"This is his Arm:" Army Deserter Guides Cops to Trash Bags Filled w Roomie's Severed Remains| Crime Alert 7PM 10.03.2025

An army deserter is caught on cam - calmly giving cops a roadmap on where to find his roommates chopped up remains. 

A Michigan dad says "Good Morning" to his 3 kids...then unleashes a hail of bullets in a sentencing day slaughter. Plus, a kidnapping suspect gets a major wake up call. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now. I'm Jennifer Gould,
a stone cold army deserter turned human roadmap of murder.
Rayner Joiner twenty three was captured on video calmly guiding
cops to trash bags bulging with his roommates remains along

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a desolate New Mexico highway. The newly released police video
shows Joiner with unnerving composure, pointing out the gruesome parcels
and confirming they hold the victims quote unquote whole body
to hide quote unquote important identifiers. Without a flicker of regret,

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Joiner informed officers exactly where he had deposited the remains.
The exchange caught on dash cam. Listen, head and here's
we're in a cash bag that we're gonna put inside
of harberfree bucket. And the head and duns are with
the Are they with the vendor? Yes. The footage of
by KOB four News captures the very moment Taos County

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deputies unearthed the horrors near Trace Piedras, just weeks after
Joiner and fellow deserter David de Grote twenty two allegedly
gunned down their shared comrade in a premeditated ambush. The
victim was Matthew McLaughlan, twenty five, a US Army vet
who had served with the killers in their Fort Benning,

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Georgia unit before all three went a wall and moved
to a rural Taos County home. Court documents detail a
deadly environment. McLaughlin, battling drug issues, allegedly trash talked Joiner
and invited sketchy outsiders over, fueling Joiner's savage rage. The

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groat's interrogation revealed the bloody sequence. Joiner, wielding an AR
fifteen style rifle, ambushed McLaughlin near their home, blasting him
once in the chest and twice in the head. Back
at the house, Joiner allegedly wielding a saw to dismember
McLachlan's body, forcing it terrified to Groat to hold open

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the plastic bags to dispose of these severed limbs. Here's
more of the chilling video. Listen, now his should be
his arm? What I cut from his arms? Plagues and
torso folds. So yeah, Joiner's zero remorse vibe peaked. In custody,

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he reportedly admitted to the killing and dismemberment, saying quote,
I did it I don't effing regretted. I loved it
and it was easy. End quote. He even chillingly claimed
his father had foreseen him quote growing up loving to
kill end quote. The nightmare unraveled after McLachlan's mom reported

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him missing. A home search turned up damning evidence. Joiner
led the way to the dump sites, where multiple bags
of remains were recovered and sent to the medical examiner.
Both men were promptly arrested. They now face first degree
murder charges, with Joyner also hit with aggravated assault and
battery counts and de Groat with conspiracy and evidence tampering.

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They remained detained without bond at the Taos County Adult
Detention Center. More crime and justice news After this, a
Michigan man facing a looming prison sentence for a sex
crime woke his children, wished them good morning, and then

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calmly retrieved a pistol to execute a calculated family massacre.
Jeffrey Smaher, forty four, stands accused of shooting three of
his kids in their Port Huron apartment, killing one son
and inflicting devastating permanent injury on his daughter before his
wife and fourth child finally disarmed him loved ones say

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there were no signs something like this. Whatever happen. Relative
Victoria Fraser spoke to w x YZ ABC seven news,
he woke up, woke the kids up to go to school,
and you know, it was just a regular day and
then something just happened. In court, for a preliminary hearing,
Port Huron police detective Grafton Sharp laid out the horrifying

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timeline confessed by Smara himself. The father admitted he had
been contemplating the attack for quote approximately a week end
quote after pleading guilty to an indecent exposure charge from
twenty twenty. During jail time, he decided to take his
seventeen year old son Caleb, thirteen year old son Bentley,

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and twelve year old daughter Kinsley quote with him, and
then shoot himself end quote. On the morning of the shooting,
Smaher took his pistol from a safe under his bed.
He woke Kinsland Bentley in their shared room, greeting them
before stepping into the bathroom to question his resolve. Returning,
he allegedly opened fire on Bentley, aiming toward the light

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cast by his phone under the blankets. As Kinsley rose
Smarra allegedly shot her, aiming at her throat. He then
found Caleb on the living room couch and allegedly shot
him in the head. Caleb died from his injuries. Bentley
suffered multiple facial fractures, while Kinsley was left with a

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bullet lodged in her spine, resulting in paralysis from the
neck down. Smara told police he cut his wrist and
took medication, but was unable to complete his suicide because
his gun jammed. His wife and adult son, who were
also home, successfully intervened and disarmed him. Smara is charged

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with open murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder,
and multiple Ellenni firearm counts. He was denied bail and
ordered to stand trial in Saint Clair County. He was
also ordered to stay away from his surviving children and
finally talk about a major wake up call and alleged

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Pennsylvania kidnappers plot took a hilarious wrong turn after his
intense road trip gave him the sleepies. Sean Prince allegedly
held a woman hostage at gunpoint after a domestic incident,
driving her to a rural area for an overnight stay,
but the following morning, Prince he kept nodding off behind

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the wheel, so he had his victim drive. She seized
the chance, of course, and Floorida straight to a police
station and peeled right out of the car. Prince bolted too,
but not before screaming threats to burn down her house.
He's now on the run, still facing charges of kidnapping
and terroristic threats. But it looks like this thug needs

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to hire a reliable chauffeur because his plan was asleep
at the wheel, and let's hope cops catch him soon.
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