April 18, 2024 • 6 mins
Pre-med student kills mom on visit home. Identity theft puts man in mental hospital!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert Imancy Grays Breaking Crime News Now. Emmanuel Espinoza,
a pre med student home from college for a weekend
family get together, plans to stay with mom Elvia. Elvia
opens the door on Saturday and her son attacks, stabbing
her multiple times. She was on the phone with a
family member and they hear the mom screaming and running
(00:22):
from her son until she falls to the ground and dies.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Nancy. Immediately after the stabbing, Emmanuel Espinoza calls nine one
one and confesses to the murderers. Espinosa says he really
loves his mom, but she irritated him. Elvia Espinoza was
a beloved elementary school teacher and described as always having
a smile and everyone's biggest cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Emmanuel Espinoza tells Florida police he killed his mom because
she quote got on his nerves. Espinoza twenty one, charged
with murder. William Woods briefly works with Matthew Kieran's Aid
a New Mexico hot dog stand in the late eighties.
Forty years later, Woods notices several taken out in his name.
(01:02):
When he speaks with the bank, he cannot answer the
security questions set up and bank staff call police. Kieran's
posing his Woods tells cops over the phone the man
at the bank's trying to steal his identity and tells
them the man's real name is Matthew Kieran's. The real
Woods is taken to jail, where he insists he truly
(01:23):
is William Woods. A judge sends him to a mental hospital.
Once released, the true Woods seeks out a DNA test
proving he's related to the father listed on William Woods's
birth certificate. Kieran, still posing his Woods, is arrested in
Iowa for aggravated identity theft. Now facing thirty two gears
(01:47):
behind bars and it all started at a hot dog stand.
More crime and justice news after this Now with the
latest crime and justice breaking news, Play my lines John Lemley.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We begin in as the attacker who fatally shot himself
after stabbing six people at a crowded Sydney retail mall
has now been identified by authorities. With more. Here's Sidney
Sumner with Crime Online.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Three year old Joel Cauchi is suspected of carrying out
the attack Saturday afternoon at the Westfield shopping Center in
Bondi Junction, located near the well known Bondi Beach in
the eastern suburbs of the city. This according to New
South Wales Police. During a press conference, NSW Assistant Police
Commissioner Anthony Cook informed reporters that Cauchy had unidentified mental
health problems and that police detectives were not considering the
(02:34):
attack to be related to terrorism. Police were summoned soon
after the beginning of the attack at three ten pm
on April thirteenth, at the busy retail mall, among the
busiest in the country and the center of activity on
a very warm autumn afternoon in Australia. Six people aged
between twenty and fifty five were slain in the attack,
five women and one man. Twelve additional people were hurt
(02:55):
and are still being treated at a hospital, among them
a nine month old infant whose mother was killed the incident.
The male victim, a thirty year old from Pakistan named
Farroz to Hear, was working as a security guard at
the shopping mall. The day following the attack, the Amai
Muslim Community of Australia said in a written statement that
Faraz had been in the country for less than a
year and was a quote cherished member of our community.
(03:17):
A witness captured video of numerous individuals running away from
the mall as Kouchi, brandishing a knife lunged at them.
In another video, a man was seen approaching the assailant
on a mall escalator while brandishing what looked to be
a metal pole. Kouchi was shot and killed by Inspector
Amy Scott, the first emergency responder to arrive on the scene.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanis told reporters that the officer was
(03:38):
certainly a hero and that many more lives had been
spared by her decisive action. Kouchi's family released a written
statement later expressing their shock at what happened on Saturday
and that they have no issue with Scott shooting their
son because the woman quote was only doing her job
to protect others. Investigators say the mall will be a
crime scene for days to come.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Since the weekend attack, many flowers have been left out
outside the now closed shopping center as a memorial to
the victims. Back in this country now, as authorities have
now announced that the two Kansas women who vanished while
traveling to Oklahoma to pick up children for a birthday
celebration are dead for more, we again turned to Sydney
Sumner with Crime Online.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
In making their announcement. Detectives have detailed a two week
long attempt to ensure the children's safety and prevent violence
in the process of apprehending four people on suspicion of
both kidnapping and murder. It was one day after the
four suspects in the case were taken into custody that
two bodies were found in a rural area of Oklahoma.
According to officials, twenty seven year old Veronica Butler and
thirty nine year old Jillian Kelly of Hugoton, Kansas, were
(04:41):
traveling through the Oklahoma Panhandle to pick up Butler's kids
for a birthday celebration in Kansas on March thirtieth. After
failing to show up, their vehicle was discovered abandoned on
a rural roadway close to the Oklahoma Kansas state boundary
later that day with signs of foul play. The Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation detailed an intense search for the
two women, along with the detective's efforts to ensure the
(05:01):
children's safety while arresting the suspects without violence. Hunter McKee
and OSBI spokesman stated that Butler and Kelly had died
and that the four defendants are accountable for the women's disappearance. However,
McKee said his department will not confirm that the remains
discovered belong to the missing Kansas women until the Medical
Examiner's Office has completed its report. Authorities in Oklahoma report
(05:23):
that they have taken into custody and charged four individuals
each on two counts of first degree murder, two counts
of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to conduct first
degree murder forty four year old Cora Twombly, fifty year
old Cole Earl Twombly, fifty four year old Tiffany Michelle Adams,
and forty three year old Tadburt.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Column Texas County Court Clerk Renee Ellis says that all
four suspects are being held without bond at the Texas
County jailed with a court appearance schedule to take place
before the end of the week.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Thanks John Gregory Peterson tells his family he's going out
to help an acquaintance who's having car trouble and leaves
their Cloverdale, California home when he's not home after several hours,
family reports him missing. Next day, Gregory's car is found
fifteen miles north of home on the side of the
highway on fire. No trace of Gregory. Gregory Peterson sixty two,
(06:16):
white bald, sixty three, two hundred pounds. If you have
info on Gregory Peterson, please call Sanoma County, California Sheriffs
seven zero seven five six five two one eight five.
For the latest crime in justice news, go to crime
online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.
Crime Alert Imancy Grays Breaking Crime News Now. Emmanuel Espinoza,
a pre med student home from college for a weekend
family get together, plans to stay with mom Elvia. Elvia
opens the door on Saturday and her son attacks, stabbing
her multiple times. She was on the phone with a
family member and they hear the mom screaming and running
(00:22):
from her son until she falls to the ground and dies.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Nancy. Immediately after the stabbing, Emmanuel Espinoza calls nine one
one and confesses to the murderers. Espinosa says he really
loves his mom, but she irritated him. Elvia Espinoza was
a beloved elementary school teacher and described as always having
a smile and everyone's biggest cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Emmanuel Espinoza tells Florida police he killed his mom because
she quote got on his nerves. Espinoza twenty one, charged
with murder. William Woods briefly works with Matthew Kieran's Aid
a New Mexico hot dog stand in the late eighties.
Forty years later, Woods notices several taken out in his name.
(01:02):
When he speaks with the bank, he cannot answer the
security questions set up and bank staff call police. Kieran's
posing his Woods tells cops over the phone the man
at the bank's trying to steal his identity and tells
them the man's real name is Matthew Kieran's. The real
Woods is taken to jail, where he insists he truly
(01:23):
is William Woods. A judge sends him to a mental hospital.
Once released, the true Woods seeks out a DNA test
proving he's related to the father listed on William Woods's
birth certificate. Kieran, still posing his Woods, is arrested in
Iowa for aggravated identity theft. Now facing thirty two gears
(01:47):
behind bars and it all started at a hot dog stand.
More crime and justice news after this Now with the
latest crime and justice breaking news, Play my lines John Lemley.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We begin in as the attacker who fatally shot himself
after stabbing six people at a crowded Sydney retail mall
has now been identified by authorities. With more. Here's Sidney
Sumner with Crime Online.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Three year old Joel Cauchi is suspected of carrying out
the attack Saturday afternoon at the Westfield shopping Center in
Bondi Junction, located near the well known Bondi Beach in
the eastern suburbs of the city. This according to New
South Wales Police. During a press conference, NSW Assistant Police
Commissioner Anthony Cook informed reporters that Cauchy had unidentified mental
health problems and that police detectives were not considering the
(02:34):
attack to be related to terrorism. Police were summoned soon
after the beginning of the attack at three ten pm
on April thirteenth, at the busy retail mall, among the
busiest in the country and the center of activity on
a very warm autumn afternoon in Australia. Six people aged
between twenty and fifty five were slain in the attack,
five women and one man. Twelve additional people were hurt
(02:55):
and are still being treated at a hospital, among them
a nine month old infant whose mother was killed the incident.
The male victim, a thirty year old from Pakistan named
Farroz to Hear, was working as a security guard at
the shopping mall. The day following the attack, the Amai
Muslim Community of Australia said in a written statement that
Faraz had been in the country for less than a
year and was a quote cherished member of our community.
(03:17):
A witness captured video of numerous individuals running away from
the mall as Kouchi, brandishing a knife lunged at them.
In another video, a man was seen approaching the assailant
on a mall escalator while brandishing what looked to be
a metal pole. Kouchi was shot and killed by Inspector
Amy Scott, the first emergency responder to arrive on the scene.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanis told reporters that the officer was
(03:38):
certainly a hero and that many more lives had been
spared by her decisive action. Kouchi's family released a written
statement later expressing their shock at what happened on Saturday
and that they have no issue with Scott shooting their
son because the woman quote was only doing her job
to protect others. Investigators say the mall will be a
crime scene for days to come.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Since the weekend attack, many flowers have been left out
outside the now closed shopping center as a memorial to
the victims. Back in this country now, as authorities have
now announced that the two Kansas women who vanished while
traveling to Oklahoma to pick up children for a birthday
celebration are dead for more, we again turned to Sydney
Sumner with Crime Online.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
In making their announcement. Detectives have detailed a two week
long attempt to ensure the children's safety and prevent violence
in the process of apprehending four people on suspicion of
both kidnapping and murder. It was one day after the
four suspects in the case were taken into custody that
two bodies were found in a rural area of Oklahoma.
According to officials, twenty seven year old Veronica Butler and
thirty nine year old Jillian Kelly of Hugoton, Kansas, were
(04:41):
traveling through the Oklahoma Panhandle to pick up Butler's kids
for a birthday celebration in Kansas on March thirtieth. After
failing to show up, their vehicle was discovered abandoned on
a rural roadway close to the Oklahoma Kansas state boundary
later that day with signs of foul play. The Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation detailed an intense search for the
two women, along with the detective's efforts to ensure the
(05:01):
children's safety while arresting the suspects without violence. Hunter McKee
and OSBI spokesman stated that Butler and Kelly had died
and that the four defendants are accountable for the women's disappearance. However,
McKee said his department will not confirm that the remains
discovered belong to the missing Kansas women until the Medical
Examiner's Office has completed its report. Authorities in Oklahoma report
(05:23):
that they have taken into custody and charged four individuals
each on two counts of first degree murder, two counts
of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to conduct first
degree murder forty four year old Cora Twombly, fifty year
old Cole Earl Twombly, fifty four year old Tiffany Michelle Adams,
and forty three year old Tadburt.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Column Texas County Court Clerk Renee Ellis says that all
four suspects are being held without bond at the Texas
County jailed with a court appearance schedule to take place
before the end of the week.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Thanks John Gregory Peterson tells his family he's going out
to help an acquaintance who's having car trouble and leaves
their Cloverdale, California home when he's not home after several hours,
family reports him missing. Next day, Gregory's car is found
fifteen miles north of home on the side of the
highway on fire. No trace of Gregory. Gregory Peterson sixty two,
(06:16):
white bald, sixty three, two hundred pounds. If you have
info on Gregory Peterson, please call Sanoma County, California Sheriffs
seven zero seven five six five two one eight five.
For the latest crime in justice news, go to crime
online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.
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