WEBVTT - Crime Alert Recap Saturday 08.16.25 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.840 On Jackie Howard. Hairstylist Ashley Elkins thirty disappears from her 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.280 Michigan home just after New Year's The mom of two 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.640 goes out to run errands but never comes home. Ashley's 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.840 family pushes hard for police to investigate her disappearance, and 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:23.880 as they do, video evidence indicates a terrible outcome. Authorities 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.560 begin investigating Ashley's ex, DeAndre Booker thirty three, after her 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.760 phone is tracked to Booker's home family member Sae. Days 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.000 before Elkin's disappearance, Booker allegedly showed up to Ashley's home 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.440 salon under a fake name. The hairdresser hid until he left. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:46.599 Investigators then searched Booker's home, where Roseville police claim to 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.960 have recovered items which indicate Ashley is a violent crime victim. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.680 Video evidence has also surfaced showing a man believed to 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.560 be Booker, pushing a cart toward a dumpster. According to 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.280 court testimony, the cart contained something covered in a white sheet. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.040 The man struggles to lift the contents into the dumpster. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.320 An officer testified that he saw what seemed to be 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.880 an arm hanging off from the cart. The man is 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.840 not clearly identifiable, but the detective says he appears to 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:22.080 have similarities with Booker's clothing from earlier that day. A 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.080 dark coat with a fur hood, black pants with holes 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.960 in them, a black hat, black shoes with white bottoms. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.320 Similar clothing was found in Booker's home. Booker has been 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.839 charged with first degree murder, tampering with evidence, disinterment, mutilation, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.440 and concealing a death. He has pleaded not guilty. Ashley 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.679 Elkins's body has not been found. War Crime and Justice 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:57.520 News After this. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:58.760 I'm Nicole pardon, new details emerged concerning convicted killer Brian Kolberger. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:03.240 On Christmas in twenty twenty two, Coburger celebrated the holiday 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.520 with his family, unaware it would be the last taste 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.120 of freedom he would experience. As many settled in for 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.480 the night with festivities and food, family and gifts, Coburger 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:19.440 engaged in a chilling pursuit. He began downloading extensive information 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.880 about serial killers. This wasn't just a casual search. He 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:29.280 focused on over twenty specific individuals notorious for their crimes, 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.480 a task that kept him busy well into the early 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.480 hours of the next day. According to digital forensics expert 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.400 Heather Barnhardt, Barnhardt, a Sans Institute fellow and senior director 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.840 of forensic Research, was enlisted by the Leyta County Prosecutor's 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.720 office to investigate Coburger's cell phone and hard drive in 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.799 search of evidence. By the time her team received the devices, 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.120 much had been deleted. However, they uncovered a significant amount 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.080 of downloads from the faithful. Due to one critical air 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:07.680 Coburger made, many believed that downloads made incognito mode remain private, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:13.080 but that's a misconception, Barnhart clarifies. Although Colberger attempted to 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.240 erase his desktop and hard drive of incriminating files, he 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:22.200 overlooked clearing his Android device. This oversight led Barnhart to 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:28.000 discover his downloads on notorious serial killers, including Betty Lou Beets, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:33.560 Randy Kraft, William Lee, Cody Neil, Danny Rowling, Joyle Rifkin, 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:39.320 Ted Bundy, Glenn Rodgers, Carrie Stainer, John Wayne Gacy, Robert Hanson, 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:46.440 Gary Ridgeway, David Parker, ray Ed Kemper, Dennis Rader, and others. Interestingly, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.920 Barnhart noted that Coberger had previously researched Danny Rowling the 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.560 Gainesville Ripper. On November nineteen, just a week after the 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.840 murders took place. The Idaho murders bore a striking resemblance 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.480 to Rollings Heines acts of nineteen ninety, where he killed 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.880 five college students, four women, and one man by breaking 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.119 into their homes through the sliding glass door and fatally 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.960 stabbing them with a k bar knife. Similarly, Coburger also 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.560 murdered four college students, three women, one man, using the 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.880 same method of entry and the same weapon. The primary 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.120 distinction lies in the fact that Rolling sexually assaulted his victims, 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.440 while prosecutors have found no evidence suggesting Coburger did the same. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.040 Unlike Coburger, Rolling was executed for his crimes. In the 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.800 aftermath of the murders. Coburger closely followed the developments of 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.159 the case, downloading updates from the Moscow Police Department nine 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:47.000 times between November twenty six and December twenty eight, including 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.080 four different versions on December twenty eight alone. Just three 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.919 days later, he was arrested by Pennsylvania State troopers, leading 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:59.680 to Barnhardt's involvement in examining his digital evidence. Having lent 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.880 her for forensic expertise to high profile cases, including Crystal Rogers' 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.120 case and the Delphi murders. Barnhart led a team that 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.640 included Jared Barnhart, Josh Hickman, In Whiffen, and others. They 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.640 face the challenges of piecing together evidence left by Colberger, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.840 a former criminology student who had been meticulous in erasing 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:25.000 his digital footprint. Fortunately, the extensive downloads on serial killers 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:30.440 provided a crucial breakthrough. In the end, everyone makes mistakes, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:35.800 Barnhart concluded, Listen, this is a shooting that is so 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.960 ridiculous in nature that you can't even explain it. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.359 I'm Drew Nelson. Four senior citizens are recovering after a 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.600 shooting at a Detroit senior living complex, and the police 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.120 say began as a love triangle. The incident happened at 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:53.080 Shared in Place apartments on East Jefferson Avenue. Prosecutors say 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.880 seventy eight year old James Albert Britton argued with a 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.200 sixty five year old man during a barbecue behind their building. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.839 Witnesses if Britain was angry over his former girlfriend, a 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.440 sixty five year old woman dating the man, who is 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.680 in a wheelchair. Some neighbors first thought the conflict was 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.840 about loud music. Deputy Chief Arnold Williams said Britain told 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.160 the group if they did not stop, he would quote 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.760 come down and take care of them. He came down 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.279 star firing shots. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.320 Three people were wounded from him firing no shots. One 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.400 of the Eddivisions who was shot, tackled him. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:26.279 Took him to the ground. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:27.400 He dropped his weapon. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.080 Agus America picked a weapon up in a self defense, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.320 fired a weapon and wounded him. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.520 All three victims thankfully survived. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.719 When you're in your seventies, this should not be what's 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:37.120 going on. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.400 All four people were taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital in 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.919 stable condition. Britain was arraigned on Thursday on four counts 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.039 of assault with intent to murder and multiple weapons charges. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.680 He's being held on a half million dollar cash or 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.479 surety bond with conditions of GPS monitoring on house arrest. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.280 A bond hearing is set for Monday, with more court 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.680 dates on August twenty seventh and September third. The shooting 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.760 prompt Detroit Councilmember Mary Waters to call for the establishment 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.200 of conflict resolution teams and what she called quote unquote 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:11.160 high priority senior living facilities. She said her office will 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.160 work with police and health officials to address gun violence 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.200 and such trauma in those settings. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:22.280 I'm Jennifer Gould, a quadruple murder suspect accused of executing 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.120 four family members in a West Tennessee Slaughter is about 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.160 to become a father with a woman who is not 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.480 only a former prison guard where he was incarcerated, but 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:38.920 is also the relative of his victims. Austin Drummond, twenty eight, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.760 who is facing the death penalty for the brutal killings, 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.280 appeared in court to face his charges, but the shocking 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.080 twist came when his attorney requested a judge modify a 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:55.480 no contact order so Drummond could communicate with his pregnant girlfriend, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.200 Caitlin Speed. Drummond's attorney spoke to the media, the. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.480 Family's indicate at least reached out to me that she 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.960 would like to at least give him a message. We 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.960 don't want to violate any of the no contact restraining orders, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:09.400 so I just wanted to clarify. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.920 The judge denied the request, but the public now knows 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:17.600 the full disturbing truth of their relationship. Speed, a former 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:22.520 corrections officer, is reportedly carrying Drummond's child, a boy due 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.160 in October. The baby will be a first cousin to 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.440 two of his alleged victims. The Heinus crime unfolded on 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.040 July twenty ninth, when the bodies of James Matthew Wilson 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:39.240 twenty one, Adriana Williams twenty, Courtney Rose thirty eight, and 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:44.800 Brayden Williams fifteen were discovered in a wooded area in Tiptonville. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.800 Authorities later confirmed that all four victims had been shot 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.320 to death. A seven month old infant, the daughter of 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.560 Wilson and Adriana Williams, was found abandoned but safe in 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:01.320 a front yard nearly forty miles away, was captured after 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:06.040 a week long manhunt, hiding in a poolhouse. The relationship 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:10.160 between Drummond and Caitlin Speed began while he was serving 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:15.640 a thirteen year sentence for armed robbery at Northwest Correctional Complex. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.520 At that time, Speed was a corrections officer at the 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.840 facility and is the sister of victim Courtney Rose. Photos 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.120 and videos posted on a Facebook account believed to belong 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:33.000 to Drummond show a disturbingly lavish prison life, with him 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.280 posing with cell phones, a handheld video game system, and 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:42.160 even a bottle of Chirock liquor. These privileges and contraband 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:47.280 items strictly prohibited have fueled speculation that his romance with 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:52.280 Speed enabled these actions. The Tennessee Department of Corrections fired 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.000 Speed in October of twenty twenty four, citing her relationship 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:01.400 with Drummond. Despite her termination, they continued their relationship. The 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.240 motive for the killings remains under investigation. One of the 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.480 victim's relatives wrote on social media that Drummond had been 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.559 quote nothing short of amazing end quote to the family, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.320 making the alleged crimes an even more profound shock to all. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.600 Drummond's next court date is September fourth. For the latest 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.920 crime and justice news, follow the Crime Alert hourly update 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.560 on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:28.480 Jennifer Gooler.