Crime Alert 09.08.23
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Man kills, dismembers roommate over purported stolen mail. Upset parent attacks youth soccer coach.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. |
| 0:03.8 | John Hallett, 48, accuses his roommate Paul Gonzalez of stealing his mail. |
| 0:09.3 | But then, he attacks Gonzalez, hitting him with a crutch, and choking him dead over |
| 0:15.6 | the mail. |
| 0:16.6 | Then he leaves the body in the bedroom for days, then drags it down to the basement where |
| 0:21.3 | it sits for 56 more days. |
| 0:23.8 | Then, he dismemberes his roommate, and dumps the pieces and trash cans. |
| 0:29.0 | Nancy, investigators taking a second look into what was previously considered a 2017 missing |
| 0:34.7 | persons case, used a cadaver dog to uncover possible human remains in the home's basement |
| 0:39.7 | last year. |
| 0:40.9 | The home was previously owned by a local non-profit helping to house the city's homeless population. |
| 0:46.6 | Hallett and Gonzalez were placed in the home together, but Hallett was paranoid that |
| 0:50.1 | Gonzalez was trying to get him kicked out of the program. |
| 0:53.2 | After connecting the remains to Gonzalez, police were challenged with tracking Hallett |
| 0:57.0 | down. |
| 0:58.0 | These six years to pull all the evidence together, but finally, John Hallett arrested |
| 1:02.7 | for murder. |
| 1:04.5 | Youth soccer coach Vince Villanueva notices a player on the sidelines with his dad, and asks |
| 1:09.8 | if he's okay. |
| 1:10.9 | The dad, Blair and Hawksa replies he's not, and asks to speak to Villanueva. |
| 1:16.2 | The coach agrees but looks away, and Mrs. Hawksa, launching at him, with a metal water |
| 1:21.8 | bottle. |
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