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Crime Alert 03.11.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Prime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Josiah
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  Speaker 1: Killman's roommate finds him unresponsive in their dorm room at
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky's Campbellsville University. Kilman, a freshman on the wrestling team,
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  Speaker 1: is rushed to the hospital. Doctors determined he's been strangled dead.
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  Speaker 1: Campus police looked for another wrestler, Charles Escallera, in connection
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  Speaker 1: with Kilmen's death, Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: While the motive for the killing is still unclear, we're
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  Speaker 2: now learning that Escalera was hospitalized briefly after displaying bizarre
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  Speaker 2: behavior in the cafeteria days before the murder. Other students
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  Speaker 2: describe Escallera as secluded, saying he rarely spent time with
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  Speaker 2: his teammates. Kilman had just started his studies in theology
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  Speaker 2: and is remembered by friends and family for his bright smile,
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  Speaker 2: Christian faith, and athleticism.
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  Speaker 1: Charles Escallera, twenty one, found hiding in a barn, arrested
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  Speaker 1: for murder. If you have a favorite family dollar in
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  Speaker 1: the Southeast, you may want to skip your stop this week.
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  Speaker 1: After stores across the Southeast get products obviously damaged by
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  Speaker 1: rat FDA inspectors head to the James Warehouse West Memphis, Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: They find urine nesting living in dead rodents throughout the warehouse.
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  Speaker 1: The imigation reveals over twelve hundred rats were living in
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  Speaker 1: the facility. Family Dollar pleads guilty to holding food, drugs,
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  Speaker 1: and medical devices in unsanitary conditions and pays a whopping
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  Speaker 1: forty one million dollar fine. More Crime and Justice News
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  Speaker 1: after this Now at the latest crime and Justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: these crime onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: According to authorities in Minnesota, there doesn't seem to be
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  Speaker 3: any connection between the man who shot and killed a
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  Speaker 3: Super eight hotel worker and a guest in a small
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  Speaker 3: Carlton County town. With more here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Police in the small central Minnesota town of Cloquet say
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  Speaker 2: that thirty two year old Nicholas Elliot Lenneus of Ramsey
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  Speaker 2: doesn't seem to have known either of the victims he killed.
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  Speaker 2: On January ninth, Lenius committed suicide during the incident that
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  Speaker 2: re ault in the town issuing an active shooter alert.
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  Speaker 2: A toxicology report revealed that Lennius had methamphetamine in his system,
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  Speaker 2: which investigators say may have left him impaired during the attacks.
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  Speaker 2: When police arrived at the scene, they discovered twenty two
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  Speaker 2: year old Shelby Trettle, a hotel employee, shot next to
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  Speaker 2: the front desk. Another victim, thirty five year old Deer
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  Speaker 2: River resident Patrick Rowers, was shot while inside a car
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  Speaker 2: that was parked in the hotel lot. Rowers and Lenius
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  Speaker 2: were both staying at the hotel that evening. Authorities had
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  Speaker 2: alerted the public about an active shooter and advised everyone
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  Speaker 2: near Big Lake Road and Highway thirty three to take
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  Speaker 2: cover indoors, Lenius spoke with a coworker and mentioned dealing
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  Speaker 2: with monsters. This according to information gathered by police during
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  Speaker 2: witness interviews. After searching four of Lenius's electronic devices, police
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  Speaker 2: believe he had no connection to the victims.
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  Speaker 3: Cloque is located about twenty miles west of Duluth and
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  Speaker 3: is home to some twelve thousand people. Liberty University is
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  Speaker 3: facing the biggest ever fine of fourteen million dollars from
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  Speaker 3: the US Department of Education for violating a federal rule
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  Speaker 3: requiring campus crime reports once again crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The settlement was revealed by the US Department of Education
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  Speaker 2: officials and follows a protracted investigation that uncovered multiple infractions
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  Speaker 2: of the Federal Cleary Act, which mandates that universities keep
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  Speaker 2: a record of all crimes on campus and alert the
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  Speaker 2: public to potentially dangerous situations. One hundred plus page report
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  Speaker 2: outlining the department's findings explains how the Christian University in Lynchburg, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: showed quote, serious, persistent, and systemic violations between twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 2: and twenty twenty three. According to their report, the college
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  Speaker 2: neglected to notify the campus about criminal activity or dangerous conditions,
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  Speaker 2: including gas leaks, discouraged students from reporting crimes, and failed
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  Speaker 2: to keep an accurate or comprehensive list of crimes. It
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  Speaker 2: also failed to appropriately respond to incidences of sexual violence.
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  Speaker 2: For this report, federal investigators contacted over one hundred people,
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  Speaker 2: including parents, students in both current and pass faculty members
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  Speaker 2: at the university. The settlement calls for Liberty to invest
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  Speaker 2: two million dollars in campus safety upgrades during the duration
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  Speaker 2: of a two year federal monitoring period that ends in
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  Speaker 2: April twenty twenty six. This in addition to the fourteen
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  Speaker 2: million dollar punishment. The university claims that the settlement funds
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  Speaker 2: are on top of the over ten million dollars, it
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  Speaker 2: has already invested and quote significant advancements in campus safety
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  Speaker 2: since twenty twenty two. The fourteen million dollar fine leveled
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  Speaker 2: against Liberty is the largest Clariact settlement to date.
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  Speaker 3: Michigan State University was fined four point five million dollars
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  Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen for Clary Act violations, while the University
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  Speaker 3: of California Berkeley received a two point thirty five million
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  Speaker 3: dollar punishment in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Ashley, Linda and her husband lives our rental
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  Speaker 1: home in Plant City, Florida. Because of a change in owners,
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  Speaker 1: they book a room in a Tampa hotel while looking
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  Speaker 1: for a new place. The couple gets in an argument
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  Speaker 1: one evening. Assy storms out with only the clothes on
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  Speaker 1: her back, leaving behind her room key, cell phone, and ID.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't come back that night. Her husband calls his
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  Speaker 1: mother in law he's on his way to work, hoping
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  Speaker 1: she has seen her from Ashley. When Lyndon finishes his shift,
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  Speaker 1: still no word from Ashley. A missing person's report is filed.
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  Speaker 1: Two days later. Cops tell the family there was a
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  Speaker 1: sighting of Ashley at a seven to eleven and then
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  Speaker 1: they closed her missing person case. When the family shows
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  Speaker 1: the clerk the photos, they don't recognize Ashley. Eight months later,
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  Speaker 1: Ellie allows the family to refile a missing person's report,
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  Speaker 1: and they learned police saw Ashley asleep in the back
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  Speaker 1: seat during a Tampa traffic stop six months ago, but
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  Speaker 1: no one called them because she was not missing at
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  Speaker 1: that time. Ashley London now missing nearly two years. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Ashley Lyndon, please call Hillborough County,
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  Speaker 1: Florida Sheriff's eight one three two four seven eighty two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crime
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  Speaker 1: online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.