Uber Driver's Dashcam Helps Convict Her Killer | Crime Alert 05.14.25

Uber Driver's dashcam captures last moments begging for her life when passenger pulls a gun. Historic cannon destroyed...to pay a drug debt?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crimes now. Uber
driver Christina and Pezusa thirty eight, reported missing what she
does to come home after a shift. Her body found Monrovl,
Pennsylvania the next day, car abandoned in Pitcairn. Police investigate
a learned that a man named Calvin CRU's girlfriend ordered
Christina's last Uber drive. Dash cam captures the nightmare, which

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began just ten minutes into the ride.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Why Fortina, how are you today?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Christina greets Crew as he silently takes a seat in
the back of her car. Then Cru slides to the
center of the back seat and presses a gun to
Christina's head.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
You've got to be joking.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Keep driving.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
This is a gun.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Keep dravving. No, it's not stop.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Come man, I got a family.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
What are you doing to draft?

Speaker 4 (00:54):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Please stop?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Please?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
I'm begging you. I have four hans.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
What are you doing? Bar Crew forces Christina to drive
for over an hour as the mom of four begged
for her life.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Please call that offer me please, no.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Key drug.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Seeing everything will be.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
On police say. After Crewe tells Christina, quote just do
what I say and everything will be fine. He marches
her into the woods, then shoots her once in the head.
He will now spend the rest of his life behind
bars on murder one. Gordon pierced the third thirty seven,
bribes a homeless man with drugs to help him steal

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an eight hundred pound historic cannon Wichita why Peers needed
to pay off a twenty thousand dollars drug debt. He
plans to sell the copper in the cannon, so he
cuts the cannon into five pieces to sell the metal
for scrap. But Peers can't sell the copper because he
doesn't have a specific ID required to sell scrap metal

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in Kansas. Needless to say, When Peers takes the pieces
to his dealer's house's payment, the dealer is not happy. Terrify,
Pierce confesses to his mother and falls asleep. When he
wakes up, police are there. Gordon Pierce on a two
hundred thousand dollars bond for theft, aggravated criminal damage to property,
and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
More crime and.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Justice news after this.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Now with the latest crime and justice breaking nes crime
Onlines John Limley.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
In Michigan, a mistrial has been declared in the second
degree murder case of former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher
Suhr after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Shr was charged in the twenty twenty two shooting of
Patrick Leola, a twenty six year old black man and
Congolese immigrant, killed during a traffic stop. Police bodycam video

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showed Sure firing a single shot into the back of
Leola's head while attempting to make an arrest. The case
sparked weeks of protest in Grand Rapids and drew national scrutiny,
especially after the release of video evidence by police Chief
Eric Winstrom. Leola's father, Peterleolas, speaking through an interpreter, said
the family is heartbroken and vowed to continue seeking justice.

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Defense attorney Matthew Borgoula said most jurors appeared to favor acquittal.
There's no victory, he told reporters. A man died that matters.
The mistrial comes one day after three former officers in Memphis, Tennessee,
were acquitted in the fatal beating of Tyree Nichols, raising
new questions about accountability in cases involving police use of force.

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Prosecutors have not yet announced whether Sure will be retried.
A controversial execution in South Carolina is raising questions about
how it was carried out. Crime Online Sidney Sumner has details.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
On April eleventh, twenty twenty five, forty two year old
death row inmate Mikal Maddy was executed by firing squad
at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. Convicted
of the two thousand and four murder of off duty
police officer James Myers in Calhoun County. Matty had chosen
the firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, but a

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report by forensic pathologist doctor Jonathan Arden, retained by Mahdi's attorneys,
suggests the execution may have been botched. Arden's analysis, based
on a limited autopsy that included only one photograph and
no examination of Maddy's clothing, found just two distinct bullet wounds.
That raises concerns that one of the three shooters may
have missed the intended target over Maddy's heart, or that

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the target itself was misaligned. According to Arden, the result
was a prolonged death. He estimates Matty may have remained
conscious for thirty to sixty seconds, up to four times
longer than expected suffering intense pain from collapsed lungs, fractured ribs,
and a shattered sternum. South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesperson
Christy Shane said all three bullets were believed to have

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struck Maudy, with two entering at nearly the same point,
something seen before in training scenarios from the standar fifteen
foot distance.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Madi's attorneys argue the state failed in its duty to
carry out the procedure humanely and have submitted Arden's findings
to the South Carolina Supreme Court for review.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Thanks John. Stephanie Womack, fifty two, camping with her husband,
goes for a hike Table Rock State Park, Pickins, South Carolina.
When the husband leaves to get supplies. Stephanie spotted at
White Oak Campground six pm, then never seen again, wearing
a brown hoodie with the word with gap printed in
pink letters, jeans, black Tennis shias, five feet tall, one

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hundred pounds. If you have info on Stephanie Womax, please
contact Pickens County, South Carolina Sheriff's Office eight sixty four
eight nine eight five five hundred.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
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