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🗓️ 5 August 2024
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Jilted ex-boyfriend sets fire to woman's home, killing her and two children. This sneaky burglar claims he was "accidentally locked in."
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0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. |
0:03.0 | Liz Beth Gattero Salazar 32 breaks up with her boyfriend, Jose Cardona, |
0:08.0 | because he doesn't get along with Liz Beth's three sons, |
0:12.0 | while the Gattero Salazar family sleeping inside, |
0:15.0 | Cardona douses their home with gasoline |
0:19.0 | and sets it on fire. |
0:21.0 | One boy comes running from the flames as first responders arrive when the |
0:26.2 | blaze is put out. Firefighters find the bodies of mom Liz Beth and little sons, Juan and Julian. |
0:34.7 | Nancy, Cordona fled the crime scene after the arson and was on the run for more than |
0:38.8 | two weeks before his arrest 30 miles from the crime scene in Modesto, California. |
0:43.6 | Cordona was in the US illegally and has been deported previously three separate times. |
0:48.9 | Cardona is now held up the San Joaquin County Jail. |
0:52.1 | Jose Cardona, 59, now charged with three counts, murder. |
0:57.0 | Christopher Morgan enters the Florida Walgreens 20 minutes before closing. |
1:01.0 | He heads straight to the bathroom. To a surprise and delight, no |
1:05.6 | one realizes he's still there when the store locks up for the night. When he's sure |
1:10.3 | the coast is clear, he wanders the store, eating whatever snacks and sweets he wants. |
1:16.2 | Morgan, however, does not take an alarm system into account and sees police arriving on the scene just as he helps himself to a pack of cigarettes. |
1:27.0 | Once the door is open, he refuses to get into the patrol car claiming the lock-in was an accident. |
1:34.0 | Cops don't believe it, and Christopher Morgan, 46 old enough to know better, |
1:39.0 | now charged with burglary, larceny, and resisting arrest. |
1:43.0 | More crime injustice news after this. |
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