Thieving Thug Bites Granny's Finger Off for Ring, Flees w Diamond & Digit| Crime Alert 8PM 11.10.2025

The manhunt is on for the monster who bit off an 88-year-old woman's finger for her ring, then ran off with both! His picture is circulating online.

A drunk & 'deranged' son ditches his dying mom after he crashes their car. Plus, talk about driving justice home! Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Crime alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
A ruthless thug, committed a brazen daytime active mutilation against
an eighty eight year old woman in Seattle's ra Near
Beach neighborhood. Emma Cotton, a frail one hundred pound matriarch,
was savagely beaten and had her right index finger bitten

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completely off in an act of barbaric violence. The attacker,
a monster in his thirties, is still at large haunting
the city with the stolen diamond ring still attached to
her severed digit. The ordeal began when Cotton was innocently
tidying her back porch in the ninety nine hundred block
of sixty fourth Avenue South. She was blindsided when a

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stranger crept up, and, sensing immediate danger, she turned, only
to be punched repeatedly and mercilessly in the face. The
assailant then violently dragged the screaming victim into her garage,
content the vicious assault and demanding her jewelry. Her son,
Ricky Cotton, spoke to the media, he was just brutal.

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She was trying to give him the jury and he
still was assaulting her, you know, like she was a man.
When Cotton could not remove her cherished diamond ring from
her right index finger fast enough, the predator resorted to
an unbelievable extreme. He clamped down with his teeth, severing

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the digit entirely. He vanished with the bloody trophy, leaving
the elderly woman in a pool of her own blood.
Convinced he intended to kill her, rushed to the hospital
in serious condition. Cotton endured three grueling days in the
intensive care unit, battling brain bleeds from the relentless blows

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and suffering multiple breaks and fractures throughout her fragile body.
Her head swelled to the size of a bas bascotball,
her son say, leaving her almost unrecognizable. Surgeons also confirmed
the worst. They could not reattach the finger because the
robber had taken it. Cotton continues recovering in a rehab facility.

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Her three sons, Marvin, Ricky, and West, have gone public,
their grief tempered by a furious resolve, Hoping this finger
biting thug is soon off the streets, so the man
hunt for him is on. Seattle Police Department detectives working
in a joint probe with Burian Tuquila officers and the

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King County Sheriff's Office have released surveillance images of the
suspect captured near the attack location and they are available online.
Police are urging anyone with information about this monstrous crime
to call the SPD Violent Crimes tip Line immediately at
two zero six two three three five thousand. In the meantime,

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Miss Cotton has shown amazing grace as well as resilience,
saying she has forgiven her attack for more Prime and
Justice news after this, Bay, Wisconsin man stands accused of
committing an act of utter depravity after allegedly crashing his

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car while intoxicated and then deliberately abandoning his seventy seven
year old mother in the wreckage to die. Waukesha County
Court Commissioner Daniel Reek offered a blistering condemnation during the
court appearance, saying the word that came up to his
mind was quote unquote depraved. He then continued with this,

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this went from driving while drunk but then quite literally
leaving her to die. Why because you didn't want to
get in trouble? Casey Yenikoppolis forty seven is facing first
degree reckless homicide charges. After the evening wreck that claimed
his mom's life, cops rushed to the seventy one hundred

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block of Hill and Dale Drive in Muskego, a Milwaukee suburb,
around seven fifteen pm to find a horrific scene a
single vehicle mangled in a ditch. Inside, they found a
seventy seven year old woman, unconscious but breathing, trapped in
the passenger seat, but the driver was nowhere in sight.

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First responders were forced to shatter the front and rear
passenger windows to extricate the victim, who was rushed to
the hospital, where she died of her injuries an hour later.
Witnesses told police the driver, Ididas Nicopolis, had run away,
appearing highly intoxicated. He was allegedly unsteady on his feed
and reeked of alcohol, telling bystanders he was going to

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get help, a lie he never followed through on, cops say.
Home surveillance video captured the entire gruesome incident, reportedly showing
Ynicopolis driving a at least fifty miles per hour in
a thirty mile per hour zone before losing control and crashing.
The cold hearted fugitive was tracked down to his mom's

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home just down the street. Inside, police found a ladder
leading to a crawl space with the plywood door slightly open.
For hours, Anicopolis refused to surrender, yelling and cursing at
officers from his little hiding spot. It took a drone
for cops to find the suspect, tucked under blankets and

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a plastic bin cover. He had to be physically removed
and was finally taken into custody three hours later. The
affidavit claims Anicopolis later offered a chilling excuse he would
have been quote way more cooperative end quote if he
had known his mother was dead. Anicopolis remains jailed on

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a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond, facing charges
including first degree reckless homicide, hit and run involving death,
and resisting or obstructing an officer. And finally, a Louisiana
mom just served up a massive dose of justice. Shoplifter

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Kelsey Baird thirty four, tried to ditch the bill at
a Slyie del Dillard's, running from Sergeant Jeff Cars right
into a waiting car driven by her boyfriend Eric Boudreau,
but their fast fashion getaway was immediately cut short as
the suspects sped off through the parking lot. Heroic mom

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Leslie Smith pulled up and offered the winded officer a ride.
Cars jumped in and the new Citizen Officer duo were
hot on the tail of the alleged thieves. They followed
the car radio wing updates until backup arrived and bagged
the couple. Baird now faces a designer charge of theft,
resisting and meth possession double out. Smith, a mother of three,

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was honored with the Citizenship Award for taking the time
to drive Justice home for the latest crime and justice news.
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