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Search Continues for Missing University Student Sudiksha Konanki | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 03.15.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm Jackie Howard. The search continues for a University
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  Speaker 2: of Pittsburgh's student who disappears while on spring break in
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  Speaker 2: the Dominican Republic. The last person who saw Sudiksha Konankis
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  Speaker 2: says he tried to save her from the water, and
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  Speaker 2: as he vomits up ocean water, she took her things
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  Speaker 2: and left. At least that's what he thinks. Konanki, twenty
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  Speaker 2: was last seen nine days ago with a group of
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  Speaker 2: friends heading to a beach in Punakana. When her friends left,
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  Speaker 2: Konanki is believed to estate behind with the Minnesota University student.
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  Speaker 2: He says the pair talked and kissed and were pulled
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  Speaker 2: farther into the ocean together by a large wave. He
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  Speaker 2: says he pulled Konanki back to the shore using a
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  Speaker 2: swimming stroke he learned during his time as a pool lifeguard. Reportedly,
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  Speaker 2: the man has given police multiple versions of what happened.
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  Speaker 2: For more information on the search for Sudiksha Konankas, tune
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  Speaker 2: and Justice News after this crime al Art hourly update
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  Speaker 2: breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould.
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  Speaker 3: Sean Diddy. Combs appeared in Manhattan Federal Court for a
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  Speaker 3: pre trial hearing pleading not guilty to a superseding indictment
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  Speaker 3: in his sex trafficking and racketeering case held at the
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Patrick moynihan United States Courthouse. Combs, now gray haired,
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  Speaker 3: declined a full reading of the charges, asserting quote unquote,
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  Speaker 3: I'm fine and maintaining his innocence. The updated indictment stretches
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  Speaker 3: his alleged crimes from two thousand and four to twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four, accusing him of forcing employees into grueling hours
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  Speaker 3: with minimal rest, using threats for compliance, and engaging in
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  Speaker 3: forced labor within a racketeering conspiracy. It also reinforces claims
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  Speaker 3: of drug fueled so called freak offs and sex trafficking
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  Speaker 3: by force, fraud, or coercion. Comb's legal saga ignited after
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  Speaker 3: his September sixteen, twenty twenty four, arrest following a federal
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  Speaker 3: indictment tying his empire including bad Boy Entertainment, to a
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  Speaker 3: criminal enterprise exploiting women and others. A twenty sixteen video
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  Speaker 3: of him assaulting ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura, aired in May
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  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four, spurred her settled twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 3: lawsuit and over one hundred and fifty accusers to come forward.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Diddy discussing that video in a previous post.
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  Speaker 4: A behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full
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  Speaker 4: responsibility from my ashes in that video.
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  Speaker 5: I'm disgusted.
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  Speaker 3: Attorney Tony Busby now represents one hundred and fifty two victims,
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  Speaker 3: filing twenty five lawsuits by early March of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: with plans for over one hundred more alleging rape, sexual assault,
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  Speaker 3: and misconduct since nineteen ninety one. Comb's face three charges racketeering, conspiracy,
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  Speaker 3: sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to
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  Speaker 3: engage in prostitution, potentially yielding life imprisonment. Friday's hearing tackled
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  Speaker 3: trial logistics, with jury selection discussions ongoing for the May
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  Speaker 3: fifth start date, expected to conclude by late May or
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  Speaker 3: early June, depending on testimony. Prosecutors anticipate a three week case.
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  Speaker 3: The defense one Comb's team challenged the twenty sixteen videos
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  Speaker 3: admissibility alleging tampering, which CNN refutes. Held without bail at
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  Speaker 3: Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center after repeated denials, including a fifty
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  Speaker 3: million dollars bond, Combs faces flight risk accusations. His February
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  Speaker 3: nineteenth filing claimed racial bias and prosecution, citing uncharged white figures.
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  Speaker 3: Despite the escalating allegations, Combs insists he is innocent, with
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  Speaker 3: his attorney's dismissed the claims. The next pre trial conference
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  Speaker 3: is set for April twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Sidney Sumner. Almost twenty six years after the Columbine
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  Speaker 6: High School massacre, its victim count has increased. A survivor
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  Speaker 6: of the massacre's recent death has been declared a homicide.
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  Speaker 6: According to a coroner's report, Anne Marie hotch Halter was
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  Speaker 6: found dead in her home in Westminster, Colorado, at age
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  Speaker 6: forty three, on February sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Hotch Halter
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  Speaker 6: was a seventeen year old junior at Columbine High School
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  Speaker 6: on April twentieth, nineteen ninety nine, when seventeen year old
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  Speaker 6: Dylan Claybold in eighteen year old Eric Harris opened fire
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  Speaker 6: on their classmates and teachers. Killing thirteen people and injuring
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  Speaker 6: twenty three before turning the weapons on themselves.
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  Speaker 4: One yes, I am a look at Columbune book. There
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  Speaker 4: is a student pill of the gun.
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  Speaker 7: He had caught out a way give little bit of
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  Speaker 7: an injury.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm in the library had gun under the I'm looking.
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  Speaker 7: Please God, they don't want.
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  Speaker 4: To pop up.
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  Speaker 6: You were hearing one of the many nine one one
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  Speaker 6: calls made from Columbine High School that day. Anne Marie
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  Speaker 6: Honchholter had just stepped outside for fresh air when she
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  Speaker 6: heard a popping noise and suddenly felt something strike her back.
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  Speaker 6: She describes her experience to US News ten years after
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  Speaker 6: the attack.
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  Speaker 8: I thought that it was a senior prank. I didn't
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  Speaker 8: think that it was real or anything, and I thought
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  Speaker 8: they were using paintball. Eric Harrison Dylan Cleibold were up
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  Speaker 8: a concrete fight of stairs and they were shooting down
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  Speaker 8: at everybody. I felt a stingy in my back.
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  Speaker 6: As a friend helped her, she was struck again by
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  Speaker 6: a second bullet, which this time hit a vein.
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  Speaker 8: When I thought that this was the end, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I saw a red thing move out of the corner
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  Speaker 8: of my vision and it was an ambulance. They were
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  Speaker 8: able to get me to Swedish hospital and they did.
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  Speaker 6: Four hours of surgery.
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  Speaker 8: It was still very very touch and go for a
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  Speaker 8: couple weeks. They weren't really sure if I was gonna
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  Speaker 8: make a full recovery. And you know, barring the spottle
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  Speaker 8: cord injury, I did make a full recovery.
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  Speaker 6: Hotch Alter says, though she was left paralyzed by the
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  Speaker 6: attack and used a wheelchair for the rest of her life,
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  Speaker 6: she considered herself one of the lucky ones. Now, almost
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  Speaker 6: a month after her death, an autopsy report released by
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  Speaker 6: the Jefferson County Coroner's Office declared that her manner of
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  Speaker 6: death is best classified as a homicide. The autopsy report
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  Speaker 6: noted that she had died due to sepsis, which is
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  Speaker 6: described as a serious condition in which the body responds
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  Speaker 6: improperly to an infection, which can lead to organ failure,
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  Speaker 6: tissue damage, and death. The two gunshot wounds that left
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  Speaker 6: hotch Halter paralyzed and wheelchair bound were also a significant
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  Speaker 6: contributing factor in her death. With hotch Halter's death, the
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  Speaker 6: number of victims of the Columbine High School massacre has
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  Speaker 6: risen to fourteen. The count does not include shooters Claibold
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  Speaker 6: and Harris, who killed themselves before being arrested. The autopsy
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  Speaker 6: confirmed the suspicions of hotch Alter's loved ones, including Sue Townsend,
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  Speaker 6: the stepmother of Columbine victim Lauren Townsend, who told the
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  Speaker 6: Denver Post shortly after hotch Alter's death that it appeared
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  Speaker 6: to be related to complications from medical issues stemming from
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  Speaker 6: injury sustained in the shooting.
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  Speaker 7: She told me once, I am not a victim. I'm
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  Speaker 7: a survivor. She said. I can do anything you can do,
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  Speaker 7: it just takes me longer. She was fiercely independent, and
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  Speaker 7: she wanted what had happened to her to benefit an
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  Speaker 7: somebody else. She had so much adversity, and she fought
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  Speaker 7: really hard against letting that define her.
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  Speaker 6: Sue and her husband Rick Townsend, became close with hotch
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  Speaker 6: Alter after losing their daughter Lauren in the massacre, and
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  Speaker 6: Anne Marie lost her mother just six months after the shooting,
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  Speaker 6: and trying.
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  Speaker 7: To process my grief, I thought that if I help
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  Speaker 7: somebody else, that it would kind of help me. What
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  Speaker 7: happens I think when you reach out to help somebody
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  Speaker 7: is she learned that you get so much more out
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  Speaker 7: of it.
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  Speaker 4: Than you give.
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  Speaker 7: We got to watch her go from a shy seventeen
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  Speaker 7: year old high school girl and blossom into this incredibly
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  Speaker 7: independent and confident and fun young woman.
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  Speaker 6: Hotch Alter was a multi instrumentalist who played the clarinet, piano, guitar,
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  Speaker 6: and harp. She also had a big love for dogs
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  Speaker 6: throughout her life, fostering and owning many over the years.
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  Speaker 6: In one of her final Facebook posts on the twenty
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  Speaker 6: fifth anniversary of the shooting, Hotchlter wrote that while she
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  Speaker 6: had previously avoided memorial services due to PTSD, she had
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  Speaker 6: attended the anniversary vigil and found the occasion most healing.
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  Speaker 6: She wrote, I've truly been able to heal my soul
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  Speaker 6: since that awful day in nineteen ninety nine, noting that
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  Speaker 6: she felt the presence of the thirteen victims sitting there
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  Speaker 6: with smiles on their faces, wanting us to remember the
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  Speaker 6: good times.
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  Speaker 9: I'm Nicole Parton, a sixteen year old girl who went
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  Speaker 9: missing last month has been found murdered, dismembered, and discarded
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  Speaker 9: in a dumpster by a couple in Florida. Authorities say
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  Speaker 9: she was abducted after being lured through a social media application.
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  Speaker 9: Detectives from the Saint Petersburg Police Department reported that the
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  Speaker 9: remains of Miranda Corsette were discovered in a dumpster following
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  Speaker 9: her missings persons report that was filed on February twenty four.
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  Speaker 9: The primary suspect, thirty five year old Stephen Gress, allegedly
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  Speaker 9: enticed Corset through an online dating app before their in
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  Speaker 9: person meeting on February fourteen. Quote After their initial meeting,
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  Speaker 9: the girl returned home, but the following day she went
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  Speaker 9: back to his residence, police stated in a social media update.
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  Speaker 1: According to the police, it is believed.
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  Speaker 9: That course Set spent time with Gress and his partner,
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  Speaker 9: thirty seven year old Michelle Brandis at their home. Her
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  Speaker 9: grandmother reported her missing after she failed to return home
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  Speaker 9: on February twenty four. Guildford Police noted that they had
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  Speaker 9: been previously interacting with Corset, who had a previous history
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  Speaker 9: of running away once before she lived with her grandmother.
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  Speaker 9: Her grandmother, who is her main caregiver, mentioned that Corset
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  Speaker 9: usually comes right back home, so she doesn't report her
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  Speaker 9: missing every time she goes out the door. The grandmother,
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  Speaker 9: said Commander Mary Farrand acting police chief of Gulfport explained
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  Speaker 9: during a press conference, quote this time she didn't return
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  Speaker 9: in a reasonable time frame. Her grandmother knew something was wrong.
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  Speaker 9: On February twenty an argument erupted between the girl, Corset
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  Speaker 9: and Brandis, the man's girlfriend, concerning a lost piece of jewelry,
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  Speaker 9: during which the teenager was reportedly assaulted. According to police
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  Speaker 9: Here's Saint Petersburg Chief of Police Anthony Holloway, So.
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  Speaker 5: From the twentieth to the twenty fourth, she was beaten
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  Speaker 5: and tortured because they could not find this piece of jewelry.
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  Speaker 5: She was then killed. Mister Gress placed her body in
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  Speaker 5: his car along with his domestic partner, Michelle Brandis, and
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  Speaker 5: they drove her to Largo. Miranda was dismembered at that location.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't placed her in the car, and they drove
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  Speaker 5: her down the Ruskin where they dumped her into a dumpster,
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  Speaker 5: and her body is somewhere, possibly in a landfill, somewhere
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  Speaker 5: in that county. Michelle, if you're out there, we're trying
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  Speaker 5: to tell you to turn yourself in because we will
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  Speaker 5: find you sooner or later. And if anybody out there
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  Speaker 5: is trying to help Michelle, if we can we will
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  Speaker 5: charge you.
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  Speaker 9: Investigators believe the girl was killed between February twenty and
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  Speaker 9: February twenty four. They alleged that Gress transported her body
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  Speaker 9: to a residence in Largo, Florida, owned by Brandi's mother,
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  Speaker 9: where evidence indicates the dismemberment of the body took place.
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  Speaker 9: Gress then reportedly drove the remains to Hillsborough County and
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  Speaker 9: disposed of them in a dumpster.
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  Speaker 1: Quote detectives have located.
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  Speaker 9: The dumpster and are actively working to recover all pieces
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  Speaker 9: of the body, the police department said in their statement.
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  Speaker 9: Authorities received a tip regarding Corsett's disappearance and murder on
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  Speaker 9: March seven. Brandis, the girlfriend, turned herself into law enforcement
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  Speaker 9: on Saturday morning and now faces a charge of first
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  Speaker 9: degree murder. Gress, who was arrested on unrelated charges on
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  Speaker 9: March five, has been charged with first degree murder and kidnapping.
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  Speaker 1: This is an appalling crime. State at Holloway.
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  Speaker 9: We are committed to ensuring justice for Miranda.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson. In Washington State, a man is shot
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  Speaker 4: during an argument over discarded chicken booms outside a grocery store.
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  Speaker 5: I was in the military.
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  Speaker 10: An reshap, but a shot safely over some chicken.
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  Speaker 4: Jesse Grant, a father of three, was out in the
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  Speaker 4: thigh at the Safeway store in Seattle. He had been
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  Speaker 4: eating fried chicken in a parked car before the shooting
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  Speaker 4: thanks to Safeway's Monday cheap Chicken deal. He spoke to
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  Speaker 4: KCPQ from his hospital bed.
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  Speaker 10: I was throwing my chicken onto the ground outside my
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  Speaker 10: window so I didn't get a mess in my coworker's car.
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  Speaker 10: She opens up the car and steps onto some chicken.
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  Speaker 4: Grant says. A woman nearby accused him of throwing chicken
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  Speaker 4: bones at her car, and.
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  Speaker 10: She's like, one of the why is the chicken on
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  Speaker 10: the ground. And she looks over at me and it
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  Speaker 10: is like, are you serious, man? You're throwing chicken onto
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  Speaker 10: the ground. And I'm like, who cares? Leave me alone?
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  Speaker 4: Grant says the argument started after the woman tried to
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  Speaker 4: slash his tires with scissors. Video shows Grant holding the
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  Speaker 4: woman in a headlock. She says, quote, you're throwing chicken
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  Speaker 4: at my working car. The video shows scissors on the
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  Speaker 4: ground next to a scratched wheel of the car. The
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  Speaker 4: woman pulled a handgun from her waistband and pointed it
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  Speaker 4: at Grant's head. She then shot Grant in the thigh,
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  Speaker 4: causing him to fall to the ground, and said quote,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to shoot you again, bro. Police have not
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  Speaker 4: released the identity of the shooter or another woman thought
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  Speaker 4: to be with her. Grant started to go fund me
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  Speaker 4: campaign to cover medical costs. The goal is twelve thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 4: but so far it hasn't raised a dime. The investigation continues.
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  Speaker 4: For the latest crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson.