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51: 19 Year Old Andrea Vasquez Murdered, Sarah Boone Update, New BTK Victims, Safari Killer Husband Update, and Bryan Kohberger Waives Speedy Trial?!

2023/8/24
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Annie Elise报道了19岁加州大学生Andrea Vasquez被绑架和谋杀的案件,凶手Gabriel Esparza已被捕,并被控多项罪名,包括谋杀、绑架和企图强奸。警方表示,这似乎是一起随机袭击事件。 Annie Elise还更新了其他几个案件,包括牙医Lawrence Rudolph在非洲狩猎旅行中杀害妻子的案件,Lawrence Rudolph被判终身监禁;BTK连环杀手Dennis Rader的案件,调查人员在他的旧房产中发现了可能与其他谋杀案有关的物品;爱达荷州四重谋杀案被告Brian Kohberger放弃了快速审判的权利;以及被告莎拉·布恩的案件,她的律师请求撤案,并建议她自己为自己辩护。 Carrie Rawson讲述了她与父亲BTK(Dennis Rader)会面的经历,以及他如何没有配合调查,但他向她提供了可能与未结案件有关的信息。她还谈到了调查人员正在进行的挖掘工作,以及他们发现的可能与受害者相关的物品。 警长Eddie Verdin详细介绍了在BTK旧址的挖掘工作,以及他们发现的物品,包括尼龙袜和其他可能与受害者相关的个人物品。他解释说,这些信息最初是由Dennis Rader在2008年提供给非执法人员的。

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Andrea Vasquez, a 19-year-old college student, was kidnapped and murdered in California. Gabriel Esparza has been charged with murder, kidnapping, and attempted rape. The police believe the attack was random.

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Hey everybody, welcome back to this week's episode of Headline Highlights. Happy Thursday. I hope you are all having a fantastic week. I don't know if you can tell by my voice, hopefully it's getting a little bit better, but I am a little under the weather, so I apologize if my voice is raspier than usual, but hopefully it's not, you know, too big of a deal and you're able to listen okay without, you know, wanting to pull your ears off of your head. So, I'm going to be talking about

So anyways, welcome to this week's episode of Headline Highlights. We've got a lot to talk about, guys, because in today's episode, we are going to discuss the latest news on everything that's going on this week in the true crime world. And boy, is there a lot.

This week there have been some very disturbing new cases as well as updates to ongoing cases. This includes a targeted attack and kidnapping of a 19-year-old college student in California, an update on the dentist who killed his wife on an African safari trip, which I did a deep dive of that over on my YouTube channel not too long ago, Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, the serial killer, we've got updates on him,

Sarah Boone, the nutjob who, you know, zipped her partner in a suitcase and murdered him and is on trial. And of course, we also have updates in the case against Brian Koberger, the accused quadruple murderer of the Idaho students. So let's just jump kind of right into everything, guys.

Andrea Vasquez is a 19-year-old college student who was kidnapped just after midnight on Sunday in the Penn Park parking area in California. She was with her boyfriend in their vehicle when an armed individual approached them and then fired several shots.

The police distributed an urgent missing persons poster as the hunt for Andrea ensued after her abduction. Her family used her phone location to try and track her down, which ultimately led the police to search in Moreno Valley, California. When the armed guy first came to the car, the boyfriend fled. And when he came back to the vehicle, he noticed a trail of blood and Andrea wasn't there. So from the jump, it was obviously very alarming and very concerning.

So they were able to track everything down over into Moreno Valley. So police there initiated an expansive search operation, deploying drones and police dogs in all of the area. However, late on Monday at approximately 11.50 p.m., Andrea's body was found in an area near where the phone had last signaled, specifically at the cross section of Alessandro Boulevard and Merwin Street in Moreno Valley.

During the investigation, police linked a 2013 model white Toyota Tacoma and found a gun believed to be connected to the crime. And both the gun and the car, or truck I should say, all belonged to a 20-year-old from Whittier named Gabriel Esparza.

He was taken into custody in Lakewood at his job site in relation to Andrea's kidnapping and shooting. He was charged with murder, kidnapping, attempted murder on her boyfriend who fled, and attempted rape.

In court on Wednesday, Gabriel made his initial appearance and entered a plea of not guilty to all of his charges. The Whittier Police Department currently believes that the attack on Andrea was random and not targeted, and there isn't any sort of connection between Gabriel and Andrea or her family members. So nobody knows why this happened.

sudden random attack after midnight happened on her and her boyfriend what led to this any sort of history about Gabriel all of the details are still being put together and coming out but right now he is in custody and does not have bail so hopefully some answer soon so that Andrea's family members and friends can get a little bit more clarity into the situation and hopefully of course get justice and peace as they continue to grieve

Moving over into the safari murder case, there is an update to a case that I previously did on YouTube about a dentist who had killed his wife while they were on a hunting trip in Africa. It was all part of a plot with an affair, life insurance scheme, and

It was very, very convoluted and very interesting actually. So I will link that in the show notes because it is a very bizarre case. You've got like the love triangle. You have the new money after the wife is gone. It's some really weird stuff.

So just this week, Lawrence Rudolph, who is now 68 years old, received a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Bianca. And that murder had taken place back in October of 2016. And it was the final day of their hunting trip to...

The details were like she was apparently like breaking down one of the shotguns and cleaning it and then it fired and that's what the story he was trying to tell. Again, very, very odd, very crazy detail. So I will link it in the show notes. But anyways, the prosecution believes that Lawrence intentionally did shoot his wife Bianca directly in her heart using that 12 gauge shotgun encased in a soft cover, staging it as the accident as though she was cleaning it.

Lawrence's version was that the shotgun accidentally went off when she was trying to store it after cleaning it, packing for them to leave the trip. But the prosecution also believed that Lawrence's girlfriend, Lori Milleron, who was employed in Lawrence's office, had pressured Lawrence to separate from his wife. Like I said, a shady love triangle.

On August 21st, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Colorado revealed Lawrence's sentencing details. Apart from life imprisonment for murder, he's serving a simultaneous 20-year term for insurance fraud. Judge William decreed Lawrence to remit nearly $4.9 million as restitution, a fine of $2 million, and an additional $200.

The U.S. Attorney's Office also said, and I quote, "...regardless of wealth, status, or influence, accountability for one's offenses is inevitable."

Lawrence and his girlfriend Lori were found guilty in August of 2022. However, Lori faced convictions for being an accessory to murder, obstructing justice, and two perjury counts. So she received a 17-year sentence back in June of this year. Lawrence's attorney said that they do intend to appeal the verdict in his case, so TBD on that, but it's not looking good for old buddy boy Lawrence.

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Now I want to move over into BTK, also known as the horrific serial killer, Dennis Rader. There's been, of course, comparisons with Brian Koberger and him. But anyways, yesterday Brian Enten from News Nation tweeted out, and I'm going to read this verbatim for you so that I don't mess this up.

Investigators are at Dennis Rader's, BTK's, old property and they are digging. We are told Oklahoma authorities are in Kansas looking into what ties Rader may have to missing persons and murders in Oklahoma.

I'm on the phone with Carrie Rawson, who is BTK's daughter, and he was on the phone with her while he was tweeting. He continues to say,

Carrie tells me her dad was not cooperative with her and is not cooperating with the investigation, but she is having ongoing conversations with her father. So after the digging started, investigators said that items of interest were recovered at the former residence of Dennis Rader. At this stage, investigators say BTK is a suspect in unsolved cases, including the Cynthia Dawn Kinney case from Pawhuska.

So the items found that were of interest turned out to be pantyhose, among other things that weren't disclosed. Investigators believe those items could link him to other murders. We've got Sheriff Eddie Verdin. He actually oversaw the dig. Sheriff, thank you so much for being with us. I know your office has described what was found as items of interest. Sheriff, can you give us any more detail on exactly what you dug up out there at BTK's former house?

Well, yesterday was our actual second time that we'd been to that location and done a dig.

So originally there was a building in that location that had been removed back when they removed the house and the other items. And then a sidewalk was constructed right over the top of the site. So basically through our investigation, we developed some information Dennis had sent to another person describing where items were.

that he basically claimed as trophies and maybe driver's license from other victims had been placed and had not been found. On the first trip up under the edge of the concrete, we found

a set of pantyhose that appeared to have been possibly tied around someone. And from that information, we went back to Park City and visited with KBI. And yesterday, they removed the concrete for us to actually look where

The information said those items were buried and in those locations we found several items that we feel like could possibly relate back to victims or maybe to bindings used with victims. So you found pantyhose. Are you able to link those pantyhose at this point to any specific case?

Well, at this point, they're collected and they're in and they'll be evaluated later time to see if there's any DNA or any type of evidence that could be related. Any other items that you can share that were located? Sheriff, I saw we had the video. You can see where the sidewalk was split. I assume that's where the shed was at one point. Any other specifics on the items that you found?

Well, you know, I can tell you the items were all probably 14 to 16 inches below ground. One of them appeared to be a manufactured constructed hole that had been lined with composition shingles to possibly protect the brick at the bottom as kind of a base.

And then items have been placed in there. We did not find driver's license, but we did find items that would be personal type items that obviously were significant for somebody to go through that effort to place those items there.

And again, the information that we were working on was originally created by Dennis back in 2008 and sent to non-law enforcement. So we have no idea whether someone else had removed items from that location prior to that sidewalk being put there or not.

Wow, this is a big development, though, the fact that you found items that could be significant, including the pantyhose. I'm curious, Sheriff, you've actually went and talked with BTK Dennis Rader several times yourself as part of this investigation. What was that like? Has he been forthcoming with any information related to these these cases that you're looking into?

We've had long conversations, interviews, you know, information has come out that we feel is very relevant to our case. And then going through items that we've discovered and been shared with other law enforcement on, you know, the search originally done back in '05, those items have tied in.

FROM THOSE DOCUMENTS, WE BELIEVE HE'S TIED IN WITH OUR CASE AND OUR PRIME SUSPECT AND POSSIBLY ON SEVERAL OTHER CASES IN KANSAS AND ONE IN MISSOURI. YEAH, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS ALMOST A GAME TO HIM THAT HE CALLS THIS WHOLE INVESTIGATION THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON SOMETHING ABOUT LIKE FOLLOWING THE YELLOW BROOK ROAD AND THAT HE'S EVEN NICKNAMED YOU THE COWBOY. I MEAN, DO YOU GET THE SENSE THAT HE'S TAKING ANY OF THIS SERIOUSLY?

Oh, I think he's absolutely taken it seriously. But again, he's had a history of cat and mouse with police since the 70s. I'm up until this capture and I don't expect a change now. Carrie Rawson, BTK's daughter, also spoke to Ashley Banfield, where she says that BTK is in a wheelchair and rotting to his core.

You volunteered to do something that I can't imagine was very easy for you. After 18 years of not seeing your father, you sat face to face with him. Tell me about it.

Well, starting in January, my dad was releasing news to another outlet about Cynthia Kinney after Osage investigators were going and visiting him. What was happening was that Osage was going in pretty cold, not with much information, and then my father was turning around making phone calls to people after they left, like

like basically building a case like for why he could be involved in the kidnapping and disappearance of Cynthia Kinney. So this information then was coming out through another outlet. And so I had been on record for months saying, no, it was just the 10, you know, just like all experts would have told you until maybe yesterday that it was just the 10.

Then in June, you know, we found out about Shauna Garber. She was found murdered in southwest Missouri in 1990. And that one actually really more fits his MO with the bondage, the way her body was found and the way she was dubbed. So then I really was just wondering what was going on.

And I reached out to McDonald County, Missouri, and they quickly got me over to Osage County, Oklahoma, and flew me in within days. And then, like, I literally met with my Osage team, and then the next morning I was meeting my dad in prison. Yeah.

I can't imagine that first moment when you were face to face. I guess a two-pronged question. What was it like for you? And did he say anything to you of value? Oh, goodness, Ashley. First, like we just had a reunion. I mean, I hadn't seen him in 18 years. He hadn't seen me. We had been cut off.

For two years, it had been letters all that time before that. So it took him a minute to process who I was. He's lost like seven inches and he's in a wheelchair. He's pretty much rotting like to his core. And so he didn't even necessarily recognize me. So we had to have a family reunion. And then I just basically laid it out that I was there with Osage investigators. And at that time with the Donald County, that my team literally was in a holding room.

and that we were there to talk about serious things and it was the first time he ever dropped his mask and became BTK in front of me. So did he tell you anything of value or did he stonewall you like he's been stonewalling investigators?

Oh, he was running me down rabbit holes. And then when I went back about a month later, he was running me down about 500 rabbit holes where you can't get him to focus. I asked him, use your intellect here and tell us what you think happened to Shauna Garber. Apply that. Put yourself in somebody's shoes. And he came up with these theories and things, but then he gave me an alibi and

I'm literally believing him even though I know he's a pathological liar. And then I go meet up with my team and they're like, he just lied to you. And I was like, prove it to me. And they pulled up a calendar and proved it to me. And then I was like, okay, he's yours taking like frying because he's literally sitting there lying to his daughter that he hadn't seen in 18 years.

They have given him this immunity deal that pertains to this tri-state area where they believe at least these two women and maybe more could be. Is there anything that can actually entice your father to give up any goods? Would an immunity deal do anything given he's in prison for life anyway?

Well, the idea is that if he would take immunity, like it would spare my family from having to go through possible grand juries and trials as like witnesses, his extended family, it would spare the community. My dad basically said maybe he would like to go out like a Roman candle.

It's important to understand, though, that it's not my dad pushing these. He's very unhappy with what's going on. It's the investigators doing the hard, everyday work of investigating or pushing these cases. We're coming up against a man that's playing lots of games.

My father does not want to be put in a van and woken up in Oklahoma in a holding cell for, you know, the kidnapping of Cynthia Kinney. He wants to live his life out at the prison that he's at. So that's one pressing point that if he's not going to cooperate, then we're going to do this the legit hard way. And he's going to wake up some morning somewhere he doesn't want to be.

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So while staying on the BTK train, let's move over into Brian Koberger, the accused murderer in Idaho. Brian Koberger is a former

brian was in court yesterday for a status conference after he had just had one last friday it was suspected his defense may have told him that he needed to waive his right to a speedy trial and that's exactly what happened the state accepted brian's waiver request saying while they would prefer to resolve this case sooner rather than later they want the prosecution and the defense to be properly prepared

So now his trial will no longer start on October 2nd, 2023, and it could potentially take years. Now, although this was expected and everybody isn't surprised really that he did waive his right to a speedy trial, it is a devastating blow to the victim's families because now they have to continue to suffer and await justice to be had.

The Gonsalves family issued a statement that they were worried about this outcome happening, saying that, you know, they just want it to be over. They just want this to end. His defense also filed a motion to remove cameras from the courtroom. According to KLXY News, the Death Penalty Information Center says in Idaho, capital cases with trials took 20.5 months to reach a conclusion, which is seven months longer than non-capital cases.

A status hearing will be held on September 1st where a new trial start date could possibly be set. So stay tuned for that.

Now moving into nutjob Sarah Boone, and sorry, but this lady is a complete nutjob in my opinion. The accused suitcase killer who stuffed her boyfriend in a suitcase while he was alive might now be representing herself in court after the attorney representing her has asked to withdraw from her case and also recommended that his client represent herself.

This came after Sarah wrote yet another letter to the judge in her case complaining about the lack of communication with her lawyer. According to reports from Court TV, Sarah has gone through a number of attorneys in her case. Her initial attorney, Mauricio Padilla, withdrew from the case in May 2022 and was followed by a series of public defenders who each left the case citing conflicts of interest.

Frank Bankowitz was formally named Sarah's attorney on July 11, 2022. Her attorney now has filed a motion to withdraw on August 22, and he cited irreconcilable differences, saying that the defendant will not be satisfied with any attorney unless said attorney does not have a caseload and can dedicate his or her time solely to Ms. Boone's case.

also wrote in the motion that was submitted to the court that the best possible avenue is to have the defendant represent herself as no attorney can satisfy her.

So going back to those letters sent to the judge, in a number of letters sent to Judge Wayne Wooten, who is overseeing the case, Sarah has complained about access to her attorney. She had said in one, I, as Mr. Bankowitz's clients, cannot communicate with him via phone due to him still not activating one of two numbers he's given that do not work. And he keeps giving me different reasons why each time I ask and says to keep trying.

So she wrote that in a letter dated August 2nd and said that this has been ongoing for 13 months and counting. In the letter, Sarah asked the judge to communicate with her attorney on her behalf. Her message included a letter sent to her from a private investigator who said that he could not proceed with her case unless her attorney contacted the jail on her behalf.

Saying in the letter continuing,

So in his motion to withdraw, her attorney said that he has been in murder trials for the last 60 days and is currently the attorney representing a defendant charged with capital murder, which absorbs all of his time, including weekends. Sarah's trial is currently scheduled for October 2nd, and she's being held without bond and faces life in prison if she's convicted. Now, look, she is a nut job in my opinion, don't get me wrong, but I do understand the frustration if this is true.

If her trial is set to start on October 2nd in like a month and a half, and she's not able to get in touch with her attorney, and this private investigator doesn't have access to Sarah in jail because her attorney has to allow that access, I get why that's frustrating. While I also certainly can understand a heavy workload being involved in capital murder cases, which involves so much heavy lifting on the attorney's end, it's

It still would be worrisome to anybody that you can't get in touch with your attorney. But I think a lot of what's happening now here is because so many attorneys have withdrawn from her case, it's kind of not like the boy who cried wolf, so to say, but like kind of like arsonist.

are you the problem? Are you the common denominator? Or in this situation, is the attorney really the issue? So it's going to be interesting to see what happens and if she gets another attorney or if she does represent herself, which if she represents herself,

I think it'll be scary for her legally, but I think it could be entertaining for all of us as spectators. So more to come on that, guys. What else is happening this week in the headlines? There hasn't really been much else movement besides the big things that I just told you guys about. I think the Brian Koberger one was what everybody was kind of waiting for, even though, again, it didn't really surprise a ton of people out there.

So I will keep you guys posted with what happens in these. Again, if there is a big enough update in any of these cases that we've been talking about, I will do a dedicated episode. But I feel like having these headline highlights episodes as many recaps on Thursdays is just a good way to get all the bite-sized information to keep current with the cases, hear of the new cases coming down the pike.

So that, you know, you stay in the know of everything going on in the true crime world. But again, for bigger cases, I will, of course, always upload those over on my YouTube as sole episodes. And you know, every Monday here over on Serialistly, we do a single dedicated episode to a deep dive on a case. So we have a new one coming up this Monday, which is awesome.

crazy. I've covered it on my YouTube channel in the past too. It's about the Microsoft murder, Jared Bright again. New information has come out in that this week. It's a wild one. So I will link that video for you from my past episode coverage in the show notes, but we also are going to be doing all of the updates in that case this Monday. So you can get fully caught up with all of the new information on Monday.

Also, so beyond excited to finally officially announce that merch will be live September 5th. Now, we have very, very, very limited quantities available for this first go-around, so the pre-order will open on the 5th. If you go to shop10tolife.com right now, you can put your email in there so you get notified as soon as the pre-order is open so that you don't miss out before it sells out. But I'm really excited for you guys to see this merch because it's not just like

logos or my channel name it's actual like cool true crime merch for anybody who is into true crime whether you listen to this podcast other podcasts whether you have a friend who is into true crime and you want to gift them something it's a lot of cool stuff and we've been working really hard on it it's taken almost a year so I'm really excited we have it finally going anyway so that's September 5th and other than that I will be seeing you guys fresh and early next Monday for an all new case deep dive

Sorry again about my voice. I hope it's better by the time we talk on Monday, but hopefully it goes away soon because this voice is just not the business. All right, guys, thanks again for tuning in to an all new episode of Headline Highlights. Please take a second to rate and review this podcast. Tell me what you like. Tell me what you want to hear more of so that I can always pivot and deliver you guys the content you want to hear. So let me know in the review section what you want to hear more about. All right, guys, thanks again. I will talk with you very soon. Signing off and I'm going to go drink some honey tea. Bye.

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