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Crime Alert 10.12.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace of Breaking Crime News Now.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Weeks refuses to go to the hospital for her
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  Speaker 1: baby's birth because she used pot meth during the pregnancy.
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  Speaker 1: She asks a friend to help her with a home birth,
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  Speaker 1: and what's delivered. The baby's barely breathing. The friend can't
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  Speaker 1: tell if it even has a pulse. She begs Weeks
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  Speaker 1: to report the infant's death, but reluctantly leaves the baby
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  Speaker 1: with Weeks. Months later, the friend calls police when she
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  Speaker 1: never hears another word about the baby.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. The infant's body was discovered in a suitcase in
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  Speaker 2: Weeks backyard, and it's determined the baby died between thirty
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  Speaker 2: six to forty weeks of gestation. The baby had methamphetamines
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  Speaker 2: in their system and showed no signs of bodily trauma.
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  Speaker 2: The friend was very emotional in her account of the
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  Speaker 2: baby's birth and her attempts to resuscitate the infant, and
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  Speaker 2: will not be facing any charges.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks thirty two charged with concealing evidence injuring a child
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  Speaker 1: and failing to report a death. Mary Marcott thirty gets
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  Speaker 1: in an argument with her daughter after a grocery run Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: she grabs a whole frozen chicken and hurls it at
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  Speaker 1: her daughter, who is hit by the frozen bird. Marcott's
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  Speaker 1: sister sees it all and calls the cops. They recognize Marcott.
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  Speaker 1: Years earlier, she headbutted her husband during an argument. He
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  Speaker 1: declined press charges, but this time Marquette's charged with misdemeanor battery.
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  Speaker 1: Has spent twenty hours on ice at the county jail.
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  Speaker 1: More Crime and Justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime on Lunch.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, a Texas man, has been put to death
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  Speaker 3: after he unsuccessfully contested the validity of the state's lethal
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  Speaker 3: injection medicines and questioning the reliability of the evidence a
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  Speaker 3: jury had used to find him guilty of the death
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  Speaker 3: of an elderly woman decades earlier. With more here Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Following an injection at the State Penitentiary in Huntsville, forty
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  Speaker 2: eight year old Jedediah Murphy was declared dead late Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: He was executed for the October two thousand shooting death
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  Speaker 2: of eighty year old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking
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  Speaker 2: in the Dallas suburb of Garland. Whilemurphy was strapped to
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  Speaker 2: a gurney in the Texas death Chamber, he said, quote
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  Speaker 2: to the family of the victim, I sincerely apologize for
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  Speaker 2: all of it. A Christian pastor then prayed for the
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  Speaker 2: victim's family, Murphy's family and friends, and the prisoner himself
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  Speaker 2: while placing his right palm on Murphy's chest. The execution
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  Speaker 2: happened just a few hours after the U. S. Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court reversed a decision that had prevented the death penalty
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  Speaker 2: from being carried out. The High Court denied a second
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  Speaker 2: appeal late in the day to postpone Murphy's execution due
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  Speaker 2: to allegations that the medications he would receive through injection
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  Speaker 2: were contaminated after being subjected to intense heat and smoke
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  Speaker 2: during a recent fire, putting him at danger of experiencing
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  Speaker 2: unnecessary agony. Following a complaint filed by Murphy's attorneys requesting
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  Speaker 2: DNA testing of the evidence used in this two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and one trial, the Fifth U. S. Circuit Court of
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  Speaker 2: Appeals on Monday affirmed a federal judge's ruling from last week,
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  Speaker 2: postponing the execution. The Fifth Circuit's finding was challenged by
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  Speaker 2: the state Attorney General's office, and the Supreme Court ruled
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  Speaker 2: in favor of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: With his death, Murphy becomes the twentieth DAD mate executed
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  Speaker 3: in the United States this year, the sixth in Texas
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  Speaker 3: now to Oklahoma, as a man has been exonerated by
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  Speaker 3: a Pontatot County judge after DNA testing determined he was
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  Speaker 3: not guilty of a nineteen eighty seven rape and burglary.
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  Speaker 3: The man had served thirty years in prison for the crimes.
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  Speaker 3: Perry Lott's conviction is now overturned and the case permanently dismissed,
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  Speaker 3: according to a final ruling delivered by District Judge Stephen Kessinger.
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  Speaker 3: Following the initial disclosure of the DNA results, Lot was
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  Speaker 3: freed from jail in twenty eighteen, but only after reaching
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  Speaker 3: an agreement to have his sentence modified with former District
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  Speaker 3: Attorney Paul Smith. As the move to vacate was being heard.
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  Speaker 3: Lott was able to leave prison and remain free thanks
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  Speaker 3: to the deal. Smith claimed at the time that Lot
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  Speaker 3: remained a suspect despite the DNA findings. However, the Innocence Project,
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  Speaker 3: which assisted in Lott's release, approached recently elected district Attorney
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  Speaker 3: Eric Johnson earlier this year. After reviewing the case, Johnson
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  Speaker 3: concurred that the conviction should be overturned in light of
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  Speaker 3: recent gun seizures, a decrease in gunfire reports in the
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  Speaker 3: Albuquerque metro area, and an increase in jail bookings. New
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  Speaker 3: Mexico Governor Michelle Leuhan Grisham is defending her decision to
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  Speaker 3: treat gun violence as a public health epidemic. Once again
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  Speaker 3: crime online.
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Sumner Governor Luhan Grisham stood by her decision while
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  Speaker 2: awaiting a significant court decision on a landmark proposal to
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  Speaker 2: suspend the right to carry a gun in public parks
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  Speaker 2: and playgrounds. An emergency public health decree concerning gun violence
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  Speaker 2: was extended by the governor last week for an additional
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  Speaker 2: thirty days through early November. A federal judge has placed
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  Speaker 2: temporary restrictions on the ability to carry a gun in
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  Speaker 2: public parks, playgrounds, and other places where children congregate. The
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  Speaker 2: public is reacting negatively to Grisham's public health order, which
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  Speaker 2: includes gun limitation clauses that opponents claim violate constitutional rights
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  Speaker 2: to bear arms for self defense. The governor stated that
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  Speaker 2: in light of evolving legal precedent, and it is her
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  Speaker 2: duty to look into the possibility of creating quote save
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  Speaker 2: speces where guns are prohibited.
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  Speaker 3: Following the US Supreme Court's decision last year to expand
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  Speaker 3: gun rights, officials in some states are exploring new options
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  Speaker 3: for limitations, leading to several standoffs, like the one currently
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  Speaker 3: in New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: After about of pneumonia, Tracy Bell doesn't show up to
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  Speaker 1: work when she's set to return. Concerned, her boss at
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  Speaker 1: the Illinois State Attorney's Office ask cops to check on her.
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  Speaker 1: Police find Tracy at home, uninjured but disoriented. They call
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  Speaker 1: paramedics to check her blood sugar, as she's recently been
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  Speaker 1: diagnosed diabetic. By the time they leave, she's no longer confused.
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  Speaker 1: Next day, she doesn't come to work again, followed by
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  Speaker 1: a second welfare check, but this time Bell's gone. Her
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  Speaker 1: purse is missing from her home, her car still parked outside,
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  Speaker 1: no activity on her bank account or cell phone. Now
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  Speaker 1: nearly six years. If you have info on Tracy Bell,
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  Speaker 1: please call Richton Park PD seven eight four eight one
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  Speaker 1: Go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace