Crypto King's Dad Kidnapped as Family Fortune Drained & Eerie Texts Surface| Crime Alert 7PM 07.17.2025

A million-dollar mystery in So Cal: A Crypto king's father vanishes and so does his digital money!  Now the family is offering a hefty reward to bring their dad back home!

A wife's 'gone fishing' tale hooks some felony charges against her after his decomposing body is found in their carport. Plus, a beloved statue is McNapped in a wild heist! Jennifer Gould reports.  

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
The father of a cryptocurrency tycoon has vanished in a
millionaire mystery, leaving behind a trail of creepy texts and
a gutted bank account. Nightping Hoe, a seventy four year
old grandfather, disappeared from his California home under deeply suspicious circumstances,

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sparking a furious kidnapping pro by the Sam Bernardino County
Sheriff's Department son. When Ho spoke to KTLA five News,
We're really sad about the whole thing. It's just a
terrible experiences. I really just want to find my dad.
Niping was last seen after a family fishing trip at

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sam Pedro Peer, but by April, alarming red flags began
waving in the family group chat. His responses turned oddly
detached and robotic. The nightmare escalated on May third, his birthday,
when Niping currently blew off a Vegas visit with his son,
sending a flat quote yes I receive it end quote

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to a gift. Alarmed, his son, crypto Mogul went Hoo
dispatched friends to check on his dad. What they found
was a horror show. Niping's longtime home of twenty years
was stripped bare, sloppily repainted, and his car's all gone.
Even worse, over one million dollars had been pilfered from

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his accounts through frantic wire transfers, cryptocurrency buys, and gold
bar acquisitions transactions the non tech savvy grandpa surely would
not have made himself. Sheriff's investigators quickly confirmed Niping's phone
was being used by a sinister impostor, communicating with family

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members in a chilling charade. Evidence found during that faithful
welfare check screamed kidnapping, though amazingly no ransom demands have surfaced.
The cops are now hunting for a silver Toyota Yaris
linked to the case, warning the culprits are sophisticated and
highly dangerous. The suspects are believed to have ties to

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both the Los Angeles area and the Inland Empire. Wenho
is devastated by his dad's disappearance, believing his own crypto
success tragically painted a target on his father's back. Citing
a global surge in crypto linked abductions, Nightping is described
as an Asian male five feet seven inches tall one

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hundred and seventy pounds. He has dark hair and dark eyes,
and has a birthmark on his upper left chest. The
heartbroken family has slapped a massive two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars reward on the table for Niping's safe return
or for the conviction of those responsible. Tips can be
sent anonymously to two one three, five six four ninety

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three sixty six. More Prime and Justice news. After this,
a New Mexico woman's fun a tale that her ex
husband was off fishing with his new girlfriend, but authority
say the truth was far darker. She allegedly shot him

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dead and then hid his body under a pile of
rugs in their car port. Deanna Ray Thetford, fifty three,
is now behind bars, her grim deception unraveled after months
of mystery surrounding Craig Thetford's disappearance, culminating in her arrest
in Texas. Craig, sixty of beloved volunteer firefighter, had been

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missing since January, sparking alarm among his family who had
not heard from him. Deanna, who had recently moved from
Cloudcroft to Seymour, Texas, coolly told investigators Craig was just
on a fishing trip. She even brazenly showed deputies two
guns safe at their Heatherweight property, claiming they held a

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staggering one to one two point five million bucks in cash,
but insisted she didn't have the combinations and believed Craig
had simply fled with the money. The elaborate facade, though,
crumbled when a search warrant led deputies to that car port. There,
hidden beneath black plastic blankets, rugs, cardboard, mothballs, and a

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white powdery substance was Craig's decomposing body. Court documents detail
a chilling confession. Deanna admitted to shooting Craig multiple times
during a rage fueled argument, claiming he had pushed her
down the stairs. She then callously left his body in
the homes pool room for days before dragging it outside

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to conceal it. Deanna, now charged with first degree murder
and tampering with evidence, was booked into Wichita County Jail.
The criminal complaint states she acted with clear premeditation. Deanna
remains in custody as authorities continue to piece together the
full mode of behind in this horrific act, and finally

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This is no happy meal, folks. It is a full
blown mcknapping. A beloved Ronald McDonald bench statue was brazenly
swiped from at Pennsylvania McDonald's, and surveillance cameras cock the
whole clown show in progress. Take a listen. Oh my god,

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police are not clowning around, calling this a mcfelanie and
putting out an APB for the four suspects. The nesku
Honing Police departments social media post lamented quote. Ronald was
last seen smiling as usual, unaware of the betrayal end quote.
The store manager also said to be not very happy
about losing their twenty five year old icon. They apparently

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call it the owner's baby. Apparently the thieves saw him
old Ronnie as an easy target for maybe a quick
book on Facebook marketplace. Who knows. They just grabbed him
and ran, making a swift getaway in a black Nissan SUV.
No fries without escape either police or now hoping someone
will mix snitch on these hamburglar wannabes. Call five seven

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zero six six' nine ninety one. Eleven The mick mystery.
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