A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language.

It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing. Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily, the podcast covering high profile and under

the radar cases across the country every week. We are recording this

podcast I always have to check. On June 24th, 2020 I'm Anna Garcia because it

feels like the days just blend into each other.

Our guest today is former prosecutor and oxygen host Lonnie Coombs.

Welcome back to the program, Lonnie.

Thanks, Anna.

It's great to be here.

I understand you're back shooting again for oxygen.

Little by little.

We'll start.

I did some promos and then we're supposed to start out on location at the end of July but you know all of the

restrictions are being followed and so everything's very different but we're able to do

the work again so that's great. That's fantastic. Well we're so glad you made some time for today. We've got two cases both out of Texas and they're as usual very tragic, very confusing and complicated. So the two cases that we are following. very the missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Gien. But first a fugitive Texas mom who

had been on the run for seven years wanted by the police for allegedly killing her husband while their children slept in their beds has finally been caught.

48 year old Maria Montalvo was caught at the US-Mexico border. She was trying to actually get

back into California. This is what I never get Lonnie is like if you flee

why in the world do you come back to the jurisdiction that is going to arrest you the minute you step foot, right?

Exactly. And yet we see this over and over again, right? It's like they can't stay away from the scene of the crime.

So whether it was family members or whatever she was coming back and forth, she just didn't do the same thing and stay in Mexico.

I don't get it. Oh, you know, right? Okay. Well, she was arrested trying to cross the border.

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