Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk right now in true crime, and then together we're going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go. Warning this episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen with discretion. It drives me crazy thinking about her bones, you know, laying out somewhere and just being herself. We took a nap in the van and she got up one and go in them all And she went in supposedly, and I fell back to sleep for a while and woke up and went in looked for I made a mistake, but letting you go with them off. I shouldn't have done that. This season. On Missing in Hushtown season two, Bethany Markowski. I still ask one of our CID people about and their response, but they assured me that not one time was she seen on any video going inside that mall. Bethany Leanne Markowski was never seen entering the mall, walking through the mall, or exiting the mall. Number one, the most important thing to me is to find out what happened to Bethany. It's time to. Find Bethany, let her rest, and just know the truth. Bethany has paid the ultimate price, and you're not. Nobody can convince me that he didn't have anything to do with it. And if I make people mad, I don't care, because the ultimate goes to fond Bethany. Are we ever going to know what happened? I know Bethany is not the most famous missing person. She is to me, and I know she's not the most important person in the world. She's me. You are now a part of Bethany's brigade. Let's go. Missing in Hushtown. Season two is executive produced in partnership by Fireeyes Media LLC's Jules Thorpe and Jen Rivera, as well as mom Cast Productions Rachel Holloway and Heather Northcraft. Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode of Primetime Crime. It's Kylie. We are going to do things a little bit differently this week. I have a lot to talk about for right now in true crime, So this week's episode is just going to be a right now in True Crime catchup. But I will say there is quite a bit of breaking news in a bunch of different cold cases, So that's primarily what we're going to be talking about, So kind of an ode to what I normally do, but also a little bit different. And then the episode I had planned for this week, I'm saving for the weekend after Thanksgiving so I can take some much needed time off from researching and scriptwriting and all of the things, because I very much want to have a whole week off to enjoy some time off of my full time job and spend some time with family. So let's get into it. In November of twenty ten, in Michigan, there were three boys who went missing, Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner, ages nine, seven, and five, and they were the sons of John and Tanya. John and Tanya were going through a divorce a little bit of a custody dispute, and the kids were visiting John in Mourenci, Michigan, for Thanksgiving, and then the boys were supposed to be returned to their mom, but they never were returned to their mom. He had come up with the story that the boys were with a friend of his that he had met and that she was making them on a road trip to Florida, and that's kind of his story. It was very convoluted. There was a lot of back and forth. They of course, have done everything they have been able to to try to locate the boys. There has been a large scale searches, investigations over the last fifteen years, spanning across multiple different states, talking to multiple different people that might know something, and the boys still have not been located. And that happened in twenty ten. So John has been in prison since twenty ten because he was given fifteen years three counts of unlawful imprisonment and failing to return the children originally in twenty ten to their mother Tanya. So he has been locked away ever since then, and he was set to be released from prison on November twenty sixth. It was in the headlines he was getting out. They still didn't know what happened to the boys. He still isn't saying anything. He's basically just saying that he had nothing to do with anything. He doesn't know where they are. Tanya and her family have been very much trying to get the judge to declare the boys legally dead, because if that were the case, then they can move forward with hopefully pressing some charges against John. So they asked for that in March of this year and the judge granted that. So they officially have said that the boys have been legally dead since November twenty six of twenty ten. So here's where investigator's law enforcement are very much trying to work on building their case against John because if it goes to trial, they want to make sure that any charges that are brought against John are going to stick and that he will be convicted. So he is currently being held on a sixty million dollar bond and they have charged him. He is now fifty three years old. He was charged with three counts of open murder and three counts of tampering with evidence. Open murder basically means there is no bodies at this point in time. So I very much think that they were very strategic in the way that they planned this because he was set to be released just in the next week or so, and they were very strategic about the timing of things, everything that they have been trying to do, because I think, unfortunately with this one, the writing is on the wall. The person that John said he allegedly gave the kids too for this road trip to Florida never even existed. It was somebody that had befriended Tanya on a online forum type of website, and it was actually John that created the profile basically to keep tabs on Tanya. I guess this guy is allegedly, in my opinion, just not good news. And I think law enforcement really did everything they could to try and make sure that the charges stick and that there is a conviction. So that is kind of where we stand on things with that. I'll tell you prison has not done well for him. He looks a hell of a lot older than his age. He looks like he has been through it. He has a court appearance on November twenty fourth for it's a probable cause conference, and then he has a preliminary examination on December first, So I will be sure to keep you guys updated on that. Like I said, the boys' remains have never been found. I think with the judge declaring them legally dead, that there is a very small probability that the boys are still alive and out there. But if anything more does come out, I will be sure to keep you guys updated. But this one is one I did not see coming. I was honestly so upset that they were going to be letting this man out and there was going to be no charges, no further charges brought against him. So when I saw the charges that they put against him. I was elated to see that they are kind of on the same wavelength as all of us the public. But the good news is he will not be getting out anytime soon. All right. Cold case update, There has been an arrest announced in the nineteen ninety one murder of a woman named Cynthia Gonzales. They arrested a woman named Janie Perkins. And the way that this case was solved is so fascinating to me. I got chills reading the news article about it. So this happened in Arlington. Arlington Police announced an arrest in a thirty four year old case on Monday. Detective solved the nineteen ninety one murder of Cynthia Gonzales with the help of none other than a group of criminology students at the University of Texas at Arlington, So. Cynthia Gonzalez was reported missing in September of nineteen ninety one. She was a twenty five year old mom. She was a adult entertainer and she had left to meet a client and was never seen alive again. She was reported missing by her ex husband and then her car was later found abandoned on September twenty second of nineteen ninety one, her remains were found and she had been shot multiple times and her body was very much decomposing, and for three decades nobody knew what happened to this young mom. Arlington Police Department does not have a full time cold case unit, so they turned to the University of Texas at Arlington and at the start of the twenty twenty five fall semester, they launched a course with the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department and this group of students was given access to the materials from Cynthia's case and through them looking through the evidence what they had in correlation with detectives, they went on to requestion a woman named Janie Perkins, and she is now sixty three years old. The students thought that she needed to be requestioned because they noticed that her and Cynthia were friends and they also had a romantic partner in common, so that could have been means for a motive. And actually, several weeks before the homicide occurred, the partner that they shared had told Jane that they were going to end the relationship because this person wanted to be with Cynthia. So again you have two people that were friends, they shared a common romantic interest. The romantic interest decides he's going to break up with one and then the other one ends up dead. So of course she's like suspect number one in my book, and I think that's what these students thought as well. We need to re examine this, They need to go back and they need to requestion this woman. So they requestioned Janie and she had no alibi for the night that she went missing. She also failed to polygraph tests and when she was first questioned. I don't know why this wasn't a red flag, but she was asked if she knew who was involved in her disappearance and death, and she said no, but she did say that she was glad that she was dead and had even said that she had thought about killing her or having someone else kill her for her. So why wasn't this person the biggest red flag number one suspect. I have no idea what was going on, But the students went through this information, they realized this girl needs to be requestioned. So that's exactly what they did. And when investigators went back through all of the files and all of the interviews they did, they even discovered that different witnesses had said that Janie had admitted that she was the one involved in the murder and even given specific details about it, and she gave the details that only the killer would know. So she was arrested on November sixth on one count of capital murder and hopefully she will get her day in court. The students, of course, had such a big part in this. They said that they combed through four to five hundred files, photographs from the crime scene, and all of the different information, and there was just something about this particular person that stood out to them and they thought that it needed a second look. And when investigators gave it a second look, all of the things, all of the evidence was right there. And that is what I say when I mean it just takes one person with fresh eyes to look at something and see something that maybe somebody else didn't see. Maybe back in nineteen ninety one, what they had wasn't enough to bring charges and wasn't enough to have a case go to trial. But upon further inspection and looking at things a little fresher with twenty twenty five eyes, everything changed. And that is exactly what has happened here with this case. So Cynthia's daughter, who is named Jessica. She was only six years old when her mom was brutally taken from this earth, and she is quoted as saying, I am so grateful for this program, and so proud of these students at UTA, and so thankful for the time they have spent an effort they have put into this case. End quote. I was beside myself and I only found out last Thursday, So it's been a process and I'm still processing this end quote. She of course, is trying to navigate all of the emotions that come with this, from her mom's case being cold and at the bottom of a pile on someone's desk to it being solved so simply by students in a criminology class. It actually makes me so hopeful for our future that there are students out there who are learning and willing to re examine things and have a passion for helping others and solving these cases that so desperately need our attention, because there's families and real people behind them. And this story for me is just another reminder of why I like to share the cases that I share on here. And that class is also in the process of reviewing two other cold cases, which I think is so amazing, and I think there's been renewed hope now that this is something that is ongoing. And I think every college, if they have a large enough department, should be partnering with law enforcement on some of these cold cases, because so often we hear that police departments don't have enough people to work these cold cases, so they don't really have a dedicated person or persons or group that are sitting down and go through stacks and stacks and stacks of evidence and interviews and suspects, crime scene photos that is really what they need. So I think that this is a step in the right direction, and I think it's really cool to be alive in a time where students in a criminology class are helping crap hold cases. So next up, we're going to talk about a break in the case of Lori Ann Powell. She was eighteen years old when she went missing out of Virginia and then her body was found a month later floating in the James River near Craney Island. She was killed in nineteen eighty eight. So this case has been cold for a long time and there has really not been a whole lot of movement in regards to her case, and Virginia Police announced that they have identified a suspect and that is none other than a man named Alan Wade Wilmer, Senior, and he has officially been declared the person responsible for her homicide and they were able to identify him by forensic evidence. Unfortunately, but fortunately, he passed away in his home in December of twenty seventeen at the age of sixty three. But he has quite an extensive history and background because her case is the fourth one to be tied to him. So this guy is an absolute horrific human and monster. So in January of twenty twenty four, State Police announced that DNA had linked him to the death of a woman named Teresa Howell in Hampton in July of nineteen eighty nine, and also to the deaths of Robin Edwards and David Nobling, who were killed at Ragged Island Refuge in nineteen eighty seven. Howl and Edwards had both been sexually assaulted and the DNA match none other than Wilmer, so everything connected back to him. So they ended up sending Lori's DNA to DNA Labs International because she was found also kind of in the same general area that the others were found, and they thought maybe it could be connected and they got a hit. So he is responsible at least for four deaths, and god knows, there's probably more. Lorie's sisters spoke at the press conference and is quoted as saying to the dedicated investigators, forensic teams, and community members who never gave up finding justice for Laurie Ann Now. Law enforcement has said that Wilmer is the main suspect in the Virginia Colonial Parkway murders because of the other victims, they do think that this could be a serial killer. Obviously there's four people linked to him. He's a serial killer, but there could very much be more victims. There are two other people that went missing from that area in nineteen eighty eight, and that is the disappearance of Cassandra Haley and Keith call Now. Keith's carr was found on the Colonial Parkway, but neither one of their bodies have ever been found. Now. On February first of nineteen eighty eight, there was a body found partially closed, that of Brian Craig Peddinger, and he had been tied up and dumped in the water. So over a six month period of time, there were four people that have been thrown in or around the James River, all very much in the same area. So there very much could be a relation in all of these cases. He could be responsible for all of them and we just don't know it yet. And what I think is very interesting is they always say a serial killer has their mo they have a certain demographic. This guy obviously does not care. He goes after men and women, and I think that is evidenced by who's deaths he has been linked to. There's also a lot of other cases that are suspected to be linked to this individual as well, they just haven't been able to come up with the evidence to officially link it. I actually think I'm going to do a whole Colonial Parkway Murders episode and go through everything because there is so much here, and investigators are still looking for any leads or investigative tips that can help them solve the rest of these cases that are unsolved, because if they can link them to Alan Wilmer, then that is exactly what they want to do, so they can officially market case closed and the families can start to try and navigate their new normal of life, at least with having their loved ones case solved. All right, moving on to our next case update. So I talked about this briefly in a right now in True Crime, the discovery of of the body that was found in the tesla that belonged to Celeste Rivas Hernandez. She is a fifteen year old girl. She went missing and then her body was discovered inside of an impounded tesla that belonged to a singer named David. The A in David is the number four. So this happened in September, that's when she was found. And there's been a lot going on, kind of behind the scenes, I guess, because initially they were saying that there was no evidence that David was involved, there was even a person of interest necessarily, but they officially have come forward, the Los Angeles Police and said that he is considered a suspect in the investigation into her death. Now, there were initial rumors that he was being cooperative with the investigation, but now it is coming out that is not true. He is not cooperating with the investigation and has never cooperated with the investigation. There is a lot going on here. Because they allegedly started dating when Celeste was only thirteen. David is twenty. He is a grown human man, and there's no place on this planet that that is okay that you should be having any type of relationship with a child. She is a child, and her family I guess knew that she was in a relationship with this individual, but I guess she was also kind of missing at one point in time. I don't really know the dynamics, but this is just so messy and there's a lot going on here. I think even if he's not involved in her murder, obviously he had a very inappropriate relationship with this young child, not okay, not acceptable in any way, shape or form. And then her body ends up in your impouded tesla. It just isn't a good look. And it's being looked at as a murder investigation, because there was even in a while when we weren't really even sure if they were going to even say that it was a murder. Was her body just put there? Did she die accidentally? Did she overdose? There's so many questions that we still do not have answered, and I really do think that law enforcement is kind of keeping things hush hush on purpose because they're trying to formulate and build their case. But if anything more comes of this, which I'm sure it will, I will be sure to keep you guys updated. All right, onto Idaho for news. BK has been ordered to pay additional restitution. So he already is supposed to be paying three hundred thousand dollars plus in a restitution and they have added on an additional three thousand dollars to that amount because he needs to pay for the earns of Kaylee and Maddie. And honestly, my opinion on the matter is this individual should have zero in their commissary at all times and every things should just go to the families for the rest of time. So he actually has to live a super super miserable life behind bars and have no amenities, no fun snacks, nothing. He just exists and he eats prison food and prison food only, and he's just a miserable human behind bars because that is exactly what he deserves. I'm tired of talking about this guy, but any time that it's good news for the families and they get any little bit of anything, I want to talk about it. There was also another death on a cruise ship. A young girl named Anna Kepner was found deceased underneath the bed of her room on a cruise ship, and now there's an uncle coming out that says that her stepbrother is the one who's responsible. That is a whole deep dive kind of situation. She was only eight ten years old and she was allegedly found stabbed and under the bed in her room on this cruise ship. I'm not going to talk a whole lot about it because there's still stuff coming out. But as things start to develop more, I will go a little more in depth and talk a little bit more about it. But right now things are just kind of in limbo. I know, they said that they do have surveillance video of them on the cruise together, so it's obvious that this person was there and it's going to be interesting to see what ends up coming out with that. Sean Ditty Combs faces new sex battery accusations. Color me shocked. So they have started an investigation into this new accusation. There is a male music producer and publicist who said that he was asked to come to a photoshoot with Diddy in twenty twenty at a La warehouse, and Sean exposed himself while masturbating and told this individual, the music producer, to assist him, and he is now coming forward with his story. So this guy is just never, ever, ever going to change. I'm glad he's in jail for a little while longer. I hope the accusations and charges keep piling up on him. But unfortunately, this man is just a demon of a person in my opinion, allegedly, and I just think it's going to keep stacking and stacking and stacking and stacking. So it will be interesting to see if anything more comes of all of these new accusations, because I feel like every week things are coming out, and that's exactly the way it should be, because he is an actual monster. All right, last thing we're going to talk about, Speaking of horrible, monstrous humans. OJ Simpson's estate officially has agreed to pay ron Goldman's dad fifty eight million dollars thirty whole years after his life was brutally taken. As we know, O. J. Simpson passed away, so it is now in the estates hands and they are going to be paying Ronald Goldman's dad fifty eight million, which I am all about because that poor man and his poor family have been through so much in everything that has transpired. I honestly can't believe that that happened thirty years ago. I think that was the first trial I ever watched on court TV with my mom. I remember it being on so well, and I was so invested in it, even though I was only nine years old. I was very invested, and I think that's probably where part of my fascination and obsession with true crime kind of came in, because I was so glued to this case and I couldn't even get over when they found him not guilty. I was shocked by that entire thing. So I've been following ever since and all of the different and things, all of the different things with OJ him eventually going back to jail for the veguas situation that happened. I'm just glad that that man had to serve some time in jail, regardless of what it was for. But I'm also really glad to hear this news that the Goldman family is going to be getting more money from the estate of OJ Simpson, which is exactly what should be happening. So that is it for this little weekly crazy long catchup in Right Now in True Crime. I am going to be releasing an episode on Thanksgiving that is being brought to you by my friend Kadra from Perplexity, a mystery podcast. This case actually takes place on Thanksgiving, so it's appropriate that I release it. And of course, I know people probably aren't going to be listening to true crime podcasts on Thanksgiving Day, but it will be there when you are ready to listen to it, so please tune in for that, and then I will be back the next week with a brand new unsolved case I have been diligently working on. I very much wanted to get this true crime catchup done and out because I feel like it has just grown over the last couple of weeks. They didn't do it Right Now in True Crime last week, and I feel like if I waited any longer that I was going to have to do an hour long episode on Right Now in True Crime because so much has gone on. There's been so many different things happening in a bunch of different cases, and I thought this was a great way to kind of bring it all together and wrap everything up. So I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend ahead, have a great Thanksgiving, do all of your Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. Get all of your Christmas shopping done because we are going to be in December before you know it, and I hate the mad rush of December. Get all of your Christmas shopping done asap. This is my PSA to you. It is not too late Amazon dot com. And if you're looking for something to buy me, I am a size farmhouse with a wraparound porch on like seventeen acres of land with no neighbors. So keep me in mind for your Christmas list and I will see you guys officially in two weeks for a brand new unsolved case. Have a good one bye,
