1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace Breaking crime News Now. Andre Vasquez, nineteen, 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: and her boyfriend part their car at a California park 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: after dinner. Not long after, an armed man approaches the 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: car and starts shooting at the couple. The boyfriend runs 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: for help. When he comes back, a passenger seat is 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: bloody and Andrea is gone. Cops track Andrea's phone and 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: find her body in a field. Cops id the shooter 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: is Gabriel Esparza Nancy. The attack appears to be entirely random. 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: Vasquez was missing for nearly twenty four hours before officers 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: discovered her body, alongside her cell phone, which they had 11 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: been attempting to track her with. Asparza, who has no 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: criminal record, apparently gave a detailed confession of the attack, 13 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 1: and he was arrested the afternoon before Vasquez was discovered. 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: As Sparza, twenty plays not guilty to murder, kidnap, and 15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: attempted rape. Florida cops pull over Jeffrey Kaufman for speeding 16 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: and they're hit with a strong smell of pot As 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: they approach the car. Kaufman pulls out americle marijuana ID card, 18 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: but as cops searched the car, they discover a duffel 19 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: bag with over thirty plastic bags full of marijuana, mushrooms, 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: and several bottles of peals. When cops ask why do 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: you have so much pot, Coffin replies, just take me 22 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: to jail, man. Be careful what you wish for, you 23 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: will surely get it. Cops haul in to jail and 24 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: he's booked on possession. More crime and Justice news after 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking news 26 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: Crime onlzed. John Limley, accused of poisoning his wife's protein 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: drinks to kill her, a Colorado dentist, is likely to 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: enter a not guilty plea in October to all charges, 29 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: including first degree murder. This according to his defense attorneys. 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: With more. 31 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,559 Speaker 3: Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. 32 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: Aurora police have said that forty five year old James 33 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: Craig started an affair before his wife died on March eighteenth, 34 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: and had looked up information online, including is arsenic detectable 35 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 2: in an autopsy and how to make a murder seem 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: like a heart attack. District Attorney John Kellner set it 37 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 2: a preliminary hearing in July that Craig's wife, Angela Craig 38 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: immediately began googling her symptoms, which included vertigo, shaking, and 39 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 2: cold lips. According to Kelly Lear, the coroner for a 40 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 2: Rapahoe County, Angela Craig, a mother of six who had 41 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 2: been married to her husband for twenty three years, died 42 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: from cyanide and tetra hydrazelene poisoning. Tetra Hydrazelene is a 43 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: chemical that may be found in over the counter eye drops. 44 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 2: James Craig's defense lawyer, Andrew Hoe, predicts a jury trial 45 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: following the hearing last week that resulted in the arraignment 46 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: of Craig being postponed until October ninth. Craig's attorneys claimed 47 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: at the July hearing that there was no concrete proof 48 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 2: that Craig had put poison in his wife shakes, and 49 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: that the lead detective was biased against Craig. The hearing's 50 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 2: testimony in the affidavit did not mention how the investigators 51 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 2: think that the tetrahydrazelene poisoning of Angela Craig came about. 52 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 3: Craig has also been accused of tampering with the evidence. 53 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 3: Those specifics of that charge have not been made public. 54 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 3: A Connecticut man who spent time on death row before 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 3: his conviction was overturned in twenty twenty, has now pleaded 56 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 3: guilty to a murder charge and been given a forty 57 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 3: six and a half year prison term. According to his lawyer, 58 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 3: Joe Lopez, thirty eight year old Lazelle Ashby submitted his 59 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 3: plea as part of a deal with the prosecutor and 60 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 3: the family of Elizabeth Garcia, his twenty one year old victim. 61 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 3: Prosecutors say that as her two year old daughter watch 62 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 3: TV in a neighbor's apartment in two thousand and two, 63 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:31,399 Speaker 3: Garcia was allegedly murdered inside her Hartford apartment. Lazelle Ashby 64 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 3: has already received three sentences for Garcia's murder. He was 65 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 3: originally found guilty of several offenses, including a capital felony, 66 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 3: sexual assault, and kidnapping. In two thousand and eight, he 67 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 3: was given the death penalty. After Connecticut repealed the death 68 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 3: penalty in twenty sixteen, he received a new life sentence. 69 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 3: In twenty twenty, the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered a new 70 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: trial for Ashby after ruling that the judge had violated 71 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 3: his rights by allowing testimony from another prisoner, who claimed 72 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,559 Speaker 3: Ashby had confessed to the crime while he was incarcerated. 73 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 3: Lopez said Ashby denied kidnapping or sexually assaulting Garcia. Now 74 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: to Alabama, as we're learning that the states suggested methods 75 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 3: for carrying out nitrogen gas executions include covering the prisoner's 76 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: face with a mask and replacing their oxygen with nitrogen 77 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: until their heart stopped beating once again. Crime Online Sydney Sumner. 78 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: In a redacted court brief, Alabama detailed how the new 79 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 2: execution method would work. The state is aiming to be 80 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: the first to use nitrogen to execute a prisoner. In Alabama, Oklahoma, 81 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 2: and Mississippi, nitrogen hypoxia has been approved as a method 82 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 2: of execution, although no state has yet utilized it to 83 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 2: carry out a death sentence. Humans breathed seventy eight percent nitrogen, 84 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 2: which is safe to inhale when combined with adequate oxygen levels. 85 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 2: According to Alabama's plan, a convict would be forced to 86 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 2: breathe only nitrogen as part of the nitrogen hypoxia execution procedure, 87 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 2: which would deprive them of the oxygen they required maintain 88 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 2: their basic functions, and result in their death. 89 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 3: Just this past week, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall requested 90 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 3: that the state's Supreme Court schedule fifty eight year old 91 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 3: Kenneth Smith to be put to death by way of 92 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 3: nitrogen hypoxia. Smith was one of two men convicted in 93 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 3: the nineteen eighty eight murder for hire killing of a 94 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 3: preacher's wife. 95 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: Echo Lloyd's adult daughter comes by her mom's Missouri home 96 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: with flowers and a car to which here a happy 97 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: Mother's Day, but Lloyd doesn't seem to be home. Her 98 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: daughter leaves the gifts and a note asking mom to 99 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: call her. Lloyd's daughter tries to call several times after 100 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: and comes back the next day. When she can't get 101 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 1: her mom, she breaks in through a window and notices 102 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: it looks like someone other than her mom has just 103 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,239 Speaker 1: been inside. There's a pile of trash and rotting food 104 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: left out, uncharacteristic off her mother. Her mom's car, purse, 105 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: and most of her things are left behind, but her keys, 106 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: her gun, phone, and medications all gone. The daughter discovers 107 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: the Walmart receipt from mother Day signed by Echo, but 108 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: there's no other indication where she may have gone. Echo 109 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: Lloyd now missing over three years If you have info 110 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: on Echo Lloyd, please call Missouri Highway Patrol eight hundred 111 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: eighty seven seven three four five two. For the latest 112 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with 113 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: this crime alert. 114 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Grace.