Career Criminal on Parole Kills 4 in 100mph Stolen Car Crash; WHY was he Free?!| Crime Alert 7PM 12.03.2025

A career criminal with a rap sheet longer than a CVS receipt, and who was out on parole, annihilates 4 people in a 100mph head-on stolen car collision. 

A Marine recruiter stabs a sleeping 11yo girl 17 times in a midnight sleepover - then drops to his knees in court begging for mercy. Plus, exposed & arrested. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime al Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm
Jennifer Gould. Walter Hewling was supposed to be behind bars
until twenty twenty six, a career criminal with an eleven
page rap sheet that screamed danger. Instead, Colorado parole officials
allowed this monster to roam free. The consequence of that

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catastrophic failure was measured infused metal and dead children. Douglas
County District Attorney George Bratchler spoke to Denver seven News
bluntly about Hewling's record.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
It includes charges that scream I should still be in
jail or prison somewhere.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
There's a lot of reasons for this guy to have
not been free on the day he killed these innocent
people in a terrifying hour long rampage. On November twenty fourth, Hewling,
thirty one, first executed a violent carjacking and then culminated
his fury by driving a stolen Toyota Matrix into a
family sedan in sin narrating an army veteran father and

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three innocent kids. The rampage began at three forty five
pm and Aurora, where Hewling allegedly pulled a woman from
her Toyota at knife point, seizing the matrix before driving
south toward the highway. Driving the stolen vehicle at speeds
exceeding one hundred miles per hour, he turned it into
a lethal battering ram. Less than an hour later on

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Highway eighty three, Colorado State Patrol says Hewling lost control
due to speed and erratic operation, sending the stolen hatchback
rolling directly into a northbound ford carrying Alvin Carado, thirty five,
and four children. The head on collision was so devastating
that five people, including Hewling, were obliterated instantly at the scene.

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The dead included Corrado, described by his partner as a
protector and a very good man, his daughter McKinley eleven,
son Toreto eight, and family friend Jace Green twelve. Only
two teens survived the carnage. Mia Coarrato thirteen, and Jace's
older brother both were airlifted to Children's Hospital Colorado with

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life threatening injuries. Mia suffered a lacerated liver, fractured pelvis
and broken back, and severe lung damage. Jace's older brother,
Jordan Green, fourteen, is now said to be in stable condition.
His family said he suffered several internal injuries and remains hospitalized.
Hewling's freedom defies logic. He was a walking time bomb

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with an eleven page rap sheet stretching from twenty thirteen
to twenty twenty four, including four counts of assault, bribery,
burglary dui, and three violations of protection orders. He should
have been caged until twenty twenty six, but parole officials
granted him freedom after he secured yet another guilty plea

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for violating a protection order just months before that slaughter.
The crushing injustice because the perpetrator, Hewling, died instantly, the
case against him is closed. There will be no arrest,
no charges, and no day in court for the man
who annihilated half of the Corrado and Green families. More

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crime and justice news. After this, a decorated US Marine
Corps recruiter stripped to his underwear, grabbed a kitchen knife,
and crept upstairs to slaughter an eleven year old girl
as she slept next to her best friend during a
weekend sleepover, stabbing that child seventeen times in the neck, chest,

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in arms before the screams stopped the blood bath. Ricardo
Perez Castillo was sentenced in Grand Rapids Michigan to at
least eighteen years and nine months behind bars after he
broke down sobbing in court, literally dropping to his knees
and pleading with the little girl's family for forgiveness. They

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made clear they will never give.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
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the Service.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Surveillance footage from the June fifteenth, twenty twenty four attack
in an upscale Rockford gated community shows Castillo sneaking into
the home on the eight thousand block of Ella Terrace
Court around three am, calmly removing his shoes, socks and
pants and the foyer before proceeding to the kitchen, where
he grabbed a knife from a drawer. He climbed the

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stairs to a second floor bedroom where the victim and
the homeowner's daughter were asleep, one on an air mattress,
the other in a top bunk. According to court documents
and witness statements, Castillo klimb onto the air mattress, positioned
himself over the eleven year old visitor, and stabbed her

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multiple times. The attack lasted mere moments before the screams
of the girls awoke the homeowner, who rushed in and
confronted the intruder, Castillo fled on foot, leaving a trail
of blood behind. He admitted to cops he chose the
wrong house at random, but once inside, he told detectives

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he planned to quote kill the whole effing family end quote,
stab the girl in the neck because it was quote
the easy way to kill end quote, then sexually assault
her corpse. Judge Christina Elmore called the case disturbing on
so many levels.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Listen, what you engaged in was just what comes to
mind is a real life horror movie or horror show
where you're stabbing this child. It is just by the
grace of God that she wasn't killed.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
The terrified eleven year old, whose name has been withheld,
survived emergency surgery and wrote in a gut wrenching victim
impact letter, read aloud in court quote, I remember seeing
all my blood everywhere. I never would have guessed an
innocent sleepover would leave me in the hospital with bad
injuries end quote. Castillo pleaded no contest in October to

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assault with intent to murder, first degree home invasion, and
assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct. The judge
handed down concurred sentences topping out at forty years and
ordering lifetime sex offender registration and finally talk about a

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truly chilling challenge. Forty one year old Anthony Day is
facing indecent exposure charges after being spotted walking buck naked
down a highway in near freezing thirty six degree weather,
all in the name of a viral TikTok trend. The
bizarre barrel stunt was fully captured by a passing driver's

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Tesla and Florida in Polk County. When deputies arrived, Day
gave them a false name, claiming he was quote protecting
whose privacy a hilarious defense given his utter lack of clothing.
Sheriff Grady Judge, of course did not hold back, quipping
that Day was so naked quote he wasn't even wearing socks.
He also noted the man did not have a phone

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to film his alleged prank. Day tried to go viral
with his ill advised exposed stroll, but now this freezing
Florida man is guaranteed to have his assets fully frozen
in a jail cell. For the latest crime and justice
news followed the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite
podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould,