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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Both
Cassie Ventura and Jane not her real name, testify they
were coerced in the Free Coughs due to Shawn Combs's
immense control over their lives and his propensity toward violence.
Will their stories be enough to convince a jury Combs
is guilty? With the latest on the Shawn Combs trial,
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our Drew Nelson Drew What's the Latest?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Nancy Jane Doe returning to the stand, Combe's most recent
ex girlfriend, testifying that she agreed to repeat it sex
sex with strangers to please him. She said she felt
like she was quote breaking all of her own boundaries
just to make him feel extremely loved. In the beginning,
she thought his requests were signs of trusts, she said,
quote I didn't want him to feel judged. She described
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hotel nights as carefully staged events, often set up to
mimic cheating. Combs would pretend to be out of town,
Jane would text an entertainer under his direction, asking for
explicit pictures and lirting with him after the encounter. Colmbs
liked to watch videos of it while having sex with Jane.
After the escort left. She said these nights became routine.
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Jane told the court the relationship hurt her income. She
said she earned only ten percent of what she could have. Still,
she admitted he gave her money and gifts, paid her rent,
covered expenses after they broke up, and invested twenty thousand
dollars in her fashion business. She says the total value
has been about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars over
three years. In twenty twenty three, during a trip to
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Turks and Kkos, Jane said he surprised her with another
hotel night, which led to an argument and a so
called love contract, in which Combs agreed to pay her rent.
In a voice message, he told her he loved her.
She replied, quote, everything just feels so good and I'm
so happy. She told the jury that it was true
at the time, except for the time spent with the entertainer.
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Defense attorney Tenny Yarrigoes pointed out that Combs had paid
rent for her for months in advance. Jane responded that
he use these payments to pressure her. She call to
ay quote little tool to keep her from saying no.
Jane said she felt overlooked like rapper Young Miami, whom
he was also dating at the time. He was seeing
Jane and Dana Tran, who ended up having his baby.
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Jane says she got less even though she gave much more,
including having sex with strangers. Jane said she only messaged
escorts when Combs told her to, refuting the defense's argument
that she had been the one to send texts to
the entertainers. In one case, she reached out to a
performer named Sly after watching his porn video with Comb's Later,
Sly blackmailed them asked to plan a date night. In
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a text thread, Jane suggested going out. Combs said he
was tired. They stayed in and had a hotel night instead.
She said she stopped fighting it, knowing it was the
only way to see him. She said she sometimes wrote
nice things about the hotel nights to keep him from
feeling rejected. She also offered to rewatch old hotel night
videos so he wouldn't ask for another live encounter. She
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called it her way to cope.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Thanks Drew more crime just his knees.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
After this, growing fears of a serial killer as a
young woman is found dead in the woods of Massachusetts,
marking the thirteenth unexplained death across New England since March.
The body of twenty one year old Adriana Suazo was
found at Milton, about eight miles south of Boston. There
were no signs of trauma. Her family said they don't
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know why she was in Milton. Suazo's death follows a
string of other disturbing discoveries across Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
and Maine. Since early March. Bodies have been turning up
in rivers, parks, woods, many found in remote areas. The
first body was found on March sixth and the Norwalk
River in Connecticut. That same day, a skull was discovered
near Route three in Plymouth, mass March nineteenth, dismembered remains
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found in a suitcase in Grotton, Connecticut. A body found
March twenty fifth in New Haven the next day. Another
recovered from the woods in Foster, Rhode Island. On April ninth,
unidentified remains found in Killingly. April twentieth, a body surfaced
in the Sea Konk River in Pawtucket. Between April twenty
second and twenty seventh, four more were found in Springfield,
Rocky Hill, Taunton and Framingham. On May thirtieth, the body
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was found at Edgewood Park in New Haven, Suazo. The
last body discovered two days later. A Facebook group named
New England serial Killer now has more than sixty eight
thousand members. One case that has drawn special attention was
that of Donald Koffel, who was arrested for killing one
of the women. He died in custody, Please say he
acted alone. A Los Angeles protester is now on the
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FBI's most wanted list for allegedly throwing rocks at federal
officers and damaging government vehicles during the violent anti ICE
demonstrations in California. Alpidio Rena h forty, is from Compton.
He faces federal charges of assaulting an officer and damaging
government property. The FBI has announced a fifty thousand dollars
reward for information leading to his capture. He's facing eight years.
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Protests in Los Angeles started on Friday after federal immigration
agents arrested one hundred and eighteen people across the Los
Angeles area at escal lated quickly after President Trump deployed
four thousand National Guard troops and seven hundred marines to
Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob
Bonta have sued Trump over the military deployments. Two women
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who ran a so called wellness company known to others
as an orgasm cult in New York are found guilty
of forcing their employees into unpaid labor and sex acts
under the guise of empowerment. Federal jury in Brooklyn convicted
fifty seven year old founder Nicole Daydon and forty four
year old Rachel Shrwitz of conspiracy to commit forced labor.
Both women led One Taste, a company that taught so
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called orgasmic meditation, which they referred to by the abbreviation
om OHM. They now faced twenty years each. One Taste
offered classes as expensive as sixty thousand dollars that claimed
to heal trauma and promote connection through OHM. The practice
involved a clothed person stroking a woman's genitals for fifteen minutes.
One former employee testified she was told to be open
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to OHM with anybody off the street. Witnesses also said
Daydon's boyfriend was routinely pleasured by staff. Another victim says
she was instructed to perform oral sex in front of others.
To reenact her own rate. Both convicted women say they
will appeal sentencing except for September.
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