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Crime Alert 08.16.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm asy grace breaking crime news Now. Randy
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  Speaker 1: Vale stuffed the backpack with bolt cutters, two cans of gasoline,
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  Speaker 1: two rifles, takes off on his motorcycle destination a High
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  Speaker 1: Joe Electric power station on the Idaho Oregon border. Veil
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  Speaker 1: shoots at a dam for nearly half an hour, then
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  Speaker 1: heads north to a second dam and begins shooting again.
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  Speaker 1: Idaho cops catch Veil as he's leaving Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The shootings caused more than one hundred thousand dollars in
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  Speaker 2: damage and left Washington, Idaho, and Oregon residents with power
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  Speaker 2: interruptions for weeks until the damage could be repaired. Veil
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  Speaker 2: resisted arrest, leading cops on a chase where he reached
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  Speaker 2: speeds of eighty miles per hour in a twenty five
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  Speaker 2: mile per hour zone. If convicted on any charges, Vale
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  Speaker 2: could face up to twenty years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Veil now facing federal charges including destruction of an energy facility.
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  Speaker 1: Davis and Winston scrolls on his phone while he drives,
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  Speaker 1: causing him to swerve in and out of his lane.
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  Speaker 1: Frustrated the driver behind, Winston hawks and him for not
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  Speaker 1: moving on as the top light turns. Grain Weston gets
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  Speaker 1: out of his car with a can of white spray
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  Speaker 1: paint and gets to work on the victim's car and
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  Speaker 1: eventually the victim's face. Passers by called nine one one,
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  Speaker 1: and by the time Houston cops arrived, both men covered
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  Speaker 1: its spray paint. Whinston thirty five, charged with criminal mischief?
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  Speaker 3: Is that all?
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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 Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: After being found guilty of first degree murder and other
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  Speaker 3: offenses and the killing of his estranged wife in western Illinois,
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  Speaker 3: A judge has handed down a life sentence to a
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  Speaker 3: former competitor on the game show Family Feud. For more,
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  Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: According to news sources, forty year old Timothy Bleefnick did
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  Speaker 2: not respond as Adams County Circuit Judge Robert Adrian read
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  Speaker 2: the sentence. A jury found Beliefnik guilty of murder, use
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  Speaker 2: of a firearm to commit first degree murder, and home
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  Speaker 2: invasion in the death of forty one year old Rebecca
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  Speaker 2: Bliefnet on February twenty third, after she failed to pick
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  Speaker 2: up her children from school. A family member discovered her
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  Speaker 2: body inside her Quincy house. She had sustained multiple gunshot wounds,
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  Speaker 2: according to our Friends at Cage QATV. Timothy Bleefnik and
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  Speaker 2: some of his relatives were featured on ABC's Family Feud
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. The host Steve Harvey posed the question,
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  Speaker 2: what was the biggest mistake you made at your wedding?
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  Speaker 2: Bliefnick said, I do quickly adding not mine to say
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  Speaker 2: I cherish my wife. Along with that, he said, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to get in trouble for that, aren't I. Harvey retorted,
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  Speaker 2: it will be a lot of hell to pay at
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  Speaker 2: your house.
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  Speaker 3: The couple were in the middle of a divorce and
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  Speaker 3: were living separately. Now to Connecticut as relatives question the
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  Speaker 3: police shooting death of a man attempting to flee in
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  Speaker 3: a stolen automobile as an officer and police dog entered
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  Speaker 3: the vehicle and the CA nine attacked, Mike Alexander Garcia
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  Speaker 3: was shot by West Hartford police, and as Connecticut's Officer
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  Speaker 3: of Inspector General looks into the incident, the victims families
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  Speaker 3: and attorneys say they don't think it was justified. During
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  Speaker 3: a news conference this week, lawyer Ken Kraieski said, quote
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  Speaker 3: the use of deadly force in this situation was unnecessary, excessive,
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  Speaker 3: and irresponsible, According to Kreeski and another family attorney, Peter Billings,
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  Speaker 3: Police escalated the situation and failed to offer Alexander Garcia
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  Speaker 3: clear instructions on how to avoid being shot. Police and
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  Speaker 3: West Hartford have not yet responded to the family's complaints.
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  Speaker 3: Earlier this week, Chief Vernon Riddick released a statement in
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  Speaker 3: which he described the circumstances leading up to the shooting
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  Speaker 3: as a dangerous situation and stated that the department quote
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  Speaker 3: believed strongly in transparency and in all facts being gathered
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  Speaker 3: and impartially evaluated. Seven months after her son used a
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  Speaker 3: handgun to seriously wound a teacher in a classroom full
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  Speaker 3: of students, the mother of a six year old has
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  Speaker 3: pleaded guilty to a charge of felony child neglect once
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  Speaker 3: again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The mystemere allegation of reckless firearm storage against Desiah Taylor
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  Speaker 2: has been dropped by the prosecution. As part of the
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  Speaker 2: plea deal, the prosecution agreed that they would not ask
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  Speaker 2: for a sentence greater than the state's recommended sentence of
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  Speaker 2: six months in jail or prison. The duration of Taylor's
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  Speaker 2: sentence will ultimately be determined by the judge, who will
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  Speaker 2: have complete discretion. In April, Taylor was accused of felony
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  Speaker 2: child maltreatment in a misdemeanor count of reckless storing of
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  Speaker 2: a handgun. The January shooting stunned the nation and shook
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  Speaker 2: the Chesapeake Bay Area shipbuilding city. The case against Taylor
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  Speaker 2: is one of three legal actions to demand responsibility, along
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  Speaker 2: with the teacher's forty million dollar lawsuit accusing the school
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  Speaker 2: system of gross negligence. Police reported that the first grader
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  Speaker 2: deliberately shot teacher Abby's Werner while she was seated at
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  Speaker 2: a reading table during the lessons. Werner underwent numerous surgeries
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  Speaker 2: after being struck in the hand and chest. She was
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  Speaker 2: hospitalized for about two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: A sentencing hearing is scheduled for October twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Prescott, enjoying married life with her husband of two months,
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  Speaker 1: Coy Prescott, was to plan a special birthday dinner to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate him. She asked him to call before he leaves
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  Speaker 1: work that day so she can get everything ready. The
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  Speaker 1: couple kisses goodbye, Prescott leaves Elizabeth at home. Corey Prescott
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  Speaker 1: calls home around two thirty. No one answers. When Prescott
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  Speaker 1: arrives back at the Florida home, Elizabeth's gone with fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars missing from her wallet, but the rest of her
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  Speaker 1: belongings all left behind. Elizabeth did not have a cell
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  Speaker 1: phone and there has been no activity on her bank account.
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  Speaker 1: Both Corey Prescott and an ex boyfriend pass polygraphs indicating
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  Speaker 1: they had no involvement in her disappearance. Elizabeth Prescott now
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  Speaker 1: missing nineteen years. If you have info on Elizabeth Prescott,
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  Speaker 1: please call Bay County Sheriffs eight five zero seven four
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  Speaker 1: seven forty seven hundred. For the latest crimestice news, go
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  Speaker 1: to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.