August 11, 2025 • 33 mins
17-year-old honors student Noricia Talabert was dropping friends off when she got caught in the crossfire of a gang dispute and was killed. Her dreams of going to college and becoming a traveling nurse were cut tragically short. Police believed many witnesses saw what happened, but only one came forward with information. Would that be enough for a conviction?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This show discusses cold case murders and the people who
spend their lives fighting for justice. We hope to raise
public awareness and invite witnesses to come forward with evidence
that could potentially be investigated by law enforcement. We also
remind listeners that everyone has pursued innocent until proven guilty
in a court of law, and that an arrest is
not a conviction. Nothing in the podcast is intended to
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state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted
of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. Regina Talibert
will never forget her fifty fourth birthday, October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.
Her youngest daughter, Ursia, had surprised her that morning with
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a present of Laus and a bottle of perfume. Regina
remembers gently chiding her, telling her to save her money.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
ATOA, I say, sweetheart, you don't have to. Please, don't
spend your money on me. You getting ready to.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Go to college. Had recently been accepted to the University
of Central Florida and was planning to study nursing.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And she looked at me and gave put her arms
around me and kissed me on it. You tell me, mommy,
you know I love you. You're my favorite girl.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The next night, Saturday, October seventeenth, Regina was home with
her fiance and her granddaughter in Florida City, a town
in southern Miami Dade County. Narisia had borrowed her car
to go out to eat with some friends at a
restaurant in nearby Homestead. Regina knew her daughter wouldn't be
out too late, she never was, but she was surprised
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she hadn't checked in, especially since she had called Nursia
earlier to ask her to run.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
An errand I wanted her to go to calls and
pay my bill for me, because I was so glad
she started driving and I was thanking God. I say Lord,
she could handle a lot of my business for me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But Nourisia didn't pick up, and now she hadn't heard
from her, and that was unusual.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I'd call her, but she isn't like her not
to call me back.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Later that night, Regina did receive a phone call, but
not from Narisia. It was from one of her other children.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
My son was crying and I asked him, I said, well,
what's going on? And he said, Mom, you got to
come over to the alley and I said for what
And he said, Norsa, you got shot. So I say,
should I meet you to a hospital?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I didn't know where she got shot. I was thinking
maybe an almeda sun And he said, Mom, you need
to come to the alley. And I said, where's the alley?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The alley was a notorious block in Florida City, a
spot known for drug deals and sometimes violence. Regina, a
church going woman, wasn't familiar with the nickname, but her granddaughter,
who was only four months younger than Nourisia, knew exactly
what it meant.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And my granddaughter said, Nana, I know where it is.
So we got in the car and we went over there.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
A crowd had already gathered on Northwest eighth Court the alley.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And when I tell you, when I got there, all
I could see is lights from the police, the red lights.
I kind of went a little blind, like a little bit,
you know, I mean, my nerves just I was moving
in slow motion, constantly moving in slow motion. It was
so many people, and her friend was coming up screaming
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and hollering, and everybody was trying to console me.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Regina was in a daze. She tried to make her
way towards where her daughter was.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I got over there and the police is they wouldn't
let me go close to my car, and it just
was it was terrib I could see them taking my
baby out the car and they was working on her, but.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
There was nothing anyone could do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And then after a while, you know, I saw them
put the yellow that yellow cover over on her and
I just couldn't believe it. I mean, I can't really
describe that feeling, but it's a feeling that you will
always remember. Yeah, that's a plain. I don't wish shaw
any mother, our father.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Regina's worst nightmare had come true. Her considerate, responsible daughter,
her future nurse, Nourisia was gone. She was only seventeen
years old. From School of Humans and iHeart podcast. This
is Cold Case Files Miami. I'm your host, Enbriques Santos.
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The evening of October seventeenth, twenty fifteen, Miami Dade Police
Departments Severe Khan had already finished his shift as a
homicide detective. He was at the movies with his daughter
when he received a call that there'd been an incident
in Florida City.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Multiple people had called nine one one, so we all
responded to the location.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Detective Khan rushed to the alley where patrol officers had
already closed off the area. He was soon brought up
to speed. There had been a shooting. Three people, all teenagers,
had been in the car, Regina's car. Two of them
had been shot and one of them, Laurisia, had been killed.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We were informed that one person who had injury to
his arm, he was a gunshot wound to his arm,
was transported to one hospital, while the victim was diseased
on scene. When the victim was stopped, she had not
put her car in park, so when she gets shot,
her foot comes loose off of the brake pedal and
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her vehicle basically went into the field, went over a
curb and onto the roadway and then struck a tree.
That's where she came to stop.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The police began investigating immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Whenever we have a homicide like that, we're doing area
canvas and we try to talk to everybody who's in
that vicinity.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
They went door to door asking if they had seen anything.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And everybody said, you know, they didn't see anything. They
only heard gunshots. So basically that night up until the
next morning, we were not able to get anywhere with
our investigation. We had no leaves, we had no information
except that a vehicle had driven by and the shots
were fired from their vehicle. There was no other information.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Despite this, detectives were still able to piece together what
they believed had occurred that night.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So Lwizia Talbert happened to be there dropping off friends,
a female friend and a male friend who were in
the car with her. She had just gotten theirs and
while she was dropping them off, a boy came up
to her and he was talking to her through the
drawer side window. At that time, Basically, somebody drove up
and started shooting at them. Lurissia was not the target
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of the shooting. She just caught up multiple straight bullets.
The individuals that were being targeted were the people who
were at the location who lived in that vicinity.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Detective con spoke to the friends who were in the
car with Mauricia when this happened, but neither could offer
much information.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
One of the victims, she told us that she did
not see anything because she was looking down on her phone.
So we tried to ask her who was a victim
talking to or I don't know, I was looking at
my phone. Who was standing outside when you got to
the alley, Or I don't know, I was looking at
my phone. So everything that we asked her about the
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answer was the same, Oh, I don't know, I was
looking at my phone. The same thing goes for the
passenger who got shot in the arm. He said the
same thing, I don't know, I was looking at my phone.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Sergeant Cohn found this explanation dubious and it frustrated him.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
This was their friend, and she was there not for
herself but for one of them to drop them off,
and they were basically not giving us any information whatsoever.
That was really heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
As investigat continue to try to find someone who might
be willing to tell them what they saw. Detective Khan
went to speak with Regina.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I met her the very next day, the morning after
the shooting.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
He had some questions to ask her about Nourisia. But
he also had another reason for his visit.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
When we examined the victor's body, any kind of jewelry,
any kind of person belongings they have on them. We
have to retreat those belongers and give them to the parent.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
He bought all of her jewelry, her earrings, and the
things she had on her and her glasses that had
blood on it. That's the worst pain that I have
really experience in my life. I mean, I just can't
believe that baby was gone.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
If you're in Miami and you head south on the
Florida Turnpike, after about an hour, you'll reach Florida City.
It's a small town with flat, low slung buildings. In
twenty two twenty four, its population was around thirteen thousand people.
It's also the very last exit before you hit US one,
the highway that leads down to Q West. Most people
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don't stop in Florida City on their way down to
the Keys. It may share a county with Miami, but
it feels much further away. There's not a lot to do.
The entrance to the Everglades National Park is nearby. There's
also Robert Is here, the Tropical fruit stand, famous for
its Guanabana milkshakes and the claim of having the quote
southernmost purple Martin House in the Continental US. Nearby Homestead
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is a little bigger. There's a movie theater, a motor
speedway strip, malls, and tons of housing developments In various
states of construction. The area is quickly becoming more and
more suburban, but there's still plenty of open space and
not much shade, no ocean breeze to cool things off.
The sunlight here has a weight of viscosity. Everything feels slower.
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Florida City is the kind of place where people know
each other, where life is quieter, more peaceful. It's also
the kind of place where, depending on the kind of
person you are, growing up there might make you dream big,
want to see the world, or it might leave you
feeling bored, maybe getting yourself into trouble. By all accounts,
Laurisia was in that first category.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
She wanted to be a traveling nurse practitioner. She knew
just what type of nurse she wanted to be. Always
wanted to help somebody, so that was her passion.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Lurisia was the youngest of Regina's five children.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
She was born August nineteen ninety eight. She was my
baby daughter, my last daughter out of five kids that
I had.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
She'd always had a lot of interest. She stayed busy.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
She was always doing something. I had her always in something.
She was in ballet. She loved playing her pee. Anna
she loved it. She played a lot of different songs,
church songs. We was always going somewhere doing something in
the community.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
In the fall of twenty fifteen, Larisia was a senior
at South Dade Senior High School. She was well liked,
an honor student. She'd always taken her studies seriously.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
She told me, she said, Mommy, uh uh, I don't
play about my grades.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She was excited about going to college, and during her
senior year she got a job at McDonald's to help
pay for it and also to earn a little cash
for what was probably her favorite extracurricular.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Her main thing was shopping.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yes, she loved clothes. She loved the shop.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
She easily had over one hundred pairs of shoes with
She loved the shop.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But she deserved it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Anthony Britty, Laricia's oldest brother, was already in his twenties
when she was born.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
She was the baby out of five three boys and
two girls. It was a blessing because being me that
I don't have any kids. It was like Narisia was
my baby and I was so overprotected of her. When
I used to love to go and pick her up
after school every day, you know, and she always used
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to want chicken nuggets.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I'll never forget that. It was like my baby more
than it was my mother's baby.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
When Narsia was still little, Anthony got into some trouble.
In two thousand and three, he was found guilty of burglary.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I was incarcerated for unoccupied burglary and I ended up
getting twenty years.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
School pickups and chicken nuggets were now a thing of
the past, but Nursia would still call him regularly, and
his family would come to visit as often as they could.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I used to talk to her every day, every single day.
They used to come and see me, like at least
once every month.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The university Narsia was planning to go to was also
close to where Anthony was in prison.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
She used to always tell me, Oh, brother, I can't
wait till I'm able to come and see you on
my own and I get in school, which where I
was at the time was not too far from out
of Orlando, where she was going to attend school at.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But Anthony would never get those visits from his baby's sister.
He was still serving his sentence when he found out
she had been killed.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Well, I'll never forget that day when I was called,
when I was called to the chapel and giving this
bad news about her, and from there, I just, I
mean I just went blank from there.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That's the worst feeling I ever had. And I just
screamed like no, no, no, I couldn't believe it. So
it was really, really really hard on man.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Even right now today, I'm gonna be honest with you,
Even right now today, I have my little moment still
right now today, you know that I'll never go outway.
I know, like everybody always say, you know, that's your
mom's child. Was still that was my little sister.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Anthony couldn't believe Nursia's life had been cut so tragically short.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
She was just this lovable girl that everybody loved, you know.
I mean, she had a good life coming up, and
she was a sweet kid. She didn't have problems with
anyone or anything. Well, I'm the only one out of
all my mother's children that has ever been in trouble.
You know, we were not raised like that. She never
thought that she was better than nobody. We lived knowing that,
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you know, somewhat middle class out of town. But she
never thought that she was better than no one.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Every town, even small towns, has different kinds of neighborhoods,
and some are safer than others.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
There are certain sections in Florida City that are you know,
they're rough. If you drive in Florida City from US
one or the Turnpike, you're not going to the bad
areas of Florida City, but there are certain parts with
bad things happening, like shootings and homicide.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Lursia grew up in a safe neighborhood, but according to
the detective, con the street she was killed on, the
spot locals referred to as the alley, was a lot
more dangerous. Back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
The location where this happened was a common ground for
multiple shootings. There were some individuals that lived there that
had some sort of ongoing feud with another group. There
were a group of young men and women there were
basically fighting with each other, some arguing with each other
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or social media. Some were actually fighting in the streets
and shooting each other.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
As the investigation into Nouricia's death continued, detective consuspect that
she may have driven into the alley during one of
these disputes. He didn't have any evidence to back that up.
Not yet, but there had been so many people around
he felt certain someone must have seen something. So the
police kept knocking on doors, asking again if anyone had
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any information to share.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So we did that at least four times. We knock
on doors, every door in the neighborhood. We knock on
the door, Did you say anything to Did you hear anything? Yes,
I heard gunshots, That's all they would tell us. We
know there were gunshots, but tell us something more. We
went back with Norissa Flier twice again after that, you know,
to try to locate additional witnesses, but nobody called in.
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There was no information given.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Eventually, the persistence paid off.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
One of my colleagues spoke to an individual who said
that she had seen the shooting, but she did not
want to go on record. It took us a couple
of days of trying to convince her to help us
and give us more details, and she eventually did.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The woman shared a lot of information about the person
she said shot, Mauricia.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
She gave us his name, she gave us his nickname.
She gave us a description of the car that was involved.
She told us that she had known him since he
was child. So there was no mistaking him for anybody else.
So at that time we had started to basically corrobert
the information that she provided with other evidence. That's what
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basically narrowed down to this one individual.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
From that point on, the individual was a boy named
Christopher Walker. He was only fifteen years old. The witnesses
information was credible enough that the police were able to
obtain an arrest warrant for Walker. The problem was they
didn't know where he was. As far as they could tell,
he had left Florida City. But soon they got another break.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
We had tips from some people who were I guess
they were trying to be sympathetic to Regina and they
were giving this information that he was in New York
at one of his relatives apartment. So what we did
is we had reached out to Lewis Marshalls and they
were able to help us get his exact location.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
In December twenty fifteen, just a few months after Narsia
was killed, detective traveled to New York City to make
the arrest. He called Regina with the news.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It was four days before Christmas. I was in Orlando
and he called and he said, Miss Tolliberg good morning,
and I said good morning to him.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He said, guess what.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'm in New York and I said, oh, okay, to
take the con I thought he was calling me to
tell me that he was going away, you know, of vacation,
and he'll be back. So he told me. He said, no,
I'm not on vacation. I just want you to know
I'm here arresting Christopher Walker for the murder of Narisia.
And when I tell you, I started screaming and hollering.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Christopher Walker was eventually brought back to Florida and charged
with first degree murder.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Once we arrested Crystal Walker, I was I was very happy.
I was very hopeful that we'll be able to follow
through with this case.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
As the years passed and as Christopher Walker's case round
its way through Miami Dade's criminal court, the prosecution prepared
for trial, but early on it was clear they were
running up against some problems, particularly with the witness who'd
agreed to come forward. When she'd first come to Detective
Khan back in October twenty fifteen, she'd expressed some concern
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about speaking out.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
She was reluctant to go on the record, reluctant to say, Okay,
you know, I'll testify or I'll cooperate. She said, yes,
once was shot, but I'm not telling you anymore. But
she was afraid of retaliation. She said that she has
to live in Florida City and the person that she's naming,
you know, they have other family members who live in
Florida City and they might retaliate against her.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And in twenty nineteen, as the trial they finally neared
the witness who provided the crux of the evidence against Christopher,
Walker seemed less and less inclined to participate.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
She did not want to talk to they attorney. She
had been PENI multiple times. She was basically uncooperative.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Detective Cohn did his best to try to convince her
to help, but it seemed as if her mind was
made up.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I took her to say attorney's office and she was
extremely belligerent, just like all sorts of profanities. She was
very vulgar, very profane language that she used, and she
was just completely off the handle about wanting to cooperate
and testify in court. She did not want to do that.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Prosecutors still held out hope the witness would have a
change of heart that is until she went to give
her deposition where she was questioned under oath by both
the prosecutor and the defense attorney. It didn't go well.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
She just was vulgar throughout that deposition as well, and
I think she did that on purpose because she did
not want to be involved anymore. She just wanted out,
and it came to the point that the state attorney
decided that they could not put her on the stand.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Detective Cohn said that the witness never denied what she
had told police about what she saw the knight Noursia
was killed, but if she wasn't willing to testify to
this in front of the jury, the prosecution was hamstrung.
This exact scenario was, unfortunately, something Detective con had been
worried about from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
It became my concern immediately after my first interaction with her,
when she told me that she did not want to
be involved. It was a concern because I've had other
cases where a witness will initially help them. Down the line,
they'll change the mind, and that happens a lot often
than we want to. So it's a concern in almost
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every case, but in this case a lot more because
she was the only witness that we had, and without her,
we had no case.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Without this key witness, the prosecution was left empty handed.
So in September two thousand nine, team the case against
Christopher Walker for the murder of Narisia Talibert was officially dropped.
Whether or not he killed her or was involved in
her death, he was never found guilty. Being charged with
the crime is not the same as a conviction, so
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the question of who killed Nurisia Talibert is still un answered.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You know, it's unfortunately that the loss of life is
not valued.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It was a sad day, but Detective con remembers being
surprised by how calmly Regina took the news.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
She was disappointed in the process. She was disappointed that
that the wordness made this decision, taken this stance, but
she was I don't want to say she was okay
with it, but she accepted it. She was not as
upset as I had expected.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Her to be.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
And I think that that maybe because knowing that her
child was gone, no matter what I think, is what
helped her not react too much to that decision.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Regina may have understood this didn't change it anything about
Nursia's death. She was even sympathetic to the witness's fears,
but she was still devastated.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I felt angry because of the type of child she was.
I didn't get any justice. I felt like the system
let me down. You don't know what to think about
all this killing going on and nothing is being done about.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It, And four years of hoping for justice, plus the
grief of losing her daughter was starting to take a
toll on her.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I was breaking down. I was breaking down. I ain't
up on high blood pressure pills and I would cry
a lot. So I asked God to give me the strength.
I started praying more, trusting God more. God. Had he
changed my heart to truly forgive him? Because Crystopal was
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was but fifteen years old, and I am definite a
believe of Jesus Christ, and where I am today because
of Jesus. But for some reason, it stays here. It
don't go any place in my heart. Every day it
had breetay my heart. But I forgave Crystal bullets like
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I said.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I had to.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I didn't forgive him for him. I forgave him for
me to move forward. You know, I just wanted to
do it. For me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
In twenty twenty three, Detective con was promoted to sergeant.
He's no longer working than homicide, but even now he
can't get Nurysa's case out of his head.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
After having been in homicide. But I tried to distance
myself personally as much as I could, even though that's
not always possible. There's some cases that go home with you,
you know, and stay with you to this day.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
There are many things about the circumstances of her death.
He can't forget.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
It bothers me that the person walked away after killing
her for nouries.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
It bothered me because I have a daughter. I looked
at Neurisia and I thought of my own daughter being
in the wrong place at a long time. It bothered
me in that sense. It bothered me in the sense
that we had a witness. She was fully capable of
helping us, but she didn't. It bothered me that there
were people in the neighborhood who did not want to
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help us, and it bothered me that I could not.
I mean, I think we gave closure to Regina. That
was the biggest thing. Is we gave her closure in
the sense that we were able to close the case
by arrest, but justice was not served at the end.
We can try to separate ourselves, but at the end
of the day, we're human. Being a father is a
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little bit more personal when it comes to, you know,
a child's death.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Today, with no new witnesses willing to come forward and
testify about what they remember from that October night in
twenty fifteen, Nursia's case is at a and still it's cold.
It's Sergeant con still holds some small hope that one
day it might be soft.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
The homeside cases, they don't have a statute of limitation,
so it could be next week, it could be ten
years from now. Somebody has a change of heart and
they say, Okay, I was there and I saw this.
And our cold case detectives who are tremendous, tremendous asset
and they will do what they can to bring justice
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to Regina for her daughter's death. There will always be
somebody they're in cold case or in homicide, you know,
who will take over and do what they need to
do to bring justice for Nourisia.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
For Regina, a conviction isn't what she focuses on anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Even if he would have went the prison for the
rest of his life. It was not gonna bring her back.
You know, I go on trips and stuff and I
think about her. I say, now, why she's not here.
I do think of her all the time, and I
would trade places if I could to give her the
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life that she was always hoping for and wanted.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You know, Regina hasn't stopped mourning her daughter's death, and
that's never going to change.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I miss her during the holidays, I really do. I
would be in the kitchen cooking, and she always wanted
to take the sweet potato bowl that I mixed sweet
potatoes in after I mix all the potatoes up. She
loved coming in, you know, taking her finger. She will
always be in our hearts and thoughts and mind.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Her brother Anthony also does what he can to remember her.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
All we can do, you know, is try to keep
her memory alive, you know, like we're doing every year.
You know, since I've been home, every special holiday that
we have, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Her birthday, the day that she got.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
On Valentine's that I go and visit her grade, anything
that I could think of all the holidays for special
holidays of the year, make sure that I go and visit.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I visit her grade, take flowers and everything.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
In twenty nineteen, Anthony was released from prison early on
account of good behavior. He says that since he's been out,
he's changed his life around. He has a job with
the County Parks Department. He's working to set a good
example for his community, especially the kids.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
You know, I want to be a voice out there,
not only you know, for Norrisia, but for any for everybody.
All we could do, you know, is just leave it
in Gods and and continue to have brothers such as
myself to go out there in the community and you know,
spread the road, you know, because at the end of
the day, right now, more parents burying their kids now
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when the kids should be burying.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
The parents, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In helping his community, Anthony is following in his mother's footsteps.
In the years after Narsia's death, Regina started a nonprofit,
the Nursia Talibert Dream Foundation.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
After she didn't get justice, God laid on my man
to start a foundation in honor of her for young
ladies even though God took her from me.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Each year, the foundation holds an event called Peace in
the garden in memory of her daughter. She wants to
raise awareness about gun violence and the destruction it wreaks.
She doesn't want other parents or family members to go
through what she has. She also finds other ways to
help other young women in the Florida City area. Maybe
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they can accomplish what Nursia wasn't able to.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I did everything that she was doing at that time,
she was getting ready to go to college. I gilb
a couple of scholarships out palm dresses to young ladies
and families that can't afford it, shoes and jewelry, whatever
they use if they didn't have the money. So that's
what I did in honor of her.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
She also has opened up her home to kids in need.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I thought it would be nice, but my mental help
and my heart of passion to become a foster mother,
because I find out a lot of foster kids they
joined gangs, they hurt because they done lost their pinons,
and they embolved in a lot of things as well.
And I love what I do because I think about
her all the time. I think about her. That's why
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I do what I do.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And if you drive past Northwest Eighth Court in Florida City. Today,
there's another monument to Nursia, a physical one. In October
twenty twenty three, the street near where she was killed
was renamed Nursia J. Talibert Place.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
What it means to me with that street being named
I was in a store one day, Allen's Market, and
one of her classmates came up to me. I'll never
forget this, and he said to me, he said, are
you Ntersa's mother? I say yes. He says, She's the
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reason why I graduated. That's one reason why I did.
On the street because she has so many friends that
looked up to her. So I was thinking, the type
of little girl she was, it would be nice to
look up there and see her name, and that would
make him think, yeah, you know, I want to be
like Narsi. So that's what that street means to me.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If you have information to share on Larisia's case or
any cold case, please call her, send them a tip
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give a tip. Cold Case Files Miami is a production
of Iheart's Michael Dura podcast Network and School of Humans.
This show was written and researched by Marisa Brown. Our
lead producer is Josh Dain. Eteli Sperees is our senior producer.
Sound design and mix by Jesse Niswanger, factchecking by Savannah Hugley.
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Our production manager is Daisy Church. Special thanks to Julia
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This show discusses cold case murders and the people who
spend their lives fighting for justice. We hope to raise
public awareness and invite witnesses to come forward with evidence
that could potentially be investigated by law enforcement. We also
remind listeners that everyone has pursued innocent until proven guilty
in a court of law, and that an arrest is
not a conviction. Nothing in the podcast is intended to
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state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted
of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. Regina Talibert
will never forget her fifty fourth birthday, October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.
Her youngest daughter, Ursia, had surprised her that morning with
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a present of Laus and a bottle of perfume. Regina
remembers gently chiding her, telling her to save her money.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
ATOA, I say, sweetheart, you don't have to. Please, don't
spend your money on me. You getting ready to.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Go to college. Had recently been accepted to the University
of Central Florida and was planning to study nursing.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And she looked at me and gave put her arms
around me and kissed me on it. You tell me, mommy,
you know I love you. You're my favorite girl.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The next night, Saturday, October seventeenth, Regina was home with
her fiance and her granddaughter in Florida City, a town
in southern Miami Dade County. Narisia had borrowed her car
to go out to eat with some friends at a
restaurant in nearby Homestead. Regina knew her daughter wouldn't be
out too late, she never was, but she was surprised
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she hadn't checked in, especially since she had called Nursia
earlier to ask her to run.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
An errand I wanted her to go to calls and
pay my bill for me, because I was so glad
she started driving and I was thanking God. I say Lord,
she could handle a lot of my business for me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But Nourisia didn't pick up, and now she hadn't heard
from her, and that was unusual.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I'd call her, but she isn't like her not
to call me back.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Later that night, Regina did receive a phone call, but
not from Narisia. It was from one of her other children.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
My son was crying and I asked him, I said, well,
what's going on? And he said, Mom, you got to
come over to the alley and I said for what
And he said, Norsa, you got shot. So I say,
should I meet you to a hospital?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I didn't know where she got shot. I was thinking
maybe an almeda sun And he said, Mom, you need
to come to the alley. And I said, where's the alley?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The alley was a notorious block in Florida City, a
spot known for drug deals and sometimes violence. Regina, a
church going woman, wasn't familiar with the nickname, but her granddaughter,
who was only four months younger than Nourisia, knew exactly
what it meant.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And my granddaughter said, Nana, I know where it is.
So we got in the car and we went over there.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
A crowd had already gathered on Northwest eighth Court the alley.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And when I tell you, when I got there, all
I could see is lights from the police, the red lights.
I kind of went a little blind, like a little bit,
you know, I mean, my nerves just I was moving
in slow motion, constantly moving in slow motion. It was
so many people, and her friend was coming up screaming
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and hollering, and everybody was trying to console me.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Regina was in a daze. She tried to make her
way towards where her daughter was.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I got over there and the police is they wouldn't
let me go close to my car, and it just
was it was terrib I could see them taking my
baby out the car and they was working on her, but.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
There was nothing anyone could do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And then after a while, you know, I saw them
put the yellow that yellow cover over on her and
I just couldn't believe it. I mean, I can't really
describe that feeling, but it's a feeling that you will
always remember. Yeah, that's a plain. I don't wish shaw
any mother, our father.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Regina's worst nightmare had come true. Her considerate, responsible daughter,
her future nurse, Nourisia was gone. She was only seventeen
years old. From School of Humans and iHeart podcast. This
is Cold Case Files Miami. I'm your host, Enbriques Santos.
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The evening of October seventeenth, twenty fifteen, Miami Dade Police
Departments Severe Khan had already finished his shift as a
homicide detective. He was at the movies with his daughter
when he received a call that there'd been an incident
in Florida City.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Multiple people had called nine one one, so we all
responded to the location.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Detective Khan rushed to the alley where patrol officers had
already closed off the area. He was soon brought up
to speed. There had been a shooting. Three people, all teenagers,
had been in the car, Regina's car. Two of them
had been shot and one of them, Laurisia, had been killed.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We were informed that one person who had injury to
his arm, he was a gunshot wound to his arm,
was transported to one hospital, while the victim was diseased
on scene. When the victim was stopped, she had not
put her car in park, so when she gets shot,
her foot comes loose off of the brake pedal and
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her vehicle basically went into the field, went over a
curb and onto the roadway and then struck a tree.
That's where she came to stop.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The police began investigating immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Whenever we have a homicide like that, we're doing area
canvas and we try to talk to everybody who's in
that vicinity.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
They went door to door asking if they had seen anything.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And everybody said, you know, they didn't see anything. They
only heard gunshots. So basically that night up until the
next morning, we were not able to get anywhere with
our investigation. We had no leaves, we had no information
except that a vehicle had driven by and the shots
were fired from their vehicle. There was no other information.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Despite this, detectives were still able to piece together what
they believed had occurred that night.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So Lwizia Talbert happened to be there dropping off friends,
a female friend and a male friend who were in
the car with her. She had just gotten theirs and
while she was dropping them off, a boy came up
to her and he was talking to her through the
drawer side window. At that time, Basically, somebody drove up
and started shooting at them. Lurissia was not the target
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of the shooting. She just caught up multiple straight bullets.
The individuals that were being targeted were the people who
were at the location who lived in that vicinity.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Detective con spoke to the friends who were in the
car with Mauricia when this happened, but neither could offer
much information.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
One of the victims, she told us that she did
not see anything because she was looking down on her phone.
So we tried to ask her who was a victim
talking to or I don't know, I was looking at
my phone. Who was standing outside when you got to
the alley, Or I don't know, I was looking at
my phone. So everything that we asked her about the
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answer was the same, Oh, I don't know, I was
looking at my phone. The same thing goes for the
passenger who got shot in the arm. He said the
same thing, I don't know, I was looking at my phone.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Sergeant Cohn found this explanation dubious and it frustrated him.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
This was their friend, and she was there not for
herself but for one of them to drop them off,
and they were basically not giving us any information whatsoever.
That was really heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
As investigat continue to try to find someone who might
be willing to tell them what they saw. Detective Khan
went to speak with Regina.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I met her the very next day, the morning after
the shooting.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
He had some questions to ask her about Nourisia. But
he also had another reason for his visit.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
When we examined the victor's body, any kind of jewelry,
any kind of person belongings they have on them. We
have to retreat those belongers and give them to the parent.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
He bought all of her jewelry, her earrings, and the
things she had on her and her glasses that had
blood on it. That's the worst pain that I have
really experience in my life. I mean, I just can't
believe that baby was gone.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
If you're in Miami and you head south on the
Florida Turnpike, after about an hour, you'll reach Florida City.
It's a small town with flat, low slung buildings. In
twenty two twenty four, its population was around thirteen thousand people.
It's also the very last exit before you hit US one,
the highway that leads down to Q West. Most people
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don't stop in Florida City on their way down to
the Keys. It may share a county with Miami, but
it feels much further away. There's not a lot to do.
The entrance to the Everglades National Park is nearby. There's
also Robert Is here, the Tropical fruit stand, famous for
its Guanabana milkshakes and the claim of having the quote
southernmost purple Martin House in the Continental US. Nearby Homestead
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is a little bigger. There's a movie theater, a motor
speedway strip, malls, and tons of housing developments In various
states of construction. The area is quickly becoming more and
more suburban, but there's still plenty of open space and
not much shade, no ocean breeze to cool things off.
The sunlight here has a weight of viscosity. Everything feels slower.
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Florida City is the kind of place where people know
each other, where life is quieter, more peaceful. It's also
the kind of place where, depending on the kind of
person you are, growing up there might make you dream big,
want to see the world, or it might leave you
feeling bored, maybe getting yourself into trouble. By all accounts,
Laurisia was in that first category.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
She wanted to be a traveling nurse practitioner. She knew
just what type of nurse she wanted to be. Always
wanted to help somebody, so that was her passion.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Lurisia was the youngest of Regina's five children.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
She was born August nineteen ninety eight. She was my
baby daughter, my last daughter out of five kids that
I had.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
She'd always had a lot of interest. She stayed busy.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
She was always doing something. I had her always in something.
She was in ballet. She loved playing her pee. Anna
she loved it. She played a lot of different songs,
church songs. We was always going somewhere doing something in
the community.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
In the fall of twenty fifteen, Larisia was a senior
at South Dade Senior High School. She was well liked,
an honor student. She'd always taken her studies seriously.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
She told me, she said, Mommy, uh uh, I don't
play about my grades.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She was excited about going to college, and during her
senior year she got a job at McDonald's to help
pay for it and also to earn a little cash
for what was probably her favorite extracurricular.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Her main thing was shopping.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yes, she loved clothes. She loved the shop.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
She easily had over one hundred pairs of shoes with
She loved the shop.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But she deserved it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Anthony Britty, Laricia's oldest brother, was already in his twenties
when she was born.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
She was the baby out of five three boys and
two girls. It was a blessing because being me that
I don't have any kids. It was like Narisia was
my baby and I was so overprotected of her. When
I used to love to go and pick her up
after school every day, you know, and she always used
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to want chicken nuggets.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I'll never forget that. It was like my baby more
than it was my mother's baby.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
When Narsia was still little, Anthony got into some trouble.
In two thousand and three, he was found guilty of burglary.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I was incarcerated for unoccupied burglary and I ended up
getting twenty years.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
School pickups and chicken nuggets were now a thing of
the past, but Nursia would still call him regularly, and
his family would come to visit as often as they could.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I used to talk to her every day, every single day.
They used to come and see me, like at least
once every month.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The university Narsia was planning to go to was also
close to where Anthony was in prison.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
She used to always tell me, Oh, brother, I can't
wait till I'm able to come and see you on
my own and I get in school, which where I
was at the time was not too far from out
of Orlando, where she was going to attend school at.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But Anthony would never get those visits from his baby's sister.
He was still serving his sentence when he found out
she had been killed.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Well, I'll never forget that day when I was called,
when I was called to the chapel and giving this
bad news about her, and from there, I just, I
mean I just went blank from there.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That's the worst feeling I ever had. And I just
screamed like no, no, no, I couldn't believe it. So
it was really, really really hard on man.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Even right now today, I'm gonna be honest with you,
Even right now today, I have my little moment still
right now today, you know that I'll never go outway.
I know, like everybody always say, you know, that's your
mom's child. Was still that was my little sister.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Anthony couldn't believe Nursia's life had been cut so tragically short.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
She was just this lovable girl that everybody loved, you know.
I mean, she had a good life coming up, and
she was a sweet kid. She didn't have problems with
anyone or anything. Well, I'm the only one out of
all my mother's children that has ever been in trouble.
You know, we were not raised like that. She never
thought that she was better than nobody. We lived knowing that,
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you know, somewhat middle class out of town. But she
never thought that she was better than no one.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Every town, even small towns, has different kinds of neighborhoods,
and some are safer than others.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
There are certain sections in Florida City that are you know,
they're rough. If you drive in Florida City from US
one or the Turnpike, you're not going to the bad
areas of Florida City, but there are certain parts with
bad things happening, like shootings and homicide.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Lursia grew up in a safe neighborhood, but according to
the detective, con the street she was killed on, the
spot locals referred to as the alley, was a lot
more dangerous. Back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
The location where this happened was a common ground for
multiple shootings. There were some individuals that lived there that
had some sort of ongoing feud with another group. There
were a group of young men and women there were
basically fighting with each other, some arguing with each other
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or social media. Some were actually fighting in the streets
and shooting each other.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
As the investigation into Nouricia's death continued, detective consuspect that
she may have driven into the alley during one of
these disputes. He didn't have any evidence to back that up.
Not yet, but there had been so many people around
he felt certain someone must have seen something. So the
police kept knocking on doors, asking again if anyone had
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any information to share.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So we did that at least four times. We knock
on doors, every door in the neighborhood. We knock on
the door, Did you say anything to Did you hear anything? Yes,
I heard gunshots, That's all they would tell us. We
know there were gunshots, but tell us something more. We
went back with Norissa Flier twice again after that, you know,
to try to locate additional witnesses, but nobody called in.
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There was no information given.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Eventually, the persistence paid off.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
One of my colleagues spoke to an individual who said
that she had seen the shooting, but she did not
want to go on record. It took us a couple
of days of trying to convince her to help us
and give us more details, and she eventually did.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The woman shared a lot of information about the person
she said shot, Mauricia.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
She gave us his name, she gave us his nickname.
She gave us a description of the car that was involved.
She told us that she had known him since he
was child. So there was no mistaking him for anybody else.
So at that time we had started to basically corrobert
the information that she provided with other evidence. That's what
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basically narrowed down to this one individual.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
From that point on, the individual was a boy named
Christopher Walker. He was only fifteen years old. The witnesses
information was credible enough that the police were able to
obtain an arrest warrant for Walker. The problem was they
didn't know where he was. As far as they could tell,
he had left Florida City. But soon they got another break.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
We had tips from some people who were I guess
they were trying to be sympathetic to Regina and they
were giving this information that he was in New York
at one of his relatives apartment. So what we did
is we had reached out to Lewis Marshalls and they
were able to help us get his exact location.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
In December twenty fifteen, just a few months after Narsia
was killed, detective traveled to New York City to make
the arrest. He called Regina with the news.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It was four days before Christmas. I was in Orlando
and he called and he said, Miss Tolliberg good morning,
and I said good morning to him.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He said, guess what.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'm in New York and I said, oh, okay, to
take the con I thought he was calling me to
tell me that he was going away, you know, of vacation,
and he'll be back. So he told me. He said, no,
I'm not on vacation. I just want you to know
I'm here arresting Christopher Walker for the murder of Narisia.
And when I tell you, I started screaming and hollering.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Christopher Walker was eventually brought back to Florida and charged
with first degree murder.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Once we arrested Crystal Walker, I was I was very happy.
I was very hopeful that we'll be able to follow
through with this case.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
As the years passed and as Christopher Walker's case round
its way through Miami Dade's criminal court, the prosecution prepared
for trial, but early on it was clear they were
running up against some problems, particularly with the witness who'd
agreed to come forward. When she'd first come to Detective
Khan back in October twenty fifteen, she'd expressed some concern
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about speaking out.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
She was reluctant to go on the record, reluctant to say, Okay,
you know, I'll testify or I'll cooperate. She said, yes,
once was shot, but I'm not telling you anymore. But
she was afraid of retaliation. She said that she has
to live in Florida City and the person that she's naming,
you know, they have other family members who live in
Florida City and they might retaliate against her.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And in twenty nineteen, as the trial they finally neared
the witness who provided the crux of the evidence against Christopher,
Walker seemed less and less inclined to participate.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
She did not want to talk to they attorney. She
had been PENI multiple times. She was basically uncooperative.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Detective Cohn did his best to try to convince her
to help, but it seemed as if her mind was
made up.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I took her to say attorney's office and she was
extremely belligerent, just like all sorts of profanities. She was
very vulgar, very profane language that she used, and she
was just completely off the handle about wanting to cooperate
and testify in court. She did not want to do that.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Prosecutors still held out hope the witness would have a
change of heart that is until she went to give
her deposition where she was questioned under oath by both
the prosecutor and the defense attorney. It didn't go well.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
She just was vulgar throughout that deposition as well, and
I think she did that on purpose because she did
not want to be involved anymore. She just wanted out,
and it came to the point that the state attorney
decided that they could not put her on the stand.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Detective Cohn said that the witness never denied what she
had told police about what she saw the knight Noursia
was killed, but if she wasn't willing to testify to
this in front of the jury, the prosecution was hamstrung.
This exact scenario was, unfortunately, something Detective con had been
worried about from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
It became my concern immediately after my first interaction with her,
when she told me that she did not want to
be involved. It was a concern because I've had other
cases where a witness will initially help them. Down the line,
they'll change the mind, and that happens a lot often
than we want to. So it's a concern in almost
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every case, but in this case a lot more because
she was the only witness that we had, and without her,
we had no case.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Without this key witness, the prosecution was left empty handed.
So in September two thousand nine, team the case against
Christopher Walker for the murder of Narisia Talibert was officially dropped.
Whether or not he killed her or was involved in
her death, he was never found guilty. Being charged with
the crime is not the same as a conviction, so
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the question of who killed Nurisia Talibert is still un answered.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You know, it's unfortunately that the loss of life is
not valued.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It was a sad day, but Detective con remembers being
surprised by how calmly Regina took the news.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
She was disappointed in the process. She was disappointed that
that the wordness made this decision, taken this stance, but
she was I don't want to say she was okay
with it, but she accepted it. She was not as
upset as I had expected.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Her to be.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
And I think that that maybe because knowing that her
child was gone, no matter what I think, is what
helped her not react too much to that decision.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Regina may have understood this didn't change it anything about
Nursia's death. She was even sympathetic to the witness's fears,
but she was still devastated.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I felt angry because of the type of child she was.
I didn't get any justice. I felt like the system
let me down. You don't know what to think about
all this killing going on and nothing is being done about.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It, And four years of hoping for justice, plus the
grief of losing her daughter was starting to take a
toll on her.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I was breaking down. I was breaking down. I ain't
up on high blood pressure pills and I would cry
a lot. So I asked God to give me the strength.
I started praying more, trusting God more. God. Had he
changed my heart to truly forgive him? Because Crystopal was
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was but fifteen years old, and I am definite a
believe of Jesus Christ, and where I am today because
of Jesus. But for some reason, it stays here. It
don't go any place in my heart. Every day it
had breetay my heart. But I forgave Crystal bullets like
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I said.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I had to.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I didn't forgive him for him. I forgave him for
me to move forward. You know, I just wanted to
do it. For me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
In twenty twenty three, Detective con was promoted to sergeant.
He's no longer working than homicide, but even now he
can't get Nurysa's case out of his head.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
After having been in homicide. But I tried to distance
myself personally as much as I could, even though that's
not always possible. There's some cases that go home with you,
you know, and stay with you to this day.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
There are many things about the circumstances of her death.
He can't forget.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
It bothers me that the person walked away after killing
her for nouries.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
It bothered me because I have a daughter. I looked
at Neurisia and I thought of my own daughter being
in the wrong place at a long time. It bothered
me in that sense. It bothered me in the sense
that we had a witness. She was fully capable of
helping us, but she didn't. It bothered me that there
were people in the neighborhood who did not want to
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help us, and it bothered me that I could not.
I mean, I think we gave closure to Regina. That
was the biggest thing. Is we gave her closure in
the sense that we were able to close the case
by arrest, but justice was not served at the end.
We can try to separate ourselves, but at the end
of the day, we're human. Being a father is a
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little bit more personal when it comes to, you know,
a child's death.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Today, with no new witnesses willing to come forward and
testify about what they remember from that October night in
twenty fifteen, Nursia's case is at a and still it's cold.
It's Sergeant con still holds some small hope that one
day it might be soft.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
The homeside cases, they don't have a statute of limitation,
so it could be next week, it could be ten
years from now. Somebody has a change of heart and
they say, Okay, I was there and I saw this.
And our cold case detectives who are tremendous, tremendous asset
and they will do what they can to bring justice
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to Regina for her daughter's death. There will always be
somebody they're in cold case or in homicide, you know,
who will take over and do what they need to
do to bring justice for Nourisia.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
For Regina, a conviction isn't what she focuses on anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Even if he would have went the prison for the
rest of his life. It was not gonna bring her back.
You know, I go on trips and stuff and I
think about her. I say, now, why she's not here.
I do think of her all the time, and I
would trade places if I could to give her the
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life that she was always hoping for and wanted.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You know, Regina hasn't stopped mourning her daughter's death, and
that's never going to change.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I miss her during the holidays, I really do. I
would be in the kitchen cooking, and she always wanted
to take the sweet potato bowl that I mixed sweet
potatoes in after I mix all the potatoes up. She
loved coming in, you know, taking her finger. She will
always be in our hearts and thoughts and mind.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Her brother Anthony also does what he can to remember her.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
All we can do, you know, is try to keep
her memory alive, you know, like we're doing every year.
You know, since I've been home, every special holiday that
we have, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Her birthday, the day that she got.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
On Valentine's that I go and visit her grade, anything
that I could think of all the holidays for special
holidays of the year, make sure that I go and visit.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I visit her grade, take flowers and everything.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
In twenty nineteen, Anthony was released from prison early on
account of good behavior. He says that since he's been out,
he's changed his life around. He has a job with
the County Parks Department. He's working to set a good
example for his community, especially the kids.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
You know, I want to be a voice out there,
not only you know, for Norrisia, but for any for everybody.
All we could do, you know, is just leave it
in Gods and and continue to have brothers such as
myself to go out there in the community and you know,
spread the road, you know, because at the end of
the day, right now, more parents burying their kids now
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when the kids should be burying.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
The parents, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In helping his community, Anthony is following in his mother's footsteps.
In the years after Narsia's death, Regina started a nonprofit,
the Nursia Talibert Dream Foundation.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
After she didn't get justice, God laid on my man
to start a foundation in honor of her for young
ladies even though God took her from me.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Each year, the foundation holds an event called Peace in
the garden in memory of her daughter. She wants to
raise awareness about gun violence and the destruction it wreaks.
She doesn't want other parents or family members to go
through what she has. She also finds other ways to
help other young women in the Florida City area. Maybe
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they can accomplish what Nursia wasn't able to.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I did everything that she was doing at that time,
she was getting ready to go to college. I gilb
a couple of scholarships out palm dresses to young ladies
and families that can't afford it, shoes and jewelry, whatever
they use if they didn't have the money. So that's
what I did in honor of her.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
She also has opened up her home to kids in need.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I thought it would be nice, but my mental help
and my heart of passion to become a foster mother,
because I find out a lot of foster kids they
joined gangs, they hurt because they done lost their pinons,
and they embolved in a lot of things as well.
And I love what I do because I think about
her all the time. I think about her. That's why
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I do what I do.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And if you drive past Northwest Eighth Court in Florida City. Today,
there's another monument to Nursia, a physical one. In October
twenty twenty three, the street near where she was killed
was renamed Nursia J. Talibert Place.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
What it means to me with that street being named
I was in a store one day, Allen's Market, and
one of her classmates came up to me. I'll never
forget this, and he said to me, he said, are
you Ntersa's mother? I say yes. He says, She's the
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reason why I graduated. That's one reason why I did.
On the street because she has so many friends that
looked up to her. So I was thinking, the type
of little girl she was, it would be nice to
look up there and see her name, and that would
make him think, yeah, you know, I want to be
like Narsi. So that's what that street means to me.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If you have information to share on Larisia's case or
any cold case, please call her, send them a tip
with your local crime stoppers or law enforcement department. In Miami,
that number is three h five four seven one tips
seven to one eight four seven seven. You can also
visit crime Stoppers three oh five dot com and select
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give a tip. Cold Case Files Miami is a production
of Iheart's Michael Dura podcast Network and School of Humans.
This show was written and researched by Marisa Brown. Our
lead producer is Josh Dain. Eteli Sperees is our senior producer.
Sound design and mix by Jesse Niswanger, factchecking by Savannah Hugley.
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Our production manager is Daisy Church. Special thanks to Julia
Ramirez from my production team. Our iHeartRadio executive producers including
me Endrique Santros, carl Catel and Arlene Santana, and Virginia Prescott,
Brandon Barr and Elsie Crowley from School of Humans. For
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