Omaha homicide numbers for 2022
A Topeka man told a former platoon mate he killed his Omaha ex-girlfriend after they argued, a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy testified Monday.
“I killed her,” Deputy Neal Klein Aldrick Scott told a former US military comrade while staying at a hotel in Cancun, Mexico, just a day after allegedly burying Cari Allen’s body near an abandoned barn in Kansas.
Scott’s cell phone data, his Snapchat location and his Chevy Equinox’s OnStar account, as well as video surveillance, helped detectives piece together his trip from Topeka to Omaha and back after he fatally shot 43-year-old Allen in the chest. northwest Omaha home Nov. 20.
Scott will be tried on charges of first-degree murder, use of a firearm to commit a felony and tampering with evidence, a judge ruled Monday.
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Investigators had first requested a warrant for Scott’s arrest on kidnapping charges before Allen’s frozen body was found in a shallow grave at an abandoned farmhouse on Dec. 21.
Authorities were able to figure out the location of Allen’s body because they received OnStar data from Scott’s SUV that day, mapping its previous locations.
Klein said that on Saturday, Nov. 19, Scott left Topeka at about 7:30 p.m., around the same time Allen went to The Good Life Bar near 180th and Pacific Streets with a date he’d just had dinner with. Scott had called Allen repeatedly, up to four times in an hour, which prompted Allen to turn off the phone, Klein said.
Scott and Allen dated for about a year but ended the relationship two weeks earlier, her friend told police.
Scott then arrived at The Good Life Bar at about 10:15 p.m., but Klein said detectives weren’t sure he had gotten into the business. Scott left after about 10 minutes and made his way to Allen’s home near 168th and Blondo Street.
Klein said he believes Scott entered Allen’s home through his garage because he knew the code, and that Scott waited until Allen got home at around 11:30 p.m.
When detectives went to Allen’s home the next day, because her ex-husband and son reported her missing, they found a single bullet hole that went through Allen’s bedroom door, two walls and was penetrated his son’s bedroom door, Klein said. The holes had just been filled, Klein said.
An autopsy determined that Allen was shot once in the chest and the bullet exited her back. Scott then wrapped a “combat bandage” — an elastic bandage with a large cotton ball to stem the bleeding — around Allen’s wounds and placed his body in trash bags, Klein said.
Investigators believe Scott used Allen’s sedan to transport his body from his home to where Scott’s SUV was parked in a nearby construction neighborhood. The trunk lining from Allen’s car was missing, and the trunk of Scott’s SUV showed obvious traces of blood, Klein said. The vehicle has not yet been tested for DNA.
Scott then drove his SUV back to his Topeka home, arriving at 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 20. About four hours later, he spent about 70 minutes on the abandoned farm property, according to data from OnStar.
Scott purchased airline tickets that day to depart Kansas City International Airport the next day, flying to Houston and then Cancun, Klein said. Officials found his SUV in an airport garage and found a loaded Sig Sauer P320 9mm semi-automatic pistol in a pistol case in the spare tire well.
Klein testified that on November 22, despite having just flown to Cancun, Scott purchased tickets to Fiji via Los Angeles the next day, so Klein and another detective went to Los Angeles to try and wiretap Scott. But Scott never got on that plane, Klein said.
Eventually Scott showed up in Belize, where he was taken into custody on December 6th.
Authorities confiscated one of Scott’s three phones and believe the other two were abandoned in Houston and Cancun.
On that phone, Scott searched the Internet asking if he could be arrested or if police could confront him in Belize, Klein said. Scott also googled his name and Allen’s name.
Omaha Police arrested two men in connection with a bank robbery Thursday in southwest Omaha in which two employees were injured.
Two employees of the First National Bank of Omaha were injured Thursday during a bank robbery.
A fourth grader brought a gun into his Fremont elementary school on Thursday. Officials said he thought it was a toy and wanted to put it on display.
Another former Lincoln police officer is raising allegations of years of workplace sex discrimination and the systematic deportation of those who report it in a lawsuit filed this week.
The mother of Ryan Larsen, the La Vista boyfriend who has been missing since May 2021, has filed a petition in court to have her son declared legally dead.
An Omaha man will spend more than 10 years in federal prison for his role in a string of bank robberies that netted nearly $1 million.
A former prison guard caught smuggling meth and marijuana into the Nebraska State Penitentiary was convicted Tuesday of doing so.
A former Waterloo firefighter was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison for attempted sexual assault in the second degree.
Two students were killed Monday and a teacher was injured in what police called a targeted shooting at a Des Moines school dedicated to helping at-risk youth.
The 43-year-old woman charged with murder in connection with the killing of four people in Laurel made her first district court appearance Monday.
Assistant Chief of Police Brian Jackson said the confrontation that led to Saturday’s shooting “initially started with a disturbance on the animals – the dogs – and it escalated from there.”
Authorities have issued a warrant for the arrest of a new suspect in the April 2020 killing of 37-year-old Ebony King.
An 18-year-old man has died and another man is in custody after a neighborhood disturbance escalated into a shooting Saturday morning in Lincoln.
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of the state employee union in a three-year lawsuit centered on whether employees can wear blue jeans to work.
