416: Incest Dad Basically Walks Free, Teen Marly Kinney Vanishes At Boat Party & Sisters Murder and Smile After

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of

“Serialist League with me or host Annie Elise coming to you from New York and I”

can't really do a big TF intro because you're on the screen right here. There's no surprise. So hello, hello, hello, hello, how are you? Just like show how close we are. It's like, hey, we're really close. No, welcome back. So happy Thursday. That means headline highlights today and there are so many cases to discuss which I swear. I feel like I say that every single week, but it's because there are so many cases to

discuss every single week and there are certainly no shortage in cases today or certainly

is no shortage in cases today. Is, is, is, is, yeah, is. Guys, you can already see

I have a brand. I'm on just kidding, guys. But still, you know, I'm here. I'm clocking in for duty. No, there is so much to talk about, but really quickly before I get to the house keeping of like case updates. I got to give a shout out, my girl CJ, if you are listening right now, I want to tell you it was so, so, so nice meeting you on Sunday. I love, I've told you guys this before. I love when people will come up to me in the wild and be like, oh my gosh,

I listen or I have followed you for years and kind of a little bit of an embarrassing story on Sunday. We were covering from Palm Tree Festival out here in New York and my husband Jeremiah

ordered a massive McDonald's delivery. And when I tell you, massive, I'm talking handlebag,

massive is lovely. It was very heavy. And CJ, she came through and we started chatting at the door. She recognized me. We were talking. She said, oh my gosh, I've been listening to you for years. She met Amy. I want to apologize CJ as well. I didn't look my best that day. Better for me. Okay, I just woke up from a nap. Yeah, it was rough. And like, of course, and true, Amy fashion, as I'm at the doorway talking with CJ, she just walks up grabs the McDonald's bag

and like walks away. I'm all, okay, get out of my face. But yes, so nice meeting you. Thank you so much for listening with your daughter. And for taking the time to chat with me that afternoon, it was just, I loved getting to know you and glad we got some pictures together too. And just like, I love meeting you guys out in the wild. So shout out to CJ and, and please don't share my address since you obviously know where I am at. Okay, other housekeeping news. Okay, Alex Murdock,

he had a hearing earlier this week. And we all know that his double murder conviction was thrown out and that he's going to retrial and officially a retrial husband set for tentatively beginning on April 5th, 2027. And there's not too much I want to go into this case on right out of the jump, but are right off the jump. But like what I do want to say here is I'm confident that he will still be found guilty. However, I want to put that big however in there. I am a little bit concerned,

only because I don't believe that they're allowed to bring in the financial crimes as much as

“they did in the last trial. I think there's going to be more, I don't know if I want to say accusations”

or speculation brought up to create the reasonable doubt that Buster is the one who did this and that he's covering for his son. And so while I'm confident there will still be a conviction. I am a little bit, not nervous, but like apprehensive like, oh, I could see where maybe there's like a thin line where maybe it won't. Yeah, which with a lot of T-Shostalk, I think it's a no-brainer. I think that bitch is going down, down and like fat chance you're ever going to be released.

But there is something with him. I could see them wheezing their way, it's going to save the tenta. All is weasel their way out. Weasel is the best. It really describes him and his face. And you're weasel. Yes. And yeah, especially if they're not able to really like harp on the financial crimes as much this go around, I don't know. There's something that gives me a little bit of pause. But you guys tell me what you think. Now, in other housekeeping news and some good news

“that I think a lot of people are going to be happy about. We have an up wall, actually, I shouldn't”

say, some people will be happy. Some won't. We do have an update in the McKenzie Scherella case. And before I go any further, let me just say this, I hear you when you say, I'm so done talking about this

have some good news right now to share with you about her because it has, it's good news and it has pretty much closed the door on her most recent appeal completely. So we talked a few weeks ago about how McKenzie and her team were asking to have the Ohio Supreme Court review her appeal after it had been rejected by the lower court for being filed a day late due to the, you know, quote unquote miscalculation because of the leap year. And the appeal was based on them, quote, medical evidence

that McKenzie had suffered from a preexisting medical condition that could have caused her to black out while driving. However, there were so, let me backtrack a little bit. They filed it one day late, rules are rules. If they made exceptions for everybody who filed a little bit late, it would create

“chaos. So I get that. However, because it was a leap year and it was only one day late, I think”

people thought like maybe there would be a way for her to also wheeze all her way in and get that appeal going. But now the Ohio Supreme Court has officially declined to hear the appeal,

meaning they won't even take the case up for review. I know. Now this is the second time that the

Supreme Court has declined to hear her appeal. The first being back in May of 2025. So like I said, good news. This is yet again another major legal loss for McKenzie and her family. She's now had three appeals be rejected since she was first convicted. So as of now, she's going to continue serving her sentence of 15 years to life and her first opportunity for parole is scheduled for 2037. I mean, the school doesn't do herself any favors. Well, I was just going to say that I get the

anger or annoyance I should say of people being like stop talking about her case. She wants her 15 minutes of fame. We don't want to hear this girl anymore. We know she has no remorse. We know that she's an asshole. All of these things. However, she doesn't do her any herself any favors. Yes, with all of these Jill calls being released and all those things also her parents did not do her any favors

“with doing the Netflix documentary. And I think that not by continuing to talk about it now because”

the Rachel the Rachel the appeal has been rejected, but leading up to that it is important to put it out there as to who this girl truly is. There is no remorse. Here are her actions. Here are her parents actions. Yeah, they're enablers because all of that goes and ties directly into somebody's character when you're taking things into consideration and all that. So now that that's been rejected,

I feel like Adios, good riddance. We don't care about you at all. See, uh, never. I mean, she just needs

to fly under the radar beyond her best behavior and, like, pray that when her parole hearing is there that she's like, she's got 10 years. I love it. Turn the corner and hopefully she's got 11 years to get her shit together. Yeah. And just stopping. Yeah, stop being Regina George. So can you do what Mackenzie? Can you stay off the phone? I'm not going to hold my breath. Now, in another quick before we get into all the cases, another little housekeeping update. This one pisses me the hell off

and so I'm very angry about this. But this is related to another case that you have been following very closely with me for the last several months. And we just received the sentencing and it's pretty disheartening. If I'm going to be honest, and I'm sure you will be frustrated by this as well.

“But if you remember, we talked a couple weeks ago, and actually we've been talking over the last”

couple of months, intermittently, but we talked about Michaela settles. She's the girl who moved from the Carolinas to California to live with her biological father to go to school and to, you know, have a California life only to then be sexually assaulted by her biological father for over four hours. So badly that she had to be carried into the ER and then she took her own life over it. And this scumbag and I know it's in raging, but just for those who have not followed in,

I'll link the deep dive into this. Actually, did we do a deep dive? I can't remember if I just talked about it on headline highlights or if we did a deep dive. But if you aren't familiar with

this case, basically because she took her life, there wasn't any witness testimony to say that

their exchange was not consensual, which is infuriating to hear like, yeah, it's her father. She is technically 18. So not a child, but still pretty much a child, right? But he was arguing that it was consensual that they got drunk all of these things. Meanwhile, hello, she had to be carried in by her uncle into the ER. She was so physically damaged by this. And then so emotionally damaged that she took her own life. But my point is, because she was no longer there to testify against him,

even though she did file the police report, the state just didn't believe that they had a strong enough case to pursue any sort of manslaughter, murder, anything, excess or whatever it is. So all they were going to pursue were these incest charges and abuse of a vulnerable person by

we knew that based on now these minimal charges that he was only going to face, I believe it was

“like three years and then time on the registry. However, even though he faced up to three years,”

he could have only, there was a chance he may only be sentenced to a few months or a year, and it's just again infuriating. And so now he has officially been sentenced and he's been sentenced to one year in county jail. Three years of probation and he is going to be on the registry for the next 20 years. Now this sentence was in exchange for him pleading guilty to felony incest and to misdemeanors for giving alcohol to a minor because remember, although she was 18, she was not 21.

He also admitted to abusing a position of trust and that Michaela was particularly vulnerable. Now prosecutors had asked for that maximum sentence of three years in state prison,

but the judge, I guess, just decided ultimately that because of Stevens' lack of criminal history,

one year would suffice, which disgusting. It is. And he was in, I believe he was an electrician if I'm remembering correctly, meaning he was going in and out of houses, which hello this guy's a predator. Now that he's on the registry, I know you're not allowed to go to schools and parks and things like that. I would imagine he's not allowed to go into any sort of houses. He pled guilty to a felony,

“I think, usually, you have to disclose that on an application. That's true. Yeah. So I mean,”

at least he won't be in a position to prey on people as easily. And I say that as easily, he still is certainly going to be able to prey on people because he is going to be out in a year, probably even less because, hello, let's talk about California, overpopulated people and observing a couple of weeks or a couple of months. And they're letting the creepiest of the creepy guys out. Like, not saying this guy isn't one of those, but like, they're letting serial killers

and serial abusers out, saying that like, oh, they age out of it at 60 years old, which that's a whole other fucking argument. I could go into on another day and why this system is so broken. But this is incredibly frustrating. It's like, oh, you get to rape your daughter for four-hour straight. She takes her own life and you get a slap on it. Well, even if your argument is

“it's consensual, which it's not, and that's irrelevant. But she was so injured and it's your own”

daughter that I can't imagine that those two things didn't equal more than a year. No, it's unbelievable. And like, hi, I'm just going to say, like, felony incest is a crime for a reason. And I am so sick of talking about these incest cases, which I feel like are just like, up, up, up, like, there's so many. And it's like, stop having sex with your family. Like, is that the new tab? Like, is it really exactly how hard to, well, it's must be some sort of a, like, it's like a control thing if that, yeah,

it's sick. I also was like, thinking, hopefully, or I was hopeful that the uncle would break. And like, that the father would have confided in the uncle. The uncle was the one carrying her into the hospital. Like, in a moment of weakness, say what had happened and that he would then come forward. I know. It's, uh, it's one of those cases that just, like, go on. You lose sleep at night over it. So the Ventura County District Attorney's office later released a statement saying, of course,

they were very disappointed with this outcome. And that a prison sentence, not county jail, which is what he was sentenced to, but a prison sentence was the only punishment that truly reflected how serious this crime was and also reflected the devastating impact that it had on Michaela and her family. During the hearing, several of Michaela's loved ones also address the court

asking the judge to impose the maximum sentence. But as we know, those requests were ultimately

denied. And my heart breaks from Michaela's mother all the way from that first moment of getting that phone call from Michaela flying out to California, seeing her trying to repair the emotional damage when you brought her back home and like, then to lose her. It's just not that I would have it ever advocate for vigilante justice. But this is one of those moments where as a mother, I don't even know how you would restrain yourself from going after this creep. Well, and that's

I was thinking, you know, there's no way in hell. He's going to be able to enter society when he's out of prison. And anyone is going to, I hope that they, I don't know, there's a lot of freaks out there. They take care of things. Well, the good news is, yeah, prison justice is a real thing. However, county jail justice sometimes is a little bit different. There's different restrictions in terms of like when you're like socializing. And it's just like, it's not as hardened criminals

district attorney's office is so angry, because they're like, hi, this severity of this crime.

He belongs in prison with these like-minded offenders, whereas he's going to county jail, where people go when they get a DUI, which it's like, do you guys are obviously serious and dangerous and like take lives, too? Yes, but like, that's not necessarily someone who is going to

“I think it's the community of dads when he gets out. Yeah. Yeah, they're like, you're not coming”

around our kids, you're not coming around our families. Yeah. And then for life. He disappears. What up? Disappears. Disappears under my driveway slab. No. I mean, it is what it is. It is what it is. I'm actually, I shouldn't have said that because the story you're about to talk about

is about sisters who killed together. Well, I know. No, I know when I was reading, I was like, oh,

so maybe we shouldn't joke about where we're going. No, I know. Together, because people will take us seriously. Well, you guys have probably seen this one all over social media, because the last few days, it's kind of what everyone's talking about. It's, you saw it, right? It's the two sisters that were smiling. I don't know all the details, but I saw it and I saw that it happened at like a sonic drive through. Yes. In the middle of the day. Well, yeah. So it's not just super crazy

“because of what happened. Basically, in broad daylight, in a very small town outside of Texas,”

right, actually close to the border of Mexico. But what has everybody talking is actually the videos that surfaced after the police made the arrests. Authority say that three women, including two sisters, were identified and taken into custody within just a couple of hours. But even though investigators were able to arrest them quickly, the biggest question is why, and they still don't really have any answers as to why. So this all happened in the afternoon of June 25th in Del Rio,

Texas, around 210 pm when officers were called to Valverde Regional Medical Center after a woman by the name of Caroline was brought in with multiple stab wounds. She had been attacked in broad daylight and was stabbed twice in the back and once inside. And one of those stab wounds had actually punctured Caroline's lung. And because of how severe these injuries were, she was airlifted

“to a hospital in San Antonio for emergency treatment, but sadly despite all of the doctor's efforts,”

32-year-old Caroline Peña died later that evening just after 9 pm. So police pretty quickly learned that the attack happened about five minutes away at an intersection near the local sonic drive-in. And so from there they immediately started reviewing all of the surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses that might have been in the area. And it only took two hours for them to identify the three suspects. So around 4 pm officers arrested 21-year-old Kitty Mia Diaz

and her 19-year-old sister Amaya Cookie Diaz. And then shortly after they arrested their 21-year-old friend, Kayandra Renee Faz. So after Caroline died from her injuries later that night, all three women were formally charged with murder and they're being held as the investigation continues and police say there could be additional charges that are possible because they still don't have all the answers. Yeah, like were they stalking her? Were they following her? Was it roadway? They have no idea

and investigators haven't released any type of answers or any context that led up to the confrontation or if the girls even knew each other. And her loved ones are also trying to make sense of what happened and trying to make sure that the public just really knows who Caroline was and that she was a twin, a mother to five kids and someone they said would absolutely do anything for anyone that she

loved. She was just an amazing person and took such great care of her children and two of their

her children have autism and now all five are left without their mom. It's so sad. She was described as someone who greeted everyone with the biggest smile and hug no matter how much time had passed. They say that she was fiercely protective of her family and would give someone her last dollar without even thinking twice. One of Caroline's close friends Christina said the two had just spent the evening together the night before cooking with Caroline's daughter. Then just minutes

before the attack Caroline had called her but Christina had missed the call and Christina feels like of course as we all would like had I been able to get that call could I have done something and then later that afternoon she came across a photo that was circulating across a Facebook page showing a woman covered in blood. She said her hair was in the same bun. That's all I needed to see. I knew it was her right off the bat. I have the chills. Can you imagine like how with your friend

Like I just saw her. Oh my gosh. She also said that after being stabbed Caroline was still standing

her ground and fighting. Of course. Yeah she was going down without a fight. Which I mean I know we don't know a motive yet but it's also crazy to think like these three girls 19 to 21 years old. Yeah young girls maybe they knew she knew her somehow maybe not but like what would motivate these young girls not only to attack someone but like attack a 32 year old woman in broad daylight. So I have a theory I don't know. I just guess so it's to me it kind of sounds a little bit potentially

like gang related maybe okay I don't know I'm just thinking like three girls and it's on the border near Mexico okay and I'm just thinking three girls it's like a like a gang I mean it's a big attack three on one and like if she is somebody they didn't know and it's unplanned it's like

was it this I don't know what gang it's called like a challenge or like whatever they have to do

“possibly and maybe that's why they were smiling after yeah like it was like an accomplishment or something.”

Yeah so then came the video arrest which these are when this is what is so viral because there isn't a lot of audio in this video so if you want to watch it head over to the video version on YouTube but it's disgusting and chilling and you actually can see one of the girls like flash a peace sign at the camera yeah and then she's smiling and then she's all stop recording or says something like that and like and they're in these little booty shorts and she has that shirt

that has like hands on her chest and I'm like who are these trash trash yeah okay let's yeah let's play that video so within hours these videos had spread all over TikTok as you could imagine Facebook Instagram all over social media pretty much everywhere and people have just been flooding the comments saying they were shocked by the whole thing and a lot of people describe the

“sisters is smiling joking and just cold and it was unsettling completely disconnected from this”

obviously incredibly serious crank crime that they're facing so like I said police haven't said what actually led to the attack so we don't know that yet they haven't said whether Caroline knows these three suspects or what may have caused the violence but the investigation is still continuing so as more court documents become public hopefully we'll get some answers the gang initiation theory is an interesting one because yeah it will be interesting to

know if they knew her or yeah if there was I would imagine if they collected all the surveillance they would have identified if it was a road rage incident or something like that at this point which it doesn't sound like but it's like these kinds of crimes the only where you can even use to describe it is senseless like you ripped this mother away from her five children you she had her whole she was 32 years old had her whole life I had her working with her daughter

“yeah and you're just like laughing about it after well that's what kind of made me think”

potentially a gang thing because it it's like I think they weren't shocked that they were caught obviously they did it in a way where they weren't trying to conceal it there wasn't any type of messaging or any obvious friends coming forward saying like there was a rivalry or there was some sort of argument that led up to this crime of passion or wherever they're going intentionally to hurt this person so well and who knows maybe by the time this episode releases there will be more

information out there but yeah that's right now not much okay so this next case is from Connecticut

and it actually first happened back in March but there has been a very significant update and we

haven't talked about this case before so I want to like take it back and walk you through everything so a young woman had been found dead at the bottom of a staircase and at first investigators weren't really saying much beyond the fact that her death was yes a little bit suspicious however as they began digging into what happened inside the home where she was found the evidence started pointing to something very very dark so again back on March 29 police were called to a home in

Burlington, Connecticut after 28 year old Cole Warehands father called 911 in this 911 call he said that his son had told him that his girlfriend had fallen down the stairs and that she needed medical attention. Now in first responders arrived they found 26 year old Janina Brooke Murphy dead inside the home after what appeared to be this fall down the stairs. Now at the time as I said her death was labeled as suspicious but the investigators needed to spend some time investigating

it, piecing things together and they spent the next three months really trying to put the puzzle pieces together to figure out what had happened. As they were investigating everything Cole had told the detectives that he and Brooke had been drinking they had been smoking marijuana together and he claimed that he woke up after Brooke had found old deleted text messages between him and

became so in a rage that she started hitting her own head against the wall then through her body

“down the stairs. Just almost one of those things like if I can't have you no one can or like”

but doing it to herself and self harm trying to get him to pay attention to her all of these things that Cole was saying to the detectives. He said that he then carried her into the living room after she threw herself down the stairs. It were in the living room she was apparently still alive still trying to breathe. He said that he didn't know what to do so he called his parents and that's when his dad called 911. However, as the investigators were building the case behind the scenes

after Cole admitted all of this and autopsy was performed on Brooke and on June 23rd the medical

examiner officially ruled Brooks's death as a homicide not as an accidental fall down the stairs

and well yes she did say she was banging her own head against the wall they ruled the cause of death as a blunt force trauma to the head so that same day Cole was arrested and he was charged

“with her murder because investigators say that Cole's version of the events and what really happened”

inside that house are two very different stories according to court documents police found blood in several rooms throughout the house including the bedroom the bathroom the kitchen the hallway the living room the staircase and also outside on the deck and the driveway so not just right here begging my head against the wall throwing myself down the stairs but blood all throughout the house which you could argue it was blood that was transferred to him as he's panicking he's walking

through the house like it's a lot Brooke also was found lying under a blanket in the living room with a visible injuries to her face arms and legs her phone also was found with a smashed screen the autopsy also reported multiple bruises in all different stages of healing suggesting that some of these injuries have had possibly occurred before the night that she died that she was in this ongoing abusive relationship and then as investigators dug deeper they also started to hear

from the other women prosecutors say that Cole currently has several pending domestic dispute cases with several different women and his arrest warrant shows that the allegations against him date all the way back 10 years back to 2017 so nine years but almost so there you go yeah history pattern sceasy guy several women who met Cole through dating apps have described having relationships with him that allegedly became controlling and violent some say he physically assaulted them that he

strangled them held them against their will and even gave them death threats one woman told investigators that she believed that if she had gone back to him she would quote end up dead and then another woman came forward after Brooke's death and she told the police that she just felt like she could not stay silent anymore now Brooks mom Beth said that her daughter had only recently moved in with Cole when all of this happened the two of them were supposed to come and visit for Easter weekend so that

she could finally meet him because she hadn't met him yet but instead she got a phone call from the detectives telling her that Brooke quote didn't just fall down the stairs now Cole has pleaded

not guilty and he's being held on a $5 million bond while the case moves forward but many of the

domestic dispute allegations against him are still pending and the investigators are continuing to look into whether they show a pattern leading up to Brooks death because I do think although it seems like the writing is on the wall the pattern and the history is what's going to really come into play here because I could see a very good defense attorney saying the blunt force trauma was from her hitting her own head the bruises and injuries on her arms and legs are from the fall

down the stairs the smashed phone screen happened from the fall down the stairs or she smashed it herself the blood in all the different rooms is because he had picked her up carried her to the

“living room it transferred then he went outside to greet EMS and that's why I got on the deck like”

I could see that but what's going to seal the deal assuming that he is guilty and it's an interproven guilty I'm trying to be better about that guys what will seal the deal is the pattern establishing history and determining if those old bruises were inflicted once you get expert testimony in if it appears that she would yeah what she and an ongoing abusive relationship well I have a few thoughts number one I think to your point a hundred percent the pattern and it

just speaks to why it's so important to report things even if you don't feel like it matters and even if you're unfortunately it doesn't rule in your favor and we've seen how those things go unfairly all the time but at least there's then a record of it so if it happens again

like I've seen or heard like you know you you're frustrated you hit your head on whatever like not me like kids you may be like throw a tantrum and yeah I'm so you know I don't know yes

“but when there's blood gushing out you're not doing that because usually I think people do that”

for like attention and as like a coping in the moment it's not something where you're starting to injure yourself to the point of like blood flying everywhere and you've got scrapes on your face I mean that doesn't sound at all likely I also have to say like is it easy and this might be a really ignorant question is it easy to throw yourself down the stairs? No what I can't read this is like imagine like if they're if the source of this argument was text messages so that was actually

what I was going to say next once we have more information out the text messages and things coming out I wonder if he found messages on her phone or that way around but they're fighting they're grabbing the phone they're at the top of the stairs in the landing and then somebody falls so it could have been like accidental obviously there's signs of abuse but not her being like I'm gonna throw myself down now you know I don't trust him innocent until proven guilty I don't think so

the guilty in my eyes but guilty to us yeah you guys know I absolutely love finding a good deal

I get way too excited when I find something amazing without paying full price and I have to just tell you

I am the queen of internet hunting reverse image searching all the things towards I'm finding it at the lowest price possible but lately one of my favorite places to shop has been whatnot I've told you about them before my I guess you would call them brother-in-law brother-in-law and lot whatever he introduced it to me back on Christmas Eve and it's actually the largest live shopping marketplace in the United States and it's such a different experience than just scrolling

through a regular shopping app it what's cool about it is you're shopping live with real people

“which makes it so much more interactive and honestly a lot of fun you're like seeing these people”

show the products you can ask questions those zoom in on things and it's just very interactive and like I said one thing I really love is that the sellers actually will show you everything up close while they are alive so you can see the stitching the details the quality and if you're looking at a handbag or a piece of clothing they'll zoom in right on there they'll explain the sizing the condition they'll answer your questions in real time so it makes you feel so much more confident

about what you're buying and honestly the deals are incredible I almost never pay full price I recently

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apartment quickly turned into a homicide investigations spanning through multiple countries I know so 36 year old Natalia Vialba a Colombian model and influencer had been staying at a luxury short-term apartment in an upscale Bogota neighborhood since June 3rd she was scheduled to check out on June 21st

but when she never did and no one could get in touch with her staff became very concerned and the next

day when a cleaner went into the apartment to clean it expecting to prepare it for the next guest that's when they walked in and found something that was just straight out of a horror movie according to authorities Natalia's body had been stuffed inside of a suitcase which had then been placed in the shower with the water running okay what was the grand plan here well that's kind of I was confused obviously well we'll get into it but the water running to me I'm like I don't understand

they're in the suitcase with the water running what is that gonna do wash away evidence but also you're in the suitcase in the shower yeah yeah keep going what so a homicide investigation was started immediately and according to Colombia's attorney general's office investigators down evidence in the apartment that ultimately did point them to a suspect the suspect was identified as

Matthew had entered Natalia's apartment on June 18 while she was alone beat her then allegedly

“concealed her body inside the suitcase before attempting to stage the scene to hide what had happened”

hold on that's not how you stage it's not I know okay well just wait okay he didn't get very far yeah he then left Colombia soon after so authorities quickly issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol to issue a red notice to help find him turning this into an international search so authorities in Colombia Ecuador and the UK were all working together to track Matthew down and just days later he was arrested in keto international airport in Ecuador where investigators say

he was actually getting ready to board a flight back to the UK he was charged with aggravated

genocide and tampering with evidence now I had never heard from a side so I didn't know the

crimes actually a specific crime which for those of you that might not know maybe I'm the only one that didn't know it's a homicide but that's intentionally towards female yeah it's not just like if you happen to kill a female it's like if you could then because they're a fair female and it's like proven that it was based on gender yes I had no idea about that yeah wild that is wild and Matthew knew this was coming because just hours before his arrest he was giving interviews

and this this is what's bizarre my god who's giving interviews to media outlets denying involvement with Natalia's death he claimed that he'd been watching England's world cut match at an Irish pub before spending the rest of the day walking through a shopping center buying an ice cream and returning later to watch more games he also claimed get this they had been receiving death threats over an unpaid death so okay a few things why are media outlets even coming up to him before

his arrest like how did they know that he they were searching for him so they obviously it was public it was an international search and so he's being interviewed by outlets but they're still

“searching for him that's what I was kind of confused about yeah maybe they still couldn't find”

him kind of like even when Caitlin Armstrong went on the run but yeah if they're if he's giving interviews it's like hello obviously you know the location he's at maybe there's something weird with that but the fact that he's bringing up the unpaid debt that's what struck me is on him like oh so are you gonna say that somebody was af going after you but I killed her instead and yeah because that's what I'm thinking I'm like okay your alibi went to a game you got an ice cream

you're shopping I would imagine there's plenty of cameras around there are witnesses there's receipts there's all of that tell us the details of the game so I feel like you could probably check out that alibi but what's this unpaid debt yeah like that's bullshit so after the announcement of his arrest people started really as you could imagine digging into Matthew's criminal history so here it is guys court records show that he had only recently been released from prison in the

UK after serving more than two years for stalking offence and there you go there's the pattern and even after his release he was still under a court ordered stalking prevention order that prohibited from contacting any of his previous victims it also required him to make regular check-ins to report his address and vehicle information to the police so that they could obviously keep an eye on him and placed also restrictions on his electronics so I'm like is that

why he then went to another country because he was so tightly monitored in the UK investigators haven't publicly explained how Matthew and Natalia knew each other or what possibly led up to this attack but officials in Colombia are very clear that they are going to pursue justice and the city mayor has even gone on to say that this painful case will not go unpunished which that feels good that they're taking it seriously but yeah I'm curious to continue each other or did he follow her and

as someone who does solo traveling and sometimes wants to like cut costs you get an Airbnb it's like those are kind of the reasons I don't because I like the idea of being in a hotel even though things happen everywhere yeah but was he watching her because she was staying there since June 3rd and this happened on the 18th so that's two weeks and if he's a stalker was he watching her maybe she was at the pub watching the game too and he followed her home who knows but this is actually I don't know

the details this is the second suitcase case I've heard about in the last few days there was another one

“within Australian man and I believe did he kill a 17 year old girl it was not and put her in a suitcase”

and they ended up arresting him as well after he maybe she wasn't 17 again I don't know the details you guys probably know more than I do but I like these are back to back happening I'm like one this Araboon is going on here why are people using suitcases I don't know so this next case

been following it internally very very closely it is so sad and devastating and I got to say

“pretty shady pretty freaking shady so this next case out of Kentucky basically had everybody”

glued to their phones four days looking on social media scrolling for updates hoping for a miracle and what makes this one especially heartbreaking isn't just the fact that 19 year old Marley Kenny vanished without a trace after spending the day at the lake or I say wow spending the day at the lake but it's at her family had documented the search in real time so as they were getting updates they were sharing them on social media before any official announcements were being made and

like everybody was just collectively following this case together so let me break down what happened where the red flags are and where things stand as of now at the time of this recording so on Wednesday June 24th 19 year old Marley had spent the day on grace and lake with a group of her friends they had rented a pontoon boat they went out on the lake it's summertime having fun doing their thing now according to early reports the group had stopped right along the shoreline so that Marley could

hop off the boat and use the bathroom there was some mixed messaging too that she hopped off the boat and what used the bathroom in the water you know just paying in the lake then some people saying she hopped onto the actual land to like cop the squat different reports but however the point is after some time allegedly according to the report early on everyone got back on board of the pontoon boat and then headed back out onto the lake but then they realized that Marley was no longer with them

the problem was nobody could say exactly where she was or where she had last been seen so after everybody realized that Marley was missing authorities were notified around 4 p.m. that afternoon according to investigators 23 year old Cameron Conley the man who was operating this pontoon boat told the marina staff that nobody could find her when Kentucky State police arrived they then began speaking with Cameron about what had happened and according to police they immediately noticed

“signs that he had been drinking which I get not a big surprise I think like kids who are”

renting a pontoon boat going out on a lake you expect there to be drinking you hope that whoever's operating the boat is not under the influence but you would expect people to like be drinking beer

listening to music I mean my first question was is they're drinking but then I'm like yes they are

so the investigators reported smelling alcohol on him and also saying that he had blood shot eyes so I mean he was intoxicated so they asked him if he had been drinking and Cameron allegedly said that he had been drinking and he agreed to take a breathalyzer test now the results came back the results were a point one three seven percent which is well above the legal limit of a point oh eight percent which that's for operating any kind of vehicle but car fucking scooter I don't know

you name it so he was clearly wasted then by about five thirty that evening Cameron ended up being arrested and he was charged with operating a boat under the influence now investigators were very careful to point out that the boating under the influence charge was separate from Marley's disappearance because at that point they still had no idea what was going on where Marley was who if anyone else was responsible if it was accidental but they knew that he had been operating this boat while drunk so

what investigators did know during all of this was that they had a major problem here people had been drinking people's memory was foggy they group couldn't tell them exactly where Marley had last gotten off the boat which that would make the search incredibly challenging if you don't even have an area necessarily of like where to begin when you're searching like this huge lake and

“deep waters and all of these things and you have like what these drunk kids who can't remember”

where they were we're parting probably didn't even like think to clock where they weren't able to go to the bathroom I just have to go downstairs and pull it over and yeah exactly the lake looks the same everywhere you know who knows so instead of having one specific area to search they now knew that they needed to start piecing together her last known movements so within hours

Kentucky State Police Kentucky Fish and Wildlife local first responders and specialized search

and rescue teams launched a massive search operation divers went into the water helicopters flew overhead thermal drones scanned the shoreline canine teams searched the surrounding wooded areas boats were also on the lake combing through the water and investigators also started reviewing phone data and other digital evidence just really hoping to narrow down a timeline as to as to where

could help them start to build out this timeline and as the search grew with that so did public

attention around noon the next day on June 25th Marley sister Willow shared on her own Facebook post to spread awareness about Marley being missing she said that Marley had now been missing for almost 20 hours she also asked people not to spread rumors or any sort of misinformation she wanted only legit facts being spread she didn't want it to impede on the investigation she wanted to find her sister search crews were doing everything that they could but at this point it's like hello

the family needed facts not speculation that certainly wasn't going to help right so Willow shared every identifying detail that she could think of hoping that someone had seen Marley she said that Marley was last seen wearing a pink and orange strapless bikini and was also quote likely to have no shoes she also said that Marley wore gold jewelry usually had on a gold cross necklace and she even shared as many photos of Marley's tattoos as she could find just any identifiable type markers

right meanwhile investigators continue trying to piece together what had happened that afternoon and at

“this point they were covering a massive area of nearly I think it was like 1500 acres of this like”

vast lake and again using helicopters drones sonar equipment both divers canines off road vehicles crews on foot anything they could but like hello a 1500 acre lake that is massive so as the search

moved into it second day Marley's family continued of course to hold on to hope in a statement they

thanked the overwhelming amount of law enforcement officers first responders volunteers and community members who had joined in on the search saying that they didn't even know how to express their gratitude and that they had faith that the people searching were doing everything that they could do to bring Marley home but as Thursday turned into Friday there was still no sign of her then just 48 hours after Marley disappeared her sister Willow made another Facebook post she said that there still weren't

many updates but she thanked everyone who continued searching and she said that she hoped that she would have better news to share soon could you imagine having to like muster up the courage to post this type of updates and just putting together any identifying marker just that I like that's

“giving me chills because I think obviously as a sister having to do that and like you feel that”

sense of responsibility of obviously trying to help and find but also updating people right it's awful so by Saturday morning the search had become so widespread that people from all over the area were offering to drive to grace and lake to help willow address those messages directly in her post explaining that investigators were incredibly grateful for their support but they were asking people not to launch their own searches saying that extra boats could interfere with the divers who

were already in the water and that people who were walking through the woods could trigger the thermal drones and that it would just kind of throw a wrench into the investigation forcing crews to then chase false leads even privately flown drones could make law enforcement have to ground their own air searches because of safety regulations so as much as everybody wanted to help

“investigators said that the best thing that people could do was let the search continue but by”

Saturday evening willow shared another heartbreaking update only this one had less to do with the search itself and more to do with the misinformation that had been spreading across social media. She said that she had to step away because she had become overwhelmed by fake videos, accusations, rumors and complete strangers claiming they knew exactly what had happened which honestly one line from that post really stuck with me she wrote quote "I could care less about how it happened

who did it right now. I just want her found. I will place the blame later when she is found." Which to me that really just showed that while the internet you know was doing what the internet does it was interneting trying to solve the mystery just two days after Marley had disappeared Marley's family wasn't even thinking about blaming it they weren't trying to say it was the driver of the boat or it was the friends who dropped her off or pushed her in the water because that's

some of the rumors that were going around on social media they were like "we don't even care who did what? Who's responsible or what? We just want to find Marley, you know that's all they cared about." So then on the afternoon of June 28th after almost four days of searching the update that everyone

had hoped would never happen did happen. Marley had been found deceased in the water.

Now even through the unimaginable grief that her family was now feeling they thanked every first responder, every driver, every volunteer and the search team that had spent days searching from Marley but they also made a final request stop speculating. The family said that they would

theories or claim to know how Marley died calling that kind of speculation disrespectful. As of

now investigators have not publicly announced Marley's official cause and manner of death and they have not said whether any additional charges are expected. So while the search for Marley has unfortunately come to an end, many of the questions surrounding what happened on grace and lake that afternoon still remain unanswered. So I definitely will keep an eye out for updates and I'm sure there probably will be updates as this episode airs and is published and I know I spoke

to red flags earlier. I don't want to speculate because I want to honor the family's wishes. So I'm going to kind of just leave it at that. Let I want you to form your own conclusions and

thoughts but given the information we have and we know and what transpired, there are a lot of red

flags and let's leave it there. I was going to say I have some questions and some thoughts but I think out of respect for the family like when they're obviously they must have information and they

“want to share it when it's feels right and in the way they want so I think we should definitely”

give them that. Yeah, a devastating but so sad regardless and you know obviously just a reminder as we're in summer to be careful. Yeah I know. Okay so before we go we should confess to your BFF or ask advice. We if you are haven't listened to one of these episodes in the last few weeks at CrimeCon we had a phone booth for when the booth was shut down where people could leave a message asking either for advice or confessing to us which if you confess to an actual crime I report I'm

going to report your ask to the police but we are going to cycle through these and what do we have to do? Okay I don't know it's labeled by our team as high school. Okay so I need to put I'm going to move the mic down towards the speaker. Okay. In high school I put narrow in my step sisters shampoo when she ratted me out to one night. I thinned it out a little bit but she was fine. Okay for us okay number one Annie has to thin out her hair. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do.

I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. If you guys

“follow me on Instagram. First of all if you don't you should it's underscore Annie Ely at underscore”

Annie Ely. You know how thick my hair was. Let me just show those who don't follow me on Instagram a photo that I posted. Open that baby. There you go. So for Annie she'd probably welcome a little surprise nair treatment. That's not one way I'd get back to you but if you did that to you we'd still be in a fight over it. I know you'd blame me forever. That's kind of diabolical. I get it's your step sister and it like she ratted you out but like and you know what that is like the cliche though

right in all the movies they put hair loss stuff or like hair coloring stuff. But like damn did you ever go or you guys still friends like where's the follow up if you're listening to this follow up with us email us at hello at Annie Ely's and in the subject follow up to the nair story and I want to know are you guys still cool did you ever tell her about it like what your parents say yeah

“do you get in trouble? And like nair smells sick nasty. I yeah I remember like mom telling us that”

because I wanted to try it show a little peel the wallpaper off the walls that's so strong yeah mom the quarter-away wallpaper that we have like yeah that must be true. Yeah that's that's a real strong ass shit. All right guys thank you so much for tuning into another episode of headline highlights New York edition we'll be back with you next week on Thursday with another headline highlights but before then full deep dive brand new case this last Monday it's out on the feed right now and

for all of you OGs who have been listening to me for a while or have been following true crime and are familiar with the Harmony Montgomery case. I don't know if you knew this but Adam Montgomery her ass hat father the murder conviction has been overturned and so I did a full deep dive into what that means not only what that means but the whole case which if you aren't familiar with that case guys it's so disturbing I want to warn you this guy murdered his daughter

disposed of her carried her body around from placeways and then disposed of her in a neutral bullet okay

so anyways my point is that case I released on Tuesday on my second true crime channel called

10 to life for all my podcast listeners for anybody watching on YouTube it's right here on the same channel but you have other cases you can go back and binge right now over the holiday weekend if you have bored and not doing anything fun and need things to binge brand new one here on this feed from Monday which is a batshit crazy one and then the Harmony Montgomery case as well so they're

following both of the podcasts so that you don't miss those new episodes as I post them

“other than that I will be back with you on Monday with an all new case I hope you all have a very”

safe holiday weekend for those of you who are celebrating the fourth of July I know a lot of

listeners are international but have a safe weekend do not drive boat or do anything while

“intoxicated and watch your back and CJ I love you safely yeah travel safely all right guys thanks”

so much bye.