Tommy Lee Jones Daughter, 34, Found Dead In Swanky Hotel | Crime Alert 4PM 01.02.26

Victoria Jones, the 34-year-old daughter of screen legend Tommy Lee Jones found dead just hours into the new year at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel. Dave Mack Reports

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Crime Art hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Dave Mack.
New previously unseen Walmart surveillance video shows Brian Coberger acting
differently in the time after the murders in Idaho. It
appears after the murders, the killer chose to wear gloves
while shopping, something he did not do prior to the murders.

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November twelve, surveillance footage taken just hours before he murdered
four University of Idaho students show Brian Coberger's shopping in
Walmart without wearing any gloves. Investigators discovered Coburger shopped at
his local Pullman, Washington Walmart at least thirteen times between
October twenty eighth and December eighth, twenty twenty two, and

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in all but one of the shopping excursion happened after dark.
Building a timeline of Coburger activity surrounding the murders. On
November thirteenth, authorities discover the last time Coberger's shopped without
wearing gloves was on the twelfth, where surveillance video captures
the killer at the checkout not wearing gloves. Checkout time

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ten thirty four pm. The murders occur five and a
half hours later, just after four am the following morning.
Coberger made multiple trips to Walmart after the morning of
November thirteenth, but in those visits, the admitted murderer is
able to keep his hands covered with gloves, except for
one time, when he exposes a single thumb while pulling

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out his credit card from his wallet to pay for
an item, but keeping the other fingers covered. That lone
exception to the glove behavior is on December eighth, Coberger
arrives at the store wearing gloves, but takes them off
before searching through his wallet and paying. The Walmart store
frequented by Coburger is located midway between his apartment in Pullman,

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Washington and the Idaho College in Moscow. During the murder investigation,
a Walmart worker told police that a suspicious white male
came in looking for a black ski mask. Police confirmed
that Cober used the same debit card on all thirteen
business to the store and purchased two items of evidentiary interest,

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a beanie purchased on November seven and utility clothes on
December first. Moscow police were unable to determine if the
beanie qualified as a ski mask and the utility clothes
ended up being a nine pack of gray hand towels.
More at Crime and Justice News. Next, in Arizona, nine

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year old Rebecca jumps out of the window of the
second floor of her residence, flees to a nearby gas
station and begs the manager for help, saying she's being
abused by her stepmother. Authorities respond to the incident, and
the girl's father, Richard Baptiste, and stepmother, Anitia Woods, are interviewed,
telling the child is injuring herself for attention. Rebecca has

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returned to her father and stepmom. Less than a year later,
Rebecca is found unresponsive on the highway, her toenails removed
and exhibiting signs of severe torture. Investigators say the child
had bruises from head to toe, injuries to her vaginal
in ainus areas. Rebecca Baptiste dies three days after she

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was found unresponsive by Holbrook, Arizona police at the intersection
of two highways. According to the Apache County Sheriff's Office,
Authorities say their investigations soon found a documented history of
alleged violence towards Rebecca in the family home, but child
services allegedly failed to take any action. Rebecca's school contacted

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child services twelve times before she was killed, but the
calls resulted in no meaningful actions. Police reports alleged Rebecca
Baptiste suffered abuse for months leading up to her murder.
Rebecca was found with signs of severe torture, burn marks,
and signs of abuse to her genitals. Her father and
stepmother have been charged with murder in connection with her death.

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In the first hours of the new year, a guest
at San Francisco's upscale Fairmont Hotel alerts staff to a
possible drunk woman passed out on the fourteenth floor. Staffers
quickly realized the person is not passed out, as she
is unresponsive and begins CPR immediately while an ambulance is summoned.
The San Francisco Fire Department responds to the call for

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medical aid at two fifty two am, at which point
first responders attempt to revive the woman, now known to
be Victoria Jones, the thirty four year old daughter of
legendary Hollywood actor Tommy Lee Jones. Jones is pronounced dead
at the scene and police arrive at three fourteen am.
There are no signs of foul play or trauma to

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her body, and police do not find any drug paraphernalia
at the scene. It's not yet known if Victoria was
a guest staying at the hotel or how she came
to be on the fourteenth floor. San Francisco police asking
the public for help, asking anyone with information about Victoria's
death to notify them. Victoria Jones acted in her father's

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classic Men in Black series of movies, appearing in the
second installment as the daughter of a family of three
whose apartment is being used as a secret storage for
MiB agent weapons. She's neuralized with her parents at the
end of the scene. She also appeared in other movies
involving her father, and played a cheerleader in an episode
of One Tree Hill. For the latest crime and justice

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I'm Dave Mac