“Force of Pure Evil” Woman Pleads Guilty to Killing Neighbor and Drinking Her Blood | Crime Alert 3PM 12.11.25

Fifty-four-year-old Cynthia Ming has pleaded guilty to the murder of her neighbor, Angie Melissa Moore, during a violent home invasion.

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Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now, I'm Nicole
parton the shocking case Out of Texas has come to
a close. Fifty four year old Cynthia Ming has pleaded
guilty to the murder of her neighbor, Angie Melissa Moore,
during a violent home invasion in Lacey Lakeview back in
September twenty twenty two. Authorities say Moore called nine to

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one one that night, reporting that her neighbor was trying
to break into her home through a window. When officers arrived,
Moore was dead from a gunshot wound to the Headming
was fleeing the scene completely naked and covered in blood.
Core documents revealed disturbing details. Miing admitted to grabbing Moore's
gun and shooting her after claiming Moore killed her dog.

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She also told investigators she drank Moore's blood. Doctors later
Diagnosedming with multiple mental health disorders, but she was deemed
sane at the time of her killing. Meing initially pleaded
not guilty by reason of insanity, but changed her plea
to guilty just this week. She's been sentenced to fifty
years in prison with the possibility of parole after twenty

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five years. Prosecutors say parole is unlikely given the nature
of the crime. Moore's family was in court for the sentencing.
Her mother called meing a force of pure evil and
said her daughter endured years of harassment. Moore's parents also
read words from a song written by her sixteen year
old son expressing heartbreak and anger over the loss of

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his mother. Prosecutors say the plea deal avoids the risk
of lengthy trials and appeals those processes, ensuring Mean will
almost certainly spend the rest of her life behind bars.
For Crime and Justice News after this and in celebrity news,

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former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Jennifer Shaw has
been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement
program after serving less than half of her sentence for
allegedly defrauding thousands of people. The Bureau of Prison's spokesperson
confirmed that Shaw was transferred Wednesday morning from the federal

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prison camp in Brian, Texas, to a program overseen by
the Phoenix Residential reentryt Management Office. The transfer means that
Shaw is either being held in home confinement or she
could be in a half way house. Her projected release
date is August thirty, twenty twenty six, BOP spokesperson Emery

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Nelson said, in part, for privacy, safety and security reasons,
we do not discuss the conditions of confinement for any individual,
including reasons for transfers or release from prison. Shaw fifty two,
was sentenced in twenty twenty three to six and a
half years in prison for defrauding people in a telemarketing
scam that stretched nearly a decade. At the time, Assistant

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US Attorney Robert Sobelman said she was the most responsible
of more than thirty people accused of participating in the
nationwide fraud, targeting people who were often vulnerable, older, or
unsophisticated electronically. The fraud involved bogus services that were promoted
as enabling people to make substantial amounts of money through
online businesses. Shaw pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in

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twenty twenty two. During her sentencing, she apologized to quote
the innocent people she had hurt and pledged to pay
six point five million dollars in restitution. A Utah man
twenty nine years old, was found and reunited with his
family after going missing near the University of Utah campus
in November the Department of Public Safety confirmed August Beckwith

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was found alive and has been reconnected with his mother.
Beckwith was reported missing after he was last seen running
down Wakaraway near the University of Utah campus on November seventeen.
Beckwith's mother, Laurie, shared worries about his safety, describing him
as a non verbal and autistic. Police and the family

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begin to search. Laurie Beckwa was also concerned, saying he
had no coat, to phone, or money with him. The
Department of Public Safety canceled its missing person advisory just
before six point thirty am on Thursday, but did not
provide details about how or where the young man was found.
Police say they are happy to report he is healthy

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and back with his mother. For the latest crime injustice news,
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