Idol Executioner Insane: Suspect who Slaughtered American Idol Exec Ruled Unfit to Face Gavel| Crime Alert 6PM 11.21.2025

An American Idol power couple's killer has been deemed too unhinged for trial; justice is stalled in the Hollywood horror, for now. 

A wrestler's ex-wife & her lover have been nabbed for his execution hours after the ink dried on the divorce papers. Plus, threes a crowd, but not in jail.  Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Crime al Art hourly update breaking crime news.

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I'm Jennifer Gould. The drifter accused of executing a beloved
American IDOL music executive and her husband in their four
point five million dollar in Sino sanctuary in California, has
been ruled too mentally unhinged to face trial for now.
His neighbor. The suspect's neighbor, Sandi Osuna, tells KCBS two News,

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she's not surprised. I quiet, I'm not gonna lie. I cried,
you know, because for the most part, he's just a
kid that's just dealing with, you know, mental issues. Raymond Buderian,
a twenty two year old Los Angeles vagrant with a
rap sheet of drug fueled aggression, was deemed quote not
presently competent end quote by Judge Maria Cavaluzzi, immediately suspending

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criminal proceedings in the July tenth double homicide. Boudarian faces
two counts of first degree murder and residential burglary for
the execution style slayings of Emmy nominated music supervisor Robin
K seventy and her husband, veteran songwriter Thomas de Luca seventy.

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This prosecutor spoke to the media, anytime you have murders
that are filed and special circumstances, you know we are
dealing with a serious, serious case. Prosecutors alleged this suspect,
high on methmphetamine and prowling for scores, broke into the
couple's gated mansion as the couple returned home from grocery
shopping around four pm. Bouderian allegedly ambushed them, wrestling control

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of De Lucas's registered handgun before firing multiple rounds into
their heads at point blank range, leaving their bloodied bodies
sprawled amid scattered shopping bags. The horror remained undiscovered for
four days until friends requested a welfare check. Cops found

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the front door unlocked and the security system disabled. According
to a police affidavit, LAPD had received two reports of
a possible burglary at the fortress. Officers responded but left
when they didn't find any evidence of forced entry. The
other call it came from Boudarian himself. He reportedly used

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his own cell phone and even provided his name, which
helped police track him down later. Fingerprints lifted from the
scene also matched Budarians from three prior arrests between twenty
twenty three and early twenty twenty four, busts for battery
on a peace officer, criminal threats with a weapon, and assault.

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Each time the disturbed suspect walked free on minimal bail,
allowing him to roam until the final catastrophic break in.
Judge Kavaluzzi ruled that Buderian, who appeared in court wearing
a suicide gown, lacks the mental capacity to grasp the
charges due to an undisclosed psychiatric disorder. The ruling mandates

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his immediate transfer to a state psychiatric hospital for forced
treatment with psychotropic drugs. LA County DA Nathan Hoffman vowed
that restoration is quote in the best interest of justice
end quote, given the special circumstances for multiple murders during

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a burglary charges that could carry the death penalty. Baderian's
next progress hearing is set for December nineteenth. More Prime
and Justice news after this. It was days after the
Ink dried on their divorce that pro wrestler Kevin Nickel

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met his brutal end, allegedly lured to his death by
the high school's sweetheart, who had just signed the final
papers the wrestling world us as authorities arrested the ex wife,
Amanda Penny forty, and her new boyfriend Michael Hogue fifty one,
charging them with first degree murder. In the July execution,

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Nichol's close friend Kevin Pendergraft spoke to CBS five News.

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You know, it doesn't bring him back, but just knowing
that they're not running around and kind of rubbing it
into the face of his friends and family makes me
feel really good.

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Nicol, known in the Squared Circle as Ivan Warsaw during
his run in w W E, NXT and his own
Ozark Mountain Wrestling promotion, was found bleeding from a single
gunshot wound to the abdomen along Highway twelve near Beaver
Shore shortly after midnight on July eleventh. He was rushed

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to a nearby hospital, where he died of his injuries.
The Benton County Sheriff's Office initially investigated the slaying as
a random incident, but a relentless four month probe unveiled
a calculated plot of betrayal and murder. The acrimonious divorce
between Nicol and Penny, his wife since twenty twelve, was

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finalized on July eighth, a mere seventy two hours before
the fatal ambush. Prosecutors alleged Penny, apprehended by U S
Marshals in Rogers, orchestrated the meeting by using reconciliation talks
as a ruse to draw Nickel to the remote spot.
Her paramour, Hogue, a Fort Smith president who reportedly began

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their romance while working for her, stands accused of pulling
the trigger, facing additional enhancements for using a firearm during
the crime. At a bond hearing, Penny's public defender told
a judge that she is seven months pregnant and under
the care of a doctor. Hogue is being held on
a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond. Pennies being

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held on a five hundred thousand dollars bond in the
Benton County Jail, and finally, a night went from hot
tub to hot mess very fast. Forty seven year old
Angel Curl is in serious trouble after a planned sexual
tryst with her boyfriend and a female friend went completely

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down the drain, ending in a domestic battery charge. Curl
and her forty seven year old partner had invited a
third party over to their apartment for some group activity,
but cops say the coita's conference was canceled when some
of the parties suddenly declined participation. Three's a crowd, I guess,
but Curl wasn't having it. She wasn't ready to take

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no for an answer. She allegedly got furious and fists
started flying at her boyfriend's face. Curl was arrested for
misdemeanor battery and released, but a judge immediately slapped her
with a no contact order. She tried to schedule a
play date, but now she's the one who is grounded.
Declined deny. I detained. For the latest crime and justice news,

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