COPS: CREEPY TEEN STALKER TRACKS GIRLS 4 MONTHS, MOWS DOWN VICTIMS RIDING E-BIKE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Best friends Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas ride their bikes in front of Maria’s home.
The speed limit is just 25, so the girls feel comfortable riding in the street, but with no warning, a black Jeep Compass barrels down Burnside Avenue at nearly three times the speed limit. The driver never braked, running Maria and Isabella down, and then sped off without stopping to check on the two girls.
The hit-and-run driver doesn’t get far. Police find the suspect vehicle, a black 2021 Jeep.Compass, broken down from damage sustained in the crash just blocks away on Lincoln Avenue, with a bike still lodged in the front bumper. The 17-year-old boy behind the wheel is briefly detained and ultimately released to his family with 15 traffic tickets while police continue to investigate the crash.
Meanwhile, at the crash site, witnesses call 911 and rush to the girls’ aid; one is declared dead on the scene, while the other passes away minutes later at a hospital.
The day after teens Maria and Isabella are killed in a hit-and-run, officers arrest the 17-year-old driver, now charged as a minor with 2 counts of first-degree murder.
Union County prosecutors keep the driver’s identity private; however, traffic summons records reveal his name: Vincent P. Battiloro.
Battiloro is familiar with law enforcement, his father being an officer with Chatham PD, and his uncle, Chief of Westfield PD. The teen was also under investigation for harassing and stalking his classmate and ex-girlfriend Maria Niotis.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Lisa Herrick - Board-certified Juvenile Attorney, Partner at Varghese Summersett, and Former Juvenile Prosecutor; Instagram & Twitter: versustexas, TikTok: lisa_herrick_attorney, Facebook and Youtube: Varghese Summersett
- Dr. Janie Lacy - Licensed Psychotherapist and CEO of Life Counseling Solutions, Author of "How To Heal From A Toxic Relationship: A Guide To Reclaiming Your Mental Health and Happiness;" Host of “The Resilient Professional” Podcast on YouTube; Instagram & Facebook: @JanieLacy
- John Pizzuro - Former New Jersey State Police Investigator for 25 years (worked in multiple departments, including Homicide, Organized Crime, Cartels), Former Commander of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force for the New Jersey State Police, and Currently the CEO of RAVEN, an organization focused on eliminating Child Exploitation and Trafficking
- Dr. Priya Banerjee - Board-certified Forensic Pathologist and Anatomic Pathologist, Anchor Forensic Pathology Consulting
- Melissa McCarty - Reporter & Host of the “Killer Genes” Podcast, Author of “The Making of a Crime Reporter;" TikTok: McCarty143, Instagram: MelissaMcCarty1
- Dave Mack - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | According to police, a creepy teen stalker poaches girls for months before mowing down the two little girl victims who are riding their |
| 0:25.4 | e-bike on a quiet neighborhood street. Mowed them down dead. I'm Nancy Grace. This is |
| 0:36.2 | crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:39.8 | Two teen girls from New Jersey were best friends who shared countless school days and weekend |
| 0:44.8 | adventures found their latest journey ending in unimaginable tragedy. Ah, oh, my stars. How many times has my son or daughter gone for a walk or gone to ride their bike? |
| 1:01.7 | And yeah, I'd be a little bit worried, but it would be hard to imagine that someone was waiting around the corner, revving the motor of their Jeep, waiting to see |
| 1:16.4 | them go by so they could floor it and mow them down? Not really even an accident. I'm having a |
| 1:26.7 | hard time making sense of what I am learning about these two |
| 1:31.4 | little girls now dead. And for what? A creepy teen stalker? They're dead? How are the parents |
| 1:42.0 | making any sense? Look at her. Look at her cute little makeup and her cute |
| 1:47.5 | little eyelashes. How hard did she? How long did it take her to do that? Just trying to look |
| 1:53.6 | cute, trying to look like some magazine. Oh, look at the other little girl. Oh, I'm telling you. I am |
| 1:59.6 | telling you these facts are like nothing else I've seen. |
| 2:03.7 | And just think about it in their own little neighborhood. |
| 2:07.9 | Mom and dad see them go out the door and think, oh, they're going for a bike ride. |
| 2:11.3 | Good. |
| 2:12.9 | Listen to this. |
| 2:14.0 | Her mom just screamed. |
| 2:15.9 | I heard it outside my window and she was just, I just heard a loud |
| 2:19.3 | scream and I ran out my door and she just, she was just crying. Maria and Isabella are best |
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