by sides. They have people pulling trailers full of kids in it. It's just like a big old neighborhood party. And they have, like, this one thing where there's this one house that always has like a lo. Like they put. Put the candy through this, like, luge thing and it comes out the hole and you have to catch it. And they have little haunted houses set up in the garage. It's a fun thing. And they're in the spirit. Well, this family tried to get in the spirit too, and they have their skeletons, like I said. And the problem is is that certain residents are okay with it and certain residents are not. So. One resident described the setup as not your typical spooky decor, noting that the skeletons appeared to be engaged in adult themed behavior rather than just traditional Halloween fun. Other neighbors, however, looked at the display more, like the article says, benignly, like they're just neutral about it. And one woman said her children like to watch the skeletons dance, and she personally found the displays harmless. The homeowners association, however, weighed in after neighbor complaints and officials determined the display not to violate any policy. And residents are free to put up any holiday decorations they wish. The HOA advised complaining neighbors that they may simply need to wait until Halloween ends or when their decorations must come down under the rules. They're just saying you have nothing until they don't take their decorations down on top.
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Hoa. I'm so glad we don't have to abide by that bullshit.
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So, not liking what the HOA said, they took it to social media in the neighborhood and it grew very heated. One commenter wrote, I don't see stripping as art. And whether it's skeletons or cartoons, I wouldn't want my kids exposed to sexual innuendos. Then another one responded, how the fuck's.
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A little kid know it's sexual?
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Exactly. Exactly. And another one said, if you want to see it as sexual, that's your take. Does it show the skeleton removing clothes? How do you know it's a female or a male skeleton? Like so. One neighbor simply labeled the display as very inappropriate. And I mean, just going crazy over things that it doesn't. I mean, just let the people have their skeletons.
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I don't know. I mean, go to a different neighborhood, right? The. It seems like there would be videos of that or something if it was so offensive.
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Right?
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So. All right, well, here we go. Foreign family matters. We're going to Georgia and hashtag JusticeForHey. We are still waiting on the district attorney to set up the meeting with Ms. Barbara. So we already know she's denying it, saying it's double jeopardy, which is total bullshit, but we want to hear it out of a her mouth to Ms. Barbara. And now that's been a couple weeks. They're saying they were going to set it up and they haven't done it yet. So just a little bit longer on that. But we're going back. We're going to Atlanta. We're going to Cobb County. And police found the body of Nanakia Pratt, who's a six month old boy, wrapped in a trash bag, dead from blunt force trauma to the head. His dad said that the baby boy was kidnapped during an armed robbery. All right, so his name is. This piece of shit's name is Antonio Pierce and the baby's father. And he told the Clayton county police on Sunday that. And the little boy's name is spelled N in a K a I. Nanakia was taken while sitting in his car in his car seat. He was taken by two armed men who also stole 6,500 in cash and 3 pounds of marijuana. And the kidnapping was alleged to have happened in an apartment that Pierce said he was using as a stash house in Riverdale, which is about 11 miles south of Atlanta. But late Tuesday, police found Nanakia's body in the backyard of a house just on the other side of a fence from the apartment complex. Clayton County Detective Cheyenne Reynolds told reporters Friday that officers never believed Pierce's story. He was caught in a lot of lies throughout his interview process. That's what Detective Reynolds said. And saying witness statements and evidence from Pierce's phone led police to the child's body. Police also say Pierce asked another man to hide a backpack with guns and drugs. And they haven't said when or where Nanakia died or why Pierce might have killed him. But the police arrested Pierce on Sunday, charged him with marijuana possession and trafficking offenses. Basically they're holding until they get more evidence. Right. They later added a false statements charge. And Wednesday they charged Pierce from the Nocious murder, concealing death, tampering with evidence, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, cruelty to a child and falsely reporting a crime. And they added violence to the charge on Thursday, probably after the autopsy. Police have also arrested Nanakia's mother, Nicolette Pratt, and charged her with cruelty, concealing the death, obstruction of an officer, false statements and being a party to a crime, and a warrant for her arrest. She told investigators that Pierce had previously shaken the baby.
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Oh.
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The Warren states investigators also found Pratt's story inconsistent. Blunt force trauma and shaking of two different things. Right. So the infant Inakia was a twin and has a surviving sister who's been placed in custody of the child welfare authorities. And Georgia is in the red on my map for the deaf. Tell me that doesn't deserve it. What does?
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I don't know.
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Six month old baby, it basically caved his head in. But then, I mean, and then you're gonna admit or try to cover it up by taking a lesser charge saying, oh you know what, I was doing a dope deal and they robbed me and they took my baby.
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Yeah, because the lesser charges though, that.
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Motherfucker, they go on to prison as chomo is bad going to prison for killing your six month old baby by bashing his head in. That's on the same level.
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So I wonder if those investigators can go and pull Haley Johnson's file and see what charges they can come up with for Brooks.
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Because they can't. Because the. She is saying that Madam District Attorney is saying that because they charged him with concealing a crime or moving the corpse and tearing up the police evidence room, that's charges and he got 11 years. Right. She's saying because they already used the facts of her death in the other trial even though they didn't charge him with it.
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Right.
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They use the facts for her death and the trial and the body being moved, that they can't charge him with the murder, which is such a crock. Well, yeah, I'm gonna tell you what it is, Ms. Barbara, and she's well aware of this. The new Madame DA is no longer a citizen of Georgia and she's certainly not a citizen of great prominence and wealth. But. And she doesn't bite and she can't be bothered. And I it's my fuck up, but I'll say it and talk about on the story with Miss Barbara, my fuck up on waiting and believing. They got Woody believing in the justice system this time because this DA was a former cop and a former detective and she talked the good shit. And yes, I have audio tapes of her and the meeting and I'm not supposed to have them, but I have them. And what you know where she said that she's going to put her best on it and do this and that and da da da DA her. But that'll come in another date. But go ahead, what you got?
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So I'm taking us to Texas in the coastal the Gulf coast part of Texas and some strange stuff is washing on shore. And there's barnacle covered dolls. Dolls, dolls. And some are grotesquely marred with erosion worn.
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Where is this in Texas?
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The Gulf of Texas around Corpus Christi. So there's barnacles all over these dolls. And according to researchers with the Heart Research Institute of Texas A and M University and Corpus Christi, these dolls have been washing ashore basically for about eight years. And some even say that the trend of these dolls washing ashore goes back even further. A oceanographer named Tony Amos had, but he's now deceased, was tracking the trend of these dolls washing ashore. So senior research staff member Jace Tunnell described beachbound dolls whose faces are covered in barnacles and one had barnacles growing out of its eyes. It says it pointed out how the items have clearly floated long distance and endured the ocean's wrath.
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Oh, you know, I'm no investigator. Actually I am. And I'll just go on a limb and say they're a ship sank with a bunch of dolls on it.
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So no one knows for sure where the dolls come from, but the theory is strong that they drift from Mexico, Central America or South America, transported by the Gulf of Mexico. They don't have the name America. Yeah, Gulf of America's Loop Current and deposited on Texas shores because of the state's geography and prevailing ocean flows, Tunnel said we have 10 times the amount of trash washing up on our shorelines than anywhere else in the Gulf. While the dolls are eerie to look at, the research team seems to think that they are a symbol of something much darker. Marine pollution and the threat it poses makes them vulnerable to the coastal ecosystems. And the dolls themselves may look creepy, but the danger is real. And endangered animals like sea turtles have been known to mistake doll parts for food and become entangled in them. So this is just kind of a spooky thing.
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Yeah, it kind of goes along with the Halloween. Yeah. Dolls always kind of freak me out anyway.
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Yeah. Oh, yeah.
A
Oh, and the I don't get freaked on many things, but some ship sank somewhere and they probably when every time big storm comes through, they get put up on the coast. I don't know. All right, we. I'm gonna end this one. And if it won't get a tear from you, I don't know what would.
B
Getting hard.
A
It's time for family matters. And this is about as far on the opposite end of the spectrum from the dollar story as you can get. So. Well, we are going. This is up. We're going to South Carolina. And there in South Carolina, investigators told the story and showed the graphic details about a horrific abuse that led to the death of a four year old boy at the hands of his mother and her husband. And guess what? It's time for effed up professionals. The husband was a cop. So Joshua Emanuel lamar Latimer, who's 30, and Destiny Shade Dion, who's 24, stand accused of homicide by child abuse and unlawful conduct toward a child in the death of little Isaiah Dioni. And this according to the South Carolina or sled is what I know by but this like their state police South Carolina. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. So deputies with the Oconee County Sheriff's Office responded to a home at Forest Acres Circle and Wahala, which is it's about 45 miles west of Greenville in South Carolina. And this is back in September. And cops found the boy dead inside the home. And the boy appeared to be underweight and malnourished and weighed just 21 pounds. Oh, it's about to get much worse. Yes. And so they say little Isaiah's ribs were very visible and his eyes were sunken into his head. It's all an arrest warrant. Both suspects are in the Oconoma County Jail without bond. And Latimer was a fucking trooper with a South Carolina highway patrol. And it says he was let go after his arrest. Now the local Fox affiliate WHNs reported from Dionys bond hearing Thursday in which prosecutors put a bunch a new charges. They laid out additional allegations and the 10th Circuit solicitor, Micah Black revealed some of the observations of the first responders. And let's listen to this quotations. He was basically skin and bones for a lack of better words. One of the EMS personnel basically described it as similar to something you'd see on TV to starving children in Africa. The boy was also forced to sleep on a blanket instead of a bed and the curtains to his room were stapled shut. Investigators believe the suspects locked Isaiah in the closet and forced him to drink water from the toilet. So WHNS reports the boy lived with his maternal grandmother for the first two years of his life, but moved in with his mom and Latimer when the couple started dating. Now, after Isaiah moved in with them, he was allegedly treated differently than his younger sibling. Why do all these stories have other siblings but he's treated differently than a younger sibling who appeared to be fine. He didn't see a doctor over the span of two years. Neighbors told cops when they took food to the family, they would witness Isaiah eat adult sized meals, which they found odd. The judge denied bond and ordered Dioni to remain in jail. And the convicted she the suspects will face between 20 years in life behind bars. South Carolina I'm looking at the map is in. I hate this one. On the death penalty. Isaiah's obituary called him the most beautiful baby boy. It said as, as Isaiah grew, so did his personality. Knowing him was such an amazing experience. He was always happy. Isaiah's smile could light up a room and his laugh would warm your heart. And that's according to his obituary. And I have no idea why they let that dude out of jail. The trooper and the mother, I don't know. The, the, you know, 4 year old boy weighed 21 pounds. I remember, like, let's use Kately, for example. She was born, she weighed like close to £8 or something. I think she was £21. And, and by the end of the first year.
B
Yes.
A
Yeah.
B
Yes.
A
Four years old, 21 pounds.
B
I have so many questions and so.
A
Much to say, but yeah, well, evil sucks, but it's real. And this is, I mean, you know, four years old.
B
What can you do?
A
Totally, totally dependent upon your mother, your mother to take care of you. And, and she took care of him all right. Just from. Straight from the devil.
B
I just, nobody does anything to deserve that type of treatment. I mean, you still have to be humane. We have prisoners that are murderers. They still get their three hots in a cot, you know? I mean, that little boy didn't do anything to deserve that.
A
No. And it just blows my mind. Those are the kind of people that as a detective, make you want to lose your job, make you want to punch him in the mouth.
B
Imagine if you had arrested that cop.
A
I don't think that he wouldn't have walked. He's got issues. I mean, we saw a bond, but the still facing the time. But I don't know, boy. That along the lines of the chomos and everything else. Let that go to prison and he's a baby murderer and he's a cop.
B
Yeah.
A
Yeah. I mean, maybe Prison justice. Prison justice. And got another hashtag justice for Bradley and hashtag justice for AO coming for you Saturday also, y' all. Tune in. Listen to it all. Life was patreon convicts. Thank you for your support. You'll get it before then, naturally. And we'll post it whenever sin gets it edited and out. And I don't have anything else. You no love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. Thank you for liking and listening and sharing and all that. Good podcaster. Right? And we will holler at you later. Peace.
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A blend of shocking, bizarre, and sometimes darkly humorous true crime news stories from around the country, featuring escapes, heists, and haunting cases, with Woody and Cyndi's unfiltered commentary and lived law enforcement perspective.
Woody and Cyndi Overton deliver a rapid-fire roundup of recent true crime headlines, blending local Southern charm with hard-nosed investigative insight. This episode covers an overturned truck of lab monkeys in Mississippi, a multi-million dollar heist in Queens, Shaquille O’Neal’s custom Range Rover theft, and several gut-wrenching crime stories involving child abuse and murder. Interspersed are moments of humor, family asides, and the hosts' signature advocacy for justice in cold cases.
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