NJ Trooper Kills Ex, Her New Boyfriend, Kills Self | Crime Alert 3PM 08.05.2025

A New Jersey State Trooper, Lt. Ricardo Santos, guns down his ex-girlfriend, Lauren Semanchik, and her new boyfriend, Tyler Webb, then turns the gun on himself. Santos was so highly regarded he once guarded the Governor of New Jersey. 

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Dave Mack.
In Franklin Township, New Jersey, police rushed to a Pittstown
home around twelve thirty pm after receiving a report of
an unconscious woman inside. Officers find Lauren Semanchik, thirty three
years old and Tyler Webb, twenty nine, dead from gunshot

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wounds in what is being called a targeted attack. Detectives
quickly identified Samanchik's ex boyfriend, New Jersey State Police Lieutenant
Ricardo Santos as a possible suspect and begins searching for
him immediately. Soon after the search begins, Santos is found
dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound in his two
thousand and eight white Mercedes about fifty miles away. A

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semi automatic handgun is found beside Santos. It started when
Franklin Township police officers responded to a nine to one
one call in the area of Samanchik's residence the night before,
where audible gunshots and screaming were heard by the operator,
but we're never able to pinpoint where the noises came from.
Police also learned that Semanchik, veterinarian had installed cameras in

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her car after reporting the Santos was stalking. Her footage
captured her vehicle leaving her veterinary office on Long Island
at five twenty five pm Friday. The rear camera recorded
santos Mercedes closely following Semanchik from her workplace to her home.
Semanchik arrives home just before six pm. Ten minutes later,
someone emerges from the woods bordering her driveway. Nearly a

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half hour later, Webb's vehicle arrives at the home and
parks next to Semanchik's vehicle. Semanchik's father was the one
who discovered his daughter in Webb's bodies on Saturday. It
appears that she was running away when she was killed.
She was shot in the back, he says. Semanchik and Santos,
a highly regarded state trooper, only dated for about three

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months when Semanchik ended the relationship. Semanchik's family says after
she into the romance, Santos began stalking and harassing the vet.
She tried to block him many times, and he continued
you to call from restricted numbers. He showed up at
her work and that's where her car was keyed. Samangik's
family says Santos put recording devices in her home and

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water in her gas tank. Samagik's family also says that
she told new law enforcement people what was happening, but
nothing was ever done. Santos was so highly regarded as
a trooper he previously worked as a supervisor on Governor
Phil Murphy's Protection detail. Hunterdon County Prosecutor Rene Rosen confirmed
the case was being investigated as an act of domestic

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violence and a targeted double homicide. A child protective services
worker in Alabama has been arrested after a three year
old boy in her care died while left alone in
a car for hours in one hundred and eight degree heat,

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and she's already out on bail. The Department of Human
Resources employee Kila Stanford, fifty four, was charged ours last
Friday over Ketorious Starks Junior's tragic July twenty second demise
in Birmingham, Alabama, that saw him left alone in the
vehicle for five hours in the searing heat. Stanford, who
works for a third party firm contracted by the department,

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had been tasked with taking the little boy to a
supervised visit with his biological father. The day he died.
The worker had picked the boy up from a daycare
where he'd been dropped off by his foster family ahead
of the scheduled visit. After the visit, Stamford allegedly ran errands,
including stopping at a grocery and tobacco store instead of
taking the child back to daycare. The worker then drove

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to her own home, where she left the boy buckled
inside the car with the windows rolled up as the
temperature soared to one hundred and eight degrees. The little
boy was later pronounced dead at the scene. Stamford was
booked into the Jefferson County Jail under the States Amaia
White Act, which prohibits leaving a child or an incapacitated
person unattended in a car. She was released on thirty

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thousand dollars bail that same day. From the moment Sean
Diddy Combs was arrested, his lawyers have been tasked with
getting him out of jail on bond, and they failed.
After a jury returned to verdict of not guilty on
the most serious charges, he once again asked me let
out of jail until sentencing, but the judge said no.
Attorneys for the fallen mogul have once again tried to

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have Didty released until sentencing, offering up fifty million dollars
for bond and requirements you wear an ankle monitor and
confine himself to his Florida home. This is the fifth
time did He has sought release, and this is the
fifth time a federal judge denied bail. Did He was
denied bail because the judge considers him a flight risk.
He was denied bail on account of being that flight

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risk or danger. Judge Supermania concluded that Combs fails to
satisfy his burden to demonstrate an entitlement to release. Combs
be sentenced on his conviction of transportation to engage in
prostitution on October three. Combs was even able to get
an ex girlfriend referred to who has victim three in
his indictment, to write a letter to the judge asking

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for Diddy to be released on bail. In her letter,
she asks the judge to grant Comb's bond to quote
allow him to continue caring for his family and fulfilling
his responsibilities while still subjected to the court's supervision. Colmes
was convicted on July second on charges of transportation to
engage in prostitution, and when the jury returned not guilty

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verdicts on more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy,
his attorneys asked for his immediate release that was also denied.
By the time Combs is sentenced on October the third,
he will have been in jail for more than a year,
and that time will be credited to whatever sentence the
judge imposes. Comes faces a maximum sentence of twenty years
in prison. For the latest crime and justice news, follow

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with this crime Alert, I'm Dave Mac