Spin Cycle: Wife Bashes Hubby w Bat, Tries to Wash Away Bloody Evidence| Crime Alert 6AM 10.16.2025

A wife is cuffed, accused of bashing her husband's head in with a Billy club. She's then caught red-handed literally trying to clean up the crime scene, in the washing machine. 

A therapist wife is busted for using AI in a poison plot against her estranged spouse. Plus, a catnapper fails to cash out on this impurrrr-fect caper!  Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
A grotesque domestic tragedy unfolded in Fort Pierce, Florida, leaving
a sixty four year old man dead from blunt force
trauma and his wife in custody after an alleged attempt
to destroy the evidence in a washing machine. Bonnie teaken sixty,

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faces charges of second degree murder and tampering with evidence
in the savage bludgeoning death of her husband, William Teakan.
Neighbors say the couple, who'd been married for forty years,
had a rocky relationship. Sue Roseman spoke to the media,
you really don't think something's going to go that far.
You know that it's as much as a drink and
all their whole history, it finally came to that, and

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it's I just don't think that's going to happen. Saint
Lucy County Sheriff's deputy swarmed the couple's Birch Drive home
around ten thirty pm after a welfare check was called
in by the couple's shocked adult children. Upon arrival, the
scene was damning. Deputies found Bonnie in the garage stand
near a washing machine, A blood soaked blanket lay on

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the concrete floor, and inside the appliance were blood drenched
clothing and towels. Teetkins was reportedly in the process of
pressing the start cycle on the machine, attempting a clumsy
cover up of the brutal crime. A trail of blood
droplets led from the garage through the living room to
a bedroom, where deputies discovered William Teatkins lying face down

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on the floor. He had suffered multiple severe head wounds,
consistent with being beaten with a billy club or a
bat a weapon. She later admitted using the severity of
the trauma confirmed he was beyond saving. The horror first
came to light though earlier that evening. After trying to
reach out to her adult sun by phone. Teatkins returned

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his call around nine pm, delivering a bone chilling confession.
She allegedly told him quote dad's dead end quote and
admitted to striking him with the wooden club. The traumatized
children rushed to the scene and contacted authorities. In custody,
teat Gins appeared intoxicated and offered vague statements claiming she

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had quote unquote, snapped and couldn't take it anymore end quote.
She also provided accusations that her husband had sexually assaulted
her earlier in the day. Official say the relationship has
been marred by past domestic incidents. Teatgins is currently being
held in the Saint Lucy Kenny Jail without bond as

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the investigation continues. For the latest crime and justice news,
follow Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcast app,
and you can also watch crime stories on Fox one
and YouTube. More crime and justice news. After this, a

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North Carolina school therapists sinister scheme to poison her estranged
husband with his favorite energy drink, guided by chilling chat
GPD searches for lethal toxins, has landed her behind bars
facing attempted murder charges. Parents whose kids attend Charlotte Mecklenburg

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schools are stunned and concerned. Sharonda Taylor spoke to w
SOOCTV news. Is it just the fact that he crossed
her the wrong way? And what if a child crossed
her the wrong way? Would she do something to that child.
Cheryl Harris Gates, forty three, was cuffed by Charlotte Mecklenburg
police on multiple felony counts attempted first degree murder, contaminating

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food or drink with intent to harm, stalking, and misdemeanor
property damage. Court docs reveal a calculated, months long plot
inside the couple's home where Gates allegedly turned to the
artificial intelligence chat bought to mastermind a deadly cocktail against
her spouse. From July to September, Gates used the AI

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chat bot to research for quote lethal and incapacitating prescription
drug combinations end quote that could be slipped into drinks
or injected. The arrest affidavit states her queries zeroed in
on poisons like oleander risin and foxglove plants, notorious for
stopping hearts. Investigators then found her workspace stocked with damning

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physical evidence, syringes, medical droppers, digital scales, a capsule filling kit,
and prescription medications, all allegedly purchased online to execute her plan.
Her husband, who was living separately at the time, suffered
two terrifying episodes of incapacitation on July twelfth and August eighteenth,

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after sipping his Celsius energy drink, which later tested positive
for a foreign controlled substance. Per the affidavit, he survived
without hospitalization and aided police by turning over the tainted
drinks and digital receipts linking Gates to the lethal purchases.
The poisoning charges followed Gates's arrest for stalking after she

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allegedly planted a GPS tracker on her husband's car and
smashed a window at his home. Gates, a pediatric occupational
therapist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, saw her staff profile yanked
from the district's website post arrest. She was initially released
on bond after the first arrest, but was denied it

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after the attempted murder charges. Gates remains in Mecklenburg County Jail,
held without bond as police scour her devices for further plots.
And finally, a West Hollywood, California drama just went full
takeout terror. Six year old Floky the Feeline was allegedly
catnapped by a rogue food delivery driver right off his porch.

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Surveillance video caught the perpetrator engaging with the below pet,
then stuffing him in the trunk of his Prius and
just speeding away. Owner Emir Eukrates was distraught, offering a
high stakes one thousand dollars reward for the safe return
of his meow missing baby. The shocking twist two weeks later,
the driver returned Floky to the station. A police station

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then audaciously tried to collect that hefty reward. Emir spoke
to Fox eleven News, they like almost like, you know,
one of those movies where they kidnapped first, then they
asked the money later on, like this, it's unbelievable. Emir
refused to pay the alleged ransom. Now the West Hollywood
Sheriff's Department is serving up a feline felony investigation. This

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was one delivery that definitely wasn't perfectly executed, and now
the driver is facing a massive tip of jail time
instead of a payout. For the latest crime and justice news,
follow the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast
app with this Crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould, the