1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:03,559 Speaker 2: Now. 3 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould, a grieving California mother who watched her 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: six year old son die in her arms after a 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: road rage shooter targeted her car, is now facing a 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: fresh nightmare, a bombshell wrongful death lawsuit from the boy's 7 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: own father. The lawsuit, filed by Jose Laos Junior in 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: Orange County Superior Court, slams Joanna Kloonan's decision to flip 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: the bird at a stranger on the fifty five Freeway 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: in Orange County was the catalyst that sparked the fatal gunshot. 11 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: It names Kloonan, shooter Marcus Aries, his then girlfriend Winnie Lee, 12 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: and Kloonan's own mother as defendants, alleging that if Kloonan 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: had not provoked the shooter, little Aiden Laos would still 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: be alive today. Here's the prosecutor in court during the 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,959 Speaker 1: gunman's trial, Mister. 16 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 2: Cluten Hov lane and began to move over towards the 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: right to get off the freeway, and she gave the 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: middle finger to the vehicle to the male passenger out 19 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 2: of anger, something she'd come to regret. 20 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: Beyond covering the whore unfolded. On May twenty first of 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, when Kloonan was driving Little Aiden to 22 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: kindergarten and Yorba Linda. After being cut off by a 23 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: white Volkswagon, Kloonan extended her middle finger towards the vehicle. 24 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: In response, passenger Marcus Harries pulled a Glock seventeen and 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: fired a single round. The bullet tore through the trunk 26 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: and the back of Little Aiden's booster seat, piercing the 27 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: boy's liver, lung, and heart. Kloonan pulled over, held her 28 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: dying son, and called nine one one. Aiden was pronounced 29 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: dead at Children's Hospital of Orange County less than an 30 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: hour later. Ariz was convicted of second degree murder in 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and sentenced two forty years to life, 32 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: while Lee pleaded guilty to accessory charges and received a 33 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: lighter sentence. Despite these criminal convictions, the boy's father insists 34 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: Kloonan bears civil responsibility for the quote reasonably foreseeable retaliation 35 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: end quote, adding insult to unimaginable injury. The lawsuit also 36 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: accuses Kloonan a quote unjust enrichment end quote, alleging she 37 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: hoarded nearly five hundred thousand dollars from a go Fundme 38 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: meant for Aiden's burial and parental support. Klunan, who previously 39 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: filed a restraining order against Laos for domestic violence in 40 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,679 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, has slammed the suit as quote unquote torture. 41 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: Her attorney described a suit as a quote outrageous abuse 42 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: of the system end quote. Hearing an Orange County Superior 43 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: Court is expected in the coming weeks. More crime and 44 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: justice news after this. A prominent Arkansas doctor, already a 45 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: convicted wife beater, has been handed a final sickening victory 46 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,399 Speaker 1: after a judge gave him sole control over the remains 47 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: of his six year old twins, leaving their murdered mom 48 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: to be buried alone. Charity Ballis, forty, was laid to 49 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: rest in Bonanza, Arkansas, separated in death from the young 50 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: son and daughter. She spent her final breaths trying to 51 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: protect her. Eldest son, John Powell, is now living a 52 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: secondary nightmare, revealing that his mother's abusive ex husband has 53 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: gone radio silent, refusing to even say if the kids 54 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: have been buried or even cremated. The horror began on 55 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: decem when a wellness check at the family's seven hundred 56 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: and sixty thousand dollars mansion uncovered a scene of pure carnage. 57 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: Charity and her twins were found executed, each suffering from 58 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: fatal gunshot wounds. Charity's devastated dad, Randy Powell, spoke to 59 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: k n WA NBC News, there's. 60 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 2: Nobody else in the world at any reason. 61 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: To harm her of those babies, but the timing was 62 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: bone chillingly precise. The bodies were discovered just twenty four 63 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: hours after a final bitter divorce hearing where Charity fought 64 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: for soul custody to keep her kids away from doctor 65 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: Randall bialis Fort records show the well connected family practitioner 66 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: was convicted in October of twenty twenty five for domestic 67 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: battery after strangling Charity in front of the children. Before 68 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: she was silenced, you already posted a haunting public warning 69 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: slamming a quote broken justice system and quote that shielded 70 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: her high profile abuser while treating her like a problem. 71 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: Adding to the mystery, a dumpster diver discovered a bag 72 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: of the family's most intimate treasures, including a gold necklace 73 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: engraved with the twins' names on it and their school artwork, 74 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: all discarded in the trash about fifteen miles away from 75 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: where the doctor lived. While the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office 76 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: has served nearly twenty search warrants and is receiving help 77 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: from the federal agencies, no suspects have been named. This 78 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: is not the first time, though a woman close to 79 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: the Good Doctor met a violent end. His second wife 80 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: was found shot dead in twenty twelve, a case that 81 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: was briefly reopened in twenty twenty one before stalling in 82 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: the meantime. These three deaths are still under investigation. Police 83 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: have not named Randall as a suspect, and finally talk 84 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,119 Speaker 1: about a high intensity interval from hell. Arilyn Martinez twenty 85 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: four found herself in a massive plate of trouble after 86 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: allegedly turning a routine trip to a Texas twenty four 87 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: hour fitness into a full blown combat zone. Deputies say 88 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: the domestic drama peaked on Lake Plaza Drive in Harris 89 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 1: County when Martinez spotted a woman she recognized as her 90 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: partner's side piece his other interest, if you will. The 91 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: workout went from burn to battery when Martinez reportedly chucked 92 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: a twenty five pound weight plate directly at the victim's head. 93 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: That's a heavy metal meltdown. Authorities hauled the hot headed 94 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: Hotty to the Harris County Jail, where a judge noted 95 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: that alcohol likely fueled the heavy hitting heist. Now barred 96 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: from the gym and the booze, Martinez faces aggravated assault charges. 97 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: It's a weighted lesson in romance. When you try to 98 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: crush the competition, the law will always do the heavy lifting. 99 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice news, follow the Crime 100 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast app with this 101 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: crime Alert, I'm Jennifer Gold.