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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
It was an execution sparked by a failed sexual assault.
A Rhode Island mother and her devoted boyfriend were brutally
gunned down in their apartment by a daughter's jealous ex
boyfriend in a savage murder suicide. The carnage erupted after
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the teen desperately resisted the killer's demand for sex at gunpoint,
forcing her to flee a horrific bedroom bloodbath. That daughter,
Jasmine Roderick, spoke to the media.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I know that none of us were supposed to live
that night.
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The slaughter unfolded inside a wound socket apartment. The killer,
Sean Rivera, twenty four, had a volatile, strained relationship with
the family. Police contend that Rivera, fueled by a possessive
homicidal rage, instantly escalated a domestic discussion into a deadly
confrontation inside the apartment of Kimberly Pierra NUNSI forty. The
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horror began in the second floor bedroom of Pierra Nunzie's
nineteen year old daughter. Rivera, armed with a three eighty
caliber handgun, pulled the weapon and violently demanded sex from
his former girlfriend. When Jasmine resisted and fought back, she
was forced to run towards her mother's room for safety.
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Rivera then allegedly blasted Pierra Nunsi multiple times, brutally extinguishing
the life of the dedicated nursing student just weeks before
she was set to earn her degree in December. He
then executed her boyfriend, Donald Roderick Junior, a protective, devoted
man who loved fishing, when he arrived home amidst the chaos.
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After committing the murders, the gunman turned the weapon on himself, copsay. Jasmine, traumatized,
managed to survive the harrowing ordeal. Surveillance video captured the
horrific aftermath as she sprinted from the apartment, blood smeared
across her hands and clothes, collapsing into a nearby smoke
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shop for help. Here's Jasmine talking to NBC ten News.
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The first thing I was screaming was was it's not
mine because I was covered in blood. I was like,
it's my mom's my mom's shot, and then I said,
hide me, help me.
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Jasmine told NBC ten News that Rivera had been living
with her family for the past several months, despite the
two having split. In late October, investigators recovered the gun
used in the incident, which was reported stolen out of Maine.
The investigation continues more crime and justice news after this.
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In a shocking last second courtroom twist, Brian Walsh pleaded
guilty to hiding his wife's body and lying to put
just moments before his murder trial was set to launch.
The stunning confession left prosecutors scrambling and jurors in limbo.
In the grizzly case of the vanished real estate executive
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Anna Walsh. Listen, mister Walsh, do you wish.
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To offer a change of plea on docket number twenty
three eight two CR nine to one zero zero two
which aids you with intimidation of a witness, duror, police
or court official and zero zero three di intermined of
a body? Do you wish to offer a change of
plea from not guilty to guilty?
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I hear the fifty year old Walsh Stone faced in
Norfolk Superior Court, copped to two lesser felonies willfully misleading
police investigators and unlawfully conveying a human corpse. He faces
up to ten years behind bars on the deception charge,
potentially stacking with a life sentence if convicted a first
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degree murder plus three more years for the body handling offense. Walsh, however,
doug in his heels on the main slaying charge, stubbornly
maintaining his innocence and denying any hand in Anna's death
or the incineration of her remains at a trash facility.
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This bombshell plea torpedoed the start of jury selection. The
high stakes drama revolves around the January first, twenty twenty
three vanishing of the thirty nine year old Serbian born
mother of three from the couple's Cahaset waterfront mansion. Anna,
a rising star at a DC brokerage, was last spotted
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after a New Year's Eve feast with Walsh and a friend.
He claimed she jetted off for a work crisis, but
her employer flagged her missing on January fourth, when she
ghosted a crucial meeting. Cops zeroed in on Walsh by
January eighth, immediately nabbing him for the phibbs after his
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son's iPad exposed a horrifying Google search spre The prosecutor's
brand a blueprint for butchery. His damning digital queries included
how long before a body starts to smell, hack saw,
best tool to dismember, and best ways to dispose of
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a body. Raids turned up damning physical evidence, a blood
smeared knife in the basement, stained couch cushions, tarps, a hatchet,
and trash bags stuffed with a mingled DNA of both
Anna and Walsh. Prosecutors point to a toxic motive. Anna
reportedly had a boyfriend and was plotting a divorce, sparking
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a preemptive strike to sidestep a financial disaster. The dumpster's
Walsh allegedly scoured were tords before police could search them,
burying any final chance at recovering her remains, which have
not been found to this very day. Walsh, already serving
a three year sentence for selling fake Andy war Hall sketches,
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was just found competent to stand trial a week ago.
He will now hope for an acquittal from the big
charge as the murder trial continues, and finally talk about
an unnecessary detour. Serial dui offender James Howard fifty three
is officially canned after he rear ended a Volkswagen at
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an I ninety exit ramp, all because he was busy
attempting a pit stop in a pint container, cop say.
The five time offender confessed he was trying to relieve
himself into a Budweiser can right before the crash. When
troopers arrived, Howard was found wreaking a booze, slurring his words,
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and sporting suspiciously damp pants. He later blew up BAC
three times the legal limit. With four prior DUI convictions
and a suspended license, Howard's little deposit is going to
cost him big time. He faces felony aggravat DUI and
a ten thousand dollars bond. So it looks like this
budwetter's desperate attempt to avoid a roadside break as I'm
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hanging high and dry in jail soon. For the latest
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Jennifer Gould