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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 09.04.23

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Teen kidnapped from date, found dead. Man admits defeat as cops pull pounds of pot from his car. 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now.

0:03.5

Andrea Vesquez, 19, and her boyfriend parked their car

0:07.0

at a California park after dinner.

0:08.9

Not long after, an armed man approaches the car

0:11.8

and starts shooting at the couple.

0:13.6

The boyfriend runs for help when he comes back.

0:16.0

The passenger seat is bloody and Andrea is gone.

0:20.0

Cops track Andrea's phone and find her body in a field.

0:24.0

Cops ID the shooter is Gabriel Esparza.

0:27.0

Nancy, the attack appears to be entirely random.

0:29.9

Vesquez was missing for nearly 24 hours

0:32.3

before officers discovered her body alongside her cell phone,

0:35.6

which they had been attempting to track her with.

0:37.7

Esparza, who has no criminal record,

0:39.7

apparently gave a detailed confession of the attack

0:42.2

and he was arrested the afternoon

0:43.8

before Vesquez was discovered.

0:45.5

Esparza 20 plays not guilty to murder, kidnap,

0:49.4

and attempted rape.

0:51.3

Florida cops pull over Jeffrey Kaufman for speeding

0:54.0

and they're hit with a strong smell of pot

0:55.9

as they approach the car.

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