Live and Unfiltered - Jodon Romero

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On September 28, 2012, a routine car chase in Arizona quickly spiraled into a national broadcast disaster. As millions watched live on Fox News, 33-year-old Jodon Romero led police on a dangerous, high-speed pursuit through the desert. What viewers didn’t expect was to witness its devastating conclusion—Romero’s suicide, aired unfiltered before the network could cut the feed. The real victims here? Romero's children, who saw this play out right in front of them.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:10.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:18.1	Yeah, hey, I'm on a car chase. Give me like a crazy car chase but then like instant justice no no legal
0:26.4	to the second window and we'll see you next crime welcome to true crime to go i am jamie
0:35.7	nope wow i am john here with jamie i got flustered because she didn't let me
0:41.0	finish my order i mean how rude she's been that rude for a long time at this point you just got
0:47.5	just got to just got to lean into it man that's your daughter kids legitimately love her there's no chance
0:52.9	she listens to this show she's my
0:54.5	she's my second daughter this is true crime to go and this is your second true crime to go in a row
1:01.2	that happened live on tv what's your i just i'm still still can't get over the fact that i called
1:07.0	myself jamie so i am. I know my own name.
1:11.4	It's, bro, what a day.
1:13.9	Oh, yeah.
1:14.4	What a day.
1:15.6	Let me tell you about this guy's day.
1:17.3	It is, I mean, this is a, I don't know, I've set the tone to kind of be funny,
1:21.3	but this is anything but that.
1:23.8	This is another case that kind of played out on live TV and then we're going to talk about some legal aspects of all of this afterwards.
1:31.7	But let's go to September 28, 2012, and that's where 33-year-old Joe Don Romero was involved in a car accident in Phoenix, Arizona.
1:42.8	And following the crash, he carjacked a red 2008 Dodge caliber at gunpoint.
1:50.8	So police, of course, were called because there was an accident and then a carjacking.
1:56.5	And upon realizing the suspect descriptions matched, he initiated the pursuit.
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