Crime Wire Weekly 11/28/25 | Slender-Man Stabber Escape, Tainted Margarita’s & Sextortion (Preview)

0:00 Hey everyone, welcome back. We hope all of you have had a happy festive Thanksgiving, and now you got your turkey fix, We're going to give you your crime fix. In California, Celeste revas her Nandez body was confirmed frozen when police found it in the trunk of a toad Tesla. We're going to tell you all the details on that. In Wisconsin, the slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser is missing after cutting off her ankle bracelet. In Oklahoma, a teacher dies after drinking a margarita at a restaurant tainted with an industrial degreeser.

0:42 In Michigan, a man is charged with murder after a disagreement over a Hummer purchase. And kJ and I are bringing this episode to you on Black Friday, So if you're out doing your bargain Christmas shopping, we got some safety tips. You are not going to want to miss all of this and much more today on Crime Wire Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman. I'm still Kelly Jennings. You are still Kelly Jennings. How was your Thanksgiving? Kelly? Fantastic? I gobbled till I wobbled and and. Then wobbled in here, I did very good, very good. Well, we'll jump right into it today and we're going to start off with yet another update. It seems like we've updated you for the past three weeks on this case.

1:29 Of course, we're talking about Anna Kepner, and a cause of death for the Florida teen who was found dead on a Carnival cruise ship earlier this month has been revealed. ABC News reported Friday that Kepner died of bi asphyxiation resulting from a bar hold, which is a term for holding an arm across the neck. Investigators found two bruises on the sides of her neck as well. The Miami Dade Medical Examiner has not released as of this recording, unofficial cause of death and preliminary information found there that there were no signs of sexual assault and there weren't any apparent drugs or alcohol in captainer's system. Autopsy and toxicology toxicology toxicology, Toxicut thank you reports have not been officially released. The eighteen year old high school cheerleader from Titusville, Florida, was found dead while aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship.

2:32 Her body was found by a housekeeper under the bed in her state room on the ship which returned to Port Miami. This was on Saturday, November eighth, and news of Captainer's cause of death comes days after an unrelated family court case, and this filing suggested a minor may face criminal charges in the eighteen year old death. The disclosure appears in an emergency motion submitted in a divorce case Involving's stepmother, Sean Tell Hudson. In the motion, which requested a delay in a custody hearing, Hudson's attorneys wrote that she may she has been told by FBI investigators that quote, a criminal case may be initiated against one of her minor children related to Captainer's death. Captainer was reportedly on the cruise ships Caribean Voyage with her father, stepmother, and step siblings when she went missing. As of Friday, no one has been charged in the case, and there had been no arrests linked to the teen's death. Few official details about her death have been released publicly. In following the news, Carnival did release a statement of course you know, wishing their condolences, et cetera, saying their focus is on supporting the family of the guests and cooperating with the FBI, but a little more information in the case has been discovered. Unfortunately, I feel like we're no

4:02 further along than we were three weeks ago, other than we know that foul play was. Involved, right and now did see also that the grandparents that were on the cruise with them have actually spoken out now to ABC News, and it said that they were going this cruise was supposed to be like a new family tradition because the parents were now you know, newly married, and this was going to be a blended family type thing, and they were just baffled. They're talking about how they were having a great time and that the kids were you know, going to be in one room while the adults, I guess we're in a bigger room. But they'd been told, look, if y'all aren't getting along for any reason or whatever, then you know, we have the other room and you can you can come over here. But they really just seem like, you know, they said there's an extra bed in the adult room, so if there was an argument, they could So maybe there was a history of them fighting if that were the case, but this even the grandparents are just like, you know, these kids cared about each other, and they don't want to accuse their new I guess steps on or whatever our grandson of doing this, but they just seem not.

5:03 They seem just as dumbfounded as the rest of us of how this could have gotten where it is. Yeah, yeah, well, we'll keep you updated on it for sure. Wild Yeah all right. Well, let's go to Canada and a former Canadian police sergeant has pled guilty to using a law enforcement database to pursue intimate relationships with around thirty women, including several victims of domestic violence. Fifty three year old Robert Eric Sieamanchuck and no, I did not make up that last name. That's unfortunate. That is unfortunate, a twenty two year veteran fortunate. Yeah, a twenty two year veteran of the Regina Police Service in Saskatchewan, pled guilty to one charge of breach of trust and one charge of unauthorized use of a computer on Friday, November twenty first. The Police Service claimed that in March, when Seaman Chuck was charged that y'all, my dad's name is Chuck.

5:54 This name is just I can't handle it, oh my god. Anyway, the former had access protected information to find contact and pursue relationships with these women, some of whom had no idea he was even a police officer. The number of women involved in this case may be as much as thirty. Semenchuck allegedly we use an alias including the names Jay Lewis or Steve Perkins, and send a text message to the women saying that he was a contractor or project manager. The conversation would then turn into constant messaging over a lengthy period, sometimes years and one woman, who was only identified using a K like the letter K, said that she received an unusual message while she was staying in a women's shelter and was recovering from domestic abuse. She said that the text felt like a lifeline at a low point, and they continued texting for four years before eventually she began questioning him in twenty twenty three. I was like, do I really know this guy? She said.

6:50 She added that she ran a photo he had sent her through facial recognition software and it returned an image of Siemenchuck with police gear. Describe the feeling everything that went through my head in that moment, she said. One of the first things that hit me was fear. Fear of this person, his power and what he could do. Kay then contacted police, which triggered an internal investigation that lasted for two years. Another woman simply identified as the letter C in the article said that she received a message from a man calling himself Steve, and that their relationship lasted for more than one year. I was eighteen years old trying to find someone, and I didn't know how to go about it, she told the outlet, recalling how Steve eventually became controlling and demanding in their conversations.

7:35 He was sex crazed, she said, describing how he consistently pressured her to send him explicit photos. How did he know who I was? Why did he choose me? These were all things that she was questioning when Siemenschak, who had been honored with policing awards over the course of his two year career, was charged in March. Then police chief, I think it's Faruk chic shake? Is it shake? Shake? All right? Faruk Shake said that he had resigned from the force effective April twenty first. Regina Police has since announced new policies to ensure incidents like this can't happen again. The policies now include an auditing process, additional training, and a message that reminds anyone accessing the database that the information is for investigative purposes only. A judge set semen Chuck's sentencing date for January twenty third, and as many as twenty victim impact statements are expected to be heard during that hearing.

8:27 Yeah, and seman Chuck's in some trouble for sure. Yeah. And I'll tell you one thing that surprised me about this is these police officers. If anybody know that what they're searching through police databases is trackable, Yeah, traceable. This happens more often than people think, and they get caught I most every time. And yet these police officers still do it. You can't just randomly see acute girland a Mercedes and run or play right. Yeah. And whenever I was trained in our software out here when I was doing law enforcement, they were very clear in our trainings that every step you take, you know, will be tracked. And then they were very specific. I remember them saying, also, don't forget you cannot search celebrities, you cannot search the president, you can't do anything like that, because obviously that's going to throw up a red flag.

9:22 Nor should you be doing that out of just integrity, you know, that's frowned upon. And this the fact that he was the personality that these women alleged that he was, and then to abuse your power in that manner for domestic violence victims tells me you were looking for a targeted type of victim, someone you thought you could control. It's disgusting, it really is. And even in Canada, you know, they got laws and they got yeah, they're rules which are very similar to the United States. And it looks like he's going to be. That's captain obvious stuff though. Shame on him. Shame on him. All right, let's go to California and look this guy, famous rapper. His name is written D four VD, which is actually David. That's how he says, David. He's a very famous rapper and he's in a lot of trouble right now because of the case of Celeste Revis Hernandez.

10:22 So I'm going to catch you up on this. More than two months after the body of fourteen year old Celeste Hernandez Revis Hernandez was discovered partially this membered in a vehicle, new details reveal her body was reportedly found partially frozen. On September eighth, The girl's body was found after employees at Hollywood two reported a foul udor coming from a Tesla suv which you've been on the lot for five days after it was reported abandoned in the Hollywood Hills. The Tesla and Texas plates were rushed through to David Anthony Burke, twenty r and B, musician known as D four VD or David It's actually David in just a weird spelling with millions of fans and followers.

11:10 The girl's decomposing body parts include a head and torso, had apparently been thawed inside the front trunk when the grizzly discovery was made. The Tesla has parked on what's known as Bluebird Avenue, not far from the Hollywood Hills rental home that Burke was living in before it was towed. LAPD detectives later served a search warrant at the home, where several pieces of evidence were seized. On November eighteenth, LAPD sources said that Burke was considered a suspect in Revis Hernandez death. The teen had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April of twenty twenty four, when she was just thirteen. The potential relationship between her and Burke had been a critical part of that investigation, with images surfacing on line appearing to show the two together. The girl's mother had told investigators she had a boyfriend named David at the time of her disappearance. The two reportedly have matching tattoos on their right index fingers with the letters SHH and Burt circle also reportedly believed Ravera is her name, as was nineteen years old, so he wasn't telling his friends the real age.

12:27 You couldn't tell a fourteen year old from a nineteen year old. May may not. Some people look very old and started at that age. Well, I'm just telling you what his friends that. Following the grisome discovery, Burt canceled the remainder of his US and European tour dates and shelved an album release. He is allegedly not cooperating with investigators and has not commented on the investigation or his alleged relationship ties to the team. Detectives are also investigating whether the killer helped dismembering and display of the teen's body, based on the manner in which Celeste's body was dismembered. The investigators believe it's very likely whoever did it to her had help. Investigators are looking into a trip Burt made to a remote area of Santa Barbara in spring of twenty twenty five in the middle of the night, where he spent several hours.

13:20 Investigators are also looking closely at that journey and believe it may be connected to whatever happened to Celeste. The teen's body was discovered the day after her fifteenth birthday, but La County Medical Examiner's office set or death likely happened a week earlier. Weeks earlier. In the frozen state of the body is why they're having trouble establishing the time frame of her death. Yeah, so I'm just unimpressed so far with all the details. How old is he? Do you know how old? This David guy is? No too old regards movie? Yeah, I mean too old to be even entertaining a fourteen year old girl. I don't care what people thought, that's irrelevant. If you've been alive on this earth, you know a fourteen year old is not a nineteen year old once they start speaking with you. And so obviously he thought that that she was disposable and you know this is going to turn out I think exactly like we think it will.

14:16 And uh, he's years old. Yeah so what so he's nineteen with a thirteen year like, come on, bro, you know better. And we're getting tattoos at thirteen? Now? Is that what we're doing? Matching tattoos with thirteen year old I'm just unimpressed, I guess is what I'm telling you sound like a Karen totally unimpressed. And I think that she was missing what would we say, a week at least? Oh? No, she had been missing since twenty twenty four. No, but I'm saying they think she's been dead. I'm sorry for at least a week weeks okay weeks, and you have matching tattoos and you never called and reported her missing. You're supposedly dating her. Uh, your friends don't know hold she is, but you never called and reported her missing. We call that a clue. Yeah, yeah, that's terrible. And where you know nobody was looking for this child?

14:59 That makes me it's very sad for her. They just couldn't find it. I just didn't know where she was. That makes me said, then you're enabling and a betting and taking a child, you know what I'm saying, and knowing that she's not in contact with her parents or people that love her. No, but when she was alive because it was a year right, yeah, roughly, yeah, shame for shame. I know we don't have all the details, but I think that's going to turn out exactly like it sounds terrible, all right, now, this one's horrible too. And these teenagers man, but police are currently searching for Morgan Geyser, one of the girls involved. Do y'all remember that twenty fourteen Slenderman inspired stabbing that happened and it was just terrible based on this fake person or whatever.

15:41 If you kill somebody that shows up, Well, Morgan Geyser is now missing. So she's now twenty two and she was at a group home in Madison, Wisconsin when she cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet, per a statement from the Madison Police Department that they shared on Facebook on Sunday, November twenty third, Geyser was last scene on Saturday, November twenty second, in the area of Kronkie or Kronk Drive around eight pm with an adult acquaintance. Police said that her whereabouts are currently unknown and that the MPD was notified of her disappearance on Sunday morning. Now, the MPD shared a recent image of Guyser captured on security video, and as to anyone who sees her to please call nine one one. In an emailed statement to People the magazine, MPD said Geyser had yet to be located at the time of writing, but that the department will investigate every community tip or siding reported to us SO.

16:33 In twenty fourteen, Geyser and another friend her name was Anissa Wire, they lured their classmen Peyton Lutner into the woods during a sleepover while playing a game of hide and seek in their Milwaukee suburb. Geyser then stabbed Lutner nineteen times while Wire cheered her on. Lutner survived the attack and was rescued by a passer by whenever she crawled her weight into a nearby bike path. All of the girls were twelve years old at the time that this took place. Geyser and Wire said that they committed the crime to please the mythical figure Slenderman, who they believed was real at the time. The Slenderman character is believed to have originated from a two thousand and nine illustration of a tall, thin man with tentacle like arms and magical abilities that circulated around the internet via horror stories.

17:22 Both Geyser and Wire were charged with first degree intentional homicide and were tried as adults despite their ages. Both girls were eventually found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defects and were committed to psychiatric facilities. Then, in January, eleven years after the attack, it was announced that Geyser would be released from her psychiatric care facility, following expert testimony claiming that she had made noticeable progress during her time there. Per the Associated Press, the judge ordered Wisconsin's Department of Health Services to house her in a group home as a condition of her release. Wire was least in twenty twenty one, after being housed for nearly four years at the same facility as Geyser.

18:07 Pretty crazy, and I'll tell you how the hell she is missing is one of the scariest things you can have out there. There's no telling them what she has playing next. She's absolutely insane and even the court said that, which is why she's even out. If I was the girl that was stabbed nineteen times. I'd be scared to death right. Now, Yeah, I would, because you don't know what's going on in that freaking dome of this woman or a woman now twenty two years old, and cut her you obviously know right from wrong, and that you take the ankle bracelet off. It's not like she just ran off and she's crazy. No, she thought this through. She's criminally crazy and she cut it off. So yeah, I hope they find her sooner than later because that would be very scary and worrisome for me.

18:56 One hundred percent. Let's go to Oklahoma and we're going to talk about an elementary school teacher from Oklahoma who is dead after her family says she was served a margarita at a Mexican restaurant that had industrial grade degreaser in it. So, Holly Hill was a beloved teacher at Elgin Public Schools and she was an alumni of that school in Oklahoma. She died last week and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating her death as suspicious, but findings have not been released. Hill's mother, Kelly Hunter, said her daughter's life changed forever two and a half years ago when she visited Hacienda Las Margaritas in Elgin.

19:42 The allegations are highlighted in the lawsuit. Hunter said her daughter was served to margarita that was made with industrial degrees or that contained lie, and that lie damaged her esophagus to the point that her daughter had been fighting for her life for two and a half years. She spent a week in the hospital, but it took more than twelve weeks to keep her esophagus open. Quote. I've really started to worry when my baby girl woke up and I had to tell her she couldn't eat or drink anything for thirty days. She'd be upset, but she smiled at me and said, I can do that. After she is believed to have finally recovered, he'll returned to her normal life as an elementary school teacher and a bus driver. As usual, she got up and went to work because her kids needed her, her mother said, But recently, while hell was at work, she began to feel well and spiked of fever. She decided to finish her day at home in bed and planned to go to the hospital in the morning, but overnight, her mother received a tragic phone call from her daughter, quote about eleven excuse me, about one point eighteen am. She called me and she was gasping for breath and telling me she couldn't breathe and needed help. Hunter said she then rushed to her daughter to help her. Quote, she told me, I'm dying, mom, but I need you to know I love y'all. And I said, You're not gonna die, baby girl. You're too strong for that. Hill's husband was on the phone with nine one one operators when she lost her pulse, and

21:14 that's when Hunter stepped in and started CPR. She said she didn't know how long she did CPR, but it seemed like forever. When first responders arrived, Hunter thought her daughter was gonna be okay because she did get her pulse back, but he'll lost that pulse again when first responders tried to move her, and this time she was unable to be revived. Her mother said she sat there and watched her baby die right in front of her. Her heart broke and that's not even scratching the surface. Now, hasienda lost? Maganitas confirmed the drink that was served to Hill in February of twenty twenty three UH was the drink with the lie in it and called it unfortunate and isolated. In a statement posted to social media, the restaurant said it can assaulted with the Oklahoma State Department of Health, and afterward it implemented new training and safety safeguards.

22:08 So there's been no criminal charges yet, it's just civil charges because apparently this they're having trouble proving this was an intentional thing. They're thinking the degrees are in Kelly is looking at me like I'm crazy, But there's a lot of degrees are in those kitchens. Something could have fell over and somebody didn't notice it, or they went to clean something and use the same rag to dry out the glass. I'm not saying they weren't criminally responsible, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's intentional that it had degrees are in it. Yeah. I just have a hard time believing it would be one isolated incident if it was not someone doing something stupid just thinking it might be funny. I just personally don't see that.

22:48 See I see at the opposite. I see it because it was an isolated incident and it only happened one time. It could have possibly been an absolute accident. Well, but the amount and that's okay. This is where my brain went since we're kind of going there, I guess is that I kind of looked it up because I wanted to see what, you know, poison control and how does it work. And you would have to have enough in your system to cause these types of problems. So it had to be more than a rag. It had to be enough. It had to be it had to be enough in there too, like gulp, you know what I mean? Like, because this is saying that it causes, you know, breathing difficulty, Your throat will swell. It talks about the blood pressure problems, and then your blood can actually become too acidic, which in and of itself will cause more compound problems. So I you know, my mind would be more inclined to think that some younger person thought this would be funny important. Yeah, I know, we don't know, you don't know, but this is just what a downhill battle, you know, suffering, this is, this is this is terrible. And you expect people to handle your you know, when you get a restaurant, expect your food to have better care. I do you know that? I mean?

23:56 Why better training? What do you mean better training? You put caustic liquid in someone's drink. That's weird to me. All right, let's go to Michigan. Now, Jim, you used to drive a hummer? Did you not? I did? Did you ever get so upset that you wanted to kill somebody over it? No cool? Good to know because a man upset over a three thousand dollars hummer he believed was three. Yeah, show where you could buy that right now? Yeah, he believed was defective, returned to the suburban Detroit dealership where he bought it, and allegedly killed two men. Terrence Jermaine Sandals, forty six years old, of Houston, Texas, was arraigned in Macomb County, Michigan, on two counts of first degree murder, multiple counts of armed robbery, and several weapons offenses. About three weeks prior to the homicides, Sandals entered Auto or Star Auto Sales and allegedly threatened the owner over the hummer he had purchased for three grand and believed it was a lemon. He then left in what was reportedly a rental vehicle. On November seventh, Sandal allegedly returned to the dealership and shot and killed two men.

25:03 At point blank range during a robbery. The victims were identified as Marvin b Two forty and Garth Babon forty eight or Baban. An employee found their bodies after returning from purchasing car parts. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman entering the building, shooting both victims and leaving on foot. Video from the initial argument three weeks before allegedly showed Sandal's rental car. Detectives found that car at a motel in Romulus, Michigan, and Sandals was arrested November eighth after officers executed a no knock warrant at the motel room. Cash stolen from the dealership was found in the room, along with two handguns, and a large quantity of cocaine was also recovered. Sandal's criminal history includes an outstanding felony warrant related to a Texas shooting. Sandals will be likely extradited to Texas to face those charges, and he's being held without bond at the Macomb County Jail.

25:58 Yeah, and you know things stick out there. First of all, three thousand dollars hommer and you're pissed off because it had issues with it, like go figure. I mean, that's probably why you got it for three thousand dollars. You did get what you pay for in most cases. Obviously, this is a situation where it was a reaction out of anger, and that's how people solve shit these days. They just kill people, you know, there's no sorry. Yeah, it's people that have no idea how to how to solve problems. You go to that's how they solve them. You know, brick a cocaine the hotel room with you. So I'm sure he's a stand up guy that just flashed out, spend the. Rest of his life in jail over over three stupidity. Yeah, you know, a three thousand dollars hommer that I guess wouldn't starting or whatever.

26:40 And then two men get just executed over it? Or is that really where we are? And they're probably exactly what I'd have told them. You pay three thousand bucks. Dude, read your contract. Yeah all right, let's go back to California. Oh man, this is a tough one to hear. Authorities in California say mother and father have been convicted of murdering their teenage daughter and young son while abusing their two younger boys. So they had four total. A jury found Maurice Jewel Taylor Senior and Natalie Brothelwell guilty of two felon accounts of first degree murder and two felon accounts of child abuse. The DA's officers, Taylor and Brothwell fatally stabbed and decapitated their thirteen year old daughter, Malika and twelve year old son Maurice inside the family's home. This was back in twenty twenty. The parents then forced two younger sons, aged eight and nine, to view their siblings' bodies and remain confined in their bedrooms without food for several days. Quote.

27:44 This was a monstrous act of cruelty that shattered him entire family that from the La County DA Nathan Hoschman, two innocent children were brutally murdered and their young brothers were left to live through unimaginable horror. Taylor and Brothwell face a maximum sentence of life without the possibility of parole, plus consecutive sentences of six to six month years and four months in state present. The parents are scheduled to be sentenced on January thirteenth of twenty twenty six. Quote. The prosecution would not have been possible except for the tremendous efforts of the LAPB And he goes down the list of all that, you know, a couple of concerning things that I have. Number one, it took six years.

28:28 Six years. Yeah, this should be death penalty, if ever there was a death penalty case. You're in California, I know, I know. But these babies and I'm looking at their pictures because you know, it's real, they're real people, and these are precious little children. Little girl with her pigtails and a little fella holding his you know, his stuffed animal, and to know what they suffered. And then these other two babies, hopefully they're you know, in the picture. I'm looking at their little bitty but hopefully they won't recall this. If we're going to look at a bright side, maybe I don't know. Well, they were eight and nine, so I believe they will recall. The two younger ones were eight and nine at that time.

29:09 Oh this is an old photo then, But either way, regardless, talk about just destroying children's lives. It's horrible, and I hate to bring those kinds of the stories to the table, but I mean it's true, it's real life and uh, sometimes. You decapitating your own children. Yeah, evil evil evil evil evil. All right. Well, let's go to Texas, Texas. Yep, we go there a lot. Yeah, it's a big state. Yeah all right. A twenty four year old man has been charged with first degree murder after his sixty three year old roommate was found dead in a cardboard box behind a bus stop. Hey everyone, crime Wire Weekly has moved to its own new channel.

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