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Crime Alert 02.10.25 | Father Shoots Adult Daughter in Argument Over Smoking · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, imancy, grace breaking crimes. Now, Franklin Thompson lives
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  Speaker 1: with his two adult daughters, who are getting extremely tired
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  Speaker 1: of his smoking habit. When Heather Thompson catches her dad
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  Speaker 1: lighting a cigarette inside again, she beerates him for stinking
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  Speaker 1: up the house. Her sister is trying to ignore the
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  Speaker 1: argument from her bedroom when she hears a gunshot and
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  Speaker 1: finds Heather lying in a pool of blood. Calls nine
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  Speaker 1: one one and starts CPR, but Heather is dead. When
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  Speaker 1: EMT's arrive, police find Franklin Thomas walking near his home
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  Speaker 1: with bloodstains on his shirt and a gun in his
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  Speaker 1: pocket Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: During an interview with investigators, Thompson admits to the shooting
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  Speaker 2: and does not appear to feel any kind of remorse.
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  Speaker 2: At his arraignment, Thomson's other daughters panicked and emotional. Nine
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  Speaker 2: one one call is played in court. She could be
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  Speaker 2: heard sobbing and screaming for help through the phone. Thompson's
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  Speaker 2: attorney attempted to argue for lower bail, citing that Thompson
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  Speaker 2: is an Army veteran and worked as a truck driver
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  Speaker 2: for thirty years with no criminal record. The judge left
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  Speaker 2: Thompson's bond at a million dollars, and he remains in
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton County Justice Center waiting a grand jury's dismissal or indictment.
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  Speaker 1: Franklin Thompson, sixty four, now charged with murder. A Loveland, Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: bank teller is confused when a man hands her a
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  Speaker 1: note without a word. She asks how she can help,
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  Speaker 1: but he just nods toward the note. She unfolds the
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  Speaker 1: paper to find illegible writing, at one point turning the
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  Speaker 1: note completely upside down trying to read it. The increasingly
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  Speaker 1: frustrated customer frequently looks around nervously, tapping his feet. Eventually
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  Speaker 1: huffs and runs from the bank. After he leaves, the
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  Speaker 1: teller finally makes out a threat, a demand for money.
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  Speaker 1: Cops are called. Police have released security images of the
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  Speaker 1: steel unidentified bank robber who foiled his own bank robbery
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  Speaker 1: with bad handwriting. More crimeate Justice news after this Now
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  Speaker 1: with the latest Crimeate Justice breaking news Crime on Line
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  Speaker 1: John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: A suspect is in custody following a deadly warehouse shooting
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  Speaker 3: in New Albany, Ohio. Authorities say twenty seven year old
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Reginald Foster the third was arrested at an apartment
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  Speaker 3: in Columbus after refusing to surrender. US Marshal Chief Deputy
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  Speaker 3: Dan Deville says officers had to force entry, but took
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  Speaker 3: Foster into custody without incident. He was turned over to
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  Speaker 3: New Albany police. The shooting happened at a warehouse northeast
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  Speaker 3: of Columbus. One person was killed and five others, all employees,
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  Speaker 3: were hospitalized. Police have not released their conditions. A handgun
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  Speaker 3: was recovered at the scene. New Albany Police Chief Greg
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  Speaker 3: Jones says there's no known motive, calling it a targeted attack.
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  Speaker 3: About one hundred and fifty workers were evacuated. New Albany
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  Speaker 3: Mayor Sloan Spaulding saysultiple agencies are investigating. Now to Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: where a former district attorney has been cleared of charges
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  Speaker 3: related to her handling of the Ahmad Arbury case. Here's
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  Speaker 3: our Sidney Sumner with the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson has been
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  Speaker 2: acquitted of all charges stemming from allegations of misconduct in
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  Speaker 2: the investigation of Ahmad Arbury's death. Senior Judge John R.
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  Speaker 2: Turner dismissed the final felony charge against Johnson, citing technical
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  Speaker 2: flaws in the indictment. Johnson was initially indicted in September
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one after Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr ordered
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  Speaker 2: an investigation into her actions following Arbury's fatal shooting in
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  Speaker 2: February twenty twenty. Prosecutors alleged that Johnson used her position
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  Speaker 2: to shield Greg McMichael and his son Travis McMichael, who,
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  Speaker 2: along with the neighbor William Roddy Bryan, were later convicted
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  Speaker 2: of Arbury's murderer. The trial faced challenges as key testimonies
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  Speaker 2: undermined the prosecution's case. County Assistant Police Chief Stephanie Oliver
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  Speaker 2: testified that she had no communication with Johnson regarding the
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  Speaker 2: decision not to arrest the McMichaels immediately after the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Upon dismissing the charges, Judge Turner expressed sympathy for Arbury's mother,
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  Speaker 2: Wanda Cooper Jones, acknowledging the profound sadness surrounding the case.
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  Speaker 3: This acquittal concludes the legal proceedings against Jackie Johnson concerning
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  Speaker 3: her involvement in the Yamat Arbury case.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Brianna Maitland seventeen, takes her ged early in
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  Speaker 1: the morning and has a celebration launch with mom, then
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  Speaker 1: heads to work at the Black Lantern Inn, Montgomery, Vermont.
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  Speaker 1: She leaves her roommate of notes she'll be home after work,
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  Speaker 1: then heads out in a nineteen eighty five Owls Sedan.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven twenty PM. Brianna tells coworker she's headed home. Next afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: of Vermont State trooper finds Brianna's oldsmobile rammed into the
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  Speaker 1: backside of an abandoned house a mile from the Black Lantern.
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  Speaker 1: Anna's roommate away for the weekend, doesn't see the note
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  Speaker 1: till she gets back and reports Brionna missing the next
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  Speaker 1: morning after realizing she never came home. Brianna Maitland Caucasian,
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  Speaker 1: brown hair, hazel eyes, scar on forehead near left eyebrow.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI now offering a forty thousand dollars reward. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Brianna Maitland, Please contact the FBI
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  Speaker 1: one eight hundred call FBI that's one eight hundred, two
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