"Who Took Her?!"- Mom of 2 Missing After House is Mysteriously Torched| Crime Alert 6PM 10.08.2025

A frantic family is desperately searching for a missing mom of two who vanished without a trace after a suspicious fire engulfed her home. 

A deputy & dad of two is shot dead, another is fighting for his life - after an arrestee grabs one of their firearms while at the courthouse. Plus, taco 'bout a brutal job interview. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
A loving Indiana mom vanishes without a trace, only for
firefighters to find a suspicious fire burning at her home
the very next night, with her belongings abandoned and still inside.
The chilling discovery has left her family convinced the forty

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six year old was kidnapped. Sister Stephanie Bowen spoke to
WRTV ABC News who took her? How did someone just
go missing these days? Britney Guard, a devoted mom of
two and former digital creator from Putnam County, was last
seen on September thirtieth. Alarm bells sounded when Guard, whom

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family members called her children's biggest cheerleader, failed to show
up at her daughter's volleyball match on October first. Her
absence was immediately flagged as deeply uncharacteristic of her. When
family members rushed to her home near Bainbridge, roughly thirty
five miles west of Indianapolis, they were met with smoke.

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Firefighters extinguished a blaze that investigators swiftly labeled suspicious in nature.
Despite a desperate search of the fire damaged home, Guard
was nowhere to be found. Here's Stephanie again. Her car's
at home, her purse's at home, She's nowhere to be found,
and the house is on fire. It makes no sense,

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all devastating signs. The family says that her disappearance was
not voluntary. The family has firmly rejected any notion that
Guard ran away, with a relative adding online quote, I
feel like there's something here, bigger that we don't know,
and someone knows something end quote. Loved ones and numerous

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volunteers are now frantically scouring cornfields and woods desperate for answers.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office has mobilized a massive round
the clock search effort. Detectives confirmed they are using technolology
based investigative tools such as drones and programs to try

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and find Guard. The investigation is also relying on fire
investigators to complete their full findings before submitting them to
criminal detectives. As the baffling case continues with no leads
on the missing moms whereabouts, Guard's family, alongside law enforcement,
are ramping up efforts to find the missing mom of two.

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They've plastered the town with her picture and physical description,
including at gas stations and even on pizza boxes. Britney
Guard is described as white, five foot nine, one hundred
and forty pounds with long black hair. Her frantic loved
ones have also created a Facebook page Find Britney Guard

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to coordinate tips. Authorities also urgently ask anyone with information
to please contact the Putnam County Emergency Operations Center at
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crime and justice. News after, this these secure halls of

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A louisiana courthouse were instantly transformed into a bloody war
zone when a sexual assault suspect made a desperate final
stand for freedom and wrestled a cops. Gun the, catastrophic
chaotic struggle ended in an unthinkable. TRAGEDY a dedicated sheriff's,

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deputy a married father of, two was shot, dead a
second ranking officer was left fighting for his, life and
the suspect was. Neutralized the fallen hero was ide'ed As
Deputy Charles, reilly a six year veteran of The Iberville
Parish Sheriff's. Office Officer Dwayne carpenter of The Gonzales Police
department spoke TO wafb Nine news this one hit. HOME i,

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MEAN i actually knew, him he wrote in the same
call with, Me washington was look he had grow up
to be a, man have a, family raised, kids and
it's just it's a hard. Man the fatal incident unfolded
inside The Plaquemine courthouse, building which houses The sheriff's offices
and local. Government, riley Alongside Captain Brett Stossey, junior the

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son Of Sheriff Brett, stossi and a twenty year, veteran
was interviewing the, Suspect Latrelle, clark twenty, seven Of, whitecastle
As clark was being booked on charges in a sexual assault.
Case it was during this routine booking process that the
twenty seven year Old, clark who had reportedly pled guilty
to separate crimes in a bat and rouge courtroom just days,

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before lunged for one of the officer's service. Firearms State
police confirmed that several rounds were fired in the violent
close quarters. Tussle the Suspect clark was fatally. Shot during the.
Struggle both officers were left critically wounded and were immediately
rushed to a nearby. Hospital Well Deputy riley succumbed to

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his grievous, injuries leaving behind his wife and two young.
Daughters Captain Stossi junior remains hospitalized in critical but stable,
condition battling for his. Survival The sheriff's office is hosting
multiple blood drives in his. Honor the senseless violence has
stunned the tight Knit louisiana, community who is mourning the
loss of a deputy described by former colleagues as quote

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a positive guy with a big, smile a hell of a,
deputy and person who put everyone else first end. Quote
the investigation has also been turned over to The Louisiana State,
police supported by THE, fbi to determine exactly whose weapon
discharged the fatal rounds during the, chaos and finally talk

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about a. Tragedy Ragiona hall nineteen was allegedly fired up
overlanding a simple shift At Taco, bell but when her,
Cousin Jaquan, wright, eighteen who worked, there refused to help
her run for the, border the argument turned. Deadly tops
say the meal melee started with pepper, spray but escalated
When hall grabbed a kitchen, knife plunging the blade Into wright's.

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Neck right tragically dyed And hall is now locked up
In Milwaukee county. Jail on a one hundred thousand dollars
bond facing reckless homicide. Charges this is definitely Not joe
average job. Interview for the latest crime and justice, news
follow The Crime alert hourly update on your favorite podcast
app with this Crime. Alert I'm Jennifer. Gould