Sept. 25, 2025
"TRUMP ASSASSIN CONVICTED & TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF, MACHETE MURDER OVER PREGNANCY & MISTRESS KILLER GUILTY"
Reid Carter covers Ryan Routh's conviction for attempting to assassinate Trump - then trying to stab himself in the neck with a pen as the verdict was read. His daughter screamed "he's trying to kill himself!" as marshals tackled him. Dakota Van Patten's trial reveals he macheted his girlfriend Melody Hoffman to death because she might have been pregnant. Jose Soto-Escalera is convicted of strangling his seven-months-pregnant mistress after making her buy the murder weapon. Thursday proves whether you're stalking presidents or killing pregnant girlfriends, eventually everybody gets caught. Plus Reid previews tomorrow's Eight Days of O.J. Simpson.
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Caaleroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Thursday, September
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twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, Ryan
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Ruth was convicted of trying to assassinate Donald Trump, then
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tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen
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right there in the courtroom, his daughter screaming, oh my god,
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he's trying to kill himself as Marshall's tackled him. Dakota
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Van Patten is on trial for machetting his girlfriend to death,
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and the medical examiner just revealed she might have been
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pregnant because apparently regular murder wasn't horrible enough. Jose Sodo
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Escalera has been convicted of murdering his pregnant mistress with
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an electrical cord she paid for herself. The jury deliberated
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for forty seven minutes that includes bathroom breaks. Plus tomorrow
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starts our eight days of O. J. Simpson, the trial
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that taught America that with enough money and fame, you
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can literally get away with murder. This is Celebrity Trials.
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Ryan Ruth was convicted Tuesday of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump.
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The jury deliberated for less than three hours, but that's
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not the headline. The headline is what happened when they
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read the verdict. Fort Pierce, Florida Federal Court Judge Aileen Cannon,
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presiding the jury foreman, stands and reads guilty on all
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counts attempted assassination of a president, guilty, assaulting a federal
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officer guilty, possession of a firearm as a felon guilty.
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Courtroom sketch artist Lothar Spear was in the front row.
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He said Ruth showed no emotion as the verdict was read, stonefaced, accepting.
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Then suddenly chaos. Ruth's daughter Sarah screamed from behind, Oh
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my god, he's trying to kill himself. He's trying to
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kill himself. Someone stop him, please. Fifty nine years old
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had grabbed a pen and was trying to stab himself
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in the neck in open court, in front of his daughter,
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in front of the judge, in front of everyone. US
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marshals tackled him immediately dragged him out the side entrance.
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When they brought him back, he was in full shackles,
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no blood. According to witnesses. They stopped him in time,
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but the attempt was real. His daughter, Sarah yelled out
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as they dragged him back. I love you and we
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will get you out. Don't worry. She was then escorted
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from the courtroom. Get him out. He was just convicted
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of trying to kill a president. He's facing life in prison.
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There is no getting out. But let me back up
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and tell you how we got here. Because Ryan Ruth's
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path to that courtroom suicide attempt is a story of obsession, stalking,
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and the delusion that political violence is patriotism. September fifteenth,
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twenty twenty four, Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach.
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Trump is playing his usual Sunday round. What he did
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He doesn't know is that Ryan Ruth has been there
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since four am, creating what prosecutors called a sniper's nest
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near the sixth Green. Ruth had been stalking Trump for weeks.
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FBI agent Kimberly McGreevy testified that cell phone data showed
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Ruth in the vicinity of the golf club repeatedly on
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September second. He was there for sixteen hours starting at
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four am. Sixteen hours sitting waiting, planning. His Google searches
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tell the story of pre meditation. Trump's upcoming rallies. Palm beach,
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traffic cameras, directions to Miami Airport, flights to Mexico, hospitals
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in the area, how to make a tourniquet. He expected
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to be shot, He expected to need medical care. He
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expected to flee to Mexico. This wasn't impulse. This was
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a plan. The most heartbreaking evidence. At twelve fifty five
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pm on September fifteenth, less than an hour before Secret
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Service spotted his rifle barrel, Ruth texted his children. To
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his daughter Sarah, love you so much. You are the
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best daughter. To his son Adam, you are so awesome, dude,
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love you so much. To his son orin love you
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so much, man, you are so brilliant. Or an alarmed
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texted back, love you too, Dad. What's up? Everything all right?
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Ruth never responded. He was too busy setting up to
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assassinate the former president. Secret Service spotted his rifle barrel
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poking through the fence at one thirty one pm. They
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opened fire. Ruth fled, leaving behind his SKS rifle, two backpacks,
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and a go pro camera he'd been using to record
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his crime. Tommy McGhee, a witness, saw a frantic and
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disheveled man fleeing the scene. McGhee followed him, took pictures
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of his black Nissanics Terra, wrote down the license plate
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and called nine to one one. Forty five minutes later,
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Ruth was arrested on a ninety five heading north. During
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cross examination at trial, Ruth told McGee you're a good man.
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You're my hero. You're an American hero, the man who
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tried to assassinate a president calling the man who caught
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him a hero. The irony was lost on Ruth. Here's
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the truly insane part. Ruth represented himself at trial, no lawyer,
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just him trying to convince a jury he didn't intend
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to kill Trump, despite creating a sniper's nest and waiting
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with a rifle. His closing argument was delusional. If the
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attempted assassination was not taken, it is not an attempt.
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He told the jury there was no intent. Judge Cannon
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had to interrupt him ten times for veering outside the
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bounds of evidence. He called three witnesses in his defense,
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two friends who accomplished nothing, and a former Marine sniper
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who testified the SKS rifle found at the scene was
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prone to jamming, as if a jamming rifle means you
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didn't intend to use it. Prosecutor Chris Brown's closing was simple.
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Even though he didn't kill Trump, he wanted to. The
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evidence was overwhelming, the stalking, the preparation, the goodbye texts,
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the sniper's nest, the rifle. The jury took less than
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three hours for a two week trial with thirty eight
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prosecution witnesses and hundreds of exhibits. Three hours is nothing.
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They knew he was guilty. Everyone knew he was guilty.
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Even Ruth knew he was guilty. After the trial, his
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daughter Sarah told CNN, it's obviously all rigged and it's
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all bullshit rigged. Her father was caught with a rifle
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at Trump's golf course after stalking him for weeks. That's
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not rigged, that's caught. Trump posted on truth Social This
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was an evil man with an evil intention, and they
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caught him for once. Trump's assessment is completely accurate. Ruth
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will be sentenced December eighteenth by Judge Cannon. He faces
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life in prison at fifty nine. That means dying in
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federal custody. But he almost denied the government that satisfaction
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with a pen to his neck. Think about that he
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tried to kill Trump to make a political statement, failed,
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then tried to kill himself to avoid consequences. Failed at
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that too. Ryan Ruth is a failure at everything, including dying.
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His children will visit him in federal prison for the
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next few decades, remembering those final texts, love you so much,
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the last free words of a father who chose political
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violence over his family. Ryan Ruth wanted to be remembered
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as a patriot who saved America from Trump. Instead, he'll
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be remembered as the guy who tried to stab himself
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with a pen when the jury told him what everyone
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already knew. He's guilty. Now to Iowa, where Dakota of
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Van Patten's trial for machetting his girlfriend to death has
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taken an even darker turn. The medical examiner testified yesterday
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that Melody Hoffman might have been pregnant when Van Patten
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hacked her to death in their apartment. Let me set
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this scene of absolute horror. March fifteenth, twenty twenty five, Waterloo, Iowa.
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Neighbors hear screaming from Apartment four B, not arguing, not yelling,
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screaming the kind that makes you call nine one one
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immediately police arrived to find Melody Hoffman twenty three dead
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in the living room. But this wasn't just murder, this
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was butchery. She had seventeen machete wounds. Seventeen defensive wounds
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on her hands and arms showed she fought desperately. She
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was literally trying to grab the blade to stop him.
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Dakota Van Patten twenty eight, was still in the apartment,
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covered in blood, sitting on the couch watching TV. When
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police asked what happened, he said, I had to do it.
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She was going to ruin everything. Ruin what. According to
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the prosecution, Melody had just told Dakota she might be pregnant,
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might be hadn't even taken a test yet, just missed
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her period, and wanted him to know. His response was
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to get a machete from the bedroom closet and attack her.
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The medical examiner, doctor Patricia Wong, testified that Melody's body
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showed signs consistent with early pregnancy, elevated hormone levels, uterine changes.
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She was probably four to six weeks pregnant, too early
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to be certain, but the signs were there. Dakota had
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another girlfriend and a wife. He was separated from but
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trying to reconcile with Melody didn't know about either of them.
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She thought she was in a monogamous relationship. She thought
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telling him about possible pregnancy would be happy news. The prosecutor,
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Jennifer Martinez, showed the jury Dakota's text messages from that day.
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At two PM, he texted his wife working things out,
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Love you. At two thirty, he texted his other girlfriend,
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can't wait to see you tonight. At three pm, Melody
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texted him, need to talk when you get home important.
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By f four pm, she was dead. The machete was
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a gift from his father, an antique from World War II,
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a family heirloom. He used his grandfather's war trophy to
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murder his pregnant girlfriend because she complicated his love triangle.
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Van Patten's defense attorney, Michael Anderson, is trying to claim
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temporary insanity, that the shock of potential fatherhood caused a
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psychotic break, that Dakota has no history of violence, no
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history of violence, His ex wife has a restraining order.
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His other girlfriend filed a police report two weeks before
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the murder, saying he threatened her. Melody's friends say she
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was scared of his temper. That's not no history, that's
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a pattern. Nobody connected until Melody was dead. The crime
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scene photos shown to the jury were so graphic one
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juror vomited. Another had to be excused for medical reasons.
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The judge offered to declare a mistrial. The remaining jurors
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voted to continue. They wanted to see this through for Melody.
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Dakota's mother testified for the defense, said he was a
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good boy, had stress from his divorce, was trying to
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do right by everyone. Trying to do right apparently included
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maintaining three relationships and murdering the woman who might be
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carrying his child. Melody's sister gave victim impact testimony that
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destroyed the courtroom. She brought Melody's journal. Read an entry
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from a week before her death. Dakota is acting strange, distant,
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but I have amazing news to share. I hope it
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brings us closer. She hoped pregnancy news would bring them closer. Instead,
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it brought a machete. The jury saw surveillance footage from
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the apartment complex Melody coming home from work at three
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forty five, smiling, carrying grocery bags she'd bought ingredients for
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a special dinner. Was going to tell Dakota over his
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favorite meal. At three fifty five, Dakota arrives empty handed
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except for rage. By four fifteen, neighbors are calling nine
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to one one twenty minutes from arrival to murder. That's
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how fast Melody went from girlfriend to victim. Dakota van
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Patten faces life without parole. Iowa doesn't have the death penalty,
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which is unfortunate because if anyone deserves it, it's the
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man who misch shedded his possibly pregnant girlfriend seventeen times
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because she inconvenienced his dating life. Melody Hoffman was twenty three.
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She worked as a veterinary technician, loved animals, wanted kids,
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thought she'd found love with Dakota. She died trying to
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protect the baby she might have been carrying defensive wounds.
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Showed her hands over her stomach even as she tried
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to stop the blade. That's not murder. That's a war
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crime committed in a living room. We'll be right back
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with Jose Sodo Escalera's conviction and your preview of eight
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days of oj Jose Sodo Escallera verdict ten to twelve
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minutes Jose Soto Escala was convicted yesterday of murdering his
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pregnant mistress, Melissa Rodriguez. The jury deliberated for forty seven
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minutes that includes electing a foreman, using the bathroom, and
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probably asking why are we even discussing this? The evidence
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was overwhelming, security footage of Melissa entering the warehouse where
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she died, Jose leaving alone three hours later, his Google
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searches about electrical chord strength, the receipt showing Melissa bought
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her own murder weapon with her credit card because Jose
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was too cheap to pay forty seven dollars and ninety
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nine cents to kill her. But what sealed his fate
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was a text message Melissa sent her mother an hour
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before meeting Jose tonight. I finally get answers. Either he's
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leaving Maria or I'm leaving him. Baby Sophia deserves a
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far who shows up? She got her answer. Jose showed
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up all right, with the electrical cord she'd bought, thinking
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it was for some home improvement project. Instead, it was
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for her execution. Jose's wife, Maria was in court when
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the verdict was read, still standing by her man She
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actually smiled when they said guilty, smiled like she won something.
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Your husband murdered his pregnant mistress, and you're smiling. The prosecutor,
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Anna Martinez said after the verdict, Jose Sodo Escala didn't
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just kill Melissa Rodriguez. He killed baby Sophia. He killed
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a kindergarten teacher. He killed a daughter, a sister, a friend,
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all because child support was inconvenient. Jose showed no emotion
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as the verdict was read, just stared ahead like he
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was calculating his appeals. His lawyer asked for the jury
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to be pulled. Each one looked Jose in the eye
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and said guilty twelve times, guilty, Guilty, guilty, sentence. Next month,
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he faces life without parole at thirty eight. That means
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potentially fifty years in prison. Fifty years to think about
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the four minutes baby Sophia suffered as oxygen was cut off.
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Four minutes of a viable baby dying because daddy didn't
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want to pay child support. Melissa's family held hands as
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the verdict was read. Her mother sobbed, her father stood
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stone faced. Her sister held up a photo of Melissa's
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ultrasound baby Sophia at seven months, never born, never held,
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never named officially because her father killed her before she
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could exist outside her mother. The defense tried everything, other
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suspects rushed investigation, circumstantial evidence, But you can't argue with
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Google searches, security footage, and a receipt for your own
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murder weapon. Josey Soto Escalera thought forty seven dollars and
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ninety nine cents for an electrical cord was cheaper than
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