Alleged Steroid-Popping ex-Marine Wanted for Young Mom's Murder Captured Abroad
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Raymond "RJ" McLeod, Jr. is arrested in El Salvador on murder charges.
The ex-Marine had been on the run for six years after the brutal death of 30-year-old Krystal Mitchell. The young mom was found beaten and strangled in a San Diego condominium in June 2016. The pair had been dating just a few weeks when they took a vacation trip.
By the time police arrived at the apartment when Mitchell and McLeod were staying with his friends, McLeod had fled in Krystal’s car, which was found at the San Diego airport. McLeod then rented a car at the airport and drove into Mexico. From there he traveled to Belize, and on into El Salvador. McLeod was reportedly working as a teacher.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Josephine Wentzel - Victim's Mother, Founder, "Angels of Justice", Author: "THE CHASE: In Hot Pursuit of My Daughter’s Killer", AngelsofJustice.org, Victim Advocate: The Cold Case Foundation, Twitter: @ANGELSOFJUSTIC2,
- Matthew Mangino - Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County), Former Parole Board Member, Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States", MattMangino.com, Twitter: @MatthewTMangino
- Dr. Michael Bourke - Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Former Chief of the United States Marshals Service’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, MichaelBourkePHD.com
- Frankie Sanchez - Regional Chief of US Marshal Task Force, Los Angeles
- Dr. Kendall Crowns – Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
- Dave Mack - Crime Online Investigative Reporter
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| 0:44.0 | God, Emma! I'm talking about a guy that does not deserve to be called a US Marine, |
| 0:50.6 | but he insists on saying that. None other than R.J. McLeod, a killer who has dragged law enforcement |
| 1:01.6 | halfway around the world to find him. |
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| 1:10.8 | in Sirius XM-111, but more important than that POC technical legal term, R.J. McLeod is someone |
| 1:20.4 | else. Her name, Crystal Mitchell. Take a listen to this. |
| 1:26.9 | Crystal was a visitor in San Diego. She loved San Diego and she came here frequently from Phoenix. |
| 1:33.1 | And her last word about San Diego was mom. I'm going to move there. She didn't know she was going |
| 1:41.6 | to be killed here. And so I have so many memories of her coming to San Diego. I have a lot of |
| 1:49.2 | things hanging in my house and cups and stuff because she loved San Diego. She was a lovely mother. |
| 1:54.6 | She was beautiful. He didn't side out. She was beautiful. And she was a single mom unsuspecting |
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