Jacksonville Serial Killer? Three Unexplained Deaths in Three Days Fuels Speculation | Crime Alert 4PM 11.21.25

A wave of fear spreads across the First Coast as three women are found dead in Jacksonville within three days, and community members say the killings feel too deliberate to dismiss. A teenager in Connecticut is arrested after authorities discover he promoted a fake SantaCon event to hundreds of thousands of people online. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime a art hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm
Drew Nelson. A wave of fears spreads across the First
Coast as three women are found dead in Jacksonville within
three days, and community leaders are warning the killings field
too deliberate to dismiss. It all started Saturday night, when
twenty four year old Cherish Nunley was found shot in
a parking lot on Sunbeam Road. Her sister wrote in

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a GoFundMe that she was quote killed in cold blood
and left behind two children. She said her sister quote
was a bright, beautiful girl who never got into trouble.
Police said they are still gathering leads in her case.
Sunday night, a fisherman found a woman under a bridge
on Blanding Boulevard. Detectives say that victim was thirty nine
year old Tiffany Felton. Officers were flagged down around six

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thirty pm and located her body on the riverbank. They
have not released how she died. Police say this case
remains open.

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This was an unnecessary killing. Hilm or hurt left this
lady under a bridge, under a bridge, It's just sad.

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That's community activist aj Jordan speaking to WTLV. Then came
the third discovery. Monday afternoon, a landlord forced open the
door of a rooming house on West fourteenth Street and
found a woman unresponsive. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said she had
been last seen in the front yard on Friday. Investigators
say the cause of death is unknown in her case.

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People in Jacksonville immediately began linking the three cases online.
JSO had to release a statement saying the rumors are
false and insisted detectives are quote following the facts and
evidence in each case. The agency said there is no
danger to the public. Some in the community remain unconvinced. Jordan,
who works with the advocacy group Mad Dads, said the

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public can help and said the pattern of women turning
up dead cannot be ignored.

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We need our city, our residents to step up and
tell what they know. You know, we have we have
children without mothers now, you know, and that's sad.

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Leaders say someone knows who left Felton under the bridge
and who shot Nunley in cold blood. They say public
tips could be the only way to stop whoever is responsible.
More crime and Justice news after this, a teenager in

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Connecticut is arrested after authorities discovered he promoted a fake
Santa Con event to hundreds of thousands of people online.
Police made the arrest in Fairfield this week. Officers stressed
that there is no public Santa Con this year, and
said the town shifted to a tightly controlled format after
past problems with rowdy santas. A Santa Con is a

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large holiday themed bar crawl where crowds dress in Santa suits,
often drawing big, rowdy turnouts in beach towns and city centers.
The real Santa Con in Fairfield is now a private,
ticketed gathering hosted by Fairfield University for its students and
registered guests, and it is the only sanctioned to con
event in town. Ho Ho ho. The investigation led officers

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to Emmitt Blaney, the nineteen year old Fairfield University student
from Massapequa, New York. Police say he promoted a Santa
Con event at a specific private residential beach address. The
homeowners did not give permission. Police said the invitation reached
over six hundred thousand views. Blaney was charged with criminal
attempt to commit disorderly conduct and criminal attempt to commit

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criminal trespass in the third degree. He was released on
a signature bond, scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court
on December eighth. The search continues in Washington State for
a missing man whose disappearance is now treated as a
suspected foul play case on the Colville Reservation. The missing
man is Chase Anthony Carson, who was last seen on

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the morning of February twentieth of twenty twenty three in Omak, Washington.
He was reported missing March fifteenth of twenty twenty three
after relatives told investigators they had not heard from him
for weeks. Multiple agencies learned that he had gotten into
an altercation with two people shortly before he disappeared. Authority
suspect foul play in his disappearance. The FBI is offering

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a ten thousand dollars reward for information leading to his
recovery and to the identification, arrest, and conviction of those responsible.
Carson is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of
the Colville Reservation. The FBI says it is working with
the Coalville Tribal Police Department and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit in a formal investigation. Carson

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was on foot in the East Omak area when he
was last known to be seen. He was wearing a
dark gray sweatshirt and jeans. Is a history of substance
abuse and has not contacted family since the day he vanished.
He was born on February seventh of nineteen ninety four,
five nine, one hundred seventy eight pounds when he was
last seen with black hair and brown eyes. His tattoos
on his chest, including a prominent piece of artwork on

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his left pectoral muscle, as well as tats on his
left hand and right arm. Anyone with information can contact
the FBI at eight hundred call FBI or tips dot
com FBI dot gov. For the latest crime and justice news,
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with this crime alert. I'm Drew Nelson.