Facebook Post Leads Cops to Suspect in Grisly Double Murder| Crime Alert 7PM 04.30.2025

A double homicide suspect is behind bars - accused of committing murder in the California mountains. The big clue in the case? A chilling Facebook post! 

A cold case miracle in Florida; when high-tech literally helps point to a killer almost 40-years after a beloved realtor was gunned down in her office. Plus, an impatient patient is behind bars...after attacking a nurse at a Kentucky hospital. 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.
A cryptic Facebook post became a digital breadcrumb trail, leading
authorities to a sixty six year old man accused of
a grizzly double homicide in the remote Santa Cruz Mountains.
After a month long manhunt, California Highway Patrol detectives finally

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collared James David Collier at his Bear Creek Canyon Road home,
slapping him with charges for the brutal slangs of Boulder
Creek residents Sean Feffer forty five and Culture White, fifty three.
The incident unfolded on March twenty fourth, when the bodies
of Feffer and White were found in the bed of
an abandoned pickup truck along a desolate stretch of Highway

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thirty five near Oak Ridge Road and the rugged Castle
Rock State Park. The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner confirmed
the cause of death gunshot wounds. Feffer was killed by
a single shot to the chest, while White suffered multiple
funds to his torso and limbs. But it was a
haunting message posted online just a day before the bodies

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were found that sent shivers down investigator's spines. Sean Feffer,
in a chilling Facebook post, directly named Collier, accusing him
of exploiting his cousin, and ominously stating quote, I'm rolling
down there right now, Jimmy, I hope you shoot me
end quote. Beeffer's sister, Mink Perez, spoke to KSBW eight news.

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If there's anything that Sean did, right, I guess you
put that because that's that's like Steff you see in movies, right,
So I'm very grateful for that. This unsettling online premonition,
described by authorities as a key piece of evidence, laid
bare the escalating tension between the two men. A CHP
SWAT team, alongside detectives and the Santa Clara County District

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Attorney's Office, descended upon a home linked to Collier armed
with a search warrant. He was apprehended without incident and
booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on two counts
of murder without bail. However, no special circumstances for multiple
murders have been formally filed at this time. As for
the motive, prosecutors hinted at a possible link to a

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dispute over efforts to Evic Collier from a property. The
CHP continues its investigation, urging anyone with additional information to
police step forward. More Prime and Justice news after this.
After nearly four decades of chilling silence, the daylight execution

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of a beloved Florida real estate developer, Shirley Brandt, has
finally yielded an arrest thanks to a high tech twist.
In a nineteen eighty six cold case, Jeffrey Taylor, sixty four,
was slapped in cuffs, accused of the second degree murder
that ripped the forty nine year old mom and wife
from her family in a hail of gunfire. Here's the

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judge addressing Taylor in court. Yes, your Figer prints run
the phone that the victim was holding at the time
she was shot and killed, so there is probable cause
for the charge. The brutal crime scene unfolded on June thirteenth,
nineteen eighty six, inside Brant's North Miami Beach real estate
office as she spoke with a client, Suddenly, two intruders

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stormed inside. An employee's account revealed Brant's desperate scream, followed
by a struggle for the phone, then the chilling plea
of quote don't shoot end quote before a single fatal
gunshot echoed through the office. The suspects then vanished with
Brandt's cash and credit cards. The unsolved murder left behind

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a shattered and grieving family, including Shirley's husband, local dentist
doctor Lawrence Brandt, who reportedly never recovered from the devastating loss.
Her son, doctor Stephen Brandt, revealed his dad even hired
a private investigator in his relentless pursuit of justice. In
a remarkable turn of events, the North Miami Beach Police

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Department's newly formed cold case unit finally breathed new life
into the long dormant investigation in twenty twenty three. Their
tenacity paid off when they re examined latent fingerprints collected
at the original crime scene. Incredibly, advancements in fingerprint technology
finally allowed investigators to match those prints to Jeffrey Taylor

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in March of this year, a staggering thirty nine years
after Brant's murder. While Brandt's husband tragically died before witnessing
this arrest, her family expressed profound gratitude, hopeful that this
development will finally bring a semblance of closure to the
family and the case. Taylor labeled a career criminal by

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police as currently behind bars without bond, And finally, a
Kentucky hospital er turned into a war zone patient. Mikeisha Johnson,
thirty five, allegedly choked, slammed, and punched a nurse over
a discharge delay. Surveillance video reportedly caught the brutal beat down,
with staff having to pull Johnson off the poor victim.

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Johnson's alleged excuse for the mayhem well, she reportedly told
the authorities that while the nurse had nothing to do
with her long wait to get out of the hospital
and be discharged, she was quote simply the first person
available to fuel her wrath end quote wrong place, wrong
time doesn't even cover it. The victim created and released
from the er with a laundry list of injuries neck pain,

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head trauma, legs, stomach and shoulder aches. So instead of
a happy hospital exit, Johnson's now rocking an orange jumpsuit
at the Jefferson County jail, and she's facing some serious
charges including assaulting a healthcare provider, wanton endangerment, and menacing.
Talk about bad bedside manner for the latest crime and

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justice news. Follow the Crime Alert hourly update on your
favorite podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould.
How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what
Happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.
For an in depth look at the facts, see What
Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Center for Missing and Exploited Children.