Foster Mom Accused After False Missing Report of Girl She Knew Was Already Dead | Crime Alert 2PM 09.05.25

A Pennsylvania foster mother is under arrest after her false report sparked a search for a missing girl who was already dead, later found dead in the Youghiogheny River. A man builds a hidden home in the crawlspace of somebody’s condo, wiring in lights, TVs, and an Xbox, before police discover and arrest him. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
A foster mother is under arrest after her false report
sparks a search for a missing girl she knew was
already dead and in the Yakagany River. State Police said
thirty one year old Courtney Matilda Utzie is charged with
criminal homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, child endangering, abusive

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a corpse, tampering with evidence, and concealing the death of
a child. She's being held without bond. Investigators said the
case began Wednesday afternoon, when Utzee and her partner Sarah
Shipley claimed nine year old Renesseme Yutzee had walked away
from their home in dunbar Bara. A massive search was launched,
with neighbors, volunteers, and first responders combing through the town

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and along the river. Fayette County District Attorney Michael Albel
told WPXI, it's very frustrating girl that appears to be nomahnourished,
various bruises, cigarette burns on her body. It's very apparent
that this girl suffered and that her that her mother
was responsible. Early Thursday, Utie admitted Renesme was already dead
before the search began, Belie said she confessed that the

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child had burned herself in the bathtub about a week
earlier and was never treated. On Tuesday night, Utzi claimed
Renesme vomited and choked. She said she tried CPR but
never called nine one one fearing discovery of the girl's condition.
She admitted placing Renesme's body in a bag, sealing it
in a tote, and leaving it in the river. At daybreak,

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she led officers to the site, where they found the
body partially submerged. Three other children from the home were
taken into protective custody. One of them told investigators, quote,
I'm never going to see my baby sister again because
she's in heaven. Another said the adults planned to take
Renesme quote far far away, and described seeing her put
into a garbage bag and then a plastic tote. My

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baby didn't deserve that. She was innocent. She still had
her whole life ahead of her. Ronesse's mother, Melissa benedetto
speaking with the TV station after learning of her daughter's death.
Official say more charges may follow as the investigation continues.
More Crime Man Justice News After this A man builds

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a hidden apartment inside the crawl space of somebody else's condominium,
wiring in lights, TVs, and even installing his Xbox before
police discovered it and arrested him. Deputies in Clackamus County, Oregon,
responded to a call near Happy Valley. A witness reported
seeing an unknown man park his car and walk behind
one of the buildings. The witness also noticed the crawl

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space door was open, and they said they saw light
coming from inside, then the door shut. When deputies arrived,
they found the crawl space door damaged and locked. There
was an extension cord run through event. Deputies contacted the homeowner,
who said no one should have been inside and admitted
they had quote heard strange noises coming from the crawl
space before. The homeowner gave deputy the keys, but they

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didn't work. Deputies forced the door open and found a
man inside, surrounded by furniture and electronics, identified as forty
year old ben Yamine Booker. The Klacamus County Sheriff's Office
later wrote, quote he had taken significant steps to improve
the conditions of the crawl space and was obviously living inside.
Deputies found a bed, lights, chargers, TVs, and other devices

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powered by the building's electricity. They also recovered a pipe
with white residue, which turned out to be meth. Photos
showed the flat screen tied to a ceiling beam, string
lights hung from the rafters, a big fan, and an
Xbox controller. He was arrested and taken to the Clacamus
County Jail. At a court appearance the next day, the
judge set his bail at seventy five thousand dollars. He

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was charged with first degree burglary and unlawful possession of meth.
Deputy said Boukor appeared to have lived in the space
four quote an extended period of time. Natasha Jones was
thirty two years old when she packed a bag and
left her grandmother's home on Singleton Branch in Fisty, Kentucky,
on the morning of May seventh, of twenty fifteen. She
just left rehab. Her two sons were living with her

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grandmother Ola. Natasha was supposed to return in two or
three days, but she left a handwritten note under her
son's pillow. It said not to be sad. She was
going to be looking for a place where they could
all live together. But she never came home. A family
friend picked her up that morning. Along the way, they
met a man. Natasha left with him. That man later
told police she ran into the woods at a reclaimed

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strip mind and didn't come back. The least found no
trace of her there. They used helicopters, cadaver dogs, and
search teams on foot, searching strip mines, the woods, and
the water. Natasha's family never believed she would walk away
for good. She had a history of addiction and had
previously disappeared for short periods, but she always checked in.
She never stayed away from her son's this long. In

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the years since, her family has raised reward money, held vigils,
and kept a Facebook page alive. The reward is now
fifteen thousand dollars. Natasha was white with hazel eyes and
bleached blonde hair. She was between five foot seven and
five ten and weighed one hundred twenty nine hundred thirty pounds.
She had tattoos of a butterfly outline on her upper
back and a flower on her lower back. Today, she

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would be forty two. To report tips, you can call
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