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Speaker 1: Crime alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news. Now Ellen

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Speaker 1: Wiggs admitted to a Missouri hospital for a new dialysis port.

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Speaker 1: Husband Ronnie Wiggs stays with her. Just before midnight, hospital

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Speaker 1: staff gets an alert Wiggs has no heartbeat. Doctor's flight

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Speaker 1: to resuscitate her. When they fail, Husband Ronnie Wiggs says,

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Speaker 1: I did it. I killed her. I choked her.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Wiggs leader admits that he could not afford his

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Speaker 2: wife's medical bills and that this wasn't the first time

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Speaker 2: he tried to kill her. Wiggs describes trying to choke

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Speaker 2: Ellen in her sleep during a previous hospital stay and

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Speaker 2: not following through. Ellen Wiggs woke up and told her

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Speaker 2: husband not to do that again. In his second attempt,

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Speaker 2: Wiggs choked Ellen with one hand while covering her nose

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Speaker 2: and mouth with the other to prevent her from screaming.

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Speaker 1: Ronnie Wiggs seventy five, now charged with murder II. Shawn

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Speaker 1: Hollenbeck terrify when he notices his thirteen year old daughter

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Speaker 1: missing from her bedroom. He reports her missing and carefully

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Speaker 1: watches the street outside the Florida home she returns. When

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Speaker 1: he sees his daughter getting out of a car, he

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Speaker 1: races outside, draws a gun and forces the driver onto

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Speaker 1: the ground. The kidnapper turns out to be an Uber driver,

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Speaker 1: Hollimick's daughter paid to get home after sneaking out for

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Speaker 1: a party with friends. The innocent Uber driver does not

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Speaker 1: take Kylin to being held at gunpoint. Now Hollenback's charged

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Speaker 1: with false imprisonment and ag assault. So he's headed to

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Speaker 1: jail and the daughter's headed to what time out more

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now with the latest

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Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news Crime onlines John Limley in the.

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Speaker 3: Case of a woman accused in the poisoning death of

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Speaker 3: her husband before publishing a children's book on grief, A

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Speaker 3: Utah judge has now postponed a hearing to decide whether

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Speaker 3: prosecutors have sufficient evidence to move forward with a trial.

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Speaker 3: For the latest, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: The hearing was postponed until June eighteenth through the twentieth

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Speaker 2: by Judge Richard Morazak after the prosecution stated that they

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Speaker 2: would want three days to present their case against Corey Richins,

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Speaker 2: whose defense attorney maintains that she is innocent. The thirty

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Speaker 2: three year old Riches stands accused of aggravated murder in

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Speaker 2: addition to other charges following her husband's s fentanyl overdose

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Speaker 2: death in March twenty twenty two at their Park City,

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Speaker 2: Colorado home. The prosecution claims that she put five times

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Speaker 2: the fatal amount of the synthetic opioid in a drink

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Speaker 2: that her thirty nine year old husband, Eric Richards, then drank.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors claim she attempted to murder him on Valentine's Day

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Speaker 2: that same year by giving him a spiked sandwich. Prosecutors

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Speaker 2: claim in court documents that Corey Richins was having an

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Speaker 2: affair at the time of her husband's death and wanted

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Speaker 2: to leave him, but she was afraid she might lose

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Speaker 2: custody of their children and run into financial trouble after

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Speaker 2: a divorce. They claimed she killed him because she saw

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Speaker 2: a future with her lover and for financial gain. The

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Speaker 2: mother of three self published her children's book Are You

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Speaker 2: With Me in the months before her arrest in May

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Speaker 2: of last year. The book is about a dying father who,

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Speaker 2: after receiving angel wings, is keeping watch over her his

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Speaker 2: small son. Prosecutors may use the book to paint Eric

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Speaker 2: Richards's death as a premeditated murder, with a sophisticated cover up.

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Speaker 2: Those who may be called as witnesses in the June

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Speaker 2: hearing include a housekeeper who says she sold Corey Richins

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Speaker 2: the drugs, friends of Eric Richinds who have related phone

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Speaker 2: conversations from the day prosecutors say he was first poisoned

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Speaker 2: by his wife of nine years, and relatives of the

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Speaker 2: defendant and her late husband. Sky Lazarro, the defense lawyer,

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Speaker 2: has maintained that the evidence against her client is circumstantial

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Speaker 2: in suspect in the midst of a legal dispute over

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Speaker 2: Eric Richards's inheritance and an associated assault case. Lazaro implied

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Speaker 2: that the housekeeper had reason to lie in order to

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Speaker 2: get leniency in response to drug charges.

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Speaker 3: Also in recent days, Corey Richins was convicted on misdemeanor

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Speaker 3: charges after being accused of attacking one of her husband's sisters.

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Speaker 3: Shortly after he died. The Missouri Department of Corrections has

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Speaker 3: announced the death of a man found guilty of killing

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Speaker 3: seven women over four decades in Kansas City, Missouri. Once

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Speaker 3: again crime online Sydney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: Sixty two year old Terry Blair was serving time at

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Speaker 2: the Potosi Correctional Center for six charges of first degree murder.

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Speaker 2: He was found unconscious in his prison cell and transported

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Speaker 2: later pronounced him dead. An autopsy on Blair's body was scheduled.

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Speaker 2: Blair's violent pass was extensive. He was found guilty of

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Speaker 2: killing a woman in nineteen eighty two, a crime for

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Speaker 2: which he served twenty one years. When he was arrested

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Speaker 2: for the six women's killings that occurred between July and

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Speaker 2: September of two thousand and four, Blair was already on probation.

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Speaker 2: The victim's bodies were discovered in a high crime area

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Speaker 2: of Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: Blair was also under suspicion for the deaths of two

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Speaker 3: other women, but those charges were later dropped.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John and Tonia. Tony Padilla lives next door to

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Speaker 1: her senior parents in Silver City, New Mexico. She acts

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Speaker 1: as their full time caretaker. Tony's having a hard time

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Speaker 1: at the remembrance day of her daughter's death. Not long after,

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Speaker 1: her boyfriend also passed away. Her other daughter, jas Us,

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Speaker 1: drops her off to visit a friend around one PM

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Speaker 1: and waits for mom to call to pick her up.

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Speaker 1: That call never comes. Daughter Jessica knocks on the door.

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Speaker 1: Tony's friend says she left on foot around three pm.

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Speaker 1: Due to intense New Mexico heat outdoors. The Padias are worried.

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Speaker 1: Tony never comes home that night. Her family searches the

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Speaker 1: area where she was last seen and calls local hospitals.

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Speaker 1: No sign of Tony. Tony, age fifty eight, is five

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Speaker 1: to three and only weighed about one hundred pounds. She

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Speaker 1: has beautiful, long brown hair and brown eyes. Tony Padia

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Speaker 1: now missing nearly four years. If you have info, please

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Speaker 1: contact Silver City, New Mexico PD five seven five three

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight eight four zero. For the latest crime

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Speaker 1: in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this

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Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Insie Grace