Missing Baby Emmanul Harro's Mother Set to be Back in Court 2 Weeks After Father Admits Guilt | Crime Alert 3PM 10.28.25

The 41-year-old Rebecca Harro faces charges of murder and filing a false police report in connection with the death of her 7-month-old son, whose remains have yet to be discovered.

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Nicole Parton.
Rebecca Harrow, the mother of the missing baby Emmanuel Horrow,
is set to appear in court tomorrow Tuesday, nearly two
weeks after her husband entered a guilty plea for the
murder the forty one year old Rebecca faces charges of
murder and filing a false police report in connection with

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the death of her seven month old son, whose remains
have yet to be discovered. On October sixteen, her thirty
two year old husband, Jake, admitted to second degree murder
and falsely reporting to police. He is facing a potential
sentence ranging from twenty five years to life, with a
sentencing hearing set for November three. Her court session is

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designated as a felony settlement conference. Should Rebecca continue to
plead not guilty, her case will advance to a preliminary hearing.
Emmanuel was reported missing on August fourteen, twenty twenty five. Initially,
Rebecca claimed she was assaulted in a store parking lot
and that her son had been abducted, but law enforcement
quickly determined that her story was fabricated. Despite extensive search efforts,

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Emmanuel's body has not been found. Following Jake's arrest, he
was spotted near a freeway during the ongoing search for
the child's remains. In a jail interview with The Press
Enterprise after his arrest, Rebecca insisted her husband would never
harm an infant and maintained her innocence. Jake has a
history of child abuse involving another infant from a previous relationship,

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which resulted in the child suffering from broken bones and
a brain hemorrhage. He received a sentence that included probation
and work release in that case. For Crime and Justice
News after this. On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed

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that the US military executed three strikes in the Eastern
Pacific Ocean targeting vessels allegedly involved in drug trafficking, resulting
in fourteen fatalities, leaving one person alive. This marks the
first occasion where multiple strikes were reported on the same day.
The operations conducted on Monday represent a significant increase in

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the frequency of attacks in South American waters, which had
previously commenced in early September with intervals of several weeks.
A Pentagon official who decided to remain anonymous to discuss
the sensitive operation confirmed that the strikes took place off
of Columbia's coastline. After one of the boats was targeted,
military personnel discovered an individual in the water grasping onto debris.

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The military relayed the survivor's exact coordinates to the US
Coast Guard and a Mexican military aircraft that was active
in the vicinity. Hegseth stated that Mexican search and rescue
teams took charge of the rescue operation for the survivor,
but did not clarify whether the individual was successfully rescued
or whether they would remain in Mexican custody or be

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transferred to the US. In a prior strike earlier this month,
two survivors were rescued by the US military and returned
to their home countries, Columbia and Ecuador. The Ecuadorian individual
was later released after prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence
of any wrongdoing on his part. Hegseth shared footage of
the recent strikes on social media, depicting two boats traversing

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the water in separate clips. One boat was heavily loaded
with numerous parcels. Both boats subsequently explode in flames. The
third strike targeted two stationary boats positioned next to each other.
They appeared to be mostly unoccupied, with at least two
individuals visible before a blast consumed both vessels. Hegseth noted

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that before vessels were monitored by our intelligence traveling along
known drug trafficking routes to the US and were suspected
of carrying narcotics. The Trump administration has yet to provide
evidence supporting its assertions regarding the vessels, their connections to
drug cartels, or the identities of those killed in the strikes.

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With a death toll from thirteen strikes since early September
now totaling at least fifty seven, Hegseth drew comparisons between
the military's operation against drug trafficking and the fight against terrorism.
Following September eleven attacks, he asserted that drug cartels have
caused more American deaths than al Qaeda, and they will

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be treated accordingly. President Donald Trump has defended the strikes
by claiming that the United States is in an armed
conflict with drug cartels, labeling these criminal organizations. President Donald
Trump has defended the strikes by claiming that the United
States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels, labeling
these criminal organizations as unlawful, invoking the same legal framework

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used by President George J. W. Bush's administration in the
fight against terrorism. For the latest crime injustice news, follow
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this crime Alert, I'm Nicole Parton.