Fla. Man Tortures, Kills UK Woman in Paid Fatal Fetish Fantasy| Crime Alert 8PM 11.19.2025

A woman from the UK hires a hitman to kill someone; and the victim is HER! Cops say she met her murderer on a fetish website. 

A heartless thief robs a worker as he lays on the floor dying from a heart attack. Plus, a trio of thieves end up banking on jail. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Now.

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I'm Jennifer Gould. A desperate British woman wired cash to
a Florida roadside mechanic, booked a one way ticket across
the Atlantic, and begged him to make her darkest fantasy reel,
torture her, rape her, then kill her. Dwayne C. Hall
fifty three he said yes, and now he's charged with

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premeditated murder. Law enforcement expert James Copenhaber spoke to Fox
thirty five Orlando.

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It doesn't matter if the victim is willing or not
willing to be murdered. It is against the law to
take anyone's life in a cremetted fashion.

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Sonia X'LLB thirty two touchdown in Gainesville on October tenth.
Within forty eight hours, she was dead, stabbed four times
in the neck and chest. Her body callously dumped in
a sandy pit in Marion Oak's Hall, then covered the
remains with palm fronds after the slang. The horror was

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brought to light during a month long probe sparked when
UK police flagged Exelby as a high risk suicide case
who missed her October thirteenth return flight the scale of
Hall's premeditation is damning. Surveillance cameras caught him buying a
chilling murder kit rope, a shovel, duct tape, and bleach

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at Walmart the day before her arrival, followed by a
plastic tarpet lows just hours after picking her up. Detectives
say the pair met two years earlier. On an extreme
fetish site. Exelby, who had previously been sectioned in Britain
in twenty twenty four for trying to hire a local killer,

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posted explicit please for a violent end. Hall answered the call,
positioning himself as her sick twisted quote unquote mentor. Halls
lie that he was simply counseling her collapsed when investigators
found a sickening video on his phone showing a bruised,
visibly upset Exelby, her hands bound, stating on camera that

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she consented to being stabbed to death. Despite this video,
detectives recovered a desperate final message by Exelby, sent to
a friend on discord, second guessing her fate, stating quote,
he made it clear there was no way out unless
I shoot him. I thought he'd do it quick and
not give my mind time to stew end quote. Hall's

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bloody trail led to his arrest after he mailed the
murder weapon, a custom engraved knife, still bearing her blood,
to an Ohio friend, with the cryptic note of quote,
a big storm is coming end quote. Following the murderer,
Hall used Exelby's credit card to pocket twelve hundred bucks.

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When finally confronted, the accused killer offered a grotesque, cold
blooded shrug to detectives of quote, She's happy now she
got exactly what she wanted end quote. Hall is being
held without bond on charges a first degree murder, kidnapping
with intent to inflict bodily harm, and credit card fraud.
Prosecutors vow to convict, asserting that under Florida law, even

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a plea for death is still premeditated murder. More crime
and justice news. After this, a heartless thief in Portland,
Oregon executed a sickening act of betrayal, pretending to be
a good samaritan, only to rob a liquor store while

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the beloved employee was dying from a fatal heart attack
behind the counter. The unidentified suspect, wearing a black jacket
and red hoodie, was caught on disturbing surveillance footage robbing
bins and Beryl's Liquor store as employees and customers rushed
to save the victim. That victim, Jason Hey, fifty three,

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was a southeast Portland staple known for making an effort
to know every single customer by name. When Hay collapsed
behind the register, the suspect feigned concern, allegedly leaning over
the father of one and pretending to check his pulse. However,
manager Michelle Mauer quickly idd the depraved act for what

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it was. She spoke to KGW NBC eight news.

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Unfortunately, one man came in and, acting like he was
trying to help, even took Jason's pulse when it was
obvious he was patting Jason down to find his wallet.

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Mauer explained what the footage revealed. Next, while an employee
sought Hay's bag to aid paramedics, the thief ran to
the office. He discovered the change safe was open, grabbed
the bank bags holding around eight hundred bucks, and stuffed
the stolen funds down his pants. Hey, the sole provider

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for his wife, Melissa, and teens son Ashton, was taken
to the hospital but passed away a week later. Portland
Police continued to investigate the theft, which they classify as
a crime of opportunity. Portland Police continue to investigate the theft,
which they classify as a crime of opportunity. Anyone with
information on the suspect is urged to contact the Portland

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Police Bureau at five zero three eight two three thirty
three thirty three. And finally, a major money laundering mix
up for Florida fraudsters just learned that you don't mess
with Uncle Sam's wallet after they tried to cash a
massive stolen US Treasury tax refund check worth nearly twenty

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seven million dollars. The ambitious and truly checkered scheme was
paper thin from the get go. Suspect Carlos Manuel Villanueva,
thirty seven, was allegedly shopping around for help to unload
the whopping twenty seven point nine million dollar check, his
choice of banker and undercover federal officer named banker. Now

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that's money. The whole conspiracy came to a head at
a restaurant. Villanueva and his three accomplices, Eric Bedford forty four,
Jorge cruse Garcia thirty and John Boxy forty three were
instantly cooked when they handed the check to the undercover agent.
They faced serious charges, including conspiracy to defraud. The judge

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slapped them all with a NEBUA hold on their bail.
It means they can't use money they stole or earned
from this shady plot to get out of jail. They
have to prove receipts and all that their bail money
is legit. Their plan to cash in just meant they
got checked out by the FEDS instead. For the latest

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crime and justice news, follow the Crime Alert hourly update
on your favorite podcast app. With this crime Alert, I'm
Jennifer Gould.