March 5, 2024 • 40 mins
Denisse Oleas-Arancibia has not been in touch with her son and is worried something has happened.
As her son reports her missing in Queens, where she lives, the front desk at the SoHo 54 Hotel on Watts Street is being asked to perform a wellness check on one of their guests. Despite a "do not disturb" sign on the door, a hotel employee entered the room and saw the 38-year-old Oleas-Arancibia lying covered with a blanket. She looked like she was resting so the employee quickly backed out of the room and reported to the front desk that the guest was sleeping.
Police, following up on the missing person report filed by her son, end up at the SoHo 54 Hotel in Manhattan. It is around 10:30 a.m. when a maid enters the room and realizes that Denisse Oleas-Arancibia is not sleeping, but rather, the blanket has been used to cover the body of a woman who has been beaten to death.
Police arrive at room 1190 on the 11th floor of the SoHo 54 Hotel and find a bloody crime scene with evidence left behind by the possible killer. The victim has been beaten and strangled, and there are fragments of plastic embedded in her head and an iron covered in blood next to her.
Police catch a break when they find a pair of blood-soaked men's pants with a receipt.
Police find surveillance video of the man in the leggings walking through the lobby and immediately begin their hunt. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny says police have video of the woman arriving at the location wearing a distinct pair of leggings and later on a male, leaving the hotel wearing the same leggings. And of course, the male pants covered in blood left behind in the hotel room
Investigators say they can track the suspect's movements through the victim's credit card and MetroCard the suspect allegedly stole and is using. As investigators are identifying their suspect in New York, Arizona Police have their hands full with a one-man crime wave.
On February 17, in Phoenix, Arizona, an attempted carjacking and stabbing happen. The next morning, February 18 at 8:30 a.m. in Surprise Arizona, a man goes into a McDonald's women's restroom, crawls under a stall door, and threatens a McDonald's employee with a gun. She screams and he stabs her several times before fleeing the facility.
Police arrive at the McDonalds in Surprise Arizona but the suspect has fled on foot. Employees get out a good description of the man and in a matter of minutes, someone matching his description steals a car. Surprise, Phoenix, and Scottsdale
Police are all alerted and looking for the stolen car when the Scottsdale Police see the vehicle and get a good look at the suspect driving. He is pulled over and police take 26-year-old Raad Almansoori into custody.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- James Shelnutt – Attorney – The Shelnutt Law Firm, P.C.; 27-year Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective and Former S.W.A.T. Officer; X: @ShelnuttLawFirm
- Caryn L. Stark – Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych/FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Tom Smith - Former NYPD Detective, Co-Host of the "GOLD SHIELDS" Podcast; FB & Instagram: @thegoldshieldshow
- Dr. Howard Robin - Forensic Pathologist, LJ Pathology Consultants
- Joe Hutchison - (NYC) News Reporter for DailyMail.com; X: @JoeHutchison_
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Crime Stories with Nancy Greece.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Have you ever stayed in a hotel and the cleaners
come while you're still in there and they knock on
the door or just come in, and then they leave
and wait for you to get out. Let me tell
you what happened at the Soho fifty four hotel.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The cleaners go in the room.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
There's a do not disturb sign on the door, but
it's been there for a while, So the maid goes
in and she sees a lady sleeping, or so she thinks.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
being with us here at Crime Stories and on Serious
(01:01):
XM one eleven. Take a listen to our friend Dave
Mack at Crime Online.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
At the Soho fifty four hotel, a hotel maid goes
into room eleven oh nine, even though there is a
do not disturb sign hanging on the door. The maid
walks in and sees what she thinks is a person
asleep under a blanket. She quickly quietly backs out of
the room and reports to the manager what she has seen,
a woman asleep under a blanket.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All of you legal legals know full well what's coming next.
Joining me in All Star Panelty makes sense of what
we know right now. But first I want to go
to investigative reporter for dailymail dot com Joe Hutchinson joining
us out of this jurisdiction in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Joe, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So it's my understanding that about the time the first
maid goes into room eleven o nine, the staff, the
hotel staff of Soho twenty four in the lobby sees
something that they believed to be very unusual. What did
(02:11):
they observe In the lobby of SOHO fifty four?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Hotel staff observed a man wearing leggings, women's leggings walking
through the hotel lobby exiting the building.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And that alone, a man wearing leggings would not pique
my interest at all. But what was unusual about this
man wearing leggings.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I think the CCTV shoode you can Kenny see it.
So it's very strange, it's not it's very outsetting off them.
And then also I'm aware that hotel staff phoned men's
trousers in the room.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Joe Hutchinson joining us from dailymil dot com.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You're absolutely correct. There is something very off putting about that.
Look at it, shell nutt you're not just a high
profile lawyer joining us.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
From the shell Nut firm.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You are twenty seven years on Metro major case.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There's something very wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Let's just say they're way too tight and too many
crevices on this guy.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It doesn't match.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's dressed like it's got on a windbreaker and a
clue neck sweater. He's wearing a hat, shoes, but then
he's wearing these incredibly thin, ill fitting, super tight tights,
(03:35):
almost see throwable tights. It doesn't fit together. Any trained
observer would think, okay, that's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Shell Nut.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
So you know this is something that absolutely catch your attention.
It's something where you would have to wonder, is this
person you know mentally all there is this person under
the influence of some type of alcohol or drugs. You know,
what will cause this person to dress like this? And
it's certainly going to be something that would assertation because
it is outside the normal of what you would see.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Tom Smith joining me former NYPD detective now co hosts
gold Shields podcast. Tom the guy may look odd in
the let me just say, ill fitting ladies ties, but
he's acting perfectly normally, So it's just a fashion felony
(04:24):
at this juncture. He's walking across the lobby in an
odd get up, but he's acting normally.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
And he's in New York.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
And through my thirty years in the NYPD, I've seen
some wild get ups walking around the streets in New York.
And if you're doing it in front of everyone and
acting normal and just walking, you're going to fit in.
You're going to look like everybody else, especially if he
doesn't do anything else to bring attention to himself, but
just walking. You know, he's taking advantage of what New
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York City has made up of, well.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Truer words never spoken. I raised the twins there for
several years before we moved, and this would have been,
you know, a day in the park with the guy dressed
oddly but acting normally.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Okay, So this is what I know. Back to Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Hutchinson, investigative reporter, dailymail dot com. They notice him walking by,
nobody thinks anything of it. Then either the same maid
or another maid goes back to room eleven oh nine.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
What happens?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So who in the room. They go into the room
and they find this woman on the floor covering on
a blanket, and they also find a broken iron, and
we believe that the ions can be bloodied as well.
And then obviously police are called to the scene.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Wait, I believe, sir, you are missing a very critical clue. Yes,
they see the sleeping woman and of course I'm using
air quotes still asleep under a blanket, which I'm gonna
circle back to Tom Smith and Karen Stark and doctor
Hamward Robin about staging a crime scene. They find the
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woman asleep under a blanket. They find, correctly is Joe
Hutchinson described a broken iron, not a curling iron, an
iron that you iron closed, used to iron closed, a
broken iron with blood on it. And they find one
(06:34):
more thing next to the body, Joe Hutchinson.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
What man'sses that also bloodsteins?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Very important critical fact. Man's trousers covered in blood. Uh,
correct me if I'm wrong, Tom Smith. But two plus
two still.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Equals four, right, Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So they've got the surveillance video of a I'm walking
out and kind of sheer women's tides and the rest
is dressed like a regular guy.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Then they find a.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Sleeping lady upstairs next to an iron and man's pants
covered in blood, and could you tell me the condition
Joe Hutchinson of the sleeping woman.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
She was found dead one post stroll into the head.
They've found pieces of plastic embedded in a scupe as well.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Pieces of plastic. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I wonder if that's plastic from the iron itself or
some other form of plastic.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Tom hutcheson.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Any inside information you could give me about the plastic
found embedded in the victim's head right over.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Not exactly one hundred percent sure where the plastic gets
came from, but now broken iron. Maybe there's been some
dislodged pikies left there were not sure yet not being
made clear.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The reason I'm asking is I want to go to
dot com. Howard Robin joining us from La Jolla, California,
San Diego, forensic pathologist at LJ Pathology Consultants. Doctor Robin,
thank you so much for being with us. This is
taking me back to my very first homicide I ever
tried in front of a jury.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And when I opened the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
File, the first thing I saw, and it shouldn't have
been there for anyone to see that opened the file
and could look over my shoulder was a polar autopsy photo,
and I remember as I prepped for the trial, going
to the morgue and saying, what are these?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I got on the inside of.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Her mouth, on her lips, and it was plastic because
she had been asphyxiated with one of those clear laundry bags.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And as she tried to breathe, she.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Inhaled the plastic bag so ferociously trying to live that
the plastic stuck to her mouth and the inside of
her nostrils.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Plastic on the victim's mouth.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now we hear doctor Howard Robin about a broken iron
with blood on it and the woman hit so hard
in the head that there are pieces of plastic embedded
in her skin and scalp.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
What's your opinion, doctor, She was.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Hit with an iron that has plastic mulling on the outside,
and it was her head was struck with such force
that the plastic broke off and embedded in her skull,
as described in the news reports.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm just trying to figure out how much force would
be required to actually break the iron.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
On this woman's head.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Only be able to say significant force. And it's not
uncommon for homicides to the secondary to blunt force trauma
to the head, and that it could either be from
an object such as an iron or blunt force trauma
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to the head can occur with fists or kicking, or
an individual throne to the floor or against the wall.
But in this particular case, you have the object, the iron.
The iron has blood on it, and in all likelihood
that was the object that caused the blunt force trauma
(10:46):
to the head and led to the bleeding, and the
bleeding led to blood on the trousers of the perpetrator.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You know, Karen Star is joining me in addition to
our other All Star panel guests, renowned TV and radio
trauma expert psychologists consultant at Karenstark dot com. That's Karen
with a sea, Karen.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The rage that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Must have accompanied this attack to be so angry and
so full of hate that you actually break an iron
on an unarmed woman's head.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Without a doubt. Nancy, this is such a disorganized guy
in pulsis. You can just tell them because there's a
lot about the scene that doesn't make sense. He bothers
to put on these types so he can walk around
in New York City and not be seen with bloody pants,
but that's evidence. And then he puts a cover over
(11:50):
the body, and that would lead me to believe that
he wants somebody to enter the room and think that
there's just a person sleeping there. And then this rage,
this horrible rage that's coming out and killing the person,
which leads you to believe that this is not the
first time he's done something like this. But it's so
(12:11):
impulsive and disorganized, it's pretty unusual, you know what.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It's reminding me of Karen Stark. And you were with
me when this happened. You know, my longtime friend and colleague.
Even though he's a defense attorney, he's a renowned defense
attorney in the California jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Daniel Horowitz, I do, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I was out in California and you were recovering it
for me with me here in New York when Scott
Peterson went to trial, and I had dinner with Daniel
and his wife, Pam. The next day or a few
days later, I got a call from Daniel Horowitz in
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police custody. His wife had been brutally murdered. Well, of course,
I need Daniel Harwitz had nothing to do with it.
It was a very bloody crime scene, and I was
talking to him privately. I was at work at hl N,
(13:16):
and I left the makeup room and was talking to
him on the cell phone and I said, well, Daniel,
just tell me anything you can tell me about the scene.
Was anything taken? I've heard no? And he went, just
one thing, my blue jeans. Daniel Horwitz is very thin.
(13:39):
He's about five seven or eight. And I remember I
felt a cold chill go down me because I thought,
why would the killer take nothing except your genes? Were
you wearing your jens and you were you wearing something
else and changed into your genes because.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Your clothes were bloody.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'm like, don't tell anybody those jeans are missing.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
For Pete's sake. Our crops are gonna think you did it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And change from the bloody clothes into the clean jeans,
and I I just faild to horrible heaviness. Why would
someone take the jens well? As it turned out, of course,
Daniel Horowitz, who was in deep, deep grief so in
love with his wife, We find out that the purp,
(14:33):
while he couldn't really squeeze into the genes that well,
was a very thin teen that lived in the neighborhood,
and because of a screw up in the mail, Daniel's wife,
Pam Vitale, had gotten info in the mail about hydroponic
pot farming, and that's what he, the defendant, was doing,
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and he had to murder her because he thought she
was onto it.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
See what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
My point is he left the scene in Daniel's blue
jeans because his clothes were so covered in blood. Do
you see what I'm saying, Karen Stark? Someone that is
so cold and calculated they know they've got to stage
the scene and change their clothes. Ron and hell DYLASKI
(15:25):
just f y, I go ahead.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
That he did this in the scene with Daniel Harwitz.
This kid did it just so that he wouldn't be discovered,
that he wouldn't he was willing to kill someone, actually
take a life, so he wouldn't be discovered by the
police that he was doing this with the farming. And
it's just it's somebody who has so much.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Read rage yes, rage, yes, but angry like a fox,
also wildly and cunning at the same time as a
blinding rage because he thought to stay he's just seeing,
I mean, shall not staging the scene. It could be
making a scene look as if the victim had committed suicide,
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wiping the gun and putting it into victim's hands. It
could be covering the body to make it look like
she's sleeping, so.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
There would be a delay in catching the perp.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Yes, no, yes, I agree one hundred percent. You know,
normally when someone stages a scene, okay, it is for
one of a couple of purposes. It's to throw off investigators,
whether it's in the initial investigation, or to give time
to escape. It can be for some type of perversion
that they have. It can be to shock the investigators,
to get some type of continued enjoyment out of this
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scene because the investigators or the people finding the victim
are so shocked by it. But yes, I agree that
staging the scene for this guy to have more time
to get away could be one. But there could be
several reasons also that he staged the scene as well,
such as such as such as getting some type of
sexual perversion out of this, such as trying to get
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a reaction out of the investigators who were to find
or look at this body. So it could be it
certainly could be, and likely was that he was buying
some time to get away, but it also could be
that he's getting some type of pleasure out of this
after he's already left.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know what, sometimes I think you and I have
been hanging around criminals too long if you think somebody's
getting off on beating a woman dead with an iron
and then wearing her leggings. But I'm not saying that
you're internally wrong. The story doesn't end there. Now, Remember
this is in New York City. Now, thank Arizona. Listen
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to our friend Dave Mack.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
At crime Online.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
A man wearing women's leggings is seen walking through the
lobby of the hotel as he exits onto the streets
of Manhattan, purchasing a plane ticket from New York to Arizona.
Rad Almansorry is in Phoenix, Arizona, when he stabs a
woman during a failed carjacking attempt on February seventeenth. The
next day, February eighteenth, around eight thirty eight, in surprise Arizona,
Almonsory attacks a McDonald's employee in a bathroom stall in
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an attempted rape, but she screams, so he stabs her
and flees the scene on foot. Police arrive and the
description of Almonsori has put out over police radios. In minutes,
a man matching his description steals a car Scott Stale
police see the stolen vehicle with Almonsori behind the wheel
and pull him over. Almonsuri has taken into custody. Read
his Miranda rights.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Joe Hutchinson joining us from dailymail dot com. Isn't it
true that as soon as this mother's body is found
under a blanket in Soho fifty four in Manhattan, police
try to track the suspect's movements through the victim's credit
cards and her Metro card.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yeah. Police informed those that part of the investigation was
treason has credit card usage which has been used through
the metal system. And after four days he puck just
the plane ticket to Arizona.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Guy is so cold, he brutalizes the woman. I'm sure
he raped her. Uh, then brutalized her, leaves her dad
wears her clothes, then he uses her metro card and
credit card.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Time stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
To Thomas Smith, former NYPD detective, host of gold Shields podcast,
which is awesome by the way, Thomas Smith explain to
everybody that doesn't have to take the subway every day.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What is a metro card.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
A metro card is basically a credit card for the subway.
It's you just swipe it. You have a certain amount
on your card that you can up, you know, by month,
and it's a simple swipe and you go through the
turnstile to get on whatever trade you want.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And you know, if you live there, you got to
know how to use a subway. My twins, David I,
all use a subway because you can either use a
subway or you can take a cab or a bus
that will take you an hour to get across town.
You might hoof it and get there faster than cab,
but the way to go as a subway. So how
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do they do it? Tom Smith, you're the former NYPD detective.
She the victim must have purchased the metro card with
a credit card because they can then trace it back
to her, or the perp could have used her credit
card to buy a Metro card.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
That's correct. That's a big part of the investigation, which
we'll get further into it. But the stealing and using
of the credit card is going to be a big
factor in this because then it ties them to the scene.
First of all, then it also gets him away from
the scene, and you know that is a big factor
in this investigation because they can back from the scene
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and then wherever he's going to end up. And the
purchasing of the airline ticket is his escaping method. So
all of that is going to come into play when
you start backtracking on the case to put him at
the scene.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So who is this woman? In order to solve a murder?
And I've tried cases where I did not know the
identity of the victim.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Very hard to do.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But at the same time all of this is happening,
the son of the victim is desperately trying to find
his mother. Take a listen to Sydney Sumner Crime Online.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Denise Olius Rncibia has not been in touch with her
son and he is very worried something has happened, as
her son reports her missing in Queen's where she lives.
The front desk at the Soho fifty four hotel on
Watt Street is being asked to perform a wellness check
on one of their guests. Despite a do not disturb
sign on the door. A hotel employee entered the room
and saw the thirty eight year old Olius or Incebia
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lying covered with a blanket. She looked like she was resting,
so the employee quickly backs out of the room and
reports to the front desk that the guest is sleeping and.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
More from Nicole parton Crime Online.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Police following up on a missing person report followed by
her son, end up at the Soho fifty four hotel
in Manhattan. It is around ten thirty am when a
maid enters the room and realizes that Denise oleas Ornsebia
is not sleeping under the blanket. The blanket has been
used to cover the bloody body of a woman who
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has been beaten to death. Police arrived to room eleven
ninety on the eleventh floor of the Soho fifty four
hotel and find a bloody crime scene with evidence clearly
left behind by a possible killer. The victim has been beaten, strangled,
and there are fragments of plastic embedded in her head
and an iron covered in blood next to her. Police
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catch a break when they find a pair of blood
soaked mince pants.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
The receipt to Tom Smith for an NYPD detective, host
of Goldshields podcast, Tom, I think it's a whole nother
layer of complexity, a whole another type of defendant that
can rape or murder a woman so brutally sneak out
wearing her clothes and then use her credit card and
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Metro card. And you know what it reminds me of.
It reminds me of Brian Laundry. After he takes Gabby Patito,
his fiance, out west, murders her, leaves her and dispersed
camping where nobody will find her.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But a pack of wolves.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Then he uses her van that she has completely redone
to in which to travel across country, her credit cards,
and her cell phone. I mean, I think every time
I would have picked up that cell phone, my hand
would have burned because he had just killed her.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Same with this guy Tom Smith.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Yeah, you know what, but a lot of times the
police work, we don't rely on criminals being smart, and
that makes our job a little easier sometimes. And you
have to think, you know, he's in a panic, he's
maybe thinking too much, and whatever's right in front of
him as an escape route, he's going to use the
same thing in the Gabby Potito case, whatever's there that
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he can utilize to get away from the scene, to
get out of New York as quick as possible. He's
going to use And that's not thinking intelligently. They're in
a rush, and they're under a lot of stress and
pressure to get away from that scene.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, whose fault is that? It's their fault for committing a.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Murder, Absolutely right, you know, And that's what I mean.
You know, we rely sometimes on criminals not being smart
and being not thinking something through and just being impulsive
with what they do.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Don't know all about that Smith, because he somehow masked
to allude NYPD and get on a plane hello and
get all the way out to Arizona. If he hadn't
started a one man crime wave out in Arizona, he'd
probably still be walking free right now.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So I don't know how dumb he is.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Oh he said, no, No, No, I didn't mean dumb. You know,
sometimes impulsive actions that they do after krime, the crimes
are are dumb, not the overall thought process of what
he is. Yes, I don't mean that by any stretch.
He's intelligent because he had a plan and he acted
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on that plan.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Let's see what this world class jackass did out in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Take a listen to Nicole parton Crime Stories.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
Investigators say they are able to track the suspect's movement
through the victim's credit card and Metro card the suspect
allegedly stole and is using as investigators are identifying their
suspect in New York. Police in Arizona have their hands
full with a one man crime wave on February seventeen
in Phoenix, Arizona, and attempted carjacking and stabbing. The next morning,
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February eighteen, at eight thirty am in Surprise, Arizona, a
man goes into a McDonald's women's restroom, crawls under a
stall door, and threatens a McDonald's employee with a gun.
She screams and he stabs her several times before fleeing
the facility.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
The guy is on the run for a Murdercaren start
and what does he did? Goes straight in the woman's
bathroom and try to rape another lady in Arizona. I
thought he went to Arizona to get away from the
murder he committed in New York.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
He goes straight to Arizona and tries to rape a woman.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Oh, he can't stop himself, Nancy, This is what he does.
This is a sexually motivated guy and clearly also motivated
by violence. So yeah, he may have run away so
he won't get caught, but he can't stop himself on
wanting to attack people.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's his m oh amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
He could not control himself long enough to get in
the clear.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, it ain't over yet.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
He tries to rape the woman in the stall in
the bathroom at McDonald's. He's foiled and he goes running
on foot. He actually gets away. Again, that's not the.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
End of the story. Listen to Rachel Bonnia.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
Police arrived to the McDonald's in Surprise, Arizona, but the
suspects has fled on foot. Employees get out a good
description of the man. In a matter of minutes, someone
matching his description steals a car Surprise. Phoenix and Scott
Steel police are all alerted and looking for the stolen car.
When Scott Steel police see the vehicle and get a
good look at the suspect driving, he is pulled over
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and police take twenty six year old rod Almassouri into custody.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Shll Nutt James Shell Knutt.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Before you're a high profile lawyer, which you are now
with the shell Nut Law Firm twenty seven years Metro
major case. This idiot killed murders a woman in New
York somehow it's away from police, using the victims Metro
card and credit card, buys a plane ticket. Hello, isn't
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there security at LaGuardia JFK and Newark?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That's a whole other can of worms.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
He flies, gets a ticket, probably with her stolen credit card,
flies to Arizona, and immediately starts committing violent felonies.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I mean, now, after.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Trying to rape a woman in a stall, he runs
from that crime and steals a car.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
He steals a car. I mean, I give up. I
just throw my nose in the air.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
No, this guy's a serial criminal. I mean, this guy
I would be wondering where he was at before?
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Is in New York?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, you're right, good point. How many other people has
he killed?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Oh? Exactly? New York may have New York may not
have been his first stop in his series of stabbings
and homicides.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Who is this guy? Where is he from? Joe Hutchinson?
Do we know where this guy is from?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
What we do know is that he seems to have
family in Arizona and one outlet in New York is
now spoke to one family member in particular, he said
it didn't sound like the greatest of our bringings. She
called him a misogynist from childhood and said he was
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also a bipolar of schizophrenic.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Well a minute, who called him a misogynist has half
the half, sister, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
She spoke to the New York filingers and said that
he used to exhibit delusions and that you've felt compelled
to kill his own pet sneak as well.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I'm now learning that he has three alleged assaults in
Florida and there's an ongoing investigation of him in Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
This guy's all over the map.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I'm not surprised he's committing all the felonies because he's
an animal, but I am surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Nobody's put it behind bars.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And I personally blame Tom Smith and James Sheilnett, who
were on the panel right now. But wait a minute,
wait for it, Wait for it, everybody, take a listen
to Rachel Benia.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Wait wait, swarted it once in.
Speaker 12 (30:18):
The police car and read his rights. Rod Alamassori starts talking.
He tells police about the attempted cardracking and stabbing that
he did the previous day in Phoenix. Police are surprised
because they hadn't had the chance to mention it to him,
But even before they make it to the police station,
he tells them they should google Soho fifty four.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
How many times I hope my twins are not listening
because I gave up cursing when they were born, having
worked for decades around Felons. Cops, you name it, you
get a pretty nasty mouth.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Okay, but how many jackasses have you heard say google it?
Google it?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Joe Hutchinson joining me investigative reporter dailymail dot com. Did
he actually tell the cops to google Soho fifty four?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
He did, Yeah, he told the police and Phoenix to
google the hotel that he was wanted for Homo Sade
and New York Say. And that is when police and
Phoenix contacted to the NYPD and told them we may
have someone of interest in the case.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, that's not all he told him. Listen to Nicole
part and Crime Stories.
Speaker 11 (31:46):
Police follow rod allmansory suggestion and google Soho fifty four
as they read about the unsolved murder and pictures of
the man walking through the lobby in women's leggings. The
police in Arizona have some good news for the police
in New York. Police have already identified Almonsory as their suspect.
Now they know where he is. However, being loquacious, Almonsori
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tells the police he thinks he may have hurt three
women in Florida.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
May have hurt three women in Florida.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm afraid to ask Joe Rotchinson, are there three more
dead women in Florida.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
We're not a hundred percent shure yet, but we do
know that last April he kidnapped and sexually assaulted sex
worker and was we believed Jale for it before he
PD's bill in September last year, which allowed him the
ability to travel and to go up to New York,
New York.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Say, take a listen to Joseph Kinney, Chief of Detectives
in YPD.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
He has been previously arrested in Florida, Texas, and Arizona.
His most notable out of state arrests include in April
twenty twenty three arrest in Sultner County, Florida, where he
kidnapped and sexually assaulted a female. He was arrested on
that charge and later posted his ball his own bail
on that charge in September of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
You know what that tells me, James shell Knutt. He
posted his own baill. He kidnapped and sex assaulted.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
A woman, and he got a low bail. He could
post his own ball from the jail. Somebody let him walk,
schell Nutt.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Of course they did. They let him walk, and they
gave him a license to do it again. Someone should
be ashamed of letting this animal back out on the street.
Is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We are learning more from Joseph Kinney, Chief of Detectives, NYPD.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Listen.
Speaker 13 (33:34):
On February seventeenth, twenty twenty four, just nine days after
our victim was discovered in New York City, he committed
a nine point cardjacking in Phoenix, Arizona, where he stabbed
his female victim.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
He managed to.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
Escape that scene. The very next day, in Surprise, Arizona,
he dragged a female employee of a McDonald's into the
ladies room, held her against her will, and stabbed her
several times. This time, he did not escaped Arizona law enforcement.
He was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, while driving a stolen car.
While in the custody of Arizona law enforcement, he informs
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them that he is wanted for homicide in New York
City and tells the cops that they should google Soulho
fifty four hotel.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We're learning from a Chief of Detectives, Joseph Kenney, more
about the investigation that stopped a one man crime wave
for now unless some moron lets him out on bail.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Listen.
Speaker 13 (34:29):
In addition to the alerts the NYPD had put on,
the subject called Arizona authorities to contact us. We are
currently working with our partners in the Manhattan District Attorney's
Office to arrange extradition back to New York City so
he could be charged for the homicide here. We are
also working with the FBI and their Violent Criminal Apprehension
Program to explore the possibility of discovering additional victims. As
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a subject told Arizona cops that he hurt three additional
girls in Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And Chief Kenny lays out.
Speaker 13 (35:00):
The timeline is On January twenty sixth, he purchases a
plane ticket from Florida to New York on one twenty nine.
We know he has credit card usage in New York City,
so he arrived somewhere in that three day span. On
two six, he visits an escort in Upper Manhattan. Between
two seven and too eight, we have our homicide at
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the Soho Hotel. On two twelve, he flies back to Arizona.
On uh out of Newark Airport. Two seventeen, he does
the carjacking in Arizona. To eighteen, he stabs a woman
at McDonald's and subsequently arrested.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
If this guy had been apprehended on all of his many,
many other brutal assaults on women, this mother would be
alive right now, Joe Hutchinson, where does the case stand now?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
All?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Right now? I believe the new District Attorney's office has
sent an officer out to Phoenix to have a make
that they. I also believe that formal chilities are going
to be failed up today in Arizona. They may have
already been done by any over there from one hundred
cent show you. But then we were fooled yesterday that
the case, the exhibition case, could take weeks, it could
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take months. So we just have to wait and see.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Doctor Howard Robin, forensic pathologist. In a nutshell, could you
tell me what a neck compression ending in death means.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Well, the next compression could either be throttling where the
perpetrator used their hands in order to strangle the victim,
or it could be due to linkature. There's a difference
between strangulation and throttling. In strangulation, it's not necessarily one's
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hands that are used in order to put pressure on
the neck structures, but one could use a knee or
some other body part. But if this was manual strangulation,
they would find discoid lesions or thumbprints or fingerprints on
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the neck, but they're only observed in about fifty percent
of strangulations. If it was a ligature strangulation, they would
find a circular indentation around the neck. A ligature was
not found at the scene, more likely than not this
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was a throttling or strangulation of the neck, and the
important studies to perform would be dissection of the neck,
looking for hemorrhage in the muscles in the neck, as
well as fractures of the voice box, the larynx or
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of the hyoid bone, and then of course looking at
the eyes to see if there are small hemorrhages or
particial hemorrhages that would be secondary to obstruction of the
jugular vein that drains blood from the head and that
leads to these small hemorrhages in the conjunct titha. So
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additional information from the autopsy would help us understand what
this means. Compression of the neck all, it's more likely
than not that the strangulation occurred or the compression of
the neck occurred after she had sustained the head injury,
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and that's probably how blood then contaminated the pants of
the perpetrator.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Hearing renowned forensic pathologist doctor Howard Robin, and my point
in obtaining that explanation is this, many people think that
rage is a defense.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
It is not. Anger is not a defense.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Also, premeditation is required for a conviction on malice murder,
and under the law, intent malice can be formed in
the twinkling of a moment, the blink of an eye.
And for this defendant to have throttled or compressed the
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neck of this mother, this young mom, every millisecond he
held her by the neck is time to form intent
which equals murder. One not voluntary not involuntary. He needs
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jail for life or.
Speaker 14 (40:03):
Worse, Nancy, if I could jump in for just a moment.
This is John Lemley in the Crime Online newsroom. A
judge in Arizona has decided not to transfer Almonsouri to
New York to stand trial for the horrific killing that
took place inside a hotel there, So the twenty six
year old Almansori will stay put for the attempted stabbing
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murders there in Arizona. This according to a statement from
Court Commissioner Barbara Spencer. As of right now he is
behind bars without bond.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Goodbye friend,
Crime Stories with Nancy Greece.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Have you ever stayed in a hotel and the cleaners
come while you're still in there and they knock on
the door or just come in, and then they leave
and wait for you to get out. Let me tell
you what happened at the Soho fifty four hotel.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The cleaners go in the room.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
There's a do not disturb sign on the door, but
it's been there for a while, So the maid goes
in and she sees a lady sleeping, or so she thinks.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
being with us here at Crime Stories and on Serious
(01:01):
XM one eleven. Take a listen to our friend Dave
Mack at Crime Online.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
At the Soho fifty four hotel, a hotel maid goes
into room eleven oh nine, even though there is a
do not disturb sign hanging on the door. The maid
walks in and sees what she thinks is a person
asleep under a blanket. She quickly quietly backs out of
the room and reports to the manager what she has seen,
a woman asleep under a blanket.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All of you legal legals know full well what's coming next.
Joining me in All Star Panelty makes sense of what
we know right now. But first I want to go
to investigative reporter for dailymail dot com Joe Hutchinson joining
us out of this jurisdiction in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Joe, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So it's my understanding that about the time the first
maid goes into room eleven o nine, the staff, the
hotel staff of Soho twenty four in the lobby sees
something that they believed to be very unusual. What did
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they observe In the lobby of SOHO fifty four?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Hotel staff observed a man wearing leggings, women's leggings walking
through the hotel lobby exiting the building.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And that alone, a man wearing leggings would not pique
my interest at all. But what was unusual about this
man wearing leggings.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I think the CCTV shoode you can Kenny see it.
So it's very strange, it's not it's very outsetting off them.
And then also I'm aware that hotel staff phoned men's
trousers in the room.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Joe Hutchinson joining us from dailymil dot com.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You're absolutely correct. There is something very off putting about that.
Look at it, shell nutt you're not just a high
profile lawyer joining us.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
From the shell Nut firm.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You are twenty seven years on Metro major case.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There's something very wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Let's just say they're way too tight and too many
crevices on this guy.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It doesn't match.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's dressed like it's got on a windbreaker and a
clue neck sweater. He's wearing a hat, shoes, but then
he's wearing these incredibly thin, ill fitting, super tight tights,
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almost see throwable tights. It doesn't fit together. Any trained
observer would think, okay, that's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Shell Nut.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
So you know this is something that absolutely catch your attention.
It's something where you would have to wonder, is this
person you know mentally all there is this person under
the influence of some type of alcohol or drugs. You know,
what will cause this person to dress like this? And
it's certainly going to be something that would assertation because
it is outside the normal of what you would see.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Tom Smith joining me former NYPD detective now co hosts
gold Shields podcast. Tom the guy may look odd in
the let me just say, ill fitting ladies ties, but
he's acting perfectly normally, So it's just a fashion felony
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at this juncture. He's walking across the lobby in an
odd get up, but he's acting normally.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
And he's in New York.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
And through my thirty years in the NYPD, I've seen
some wild get ups walking around the streets in New York.
And if you're doing it in front of everyone and
acting normal and just walking, you're going to fit in.
You're going to look like everybody else, especially if he
doesn't do anything else to bring attention to himself, but
just walking. You know, he's taking advantage of what New
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York City has made up of, well.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Truer words never spoken. I raised the twins there for
several years before we moved, and this would have been,
you know, a day in the park with the guy dressed
oddly but acting normally.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Okay, So this is what I know. Back to Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Hutchinson, investigative reporter, dailymail dot com. They notice him walking by,
nobody thinks anything of it. Then either the same maid
or another maid goes back to room eleven oh nine.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
What happens?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So who in the room. They go into the room
and they find this woman on the floor covering on
a blanket, and they also find a broken iron, and
we believe that the ions can be bloodied as well.
And then obviously police are called to the scene.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Wait, I believe, sir, you are missing a very critical clue. Yes,
they see the sleeping woman and of course I'm using
air quotes still asleep under a blanket, which I'm gonna
circle back to Tom Smith and Karen Stark and doctor
Hamward Robin about staging a crime scene. They find the
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woman asleep under a blanket. They find, correctly is Joe
Hutchinson described a broken iron, not a curling iron, an
iron that you iron closed, used to iron closed, a
broken iron with blood on it. And they find one
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more thing next to the body, Joe Hutchinson.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
What man'sses that also bloodsteins?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Very important critical fact. Man's trousers covered in blood. Uh,
correct me if I'm wrong, Tom Smith. But two plus
two still.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Equals four, right, Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So they've got the surveillance video of a I'm walking
out and kind of sheer women's tides and the rest
is dressed like a regular guy.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Then they find a.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Sleeping lady upstairs next to an iron and man's pants
covered in blood, and could you tell me the condition
Joe Hutchinson of the sleeping woman.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
She was found dead one post stroll into the head.
They've found pieces of plastic embedded in a scupe as well.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Pieces of plastic. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I wonder if that's plastic from the iron itself or
some other form of plastic.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Tom hutcheson.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Any inside information you could give me about the plastic
found embedded in the victim's head right over.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Not exactly one hundred percent sure where the plastic gets
came from, but now broken iron. Maybe there's been some
dislodged pikies left there were not sure yet not being
made clear.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The reason I'm asking is I want to go to
dot com. Howard Robin joining us from La Jolla, California,
San Diego, forensic pathologist at LJ Pathology Consultants. Doctor Robin,
thank you so much for being with us. This is
taking me back to my very first homicide I ever
tried in front of a jury.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And when I opened the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
File, the first thing I saw, and it shouldn't have
been there for anyone to see that opened the file
and could look over my shoulder was a polar autopsy photo,
and I remember as I prepped for the trial, going
to the morgue and saying, what are these?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I got on the inside of.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Her mouth, on her lips, and it was plastic because
she had been asphyxiated with one of those clear laundry bags.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And as she tried to breathe, she.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Inhaled the plastic bag so ferociously trying to live that
the plastic stuck to her mouth and the inside of
her nostrils.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Plastic on the victim's mouth.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now we hear doctor Howard Robin about a broken iron
with blood on it and the woman hit so hard
in the head that there are pieces of plastic embedded
in her skin and scalp.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
What's your opinion, doctor, She was.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Hit with an iron that has plastic mulling on the outside,
and it was her head was struck with such force
that the plastic broke off and embedded in her skull,
as described in the news reports.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm just trying to figure out how much force would
be required to actually break the iron.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
On this woman's head.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Only be able to say significant force. And it's not
uncommon for homicides to the secondary to blunt force trauma
to the head, and that it could either be from
an object such as an iron or blunt force trauma
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to the head can occur with fists or kicking, or
an individual throne to the floor or against the wall.
But in this particular case, you have the object, the iron.
The iron has blood on it, and in all likelihood
that was the object that caused the blunt force trauma
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to the head and led to the bleeding, and the
bleeding led to blood on the trousers of the perpetrator.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You know, Karen Star is joining me in addition to
our other All Star panel guests, renowned TV and radio
trauma expert psychologists consultant at Karenstark dot com. That's Karen
with a sea, Karen.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The rage that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Must have accompanied this attack to be so angry and
so full of hate that you actually break an iron
on an unarmed woman's head.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Without a doubt. Nancy, this is such a disorganized guy
in pulsis. You can just tell them because there's a
lot about the scene that doesn't make sense. He bothers
to put on these types so he can walk around
in New York City and not be seen with bloody pants,
but that's evidence. And then he puts a cover over
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the body, and that would lead me to believe that
he wants somebody to enter the room and think that
there's just a person sleeping there. And then this rage,
this horrible rage that's coming out and killing the person,
which leads you to believe that this is not the
first time he's done something like this. But it's so
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impulsive and disorganized, it's pretty unusual, you know what.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It's reminding me of Karen Stark. And you were with
me when this happened. You know, my longtime friend and colleague.
Even though he's a defense attorney, he's a renowned defense
attorney in the California jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Daniel Horowitz, I do, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I was out in California and you were recovering it
for me with me here in New York when Scott
Peterson went to trial, and I had dinner with Daniel
and his wife, Pam. The next day or a few
days later, I got a call from Daniel Horowitz in
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police custody. His wife had been brutally murdered. Well, of course,
I need Daniel Harwitz had nothing to do with it.
It was a very bloody crime scene, and I was
talking to him privately. I was at work at hl N,
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and I left the makeup room and was talking to
him on the cell phone and I said, well, Daniel,
just tell me anything you can tell me about the scene.
Was anything taken? I've heard no? And he went, just
one thing, my blue jeans. Daniel Horwitz is very thin.
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He's about five seven or eight. And I remember I
felt a cold chill go down me because I thought,
why would the killer take nothing except your genes? Were
you wearing your jens and you were you wearing something
else and changed into your genes because.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Your clothes were bloody.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'm like, don't tell anybody those jeans are missing.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
For Pete's sake. Our crops are gonna think you did it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And change from the bloody clothes into the clean jeans,
and I I just faild to horrible heaviness. Why would
someone take the jens well? As it turned out, of course,
Daniel Horowitz, who was in deep, deep grief so in
love with his wife, We find out that the purp,
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while he couldn't really squeeze into the genes that well,
was a very thin teen that lived in the neighborhood,
and because of a screw up in the mail, Daniel's wife,
Pam Vitale, had gotten info in the mail about hydroponic
pot farming, and that's what he, the defendant, was doing,
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and he had to murder her because he thought she
was onto it.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
See what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
My point is he left the scene in Daniel's blue
jeans because his clothes were so covered in blood. Do
you see what I'm saying, Karen Stark? Someone that is
so cold and calculated they know they've got to stage
the scene and change their clothes. Ron and hell DYLASKI
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just f y, I go ahead.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
That he did this in the scene with Daniel Harwitz.
This kid did it just so that he wouldn't be discovered,
that he wouldn't he was willing to kill someone, actually
take a life, so he wouldn't be discovered by the
police that he was doing this with the farming. And
it's just it's somebody who has so much.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Read rage yes, rage, yes, but angry like a fox,
also wildly and cunning at the same time as a
blinding rage because he thought to stay he's just seeing,
I mean, shall not staging the scene. It could be
making a scene look as if the victim had committed suicide,
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wiping the gun and putting it into victim's hands. It
could be covering the body to make it look like
she's sleeping, so.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
There would be a delay in catching the perp.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Yes, no, yes, I agree one hundred percent. You know,
normally when someone stages a scene, okay, it is for
one of a couple of purposes. It's to throw off investigators,
whether it's in the initial investigation, or to give time
to escape. It can be for some type of perversion
that they have. It can be to shock the investigators,
to get some type of continued enjoyment out of this
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scene because the investigators or the people finding the victim
are so shocked by it. But yes, I agree that
staging the scene for this guy to have more time
to get away could be one. But there could be
several reasons also that he staged the scene as well,
such as such as such as getting some type of
sexual perversion out of this, such as trying to get
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a reaction out of the investigators who were to find
or look at this body. So it could be it
certainly could be, and likely was that he was buying
some time to get away, but it also could be
that he's getting some type of pleasure out of this
after he's already left.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know what, sometimes I think you and I have
been hanging around criminals too long if you think somebody's
getting off on beating a woman dead with an iron
and then wearing her leggings. But I'm not saying that
you're internally wrong. The story doesn't end there. Now, Remember
this is in New York City. Now, thank Arizona. Listen
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to our friend Dave Mack.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
At crime Online.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
A man wearing women's leggings is seen walking through the
lobby of the hotel as he exits onto the streets
of Manhattan, purchasing a plane ticket from New York to Arizona.
Rad Almansorry is in Phoenix, Arizona, when he stabs a
woman during a failed carjacking attempt on February seventeenth. The
next day, February eighteenth, around eight thirty eight, in surprise Arizona,
Almonsory attacks a McDonald's employee in a bathroom stall in
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an attempted rape, but she screams, so he stabs her
and flees the scene on foot. Police arrive and the
description of Almonsori has put out over police radios. In minutes,
a man matching his description steals a car Scott Stale
police see the stolen vehicle with Almonsori behind the wheel
and pull him over. Almonsuri has taken into custody. Read
his Miranda rights.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Joe Hutchinson joining us from dailymail dot com. Isn't it
true that as soon as this mother's body is found
under a blanket in Soho fifty four in Manhattan, police
try to track the suspect's movements through the victim's credit
cards and her Metro card.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yeah. Police informed those that part of the investigation was
treason has credit card usage which has been used through
the metal system. And after four days he puck just
the plane ticket to Arizona.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Guy is so cold, he brutalizes the woman. I'm sure
he raped her. Uh, then brutalized her, leaves her dad
wears her clothes, then he uses her metro card and
credit card.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Time stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
To Thomas Smith, former NYPD detective, host of gold Shields podcast,
which is awesome by the way, Thomas Smith explain to
everybody that doesn't have to take the subway every day.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What is a metro card.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
A metro card is basically a credit card for the subway.
It's you just swipe it. You have a certain amount
on your card that you can up, you know, by month,
and it's a simple swipe and you go through the
turnstile to get on whatever trade you want.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And you know, if you live there, you got to
know how to use a subway. My twins, David I,
all use a subway because you can either use a
subway or you can take a cab or a bus
that will take you an hour to get across town.
You might hoof it and get there faster than cab,
but the way to go as a subway. So how
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do they do it? Tom Smith, you're the former NYPD detective.
She the victim must have purchased the metro card with
a credit card because they can then trace it back
to her, or the perp could have used her credit
card to buy a Metro card.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
That's correct. That's a big part of the investigation, which
we'll get further into it. But the stealing and using
of the credit card is going to be a big
factor in this because then it ties them to the scene.
First of all, then it also gets him away from
the scene, and you know that is a big factor
in this investigation because they can back from the scene
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and then wherever he's going to end up. And the
purchasing of the airline ticket is his escaping method. So
all of that is going to come into play when
you start backtracking on the case to put him at
the scene.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So who is this woman? In order to solve a murder?
And I've tried cases where I did not know the
identity of the victim.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Very hard to do.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But at the same time all of this is happening,
the son of the victim is desperately trying to find
his mother. Take a listen to Sydney Sumner Crime Online.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Denise Olius Rncibia has not been in touch with her
son and he is very worried something has happened, as
her son reports her missing in Queen's where she lives.
The front desk at the Soho fifty four hotel on
Watt Street is being asked to perform a wellness check
on one of their guests. Despite a do not disturb
sign on the door. A hotel employee entered the room
and saw the thirty eight year old Olius or Incebia
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lying covered with a blanket. She looked like she was resting,
so the employee quickly backs out of the room and
reports to the front desk that the guest is sleeping and.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
More from Nicole parton Crime Online.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Police following up on a missing person report followed by
her son, end up at the Soho fifty four hotel
in Manhattan. It is around ten thirty am when a
maid enters the room and realizes that Denise oleas Ornsebia
is not sleeping under the blanket. The blanket has been
used to cover the bloody body of a woman who
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has been beaten to death. Police arrived to room eleven
ninety on the eleventh floor of the Soho fifty four
hotel and find a bloody crime scene with evidence clearly
left behind by a possible killer. The victim has been beaten, strangled,
and there are fragments of plastic embedded in her head
and an iron covered in blood next to her. Police
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catch a break when they find a pair of blood
soaked mince pants.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
The receipt to Tom Smith for an NYPD detective, host
of Goldshields podcast, Tom, I think it's a whole nother
layer of complexity, a whole another type of defendant that
can rape or murder a woman so brutally sneak out
wearing her clothes and then use her credit card and
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Metro card. And you know what it reminds me of.
It reminds me of Brian Laundry. After he takes Gabby Patito,
his fiance, out west, murders her, leaves her and dispersed
camping where nobody will find her.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But a pack of wolves.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Then he uses her van that she has completely redone
to in which to travel across country, her credit cards,
and her cell phone. I mean, I think every time
I would have picked up that cell phone, my hand
would have burned because he had just killed her.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Same with this guy Tom Smith.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Yeah, you know what, but a lot of times the
police work, we don't rely on criminals being smart, and
that makes our job a little easier sometimes. And you
have to think, you know, he's in a panic, he's
maybe thinking too much, and whatever's right in front of
him as an escape route, he's going to use the
same thing in the Gabby Potito case, whatever's there that
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he can utilize to get away from the scene, to
get out of New York as quick as possible. He's
going to use And that's not thinking intelligently. They're in
a rush, and they're under a lot of stress and
pressure to get away from that scene.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, whose fault is that? It's their fault for committing a.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Murder, Absolutely right, you know, And that's what I mean.
You know, we rely sometimes on criminals not being smart
and being not thinking something through and just being impulsive
with what they do.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Don't know all about that Smith, because he somehow masked
to allude NYPD and get on a plane hello and
get all the way out to Arizona. If he hadn't
started a one man crime wave out in Arizona, he'd
probably still be walking free right now.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So I don't know how dumb he is.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Oh he said, no, No, No, I didn't mean dumb. You know,
sometimes impulsive actions that they do after krime, the crimes
are are dumb, not the overall thought process of what
he is. Yes, I don't mean that by any stretch.
He's intelligent because he had a plan and he acted
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on that plan.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Let's see what this world class jackass did out in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Take a listen to Nicole parton Crime Stories.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
Investigators say they are able to track the suspect's movement
through the victim's credit card and Metro card the suspect
allegedly stole and is using as investigators are identifying their
suspect in New York. Police in Arizona have their hands
full with a one man crime wave on February seventeen
in Phoenix, Arizona, and attempted carjacking and stabbing. The next morning,
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February eighteen, at eight thirty am in Surprise, Arizona, a
man goes into a McDonald's women's restroom, crawls under a
stall door, and threatens a McDonald's employee with a gun.
She screams and he stabs her several times before fleeing
the facility.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
The guy is on the run for a Murdercaren start
and what does he did? Goes straight in the woman's
bathroom and try to rape another lady in Arizona. I
thought he went to Arizona to get away from the
murder he committed in New York.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
He goes straight to Arizona and tries to rape a woman.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Oh, he can't stop himself, Nancy, This is what he does.
This is a sexually motivated guy and clearly also motivated
by violence. So yeah, he may have run away so
he won't get caught, but he can't stop himself on
wanting to attack people.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's his m oh amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
He could not control himself long enough to get in
the clear.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, it ain't over yet.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
He tries to rape the woman in the stall in
the bathroom at McDonald's. He's foiled and he goes running
on foot. He actually gets away. Again, that's not the.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
End of the story. Listen to Rachel Bonnia.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
Police arrived to the McDonald's in Surprise, Arizona, but the
suspects has fled on foot. Employees get out a good
description of the man. In a matter of minutes, someone
matching his description steals a car Surprise. Phoenix and Scott
Steel police are all alerted and looking for the stolen car.
When Scott Steel police see the vehicle and get a
good look at the suspect driving, he is pulled over
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and police take twenty six year old rod Almassouri into custody.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Shll Nutt James Shell Knutt.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Before you're a high profile lawyer, which you are now
with the shell Nut Law Firm twenty seven years Metro
major case. This idiot killed murders a woman in New
York somehow it's away from police, using the victims Metro
card and credit card, buys a plane ticket. Hello, isn't
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there security at LaGuardia JFK and Newark?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That's a whole other can of worms.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
He flies, gets a ticket, probably with her stolen credit card,
flies to Arizona, and immediately starts committing violent felonies.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I mean, now, after.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Trying to rape a woman in a stall, he runs
from that crime and steals a car.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
He steals a car. I mean, I give up. I
just throw my nose in the air.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
No, this guy's a serial criminal. I mean, this guy
I would be wondering where he was at before?
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Is in New York?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, you're right, good point. How many other people has
he killed?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Oh? Exactly? New York may have New York may not
have been his first stop in his series of stabbings
and homicides.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Who is this guy? Where is he from? Joe Hutchinson?
Do we know where this guy is from?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
What we do know is that he seems to have
family in Arizona and one outlet in New York is
now spoke to one family member in particular, he said
it didn't sound like the greatest of our bringings. She
called him a misogynist from childhood and said he was
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also a bipolar of schizophrenic.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Well a minute, who called him a misogynist has half
the half, sister, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
She spoke to the New York filingers and said that
he used to exhibit delusions and that you've felt compelled
to kill his own pet sneak as well.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I'm now learning that he has three alleged assaults in
Florida and there's an ongoing investigation of him in Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
This guy's all over the map.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I'm not surprised he's committing all the felonies because he's
an animal, but I am surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Nobody's put it behind bars.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And I personally blame Tom Smith and James Sheilnett, who
were on the panel right now. But wait a minute,
wait for it, Wait for it, everybody, take a listen
to Rachel Benia.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Wait wait, swarted it once in.
Speaker 12 (30:18):
The police car and read his rights. Rod Alamassori starts talking.
He tells police about the attempted cardracking and stabbing that
he did the previous day in Phoenix. Police are surprised
because they hadn't had the chance to mention it to him,
But even before they make it to the police station,
he tells them they should google Soho fifty four.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
How many times I hope my twins are not listening
because I gave up cursing when they were born, having
worked for decades around Felons. Cops, you name it, you
get a pretty nasty mouth.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Okay, but how many jackasses have you heard say google it?
Google it?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Joe Hutchinson joining me investigative reporter dailymail dot com. Did
he actually tell the cops to google Soho fifty four?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
He did, Yeah, he told the police and Phoenix to
google the hotel that he was wanted for Homo Sade
and New York Say. And that is when police and
Phoenix contacted to the NYPD and told them we may
have someone of interest in the case.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, that's not all he told him. Listen to Nicole
part and Crime Stories.
Speaker 11 (31:46):
Police follow rod allmansory suggestion and google Soho fifty four
as they read about the unsolved murder and pictures of
the man walking through the lobby in women's leggings. The
police in Arizona have some good news for the police
in New York. Police have already identified Almonsory as their suspect.
Now they know where he is. However, being loquacious, Almonsori
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tells the police he thinks he may have hurt three
women in Florida.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
May have hurt three women in Florida.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm afraid to ask Joe Rotchinson, are there three more
dead women in Florida.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
We're not a hundred percent shure yet, but we do
know that last April he kidnapped and sexually assaulted sex
worker and was we believed Jale for it before he
PD's bill in September last year, which allowed him the
ability to travel and to go up to New York,
New York.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Say, take a listen to Joseph Kinney, Chief of Detectives
in YPD.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
He has been previously arrested in Florida, Texas, and Arizona.
His most notable out of state arrests include in April
twenty twenty three arrest in Sultner County, Florida, where he
kidnapped and sexually assaulted a female. He was arrested on
that charge and later posted his ball his own bail
on that charge in September of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
You know what that tells me, James shell Knutt. He
posted his own baill. He kidnapped and sex assaulted.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
A woman, and he got a low bail. He could
post his own ball from the jail. Somebody let him walk,
schell Nutt.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Of course they did. They let him walk, and they
gave him a license to do it again. Someone should
be ashamed of letting this animal back out on the street.
Is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We are learning more from Joseph Kinney, Chief of Detectives, NYPD.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Listen.
Speaker 13 (33:34):
On February seventeenth, twenty twenty four, just nine days after
our victim was discovered in New York City, he committed
a nine point cardjacking in Phoenix, Arizona, where he stabbed
his female victim.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
He managed to.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
Escape that scene. The very next day, in Surprise, Arizona,
he dragged a female employee of a McDonald's into the
ladies room, held her against her will, and stabbed her
several times. This time, he did not escaped Arizona law enforcement.
He was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, while driving a stolen car.
While in the custody of Arizona law enforcement, he informs
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them that he is wanted for homicide in New York
City and tells the cops that they should google Soulho
fifty four hotel.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We're learning from a Chief of Detectives, Joseph Kenney, more
about the investigation that stopped a one man crime wave
for now unless some moron lets him out on bail.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Listen.
Speaker 13 (34:29):
In addition to the alerts the NYPD had put on,
the subject called Arizona authorities to contact us. We are
currently working with our partners in the Manhattan District Attorney's
Office to arrange extradition back to New York City so
he could be charged for the homicide here. We are
also working with the FBI and their Violent Criminal Apprehension
Program to explore the possibility of discovering additional victims. As
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a subject told Arizona cops that he hurt three additional
girls in Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And Chief Kenny lays out.
Speaker 13 (35:00):
The timeline is On January twenty sixth, he purchases a
plane ticket from Florida to New York on one twenty nine.
We know he has credit card usage in New York City,
so he arrived somewhere in that three day span. On
two six, he visits an escort in Upper Manhattan. Between
two seven and too eight, we have our homicide at
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the Soho Hotel. On two twelve, he flies back to Arizona.
On uh out of Newark Airport. Two seventeen, he does
the carjacking in Arizona. To eighteen, he stabs a woman
at McDonald's and subsequently arrested.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
If this guy had been apprehended on all of his many,
many other brutal assaults on women, this mother would be
alive right now, Joe Hutchinson, where does the case stand now?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
All?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Right now? I believe the new District Attorney's office has
sent an officer out to Phoenix to have a make
that they. I also believe that formal chilities are going
to be failed up today in Arizona. They may have
already been done by any over there from one hundred
cent show you. But then we were fooled yesterday that
the case, the exhibition case, could take weeks, it could
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take months. So we just have to wait and see.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Doctor Howard Robin, forensic pathologist. In a nutshell, could you
tell me what a neck compression ending in death means.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Well, the next compression could either be throttling where the
perpetrator used their hands in order to strangle the victim,
or it could be due to linkature. There's a difference
between strangulation and throttling. In strangulation, it's not necessarily one's
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hands that are used in order to put pressure on
the neck structures, but one could use a knee or
some other body part. But if this was manual strangulation,
they would find discoid lesions or thumbprints or fingerprints on
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the neck, but they're only observed in about fifty percent
of strangulations. If it was a ligature strangulation, they would
find a circular indentation around the neck. A ligature was
not found at the scene, more likely than not this
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was a throttling or strangulation of the neck, and the
important studies to perform would be dissection of the neck,
looking for hemorrhage in the muscles in the neck, as
well as fractures of the voice box, the larynx or
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of the hyoid bone, and then of course looking at
the eyes to see if there are small hemorrhages or
particial hemorrhages that would be secondary to obstruction of the
jugular vein that drains blood from the head and that
leads to these small hemorrhages in the conjunct titha. So
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additional information from the autopsy would help us understand what
this means. Compression of the neck all, it's more likely
than not that the strangulation occurred or the compression of
the neck occurred after she had sustained the head injury,
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and that's probably how blood then contaminated the pants of
the perpetrator.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Hearing renowned forensic pathologist doctor Howard Robin, and my point
in obtaining that explanation is this, many people think that
rage is a defense.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
It is not. Anger is not a defense.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Also, premeditation is required for a conviction on malice murder,
and under the law, intent malice can be formed in
the twinkling of a moment, the blink of an eye.
And for this defendant to have throttled or compressed the
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neck of this mother, this young mom, every millisecond he
held her by the neck is time to form intent
which equals murder. One not voluntary not involuntary. He needs
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jail for life or.
Speaker 14 (40:03):
Worse, Nancy, if I could jump in for just a moment.
This is John Lemley in the Crime Online newsroom. A
judge in Arizona has decided not to transfer Almonsouri to
New York to stand trial for the horrific killing that
took place inside a hotel there, So the twenty six
year old Almansori will stay put for the attempted stabbing
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murders there in Arizona. This according to a statement from
Court Commissioner Barbara Spencer. As of right now he is
behind bars without bond.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Goodbye friend,
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