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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 04.06.23

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Elderly man kills wife and daughter out of 'mercy.' Hoax 911 calls garner armed responses on innocent victims.

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0:00.0

I mean, see Grace breaking crime news now.

0:03.2

Regional McLaren 81 calls Colorado cops to report his wife and adult daughter have been murdered.

0:09.8

Cops find the women's bodies in two trash cans inside the home, one dismembered.

0:15.7

McLaren then admits he killed them as an act of quote mercy because the family faced eviction.

0:23.9

Crime Online's John Lemley.

0:25.6

Nancy McLaren, who had recently lost his job, knew quote, what a miserable life they

0:31.0

would have had if they lost their home.

0:33.4

So he killed his family, knowing they are quote, in a better place.

0:37.9

McLaren's wife, Bethany and daughter Ruth were both attacked with an axe.

0:42.6

Cops also located a hacksaw used in the dismemberment.

0:46.1

McLaren now charged with two counts of murder and abuse of a corpse.

0:50.7

Have you heard of swatting?

0:52.7

This one person makes a false 911 call in order to get an armed response from police

0:58.2

at an innocent person's home.

1:00.6

Ashen Garcia makes multiple such calls, reporting threats or even major crimes.

1:07.2

Garcia records the calls and posts them to discord as quote entertainment.

1:12.4

Garcia is accused of making more than 20 of these calls in a bid to extort victims for money,

1:18.2

sexual photos or their credit card information.

1:21.6

Law enforcement entered victims' homes with guns drawn on several occasions, but thankfully

1:26.7

Nancy no one was hurt.

1:28.4

Garcia, 20 now facing 10 felony counts of threat, hoax and extortion.

1:35.0

More crime and justice news after this.

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