May 12, 2025 • 5 mins
Woman's remains located in a makeshift tomb under her boyfriend's staircase. Man attacked, robbed over pizza delivery tip.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace Breaking crime news Now. Family
reports twenty nine year old Alexis Shuler missing after days
no contact. Marilyn cos perform a search warrant at her boyfriend,
DeVante Gray's home and notice an odd smell. They blame
it on dirty conditions in the home. Then investigators review
neighbour's surveillance footage and see Gray bringing heavy construction materials
(00:23):
into the home. Second visit, they find a makeshift tomb
under his stairs, concealing a storage container with Alexis's remains inside.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nancy Alexis shared one of her three children with Gray,
and her mother says she warned her to be careful
around him, as she always had a feeling something was off.
Gray admits that he killed Schuler. Officers believed the murder
occurred during a dispute between the couple. Gray covered the
storage container in soil and hay before encasing it in
(00:57):
concrete underneath the stairs, then framed in the area and
put up drywall using fake bricks.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
DeVante Gray, thirty, now charged with murder. A man staying
in a Florida motel orders a pizza and is shot
when the delivery driver rolls her eyes at the amount
of tip and storms off. He brushes the incident off,
but late that night he hears someone bust through the
door of his room. Delivery driver Brianna Avello attacks him
(01:25):
with a knife while her associate, armed with a gun,
finds the man's wallet. The man calls nine one one
when they leave. Brianna Alvelo twenty two, captured charged with
attempted murder, kidnap, agasault. The cohort involves still unidentified, all
over a pizza delivery tip. More crime and justice news
(01:47):
after this Now with the latest crime and justice and
breaking news.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Crime onlines. John Limley in Minneapolis, a mass shooting believed
to be gang related has left four Native Americans dead
and a fifth wounded, rattling the city's Native community. Prosecutors
say thirty four year old James Dwayne Ortley was riding
in a car with the victims when he allegedly shot
each one in the head. Four died, including twenty eight
(02:17):
year old la Ross Francis Rainey. A twenty year old
woman survived and identified Ottley to police. Ortley, who has
alleged ties to the Native Mob gang, is now charged
with multiple counts of second degree murder and illegal possession
of a firearm. He's being held on two million dollars bail.
(02:37):
A second killing just hours later and blocks away may
have been retaliation. That case is under investigation. A handgun
found in Ortley's apartment matched casings from the scene. Les Robinson,
Rainey's father and a member of the Red Lake Nation,
said the.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Pain in the community is deep. A woman who vanished
from Wisconsin and more than sixty years ago has been
found alive and well in another state. We turned now
to Crime Online Sidney Sumner for more.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It was July seventh, nineteen sixty two, when twenty year
old Audrey Backberg disappeared from her hometown of Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
She was last seen hitchhiking to Madison and boarding a
bus to Indianapolis. For decades, her whereabouts remained a mystery
that changed earlier this year when Detective Isaac Hanson of
the Sauk County Sheriff's Office reopened the cold case. A
(03:31):
breakthrough came when Hanson discovered an old arrest record in
another state that matched Backeberg's birth date and social Security number.
Using genealogical research from Backeberg's sisters, ancestry dot com account,
and local records. Hanson traced the lead to a specific address.
A deputy in that jurisdiction knocked on the door, and
minutes later Hanson received a call. It was Bacheberg, now
(03:54):
eighty two. She confirmed her identity and explained she left voluntarily,
likely to escape an abusive relationship. She had lived under
the radar for more than six decades, building a new
life and avoiding contact with her past. Backberg declined to
reveal much about her life since leaving Wisconsin, but confirmed
she is happy and safe. While she has not decided
(04:14):
whether to reconnect with family, she now has the option
and the contact information if she chooses to do so.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
After sixty two years, the case is finally closed and
Audrey Beckelberg's family has the answers they thought they'd never receive.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Thanks. John Justin Corsi, thirty five, stops by gas station
Sail in Kentucky, speaks to an employee, but that December
conversation is the last time he spoke directly with anyone.
He was driving his grandma's vehicle at the time. A
month later, the car found abandoned eleven miles from a
paved road at a national forest in Utah that's twenty
(04:52):
two hours away from Kentucky. No activity on his bank
account or phone. This case CLASSI five as endangered. Missing.
Justin white, male, brown hair, brown eyes, five four, one
hundred and seventy pounds beard, last scene wearing glasses, burgundy
and gray striped shirt, gray carpenter pants. If you have
(05:15):
info on Justin Corsi, contact McCracken County Sheriffs two seven
zero four four four four seven one nine. For the
latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot com and
please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where
we do our best with your help to find missing people,
(05:36):
especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime of art,
I'm Nancy Grace,
Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace Breaking crime news Now. Family
reports twenty nine year old Alexis Shuler missing after days
no contact. Marilyn cos perform a search warrant at her boyfriend,
DeVante Gray's home and notice an odd smell. They blame
it on dirty conditions in the home. Then investigators review
neighbour's surveillance footage and see Gray bringing heavy construction materials
(00:23):
into the home. Second visit, they find a makeshift tomb
under his stairs, concealing a storage container with Alexis's remains inside.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nancy Alexis shared one of her three children with Gray,
and her mother says she warned her to be careful
around him, as she always had a feeling something was off.
Gray admits that he killed Schuler. Officers believed the murder
occurred during a dispute between the couple. Gray covered the
storage container in soil and hay before encasing it in
(00:57):
concrete underneath the stairs, then framed in the area and
put up drywall using fake bricks.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
DeVante Gray, thirty, now charged with murder. A man staying
in a Florida motel orders a pizza and is shot
when the delivery driver rolls her eyes at the amount
of tip and storms off. He brushes the incident off,
but late that night he hears someone bust through the
door of his room. Delivery driver Brianna Avello attacks him
(01:25):
with a knife while her associate, armed with a gun,
finds the man's wallet. The man calls nine one one
when they leave. Brianna Alvelo twenty two, captured charged with
attempted murder, kidnap, agasault. The cohort involves still unidentified, all
over a pizza delivery tip. More crime and justice news
(01:47):
after this Now with the latest crime and justice and
breaking news.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Crime onlines. John Limley in Minneapolis, a mass shooting believed
to be gang related has left four Native Americans dead
and a fifth wounded, rattling the city's Native community. Prosecutors
say thirty four year old James Dwayne Ortley was riding
in a car with the victims when he allegedly shot
each one in the head. Four died, including twenty eight
(02:17):
year old la Ross Francis Rainey. A twenty year old
woman survived and identified Ottley to police. Ortley, who has
alleged ties to the Native Mob gang, is now charged
with multiple counts of second degree murder and illegal possession
of a firearm. He's being held on two million dollars bail.
(02:37):
A second killing just hours later and blocks away may
have been retaliation. That case is under investigation. A handgun
found in Ortley's apartment matched casings from the scene. Les Robinson,
Rainey's father and a member of the Red Lake Nation,
said the.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Pain in the community is deep. A woman who vanished
from Wisconsin and more than sixty years ago has been
found alive and well in another state. We turned now
to Crime Online Sidney Sumner for more.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It was July seventh, nineteen sixty two, when twenty year
old Audrey Backberg disappeared from her hometown of Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
She was last seen hitchhiking to Madison and boarding a
bus to Indianapolis. For decades, her whereabouts remained a mystery
that changed earlier this year when Detective Isaac Hanson of
the Sauk County Sheriff's Office reopened the cold case. A
(03:31):
breakthrough came when Hanson discovered an old arrest record in
another state that matched Backeberg's birth date and social Security number.
Using genealogical research from Backeberg's sisters, ancestry dot com account,
and local records. Hanson traced the lead to a specific address.
A deputy in that jurisdiction knocked on the door, and
minutes later Hanson received a call. It was Bacheberg, now
(03:54):
eighty two. She confirmed her identity and explained she left voluntarily,
likely to escape an abusive relationship. She had lived under
the radar for more than six decades, building a new
life and avoiding contact with her past. Backberg declined to
reveal much about her life since leaving Wisconsin, but confirmed
she is happy and safe. While she has not decided
(04:14):
whether to reconnect with family, she now has the option
and the contact information if she chooses to do so.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
After sixty two years, the case is finally closed and
Audrey Beckelberg's family has the answers they thought they'd never receive.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Thanks. John Justin Corsi, thirty five, stops by gas station
Sail in Kentucky, speaks to an employee, but that December
conversation is the last time he spoke directly with anyone.
He was driving his grandma's vehicle at the time. A
month later, the car found abandoned eleven miles from a
paved road at a national forest in Utah that's twenty
(04:52):
two hours away from Kentucky. No activity on his bank
account or phone. This case CLASSI five as endangered. Missing.
Justin white, male, brown hair, brown eyes, five four, one
hundred and seventy pounds beard, last scene wearing glasses, burgundy
and gray striped shirt, gray carpenter pants. If you have
(05:15):
info on Justin Corsi, contact McCracken County Sheriffs two seven
zero four four four four seven one nine. For the
latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot com and
please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where
we do our best with your help to find missing people,
(05:36):
especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime of art,
I'm Nancy Grace,
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