Grisly Cause of Devastating Wildfire Revealed | Crime Alert 6AM 05.30.25

The cause of a devastating wildfire revealed to be an attempt to cover up a murder. This Nebraska man won't pass a Jedi background check!

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Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
Priscilla Castro thirty two meets a Victor Seratino, thirty three,
on a dating app and they agree to meet in Vaucaville, California.
After that day, Priscilla, a mother of a nine year
old little girl, stops contacting her family, stops answering her
cell phone, and stops posting on social media. Two days later,
her Mercedes C two thirty found abandoned on a vacable street.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Nancy. Investigators used Priscilla's cell phone records to determine her
last location was in a rural area of Solano County
near Lake Barriessa, where a giant wildfire is burning. It
ultimately torches over three hundred and sixty thousand acres.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Authorities find burne remains in a canyon recognizable only by
the angel pendant Priscilla War Police arrest Victor Serantino for
dumping Priscilla's body in the Putah Creek wildlife area and
setting her on fire to hide the crime. The burning
body in turn started the Markely Wildfire, burning over a

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quarter million acres. Seratino pleads no contest in Priscilla's death.
He's also found guilty for the death of Leon Bone
and Douglas May, who will die in the Wildfire. Seratino
sentenced to seventy three years to life behind bars. Aiden
O'Ryan White twenty five, first hits his neighbor's seven year

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old daughter with a three and a half feet long
metal and thick plastic lightsaber as she plays in the
front of her Auburn home. When mom, Sondra Lunzeman thirty seven,
confronts him, he yells at her then charges her, hitting
her on the right arm and shoulder. He's now charged
with two felony assault counts by star Wars lightsaber. More

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crime and justice news after this Now with the latest
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John Limley, the armorer convicted in the fatal shooting on
the set of the movie Rust, is now out of prison.
Hannah Gutiera's read was released from the Western New Mexico
Correctional Facility in Grants after completing her eighteen month sentence
for involuntary manslaughter in the twenty twenty one death of
cinematographer Helena Hutchins. She's now on parole and probation, which

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includes mental health evaluations and a ban on firearms. Gutierra's
reed was held responsible for bringing live ammunition to the
RUSS set outside Santa Fe, where actor Alec Baldwin was
rehearsing with a gun that discharged, killing Hutchins and injuring
director Joels Suza. She is appealing her conviction. Baldwin's charges

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were dismissed last year. The film finished shooting in Montana
and was released earlier this month. After nearly two decades,
a Georgia cold case sees a major break with the
arrest of the victim's husband. Here's Crime Online correspondent Sidney
Sumner with how investigators unraveled the mystery.

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In Douglas, Georgia, authorities have arrested fifty eight year old
John Warrel for the two thousand and six murder of
his wife, Doris Warrel. At the time, John claimed he
found Doris fatally shot at their business, John Sports Park
after returning from errands, and the killing was initially believed
to be a robbery gone wrong, but over time evidence
mounted pointing to John, who fled to Costa Rica with

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the families live in nanny Paola Yarberry, with whom he'd
been having an affair. In two thousand and eight, two
employees were briefly charged in connection to the killing, but
the case stalled due to lack of evidence. That changed
in April when investigators traveled to Costa Rica and spoke
with Yarberry, who was no longer in a relationship with Warrel.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, her new statements

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corroborated long standing suspicions that John Warrel wanted his wife
dead rather than risk losing custody of their children in
a divorce. Warrel was arrested in Mayrville, Missouri, waived extradition,
and is now in custody in Coffee County without bond.
Doris's sister, Leanne Tuggle, thanked law enforcement for their persistence,
calling her sister a devoted mother whose generosity may have

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been what ultimately led towards death. Authorities have not yet
determined who pulled the trigger. One previous suspect has died
and another is recently out of prison on unrelated charges.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Investigators say Yarberry is not considered a suspect.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Thanks John, mom, Deborah Garcia makes plans to celebrate her
son Benjamin reposed his seventh birthday at her boyfriend's home.
After work, the boyfriend goes to get supplies, leaving Garcia's
other daughters with Benjamin. The boyfriend returns and while he
and the girls are putting away groceries, Benjamin slips out
the door. Benjamin nonverbal, autistic, wearing only a white diaper

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decorated with a small spaceship and rocket figures. Benjamin never
seen again. A five thousand dollar reward offered for info
on his disappearance. Benjamin Hispanic meal, brown hair, brown eyes,
three feet tall, sixty pounds. He has a small scar
on the left side of his head a brown mark
on the right side of his head. He went missing

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in two thy nineteen when he was just seven. Now
he would be twelve years old. If you know or
think you know anything about Benjamin Ropose's disappearance, please call
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With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace