WWE Wrestler's Murder Pinned on His Ex-Wife and Her New Man | Crime Alert 9AM 11.20.25

A former WWE wrestler is shot on an Arkansas road, and his wife and her new man are in jail as the case moves forward. A father in Ohio is sentenced to decades in prison after his two-year-old daughter dies in a burning car that he escaped safely. Drew Nelson reports.

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I'm Drew Nelson, a former WWE wrestler is shot and
killed on an Arkansas road and now his ex wife
and her new man are in jail. As the case
moves forward, US marshals arrested Michael Hog and Amanda Penny
on Benton County warrants tied to the death of Kevin Nicol.
Both are in the county jail with a bond hearing
set for eleven am Wednesday. Nichol's mother, Susan Kinderman, says

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the step brings some relief. I know that the justice
system will work. I want to make sure that we
know exactly what happened and why. KFSM sat with Kinderman
and close friend Logan Pendergraft at the wrestler's favorite restaurant,
a booth there now decorated in his honor.

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Yeah, we had our first wrestling meet and greet here
when he was in town. You know, he'd come over
here and hang out with this kind of miss day
and just spread a lot of life to it.

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Detectives say the two suspects face first degree murder and
firearm charges. Kinderman said police have shared few details. She
said she only knows there was a late night meet
up and then shots. I was told by the detectives
that there's some kind of altercation.

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Shots were fired, and Kevin was killed, and that's.

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All we really know. Nichol was found with a gunshot
wound on Highway twelve in July. He died at a hospital.
Ex wife, Penny had recently ended a long marriage with him.
Kinderman said the two had been together since high school
and had started to grow apart, and that quote neither
one of them were happy. Court records and families say
Penny was in a new relationship with Hoague. Now, those

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closest to him tried to remember his life. Nichol worked
in WWE under the name Ivan Warsaw. He grew up
loving wrestling and built Ozark Mountain Wrestling in Rogers. His
family says they want the truth from both suspects as
the case moves forward. Nichol was forty one, the father
of a young boy. More crime and justice news after

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this A father in Ohio has sentenced to decades in
prison after his two year old his daughter dies in
a burning car that he escaped safely. A judge gave
Nicholas stemmin a sentence of twenty two to thirty one years.
Court records say he pleaded guilty to aggravated arson, in

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voluntary manslaughter, and child endangerment. He will serve each count consecutively.
He admitted to police that he had quote consumed at
least ten alcoholic beverages, namely beer, and said he had
quote blacked out. The case began when the car caught
fire on a road in Allen County in September of
twenty twenty four. Police wrote that Stemmen was quote visibly
upset that his car was burning. Deppyties found the car

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on fire in American Township. A caller had reported that
a car was quote driving erratically and missing attire. The
affidavit says the car was quote fully engulfed in flames.
Stemmens stood outside the car. An officer wrote that he
had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and that he quote reeked
of alcohol. When deputies asked if anyone was inside, he
said quote no one. He then said his daughter was

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with her grandfather. Fire crews put the flames out. A
deputy looked inside the car and quote observed a small
body in a forward facing car seat, and later said
she could see skin and blood on the thighs. Police
later confirmed the child was two year old Lilliana Stemmen.
Lilliana was born in Lima in twenty twenty one. Her
obituary said she was quote loving, smart, outgoing, bubbly, and energetic.

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Her family wrote that she never knew a stranger. They said,
quote no one could say no to her or turn
her down to play because she would give them that look.
They said. She loved goldfish, crackers, grapes, swings, slides, and
car rides. Stemmen apologized in court, quote I'm sorry she's gone.
I have no recollection of what happened. Liliana is survived

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by her parents and two sisters. A fifty year search
in Michigan continues as investigators want to learn what happened
to Catherine Kathy Davidson, a six year old girl who
vanished during a family trip. The FBI says Kathy was
reported missing at Warren Doone State Park and Sawyer on
September first of nineteen seventy three. She was six from Chicago, Illinois.
Last scene with her family stopped at the park for

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a picnic. Or older siblings returned from exploring a nearby
culvert she did. Searchers found only a pair of green underpants,
though no link to Kathy was proven. Years later, new testimony,
a younger sister said Kathy never went to the park
that day. She said Kathy had already died in the
family's home in Chicago. She said Kathy had been bound
and gagged and left in a closet. Scratching sounds coming

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from the closet throughout the night, she says, Then the
sounds just stopped, she said. Another sister opened the door
and found Kathy curled in the fetal position. Kathy's father
and stepmother later moved from Illinois. They began following strict
religious rules, living in Georgia, then moving to rural Florida.
They formed a group called the House of Prayer for
All People, which used a mix of Old Testament ideas,

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long robes, head coverings, and full control by the stepmother.
She starved people, She beat them. She would whip them
thirty three times for what she called sins. Inside the group,
more children suffered. One toddler, Marco's cruise was left at
a church in Puerto Rico. In another case, a twelve
year old girl was bathed in Bleach, tied to a
bed and badly burned. No clues ever brought them closer

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to finding Kathy. Her stepmother was charged, but ran before
she could be sentenced. If you have any information on
the case of Katherine Kathy Davidson, called eight hundred, call FBI,
or go to Tips dot FBI dot gov. For the
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Drew Nelson.