1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner. 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: Federal authority stepped in on Wednesday and charged a man 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: train with terrorism. The federal charge against fifty year old 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: Lawrence Reed carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: The twenty six year old woman was hospitalized in critical 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: condition after the attack on Chicago's Blue Line train downtown. 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: The incident took place just before nine thirty pm Monday, 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: as the train pulled into the Clark Lake station. The 10 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: suspect poured gasoline on the woman and lit it. He 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: fled the train ahead of the woman engulfed in flames, 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: who has not been named. Bystanders had extinguished the blaze 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: by the time first responders arrived, but the victim was 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: severely burned on her body and head. Although witnesses said 15 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: the suspect in the woman argued before the incident, federal 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: court records say Reed doused her with gasoline from a 17 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,319 Speaker 1: plastic bottle without comment, and tried to ignite it as 18 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: she tried to fight him off. Surveillance video showed her 19 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: running from one end of the train car to another 20 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: before Reid lit the bottle he carried the gasoline in 21 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: and used it to set the woman on fire. Chicago 22 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: police said Reid made incriminating statements after he was taken 23 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: into custody and had burns on his right hand. Reid 24 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: was a ratic during his initial court appearance on Wednesday, 25 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: claiming he was guilty, a Chinese citizen and that he 26 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: wanted to represent himself. Federal officials complained at a news 27 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: conference that Reid should have been in jail because of 28 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: his violent criminal history and his pending criminal cases, although 29 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: they declined to say what those were. Atf Special Agent 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: Christopher Amman said quote, Reid had plenty of second chances 31 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: by the criminal justice system, and as a result, you 32 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: have an innocent victim in the hospital fighting for her life. 33 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: US attorney Andrew Boutrow said that if the victim dies, 34 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: Reid would be eligible for the death penalty because he's 35 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: been charged in federal court. An Oregon woman was arrested 36 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: last week after police found her eleven year old son, 37 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: who was low functioning and nonverbal, unsupervised in the home 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: filled with excrement, wrought garbage, and piles of clothes and trash. 39 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: Ruby Atseyana Gadina Vellador, thirty two, was charged with three 40 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: counts of criminal mistreatment. Police were initially called when the 41 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: boy did not go to school that day and a 42 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: nine year old sibling was not picked up after school. 43 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: A family member asked for a welfare check, but no 44 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: one answered the door, and the family member requested to 45 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: file a missing persons report. Later, a neighbor called to 46 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: say she could hear the boy moving around inside the apartment. Again, 47 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: no one answered the door when police responded, but this 48 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: time they made an emergency entrance. They found feces smeared 49 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: on the walls, floor, and an air conditioning unit, and 50 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: the home smelled overwhelmingly of urine feces and rotted garbage. 51 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: The boy was sitting naked on a couch watching videos 52 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: on his phone. His mother was not in the room, 53 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: but police found her in another room, not wearing pants. 54 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 1: Police said Gadeina Vellador got dressed and was taken into custody. 55 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: It's unclear where either of the children are now. More 56 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: crime and justice news. After this, a sixty five year 57 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: old Illinois woman was found dead wrapped in plastic in 58 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: a garbage bin in a backyard shed and Her husband 59 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: has been charged with concealing her death for nearly two years. 60 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: Family members living in Texas sought a welfare check for 61 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: Nancy Corbin, saying they hadn't heard from her in that 62 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: time and feared her husband, fifty nine year old Adam Corbyn, 63 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: may have harmed her. Adam Corbin first told responding officers 64 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: that his wife was in Florida, then that she was 65 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: staying with friends. Later, he said she was in the 66 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: home and brought out a woman who claimed to be her. Officers, however, 67 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: quickly determined she was impersonating the missing woman. That woman 68 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: ultimately told police she had lived with the Corbyins and 69 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: Nancy suffered from significant health issues. Adam Corbyn told her 70 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: he found his wife dead in bed one morning and 71 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: put her body in a blue trash bin, poured chemicals 72 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: on it, and left it outside for nearly two years. 73 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: Police said surveillance video showed Corbin moving the trash bin 74 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: into a shed after police left. Inside the shed, officers 75 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: found human remains in the trash bin. The Sangamon County 76 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: Cordner identified the remains as Nancy Corbin. Corbin admitted to 77 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: moving the body after police visited the home and admitted 78 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: to receiving state's payment as his wife's caretaker long after 79 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: she was dead. During their initial visit to the home, 80 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 1: officers saw multiple firearms and plane view and then found 81 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: that Corvin did not have a firearm owner's identification card, 82 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: and during a follow up visit, he admitted he was 83 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: a convicted felon. Police seized seven firearms. Corbyn has been 84 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: charged with seven counts of unlawful possession of a weapon 85 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: by a convicted felon, one count of abuse of a 86 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: corpse removal without authorization, and one count of concealment of 87 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: a death. Las Vegas prosecutors told a court last week 88 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: that a teenage driver intentionally caused a twelve car pile up, 89 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: killing his pregnant girlfriend and the driver of one of 90 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: the other vehicles. They said they planned a charge nineteen 91 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: year old Jose Guttia is with murder. Clark County District 92 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: Attorney Steve Wolson told the court, quote, we believe he 93 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: was not impaired by alcohol or drugs, and therefore we believe, 94 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: based upon all the evidence to date, including a very 95 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: descriptive video, that his actions were intentional, which gives rise 96 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: to a charge of murder. Adeline Duran Rincon, twenty and 97 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: Edward Garcia, thirty eight, were pronounced dead at the scene 98 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: of the crash last Tuesday, and another person was hospitalized 99 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 1: with life threatening injuries. Rincon was a passenger in Gutierras's 100 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: Infinity Coup. Wolfson said Gutierras's view was not restricted and 101 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: he did not appear to break as he approached a 102 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: traffic light at a high rate of speed. Witnesses told 103 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,119 Speaker 1: police he appeared to be traveling around one hundred miles 104 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: per hour. Gutierres was charged with two counts of murder, 105 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: one count of attempted murder, reckless driving, and battery. For 106 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice breaking news, be sure to 107 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 1: follow the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast 108 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: app with this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.