Crime Alert 01.15.25 | Woman Escapes Kidnapping Attempt by Former Housekeeper
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Woman lured into kidnapping manages to escape and is shocked by her attacker's identity. California driver caught monkeying around.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News Now, Eric Quinn, a do-gooder mother of two from California, attacked in Winchester after responding to an unsolicited text. |
| 0:11.5 | The message, claiming to be from an elderly woman named Connie, offers items for a children's toy drive, Aaron's organizing. |
| 0:18.8 | Aaron's drive to the address, knocks. Then another text orders her to wait |
| 0:22.6 | in her car, but before she can, an assailant opens the unlocked car door and slips into the |
| 0:28.8 | back seat. Nancy, the attacker puts a taser to Aaron's head and pulls the trigger several times. |
| 0:34.4 | She then instructs Aaron to drive, threatening her family if she does not cooperate. |
| 0:39.0 | Erin blares her horn as she passes several construction workers, and the attacker tases her again, |
| 0:44.2 | causing Aaron to crash into two parked cars. Aaron takes the chance to fight back and pulls a wig |
| 0:49.6 | off the attacker, revealing her former housekeeper Olga Mendez. Aaron has no idea why Mendez would attack her. |
| 0:56.8 | Their relationship ended on good terms. Mendez escapes the scene, but is arrested 10 days later. |
| 1:02.4 | 44-year-old Mendez jailed, accused of kidnap and assault with a deadly weapon. |
| 1:08.2 | A $400,000 Rolls-Royce ghost speeding on a California highway |
| 1:12.3 | reveals a bizarre passenger, the driver clutching a baby spider monkey wrapped in his jacket. |
| 1:19.4 | California Highway Patrol stops Ali Muhammad 27 and bust him for DUI and cannabis possession |
| 1:25.7 | for sale. In his jacket, the month-old monkey dressed in a pink |
| 1:31.0 | polka dot onesie. Primates are illegal as pets in California, leading to a third criminal charge. |
| 1:38.6 | The monkey, named Marcel, spends the night eating mashed bananas before being checked out at the Oakland Zoo. |
| 1:46.3 | Muhammad watches as his supercar towed away. Monkey and Rolls Royce all gone. More crime and justice |
| 1:54.0 | news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online is John Limley. |
| 2:02.5 | A man is in custody following a string of violent stabbings in Denver over the weekend |
| 2:07.7 | that left two people dead and two others injured. |
| 2:11.4 | Denver police made the arrest Sunday night shortly after a stabbing near the 16th Street |
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