Man accused of strangling his parents to death for 'blood money' may have dug his own grave in bone-chilling TV confession

A New York man made a bone-chilling on-air television confession to killing his parents and burying them in their backyard.

Last month, 53-year-old Lorenz Kraus reportedly emailed a two-page statement to news outlets regarding a shocking admission.

'After he died, my mother put her head on his chest — and she was there for a few hours, then I finished her.'

Stone Grissom, WRGB-TV's news director, told the Times-Union that he promised Kraus to publish his statement on WRGB's news site if he came to the station for an interview.

"I called him to verify who he was," Grissom said. "On the phone, he told me he buried his parents in his yard. When I asked if he killed them, he said, 'I plead the Fifth.'"

Kraus reportedly arrived at the news station within an hour.

Grissom admitted there were major concerns of "inviting someone suspected of a double murder into our station."

Grissom noted that he personally frisked Kraus upon his arrival and that a plainclothes police officer was in the news station's secured front lobby.

Greg Floyd — a broadcaster since 1979 — had only 10 minutes to prepare for the eyebrow-raising interview.

During the jarring 31-minute sit-down, Kraus described the deaths of his aging parents as mercy killings to stop their suffering from multiple maladies.

Floyd asked Kraus, "So did you kill your parents as a mercy killing to put them out of their misery?"

Kraus avoided the question.

'What was I supposed to do with this money?'

After Floyd pressed Kraus about what he did to his parents, Kraus responded, "I buried them in their property."

Kraus said his parents died around August 2017.

Floyd asked Kraus if his parents asked him to take their lives, and Kraus responded, "Implicitly, but not explicitly."

Kraus added during the interview, "I did my duty to my parents. My concern for their misery was paramount."

Kraus did not mention if his parents had terminal illnesses.

In the stunning on-camera confession, Floyd pushed Kraus on whether he murdered his parents — 92-year-old Franz Kraus and 83-year-old Theresia Kraus.

Floyd — a six-time Emmy award-winning broadcaster — asked Kraus, "They knew that this was it for them, that they were perishing at your hand?"

Kraus replied, "Yes. And it was so quick."

Kraus said he was "shocked" at how his father "died surprisingly quickly."

Kraus confessed he strangled his parents to death. He admitted that he killed his father first by strangling him with his hands.

"After he died, my mother put her head on his chest — and she was there for a few hours, then I finished her," Kraus stated.

Kraus confessed that he killed his mother by strangling her with a rope.

When asked what was going through his head as he killed his parents, Kraus said, "Not thoughts — action, make sure it's done, not fool around, not make a mistake. But you know, the police would say what an incompetent idiot I am."

Kraus said it took him two or three days to decide to bury his parents in the backyard of their property in Albany.

Kraus also is accused of stealing his parents' Social Security payments after they died.

Floyd asked Kraus if he knew there were financial benefits to killing his parents.

Kraus claimed the "government is pissed because I took the Social Security money and gave it to people in the Philippines."

Kraus said his parents' murders were "not a kill-for-money case."

Floyd fired back, "Some would call that blood money."

Kraus responded, "What was I supposed to do with this money?"

Video posted online by WRGB shows police arresting Kraus in the station's parking lot on Sept. 25, just moments after he left the television studio.

Albany County District Attorney Lee C. Kindlon on Monday announced that Kraus has been charged with murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree, two counts of concealment of a human corpse, grand larceny in the second degree, and identity theft in the first degree.

'Cadaver dogs picked up on a scent, and a subsequent excavation in the backyard turned up the couple’s bodies.'

A public defender entered a not guilty plea during a Monday court appearance.

Kraus is being detained without bail at the Albany County Correctional Facility.

Floyd interviewed Kraus a second time from jail. However, Kraus' public defender allegedly shut down the interview.

According to Floyd, after six or seven questions, the public defender said, "That's it, you're walking out of here right now."

The Associated Press reported that Albany County Assistant Public Defender Rebekah Sokol — who represented Kraus at a hearing last Friday — said she would be investigating how the interview came about because "if the media was essentially an agent of police in this matter, that could raise questions about whether (Kraus') comments in the interview would be legally admissible at trial."

Kraus' parents were never reported missing, and soon "federal agents started investigating suspicious Social Security payments in their names," WJLA-TV reported.

The indictment accused Kraus of assuming the identity of his father and stealing funds from the family’s estate "in excess of $50,000" sometime between Aug. 30, 2017, and May 27, 2025.

On Sept. 23, 2025, "Cadaver dogs picked up on a scent, and a subsequent excavation in the backyard turned up the couple’s bodies," Albany authorities stated.

Kraus is scheduled to return to court Oct. 28, WRGB reported.

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How a butt-dialed voicemail may have exposed chilling cover-up of missing flight attendant's murder

An American Airlines flight attendant went missing, and her body has yet to be found. However, authorities say a Texas woman may have implicated herself and her friend after an accidental butt-dial phone call left behind a damning voicemail.

Rana Nofal Soluri — a 47-year-old flight attendant from Fort Worth — was reported missing on June 11.

'It's been torture.'

Soluri had been out of work since late March while recovering from minor surgery, the New York Post reported. Her co-workers at Envoy Air — an American Airlines subsidiary — reported Soluri missing after they purportedly were unable to contact her.

During a June 10 welfare check, police questioned 66-year-old Dennis William Day — Soluri’s roommate. According to the Post, Day told investigators that Soluri had been a longtime friend and had been living with him in Fort Worth but added he had not seen her for three months.

On June 23, police conducted a search of Day's property and interviewed him again.

Citing an affidavit, NBC News reported that investigators also looked at surveillance video from the property.

Police said the surveillance video shows Day dragging "what appears to be a lifeless body from the home into the backyard" on March 21.

Coincidentally, detectives secured a search warrant for Soluri's cell phone records, which reportedly show that the last call she made was on March 21, according to People magazine.

Day was arrested and booked into the Tarrant County Jail on June 26, according to jail records. Day was charged with murder and is being detained on a $200,000 bond.

On Aug. 26, police arrested a second suspect — 62-year-old Joni Thomas. She was charged with tampering with evidence. She has since been released on bond.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by KXAS-TV, Day convinced Thomas to let him use her pickup truck to transport Soluri's body, and Thomas assisted Day in throwing the corpse off a bridge.

Thomas initially told investigators that she didn't allow Day to use her truck, according to police. However, Thomas allegedly changed her story later.

Citing the arrest warrant, KXAS reported that investigators said Thomas later said Day did use her truck and that she was with him but didn't know what was going on. In addition, it's alleged that Thomas said she thought Day had stopped on the bridge to urinate, and then she fell asleep in the passenger seat, waking up in Day's driveway.

However, Day allegedly admitted to authorities that he borrowed Thomas' truck to dispose of a body.

According to the arrest warrant, police say cell phone records show Thomas drove to Day's house after he allegedly killed Soluri, and both Thomas and Day left their phones at his house before driving to Bowie.

"This is a clear effort by both [Day] and [Thomas] to deceive law enforcement and make it appear like they never left [Day’s] house in Fort Worth, Texas, when they were dumping [Nofal’s] body in Bowie, TX," police said in the warrant, according to KXAS.

Then, investigators discovered an accidental voicemail that could incriminate Day and spell trouble for Thomas.

According to the arrest warrant, a male and female can be heard speaking in the voicemail left on Thomas' cell phone. The pair reportedly were talking about lifting something heavy.

A male can be heard saying, "Hey ... help me," "Make sure the lid's on," and "I'm sorry I got you messed up in this."

Citing the arrest warrant, the New York Post reported that Day confessed to getting into an argument with Soluri after she allegedly recorded video of him acting irate and threatened to call 911. Day claimed he "snapped" and reacted by strangling his roommate with his bare hands, according to police.

The New York Post reported that police said he confessed to stuffing Soluri's body into a black trash bin and dumping it off a bridge in the town of Bowie — roughly 70 miles north of Fort Worth.

The Post added that despite searches at multiple bridges in Bowie, Soluri’s body has not been recovered — and officials fear flooding may have pushed the body downstream.

Soluri’s sister, Nez, told KXAS that her family has been heartbroken: “It’s been torture. Every other day, I keep dreaming or wishing ... maybe she bumped her head, had amnesia — something.”

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Dad said ICE abducted wife — chilling video shows him dragging heavy tarp before fleeing to Peru with kids, raising questions

A California man who is accused of killing his wife and fleeing to Peru with their children has been charged with murder, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. However, the husband previously claimed that the wife was taken by ICE agents, according to court documents.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement, "A murder felony complaint for extradition arrest warrant has been filed against a 36-year-old man who allegedly fled to Peru after killing his wife last week."

'Domestic violence creates chaos in our communities and shatters families.'

"The allegations against this man are horrific, and we will do everything possible to bring him back under our jurisdiction to be held accountable," stated District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman. "Domestic violence creates chaos in our communities and shatters families. My office is committed to bringing stability back into the lives of those who have been victimized."

Law enforcement named 36-year-old Jossimar Cabrera Cornejo as the suspect in the killing of his wife — 33-year-old Sheylla Cabrera.

Investigators claimed that Sheylla and her three children had been reported missing on Aug. 12.

According to reports, Cabrera initially told authorities that his wife was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

KABC-TV reported that Cabrera's sister said that the husband had "first said ICE had taken her. Later, he claimed she left with another man. In a third account to authorities, Cabrera purportedly claimed that his wife suffered an alleged "accident."

People magazine reported that Cabrera also claimed that his wife had left him for another man and that she suffered an accident.

However, there was reportedly Ring surveillance video that exposed a questionable scene involving Cabrera.

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said in a statement, "During Lancaster Station’s follow-up investigation on August 13, 2025, they discovered additional video surveillance of the missing person’s husband dragging a large object in a large piece of material from the apartment complex in the 500 block of Lancaster Boulevard, where the missing person, her husband, and three young sons lived."

The statement added, "Based on their additional information, they suspected foul play may have been involved with the missing person and notified the Homicide Bureau."

Cabrera's body was reported found dead in a forest on Aug. 16, according to People magazine.

According to authorities, the body of Cabrera was discovered by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office down the side of an embankment in Angeles National Forest.

Fox News reported that rescue teams from the Montrose Mountain Search and Rescue team found something suspicious that "matched the material seen in the Ring video."

Sheylla Cabrera was reportedly pronounced dead at the crime scene.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office is currently "obtaining the necessary documents to secure his return to the United States."

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office will provide the official cause of death of the victim.

Sheylla's mother, Helga Rocillo of Peru, reportedly said on Aug. 13, "I'm very depressed, but I have to be strong for my grandchildren."

Rocillo said her daughter told her that Cabrera had a history of domestic violence.

"She told me that Jossimar Cabrera Cornejo hit her, mistreated her, and even slapped my youngest grandchild, who is 3 years old," Rocillo stated, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Peruvian Consulate in Los Angeles confirmed to Univision that Cabrera recently traveled to Peru with the couple's three children.

NBC News reported, "The Mexican and Peruvian consulates were alerted regarding Cabrera, and investigators later learned he had fled the United States. On Saturday, the three Cabrera children were found safe and taken into protective custody in Peru, the sheriff's department said."

According to reports, the Los Angeles County District Attorney is currently determining whether more severe charges will be filed against the suspect.

If convicted, Cabrera faces a maximum prison sentence of 26 years to life.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500 or call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477).

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Wisconsin woman flies overseas to meet love interest, later plots to assassinate his rival — and international manhunt begins

Aimee Betro — a 45-year-old from West Allis, Wisconsin — in September 2018 met a 31-year-old British man who used the name "Dr. Ice" on a dating app, according to the Daily Mail.

Betro traveled to London on Christmas Day 2018, where she met that man — Mohammed Nazir — and reportedly spent a night with him. While Betro left the U.K. and returned to the United States, the pair continued to communicate.

'Where are you hiding? Stop playing hide and seek, you are lucky it jammed.'

Betro returned to Great Britain in August 2019, according to reports.

During a trial that ended Tuesday, a defense lawyer asked Betro what she thought of Nazir, and she responded, "He was very charming, and I did like him. He was sweet, and I did have feelings for him."

Nazir reportedly was able to convince the American woman to do his "bidding."

BBC News reported that Nazir and his 59-year-old father, Mohammed Aslam, had a dispute with Birmingham businessman Aslat Mahumad.

The British outlet reported that the father and son were injured during a physical confrontation with Mahumad at his clothing store in July 2018.

Nazir and Aslam reportedly hatched a scheme against Mahumad and planned to use Betro in their plot.

The Daily Mail reported that Betro called Mahumad on Sept. 7, 2019, and said she wanted to purchase a car he was selling online.

Prosecutor Tom Walkling told the court, "Mr. Mahumad recalls being called by a woman with an American accent. ... He was confused, as he hadn't listed his number online. The woman said she wanted to buy the car today, but Mr. Mahumad said she could see it tomorrow."

Betro's alleged plot to lure Mahumad to her failed, so she reportedly purchased a Mercedes E240 from another seller.

Walkling said the man who sold the car to Betro indicated that he "sold it to someone he described, perhaps unkindly, as a short, fat woman who spoke with an American accent, wore a summer dress, and had a bag over her shoulder."

Police say Betro drove to Mahumad's family home on the night of Sept. 7, 2019, in her newly purchased Mercedes.

While Betro reportedly was lying in wait with a gun, Mahumad's 33-year-old son Sikander Ali returned home around 9:10 p.m.

Jurors at the Birmingham Crown Court were shown surveillance video of a figure with a covered face approaching Ali and attempting to fire at him at point-blank range. However, police said the gun jammed, and Ali escaped by speeding away in his SUV.

'I think she was fatally flawed.'

While Ali was fleeing, his vehicle allegedly clipped the Mercedes and damaged the car's door so severely that it wouldn't close.

Investigators said Betro ditched the Mercedes, but left a black glove — which had her DNA on it — in the vehicle.

Jurors were shown screenshots of text messages Betro purportedly sent to Mahumad after the attempted killing, and she allegedly told her intended target, "Where are you hiding? Stop playing hide and seek, you are lucky it jammed."

Betro took a taxi to return to the Mahumad's home just hours after the first alleged assassination attempt, police stated. CCTV showed a figure firing three shots through the windows of the home in the early hours of Sept. 8, 2019. However, there was no one home at the time.

Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Orencas claimed Betro used a niqab in an attempt to hide her face, but it "didn't work very well."

"It was a fairly poor attempt [at disguise], and again, whether or not the attitude was that the British police wouldn't be up to it, I think she was fatally flawed, if that was ever the consideration in her mind," Orencas explained.

Orencas claimed Betro's motivation for the attempted murder was because she was "in love or infatuated with Nazir."

The Daily Mail reported that Betro flew to the U.S. the day after the shooting, and Nazir did the same three days later.

While on the lam for nearly six years, Betro reportedly fled the U.S. and traveled to Armenia — but was soon tracked down by an unlikely source.

The Daily Mail said it found Betro in Armenia and informed the West Midlands Police about her location on June 15, 2024. The Daily Mail agreed to withhold publishing the news until she was arrested.

"I would like to put it on formal record and thank the Daily Mail for the information that they kindly shared with us," Orencas stated before adding that "there were parallel inquiries going on, but without a doubt, the Daily Mail were of great assistance."

Armenian authorities detained Betro and extradited her to the U.K. to face trial.

On Tuesday, jurors convicted Betro of conspiracy to murder, possessing a self-loading pistol with intent to cause fear of violence, and illegally importing ammunition.

Betro is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.

According to GB News, Specialist Prosecutor Hannah Sidaway stated, "This prosecution is a culmination of years of hard work doggedly pursuing Aimee Betro across countries and borders while she remained relentless in her bid to escape justice. Betro tried to kill a man in a Birmingham street at point-blank range. It is sheer luck that he managed to get away unscathed."

Meanwhile, Nazir and Aslam were arrested last year and convicted of conspiracy to murder.

Nazir was sentenced to 32 years in prison, and Aslam was sentenced to 10 years behind bars.

Walkling insisted that "revenge was the motive" for the assassination attempt, BBC News said in a separate story.

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Mystery in Montauk: 33-year-old bikini brand entrepreneur found dead on boat at luxury yacht club, police say

An up-and-coming fashion brand founder was discovered dead on board a boat at a luxury yacht club on Long Island, according to police.

Martha Nolan-O'Slatarra — a 33-year-old fashion entrepreneur from Manhattan — was found dead around midnight on Tuesday aboard a boat named "Ripple" docked at the Montauk Yacht Club, police said. The Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives have launched an investigation into the alarming death.

'There's going to be a lot of conversation out of this.'

The Suffolk County Police Department said in a statement, "East Hampton Town Police responded to a 911 call from a man reporting a woman unconscious on a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club, on Star Island Road, at approximately 12 a.m."

Police noted that "Good Samaritans" attempted to perform CPR on the woman, but it was unsuccessful. Nolan-O'Slatarra was pronounced dead on the boat by first responders.

The Suffolk County Police Department stated, "The preliminary investigation and exam were inconclusive regarding the cause of death, which will be determined by an autopsy conducted by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office."

Adding to the mystery of Nolan-O'Slatarra's death, crime scene investigators and a van from the Suffolk County Crime Laboratory reportedly remained at the Montauk Yacht Club until after 9 p.m. on Tuesday.

However, the Suffolk County Police Department said on Wednesday that the woman's body "did not show evidence of violence," according to the New York Post.

An unidentified member of the Montauk Yacht Club told the New York Post that other members and captains heard screaming from the docks late Monday night.

"She was well-known in the community. She was very friendly. Always smiling," the member said. "There's going to be a lot of conversation out of this."

A spokesperson for Montauk Yacht Club told Fox News, "We are saddened to learn of the incident that took place. Our team is cooperating with law enforcement in their ongoing investigation and remains committed to the safety and well-being of our guests and staff. We have no further comment at this time."

The clothing entrepreneur — who went by the name Martha Nolan professionally and in social circles — was a founder of her fashion brand East x East, according to her LinkedIn.

The East x East website states: "Our sustainable resort wear brand was founded on the belief that fashion should not come at the expense of our planet. Our founders, natives of New York City and The Hamptons, were inspired to create a line of stylish and sustainable sunglasses, swimwear, and resort wear for men and women."

Nolan-O'Slatarra's East x East partner wrote a heartbreaking tribute to her on Instagram.

"We dreamed big together, laughed harder than anyone else could understand, and built so much from nothing,” Dylan Grace said. "I'm truly blessed and grateful to have had you in my life. Love you so much Mar. Fly high girl."

In a February 2024 interview with the Irish Independent, Nolan-O'Slatarra talked about moving from Ireland to the United States.

"Carlow is a small town. I was the small-town girl who needed to get out to achieve her big dreams," Nolan-O'Slatarra stated. "I always knew I wanted to be successful, that I was money-driven, business-driven — and that fashion is a tough industry and it would be a slow road."

Anyone with information regarding the concerning death is urged to contact Suffolk County Police Department Homicide Squad detectives at 631-852-6392.

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'Multiple inconsistencies' in Epstein prison video cast doubt on feds' story, experts say — mystery 'orange shape' questioned

A new investigation into the prison surveillance video from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's controversial death found inconsistencies in the government's report regarding the convicted pedophile, according to CBS News. One of the more intriguing revelations from the report is that there was an "orange shape" spotted moving up the stairs leading to the tier housing Epstein.

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors. Epstein was found dead inside his prison cell of Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10, 2019. Six days later, the New York City medical examiner ruled Epstein's cause of death a suicide via hanging — which ignited a firestorm of conspiracy theories.

CBS News reported that a third unidentified individual was seen in the unit on video that the feds never mentioned.

In July 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released nearly 11 hours of surveillance video.

Citing "experts," tech blog Wired recently reported that the "raw" file shows "clear signs of having been processed using an Adobe product, most likely Premiere, based on metadata that specifically references file extensions used by the video editing software." The report claimed that using Adobe software often "leaves traces in exported files, often embedding metadata that logs which assets were used and what actions were taken during editing."

"In this case, the metadata indicates the file was saved at least four times over a period of several hours on May 23, 2025, by a Windows user account called 'MJCOLE~1,'" Wired stated. "The metadata does not show whether the footage was modified before each time it was saved."

According to Wired's analysis, "one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release."

This week, CBS News published an analysis of the surveillance footage from the night of Epstein's death.

The analysis noted that there was an "orange shape" moving up the stairs to Epstein's tier around 10:40 p.m. on the night of the convicted pedophile's death.

The 2023 report on Epstein's death released by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General identified the "orange shape" as a corrections officer carrying linen or inmate clothing.

The video forensic experts expressed to CBS News that they were "skeptical about that interpretation and suggested that the shape could be a person dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit climbing the stairs."

The Department of Justice said five days after Epstein's death, the FBI seized the prison's digital video recorder system, which contained the "raw footage" of the prison near his cell.

However, the experts told CBS News that the "presence of a cursor and onscreen menu raise questions" that the video is "raw footage."

The video forensic experts said the prison footage was most likely a "screen recording rather than an export directly from a DVR system."

"They said it was unlikely to have been an export of the raw footage and that instead, it appears to be two separate video segments that were stitched together," CBS News reported.

CBS News also noted that the video feed "jumps forward a minute just before midnight and the aspect ratio changes, again calling into question the assertion the video released was the raw footage."

The inspector general's report stated that only two staff members entered the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center after midnight. The report identified the staff as the "morning watch operations lieutenant" and a correctional officer identified as "CO3."

However, CBS News reported that a third unidentified individual was seen in the unit on the video that the feds never mentioned.

Citing video forensic experts, CBS News reported that the detailed video review raises suspicions regarding the federal government's assertion that Epstein committed suicide in his prison cell.

"The CBS News review found the video does little to provide evidence to support claims that were later made by federal officials," the news outlet stated. "Additionally, CBS News has identified multiple inconsistencies between that report and the video that raise serious questions about the accuracy of witness statements and the thoroughness of the government's investigation."

CBS News conceded that the video review "doesn't refute the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide," but actually "raises questions about the strength and credibility of the government's investigation, which appears to have drawn conclusions from the video that are not readily observable."

High-ranking federal government officials have declared that Epstein committed suicide, despite suspicions by many.

In November 2019, then-Attorney General William Barr told the Associated Press, "I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups."

As Blaze News reported in May 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino claimed that Epstein died by suicide.

Patel said of people doubting that Epstein killed himself, "They have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's been in the metropolitan detention center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was."

"He killed himself," Bongino declared. "Again, I've seen the whole file. He killed himself."

Bongino proclaimed, "There's video clear as day — he's the only person in there and the only person coming out."

The Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General refuted the theories presented by CBS News.

"Our comprehensive assessment of the circumstances over the weeks, days, and hours before Epstein’s death included the effects of the longstanding, chronic staffing crisis in the [Bureau of Prisons] and the BOP’s failure to provide and maintain quality camera coverage within its facilities," the inspector general's office told CBS News. "As CBS notes, nothing in its analysis changed or modified the OIG’s conclusions or recommendations."

The FBI and the DOJ declined to offer a comment on the report by CBS News.

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Good guy with a gun, Good Samaritans confront 'crazed' man accused of stabbing 11 at Walmart in 'life-or-death moment'

Tragedy struck Michigan over the weekend when a suspect stabbed 11 people inside a Walmart — however, multiple people stepped up and confronted the suspect in the parking lot, including a man armed with a gun.

The Grand Traverse Sheriff's Office said in a statement that a man entered the Walmart in Garfield Township just before 5 p.m. Saturday. Garfield Township is about eight minutes south of Traverse City and about two hours north of Grand Rapids.

'At first, it was disbelief. I thought maybe it was like a terror attack.'

The suspect "used a folding knife to stab 11 people," according to police.

A sheriff’s deputy was at the crime scene around 4:46 p.m., law enforcement stated.

"At the time of the deputy’s arrival, multiple citizens, including one who was armed with a pistol, were confronting the male suspect in the parking lot and preventing him from harming further people and from leaving," the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office said. "The deputy took the suspect into custody without further incident."

Witness Julia Martell told NBC News that the suspect looked "crazed" and that the situation was "surreal."

"All I know is I saw a knife, and I ran away from the knife, and now I have no idea where the knife is," Martell said. "I'm still sitting and grappling with the weight of realizing that it was kind of a life-or-death moment."

Videos also show a group of citizens confronting the suspect in the parking lot of the Walmart. During a press conference, Sheriff Michael Shea noted that one of the Good Samaritans was armed with a gun.

Video from the Walmart parking lot shows the brave citizens approaching the suspect, who was still brandishing a knife with a 3.5-inch blade.

One of the citizens is heard yelling, "Throw the knife that way! Drop it! Throw the knife away!"

Witness Steven Carter told the Associated Press that he was loading his truck in the Walmart parking lot when he saw a man with a knife stab a woman in the throat.

"At first, it was disbelief. I thought maybe it was like a terror attack,” Carter said.

Carter added that the suspect was subdued after someone tackled him to the ground.

"And then it was fear, disbelief, shock. ... It was just amazing," Carter said. "And it all happened fast. Like, he was totally subdued on the ground by the time police arrived."

The video shows the suspect being detained next to a sheriff’s vehicle.

Witness Tiffany DeFell added to the AP that "it was really scary. Me and my sister were just freaking out. This is something you see out of the movies. It's not what you expect to see where you're living."

Sheriff Shea described the citizens' actions as "remarkable" and said he "cannot commend" them "enough," according to WANE-TV.

"When you stop and look from the time of [the] call to the time of actual custody, the individual was detained within one minute," Shea stressed.

The victims were rushed to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City.

The sheriff's office listed the 11 stabbing victims as: a 29-year-old female, a 38-year-old male, a 39-year-old male, a 41-year-old male, a 55-year-old male, a 65-year-old female, a 67-year-old female, a 70-year-old male, an 80-year-old female, an 82-year-old male, and an 84-year-old female. Shea said one of the victims was a Walmart employee.

During a press conference, Munson Medical Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tom Schermerhorn revealed that one of the victims had been treated and released, two were in serious condition, and the remainder were in fair condition. All are expected to survive their stab wounds.

Police identified the suspect as 42-year-old Bradford James Gille of Afton, Michigan. He was arrested and transported to the Grand Traverse County Jail.

Police said Gille had a criminal history of "assaultive incidents, as well as controlled substance violations."

Citing Michigan court records, NBC News reported that Gille's criminal history included charges for public intoxication, misdemeanor assault and battery, misdemeanor aggravated assault, drug possession, and assault with a dangerous weapon. Court documents said a charge of malicious destruction of tombs and memorials was dismissed after Gille was found to be incompetent to stand trial.

Investigators have yet to determine a motive for the stabbing.

Michigan prosecutors are seeking a terrorism charge against Gille in addition to 11 counts of assault with intent to murder, one for each stabbing victim, according to NBC News.

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Bryan Kohberger tried to use ‘autism’ to avoid death penalty

Former criminology student Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to four murders in Idaho, where he fatally stabbed Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin in an off-campus home on Nov. 13, 2022.

According to newly released documents, the students were stabbed an ungodly amount of times — with one being stabbed over 50 times.

And Kohberger appeared to be proud of the weapon he used when he matched with a woman on the dating app Tinder in the fall of 2022. At one point in their conversation, the now-convicted murderer asked what the woman thought would be the worst way to die — to which she responded by knife.

Kohberger then asked something to the effect of “like a KA-BAR?” — which is the knife and sheath he had purchased on Amazon before the murders. While the sheath was found at the crime scene, the knife was never recovered.

BlazeTV hosts Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela are understandably disturbed by the crime.

“Might just be a Ted Bundy,” Angela tells the panel.

“An old-fashioned murder,” ¼ Black Garrett agrees, adding, “like just a spur-of-the-moment psychopath murder.”

In order to avoid the death penalty, Angela explains that Kohberger first “had his lawyers try to advocate for him to take the death penalty off the table because he had autism.”

“And they were like, ‘No,’” she adds.

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'Hell will be waiting' — what grieving mother said next to daughter's killer Bryan Kohberger left courtroom gasping, laughing

Convicted killer Bryan Kohberger was sentenced on Wednesday for the murder of four University of Idaho students. During the sentencing hearing, the families rightfully lambasted Kohberger for taking the lives of the young college students.

Kohberger — who confessed to the grisly crimes — was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for the stabbing murders of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, 21-year-old Madison Mogen, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, and 20-year-old Xana Kernodle. Kohberger, 30, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison for burglary. The judge ordered Kohberger to pay $290,000 in financial penalties to the victims' families.

'A dead killer doesn't kill again, so while I'm disappointed the firing squad won't get to take their shots at you, I'm confident that the men in prison will have their way with you in more ways than one.'

During the sentencing hearing, Judge Steven Hippler blasted Bryan Kohberger as a "coward" who "slithered through the sliding glass door at 1122 King Road," according to ABC News.

"This unfathomable and senseless act of evil has caused immeasurable pain and loss. No parent should ever have to bury their child. This is the greatest tragedy that can be inflicted upon a person," Hippler stated before announcing Kohberger’s sentence.

Hippler said, "Parents who took their children to college in a truck filled with moving boxes had to bring them home in hearses lined with coffins."

Steve Goncalves (Left) / Kristi Goncalves (Right). Photo by Kyle Green-Pool/Getty Images

Hippler acknowledged that we may never know the motive for why Kohberger murdered the four college students in the early morning hours on Nov. 13, 2022.

"As we sit here today, this case is ending, and we are now certain who committed these unspeakable acts of evil," Hippler stated. "But we don't know, and what we may never know, is why."

"I share the desire expressed by others to understand the 'why,'" Hippler continued. "But upon reflection, it seems to me, and this is just my own opinion, that by continuing to focus on why, we continue to give Mr. Kohberger relevance. We give him agency, and we give him power."

"The need to know what is inherently not understandable makes us dependent upon the defendant to provide us with a reason, and that gives him the spotlight, the attention, and the power he appears to crave," he said. "Yet, even if I could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how could anyone ever be assured that what he speaks is the truth?"

Hippler asked, "Do we really believe after all this, he's capable of speaking the truth or of giving up something of himself to help the very people whose lives he destroyed? Rather, I suspect the so-called reason would be dished out in enticing, self-serving, and aggrandizing untruthful bits, leaving people wanting more information, more insight, and thus enhancing even further the power he seeks to hold."

'A delusional, pathetic, hypochondriac loser who thought you were so much smarter than everybody else.'

Hippler said, "The more we struggle to seek explanation for the unexplainable, the more power and control we give to him. In my view, the time has now come to end Mr. Kohberger’s 15 minutes of fame."

When Kohberger was asked to explain why he senselessly murdered the four college students, he responded, "I respectfully decline."

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump urged Kohberger to reveal his motives for the quadruple murder.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday, "If it were up to the president, he would have forced this monster to publicly explain why he chose to steal these innocent souls."

"We are so sorry for the grief and the pain you have experienced at the hands of such a vicious and evil killer," Leavitt said. "Our nation grieves with you, and we will never forget the precious souls who were lost in this horrific act of evil."

The families of the slain victims delivered powerful remarks during Kohberg's sentencing.

KCPQ-TV reported that Steve Goncalves said during the sentencing, "Today, we are here to finish what you started. Today, you've lost control. Today, we are here to prove to the world that you picked the wrong families, the wrong state, the wrong police officers, the wrong community."

"You tried to break our community apart. You tried to plant fear. You tried to divide us. You failed," he continued. "Instead, your actions have united everyone in their disgust for you."

The heartbroken father called Kohberger a "complete joke."

'Joy is harder to find. Laughter feels foreign. The world moves forward, but I'm suspended in places of sorrow and rage.'

Alivea Goncalves — Kaylee's older sister — told the courtroom, "Every day I'm angry."

"I'm left shouting at the inside of my own head everything I wish I could say to you," the bereaved sister stated.

"I won't stand here and give you what you want. I won't offer you tears. I won't offer you trembling," she continued. "Disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on the illusion of power. And I won't feed your beast. Instead, I will call you what you are: sociopath, psychopath, murderer."

She called Kohberger a "coward" and a "delusional, pathetic, hypochondriac loser who thought you were so much smarter than everybody else."

"No one is scared of you today. No one's intimidated by you. No one is impressed by you. No one thinks that you are important," Alivea Goncalves declared. "You orchestrated this like you thought you were God. Now look at you, begging a courtroom for scraps."

Alivea added, "The truth, is you're as dumb as they come, stupid, clumsy, slow, sloppy, weak, dirty."

Kristi Goncalves — the mother of Kaylee Goncalves — stated during the sentencing, "When you murdered my daughter, Kaylee Jade Goncalves, you didn't just take her life, you shattered others."

"You attacked what you could never be. And in doing so, you left a trail of devastation far beyond that house. You stole my peace," the grieving mother explained. "You've altered my every waking moment, every sleepless night, the way I view the world, people, safety, trust. It's all been changed by your cruelty."

Kristi Goncalves revealed, "I no longer recognize parts of myself. Joy is harder to find. Laughter feels foreign. The world moves forward, but I'm suspended in places of sorrow and rage. You've taken from me something that can never be restored. The grief sits with me every day, some days quietly, and other days so loud it drowns out everything else. The emotional toll you've inflicted on me is immeasurable. I live with a constant ache with birthdays that are now memorials, with holidays that feel hollow, with empty chairs that scream louder than words ever could. I am forever changed."

She told Kohberger that he is "pathetic" and "not good at anything."

"A dead killer doesn't kill again, so while I'm disappointed the firing squad won't get to take their shots at you, I'm confident that the men in prison will have their way with you in more ways than one," Kristi Goncalves proclaimed. "You will finally get what you wanted — physical touch. Just probably not how you were expecting it."

The heartbroken mother described the convicted killer as a "loser" and an "absolute failure."

"May you continue to live your life in misery. You are officially the property of the state of Idaho, where your fellow inmates are anxiously awaiting your arrival," the mother stated. "But it's okay, because they're there to help you. Hell will be waiting."

"A quick message from our youngest daughter: Aubrey wanted to say, 'You may have received A's in high school and college, but you're gonna be getting big D's in prison,'" Kristi Goncalves stated, which caused the courtroom to erupt in gasps and laughs.

The family of Kaylee Goncalves told ABC News after the sentencing hearing that "the details are more horrific than we can imagine” and that she was stabbed 34 times.

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She was about to celebrate her 21st birthday — then police found her dead in superyacht's engine room

Just days before her 21st birthday, a "radiant" South African woman working aboard a luxury superyacht was found dead inside the vessel's engine room, according to police in the Bahamas.

Paige Bell — a 20-year-old from Johannesburg — worked on the nearly 150-foot "Far From It" superyacht, which charters for approximately $140,000 per week, according to the New York Post.

'We will leave no stone unturned until the guilty is brought to justice.'

The luxury vessel was moored off Harbour Island in the Bahamas in early July.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement, "Police on the Island of Eleuthera are investigating a homicide and a suspected suicide attempt that occurred July 3 on a vessel docked in Harbour Island that left a female of South African nationality dead."

Police said they were alerted to the incident just after 1 p.m. and dispatched officers to the yacht.

"Once on board the vessel, officers discovered a female unresponsive with visible signs of injuries and a male suffering from severe injuries to his arms," police stated.

Bell was discovered in the ship's engine room and pronounced dead there.

Our News Bahamas reported that Bell was fatally stabbed.

Also in the engine room, police encountered a 39-year-old male suspect of Mexican nationality.

Police later identified the suspect as Brigido Muñoz, who also worked on the superyacht as an engineer, the Daily Mail reported.

Muñoz was arrested and transported to a medical clinic, where he was treated for his wounds, which are suspected to be from a suicide attempt.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force stated that Muñoz was charged with murder on July 9.

"The court heard that his alleged victim was found with slash wounds to her neck and partially undressed, suggesting she may have been sexually assaulted," the Daily Mail reported. "She also had defensive injuries to her arms, the court heard, suggesting she tried to fend off her alleged attacker."

Muñoz was denied bail and is scheduled to return to court on Nov. 20, according to Our News Bahamas.

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The family of Paige Bell is heartbroken over her suspected murder.

"It is with broken hearts that we share the devastating news that our beautiful Paigey’s life was brutally taken from us last night,” the family wrote on social media on July 4, according to People magazine. "As a family, we are doing our best to process this unimaginable loss. ... We will leave no stone unturned until the guilty is brought to justice."

"This evening, Mom and Dad ... are flying to the Bahamas to begin the painful process of not only bringing their baby girl home, but also seeking justice for the monster that took her life," her sister Chelsey wrote on Facebook, according to Fox News.

Bell's colleagues and friends launched a GoFundMe campaign for her family; just over $56,000 has been raised as of Monday afternoon.

"Paige was more than a teammate, she was family," the GoFundMe listing said. "Her radiant spirit, infectious laughter, and boundless compassion made an unforgettable impact on everyone lucky enough to know her. Whether it was long days at sea or quiet moments under the stars, she brought light and warmth wherever she went."

The crowdfunding campaign noted that Bell was going to celebrate her 21st birthday just days before she was found dead.

In Bell's honor, Paige's mother has asked supporters to eat red velvet cake — her daughter's favorite — on her birthday, which is July 14.

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