"Absolutely Not!" Partner of Utah Woman Missing from California Beach Says He Has Nothing to Do with Her Disappearance | Crime Alert 10AM 11.21.25

The partner of a missing Utah woman who disappeared from a California beach speaks out as the search grows more urgent. A fetus is found outside a New York City public housing complex in Brooklyn. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
The partner of a missing Utah woman who disappeared from
a California beach speaks out as the search grows more urgent.
Authorities in California say thirty five year old Danielle Staley
vanished from Rio del Mar State Beach in Aptos on
the night of November sixth. Her belongings were found the
next morning. Her longtime partner, sixty two year old Alex Nuniez,

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reported her missing on November seventh, and is now speaking
publicly while detectives continue to seek evidence in his camper
van and review surveillance video. KSBW asked if he had
anything to do with her disappearance. Absolutely not, absolutely not,
one hundred percent. God is my witness. I had nothing
to do with it. No. Nuniz says he fell asleep

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while Staley went to a beach bonfire. He says he
stayed in the camper because he is asthmatic, and when
I will cuts, she wasn't there. And so I'm saying
there's something. There's cameras there, there's a whole private subdivision
there that is has nothing but cameras and there has
to be some surveillance is something. Detectives have interviewed Nunya's
several times. His van has been taken as evidence. He

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said he has offered to take a light detector. I
did offer to them. I said I will take a
polygraph tech. I would take any kind of tests you
guys want. I just wanted help to try to find her.
Nunya says he spoke out because he is getting attacked
on social media, with many people pointing to the couple's
long and troubled relationship. He says he wants the focus
to be on finding Staley, to just seed her picture

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like that in those posters. That's breaks in my heart.
Staley's family in Utah says she kept in constant contact
with them. They said she would not vanish without calling.
They also shared that they've been worried about her relationship
with Nunyas for years. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office
says foul play may be involved. They say Staley is
at risk. They ask people near Beach Drive, Rio del

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Mar Boulevard, the Esplanade and nearby streets to share any
camera footage from November fifth through November seventh. Her family
has traveled to California to help with the search and
hand out flyers. A gofund me his raps four five
hundred and thirty three dollars toured a five thousand, five
hundred dollars goal to support hotel stays for the family,
as well as food, sign printing, and travel costs as

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they continue looking for her. Staley is white with blonde hair,
five six about one hundred and twenty pounds, last seen
wearing a dark hoodie and leopard print leggings. Anyone with
information is asked to call eight three one four to
seven one twelve eleven. More crime and justice news. After this,

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a fetus is found outside a New York City public
housing complex in Brooklyn. New York's Finance say an NYCCHA
worker discovered the remains of a male fetus late Thursday
morning behind the Bay View Houses in Canarsi. The remains
were inside a black bag. The bag buried in a
pile of fallen leaves between two buildings. EMS arrived and
pronounced the fetus dead at the scene. Detectives say the

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gestational age appeared to be between five and seven months.
They are now working with the medical examiner to learn
when and how he died. The discovery happened just after
eleven am on East one hundred second Street near Seaview Avenue.
Police sources said the worker was cleaning leaves and trash
when he saw the bag. Residents at Officers and crime
scene units moved in quickly. People who live in the

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complex are reacting with grief. Some residents created a small
memorial beside the pile of leaves, placing stuffed animals, candles,
and balloons in the dirt near where the fetus was found.
Please continue canvassing the area to learn how long the
remains had been there. Detectives said there were no immediate
signs of trauma. The investigation remains active. Police said the

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medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of death,
and HYPD wants to share that New York's Safe Haven
Law allows parents to leave a newborn at a hospital,
fire station, or police station if they alert someone on site.
A mother and her young son vanished in Georgia, and
police are asking for help as the search enters its
twenty third year. Paula N. Wade and her son, Brandon

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Lee Wade, were reported missing on October fourteenth of two
thousand and two. Paula was last seen leaving her employer,
Sam's Club at three pm on October twelve. She was
nearly blind without her glasses and never missed her weekly
Sunday call to her parents, yet she missed the call
on that October thirteenth. Paula and three year old Brandon
are believed to have vanished that same day. On the fourteenth,

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she did not show up for work. Police entered her
apartment and found her purse, wallet, keys, and glasses. Brandon's
car seat was the only item missing. Searchers combed the
complex and nearby woods. Leeds centered on her roommate, Marcus
Randolph Burroughs, who refused to polygraph, and on an acquaintance
by the name of Cedric Bell, though no evidence was
ever found to finger either of them. Paula's husband was cleared.

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The FBI joined the case in twenty twenty three. Paula's
family continues raising awareness and makes yearly visits to Valdosta.
Paula and Brandon are white. She was five seven one fifty,
brown hair and brown eyes, with a birthmark on her
upper leg. She wore glasses Brandon had brown hair and
hazel eyes. It was two feet nine thirty three pounds.
If you have any information on their disappearance, contact the

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FBI at eight hundred call FBI, or tips dot FBI
dot gov. For the latest crime and justice news, follow
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this crime alert. I'm Drew Nelson.