Uncle Confesses to Raping & Strangling Teen Niece w Jumper Cables in Eerie Call| Crime Alert 6AM 11.27.2025

A monster uncle with a long rap sheet admits to raping & strangling his 14yo niece...with jumper cables. He tells his lover "I killed Kylie" in a chilling jailhouse call .

A drunk granny kills her best friend in a crash, then berates cops for making her take a field sobriety test. Plus, an ex-con's risky repeat...leads to failure & a felony, again. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
Kylie Toberman, fourteen, found dead in an RV behind her
home after being reported missing. Authority's arrested Illinois man Arnold B. Rivera,
aged forty three with a reportedly very long criminal history,
after accusing him of sex assaulting and strangling Kylie with

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jumper cables. Rivera since charged with murder, one sex assault,
and concealing a death. Jennifer Gould has the details.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Nancy, the monster who raped and murdered his fourteen year
old step niece Kylie Toberman, was snared after his cold
blooded confession to a former partner shattered the victim's family
and exposed a colossal failure in child protective services. Kylie's friend,
Caitlin Schellenbarger spoke to KSDKNBC.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Five think that Arnold was a disgusting man and that
that should have never happened, and I think that she
was failed as a person.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Arnold Rivera, junior, forty three, faces first degree murder charges.
After the horrific end of the bright seventh grader and
aspiring wrestler, the arrest AffA David documents a stunning recorded
phone call Ravera made around two pm to his ex
partner Paige Stone, hours after he officially reported Kylie missing

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and Vandelia, Illinois, despite him knowing she was dead, and
a recording of the call obtained by Daily Mail, Stone
is heard sobbing as she probes and eerily calm Rivera. Listen,
what do you mean lost it? I just lost it.
Don't do nothing stupid. My kids need you, b J.

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They ain't going to have me in prison. So he
followed the confession with a chilling suggestion that his family
claim his social Security benefits. Stone immediately alerted nine to
one one, sending police to the family's property. The charges
were unsealed after Kylie's body was pulled from a derelict
RV two days after her seven hour search gripped the

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tiny town of seven thousand Rivera. Her step uncle had
been shockingly placed in care of the victim and her
two younger sisters, ages eight and ten, despite a dark
rap sheet that included burglary and criminal sexual abuse of
a child from two thousand. Those charges were dropped, but
he served thirty months for an aggravated battery play. The

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environment the girls were forced into was damning authorities confirmed
the girls had been forced to sleep in a nearby
shed because child Services had previously deemed the feces ridden
RV and the main house unfit for habitation. Investigators say
Rivera confessed chunks of the atrocity during a post arrest interrogation.

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He detailed these sexual assault that erupted after Kylie rebuffed
his advances. When she fought back, he allegedly wrapped the
battery cables around her neck until she went limp. He
then dragged her remains to the RV and stashed the
body in a tope bag amid the trash and feral animals.

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Rivera then tried to flee, but he was captured by
a swat canine team. He's being held without bond in
the Fayette County Jail. The Illinois State Police is continuing
to investigate, and Illinois DCFS is also under fire for
green lighting the placement despite Ravera's history. For the latest
crime and justice news, follow Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1 (03:48):
Nancy thanks Jennifer more crime and Justice news. After this,
she just killed.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Her lifelong best friend by driving their car straight into
a Florida lake while hammered on wine and xanax. But
seventy three year old Julia Vega had one burning concern
as cops dragged her from the submerged car. Her shattered
dignity listen.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Good will you get me here? To forty investigation.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Her question was quote why are you doing this in
front of everybody? End quote? Vega wailed in newly released
bodycam video, slurring and swaying as officers forced her to
take a roadside sobriety test while neighbors gawked. The tragedy
unfolded just before midnight in Hilea Gardens, Florida. According to
court filings, Vega suddenly accelerated her gray SUV through an

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apartment parking lot, smashing a yellow retainer poll and chain
link fence before the vehicle nose dived into a deep
retention pond. The car sank rapidly, wrapping sixty nine year
old Elsa Pintor inside. Vega managed to wiggle out of
the driver's side window and was hauled to safety with

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a rope by a police officer. Pintor, the woman Vega
called her best friend, could not free herself and was
pronounced dead body. Camera footage captured Vega's disoriented state on
the embankment with slurred words, bloodshot eyes, and unsteady footing.
She asked, this did my friend?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
I I don't know that part of the investigation I'm
here to conduct with us.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
When officers confirmed Pintor was gone, Vega protested the ensuing
tests as she stumbled through the exercises. Toxicology reports confirmed
Vega's blood alcohol concentration was a staggering point one point seven,
more than twice Florida's legal limit, with traces of the
anti anxiety medication xanax in her system. Vega, a retiree

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with no prior DUI convictions, now faces felony charges of
DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide. She entered a not guilty
plea during her arraignment and was later released on a
twenty five thousand dollars bond, restricted to house arrest and
prohibited from driving. Her next court appearance is set for
mid December and finally talk about a sequel that nobody

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asked for. Forty three year old Christopher McKay is officially
back behind bars after running the most unbelievable repeat offense
in Fort Worth history, trying to rob the exact same
bank that landed him in prison nearly a decade ago.
McKay had previously robbed this Wells Fargo branch nine years ago,
serving seven years for the crime. Apparently, though that sentence

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wasn't as strong enough withdrawal penalty because he stormed back in,
threatening employees with a handgun and demanding cash. But this
heist was an instant replay fail. He fled on foot
without a dime, and officers immediately swarmed the area, arresting
him nearby. McKay is now charged with aggravated robbery. He

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tried to bank on familiarity, but he just cashed his
ticket for another long deposit in Terrant County Jail. Nancy.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
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