Ex-Wife's Creepy Camera Hack Allows Her to Spy on Former Husband's Family's Every Move| Crime Alert 7PM 07.10.2025

A surveillance camera scheme allows an ex-wife to access her former husband's every move! His new family is now living in fear, after she spied on hundreds of hours of their most intimate moments & conversations. 

An Arizona woman escapes her ex's brutal captivity; she claims she was chained, cut, beaten and buried alive under a shed for days!  Plus, a new museum is serving up some 'killer' meals & more!  Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime Needs Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
Imagine discovering your most private moments have been secretly watched
for months through your own home security cameras. This is
the chilling reality for Acacia Young, thirty five, and Antsy
Villa franch, whose quiet Rancho Pinisquitos, California home became the

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unwitting stage for a nightmare of paranoia and violation thanks
to ANSI's ex wife. Court filings reveal a staggering seven
hundred hours of unauthorized video surveillance, exposing the couple's most
intimate moments and leaving them utterly terrified. Akasha spoke to
NBC seven San Diego, There's no way to describe how

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violated you feel. It feels like someone touched me, like
it feels like I found somebody in my house. The
harrowing discovery began subtly when Young noticed the blue lights
of their three ring cameras, originally installed to monitor their
sleepwalking child, activating at odd times. Suspicion morphed into outright

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horror when a voice identified as the ex wives cracked
through the camera speakers. Can you imagine ring device logs
confirmed the terrifying extent of the breach. The ex wife
had accessed their account, viewing footage for approximately forty four thousand,
six hundred and forty minutes over just two months, roughly

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twelve hours daily. The couple found hundreds of saved clips
they didn't even create, with at least thirteen containing the
ex wife's voice capturing deeply private conversations about finances, credit
card numbers, and even medical records. Some clips reportedly included
young breastfeeding their newborn, and their children in very vulnerable settings. Villafranch,

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who owned the ring system during his previous marriage, had
believed he revoked his ex wife's access post divorce, yet
device's link to her name, including Amazon fire sticks and
an Echo show, somehow remained connected to their account. After
sending a cease and desist letter, Villafranch did receive confirmation

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that she was removed from their Amazon Family account, but
the profound emotional damage was already done. The San Diego
Police Department is now investigating, recommending charges such as eavesdropping, wiretapping,
and stocking, with the District Attorney's office currently reviewing the case.
A judge is also set to rule soon on a

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permanent restraining order. More crime and justice news after this.
A Phoenix woman has escaped a backyard shed, revealing a
horrifying ordeal where she claims her boyfriend held her captive
for two weeks, subjected her to brutal assaults, and even
buried her in a crawl space for two days. Timothy

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James Wood, thirty six, now faces US slough of felony
charges following his girlfriend's desperate escape on July second. Despite
the overwhelming evidence, Would denies all allegations he did that
in court, bizarrely calling them crazy and claiming the victim
quote unquote just got out of the looney bin. Take
a listen some crazy allegations. I don't know. That's not me.

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Phoenix police received a frantic nine to one to one
call from a neighbor's home near nineteenth and Glendale Avenues,
where the terrified woman, recently evicted and living in a
shed behind Wood's father's house, had finally sought refuge. According
to court documents, she told officers Wood had restrained her
with a toe strap around her ankle, then chained the

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shed's double doors shut and stacked bricks outside to prevent
any escape. The victim's account details a grim period of torment.
She alleged would repeatedly beat her with an electrical cord,
even cutting her foot with a wood saw when she
resisted his sexual advances. In a twisted attempt to conceal

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the abuse, she claimed he forced her to wear makeup
to hide facial injuries. The terror escalated further when she
alleged he knelt on her neck, threatening to kill her
if she dared contact the police, and in a truly
horrifying act, buried her for two days in a crawl
space he had dug under the shed. Visible injuries on

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the woman, including bike marks, extensive bruising, swelling in a
fractured rib, were later confirmed by a forensic nurse as
consistent with her account. Police investigating the scene found chains,
toe straps, and even a mattress inside the shed, corroborating
her terrifying story. Wood was immediately arrested at the scene
and booked into a Maricopa County jail. He faces charges

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including kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, sexual assault, criminal threat, and three
counts of aggravated assault. He is currently being held on
a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar cash only bond.
And finally, Ohio is about to get a killer new
attraction that's serving up more than just scares. The Ohio
Museum of Horror is flinging open its doors this month.

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And guess what's on the menu. No, not your grandma's
meat loaf, that's for sure. We're talking about last meals
of infamous serial killers, served on prison style platters. Get
ready to dig into John Wayne Gacy's final feast to
fried chicken, shrimp, strawberries, and fries delicious. Beyond the gruesome grub,
the museum promises a bone chilling collection of real human skulls,

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true crime artifacts, haunted objects, and Ouiji boards. It's a
delightful experience for those who like their horror with a
side of history or gravy. 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.