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[Music] all right [Music] Luxor Las Vegas on the Strip is owned and operated by MGM Resorts
the Luxor is one of the most recognizable resorts in Las Vegas because it's basically a 30-story
pyramid named after the city of Luxor in Egypt the resort is situated on the southern
end of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise Nevada According to some local folklore where
the Luxor sits was once a popular burial ground for the victims of the mob victims whose Spirits might not rest so
easily so when there maybe one should expect the unexpected after construction was completed the
Luxor opened its doors to those looking for fun and excitement in 1993 the property features a 120
000 square foot Casino with over 2 000 slot machines and 87 table games and hotel capacity of over 4
400 rooms the property also includes 29 retail stores twenty thousand square feet of
convention space four swimming pools and a wedding chapel should the mood strike
you certainly we should mention the Luxor Sky Beam at over 42 billion Candela the
Luxor Sky beam is the strongest beam of light in the world on a clear night it is visible up to 275 miles away by
aircraft with such an impressive property and so much money flowing in and out of a large
Casino one would expect top-notch security systems and personnel and in the luxor's 28 years of operation
it would be quite interesting to review all of the strange shenanigans that have
been captured by Hotel and Casino security cameras on Monday May 7 2007 around four in the
morning the luxor's rooftop garage parking lot security camera filmed a most unusual situation
the black and white video shows two people a man and a woman walking arm and arm through the hotel and then to the
parking garage as they approached a parked sedan the couple let go of one another the lady
walks to the passenger side of the vehicle and the man to the driver's side the man appears to spot something small
sitting on the rooftop of the vehicle then a second later a flash burst on the surveillance cameras the man and woman
are no longer visible to the parking lot camera the authorities were notified immediately that something strange and
frightening was happening at the Luxor what was that blast and more importantly where are the two people
this is true crime garage and this is the Luxor pipe bomb murder [Music] all right
[Music] May 7 2007 just outside of the Luxor casino and resort at about 4 a.m in the
morning security cameras watching the rooftop of the parking garage located directly behind the Luxor pyramid
witnessed a burst of light a blast which was quickly thought to have been a bomb
authorities were notified and in route now once on scene the parking entrances were sealed First Responders made their
way to where the explosion took place from the security cameras view it appeared that the blast occurred when
the man reached for a small item that was possibly sitting on the rooftop of a parked vehicle authorities quickly
located a man and a woman near the sedan the man lying on the ground and bleeding
from his head a couple of his fingers on his one hand were missing the explosion
had ripped them off the woman was lying face down on the ground near the passenger side doors
she was wedged between the car where the explosion came from and a second vehicle
parked just to the right she too was reported to be in bad shape law enforcement is going to quickly seal off
the entrances and exits to the parking garage yes with these entrances to the luxor's parking sealed off no one was
coming and certainly no one other than the ambulances were leaving the two victims were rushed to the nearest
hospital the ATF was brought in to assist in this whole situation and the investigation that would follow
authorities were going vehicle to vehicle with bomb sniffing dogs meanwhile back at the hospital the man
unfortunately was pronounced dead the female victim was injured but she was going to make it after a long morning
with a lot of personnel working the scene from several agencies Las Vegas Police spokesman Bill Cassell was ready
to update the public as to their findings and he offered up the following information
one he denied that a backpack exploded two he denied that the Luxor received threats or that the luxor's employees
received threats three he said it was a small blast and the bomb was not a terrorist act or a mob hit but an
apparent murder of a man who worked at a business Inside the Hotel Deputy police chief Ted Mooney said
quote this appears to have been a small device that was constructed in such a way to Target a single individual victim
it was successful in doing that unfortunately end quote and for the safety of the surviving victim Las Vegas
Police did not identify either the dead man or the injured female victim this is
a crazy and very scary situation here captain and we've talked about these types of situations in the past on True
Crime garage but picture this you are in a very public location and I get that it's 4 a.m but right it's the city that
never sleeps and so we have a public area a public venue and there's this bomb that goes off in the parking area
and we already know that we have one fatality we have another person who seems to be injured or at least was
taken to the hospital and now we have authorities on the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened this is
a place where you got a lot of people coming in and out at all hours of the night and fortunately it's not one of
these shooter situations and apparently based off of what we can piece together from law enforcement who are filling in
the blanks after working the scene they're saying hey public don't worry this appears to have been a targeted
attack we believe that the target was probably unfortunately killed in this attack but if you're law enforcement you
have to be hopeful that because it's such a public area that you're going to have some kind of surveillance maybe not
in the garage but in other businesses surrounding the garage correct and so we have spokesman Bill Cassell said that
this was not a terrorist event and detectives believe the victim was the intended target of the device and
characterized the sling as a homicide with an unusual weapon that from Ken Ritter reporting for the associate press
interesting situation here Captain a bomb goes off that police quickly tell us it was a small homemade explosive
device left sitting on the roof of this sedan that was parked at the Luxor some reports state that the woman was not
injured others say that she was not extremely injured so I'm a little unclear of her injuries but either way
she would have received some form of treatment at the hospital I'm guessing as she was awfully close to the
explosion obviously the other thing here is being a large venue in a public place
we are very lucky very lucky that there was not further damage or greater loss of life the other thing here too
as you're pointing out here Captain is we are going to get lucky that there is surveillance camera monitoring this area
in fact reports suggest that we would have had at least two cameras for this area if not three those cameras captured
the explosion as you know captain and I'm a betting man well I would be willing to bet that this
small explosive device didn't just magically fall from the sky and land on this poor guy's car so of course
detectives will be watching and reviewing all of that available surveillance footage to see how that
bomb found its way to that man's vehicle who put it there well we also have to be
hopeful that the Survivor makes it and then they can give us information let's review the damage done here captain
the murdered victim was identified as willabaldo durantes Antonio and sadly he was just 24 years old Mr Antonio was
attempting to get into the driver's side of the vehicle when the bomb went off the vehicle that the bomb was placed on
top of was confirmed to be his when the device exploded it blew a 12-inch hole in Mr Antonio's 1996 Dodge Stratus
the bomb tore off some of his fingers and sent a piece of metal through his head oh that's awful which killed him so
just like we saw here Captain with the Unabomber case with Ted Kaczynski he planted these small motion activated or
his pressure bombs it's not necessarily the explosion that kills it's the shrapnel
unfortunately that was the case here as well and often is the case with these small explosive devices couldn't imagine
your fingers being blown off it seems like he didn't die instantly though it seems like he possibly died
from bleeding out he died from the head injury yes so we covered the unabom case
in April of 2021 episodes 482 and 483 if anybody would like to go back and give those a listen incredible trailers on
those episodes by the way the captain doing gangbusters work on the music and yours truly doing his typical Robert
Stack uh lead in okay so people call those genius I'm not saying they are I'm just saying
some people say that I call myself a Robert Stack wannabe on this moment yeah I call myself a Guinness right our
victim will abaldo Antonio worked at the Luxor he worked at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog business which was and still is
one of a handful of non-casino businesses that remain open all night located on the second floor at the food
court near an arcade and there's several other shops inside the Luxor pretty Kick-Ass hot dogs there too hashtag not
a sponsor the lady that was walking with him Captain was reported to be his girlfriend her name is Karen shally she
worked at Nathan's in the Luxor as well with this man and as said this was a small explosive device clearly a
homemade device described as a small metal pipe bomb that contained an explosive powder and a nine volt battery
which was hidden in a plastic cup that was partially filled with that spray foam insulation stuff
this was placed on top of Willa Baldo's Dodge Stratus the device exploded when he picked it up to remove it from his
car so that motion activated the bomb now will a Baldo Antonio sadly passed away at the hospital two hours after
arriving the medical examiner determined that a large fragment of metal entered the victim's brain creating a seven
centimeter Furrow the autopsy also revealed torn skin and abrasions on his face a mangled right hand and missing
skin on his upper right arm the explosion occurred on the rooftop parking garage the shrapnel penetrated
nearby vehicles and pieces of the bomb were scattered across the parking structure the parking structure and the
casino though were not really damaged the casino not at all just some of the vehicles but nothing significant to the
parking structure and of course the distance that it went off did not allow for damage to the casino at first people
thought that this might be a terrorist attack right we hear bomb we hear explosion that's what our minds go to
but quickly law enforcement said no not a terrorist attack and that they had no reason to believe that anyone else was
in danger of a similar attack because this was a planned targeted attack and the hotel was not even evacuated the
general business operations were not interrupted by this explosion with the exception of that parking garage area
again very sad that this young man lost his life but we were still lucky that more people were not hurt or killed we
also well we get lucky in the investigation process and here's how Captain first law
enforcement were able to find on surveillance how the bomb got to Mr Antonio's vehicle surveillance video
shows a silver Chevrolet Cobalt drive around the rooftop garage for a while and then pull up and park next to
Antonio sedan this took place approximately 90 minutes before the bomb went off when looking at the footage
this all went down in the top right corner of the garage if you were looking at this on a television screen and
reviewing the footage yourself think about this though they're telling us that this is a targeted attack
but how dangerous is this whole situation we know that it already killed one man but whoever placed this bomb on
top of his vehicle placed it 90 minutes there before he walked up to it moved it
and was killed by the bomb right anybody walking through there could have picked
this item up off of his vehicle or you know it could have been a worker come through and clear off some trash
and throw it away a teenager a young adult somebody else in the area bump into the car I mean there's any kind of
scenario that we can look at and go hey we know that this is targeted but because of where the target takes place
and where the attack takes place and where the bombs planted anybody could have could have upset that bomb and become
victim to that bomb not just the Target and a couple things here one I think because there's two
victims one survives but I think she only survived because he took the brunt of the damage
but this material that they use we're not talking about expensive items this was very cheap to make
so once you have possibly one target how many other bombs could this individual place on other cars yeah and that that
is just terrifying to me and we talk about this so often on the show how quickly life turns on a dime I guarantee
you this man who woke up on that day who fell victim to this bomb thought he was going home that night
thought he was just having another day at work and was going to you know go do his thing after work well we get lucky
here too Captain we get lucky a second time because as you pointed out our survivor our other victim
she survives and this is Mr Antonio's girlfriend Karen she tells police some much needed information and this is
probably where they're getting the hey we don't feel like anybody else in the public is at risk here we don't see any
kind of threat to the general public or even others at the Luxor this is based off of her information as
what I would believe Karen and Antonio were walking arm and arm through the hotel to the parking garage these are
her words they both had just finished a late night shift at Nathan's they were working together that night they get to
the car and as we said earlier she goes to the passenger side willabaldo goes to
the driver's side he then makes a joke to Karen about someone leaving him a cup of coffee this is the cup that's sitting
on his vehicle right and after making the joke he then reaches for the cup and just as he picks it up the explosion
happens now at that very same moment Karen makes the life-saving split-second decision to drop immediately to the
ground this right when the bomb went off so she drops down and she then became shielded
by the car Karen tells authorities she started dating Antonio about a year before his
death this was after she broke up with her ex Omar Rueda Denver's Omar don't like your name change it but I mean just
to pause for a second though if you're watching Batman or something these uh terrorist attacks or these
bombs that are sent they're normally sent to a mayor a doctor maybe a lawyer maybe somebody in law enforcement
you don't think somebody that is working at Nathan's serving hot dogs he's in the hot dog business
it's usually a pretty friendly business yeah you'd think somebody unless Oscar Meyer
has an issue with him just doesn't seem like somebody that you would Target an attack of this nature so she breaks
up with her ex and then shortly afterwards starts dating the victim now she says that she met her ex Omar in
2001 at the San Carlos University in Guatemala she became pregnant soon after later the two had a daughter now she
says they broke up in 2006 and by that point they were both in the United States in August of 2006 Omar was
certainly not shy about letting her know that he wants to get back together with
Karen but she refuses and things really start to get weird quickly after this on
one occasion Karen agrees to meet him at a park so that Omar can see his daughter
after the visit Omar follows her home and when she gets out of the car he tries to hit her with his vehicle and an
obvious very childish but very dangerous fit of rage this guy sounds like a psychopath after this Omar starts going
to the Luxor when Karen is working and threatening her and he starts threatening Willow Baldo as well when he
sees him there both end up telling their employer about Omar's threats and on at
least one occasion Captain Omar was removed from the Luxor property by the Luxor security well it's bad combination
somebody that doesn't like you and has a lot of time on their hands but good for
us here Captain because now we have a suspect and we have this vehicle description
but we do have a problem with the investigation because the vehicle seen on surveillance well it does not match
the vehicle belonging to Omar well it seems like they have a pretty clear-cut vision of this the the vehicle and they
can even get a license plate but I don't think it's as clear as who is operating the vehicle correct so what
we have here Captain police they have stills still images of the vehicle that pulled
up next to Willa Baldo's car the vehicle was only there for about 20 or so seconds is what police say now the
still images were blurry but let's bring on one of law enforcement's greatest of allies
crowdsourcing notice here too captain that they didn't wait for 10 15 or 26 years later to release these images to
the public those years I just rattled off are not random numbers either these are actual time frames that we've seen
in other cases where they wait to crowdsource something from their investigation for 4 10 15 or even 26
years later good luck with that here they do it immediately Captain because they know they need the Public's help
and boom they get it in return so with the Public's help they identify what kind of car that they were looking
for and then after a traffic stop a few days later they end up identifying the driver or at least the owner we should
say the owner of the vehicle not necessarily the driver they pull over a vehicle matching the
description of the one that placed the bomb on top of Willow Baldo's vehicle they speak to the driver of this car
they find out that she is in fact the owner but very quickly police learn that she knows Omar Danvers she says in fact
she dated him at one time but the two the romance didn't last but they they stayed friends well because he's a
psychopath when asked if she would ever let Omar borrow her vehicle she did say yes but she said not recently and this
is just a couple days after the explosion when police fill her in on the situation she tells them that recently
she noticed that her spare key to her Chevy Cobalt was missing [Music] all right
[Music] [Music] [Music] all right we are back the windows to the walls cheers everybody
thanks for joining us cheers to you Captain so we have this situation this bomb goes off immediately police are
aware after speaking to the surviving victim that hey we possibly have a suspect right away this guy has already
threatened me and threatened the deceased and his name is Omar you should be looking for this guy well here's what we
have we have two victims one survives that's in law enforcement's favor we have this time where arm Omar tries
to run over one of the victims with his car now that's just hearsay but what we do have
Omar on record going to the place of her employment where pretty much this this attempted
murder on both victims takes place and then we have this vehicle well he doesn't own the vehicle but he has
access to the vehicle he knows the owner so there's a lot of things lining up in
law enforcement's favor well and there's a lot of stuff that's moving very quickly for law enforcement and they're
doing a lot of stuff really behind the scenes here the difficult part was trying to okay
this vehicle doesn't match Omar's vehicle so how do we if that's our Prime Suspect we need to figure out how that
part of the story worked how did that work for him to still be the prime suspect and after some help from the
public they're able to speak with the owner of that vehicle that matches that direct that direct description
so of course now we're going to go and try to find Omar and talk to him so law enforcement well they do just that they
go and pick up this Omar Danvers and they conduct an interview with him now he of course he's going to deny any
involvement at all in this bombing but hand this man a shovel here captain and watch him dig his own grave because
after further questioning he admits to driving the Chevy Cobalt on the night of the Luxor bomb incident in fact he says
that he drove it to the Luxor looking for his daughter right he then went on to admit to police that he followed his
ex-girlfriend extensively sometimes in his vehicle or with This Woman's Chevy Cobalt and even admitted that he knew
Karen's work schedule and that he knew she was dating Mr Antonio and what kind of vehicle Mr Antonio drove so he's
willing to admit to a whole lot of things that would really implicate him in this murder
with the exception of I had nothing to do with making a bomb or placing a bomb on this man's car yeah but hold on a
damn minute he's driving a car that he doesn't have the authorization to be driving he basically
stole his ex-girlfriend's spare key and is driving around a vehicle that he's not supposed to be driving
around well one thing that gets really a little weird here for the detectives is
somehow police get on to some other guy right they start to move on to an additional suspect so they're not
replacing Omar as their Prime Suspect but instead adding another suspect to the equation a second individual
involved in the murder but no this wasn't the woman who owned the Chevy Cobalt no this was a very close friend
of Omar's this is Mr perfirio diority Herrera the way that I believe that they get onto this guy is
we have this situation where they have the surveillance footage correct right so when reviewing this footage
the person that placed the bomb on top of Mr Antonio's vehicle right came from the passenger side
so now we have two people that we're looking for we know the car that we're looking for and we have two people that
we need to put inside that car one of them placed the bomb and one of them was driving and my guess here Captain is
that they you know they say we interviewed this woman who owned the car my guess is they probably grilled her
pretty hard knowing that we're looking for two individuals yeah they held it down and tortured it like a vicious
animal and probably telling her look we get what you're saying that your spare key is magically missing we get what
you're saying that Omar used to borrow your car but the problem is that doesn't remove you
as a suspect that doesn't completely remove you from this equation of when and who put the bomb on top of Omar's
vehicle so she probably starts saying look he knows this other guy you're going to want to look at him too
regardless of what Omar tells you when you interview him law enforcement has to think of it as an A to B situation she
has access to the car is she helping Omar we know that the individual that gets out of the passenger side is a as a
male so hey she's driving the car and Omar's the one that gets out and places the bomb on top of the car armed with
all of this information now law enforcement will search Omar's vehicle inside his vehicle they find a pair of
wire cutters electrical tape a current tester wires and keys to the Chevy Cobalt
then they go to his work and he did maintenance at a condo complex and in his maintenance shed they
find a box of nine volt batteries the nine volt batteries here this package and the other batteries found in the
shed were the same type and same manufacturer as the battery used in the bomb so it's not like having DNA but it tells
you hey you're probably on the right track here and of course they're going to interview this pafirio too
And he as well Captain will deny any involvement at all you know I didn't do it I don't know anything and but
eventually he's going to admit that and these are his words he goes from not admitting anything to something
that gets him very close to making him suspect number one saying quote that he made a bomb
and that he knew it was going to go off at the Luxor stupid then he denied that he was the one that placed the bomb or
activated the bomb in any way at all But ultimately he's going to tweak his story again and again and this is when
he tells law enforcement and this is from the record although he was hesitant at first of placing the bomb on the car
because it was not his problem he told police he did say that he placed the bomb near
the center of the roof of the car towards the driver's side and he eventually tells law enforcement that
the bomb had been placed in a cup and then a magnet was placed in the cup so that the bomb would stay on top of Mr
Antonio's car until someone moved it this is very interesting here Captain because we talk often about Police Hold
Back information and when they describe the bomb in the papers and when they're telling the public about the incident
that took place at the Luxor they're telling us how the bomb was made what it was constructed of very Loosely but at
the same time they're telling us that this was a targeted attack and that's probably based off of most of the
statements of the surviving victim but they're also saying there's no threat to the public
and this makes sense here because they're looking at the psychology of one the bomb How It Was Made its size what
damage one could expect it to do but plus they didn't tell anybody in the public about this magnet this was their
hold back information to to that when they had the right person sitting across from them at the table right when
they're grilling them you know tell us something that only you would know or how can you prove to me that you're
telling the truth well this piece of information never made its way to the public this magnet that was put there
with the idea that it would keep the bomb on top of this vehicle thus almost making sure that they would hit
their targets closest thing I think that law enforcement is going to get to a full-blown confession
yeah I think you're right here not pun intended right now they've they also find what they're calling bomb making
materials imperferio's residents both men were arrested and charged with murder and a bunch of other charges as
well came with this police publicly announced that they had no reason to believe that the woman who owned the
Chevy Cobalt was involved in any way so no charges were brought against her in relation to the bomb
now in a strange turn of events here captain we would later learn that Omar Denver's
[ __ ] princess the prime suspect the man who was hell-bent on killing his ex-girlfriend in her current boyfriend
right Omar Danvers was not his real name surprise surprise that in fact was the name of a former employer of his who he
worked for when he lived in Panama so this Man's real name is Alexander Perez so this is discovered when the real Omar
Danvers sees the news of this bombing and then sees that somebody was arrested connected to this bomb
his name his own name is connected to the bombing so he's outraged and he calls the FBI and lets them know hey uh
this is who I am I'm Omar Danvers that guy's name is not Omar Danvers and I had nothing to do with this bombing the real
Omar Rueda Denver's once employed the man that the police now know to be Alexander Perez once Perez made his way
to the states and ultimately Las Vegas he started using that name he stole that name of
his one-time employer and using it as his own come on man use your own real name law enforcement prosecutor surmised
that the two men Omar roeda Denver's real name Alexander Perez whose age is 31 years old in perforio durarte Herrera
27 killed Willa Baldo durantes Antonio age 24 by building a bomb and placing it in a cup on top of the Dodge Stratus on
the driver's side of the vehicle they determined that perforio was the one who built and placed the bomb on the car and
of course Perez was trying to kill his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend out of jealousy Omar was obsessed with Karen
and watched and followed her both men were facing the death penalty and they stood trial together it took some time
because they would not be convicted until 2010 the bombing took place in 2007. both were sentenced to life
imprisonment without the possibility of parole and will spend the rest of their lives in prison
now in another strange turn here Captain perforio was also found guilty of planting a bomb outside of the Las Vegas
Home Depot store on Halloween back in 2006 which blasted shards of metal over a wide area
into a busy street prosecutors said it was incredibly lucky that no one was injured or killed in that bombing one of
the ship bags in the ship bag salad already placed a bomb at another location because it I just don't
understand how Omar got him involved it's unclear how these two were friends but they were friends for quite some
time and according to the woman that owned the Chevy Cobalt she said that in the time frame leading up to the bomb at
the Luxor that these two individuals saw each other daily as far as she was aware so
they were very close to one another but it can't be understated what the words of detectives and police were at
the time shortly after arresting both of these individuals they were up front and
saying look we know this was targeted but we we want everybody to understand just how
dangerous these two men are these two men together are you have one person that's so jealous that he's willing to
kill two people and then you have another individual that seems to be into making bombs
and later when perforio is interviewed and asked about this bomb and and these two bombs that he he created
he really to me just seems like a weird a very strange individual Captain because the way that he makes it sound
is basically like I'm at home tinkering around and I figured out that I could make a bomb and that he placed it at the
Home Depot just to see if he was successful in making this bomb if it would in fact go off this guy is such a
psychopath he's it's he's treating it like it's a video game he doesn't care if anybody at the Home Depot was killed
in the parking lot right he made a bomb and wanted to see if it worked and if it
would go off and if it would do its thing do what he constructed it to do and it's a shame that one you know that
he didn't blow himself up in the process of learning how to create these homemade
bombs yeah which we see a lot of bombers blow themselves up the other thing too that we have to factor in is think about
the the premeditation involved in the attack that killed Mr Antonio so we have the one individual Omar or sorry
Perez I keep using his his fake name but Mr Perez who he knows this individual's vehicle he
knows the work schedules it's said when they were reviewing the surveillance footage another reason why they believed
it to be targeted not just the the magnet but when the vehicle the Cobalt entered the parking area they drove
around for several minutes as if they were looking for something specific and then they pull up next to the Dodge
Stratus someone gets out places the bomb on top of the vehicle they get back in and they drive off
but this was very premeditated to the point of these two individuals had to have a a a discussion at some point of
hey I want to kill these two people and the other losers saying yeah I know how to make bombs
okay well when can we place a bomb and take these two out so there's a lot of premeditated planning that went into
this type of attack and think about how little it took for both of these individuals to be willing to kill two
people yeah and then you wonder if maybe some money was going to change hands for
his involvement but both these guys are loose cannons well and we have a couple things that take place here uh Captain
one these two are going to be tried together but but look at it this way because Mr Perez is not he's not saying
yes I did the bombing he's saying yeah I knew all this other stuff but I had nothing to do with the bombing and then
we have Mr Herrera who is telling police I didn't place the bomb I didn't activate the bomb but yes I made a bomb
and I knew that it was supposed to go off at the Luxor so you don't really have either of them providing you with a
full confession and so when you're at trial you're trying both of these individuals together not only are they
saying hey I was somewhat involved but not fully involved I'm not completely responsible they're also both kind of
pointing the finger at one another and suggesting hey Mr Herrera may have done this on his own or hey Mr Perez may have
done this on his own right and what ends up happening here Captain we have to fast forward to a few years later and
actually just a couple years ago because what changes for Mr Perez is that later
is when Mr Herrera is convicted of the Home Depot bomb which we know took place in our timeline
before the bomb at the Luxor right so a few years ago Mr Perez is granted a new trial in 2019 this is based off of the
appeal that he had not been able to cross-examine his co-defendant who had given incriminating evidence to the
police so what they're saying basically here Captain is it was not known that Mr Herrera was going to be found guilty
of a previous bombing attack and therefore this could not be addressed at that original trial and now
Mr Perez who was always pointing the finger at Mr Herrera once the jury and the judge and everyone to know that here
this is further evidence that I was not involved what he's saying his his defense in 2019 when he gets a new trial
is basically this look I borrowed the Chevy Cobalt I went to the Luxor that night looking for my daughter looking
for my ex hoping that finding my ex I could see my daughter I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and he's
also saying another way that he had bad luck because he was friends with this person who he's now calling a weirdo in
2019 saying he's basically a person that has a history of bomb making number one
but two an individual that was obsessed with making bombs and probably obsessed with blowing things up as well these
garage boys are here and happy to report that boom all these years later still found guilty
[Music] all right foreign [Music] yeah we're excited we're in Vegas all weekend crime con if you're there
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another crime from Las Vegas join us back here in the garage tomorrow until then until then be good be kind
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The Luxor Pipe Bomb Murder; May 2007 - In the early morning hours of Monday the 7th a bomb goes off in the parking garage of the Luxor resort. This sparks an investigation and a manhunt. Join us in the Garage as we gear up for Crime Con 2022 Las Vegas. This week we are talking Vegas True Crime stories.

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Brief Summary

The Luxor pipe bomb murder involved Willa Baldo Antonio's death by a targeted bomb placed on his car in Las Vegas.

Key points

The Luxor Pipe Bomb Murder. A shocking explosion at the Luxor leaves one dead and another injured. What happened?
Surveillance Footage Reveals Bomb Placement. Surveillance shows a vehicle parked next to the victim's car 90 minutes before the explosion.
Omar's Threats. The victim's girlfriend had a dangerous ex who threatened both her and the victim.
The Bombing Incident. A bomb was placed on a vehicle, leading to a deadly explosion.
Omar's True Identity Revealed. The prime suspect's real name is uncovered, shocking everyone involved.
Trial and Conviction. Both suspects were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for their crimes.

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