I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

We are going to solve these cases own air together.

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Marco Ortega and Hale Paloa enter a Colorado shot with guns drawn, attempting to rob the

place, but they don't expect one of the employees to be armed. The robbery escalates to a shootout

between the two men and the employee. That's right, the two 20-year-olds flee the scene when

the employee returns fire. No one at the shop is injured, but a trail of blood on the floor

suggests one of the robbers is. Cops are tipped off to their location and take one suspect

into custody and the other to the hospital. Both men now charge with armed robbery and attempted

homicide. Valerie Miller faces murder for higher charges after she tries to hide

fire and undercover cop. Then a brasco woman posts on social media asking if someone could buy

her a gun, the cop responds and Miller describes to the cop she wants five people dead, her ex-husband,

his girlfriend, and her three children. The cop then offers to kill them for her instead,

for $1,000 a person. Miller decides the children were no threat to her and only wants her ex-husband

and his girlfriend dead for $2,000. Miller tells the cop she will pay half when her paycheck comes in.

39-year-old Valerie Miller are now facing five counts of attempted murder and murder conspiracy.

More crime and justice news after this.

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