1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Both 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Cassie Ventura and Jane not her real name, testify they 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: were coerced in the Free Coughs due to Shawn Combs's 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: immense control over their lives and his propensity toward violence. 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: Will their stories be enough to convince a jury Combs 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: is guilty? With the latest on the Shawn Combs trial, 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: our Drew Nelson Drew What's the Latest? 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: Nancy Jane Doe returning to the stand, Combe's most recent 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: ex girlfriend, testifying that she agreed to repeat it sex 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 2: sex with strangers to please him. She said she felt 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 2: like she was quote breaking all of her own boundaries 12 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 2: just to make him feel extremely loved. In the beginning, 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 2: she thought his requests were signs of trusts, she said, 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 2: quote I didn't want him to feel judged. She described 15 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 2: hotel nights as carefully staged events, often set up to 16 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: mimic cheating. Combs would pretend to be out of town, 17 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: Jane would text an entertainer under his direction, asking for 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: explicit pictures and lirting with him after the encounter. Colmbs 19 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 2: liked to watch videos of it while having sex with Jane. 20 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 2: After the escort left. She said these nights became routine. 21 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 2: Jane told the court the relationship hurt her income. She 22 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 2: said she earned only ten percent of what she could have. Still, 23 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 2: she admitted he gave her money and gifts, paid her rent, 24 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 2: covered expenses after they broke up, and invested twenty thousand 25 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: dollars in her fashion business. She says the total value 26 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 2: has been about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars over 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 2: three years. In twenty twenty three, during a trip to 28 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 2: Turks and Kkos, Jane said he surprised her with another 29 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: hotel night, which led to an argument and a so 30 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: called love contract, in which Combs agreed to pay her rent. 31 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 2: In a voice message, he told her he loved her. 32 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: She replied, quote, everything just feels so good and I'm 33 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 2: so happy. She told the jury that it was true 34 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: at the time, except for the time spent with the entertainer. 35 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: Defense attorney Tenny Yarrigoes pointed out that Combs had paid 36 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: rent for her for months in advance. Jane responded that 37 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: he use these payments to pressure her. She call to 38 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: ay quote little tool to keep her from saying no. 39 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: Jane said she felt overlooked like rapper Young Miami, whom 40 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 2: he was also dating at the time. He was seeing 41 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: Jane and Dana Tran, who ended up having his baby. 42 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 2: Jane says she got less even though she gave much more, 43 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: including having sex with strangers. Jane said she only messaged 44 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 2: escorts when Combs told her to, refuting the defense's argument 45 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: that she had been the one to send texts to 46 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: the entertainers. In one case, she reached out to a 47 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: performer named Sly after watching his porn video with Comb's Later, 48 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 2: Sly blackmailed them asked to plan a date night. In 49 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: a text thread, Jane suggested going out. Combs said he 50 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: was tired. They stayed in and had a hotel night instead. 51 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: She said she stopped fighting it, knowing it was the 52 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: only way to see him. She said she sometimes wrote 53 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 2: nice things about the hotel nights to keep him from 54 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 2: feeling rejected. She also offered to rewatch old hotel night 55 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: videos so he wouldn't ask for another live encounter. She 56 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 2: called it her way to cope. 57 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: Thanks Drew more crime just his knees. 58 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: After this, growing fears of a serial killer as a 59 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 2: young woman is found dead in the woods of Massachusetts, 60 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 2: marking the thirteenth unexplained death across New England since March. 61 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 2: The body of twenty one year old Adriana Suazo was 62 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 2: found at Milton, about eight miles south of Boston. There 63 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: were no signs of trauma. Her family said they don't 64 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 2: know why she was in Milton. Suazo's death follows a 65 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 2: string of other disturbing discoveries across Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 66 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 2: and Maine. Since early March. Bodies have been turning up 67 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 2: in rivers, parks, woods, many found in remote areas. The 68 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: first body was found on March sixth and the Norwalk 69 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: River in Connecticut. That same day, a skull was discovered 70 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: near Route three in Plymouth, mass March nineteenth, dismembered remains 71 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 2: found in a suitcase in Grotton, Connecticut. A body found 72 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 2: March twenty fifth in New Haven the next day. Another 73 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 2: recovered from the woods in Foster, Rhode Island. On April ninth, 74 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: unidentified remains found in Killingly. April twentieth, a body surfaced 75 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: in the Sea Konk River in Pawtucket. Between April twenty 76 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 2: second and twenty seventh, four more were found in Springfield, 77 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: Rocky Hill, Taunton and Framingham. On May thirtieth, the body 78 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 2: was found at Edgewood Park in New Haven, Suazo. The 79 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 2: last body discovered two days later. A Facebook group named 80 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 2: New England serial Killer now has more than sixty eight 81 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 2: thousand members. One case that has drawn special attention was 82 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: that of Donald Koffel, who was arrested for killing one 83 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 2: of the women. He died in custody, Please say he 84 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 2: acted alone. A Los Angeles protester is now on the 85 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,679 Speaker 2: FBI's most wanted list for allegedly throwing rocks at federal 86 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: officers and damaging government vehicles during the violent anti ICE 87 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: demonstrations in California. Alpidio Rena h forty, is from Compton. 88 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: He faces federal charges of assaulting an officer and damaging 89 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: government property. The FBI has announced a fifty thousand dollars 90 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 2: reward for information leading to his capture. He's facing eight years. 91 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 2: Protests in Los Angeles started on Friday after federal immigration 92 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 2: agents arrested one hundred and eighteen people across the Los 93 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: Angeles area at escal lated quickly after President Trump deployed 94 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: four thousand National Guard troops and seven hundred marines to 95 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob 96 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 2: Bonta have sued Trump over the military deployments. Two women 97 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 2: who ran a so called wellness company known to others 98 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 2: as an orgasm cult in New York are found guilty 99 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 2: of forcing their employees into unpaid labor and sex acts 100 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 2: under the guise of empowerment. Federal jury in Brooklyn convicted 101 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: fifty seven year old founder Nicole Daydon and forty four 102 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 2: year old Rachel Shrwitz of conspiracy to commit forced labor. 103 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: Both women led One Taste, a company that taught so 104 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 2: called orgasmic meditation, which they referred to by the abbreviation 105 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: om OHM. They now faced twenty years each. One Taste 106 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: offered classes as expensive as sixty thousand dollars that claimed 107 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 2: to heal trauma and promote connection through OHM. The practice 108 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 2: involved a clothed person stroking a woman's genitals for fifteen minutes. 109 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: One former employee testified she was told to be open 110 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 2: to OHM with anybody off the street. Witnesses also said 111 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 2: Daydon's boyfriend was routinely pleasured by staff. Another victim says 112 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 2: she was instructed to perform oral sex in front of others. 113 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: To reenact her own rate. Both convicted women say they 114 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: will appeal sentencing except for September. 115 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: For the latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot 116 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: com and please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, 117 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: where we do our best to find missing people, especially children, 118 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crimeal Art, I'm 119 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace.