Crime Wire Weekly 9/18/26 | Embezzled Football Funds,Deadly Train Push,Love Triangle Tragedy

0:16 Hey everyone, welcome back to CrimeWire Weekly. A look at the topics and we start with a California high school football booster treasurer accused of draining more than $ 411, 000 from the team that trusted her with the books. Money prosecutors say went to a mortgage and credit cards while she sent the board cooked reports. In Massachusetts, three jurors from the Lindsay Clancy trial broke their silence after the mistrial, walking through the 11-1 deadlock. The holdout admitted reasonable doubt and still would not vote not guilty by reason of insanity in the evidence that left the rest of the panel convinced. She had snapped. We're going to cover all of that in St. Petersburg. A woman pumping gas is set on fire by a stranger after she refuses to hand over cash. Eleanor Crawford now faces attempted murder and arson in Chicago. A 15-year-old girl is charged with first-degree murder after police say she and two others pushed Kyle Bickman from a moving train. We also take you inside You Can See Everything, the surprise documentary that followed Elizabeth Holmes in the weeks before she reported to prison and the questions it raised about whether the Theranos founder had changed at all. A retired Pennsylvania priest is accused of stealing about $ 740, 000 from churches, parishioners, and even his own mother,

1:47 Kim Zolciak. Her 15-year-old son, K.J. Beerman, is in custody on serious sex crime-related charges that he denies. And are you familiar with Kim Zolciak? I know who that is. I just don't. I didn't watch any of the. You didn't watch Don't Be Tardy? No. Okay. I watch court TV. Same. In North Carolina, a state trooper is indicted for first-degree murder after a love triangle with another cop ends with a sheriff's captain dead in a front yard. A Swamp People star is booked in Louisiana on felony theft after a raid in Bayou Blue. And a former Colorado crime lab analyst is sentenced to 10 years for manipulating DNA data on hundreds of cases. Work that helped vacate at least one murder conviction and left sexual assault files gutted.

2:43 That one there gets me. I know we're going to talk about it, but that one, that's unconscionable. Right. Shocking. And so we got that. We got overtime coming your way. And we're going to start it all now. I'm Jim Chapman. And I'm Kelly Jennings. And I no longer have COVID. Right. Thank God, huh? Hopefully. Did you have, right? I won't cough on you. It was so random. I just started feeling bad, y'all. And I texted Jim and said, talking about last week, I'm sorry I wasn't on the show, but I felt terrible. And then come to find out, I had the vid. All right, so we're going to start off with a story about a group treasurer for a high school football team that has stolen nearly a half a million dollars to pay her mortgage and credit cards. So federal prosecutors say the woman held the checkbook at Aliso Nigel High School football program. This was a nonprofit organization. that they had set up and she actually used it on her own house. Her name is Julie Molina. She is from Aliso, Vallejo, California.

3:53 She was arrested Thursday, September 10th at her home and a federal grand jury indicted her September 2nd on four counts of wire fraud. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California said the FBI is on the case. She was arranged in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, and she is pleaded not guilty. Now, the organization is the Wolverine Football Club. It's a 5013C that supports that particular high school football team. As treasurer, she received dues, co-signed checks, paid for what the board approved, kept the books. and she sent financial statements to the board. The indictment alleges from 2023 to 2025, she diverted about $ 411, 000 from the club's bank account without authorization. The government said some of the money went to a delinquent mortgage on her resident and to credit card bills. One transfer is spelled out, June 23, 2023. About $ 132, 000 leaves the club's farmers and merchant bank account. This is in Laguna Hills. Rided to a Federal Reserve facility and landed in her Santa Ana account tied to the mortgage servicer of her actual mortgage.

5:15 So basically, she paid her freaking mortgage with it, but that's $ 131, 000. So she must have just went ahead and paid her whole dadgum house off. To hide it, prosecutors said she emailed the board false treasurer reports that left the missing money off the page. So she just didn't take it out of there at all. The Wolverine Football Club put out a statement saying they knew about the former treasurer and have cooperated with law enforcement. And each wire fraud count carries a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison. So she's got four counts. So this lady is actually looking at 80 years in prison. And if you're watching this on the Patreon, you can see she doesn't, you know, you can never, you don't know what someone that steals looks like, but this lady is the last person you would think would be stealing. I mean, she looks like someone that would bake cookies for you. And yeah, you just never know, but 80 years in prison, she's facing the rest of her life.

6:13 That's a ton of money. Okay. And I'm not saying it's ever right to steal money. Okay. I'm not saying that, but If this would have been like $ 4, 000 and she was behind on her mortgage, as just a human being, party view goes, you know, she didn't want to lose her house or something like that. And maybe you could just at least understand why she may have done what she did. I'm not saying it's right. You should never steal from anybody. But where does greed, like when does it become just absolutely $ 411, 000? You know why? Because it's always starts small and then you get comfortable when you get away with it and then you just start increasing and start increasing. But yeah, they might want to go back to the drawing board on that one and figure out. $ 411, 000 total. And my question is what freaking high school football team has a half a million dollars in an account? Yeah.

6:59 Somebody's doing some a good job selling world's finest chocolate seriously that's all i can tell you i mean that's a lot of money. They must have some really good boosters though in that area um you know because don't they have a lot of big like refinery type stuff and things maybe in that area that you know to the point of where do they have four hundred thousand dollars in that account maybe they have some some wealthy donors from that area or something and maybe that's why she got away with it for so long was that a lot maybe big transfers and money were something that they saw i don't know but Still, that's a ton of money. We would never have that kind of money in South Louisiana for a high school that just ebbed and flowed like that. That's crazy. We can't even pay our teachers here. So good luck with that one, ma'am. I hope it was worth prison time to pay off your house. All right, so let's jump into some Lindsey Clancy because I know this one is huge. Last week, we reported that after a weeks-long trial and about 38 hours of deliberation or seven days, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in the Lindsey Clancy case. Jurors told the court that they were just stuck. Notes and later interviews put the split at 11 to 1, 11 for not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, 1 for guilty of murder. The holdout was not given a public interview. He has not been named, but three jurors who voted with the majority have spoken out.

8:21 So on September 11th, juror Paula Devlin sat with Gayle King on CBS Mornings. King asked what that one juror could not wrap his head around, and Devlin said that it was the suicide attempt. how Clancy could take step after step to try to end her own life while the defense said that she was in a psychosis. Now, keep in mind that this is one juror's account of another juror's sticking point, and this is not the holdout speaking for himself. We're just kind of explaining what that juror said happened. Other majority jurors have said more. Four-person Ronnie Carlson told NBC10 Boston the holdout admitted he had reasonable doubt after they watched a recorded interview with a forensic psychologist. Carlson said she started filling out the verdict slips, signed them, and then he said he still would not find her not guilty by reason of insanity. Juror Kelly Farina said that he had the hardest time getting past the fact that the children were killed. Devlin, in earlier interviews, called him arrogant and said he brushed off nurses on the panel who were walking through medical records. During deliberations, the defense asked Judge Sullivan to remove that juror, arguing that he would not apply the reasonable doubt instruction. Sullivan refused.

9:29 He said it was not his place to pick a side between one juror and 11. An emergency try at the Supreme Judicial Court also failed and then came the mistrial. If the 11 had won, Clancy would not have been just released. A not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility finding in Massachusetts typically means commitment to a secure psychiatric facility, potentially for a long time under court order. Devlin told King she was uneasy about defense lawyer Kevin Reddington asking the judge to enter a not guilty finding based on juror interviews. She said, that the children never left that jury room and that quote unquote not responsible was in her mind justice and a path to treatment and a way to talk about postpartum illness. Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry. A hearing is set for September the 29th.

10:16 Yeah. Shout out to the holdout juror. That's all I can say about it. I know people are on one side of the fence or the other. This chick strangled all three of her kids with a freaking, what was it? Exercise band. Exercise band. Yeah. And killed them. Well. And no one's denying that she killed them. And you see on the Internet. As this trial was going on, people were actually introducing the possibility that maybe her husband killed them. I wanted to remind everybody that even her defense attorney was not denying that she killed him. She fucking killed him. Yeah. There's no debate there. I understand people say postpartum depression caused her to kill them. Okay. She still killed him. Right.

11:09 I'm going to do a whole episode on this, so I'm not going to go all in right now because I've got a whole lot. That's going to actually be my next week coming up. I've got some, I'm going to start in on this one. But I will point one thing out that I did have an issue with insofar as these jurors speaking out. And it's that in those interviews, one of the jurors said that, you know, even whenever they had nurses in in the room going through all the medical evidence and breaking it down for him that he wouldn't budge. And I have an issue with that statement because you're supposed to weigh the evidence as it is presented to you in court by the witnesses that are in the courtroom that testify. And the issue I have here is that you may have had nurses on the panel, but their interpretation of the medical evidence of the medical records and what that means and this, that, and the other should not have been weighed as evidence.

12:08 Their influence based on their interpretation is not evidence in and of itself. And I don't mean to get too technical here, but that is in essence what that woman said. And so that juror was a holdout based on his understanding of what was given in court by the people that testified as the expert witnesses or as the witnesses. And so to that degree, I don't think her explanation there is valid because Because he doesn't have to listen to what they say as nurses or former nurses and their interpretation of it and them be right just because they were nurses. He listened to what was said in court and he weighed what was said in court. And I think that juror may have stepped in her own mess here, not realizing it. Because just because they explained it to him doesn't mean he has to accept their explanation.

12:54 He had to listen to what was said in court. Right. You know what I'm saying? And the reasonable doubt that he had... may not have been in the totality of the case. He may have said, you're right, I don't understand this portion of the evidence. Maybe that isn't how that went. But overall, he may have been beyond a reasonable doubt. And so wording matters here. And just because, and one woman really irritated me in an interview. And it was her own words when she said, he just couldn't seem to get past the fact that she viciously killed her children. And I stopped it after I heard that, and I went back and I played it over and over and over again, and I thought, well, yeah, I'm not sure we should get past someone viciously killing their children, like their people, their children. They're defenseless. So, again, I'm going to dig really deep into this one in my upcoming episodes, but these jurors I don't think are helping themselves with these interviews. I really don't.

13:51 Right. Well, I don't even know if they're looking to help them. I think they're trying to pile on on this one juror. And, you know, I watched part of that trial, especially the key points, and I can see why it was holding out, too. Yeah. And you shouldn't be bullied into changing your answer. That's not how it works. Right. All right. Let's go to Florida. And we're going to go to this past Thursday night, about 8 o'clock. A mobile station in St. Petersburg, Florida, to be exact. And a 41-year-old woman, she's pumping gas into a Volvo. Right. An SUV, St. Petersburg police say another 41-year-old then walks up to her and she deliberately ignited gasoline with a lighter.

14:38 The SUV went up and the woman at the pump was burned. Officers say she suffered second-degree burns and was taken to the Tampa General Hospital. The police chief called the injuries horrific but said, Thankfully, she is expected to survive. The woman police arrested a couple of blocks away is Eleanor Crawford. She's 41. She's charged with attempted felony murder and arson. Pinellas County Records put her bond at $ 350, 000, and she did resist arrest as part of her arrest. Police say the two women did not know each other. Motive, they said, was not known. Apparently, Crawford walked up, asked to use the victim's phone. The victim let her use the phone. Crawford then asked for money. The victim said no.

15:28 That is when, according to police, the lighter came out of the pump. A witness parked nearby said it looked like a fireball. He said he helped the burned woman into his truck and called 911. and firefighters put out the SUV. The victim has not yet been publicly maimed. I'm looking at the photo here that you have of the aggressor, Eleanor, and I'm wondering if those are meth wounds on her face. I was wondering the same thing. Or if that's burns from the interaction. But either way, how the. Yeah, I guess it could be that too. I guess. I mean, if she was up close. But the thing is this, you walked up to that woman... prepared to do something to her in your mind, because who would think that quickly to light that on, you know, I'm trying to say to be able to do that to somebody. So, um, the, her, her bond is, even though it's 300 something thousand is less than the medical bills that this woman's probably going to incur. Um, not to mention all the recovery and all of that. That's crazy. Um, that's insane. And you put everybody else at risk too. That's around.

16:32 Oh, of course. The whole place. Yeah. Yeah. It's a gas station. And even after someone did something kind. Yeah. Let you use the phone. That's why you don't... My advice would be don't interact with people, period. That you don't know. That you don't know, especially at these gas stations. Tell them to get away from you. Again. And look at them in the eyes when you say it. I tell my children this. I tell everybody this. You are required to be a good person, not a nice person. And so it's okay to say, sorry, no, I don't share my phone, whatever. You can tell people no. And I'm not victim blaming here at all. I want to be clear. I'm just saying... You have to protect yourself in today's world, especially from crazy. Right. All right, so Labor Day afternoon. There was a southbound CTA redline train, and a 29-year-old man was just trying to get home from work. By the time that that train cleared 69th Street, Kyle Bickham was dead on the tracks.

17:22 Chicago police first thought that he had jumped, but that version didn't last. After detectives went back through the case, they said Bickham, the victim, was pushed, forced off of a moving train, during a fight on board. He hit the electrified third rail, was incapacitated, and then was struck by another train. So this is. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, this is horrific. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Cook County Medical Examiner ruled it a homicide and his cause of death, multiple injuries from being struck by a train. That was Monday, September the 7th, around 2.30 p.m. near the 69th Street Red Line Station. Police say three people... used force to push him off. And as of this morning, one of them is in custody. On Friday, September 11th, officers arrested, get this, a 15-year-old girl, a 15-year-old. She's not been publicly named because of her age, but she has been listed as a missing person from the south suburbs, which adds a whole new element to this. She was charged with first-degree murder, mob action. That's a first. That's a first for me. I've never heard mob action actually applied somewhere. murder during another forcible felony and aggravated battery of a transit employee. Saturday, she was in juvenile court.

18:34 The Cook County State's Attorney's Office said a judge found probable cause on every count and ordered her held. She was due back in court Monday, September the 14th, and it's not yet clear whether prosecutors will try to move the case to adult court. Two other people police say helped shove Bickham off that train have not been arrested. Bickham lived in Lansing and and family said he was coming home from a shift at an Amazon warehouse. Relatives described him as the youngest boy of four siblings, a hardworking uncle who checked on his grandmother and had just lined up a new apartment closer to work for himself and his girlfriend. His mother, LaTanya Bickham, asked how the train doors were open in the middle of a run. His sister, Kayla, said the story kept changing before the family understood what police now allege. His brother, Christopher Bickham Jr., spoke directly to whoever else was on that car. This is a quote. Y'all took a part of me that I cannot get back. Like, just turn y'all cells in. Like, I forgive y'all already. His father, Christopher Bickham Sr., put it this way. Fix the trains. Whatever's happening with the trains, it shouldn't have happened that easy. The family has asked witnesses and the parents of anyone else involved to come forward.

19:41 Police have not announced another arrest. We're living in a matrix, I'm convinced. Something is just. I mean, 15 years? old, and you're pushing a man into a train. Out of a moving train into. Right, yeah. I don't want to speak out of turn here, but I saw something on Facebook, I believe it was, about this time, and I'm hoping I'm wrong, but someone was filming from below and above rail. in this area. And they were like, this can't be real. And it was legs and feet that were hanging through the rail. And they're like, what is going on? I hope it wasn't this guy, but someone filmed it live and I saw it and I was like, holy cow, but to be pushed off only to be incapacitated by the electric way and then just smashed by another train.

20:29 And then there's, there's several incidents around the country that I've seen lately with these pushing people in front of like subway trains and just, I don't know, man. Zero. It's zero regard for life. We don't have those here, so we don't know. You know, we're not accustomed to, like, the subway life, I guess. But I wouldn't, you know, keep your head on a swivel if you've got a subway in your neck of the woods. Yeah. Stay away from the doors and put your back against the wall. And that's sad. All you're trying to do is. Come home from work. Sad. Yeah. All right. We're going to go. Look, I'm going to tell you all, when I woke up this past Sunday, I opened my phone.

21:11 And I saw a trailer for a documentary was going viral. It's a new film. It's called, you can see everything. I'm like, what is this about? I click on it. And within maybe two seconds of watching it, I knew I was in for this movie when it comes out in October. So this is actual documentary, but it's, it's a movie. Like it's going to be at the movie theater. So the trailer opens up with the a 24 logo. If you're familiar with documentaries, you watch a lot of them. A24 is the absolute best. They have the best director probably in the history of documentaries. Where do they release their documentaries usually? Is it like a Netflix? They do a lot with Netflix. They've done some movie-related documentaries.

21:54 I can't think of off the top of my head some to name, but they're the best. And so you see that A24 logo. I was already like, oh, I'm going to like this. You hear the sound of waves in the background and you get a voiceover. And that voiceover says, I'm not that person. I can promise you that. It's a female voice, but it's fairly deep and it's a little bit raspy. Then it cuts to the person that's saying that. And it's none other than Elizabeth Holmes. It continues, why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that. As a matter of fact, rather than tell you what was said, even though Listening doesn't do it justice. If you're on the patron, you'll see it. But even if you're listening to it, you're going to grasp what I'm about to say. Listen to this.

22:42 I'm not that person. I can promise you that. I don't have anything to deceive you on. Of course, I'm not deceiving you. I'm engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There's no. There's no reason for me to do that. Okay. All right. Okay, good shot. You're being real right now?

23:27 I'm always being real. All right, so you heard that right there. Look, if y'all are not familiar, Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos. This is in 2003. She was 19 years old at the time.

24:11 The company promised to run a wide range of lab tests from a few drops of blood. That was it. And it would be taken by a finger prick. And they used proprietary devices that they had invented themselves. And the pitch was basically to help people who were scared of needles. but also to run rather large panels with just a small amount of blood. As a matter of fact, the idea was so good that Theranos at its peak had a valuation of nine billion as in B dollars. Forbes named Holmes the youngest self-made female billionaire ever in 2014.

24:54 But there was a problem. The technology never performed as claimed. Theranos secretly used conventional lab machines for many tests. So they would say, we're running these tests on our proprietary machine, and they would actually send it off to a real lab, get the results back, and claim they were their results. They did a bunch of other stuff, too. They were watering down the blood tests, which skewed them. All kinds of things. Long story short, January of 2022, she gets convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud against investors. And she was ordered to pay $ 452 million in restitution, which she did pay, incidentally.

25:37 She does go to jail, and she reported to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, which is a minimum security woman's facility in Bryan, Texas. This is in May 20th of 2023. Okay. Okay, so here's where it gets really interesting. She basically, in between, so she gets charged in 2020. It's the middle of COVID. Okay, so everything moves slowly, right? You can't even go to court during COVID half the time. In between this time, she gets prego. So she gets prego, and everybody was thinking it was to keep her out of jail because it extended. They did actually say, okay, we're going to let you have this baby before we go any further.

26:23 She has the baby, and she gets convicted. And in between the convictioning and the sentencing, she gets prego again. Girl. So, yeah. Girl, making money and babies. She's making up for lost time, right? Yeah. Uh, well, long story short there, they didn't, it didn't keep her out of prison this time. She, fortunately she had the baby like three months before she was to go to prison. So she does have that baby. This documentary is the three weeks prior to her actually reporting to prison. I am so intrigued by this documentary cause y'all this, this girl, uh, is an absolutely different breed is if you can't tell from the trailer that was just played. Uh, But she's like Elon Musk smart. So the brains on her is always intriguing me. She idolized, absolutely idolized Steve Jobs with Apple. So much so that she dressed exactly like him. He had that trademark black turtleneck.

27:21 She actually had the same trademark black turtleneck. Changed her voice to a deep, raspy voice. And it wasn't really that. It was a totally fake voice. So let me tell you what, if you didn't... If you didn't see the trailer, okay, first of all, you can go to Patreon, you can see it. I don't know if it's going to give off the same vibe as if you're watching it, because there is something like within you that is very uncomfortable and you pick up on it, even if you don't know what it is, the staring on her. And I look deeply into body language and things like that. And she's trying to say that she's being truthful. But the issue I take with if you're watching it is that her blink rate slows down to zero. And when someone is panicking or when someone is really trying to like work through an issue and blink rate will slow down. Then it picks back up whenever it's his turn to say something. But also, I wonder... she's giving sociopath because when you mimic other people like a chameleon, that's exactly what you become is a chameleon. And so like if you watch the Jodi Arias trial, for example, a lot of people picked up on the fact that she completely changed her look to look like her attorney bangs and the way that she dressed and that whatever friend group she was in, she would change to like mimic those people even becoming a mormon for her boyfriend at the time this is just giving chameleon playing the part to me just that small

28:52 snippet okay i haven't seen any more um but she may be smart but it's odd. Oh she's there's no maybe she's weird she's a bona fide genius but interestingly. Because her product wasn't real. Oh no she she is a what is the genius genius Even the thought of what she was– the problem with what she was doing was she couldn't get it to work. But the path that she took was genius thoughts. She oversold. She wasn't– yeah. Well, she just took a shortcutted path to– she felt like if I could get enough money, I could actually make it work. So she was frauding these investors by making them think something worked that didn't.

29:38 So it didn't start out wrong. Process at 19 years old to– look, this girl secured a $ 150 million investment from the enter of Fox News at 19. At 19. You know, that guy was obviously impressed. And a lot of the people that donated to her– presidents. She sat down and had dinner with presidents. This girl, as far as her genius– I think that's unmistakably something that has to be admitted by everybody. But her method of going about it was where it was flawed. Do you think it started out totally legitimate? I think she wanted it so bad. Oh, yeah.

30:19 And then it just became that she oversold, and then she had all these expectations, and so then she. Just got fraudulent. Yes, that's exactly what I think. And I think that she believed in her mind, if I can get enough money, I can make it work. I just need to keep getting these investors. And I think it caught up. to her before the technology was where she needed it to be. But you talk about her blanking rate and stuff like that. And this is where I would, I totally agree with you, but this is where I would say your unfamiliar rarity with her is, is, is, uh, showing in that because that's how she's always been. Yeah. I have zero. You watch like she did a Ted talk one time.

31:02 Oh, I'm gonna go watch it then. And it is the exact same look. She just stares like that? Yes, when she did her depositions. she would absolutely look you right in the eyes. And her eyes, y'all, they look like she's stoned out of her mind. Her pupils are the size of freaking silver dollars. She's giving Chelsea Clinton. I'm sorry. That's what I see when I look at her. Yeah. But her pupils are huge. But it's just her. She's almost like a machine. Like intense. Yeah. And she looks you dead in the eyes. And she'll shake her head like, She's totally, you're the only person in the room talking. That's the way you feel. You don't read that as like an attempt at dominance? Because I read that as trying to dominate the situation.

31:48 Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. But she's never let that guard down if that's the case. I got you. Every interview I've ever seen with her, she's exactly the same. She may just be like that. Even someone willing to change their voice. Yeah, I know. That's weird. It is. I think that was a tactic. She had said one time, she's never admitted that she did that, but she alluded one time that there were certain things she did because she was a young female and she was trying to find ways to separate herself from every other 19-year-old female out there. Well, shit, girl, if you built a $ 9 billion company, I'd say you separated yourself. Yeah, well, I think, but she started this prior to that.

32:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I... you know, in a way it made a little bit of sense. And she felt like the deeper voice made people, made her stand out more. And it also kind of like caught people's attention and they listened to her more. Because they didn't expect that type of voice to come out of her. But, you know, there is realness to that because I was reading, there was a study done on respect of people and who you give respect to without even, like, if you don't even know them. And larger men with strong jaws, for example, are automatically given more, I guess, respect off the cuff than, you know, you could have a four-star general walk in that's um you know billy badass but if he's four foot nine and kind of a smaller guy yeah you don't necessarily give him the same levels but if a massive guy walks in automatically and that's got to be something biology in us that you know that that's a stronger bigger person there's got to be something to it so in that regard i i think maybe she was on to something like maybe if i come across as more dominant more uh stronger.

33:39 And more i don't know different yeah different. Different then it would get people's attention. So to that, hey, I'll tip your hat. You were trying something, you know, but the fraud, you kind of lost the plot. Oh, yeah. Look, she's batshit now. Don't get me wrong. This chick, and I think we're all going to see it in this movie, but I kind of knew it before. She was definitely batshit. Now, the interesting thing is her partner in this movie, which if you saw the trailer, you see a man sitting across from her. You can Google this trailer. Like lover partner or like business partner? Lover partner. So they've just never been married, but they've been together since 2018. So this guy, in his own right, is very, very wealthy. He comes from a very wealthy family, and they met at some sort of charity event way back in 2018. And the fact that he's still with her, I think he genuinely loves this girl because he met her right when all this was going down with her company going in the tank. $ 9 billion to zero. And he not only stayed with her, he had two children with her. And he's staying with her until she's released in 2032. So that's commitment because he's a good looking guy.

34:50 Kind of looks like JFK a little bit. Y'all can go check him out. Yeah, very tall. I'm a fan of that. But he's absolutely in love with this girl. Everything I've ever read. She doesn't strike me as her, like the story at least. Again, I don't know much about her, but she doesn't strike me as evil. It comes across almost as she had this grand idea and she wanted it to win so bad that then it became bad. I think that's right. I think her drive got to her. Yeah, because you never want to oversell from the start. And that seems like that's what happened. It got too big too fast and the expectations met up with her. But then again, there's people with chronic medical conditions or with serious medical conditions that really depended on what was being promised to them. And so there is harm.

35:39 Oh, 100%. And that was a lot of the issue. They had people that were having heart attacks because they were basing what they were reading off these blood panels that were flawed as fact and they were following accordingly. And watering it down is so problematic in and of itself because that's why like DNA, you don't water it down to see it. You know, you duplicate it, replicate it, blow it up. And so, yeah, I can't understand how she would have even thought Well, the. Problem was, and that was the whole reason they got caught, was some hematologist came out and said, there's no way you can pull that many panels from a drop of blood. Because you eat up- You just don't have enough blood.

36:20 Right. You eat up the sample. Yeah. And so that's where the investigation started. That's when they found out, okay, they're watering down some of these samples, which are skewing the results. And also- It's just infactual. A lot of it was flawed. And they had one doctor that got so curious because they had a contract with Walgreens. And every Walgreens was going to have this machine in their Walgreens. One of these doctors went to Walgreens, did a blood test. The next day, he went to his doctor's office, did another blood test, and the panels were completely different. And that's when they knew, uh-uh, something's wrong with this machine. with this system.

37:01 Well, kudos to that doctor for going that far, too, because, you know, it saved a lot of people, I would assume, from a lot of heartache and problems. So I'll be interested in that one. I told Jim we ought to do a premiere where we watch it together, but he laughed at me. So I guess we're not. All right. We might. Let's go from fraudulent medical stuff and let's jump right on into religion. Let's just go there. Where. A priest is supposed to guard the collection plate, but prosecutors in Pennsylvania say Gregory Allen Medea treated it like an ATM. And when that wasn't enough, they say that he went after his own mother's nursing home money. Oh, my God. How in the world does the word priest come out and then all of that? But Medea is 69 years old and a former Ukrainian Catholic priest who served three Western Pennsylvania parishes, St. John the Baptist in McKeesport, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Derry Township, And St.

37:53 Demetrius of, I would say Jeannette, but do you think that's Jeannette? It could be. Jeannette is what I thought. Jeannette. Okay. From the South, I want to be like Jeannette. But on August 14th, 2026, he was arrested in Vero Beach, Florida. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday's office charged him with felony dealing and proceeds of unlawful activities. theft by unlawful taking, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds, financial exploitation of an older adult or care-dependent person, and access device fraud. The alleged thefts go back to 2018. The total prosecutors put on his documentation of the theft, here we go, $ 740, 409. 96. That is a ton of money.

38:34 Yeah, yeah. Investigators say Medea fraudulently took $ 319, 997 from church-related people and entities, parishes, parishioners, donors, and the Pennsylvania Knights of Columbus. Witnesses told agents that collection money went missing. Fundraising proceeds, donations, rent, and church fees were never deposited into church accounts. An assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, they said he pulled more than $ 75, 000 out of the general and savings accounts between 2021 and 2022. And then there's the chalice. A jeweler told investigators Medea showed up acting as a representative of St. John the Baptist and sold a gold church chalice for $ 19, 440. The jeweler thought the money was going back to the parish.

39:28 Prosecutors say it did not. And during that same stretch, Medea paid $ 35, 433 in cash for a 2018 Ford Mustang. And according to the complaint, he handed the car to the man living with him. That brings us to what a search turned up. And The investigation started in February of 2023, where the attorney general agents worked with police in Grove City, McKeesport, and another county on a case that began as narcotics and missing church money. At a West Mifflin residence in Bettis Road, investigators say they found church offering envelopes in the trash, including envelopes from the Derry Township Parish. On Medea's device, photos of debit cards and bank documents tied to St. John the Baptist, plus messages and photos related to narcotics. So now we've got a dope priest as well.

40:20 A dope priest. A dope priest. If that's even a thing. I think I invented that just now. In the trash, according to local reporting on the complaint, more than 100 stamp bags with heroin residue, 22 hypodermic needles, and broken glass pipes. Prosecutors allege the stolen money also went to gambling, trips to Key West, and Norwegian cruise line voyages. Drug problem and gambling. Yes, indeed. Yep. Makes sense. The church side of this is ugly. The family side is worse. Medea... had power of attorney over his mother, and investigators say she was past the point of managing her own finances. They accused him of draining more than $ 230, 000 from her investment accounts, money that was supposed to pay for her care, and using her bank account to move stolen funds around. She was evicted from multiple nursing homes because the bills weren't paid.

41:11 Oh, my gosh. Your own mama? On top of the thefts, the attorney general's office say that he left an unpaid tax responsibility of $ 248, 663, 000, Attorney General Dave Sunday did not soften the language, quote, it is unconscionable to see a supposed man of God exploiting not only the churches he served, but his own mother. The defendant abused the trust of those around him and left them to recover the mammoth financial losses, end quote. Medea was suspended from priestly duties on February 8th of 2024. The overseers of the Ukrainian Catholic parishes, said it is cooperating with the investigation and working with its insurer to try to recover money entrusted to them. As of the latest reports, he'd been picked up in Florida and was being brought back to Pennsylvania to face the charges. So we have three parishes, the Knights of Columbus, collection envelopes in the garbage, a gold chalice sold like scrap, a cash Mustang, an elderly woman bounced out of nursing homes while her son held the power of attorney. That is the case. The state of Pennsylvania has put in Gregory or on Gregory Allen Medea, and we'll follow it when it lands in a Pennsylvania court.

42:22 Yeah. And look, almost a million dollars. And when you got to the part about the drugs and the gambling that told me everything I needed to know, because that's probably where these problems started. Uh, you know, like they say, you get on drugs, you'll steal from your mother. There's proof of it. That's exactly what happens. Your whole life falls apart and you got to have them drugs, you know, and, and, um, disgusting. And he would steal from his church and his mother. We are all human. Okay. I'll, I'll say that we are all human. We're all, we all face, you know, the same troubles, but there is something about the fact that when I see a priest, I'm not even Catholic.

43:06 Okay. But when I see a priest, the respect and the, um, what, what is the word? The, I don't know. I put you on hold. Any member of, of leading a church to a high. Yeah. But I, and I put you up higher than myself, you know, that you're, you're a man of God and you represent all that comes with that. And to know that that person is deceiving you is just painful, um, on all levels. And his poor mama. I am Catholic, and I hold priests typically up to a high esteem, just like I hold any other pastor of any church. And there's good and bad in everything, and religion included in some cases.

43:50 Do you say chalice or chalice? Chalice. Chalice. Chalice. I've heard people say chalice. I've never heard them say chalice. I have on a documentary about chalices. On a documentary. But I wondered if that was just how they said it or if I was dumb. Maybe I'm just dumb. Yeah, well, I don't think you're dumb. I said chalice. All right, let's go to our next story here. And if you've listened to Exposed, you already know about this because I dropped this episode just a couple of days ago from this drop. But we're going to talk about Kim Zolciak and Croy Bierman's son, KJ, who is 15 years old now.

44:31 Not me. No, not you, KJ. Kim Zolciak's son. So some shocking news is going down for the reality show fans out there, and it centers around Croy KJ Bierman Jr., who is 15 and the son of Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Kim Zolciak and former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Croy Bierman. On September 3rd, a Fulton County grand jury indicted him on seven felonies, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, false imprisonment, and three counts of sexual battery against a child under 16. Those counts are tied to an alleged April 23rd, 2026 incident. at a fitness facility in Alpharetta, Georgia, involving a female classmate, also under 16. He was arrested August 17th and held at the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center.

45:27 This is in Atlanta. His lawyer, Jason Sheffield, says he's innocent. What would you expect there? And asked to move the case to juvenile court. Interestingly, it was in adult court originally. He was arguing that, hey, KJ Bierman was 14 at the time and that the aggravated counts were extremely dangerous when you're an adult. It's important to note that those charges carry a mandatory minimum of 25 years with no parole. Zolciak has publicly denied the classmate allegations. She said her son sat for a polygraph. He passed and that she was told no DNA matching him was found. on the victim, and that, from all accounts, is true. On September 11th, at a bond hearing before the judge, Deputy District Attorney Kaitlyn McGillicuddy put a second matter on the record, and this dropped everybody's jaw because nobody knew about this. Prosecutors told the judge KJ had already been under court supervision since October of 2025 on a separate sexual battery case involving a relative under the age of 12. An allegation they said was first reported in 2023. McGillicuddy said investigators later found recordings on his phone. videos of this, and not the current charges, the past charges, and they contend that that shows sexual abuse of a child. Sheffield asked

46:58 for a $ 65, 000 bond in this hearing because this kid had been arrested and he had no bond until this hearing, and Zolciak was to supervise him at home. The state asked for a $ 190, 000 bond if one was allowed at all the judge did set a bond at this hearing, but it was $ 200, 000 with terms that he lived at his mother's house, conduct school online, electronic monitoring, no cell phone, no social media, no contact with the classmate or her family and no contact with anyone 16 and under, including his own family, including his siblings. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you already have a family victim, allegedly. Well, yes, no, I'm not. I don't disagree with that. Um, I don't know whether it was a sister or whatever.

47:47 It could have been a cousin. I mean, not that it matters, but I mean, I'm just saying. Because if that's the case, that also means his mother can't have contact. Those kids can't come to her house. Not if he's there. Yeah, I guess she could leave and go to them. Or he could leave and then they could come over. Well, he can't leave. He's under house arrest. He can only leave for medical appointments and that's it. according to the charges. So he cannot leave the house. Look, I'm going to tell you something right now. Obviously, these are all alleged, and he's not been convicted of anything. I want to be very clear on that. But I will tell you this, with all the charges that they've stacked on this kid, and the fact that his mom is saying, that didn't happen, but they're going forward with this, and in adult court, you can bet there is a stacked case against this kid. You can bet. they're going hard on this guy. If they, if they did not have something.

48:41 Worth, I think it was the, the priors in the current case. And it's true. They did not find any of his DNA on this girl. Well, if it was days later, then it wouldn't make sense. It wasn't days later. It was, it was like, she reported it like the, the next morning. I know, but okay. Case in point though, let's say it's an oral sexual battery, didn't it? Or oral sodomy. Okay. Okay. Well, sodomy is oral sex or anal. But in this case, it's oral. But if she the thing about the DNA, though, is that if he forced her or whoever the victim is to do something to him, if he didn't finish. um, or she went and washed her mouth out or she ate or she drank.

49:23 Or anything like that. They actually had, according to her penetrative sex as well. So both oral and penetrative. But did he use a condom? We don't know. So I'm just saying that there's ways that could happen and there not be DNA. That DNA is not the end all be all. No, I agree. I'm not debating that, but it, uh, I don't know. I mean, I would think it would be kind of hard not to put any DNA at all on you if you're having oral sex and penetrative sex with someone. You don't have to have sperm. You can have DNA other than sperm. Right. But if there was like, let's say that his sweat or something like was on her. Well, they were at a workout place. That could be poo-pooed. That could be, oh, well, they were working out together. They knew each other. Oh, they hugged. Oh, you know, there's reasonable doubt there. But I'm saying just the lack of DNA doesn't necessarily mean that there wasn't. No, I agree. I'm not saying that.

50:12 My point is this, though, for... I don't know that his mama ought to be saying anything right now because there was already a prior case with film evidence. It says of him with the, with the victim that's lit. And now we've got another additional case. I am not saying he necessarily did it. Obviously we don't know, but if I was that mama, I know you want to defend your kid, but maybe you need to like, take a step back, look at what's already occurred, look what's being proposed and maybe just sit tight and let the attorney do the work. Yeah. Yeah, pretty crazy. And look, they've got millions of fans. And everybody knows them that obviously watches Real Housewives stuff, Real Housewives of Atlanta, pretty shocking stuff to come out.

50:56 But who knew he already had prior charges? That was because he was a minor. That never came out. Yeah. Interesting. We'll see. This sounds like predatory behavior. And if she has been told that he may have done this, Then instead of just saying he didn't do it, it's not true. I would take more of the approach of we're going to let this play out in court. As for me, I'm going to do everything I've been told to do. I will be monitoring him. I will ensure that he's not around because for his own safety and his own, you know, like there's a different approach I think I would be taking here because it makes her not very credible in the approach. But again, she's a mama, you know, whatever.

51:40 But I hope that this pans out and that the victims, if You know, when it's all. Yeah, because there are times when people lie and they say you did something you didn't. It happens all the time. I'm just having a hard time getting past that first case. You know, it lends legitimacy to the second. I agree. We'll see. We'll see. All right. So you never hear of a love square, do you? Or a love circle? It's always a love triangle because it's three, right? So. How many would a love circle be? I don't know. All of them. Everybody's involved. An orgy. An orgy. Yeah, a circle jerk. Whatever they call it. I don't even know why I said that. I don't either.

52:22 But it just came out. But it's true. You're in a love circle. A love circle. We're inventing that now. There's a reason you'd never hear of a love circle. If you're in a love circle, message us. We'd like to know about it. All right. So let's go to March 27th, 2026, just before 11 p.m. And we're going to go to a front yard in Hope Mills, North Carolina. So Cumberland County Sheriff's Captain Adam Bean. That's kind of I like the last name Bean. I think it's cute. Adam Bean. He's 42, but he is not having a good time. Captain Bean is dying in his front yard in the grass. The woman who lives there is desperately doing CPR whenever deputies pull up. But Bean is pronounced dead at the scene. Six months later, a Cumberland County grand jury indicts the other man who was standing in the front yard. And this is North Carolina State Highway Sergeant, I think you would say this, Nakim Oxonine, 44. And this charges first degree murder. A judge has held him with no bond. Search warrant affidavits describe what investigators say was behind the shooting. The woman at the house is Tara Whitman and warrants identify her as a Cumberland County Sheriff's Office employee and the sister of a highway patrol colonel. So there's a lot of people that work together here. So according to the warrants, Whitman told agents she had been in a long-term relationship with Oxidine first, then a long-term relationship with Bean. She lived with Bean until she moved out in December of 2025.

53:55 By March, she had then gotten back with Oxidine. On the night Bean was killed, the warrants say he asked if they could talk. She later told him she was in for the night. He came anyway. Texts cited in the warrant, he told her to come outside or he would blow the horn and make a scene. She went out. Investigators say Bean was irate and asked why Oxidine's vehicle was in the driveway. Whitman's account in the warrant was that Oxidine first came outside and and fired about two shots into the ground, but Bean kept coming. That's when Oxidine shot him. Oxidine stayed on the scene, and the gun was recovered. Bean had nearly 20 years with the sheriff's office and was assigned chief of detectives. So, like, this guy had proven himself. Oxidine had about 18 years on the highway patrol. So, again, another seasoned deputy here.

54:49 After the shooting, the patrol put him on administrative duty and opened an internal investigation. After the indictment, the agency called it a difficult and tragic event for all involved. He said it would not comment further while the courts were in the process and that internal cases had to proceed as well. And that's kind of where they left it. Yeah, and the classic example of one stupid decision ruining the rest of your life. One guy's dead, and the other one is going to likely spend the rest of his life in prison. I guess it depends on which. Over a chick.

55:30 I guess it depends on which version you believe, but he was indicted, so it kind of sounds like. Sounds like the guy's, assuming he was convicted of what he's charged with. He has thrown away his life. Yeah. And a long career. That he was probably set to have a pretty good retirement from for stupidity over a check. Let me tell you, women have all the power in this world. Yes, we do. And don't you ever forget it. I don't debate it. Men will do dumb shit just for a girl. They will kill another dude just for a girl. It's crazy how much power y'all have over us.

56:12 I mean, I'll admit it. I'm not mad about it. I'll be interested, though, to watch this one. I'd like to watch this trial because I am curious about... You know, you've got a lot of experience. And if he didn't just come out guns blazing, if the first cop did pull up, was laying on the horn, irate and screaming at the other cop's now woman, and then he comes outside, but why did you come outside armed? You know, there's a lot of questions about how it played out. If there's a ring camera, this one will be interesting. But I mean, an indictment means that there was. Yeah, I'm saying, assuming everything in the indictment is accurate and that he, you know, obviously they prosecuting him as if he deserves to.

56:53 Be in jail. Right. He has thrown away his life over this. Yeah. You know. Wow. But we'll keep you posted on it. Yeah. Kelly, you watch Swamp People? I used to. Shoot them. Shoot them. Actually, my friend Billy did some of the music for Swamp People. Shout out, Billy. He sells cars. If you need a car, he's over at a. Car dealership? Car dealership. Okay. I'm sure our listeners in Alaska are going to hurry on over. Off of Airline Highway. Well, so you did watch Swamp People. You were a fan of the show. Yes. And look, we're going to go to Bayou Blue for this one. Okay. Iberville Parish. Tell everybody where Iberville is.

57:34 Why do you always make me do that? I know. I was just messing with you. I didn't mean to do that. It's over there by Iberville? Yeah. Okay. Well, Iberville Parish, y'all. Bayou Blue is where we're going, and we're going to tell you about a search warrant, stolen materials inside of the house. And one of the men that deputies walked out with out of that home is a name that a lot of Louisiana living rooms already know. Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi said his office got a report of stolen materials in the Bayou Blue area. Detectives work the complaint. They get a warrant for the home of a guy named L. Jim Floyd, who is 46. Now, they hit that house. They recover the items that had already been reported stolen, and Floyd gets booked into the Iberville Parish Jail on felony theft, illegal possession of stolen things, and obstruction. Also arrested at that house, Willie Edwards Jr., 44.

58:29 Same two theft-related charges. Edwards is the swamp people hunter that a lot of people know He was a regular on the History Channel series from season one through season 15. Didn't he miss in his front tooth? Didn't he that one? Didn't it at one point? I don't remember if he was. His dad was the main. Yeah. I'm pretty sure he was the one who would say. Willie was the son. Everybody knows Willie. Yeah. Yeah. But my mama used to always. My mom had has veneers and one of her front veneers broke off. And so I was like making fun of her until she got it fixed. And she looked at me and she quoted him when he didn't have that tooth. And she said, if you think you can do it. Go ahead and try. And she was missing that front tooth. There you go.

59:10 It was funny. All right. So Willie Edwards Jr. is 44. He gets charged with the same theft related charges. And he was a regular, as I said, from season one through season 15, which is 2010 to 2024. And appeared, y'all, in 117 episodes of that show. Of course, for those unfamiliar, this show started in 2010 and is closing in on its 300th episode. It's still running as of today. His father, Junior Edwards, hunted on the show from 2010 to 2015. Sadly, he died last year after stage four colon cancer. A third man was inside the Floyd house when deputies executed the warrant.

59:52 His name was Trent Touye. He was 43. And they said they found him hiding inside of the house. So he was arrested as well. And the investigation is ongoing. But a Swamp People alum has been taken into custody. He said, don't ever say here in Louisiana we don't arrest our stars. We do. Believe it or not. He was a star. He was, but he was likable. I thought he was likable. Well, don't let him in your house. He's going to steal you from house to house. I'm not. But if I'm ever out in the bayou and a gator tries to get me, I'm going to. Say, shoot him. Help me. Help me. Well, there you go. That's a sad story. Edwards will come running for you after he gets out of jail.

1:00:33 With a stolen gun. I love that. Okay. And a missing tooth. If you think you can do it, go ahead and try. You need to find that video. We need to post it. All right. So this is another wild one. On the morning of August 1st, 2026, around 830, first responders rolled out after 911 was called. And this is in Monterey County, California. Somebody had spotted what looked like a baby on the side of the road next to the strawberry fields. When they got there, the infant was already gone. So investigators named her Baby Angelita or Little Angel in Spanish. And the umbilical cord was still attached. A forensic exam found signs of traumatic injury. The sheriff's office classified the death as a homicide, and that is just where this case starts, and it is not going to be where this ends.

1:01:23 You could not predict this. Detectives say their investigation showed that a 14-year-old girl had given birth on that roadside, put the newborn on the ground, and then left. They identified the teen as Diana Ortega, and then they identified the man they say is the biological father of both Diana and baby Angelita, Sergio Galvez Perez, 38 years old. Yeah. Impregnated his own daughter. So Perez is now wanted on a stack of felony counts involving Diana as the victim. incest, lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, lewd acts with a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse, child concealment, and child endangerment. Authorities say he impregnated her when she was 13 years old, and they also say he has been hiding her from the police. Diana's mother, Ophelia Ortega, 36, was arrested on a child endangerment charge and booked into the Monterey County Jail, later released after posting bail. The district attorney's office said has said any review of charges against the mother is separate from the infant's death and from the sex crime against Perez. So it's kind of like staggered charges here for different things. Three days after baby Angelita was found, August 4th, about 2 a.m., Perez and Diana were last seen in Salinas, California, or in a white Nissan Altima with no license plates, and then they just dropped off the map. On August 31st, Sheriff

1:02:54 Tina Nito went public with arrest warrants, She said there was probable cause to arrest the 14-year-old for murder and Perez on the sex and concealment charges. She confirmed Perez is the biological father of both children. She asked him to turn himself in, and she said in so many words that this case is about two children, a baby who is dead and a 14-year-old who is both a suspect in that death and a victim of sexual abuse by her own father. Okay. Now there's more. I know it's rough. That's only the first part of this. So the district attorney's office put out a statement that walked a hard line. Prosecutors said they had not received a filing request for charges against the 14 year old. They had not received the investigative reports and they had made no charging decision. The warrant the sheriff announced was a Ramey warrant. A judge can issue that directly to police on probable cause without prosecutors signing off first. The DA's office was blunt. They recognized the 14-year-old as a victim of her father's abuse, saying, quote, no child should ever have to endure such horrific circumstances, end quote. Their priority, they said, is getting her safe and getting her services. So as of the last official word, Perez has charges. Diana does not, at least not from the DA. The infant's death is still an open murder investigation.

1:04:16 And why the Amber Alert took more than a month to is the next piece here. California Highway Patrol issued the alert on Sunday, September the 6th, after detectives located surveillance video, including flock camera hits, which we talk about all the time, showing Perez and Diana together in that white, unplated Nissan Altima. Until that video, the sheriff's office said that they didn't have a vehicle that they could tie to Diana, and they could not confirm the two were traveling together. Amber Alerts generally need all of that kind of detail. The alert covered a wide slice of California, from Monterey to Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Orange. It's just all over the place. And on September the 8th, with help from the public, deputies found the Nissan in Monterey County. The car is no longer part of the lookout.

1:05:03 Diana and Perez were not in it. As of the latest updates in mid-September, both are still missing. The sheriff's office says it has taken hundreds of tips since the alert went out. They stated the priority now is locating Diana and making sure that she is safe and that she gets medical care. So I'd be very worried for her too, considering now everyone knows kind of what all has gone on here. The descriptions here, Diana Galvez Ortega, she's 14 years old, about 4'10, 100 pounds, black hair, brown eyes. Sergio Galvez Perez is 38, Hispanic male, 5'5, 170 pounds, black hair, brown eyes. The sheriff's office released extra photos because he has performed with a local band, and people may recognize him from those appearances. If you see them, please call 911. Do not approach them. And this is one of those cases that I think we both agree you hate to report on these. A dead newborn, you know, on a farm road, the father accused of fathering his own daughter's child. And a sheriff's office that put a warrant for murder on a 14-year-old, a district attorney, who then agrees that the victim... is a victim, even though she's the one that left the baby and has not been charged. And the Amber Alert that waited until a camera finally put them in the same car. Just a lot of things have happened here to make this very difficult. Baby Angelita, though, is still at the center of a homicide investigation. We can't find Diana. And Sergio is still a wanted man. We'll update you, though, as

1:06:35 we get more information on this. There is no hole big enough that they got him to be buried in. That's a sick human being. Disgusting. And I hate hearing about or reporting on those types of cases. But, yeah, that's a disgusting individual. You know, my heart. I got to tell you something, though. My heart hurts for her that she's going to be looked at in a hateful tone by a lot of people for that baby being left on the side of the road. I don't know about that. I think some people will understand what's going on here.

1:07:15 We don't even know. I guess what I'm saying is I hate that I just said her name out loud, but I'd rather her be found safe than. What do you mean, said her name out loud? It's an Amber Alert. Everybody knows her name out loud. I know, but— We need to know her name. I know, but I'm saying as tied to a girl that gave birth. It's almost like putting the victim on blast for— being a victim in a way. I know we need to find her. I'm just saying my heart hurts because, you know, this is a story a lot of us will hear about and then we'll move on with our lives. But this is her life. She's 14 years old and she's plastered all over the news. She's given birth to her own father's child. Everybody knows it.

1:07:56 I don't know, just a protective factor jumps in on me right here that this poor girl, we have no clue what she's been through. We don't know if he made her leave the baby on the side of the road. Right, right, right. I mean, she may just be a total... And complete innocent in all of this. Right. And that's what I meant by I just hate that I said her name. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, let's go into overtime. Let's get to the nut cutting. Let's get to the nut cutting.

1:08:37 We're going to start out. I don't know why I said that, but it stuck. We're going to start out in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and we're going to go to an argument in an apartment complex. So East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputies were called on September 11th, 2026 on a report of a shooting. The woman they arrested is Victoria Bart. She's 26. The arrest report. charges her with attempted second degree murder and simple criminal damage to property. Now here's what investigators put In that report, Burks and the man had been in a relationship for several years. They argued the man told detectives he damaged the windshield of Burks' vehicle. After that, he said she armed herself with a pistol, ran toward his apartment when he saw the gun. He said she fired several shots at his direction. He was not hit.

1:09:28 Barks gave deputies a slightly different account. She told them she fired one shot toward him and then two more after he ran. Detectives said they recovered the spent shell casings, found damage to nearby fence, and located the firearm in Barks' vehicle. Now, Barks has been charged and the case is pending, but that's not the most interesting part of this particular story. The most interesting part, which if you're listening, you won't see this, but the Patreon members will, is the mugshot. I'm telling y'all, this is the most proud person to be shooting at a man you've ever seen in your life. And she has hair that I can only dream of.

1:10:09 Listen, if you superimpose this picture. I will post this on the actual Facebook page because I think everybody needs to see this. She is fired up. If you put this picture and you superimposed her on a roller coaster. It would look like she's blowing down the roller coaster. Her hair is straight back, and she's got a 5,000-watt grin. Oh, man. She thinks this is funny. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So there you have it. You know, but this just shows the stupidity behind it all, that you're willing to shoot at somebody, and you're willing to go to prison over it. Yeah. You know? I just can't even understand it. It's so dumb. You know, when you're pissed off, grabbing a gun is not the answer.

1:10:49 Right. Okay. Emotional decision. Yeah. All right. Now, this next one here, I put a whole lot of trust in our laboratories in any sense of the world, like medical or whatever reason you may use a lab. Don't you usually feel like their results that you get are kind of like finite? Well, unless you're. getting it from Elizabeth Holmes lab. That could be completely incorrect. Indeed. So a crime lab is supposed to be the part of the system that doesn't lie, right? The DNA don't lie. You hear that a lot. Well, September the 8th of 2026 in Golden, Colorado, a judge put a number on what happens when it does. Yvonne Missy Woods, 66, a former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison. In June, she pleaded guilty to four felonies, cybercrime, first degree perjury, attempting to influence a public servant, and forgery. So you knew this was going to get deep. Dozens of other counts were dismissed in the deal. The range in front of District Judge Andrew Pollard was 8 to 16 years. He gave her 10 on the cybercrime count with the others running concurrent, which means at the same time. So Woods worked for CBI from January of 94 until November of 23, so a long time. And the charged misconduct covers from 2008 to 2023. Judge Poland called it intentional misconduct by a highly trained professional occupying a position of extraordinary trust.

1:12:22 I think that's the perfect sentence to explain what this is. She apologized in court. She said she took responsibility that an apology cannot undo the harm and that she failed people who trusted the evidence. And so this is what happened and how it broke open. On September of 2023, An intern found missing DNA data in a sample that Woods had processed back in 2018. So the bureau widened the look. What happened to this DNA? Then they asked South Dakota's Division of Criminal Investigation to run an independent criminal case so Colorado wasn't investigating itself, which is completely proper to have someone else do it. The first judicial district attorney's office says, Investigators identified 53 cases with false or misleading lab reports, all in Woods' name. Damn. 53 cases.

1:13:13 41 of those never produced charges against a suspect, which is probably her saving grace. 32 involved women and children who had reported sexual assault. In those files, prosecutors say Woods deleted values showing male DNA was present and then issued reports that said no male DNA had been found. Oh, my gosh. That cut off further testing and further comparison, and cases died in the lab instead of in the courtroom, re-victimizing women and children. Twelve of the false reports sat in cases where someone was charged. Three went to trial. There was one conviction and two acquittals. Woods' perjury plea is tied to false testimony in the trial that produced a first-degree murder conviction. Of the other nine charged cases, there were six pleas, two dismissals, and one is still in warrant status. At least one murder conviction was vacated because of her work. Prosecutors were careful about what they could not prove. The criminal investigation, they said, did not find evidence that Woods produced false DNA identifications, false comparisons or false positive matches. The pattern they charged was the other direction.

1:14:36 She was erasing or changing data and then writing reports that closed the doors. Beyond those 53 reports, the DA said that she also manipulated values in lab notes on hundreds more cases, changes that did not produce a false official report, but still put her work under review. CBI has said the review ran past a thousand cases and that the cleanup cost was estimated around $ 11 million. So taxpayers are also suffering here. The CBI director Armando Saldate called her conduct a betrayal of the lab's standards and said the agency has changed how results are entered and how supervisors see the original numbers versus the final ones.

1:15:16 The intern's find is what started it all. This sentence is what closed her criminal case. The case reviews are not finished just because she's going to prison, though. 30 years in the state lab, data changed, reports that said no male DNA when the machine had shown it was there, sexual assault files that never got a suspect, and at least one murder conviction torn up a guilty plea, and 10 years is all that she got. That's unbelievable. You know, number one, why? Why the fuck would you do this? And especially the, well, any case, but the sexual assault in particular is.

1:15:57 Shocking. Like, why would you do that? What do you gain? I know. That's what I'm saying. You know, was she being paid off by these people? I mean, there's no way 30-something people wouldn't even know who to contact to pay them off. So it wasn't a money thing. It's almost like she was getting off on the power of being able to control that. Yeah. That's it. I'm telling you now, if my child, just take me out, if my child had been the victim of a sexual attack, And then this bitch right here goes and changes the facts. And my child never.

1:16:40 Scientifically. Scientifically. So people are. Playing God. Putting everything. Literally, you're changing DNA. You're playing God, my friend. And my child never got the justice of someone going to prison behind it. You better pray. Pray. That you stay in those 10 years and don't get out. I would be so angry. And then only get 10 years. 10 years. Seems like... That almost seems like a life. You deserve a life in prison. I would be willing to bet that we will see changes with their legislature very soon. Let's hope. Insofar as this. Manipulating DNA ought to be like a major deal. Absolutely. Like.

1:17:20 You should be scared to death to do that because you're going to spend the rest of your life. I think that should be, if not life in prison, it should be 25 with no parole. Absolutely. At minimum. Absolutely. And there should be, I don't know, I'm sneaking out of emotion right now, but that is, there was a murder conviction. Yeah. Now, we don't know if it was thrown out just because of. But I mean, if the DNA is exonerating or otherwise, and the sexual assault cases, I mean, they're not murder, but they're just as bad in my view. I mean, you're stealing someone's innocence here in a lot of cases. Yeah. And ruining people's lives. Yeah. Or granting innocence. You're disgusting. You know, it's not like a mistake was made.

1:18:04 Not that many times. And that's why supervisors, that's why that's in place, to make sure mistakes aren't made. And that's a valid system to go through. Then you're... You're tricking everybody in the process. It's disgusting. I agree. All right. That's all we got time for today, folks. Kelly, any final thoughts? I have lots of final thoughts. Give me one. Okay. I want to tell y'all, please keep sending us stories. I know that y'all send them in to us and we really appreciate that. And I want to thank everybody that supports us. Please share the show. Please get other people to listen. Growing a show is a Is not a race. A process. You know, it's a process. And so we're trying to grow this show. absolutely it takes you takes our listeners so we appreciate you all right anything else no do you have anything else i do what.

1:18:52 Well unless you've lived under a rock and hadn't paid attention to my social media you would know that it is freaking old miss lsu game week. Oh i know that i'm aware i'm ready. I am so fired up. I can run through this wall right now. I know. You're like the Kool-Aid man. Oh, yeah. We're coming for you, Rebels. That's all I got to say. We're coming. Us and Boozy Badass. You want to talk shit? You want to run your mouth? You want some gangsters outside your house? Set it off. Yeah. And Kelly. Kelly's not really. Yeah, I'm real scary, guys.

1:19:33 All right, so go Tigers this weekend. If you're not a Tigers fan, I'm sorry. Yeah, we apologize. Jump on the train, though. Jump on the lane train. To everybody else, we do thank you for listening. We say that all in fun. I know there's people out there that hate lane. I'm just not one of them. But we love everybody out there. Appreciate you. And until next time, I'm Jim Chapman. And I'm Kelly Jennings. And we're your hosts of Crime Wire Weekly Overtime.