Sins & Survivors: A Las Vegas True Crime Podcast - Tabatha Tozzi Update - Swing Shift (Free Bonus)

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

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To listen ad-free, visit Zinspod.co slash subscribe. Starting at $2.99 a month, you'll also get access to our exclusive bonus content episodes when you join through Patreon or Apple subscriptions. Thanks for supporting the show! Earlier this month, we re-released our episode about Tabitha Tazi, in remembrance of the two-year anniversary of her death. As a special Swing Shift episode, this week we're giving you an update on the shocking apprehension of Oswaldo Nathaniel Perez Sanchez, the man wanted for her murder. Finally, her family and friends may get the justice they've been seeking for two years.

Get ready as we put in a little overtime on Swing Shift and update you on the murder of Tabitha Tozzi. Hello, everyone. Hello, not subscribers. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. Hello, listeners. Welcome to a Swing Shift episode, if you haven't listened to one before. If you're not a subscriber, welcome.

Welcome. We, on our Swing Shift episodes, John and I, we don't have a script. We just kind of talk through the cases that we cover that week. And we wanted to use that style to update you all on Tabitha and what happened on April 15th, 2025. And we didn't want to make this for subscribers only we wanted to put this update out to everyone because it's amazing it's an amazing thing that happened yes so um like john said on april 8th 2025 we we had planned this in advance the the anniversary was coming up of of tabitha's murder and um in support of her family like we did last year we re-released her episode with any updates that we had it's also that was Victims Rights Week this year and we we just

wanted to honor all of the hard work that Regina and the entire Tabby tribe do all the time to keep Tabitha's case in the press to keep her name out there here in Las Vegas and everywhere. So people are always looking for Oswaldo and they remember Tabby in their search for justice. So we recorded that episode and we released it on April 8th. I'm sure many of you who are listening now know Tabitha's story, but just to remind everyone that Tabitha was shot on April 26, 2023, allegedly by her then-boyfriend Oswaldo Nathaniel Perez Sanchez. She ended up dying from her injuries two days later on April 24th. And so, John, do you want to share the news that we have?

Yeah, so we were, it was right around news time, so it was around 10 o'clock i guess yeah and we were watching the news and you got a text message or a message on instagram instagram um and it said they got perez or something like that yeah and i think the message was actually in it was written in spanish oh yeah it was in spanish and we were like what what so we immediately started googling and found out that the news had broken just like 30 minutes earlier yeah that they caught him in mexico yeah so this was april 15th april 15th very shortly after we released the episode yeah and you and i said that like earlier that evening you and I said that earlier that evening, you and I both had received a random phone call through Facebook Messenger from someone.

Yes, from this person. Yeah, that we didn't really know when we were kind of confused, like, well, why is this person trying to call us? It must just be an accident through Messenger. But it was actually because one of our listeners was trying to reach us to let us know that the news had broke. Authorities in Sonora, Mexico arrested Perez Sanchez. Which is great. It was great news. He was apparently, he wasn't really hiding. When we saw photos of him, I knew the moment I saw the photo because he was wearing a short-sleeved shirt. And even though his face was partially blurred, you could see his chin and his neck and his arms.

All the ink, his tattoos. And I recognized his tattoos right away. We didn't talk about this, but I thought he looked a lot thinner, too. He did. I'm not he did so he was probably he probably lost a bunch of weight in an effort to change his appearance yeah or whatever but yeah he definitely looked a lot skinnier for sure and the authority said he was using the name jorge we found out in a similar way that we found out that um eric gabara

had been when he was arrested for leslie plasio's murder it was a similar kind that we found out that Eric Ibarra had been when he was arrested for Leslie Palacios murder. It was a similar kind of post. I wonder if that's very common for Mexican authorities, for police departments to put out those posts where they have a picture of the perpetrator in handcuffs with their face blurred out and the officers around them.

Although it might be that it was news in Mexico and it was on the news there, but it just made it to us because of Facebook. It made it to us via the Facebook post. Which is excellent. We were really happy to see they finally got this guy. thing was that the reason why they arrested Perez Sanchez was because he was wanted for another murder. He is being accused of murdering a woman named Viviana Chiarelli. She was missing for 17 days, and then she was found murdered murdered and he is considered the prime suspect in her murder. She's the same, 26 years old, same age as Tabitha when Tabitha was killed. Viviana's sister Alma

actually gave an interview to our local Las Vegas Fox affiliate, Fox 5 here in Las Vegas, and she said, I'm not using my voice just for my sister, but also for Tabitha, because she didn't deserve to die. They were the same age. They had so much to live for. And I don't think it's fair that he dimmed their light so soon. Like I said, Viviana was only 26. I read online that she had a beloved cat. She loved sushi. She was very intelligent, a very good friend. Her sister said she was the core of the family, and she was a fan of Harry Styles. And there's a photo of Viviana hugging her cat, which is very similar to the photo that I love of Tabitha hugging her dog. Tabitha's mother came out with a statement.

She said, I'm happy and also sad. I'm happy because the killer of my daughter Tabitha got caught, a moment we've been waiting for for two years. I knew in my heart this moment was arriving soon, and it finally did. I'm also very sad because he took the life of another young woman, Vivian Carolee. Her name deserves to be honored, and we will keep honoring her as well. I'm heartbroken that the mother will be going through what I've gone through these last two

years. I don't desire this for anyone. It's very painful to lose your daughter, and especially in a horrible femicide. No mother deserves this, and I want the family to know that I'm here to support them, and we'll fight with them for justice. The fight's not over. Justice is still not completely served. We want him to serve prison time and for him to serve ideally here in Las Vegas. We are now on another wait to see what happens and we will continue fighting for justice to be completely served. Yeah, so he would have to be extradited to the United States from Mexico. The United States does have an extradition treaty with Mexico, but Mexico requires assurances that the person being extradited is But also with Perez Sanchez, he has this pending case for Viviana's murder. So I don't think the Mexican authorities are going to be ready to extradite him until that case is resolved. And it might be likely that he could face a long sentence if he's

found guilty for that murder. And I don't know that he could ever a long sentence if he's found guilty for that murder. And I don't know that he could ever stand trial. I hope he does. I really do. I hope that happens. But it could be a very long time. Eric Ibarra was arrested in July 2024. It's April 2025. So about nine months ago.

And he's still not been extradited. And there's no telling when and it's likely to take years that's what i read that it's going to take years for him to be extradited and it seems completely within reason that both of these two could face first degree murder charges which could carry a sentence of life in prison. We were talking about it, and we sort of think that it could be that Eric Rangalabara could potentially be tried for second-degree murder, possibly. No telling, no idea how to know. There's no way to tell, but certainly with Oswaldo, I would imagine it would be a first-degree murder charge considering there are witnesses to him shooting Tabitha. right like we don't want him to we want him to be extradited so he can stand trial but we're going to have to compromise on the fact that it's the maximum sentence he's going to be able to get

is going to have to be some kind there's going to be have to be some kind of parole it can't be life without parole that can't be the punishment and it certainly can't be the death penalty or mexico just won't give him to us yeah um so that's that's kind of where we're stuck. But speaking of the first degree murder charge, one thing that came out in the news articles this week that was not even there when we updated the episode like two weeks ago and definitely wasn't in the press two years ago, Tabitha's murder was recorded on a neighbor's security camera. And it's reported that that video camera footage captured exactly what her friend told the police and the press that it happened, that he shot Tabitha and then he carjacked the friend and took off. So there's a lot of questions now about why did they not? Yeah, I don't know why that wasn't made public earlier. And if you think back to the case, it was days before they named him as a suspect and they had him on camera.

So it seems like that was a pretty huge miss. And the fact that they knew for sure the car that he was driving and they couldn't catch him and the car they knew the plates they have all these cameras going up and down all the major streets and they couldn't track him or they didn't track him and comparing that to eric i know i keep bringing him up but he he murdered or he had something to do with leslie leslie's death in 2020 and And that was 2020. And they had plenty of footage of where his car was and all of that stuff.

That's how they were able to catch him and find her. We've talked about that in a couple of cases. Yeah. The murder behind the Avis. They tracked that dude all the way down Boulder Highway and they caught him the next day. So this happened two years ago. This wasn't ancient history.

This wasn't the before four. This was two years ago. Yeah. Those cameras have been up for a long time. There was also some new reporting about how Perez Sanchez was terrorizing Tabitha, that he had pulled a gun and pointed at her the day before, which is just awful. But we had heard those stories that she was asking for help and she

was saying that she was scared. It's just all around a tragedy, especially when you think the authorities didn't catch him before he got away and he ended up murdering someone else. It appears that appears to be true obviously everything is alleged alleged alleged but but it feels like that could have been potentially prevented yeah um two families destroyed uh there's also news i don't even know i don't want to call it news but there's a lot of speculation in the press as to who was protecting him in Mexico and who he was staying with. And it's expected that those people are likely to have charges brought against them for harboring a fugitive as well. So hopefully in the next few weeks, we have even more updates, even more updates on that.

So we will bring further updates as we get them. But that is all we have for you for right now. We wanted to update you on that. So we will bring further updates as we get them, but that is all we have for you for right now. But we wanted to update you on that. And I will just say that since we started the podcast, more or less, we've been pressing every Wednesday, three fugitives on the run, Eric Ibarra,

Oswaldo Perez Sanchez, and Eduardo Clemente. And two of the three so far have been apprehended. So that leaves Eduardo Clemente, who's wanted for the murder of Tiffany Booth. So keep sharing his photo because we want that. We want to be able to bring him in as well. Yeah, we want three for three. They're not, yeah to bring him in as well. Yeah. He's somewhere.

They're not, yeah. They can't hide forever. Nope. They're out there. Thank you, everyone. Later this week, the week that John and I are recording this, Regina and the Tabby tribe are going to have a celebration of life for Tabitha. And so keep Tabitha and her family in your thoughts this week as well. It's all about her. And remember what happens here happens everywhere. Thanks for listening.

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