Informant Recants Confession During Tyler McCain's Preliminary Hearing | Crime Alert 6AM 09.19.25

A friend of Tyler McCain who previously claimed McCain strangled his wife, Nikki, claims he made it up on the stand at McCain's preliminary hearing.

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
Testimony continues in a preliminary hearing for Tyler McCain, a
California man accused of killing his wife, Nicki McCain. Superior
Court Judge Thomas Bender is tasked with determining if the
murder case against Tyler will proceed. As of today, Nicki
is still missing and presumed dead. The Writing Police Department

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said Nikki last spoke to her family on May seventeenth,
before someone picked her up from a home in Redding
near the Wind River Casino. Her truck was also reported missing,
but police later found it a two thousand and two
Chevrolet Avalanche on May twenty fifth in western Tahama County.
During a check of Nicky's avalanche, the vehicle was put
up on a lift where investigators discovered blood pooled on

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top of the fuel tank. There was so much blood
some of it dripped down from the fuel tank. Shasta
County authorities reclassified Nicky's disappearance as a homicide and charged
Tyler McCain with the murder. Last month. Shasta County District
Attorney Stephanie Bridget said that Tyler McCain's motive had been
to keep Nicky, a mother of four, from testifying against
him in a domestic abuse case. On Wednesday, Tyler McCain's

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former friend, Albert Nelson, took the stand and stated that
Tyler admitted that he had killed Nicky after wrestling her
in bed then strangling her. On May eighteenth, twenty twenty four, Nelson,
who has an unrelated felony warrant, arrived at the Redding
Courthouse in shackles. Nelson previously told investigators that he thought
Tyler McCain had been taking met at the time of

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Nicky's death, and that Nicky had screamed I'm dying during
the scuffle. During his testimony, however, Nelson recanted and claimed
he fabricated the incident in an attempt to get out
of jail. He also admitted he was on drugs when
he made the incriminating statements against McCain. Nelson also previously
said that his sister saw Tyler McCain suspiciously driving the

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Avalanche during the time Nicky was last seen. Nelson told
the court that he lied about the incident. The preliminary
hearing is scheduled to conclude next week, a Florida man
was arrested after he allegedly chased and shot at a
man test driving a motorcycle in Lake County. Isaiah MacDonald
was charged with multiple counts relating to the incident, including

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aggravated assault with the deadly weapon, discharging a weapon into
an occupied vehicle, and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office said they were told by
the victim that he was test driving the bike when
he noticed a white jeep Cherokee following him closely and
behaving aggressively, prompting him to speed up and make multiple
turns in an attempt to evade him. At one point,

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the jeep's driver pointed a firearm out the window, and
the biker said he heard two gunshots. The writer identified
the driver as MacDonald, who he said was a childhood friend,
but that they hadn't been in contact in recent years.
The victim showed officers a text he received from MacDonald
after the incident, asking when's a good time to come over.
The writer confronted him about the incident, but MacDonald denied involvement.

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Police later located him and he again denied involvement. Investigators
say his story didn't add up, however, and they saw
a box of ammunition in the car. MacDonald consented to
a search of the vehicle, and deputies found more ammunition, drugs,
and drug paraphernalia. In addition to charges related to the
shooting incident, MacDonald also faces drug possession charges. MacDonald was

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released Monday on bond More Crime and Justice News after this.
Police and the Adirondacks are looking for a man they
say stabbed to his girlfriend over the weekend and fled.
Anthony Beaschond, fifty three, was last seen in Brighton, New York,
on Sunday. His truck was located later that day at
the intersection of County Route sixty in State Route eighty six,

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where it apparently had been sitting abandoned for hours. Amanda Rodriguez,
forty one, was found dead Sunday morning at the home
she shared with Beshond, a landscaper in Cohos. Police said
that Rodriguez's mother had not heard from her and sent
a friend to check. The friend found her body. Authority
said they believed the murder took place on Saturday and
launched a manhunt for the suspected killer, whose truck was

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seen at the home at that time. They put out
a call for tips Tuesday. New York State Forest Rangers
and US Border patrol are assisting in the manhunt, which
is focused in the Franklin County area where the truck
was found, which is about fifty miles from the Canada border.
Coho's mayor, Bill Keeler provided an update on the search.
Uniformed troop patrols are blanketing the area and BCI investigators

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are continuing to conduct interviews and search the area in
unmarked cars, so there is a full court press going on,
but there have been no sightings to date. Beshond is
described as nearly six feet tall and about one hundred
and eighty pounds with brown hair. Police say he may
be armed and is definitely dangerous, so anyone who sees
him should steer clear and call police. An eighteen year

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old Massachusetts man accused of making threats to shoot up
a school was released on bond Wednesday and sent home
to await trial. Concerns about Ian Fotheringham began in October
when he allegedly threatened to shoot up his former high school.
Last month, school counselors contacted investigators saying that the teen
wanted to shoot up a school and that he'd said
he was refurbishing weapons in his room, but when Falmouth

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police searched his room, they found no illegal guns. Safety
monitors again contacted authorities on September third, saying they'd seen
a man identified as following him behind t Ticket Elementary
School and that he appeared to be casing the building.
Authorities obtained a search warrant for the teen's entire home
the next day and found photos in a journal referencing
the Columbine High School shooting, as well as a large

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three D printer capable of making guns. Cape and Island's
Assistant District Attorney, Tom Flanagan said there are photographs that
police indicate were from the dark web, showing bloody victims
on the ground, to include the Columbine killers themselves. Fotheringham
was arrested on September eleventh, charged with threatening use of
a deadly weapon in a public building. Following a court
appearance on Tuesday, he was granted a twenty five hundred

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dollars bail and released. He was ordered to wear a
GPS monitor and not leave home except of legal or
medical reasons. For the latest crime and justice breaking news.
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