True Crime Time for August 22, 2026 | Justice Is Coming, A Pastor Convicted & Three Bodies in Three Days
On today’s episode of True Crime Time, Woody opens with a message the Lifers have been waiting to hear: justice is coming. While he cannot yet reveal which case or exactly what is happening, Woody says he has received confirmation that a major step forward is coming in one of the cases the Real Life Real Crime community has helped fight for. He asks listeners to continue calling 313-RLRC-TIP, reminding everyone that there is no such thing as too much information when pursuing justice.
Woody also celebrates the release of A Mother’s Fight for Justice, written by Stephanie Belgard, Courtney Coco’s mother. The book tells Courtney’s story and Stephanie’s decade-long fight for answers and accountability from her own perspective. Woody credits Stephanie’s refusal to give up as one of the reasons Real Life Real Crime continues taking on difficult Justice For cases today. Signed copies are available directly, while Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions are available through Amazon.
For On This Day in Crime, Woody remembers 13-year-old Mary Catherine Olchuck, whose decomposed body was discovered beneath hay on a Maine property in 1970 after she had been missing for nearly two weeks. More than five decades later, no one has been charged with her murder—another reminder that every unsolved case represents a family still waiting for justice.
Woody then gives a personal shout-out to former special prosecutor Hugo Holland, who prosecuted David Anthony Burns for Courtney Coco’s murder. Woody reflects on their early differences during the case, Holland’s courtroom performance, and why he considers him one of the strongest prosecutors he has ever watched work. Holland is now running for district judge in Louisiana’s First Judicial District.
In F’d Up Professionals, a Tennessee pastor who spent years traveling the country through his ministry is convicted of multiple counts of aggravated rape of a child and aggravated sexual battery. His wife was also convicted of facilitating sexual abuse and child neglect. Investigators say the case began with allegations involving a five-year-old child and eventually expanded to additional victims. Woody discusses how positions of trust, religious authority, language barriers, and vulnerable communities can all be exploited by predators.
Next, Woody covers the case of 16-year-old Howl Rafael Hernandez Castro, whose death was initially reported as a suicide. Investigators became suspicious when the witness’s story repeatedly changed. Detectives later found evidence inconsistent with suicide—including the distance of the shot, trajectory, and lack of gunshot residue—and the victim’s 21-year-old roommate was ultimately charged with murder. Woody connects the case directly to Justice for Hailey, where scientific evidence has likewise challenged an original suicide narrative.
In Minneapolis, police are investigating three bodies discovered in three days, all found in or near bodies of water. Authorities have not publicly said the deaths are connected, but Woody discusses why the geographical clustering immediately catches his investigative attention and why victimology and forensic findings will be critical in determining whether the cases share a connection.
The episode also covers a disturbing Florida murder case involving 16-year-old Miranda Corsett, who prosecutors say was held captive, tortured, killed, and dismembered. Defendant Stephen Gress has pleaded guilty and has taken the unusual step of asking that the judge—not a jury—decide whether he receives the death penalty. Woody compares the situation to another defendant he encountered who voluntarily sought execution rather than spend decades appealing his sentence. <
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello everybody, welcome to episode true crime time for Saturday, August 22nd, 26th and I'm Woody Overton, the double do stay right, hotter and hathies out there and they're doubt about it, we're on the burn band now because it's so dry, upon the down low, hadn't
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's about favorite time in a year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, y'all, hear that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's about favorite time of the year as these last dog days of summer are about to be gone and put all in hunt and seasons coming, but more importantly,
[SPEAKER_01]: worldwide lifers did it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to tell you, but soon as it happens, I will drop an emergency episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: But please continue to call you tips 313-RLRC tip.
[SPEAKER_01]: So very important.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can never have too much information.
[SPEAKER_01]: And justice.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to fight for justice people, and that's what we do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when it comes, so sweet, but I just can't tell you anymore, but I know for a fact, it has been confirmed that justice is coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll leave it at that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all, let me tell you, something
[SPEAKER_01]: about how justice comes and and everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you all seen it all over such a meeting because we've shared it everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: The, you know, the coordinate code case is the one we cut the justice for one.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... real life real crime ball by accident didn't mean to do it and all that but it happened right and it was a long battle almost three years for us when time we got involved in it to the conviction and everything else well misdefinity whose coordinates mama never gave up in after all the years and you know
[SPEAKER_01]: finally getting us involved in everything and us developing the information that led to the conviction of David Anthony Barnes for Courtney Coco's murder.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Stephanie is just...
[SPEAKER_01]: an amazing person and she had always said she wanted to write a book.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what she did, she wrote it and it's all the journey of Courtney's case and Courtney's life through her eyes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she doesn't hold back.
[SPEAKER_01]: She calls it like she saw it and she lived it and I think she did a
[SPEAKER_01]: I have published myself two books and we had to, you know, learn about Hook and Crook, but Cindy took that knowledge and was able to assist Miss Courtney in the Miss Courtney, the Stephanie and getting the book published, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So let me tell you about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's finally
[SPEAKER_01]: everybody knows about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's called a mother's fight for justice and it has 10 plus years still unsolved in the picture of Courtney.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now y'all that's that picture in that sign, the that came from one of the marches they used to do for Courtney because they weren't getting any satisfaction in the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's now on sale.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go to the intersocial media and look
[SPEAKER_01]: All the different ways you can get it, but you can get a sign paper back or a sign hardcover, misstep any of the sign of myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can also get the ebook and on one, I'm pretty sure it's on Amazon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but y'all go look it up and yeah, you can order directly from Amazon, and they have all these codes and shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to read it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the Kindle Ebook version is 799, the paperback is 1299, the hard cover is 2999, and it's a very, very moving power for store.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how someone doesn't make this into a movie, but Stephanie is just just a true testament to why
[SPEAKER_01]: started doing more hashtags, just as fours, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And what happened to Madison, stuff like that, she is an inspiration and her family is my family.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her not only does she not give up her entire family didn't give up.
[SPEAKER_01]: That experience is what makes me do these stories now, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, a mother's fight for justice, Stephanie Belg, Bell Guard, and I always call Belg, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But, it's there, and it's up everywhere, go look it up, y'all share it, and you get a chance to read it, very, very important, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: just hold on just a little bit longer and and I'll be able to tell you about how you all have helped again once again bring justice about now not saying that it's going to be
[SPEAKER_01]: totally done in a minute because just doesn't happen like that, but the huge first step and the big leap in justice is it's here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then the way don't one thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then once that's done, we'll roll with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get down some true crime time for August 22nd.
[SPEAKER_01]: And on this day in the year, I was born in 1970.
[SPEAKER_01]: caretakers live in the state in kinybunk main.
[SPEAKER_01]: They call the police because they smell some bad on the property.
[SPEAKER_01]: A bad, bad odor and was near near a barn.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the cops showed up and they discovered 13-year-old Mary Katherine old Chuck's decomposed body under a bed of
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, she had gone missing almost two weeks prior and was reportedly seeing getting into a car with a man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they worked the same, they take her and they do the all-top scene and it was a term that she had been strangled to death and no one has ever been charged with her murder.
[SPEAKER_01]: someone loved her, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And in Mary Catherine's family, or some, you know, some of the people that knew her, they need justice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in every day I get requests from somebody, they send them in another store about another family that needs justice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so when you finally get it to come
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know that God gave us this platform just to not just to pursue, because we tell stories obviously and everything, but it's just so important, I don't know, they'll never anything that's more important to me than just to say, no one just is for everybody, so there you have it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to give her a shout out to Mr. Hugo Holland, and if y'all remember him, he was the special prosecutor who came in.
[SPEAKER_01]: They like to call him a hired gun because he tried mostly deaf-pilling cases.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now most jurisdictions want to get a deaf-pilling case.
[SPEAKER_01]: They know the DNA knows they're out of their league, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So they call in Mr. Hugo Holland.
[SPEAKER_01]: he took, he took Stephanie's case and y'all heard me say, we were a little bit of odds in the beginning, but not because I had anything against him or he had anything against me, but he was only getting one side from the law enforcement, and what had he, on court he took his case, and of course none of that was favorable to me,
[SPEAKER_01]: wasn't against him or anything like that, and I wasn't against any really against law enforcement.
[SPEAKER_01]: What a happy, but they, you know, it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I got on court in his case, I couldn't get off the bad stuff that had been done in the case from an investigator standpoint, but Mr. Hugh had messed with me yesterday about Stephanie's book and he hoped you don't get mad, I'm going to read a little bit of our
[SPEAKER_01]: he said that was the hardest case I had in almost 40 years and y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy who worked his way up to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I was a prosecutor, I would work my way up to be Hugo Holland to handle and I want the most nastiest, hard
[SPEAKER_01]: cases out there going against the worst of the worst and you know no one is going to be a battle because nobody's going to plead their their client to the death penalty or life in prison right you know you're going to trial but anyway he said that was a hardest case I had in almost 40 years and y'all he's also running for judge in the first judicial district.
[SPEAKER_01]: and y'all that's in cat-o-pares way up and north west Louisiana, all right now I'm gonna tell you about here you go and I've said this publicly before and and watching him and Courtney's trial and everything and and getting to know him through the process probably most importantly watching him in the courtroom
[SPEAKER_01]: If my family had a member of my family was the victim of a homicide or some horrible crime, I would want Hugo Holland as my district attorney, all right, because he is, I said a public before, I'm going to say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: and all the courtrooms, all the murder trials I've been a part of, or watch mostly the part of, and all the different DAs that I've seen try cases, murder trials.
[SPEAKER_01]: If he is not the best, then he's certainly tied with the best that I've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_01]: The man brings a court
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... persona he brings a professionalism and he is a genius i don't care what they say that you know that that always look what he ever says got a lot of negative stories about him out there right they call me this they can call me that but i know my heart who i am and he goes you know certainly
[SPEAKER_01]: had some flag in his past or whatever and I get that when you're in the public eye and you do what he does you're going to catch that rig the but I'm telling you he's a good deed and he'd be I'm going to read just a couple of things and you know this isn't political show but I feel very important about this and maybe I'll get I'll get this hero one one day
[SPEAKER_01]: And if he can, and we've talked about Courtney's case, whatever, and he can tell you himself, why he's running for Judge.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it says Hugo Holland for District Judge.
[SPEAKER_01]: He got his, your doctor from L.S.
[SPEAKER_01]: She'd law school, and he's been a prosecutor for 38 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was a reserve police officer for 25 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: and he regularly teaches at police academies throughout Louisiana.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's teaching all the young bucks, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And yet ladies, um, he's currently with the Webster Bozier DA's office, and he was a major in the United States Air Force auxiliary in the Civil Air Patrol, and he's the married father, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's funny about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has
[SPEAKER_01]: Younger children, and I remember and don't corny's trial, talk about his young kids home, and so family men on top of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a Christian conservative Republican, and he y'all had elections on November 3rd, he said, as your judge, I will preserve law and order and support law enforcement officers.
[SPEAKER_01]: As a conservative, I will always faithfully apply the law as written with the utmost respect for life and religious liberty.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I just...
[SPEAKER_01]: If I ever tell you that I would model myself after someone else the way that they work and what I used to do y'all when I'm as a young investigator and stuff like that, I would always watch other people do in interrogations and I would be going, I would take the little bit of the best of what they use and adopt it to my own.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I have my own style now, it's from watching
[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, Hugo Holland is just got to be the best of ever seen and not just because he won court in this case, which was 18 plus years cold, but the just the way he carries himself, the way he's able to relate to people, the way he treats people and I think he
[SPEAKER_01]: my dad's dad was a judge and the taking the cases that Hugo took when he was a special prosecutor across the state, my old grandfather always said that the thing that bothered him the worst was the seven people that he had to put the death as a judge, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Hugo did it in 1998 or I'll let him tell you how
[SPEAKER_01]: you would want somebody that's fair and impartial, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But you also don't want somebody that's just going to do things.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know the call because I don't like doing politics, but the so far out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I've seen judges on both sides and in the middle and everything else, you want to judge like my godmother is right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: sitting in a peek who walker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now she's effectively called the bulldog and she's tough but she's fair and I believe Mr. Hugo will carry that same quality over.
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, that's enough about that but shout out to Mr. Hugo Hollin and
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, I'm thankful for your help in the case and grant me the forbearance you did when I asked, it may get in the jury easier, whether that's how I'm y'all right before Courtney's trial, bright for a body or deer selection started, he pulled him to the side in the cornering and asked me not to do a podcast about the trial, you know, with that, that
[SPEAKER_01]: while it was going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, if you do that, you do that, you know, then I'll be full access to whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I wasn't going to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he didn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know he didn't know me at the time, he was only hearing the bad things about me, but the, uh, the net, it was funny because I had released an episode that morning about court, but it was only about the court process and what was going to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think about the Wilde deer, who was there?
[SPEAKER_01]: or anything else.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I agreed to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he came back to me on a recess and pull me in a hallway.
[SPEAKER_01]: He told me you were going to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, well, you got an episode out today about the process.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have an episode out about the steps of the trial.
[SPEAKER_01]: He hadn't listened to his one of his minions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, evidently told him, well, you know, what do you ever did this and I said, I'm on him, I worry, and I did and he honored he has and I just thank him and
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only would I want him to prosecute if Alphazard victim or crime, I would just as importantly, want him to be my judge, because that's justice when you, when you sit up there and you not automatically lean in one way or another, that's
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how justice should be saying like I'll get off of that but shout out to miss you guys and What was she well sir or I was she well?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's time for F of professionals.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, some people, I'll tell you, got that special highway to hell coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, this next couple, they got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Emmy is one thing, if you write babies, you know, it's horrible, it's no matter what, but it's especially bad when you are like this couple,
[SPEAKER_01]: then a Tennessee pastor who spent years traveling the country for his ministry will spend the rest of his life behind bars because of jury convicted him of rape in the child while his wife was found guilty of facilitating the abuse, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So she knew about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: She helped.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did it and tell you the rest of the story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Benjamin Garley, who's 35 years old, was found guilty Monday of seven counts of aggravated rape of a child, six counts of aggravated sexual battery, one count of solicitation of sexual exploitation of a minor, and two violations of Tennessee's Child Protection Act.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this, he got found
[SPEAKER_01]: a circuit court judge, Barry Tidwell, since garlic to life in prison, without the possibility of parole on the aggravated rate convictions.
[SPEAKER_01]: And according to the Murphy's Brewer Police Department, he still faces sins on the remaining convictions on November 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Gorg's wife, he's 32-year-old Shantel Garlie, who's convicted of two counts of facilitation of aggravated rape of a child, and two counts of aggravated child neglect, and she's going to be sentenced on November 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they'll tell you about the case, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, back in August of 2023, when the Murphy's Burroughs Police Department, Special Victims Unit, launched an investigation into the sexual abuse of a child who was just five years old at the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: and police said the beast occurred over several years.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, I think I told you all this, we were sitting around here cooking a couple of weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: My buddy, he's got a young daughter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she's four, he's skating, and he looked at me.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about AI and how they're using it to make child porn stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he just looked at me and he's kind of a quiet guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: What in the hell, he said you've been doing this long time, he said what in the hell would possess somebody to have sex with a kid, a rape a kid, and I said evil, all right, and it happens, and it happens every day, unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_01]: So back to the case, they said as detectives,
[SPEAKER_01]: investigators also determined that she didn't tell Garley knowingly neglected the victim in a way that affected the child's health and welfare and she assisted in the sexual abuse.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the Marfrost Barrow Police Department
[SPEAKER_01]: They thank all the members of the Child Protective Investigative Team for their Tyler's work throughout this investigation in the trial, and ensuring the victim's voices were heard and justice was served.
[SPEAKER_01]: This court and the lead investigator detected James Wilkeson.
[SPEAKER_01]: The children of Rutherford County are safer because capacity and dedication and commitment each member of the team brings to the roles every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's go back to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Garlic, then the set is life outside of the courtroom, stood in stark contrast to the crimes, for which he was convicted.
[SPEAKER_01]: The police said their investigation showed he spent several years traveling as a minister and primarily focused on the Hispanic community and that he had a wife and had traveled across the country.
[SPEAKER_01]: While the local WS&V had previously reported, the garlic help run La Spada, which is a
[SPEAKER_01]: The states report the videos and images posted online, show garlic in his sermons, connected with churches in Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, and Texas.
[SPEAKER_01]: The couple also described deep family ties to the ministry and biographies that appeared
[SPEAKER_01]: The site said the list lost spot was found that bi-galic grandfather Rolande and showed Benjamin Morgan with the ministry under direction of this late father Daniel.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Benjamin wrote that he began traveling with his father as a child, felt drawn to the ministry of the young age and later became an evangelist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Shantel wrote that she met Benjamin as a youth conference when she was 18 and scrapped her collar in a serving-guide full-time alongside her husband and working with
[SPEAKER_01]: All good and well, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Except your effin' pedophiles, and here I'll tell you the rest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Benjamin and Shantel were arrested in September 2023.
[SPEAKER_01]: The case continued to grow in a rather recounting grand jury, ran died the couple, in March of 2024.
[SPEAKER_01]: As investigators pursue the case, special victim units detectives publicly urge potential victims to come forward, particularly people in the Hispanic community.
[SPEAKER_01]: and they did, evidently, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Shantel, who had been free on bond, was taken into custody after the vertical Monday, and police said, both she and her husband are being held at the Rotorford County Adult the Tensha Center.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go back to Christina and David Constance.
[SPEAKER_01]: The very first case I ever did on real life for a crime, and it was all about that husband and wife team that raped all those babies.
[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't dopers or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They ingratiate themselves into these dark poor families.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of kids for the weekend will feed them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they rife them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he got away with it probably 40 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I got the first.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got Christina herself that confessed to me in my office and I had to start digging into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We spent like nine months investigating because mostly the victims were now adults and stuff like that, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they had to do all these interviews and we interviewed over 40 people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who were victims?
[SPEAKER_01]: I says like one a year and then ended up going to trial only yet on four counts of aggravated rate Which is now called first degree rape in state of Louisiana, but think about it the the Why did he choose those victims because?
[SPEAKER_01]: He knew likely they weren't going to report it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Guess what they didn't
[SPEAKER_01]: And the this guy is using the ministry traveling all these different states doing the same thing and has his wife complicit right and then doing it in the Spanish Hispanic communities you know why mm-hmm
[SPEAKER_01]: Historically, the Hispanic people from South America even Mexicans, they don't trust the cops, and then you get the language barrier and everything else.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was smitsy, they convicted him on the one five year old.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bet you every state he went to.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was either trying to float it out there and groom the victim or they were.
[SPEAKER_01]: or they got victims, so, but you can only do so many licenses, understand that, and I just pray that all the people they offended against don't grow up to be offenders themselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: F.M.F.
[SPEAKER_01]: her special ticket to hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: You think Jesus doesn't know or whoever you what ever God you believe in.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you say you dedicate your life to Jesus and bring another people to Jesus but you're right in their kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure like I says in a Bible Jesus got mad and they flipped the table in the temple.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you use?
[SPEAKER_01]: whatever day to you pray to to get victims in baby victims in rifle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're going to hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: And hell is real, but heaven's real.
[SPEAKER_09]: See.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Suicide, very real thing in about like I've ever worked one where at some point the family didn't come back and say, oh, no, they couldn't have done it, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And let, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: 85% of them and it was actually suicide and some of them or just made to look like suicides cover up what a homicide.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to tell you about this story now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to play a clip.
[SPEAKER_09]: And a teen's death was first thought to be suicide.
[SPEAKER_07]: But a witness is changing story.
[SPEAKER_07]: Peak the interest of investigators to say the version they first got was a work of fiction.
[SPEAKER_09]: ABC 13's Luke Joes joins us live with how it all started and the twisting end look.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, investigators saved the suspect first told them he was woken up by the victim after shooting himself and that he actually tried to save the victim's life.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it took the touches about two weeks to work out and gather enough evidence to show that wasn't the right version of events tonight.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's charged with murder and it turns out he was already a wanted man.
[SPEAKER_02]: A shattered balcony door, a dented front door, the second floor apartment on Ella Boulevard, where investigators say five people were living, would one of them turned off dead.
[SPEAKER_02]: 16-year-old Howell Rafael Hernandez Castro, killed by a single bullet the medical examiner ruled, as for how it ended up lost in his body, the story kept changing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Deputies called to the apartment the afternoon of July 27th, where they found the 16-year-old's body and his 21-year-old roommate, who was also dating his cousin.
[SPEAKER_02]: Investigators say Jose Gregorio Blanco Moreno told them the victim had shot himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: This search warrant revealing his changing statements.
[SPEAKER_02]: First, that he didn't hear the gunshot and was woken up by the victim, then that the gunshot woke him up, and he rose to find the victim holding his gun.
[SPEAKER_02]: After waking up a remedy, and unsuccessfully applying CPR, court documents say, Blanca Moreno claimed he unloaded the gun and hit it in a kitchen cabinet.
[SPEAKER_02]: August 12th, it was arrested and charged with Hernandez Castro's murder.
[SPEAKER_08]: He says you had the gun in hand.
[SPEAKER_08]: clean the shot himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Investigators say Blunkhamorino's roommate contradicted parts of his account.
[SPEAKER_02]: They also couldn't find gun residue on the victim's body.
[SPEAKER_02]: And later determined, he was shot at long range.
[SPEAKER_08]: There was no stiffening in the angle.
[SPEAKER_08]: of the employed, made it, essentially, impossible for the person to have shot himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ice confirms, Blanca Moreno is a Venezuelan citizen in the country illegally.
[SPEAKER_02]: They say he was arrested by Border Patrol in December 2023, but then released with a notice to appear in immigration court.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ice says he never appeared, and it made 2024,
[SPEAKER_02]: a judge ordered his removal.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's an order that went un-executed all these years, but now perhaps the least of his problems.
[SPEAKER_02]: Luke Jones, ABC13, I witness news.
[SPEAKER_01]: And how many times, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: The suicide case is number one in my heart right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has hashtag justice for Haley.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know it, it proven me on a scientific doubt, proven legally, that it's not double jeopardy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And everything else, I mean, she just not did not and could not physically kill herself.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yet, here we sit, wait in the one,
[SPEAKER_01]: To do their job was have never done.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I hate that for these families Yeah, this dude could have got away with it and it had the best skaters not done the job So I'm thankful for them for doing that
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, look, we're going to roll out to Minnesota, Minnesota and this case is developing and I think they got a rule.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to have a real shit show on their hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: The sometimes I'll look at these news stories and I'll look at Sydney and I'm like, okay, that's that's an issue right like when Gabby Petita first was missing us as she's dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the one that dumped his wife and kids in the old vats, where that was, when they were looking for them, I said, they're dead, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'll say that more sober and into serial killers and the things that go in one.
[SPEAKER_01]: The up here, three bodies in three days, and I'll just play the article on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: A-to-clock University of Minnesota police are working to figure out what happened to an adult whose body was found near the Stone Arch Bridge.
[SPEAKER_05]: A university spokesperson can affirm that you have employees responded to a room for it of a body located in the area of sixth street and Main Street, southeast.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is about one yesterday afternoon.
[SPEAKER_05]: At this point, we don't have any details as to
[SPEAKER_05]: who died or how.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is now the third body found in Minneapolis in just three days.
[SPEAKER_05]: Police are still trying to figure out what led to a body being found in a wooded area near East River Flats Park that was Saturday night.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then as Sunday morning, police were covered another body in the water on the east side of the Damascus.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see all of this on the map here.
[SPEAKER_05]: So far, police have not said anything about evidence pointing that these three incidents are connected.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also, it's a short clip on it, but the thing being is when you look at this map, it's almost a perfect triangle where the bodies were located across the city, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But the one thing that stands out, when you look at the map, is each one of the bodies, so one of them is found in the water, but the other two were found on the edge of different
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, I understand I want to tip your hand to early saying it's a serial killer or we're doing the same thing on the case right now, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But why you develop evidence?
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: You will never make me believe you're finding three and like three days all basically in the same geographical locations.
[SPEAKER_01]: no victimology, oh yeah, because they're other than the one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they said she was 56 years old, but I'd be very surprised, come back and find out they weren't sex workers or how a rest lifestyle.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they got a killer up there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So hopefully they'll get it done.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to roll out to the Nellis County.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all know who lives there.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the home of Sheriff Grady Judge, who I, he's always on social media.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's, you know, calls a spade and it's tough on crime.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's another example.
[SPEAKER_04]: So first night at 10, a man who met a Gulf 14 online last year took responsibility today for her horrific murder.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stephen Gress admitted his guilt in court to kidnapping and killing 16-year-old Miranda Crusette.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he asked a panelist county judge to skip the jury in the death penalty phase, leaving his life in the judge's hands.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, certainly as Ali, so a defense attorney spoke with tonight says it is very unusual for a person to want the death penalty.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a major development as we wait for the second person accused of being involved in the team's murder to go to trial.
[SPEAKER_06]: Facing first degree murder and kidnapping charges, Stephen Gress pleaded guilty during a hearing in a panel as county court room Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_06]: He and his co-definite Michelle Brandy's are accused of meeting 16-year-old Miranda Corset on the dating app grinder last year.
[SPEAKER_06]: Then holding the golfport team captive, torturing and killing her before dismembering her in March of 2025.
[SPEAKER_06]: In the case where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, so traditionally you'll have a jury trial, at which point time the jury or turn a verdict.
[SPEAKER_03]: Assuming that verdict is guilty, it'll then go into penalty face.
[SPEAKER_06]: But now that won't happen, according to the Tampa Bay Times, Gress specifically asked for the death penalty during a regular pre-trial hearing in July.
[SPEAKER_06]: And court officials confirm two FOX 13, the judge agreed Wednesday to grant Gress's request to put the death penalty face directly in the judge's hands.
[SPEAKER_06]: We spoke to a defense attorney not connected to the case about how often this happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, it's very unusual.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ultimately, in these cases, we see defendants fighting for their life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here, we see defendants asking for death.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really, it's like one other case that I remember that happened in Tampa, a few years ago.
[SPEAKER_06]: I swore now for David Detail's Quest beating Miranda over a missing ring before her murder.
[SPEAKER_06]: At least six people knew the girl was in danger at the time, but no one ever called 911.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had called me, my tenant, and she says there's something going on down there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were arguing and fighting, yeah, they would do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Since the teen's murder, court document showgress went through competency exams for trial, now a pre-sentencing investigation begins.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just because he says he wants to be executed, just because he is ultimately sentenced to death if he is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not going to happen quickly.
[SPEAKER_03]: We know the process of ultimately executing somebody is going to take years.
[SPEAKER_06]: The court documents also show Stephen Gress blaming his co-dependent Michelle Brandy's for the bulk of the violence done to Miranda.
[SPEAKER_06]: Gress is scheduled to be back in court on November 4th, where the judge is expected to address the sentencing.
[SPEAKER_06]: As for his co-dependent Michelle Brandy's her next pre-trial hearing asset for October 22nd.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, as far as the band rare, it is, and remember, Jair Bordlan's case and did episode on it, kill me now, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And he waved after he was convicted.
[SPEAKER_01]: He won the death penalty.
[SPEAKER_01]: And and let me dead nine said they let me out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a kill again, right right and rape and kill again, but I think the real reason He wants the death penalty is because he was on death row in Angola and Derr Todd Lee are infamous serial killer from Baton Ridge, but they said I talked to
[SPEAKER_01]: the doctor and got us a soul.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's passed now who treated them and they said that their title had to sell next to him and that they used to just raise his ass all every waking moment of every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were calling me Chomo and everything else but he waved it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know I think
[SPEAKER_01]: in court to prove that he was saying enough to wave all his appeals, which we night take 30 to 40 years, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But you did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They torture this young girl and then cut her up into pieces.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wave your death penalty.
[SPEAKER_01]: And even though you got another five years of change or mine or whatever, but you're asking for the judge to give you death.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's probably the only honorable thing you've ever done, and it's saving these low-girls family from spending the next 30 to 40 years waiting on you to be executed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there you have it, y'all, again, you know, I don't do politics, but I'm definitely supporting you a holl and for a judge up there because of another man, yeah, so if you up in Cato, give me a vote, we also, I have a couple announcements, we're trying to put
[SPEAKER_01]: the podcast is going to put together raskin to candidates and i'm not going to say let the cat out of the bag yet to come and have a public forum debate and i'm going to moderate it if they accept and we are going to do it live so the people that actually live in the parishes where
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, let them ask questions like it gets to know you can't hit it tight thing, but also find out where these two guys stand on their policies and everything else and why what I do that because it's where I'm from now and and moving back home after daddy died.
[SPEAKER_01]: six generations here at now and over ten line and I hope that my kids will you know move back home with the grand babies one day and it'll be seven generations and eight generations so I'm trying to do something get a candidate in this office that can make generational changes to the bullshit that's going on so I bet that's gonna be something totally different and that's gonna happen in the next couple weeks if they
[SPEAKER_01]: But real life for crime is actually seeking these two gentlemen out to and I would host and moderate the debate, if you will.
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, love y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, hi, hi, but slow on the last weekends before football season.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the cool weather's got to be coming and I don't have anything else for you, but I love and appreciate each and every one of y'all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't just can't wait, just can't wait, it's, I mean, I know for a fact, it's coming, that way you don't want to bang, and then it's coming, and I'm not going to tell you which case.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm what are you overthinking?
[SPEAKER_01]: You host a true crime time.
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