DASHCAM FOOTAGE SOLVES ANOTHER CRIME

Christina Spicuzza Homicide

Alleghany County, PA. This is an interesting case with another tragic ending, as far as how dashcam footage was used to solve the crime. We saw that happened when Red, White, and Bethune supplied dashcam footage that recorded Gabby’s Petito’s white van parked in an area in Spread Creek. The dashcam footage was used by investigators to locate the van and then Gabby’s body. In Gabby’s case, the location of the body, which showed Gabby had died by manual strangulation, only took about a month after she was known to be missing.

In another case where dashcam footage was used to solve a crime, the body of Christina Spicuzza, 38, mother of four, was located before the dashcam footage, but initially there wasn’t a suspect in her case. First, Christina was reported missing on Feb. 11. Then her car was found the morning of Feb. 12, with its dashcam ripped out and missing. Christina’s purse was still in the car. Soon after, on Feb. 12, her body was found in the woods. She’d been shot one in the back of the head. As investigators worked, her pink phone was turned in by someone: “A witness who contacted police the day that Spicuzza’s body was found reported finding a cellphone along railroad tracks beneath the TriBoro Expressway. Police said it was Spicuzza’s. The pink phone had a Bible verse as its background image, police said” (https://triblive.com/local/police-charge-penn-hills-man-in-the-death-of-an-uber-driver-in-monroeville/). Uber provided data for her stops. That data showed that Tanaya Mullen had requested a ride(or Crew had used her phone to request the ride – conflicting news reports) for Calvin Crew, 9:14 pm, February 11 and Crew had been picked up as scheduled. Interviewing Mullen, investigators learned she’d had her gun stolen and she thought Crew had stolen it from her. She hadn’t reported the stolen gun.

Finally, there was the dashcam footage. The dashcam was located shortly after the body was found, not too far away. It revealed an exchange between Christina and Crew where Crew had held a gun to her head and a conversation ensued. “He grabbed her long ponytail in his left hand to control her head and told her to drive. ‘I’m begging you, I have four kids,’ she pleaded, asking him to take the gun off the back of her neck, according to the complaint” (https://triblive.com/local/police-charge-penn-hills-man-in-the-death-of-an-uber-driver-in-monroeville/).