BF Forces Woman to Write "Goodbye" Letters to Her Children | Crime Alert 03.20.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
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Man holding his girlfriend hostage threatens her life and forces her to write goodbyes to her children. Air pods help cops catch disgruntled employee turned thief.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. |
| 0:03.3 | Illinois cops get a disturbing 911 call from a woman who says her boyfriend's been holding her hostage three days. |
| 0:10.6 | The bruised and bloody woman says Mercado Quintiro attacked her when she tried to break up, |
| 0:17.4 | then bound her hands with electrical tape and rope. |
| 0:20.3 | Contiro threatened to kill her and fired a gun into the floor, inches from her foot. |
| 0:24.6 | Most unnerving, he forced her to write goodbye letters to all of her children. |
| 0:29.6 | Nancy, the woman was finally able to call 911 when Quintero left for work. |
| 0:34.6 | Police found her with two black eyes and other bruises. |
| 0:38.4 | Officers recovered both the goodbye letters and the handgun Quintero threatened her with in his home. |
| 0:43.9 | Quintero was arrested when he returned to the home that evening. |
| 0:47.1 | The victim said to be released from the hospital and recovering from the terrifying ordeal. |
| 0:51.2 | Mercado Cantero 44 now charged with kidnapping, domestic abuse, assault, and gun violations. |
| 0:58.4 | Mechanics at Fort Myers, Florida, Nissan arrived to work to find their toolboxes missing. |
| 1:03.3 | The items inside worth roughly $100,000. |
| 1:07.6 | Detectives don't have much to go on until one of the mechanics says he left AirPods in his toolbox, and they're pinging from a storage facility 10 miles away. Officers tracked down the AirPods to Michael Honer's unit. Turns out, Honer had recently been fired from Nissan and blamed the other mechanics for him getting fired. |
| 1:28.6 | Cops find Honer at his new job with Audie, where he's arrested for grand theft and burglary. |
| 1:35.9 | Bye-bye job at Audi. More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:43.6 | Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news these crime online's John Limley. |
| 1:48.2 | In the Idaho student murder case, prosecutors say Daniel Koberger's defense team will argue that DNA evidence tying him to the crime scene could have been planted. |
| 1:58.7 | Lauda County prosecutor Bill Thompson claims in a new court |
| 2:02.1 | filing that Coburger's attorneys won't dispute the presence of his DNA on a knife sheath found |
| 2:08.0 | in the victim's home, but we'll argue it doesn't prove he was there and may have been placed by |
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