Couple Gunned Down on Killer's BDay, 911 Records Victim's Final Plea| Crime Alert 6PM 11.20.2025

A beloved couple is executed in their own home, by a man they knew. 911 records the terrified woman pleading with her killer, "Don't shoot me Tony," before gunshots ring out. 

An Idaho killer mails his dead victim's daughter, bragging he "saved them" the cost of a funeral by chopping & tossing his remains in the river. Plus, cops looking for the crooks behind a cryptic caper. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
The peaceful final moments of a Maryland couple's life were
brutally preserved in a harrowing nine to one one call
after their business associate allegedly ambushed them in their waterfront
home and gunned them down on his own birthday. The

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frantic recording captured fifty four year old Jenna Hayes pleading
with her killer, Anthony Reyes quote saying don't shoot me,
Tony end quote Anna. Rundel County Police Lieutenant Aj Gardner
spoke to the media and.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I got to say something too, you know, when it
comes to the nine one one call. That was fantastic
and it's unfortunate we couldn't get here in time to
prevent it. But the information that was relayed on that
one really led us into a position where we could
start isolating other things.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Jenna and her husband, William Charlie Hayes fifty six, the
owners of a successful local business, C. W. Hayes Home Improvement,
were found shot to death inside their home on Twickenham
Road just before two pm. Charging documents revealed the sickening
details of the murder Jenna managed to dial emergency services,

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and the audio file captured her terrified plea to the
man she knew, followed by the definitive sounds of a
lethal struggle and immediate gunfire. Investigators moved with surgical speed,
iding the shooter as sixty one year old Anthony Reyes
of Nottingham, who was known to the Hayes both personally

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and professionally. The police chief confirmed the slaughter was a
targeted attack, lightly rooted in a financial dispute. The Hayeses,
married for over two decades, were remembered fondly by neighbors
and family. William, who went by Charlie, shared an active
life on social media, posting about renovations, family outings, and

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their love for Chesapeake Bay sunsets. Hayes family friend Tony
Arnold spoke to w jay Z CBS News.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
He didn't deserve that. He didn't He took care of
his wife. He took care of my daughter. It just
breaks my heart raises.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Subsequent flight from the execution scene ended in a desperate,
high speed chase that saw him apprehended in Severn. During
the arrest, the killer, who had just celebrated his sixty
first birthday, reportedly struggled with an officer sustaining minor injuries.
Police recovered a handgun from his car, which ballistic evidence

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immediately linked to the double slaying. Ray Is now faces
two counts of first degree murder, two counts of second
degree murder, and related weapons charges. He waived his bail
review hearing and is being held without fond more Prime
and Justice news After this, a chilling act of cruelty

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was laid bare in an Idaho court room after the
convicted killer of forty seven year old Patrick Shelton reportedly
tormented the victim's daughters with a grotesque letter. Alan Bruce,
seventy not only admitted to ambushing his friend, dismembering his
remains with the chainsaw, and burning the body, but he

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then boasted in the correspondence that his barbaric actions had
saved the family money. Here's the victim's daughter, Shay Shelton,
in court and then.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Alan Bruce, the man who murdered my father sends a
letter to my sister saying that he's done his allow
favor by dismembering him and destroying what was left, seeing
that we probably couldn't afford it. Couldn't have afforded a
funeral anyways, as there had been a body to bury,
so at least he saved us a quarterback. It's disgusting, empathetic,
and it reveals a person who shows no remorse for
what he's stolen in the people he's heard.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
The harrowing details emerged during Bruce's sentencing hearing in Custer County. Bruce,
who had entered an alfred plea to second degree murder
and destruction of evidence, remained defiant, trying to reverse his
plea and claim self defense. The court, though swiftly dismissed
his fabricated narrative, citing evidence that proved Bruce's calculated intent,

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including his prior purchase of a firearm and specialized night
vision binoculars used to stock Shelton for hours before the ambush.
The brutality of the murder was instantly compounded by Bruce's
corpse disposal. Court documents state the seventy year old confessed

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to shooting Shelton, dismembering his body with a chainsaw, incinerating
the remains in a barrel, and scattering the ashes in
the Salmon River. An investigator's pressed Bruce on why he
didn't contact police, The killer offered a cold shocking mantra

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of quote, you shoot shovel and shut up end quote.
Despite an exhaustive search by deputies in search and rescue,
only DNA and skull fragments were recovered from Shelton's truck,
leaving the family without a body to bury. Bruce was
ultimately sentenced to twenty years in state prison with ten

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years fixed for the calculated slang and destruction of evidence.
And finally, talk about a cryptic caper. A severely neglected
Pennsylvania mausoleum just became the scene of a bone chilling
body heist where two sets of remains were stolen from

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their eternal resting places. Police are investigating after the deceased
duo vanished from the problem plagued Good Cheprid Memorial Gardens.
The shocking theft exposed the cemetery's years of rot and neglect.
Talk about a grave offense. As you can imagine, families
are beyond disturbed over the tomb raiding. Authorities have bordered

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up the site and are canvassing for clues. Hopefully police
will be able to dig up the truth and recover
the remains soon. Planes. Township cops backed by state police,
are asking for tips call five seven zero, eight two
nine thirty four thirty two. Once arrested, these suspects are
definitely going to learn justice never dies. For the latest

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on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm
Jennifer Gould.