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Crime Alert 12.29.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Prime Alert. I'mancy Grace breaking crime news. Now. A seventeen
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  Speaker 1: year old Mississippi high school student reports her physics teacher
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  Speaker 1: to police. The teen girl, says James Hawkins the second
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  Speaker 1: starts a sex relationship with her and wants to elope
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  Speaker 1: to another state, Louisiana. When Hawkins's question, he admits having
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  Speaker 1: sex with a student roughly once a month, at least
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  Speaker 1: that's what he admits to.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Hawkins two specifically admitted to having relations with the
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  Speaker 2: seventeen year old while parked at a Walmart grocery store
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  Speaker 2: and at the home he shared with his wife and toddler.
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  Speaker 2: Hawkins claims the couple had plans to elope to Louisiana
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  Speaker 2: and that quote things were moving faster than they originally expected.
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  Speaker 2: The teacher student relationship lasted at least eight months before
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  Speaker 2: Hawkins was arrested.
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  Speaker 1: James Hawkins two thirty eight, now charged with sex battery.
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  Speaker 1: An Arizona homeowner gets three motion activated cameras as a
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  Speaker 1: gift and sets them up in the backyard, hoping to
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  Speaker 1: catch a wildlife passing through. Someone takes exception to being
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  Speaker 1: watched by the Paul Piazzi and steals the backyard camps.
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  Speaker 1: When all three cameras are offline, the homeowner reviews the
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  Speaker 1: latest recordings and discovers a gray fox pulls the cameras
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  Speaker 1: down one by one, then brought them back to his den.
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  Speaker 1: The thief's mugshots posted all over social media, but the
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  Speaker 1: homeowner says they refuse to prosecute. More Crime and Justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this, Now at the latest Crime and Justice
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  Speaker 1: breaking news Crime Onlines Jackie Howard.
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  Speaker 3: Charges have been brought against a South Carolina couple for
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  Speaker 3: allegedly killing four family members. The gory Halloween attack took
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  Speaker 3: place at the victim's residence in twenty fifteen. For more,
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  Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Amy and rossmore Ross Vallardi are now each accused of
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  Speaker 2: four murders and remain behind bars in South Carolina's Anderson County.
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  Speaker 2: A court date of February twentieth is set for a
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  Speaker 2: preliminary hearing. The couple has maintained their innocence in interviews
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  Speaker 2: with the media over the years since the killings. Sheriff
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  Speaker 2: Chad McBride declined to comment during a press conference regarding
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  Speaker 2: the reason the charges were filed so long after the
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  Speaker 2: murderers saying that information of that nature would be discussed
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  Speaker 2: in court. The murders were a shock to the residence
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  Speaker 2: of Pendleton, where the crimes took place. The little town
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  Speaker 2: in western South Carolina, with the population of around thirty
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  Speaker 2: five hundred people, is located approximately one hundred and ten
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  Speaker 2: miles northeast of Atlanta. Sheriff McBride said that it was
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  Speaker 2: on November two, twenty fifteen, that Amy Vellardi called the
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  Speaker 2: police to report the deaths of her sixty year old mother,
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Scott, her grandmother, eighty five year old Violet Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: her fifty eight year old stepfather Mike Scott, and his mother,
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  Speaker 2: Barber Scott, who was eighty According to our friends with
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  Speaker 2: Fox Carolina, the victims shared a home with Amy and
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  Speaker 2: Ross Vallardi. The shooting and stabbing scene, according to the authorities,
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  Speaker 2: was gruesome and among the worst that some detectives had
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  Speaker 2: ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: Despite the crimes having received a lot of media attention
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  Speaker 3: over the past several years, no one was ever taken
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  Speaker 3: into custody until this month. Now, two Pennsylvania officials have
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  Speaker 3: announced that a man accused of recently wounding people with
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  Speaker 3: a large knife as he rode his bicycle along of
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia's street is now a person of interest and a
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  Speaker 3: cold case murder of a medical student in a large
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  Speaker 3: city park twenty years ago. Forty six year old Alliance
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  Speaker 3: Diaz is accused of using a machete style knife to
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  Speaker 3: injure people on the Peeni Pack Park trail in northeast
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia in late November and early December. He now stands
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  Speaker 3: charged with aggravated assault along with other charges. According to
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  Speaker 3: Interim Police Commissioner John Stafford, Junior, Diaz's DNA seemed to
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  Speaker 3: link him to other sexual assaults that may have occurred
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  Speaker 3: in Philadelphia's expense at Fairmont Park, as well as to
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  Speaker 3: the two thousand and three strangulation murder of a medical student.
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  Speaker 3: Stanford also stated that Diaz is currently a person of
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  Speaker 3: interest and charges are pending on the complete of the
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  Speaker 3: DNA comparison. Hip hop artist Tupac Shakur was killed in
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  Speaker 3: Las Vegas and now a one time gang leader from
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  Speaker 3: Metro Los Angeles is accused of the killing. He's calling
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  Speaker 3: the charges against him baseless and based only on hearsay.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's requesting a judge to place him under home
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  Speaker 3: arrest until his trial. Once again, crime onlines Sidney Somner.
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  Speaker 2: Duan Keefe. D Davis's request to be freed on one
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars bail has been granted in a hearing
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  Speaker 2: date of January second is now on the court schedule.
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  Speaker 2: According to his court appointed attorneys, their sixty year old
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  Speaker 2: client's health has worsened while in jail. They also claim that,
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  Speaker 2: despite being in remission from colon cancer, Davis is not
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  Speaker 2: receiving the necessary medical care. Davis, a native of Compton, California,
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  Speaker 2: was taken into custody on September twenty ninth, just outside
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  Speaker 2: a house near Las Vegas after police there executed a
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  Speaker 2: search warrant on July seventeenth. Davis's bail application contends that
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  Speaker 2: his twenty nineteen tel Al memoir and various including those
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  Speaker 2: in which he described arranging the drive by shooting that
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  Speaker 2: killed Shakur and injured rap music entrepreneur Marion Shug Knight,
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  Speaker 2: should not be used as evidence against him.
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  Speaker 3: Davis is the only survivor of the vehicle from which
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  Speaker 3: the fatal gunfire erupted on September seventh, nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Jackie Jane McDonald, crone leaves work at a Houston
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  Speaker 1: tool company, but doesn't make it home that night. Jane
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  Speaker 1: seen at a country dance club with a man her
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  Speaker 1: friends don't know. He's got dark hair in a mustache
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  Speaker 1: and said his name was David. The pair leaves separately
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  Speaker 1: that evening, but Jane never makes it home. Her nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty two Mustang abandoned a few blocks from her home,
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  Speaker 1: all her personal items gone. No sign of a struggle,
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  Speaker 1: but cops believes she may have been taken against her will.
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  Speaker 1: Jane McDonald crone, now missing thirty years. If you have info,
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  Speaker 1: contact Montgomery County Sheriff's nine three six seven six zero
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight hundred or the latest crime injustice news go
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  Speaker 1: to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace