Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - FEDS: Chicago Man Who Lit Blue Line Traveler on Fire a Terrorist | Crime Alert 12.12.25

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

Federal authorities charged a man who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit train with terrorism. Oregon mom arrested after police find her low-functioning, non-verbal 11-year-old son unsupervised in a home filled with excrement, rotting garbage, and piles of trash. A missing woman found dead in a trash can, her husband admits to putting her there nearly two years ago.  A teen driver intentionally caused a 12-car pileup up at a Las Vegas traffic light last week, killing his pregnant girlfriend and the driver of one of the other vehicles. Sydney Sumner reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Sidney Sumner. Federal authorities stepped in on Wednesday and charged a man who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit train with terrorism. The federal charge against 50-year-old Lawrence Reed carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. The 26-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition

after the attack on Chicago's Blue Line train downtown. The incident took place just before 9.30 p.m. Monday as the train pulled into the Clark Lake Station. The suspect poured gasoline on the woman and lit it. He fled the train ahead of the woman engulfed in flames, who has not been named. Bystanders had extinguished the blaze by the time first responders arrived, but the victim was severely burned on her body and head. Although witnesses said the suspect and the woman argued before the incident, federal court records say Reed doused her with gasoline from a plastic bottle without comment and tried to do ignite it as she tried to fight him off. Surveillance video showed her running from one end of the train car to another before Reed lit the bottle he carried the gasoline in and used it to set the woman on fire. Chicago police said Reed made incriminating statements after he was taken into custody and had burns on his right hand. Reed was erratic during his initial court appearance on Wednesday, claiming he was guilty, a Chinese citizen, and that he wanted to represent himself. Federal officials complained at a news conference that Reed should have been in jail

because of his violent criminal history and his pending criminal cases, although they declined to say what those were. ATF's special agent Christopher Amman said, quote, Reed had plenty of second chances by the criminal justice system, and as a result, you have an innocent victim in the hospital fighting for her life. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutreau said that if the victim dies, Reed would be eligible for the death penalty because he's been charged in federal court. An Oregon woman was arrested last week after police found her 11-year-old son, who is low-functioning and non-verbal, unsupervised in the home, filled with excrement, rotting garbage, and piles of clothes and trash. Ruby Izzayana-Gadena-Vellador, 32, was charged with three counts of criminal mistreatment.

Police were initially called when the boy did not go to school that day, and a nine-year-old sibling was not picked up after school. A family member asked for a welfare check, but no one answered the door, and the family member requested to file a missing person's report. Later, a neighbor called to say she could hear the boy moving around inside the apartment. Again, no one answered the door when police responded, but this time they made an emergency entrance. They found feces smeared on the walls, floor, and an air conditioning unit, and the home smelled overwhelmingly of urine, feces, and rotted garbage.

The boy was sitting naked on a couch watching videos on his phone. His mother was not in the room, but police found her in another room, not wearing pants. Police said Gadina Velodore got dressed and was taken into custody. It's unclear where either of the children are now. More crime and justice news after this. A 65-year-old Illinois woman was found dead, wrapped in plastic, and a garbage bin in a backyard shed, and her husband has been charged with concealing her death for nearly two years. Family members living in Texas sought a welfare check for Nancy Corbyn,

saying they hadn't heard from her in that time and feared her husband, 59-year-old Adam Corbin may have harmed her. Adam Corbyn first told responding officers that his wife was in Florida, then that she was staying with friends. Later, he said she was in the home and brought out a woman who claimed to be her. Officers, however, quickly determined she was impersonating the missing woman. That woman ultimately told police she had lived with the Corbans and Nancy suffered from significant health issues.

Adam Corbin told her he found his wife dead in bed one morning and put her body in a blue trash bin, poured chemicals on it, and left it outside for nearly two years. Police said surveillance video showed Corbin moving the trash bin into a shed after police left. Inside the shed, officers found human remains in the trash bin. The Sangamon County Coroner identified the remains as Nancy Corbin. Corbin admitted to moving the body after police visited the home and admitted to receiving state's payment as his wife's caretaker long after she was dead. During their initial visit to the home, officers saw multiple firearms in plain view and then found that Corvin did not have a firearm owner's identification card, and during a

follow-up visit, he admitted he was a convicted felon. Police seized seven firearms. Corbin has been charged with seven counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, one count of abuse of a corpse, removal without authorization, and one count of concealment of a death. Las Vegas prosecutors told a court last week that a teenage driver intentionally caused a 12-car pile-up killing his pregnant girlfriend and the driver of one of the other vehicles. They said they planned to charge 19-year-old Jose Gutierrez with murder. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wilson told the court,

quote, we believe he was not impaired by alcohol or drugs, and therefore we believe, based upon all the evidence to date, including a very descriptive video, that his actions were intentional, which gives rise to a charge of murder. Adeline Durran Rincon, 20, and Edward Garcia, 38, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash last Tuesday, and another person was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Rincon was a passenger in Gutierrez's Infinity Coop. Wolfson said Gutierrez's view was not restricted, and he did not appear to break as he approached

a traffic light at a high rate of speed. Witnesses told police he appeared to be traveling around 100 miles per hour. Gutierrez was charged with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, reckless driving, and battery. For the latest crime injustice breaking news, be sure to follow the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast app. With this crime alert, I'm Sidney Sumner. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.