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Crime Alert 03.01.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'mancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Kevin Flick
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  Speaker 1: excited to meet a seventeen year old high school girl
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  Speaker 1: he's been talking to online. So the twenty one year
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  Speaker 1: old Tennessee man hops applying to Michigan and tries to
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  Speaker 1: enroll as a student at Mason County Central High School.
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  Speaker 1: Employees are not fooled. Luckily, they call police.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Flick flies from Tennessee to Grand Rapids, then travels
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  Speaker 2: around one hundred miles north to get to the school.
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  Speaker 2: School officials became suspicious when Flick told them he flew
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  Speaker 2: from Tennessee but did not have an ID. When police
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  Speaker 2: show up, Flick gives officers fake names and ages, but
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  Speaker 2: they eventually determine his real name in Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Flick now charged with possessing child sex, abusive material, contributing
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  Speaker 1: to the delinquents of a minor, and giving false info
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  Speaker 1: to a cop. More crime and justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online's John Lemley, a Texas in who had long
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  Speaker 3: maintained that his conviction more than twenty years ago was
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  Speaker 3: founded on fabricated testimony and questionable evidence, has been put
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  Speaker 3: to death for shooting two people, one of whom was
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  Speaker 3: his cousin. We turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online
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  Speaker 3: for details.
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  Speaker 2: After being given a lethal injection at the State Penitentiary
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  Speaker 2: in Huntsville, Texas for the November two thousand shooting deaths
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  Speaker 2: of his twenty seven year old cousin, James Muskada in
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  Speaker 2: his twenty two year old girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, Ivan Cantu
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  Speaker 2: was declared dead a short time later. During his last
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  Speaker 2: moments in the execution chamber, the fifty two year old
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  Speaker 2: prisoner repeatedly declared his innocence. The prosecution claimed that Cantu
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  Speaker 2: killed Kitchen and Muskada, two drug dealers, while attempting to
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  Speaker 2: take cash, marijuana, and cocaine from his cousin's North Dallas residence.
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  Speaker 2: Convicted in two thousand and one, the prisoner had long
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  Speaker 2: maintained that his relative was slain by a rival drug
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  Speaker 2: dealer in a money dispute. Police discovered a key to
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  Speaker 2: the victim's house in bloody trousers with the victim's DNA
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  Speaker 2: in Kantu's apartment. At his ex girlfriend's house, police discovered
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  Speaker 2: Cantu's gun. Cantu's fingerprints were discovered on the gun's magazine,
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  Speaker 2: while most Kada's blood was discovered on the weapons barrel.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew Geller, a trial attorney for Cantu, stated in an
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  Speaker 2: affidavit from two thousand and five that Cantu told him
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  Speaker 2: quote he had indeed killed most Kada for ripping him
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  Speaker 2: off on a drug deal, and that Kitchen was slain
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  Speaker 2: because she was a witness. The primary witness for the
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  Speaker 2: prosecution was Amy Baucher, Cantu's ex girlfriend. After most Cada
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  Speaker 2: and Kitchen were killed, Cantu took Baucher back to the
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  Speaker 2: crime scene. This according to her testimony. Baucher died in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: Cantu's lawyer, Gina Bunn, however, claimed that Baucher made numerous
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  Speaker 3: false claims during testimony overseas. Now as, the trial of
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  Speaker 3: a man being investigated in connection with the disappearance of
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  Speaker 3: British toddler Madeleine McCann is now under way in Germany,
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  Speaker 3: and his attorney has announced that the man will not
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  Speaker 3: be answering to unrelated allegations of sexual offenses. The forty
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  Speaker 3: seven year old German, identified by news outlets as Christian Brucker,
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  Speaker 3: is on trial at the Northern German State Court in
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  Speaker 3: Brownschfeig gone three charges of rape and two counts of
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  Speaker 3: sexual abuse of children. It's alleged that between two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and twenty seventeen he committed the crimes in Portugal. In
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  Speaker 3: the German legal system, there are no formal pleas and
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  Speaker 3: defendants are not required to answer to the allegations after
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  Speaker 3: entering a guilty plea. A man has received a life
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  Speaker 3: sentence in prison for the sexual assaults of four women,
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  Speaker 3: three of whom were former members of the same National
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  Speaker 3: Black Sorority, crimes that occurred in their Metro Dallas homes.
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  Speaker 3: Once again Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty two year old Jeffrey Lemmer Wheat entered his plea
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  Speaker 2: in Collin County District Court. According to our friends with
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  Speaker 2: the TV station WFAA, the sentencing was issued by judges
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  Speaker 2: from four different counties through video conferencing. The assaults took
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  Speaker 2: place in the counties of Dallas, Denton, Colin, and Terrant.
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  Speaker 2: Wheat was given two life termsters, one for a Arrant
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  Speaker 2: County burglary with intent to commit another felony, and the
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  Speaker 2: others from Colin County were now learning from prosecutors and
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  Speaker 2: court documents that he was also sentenced to thirty years
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  Speaker 2: in prison for an aggravated sexual assault charge from Dallas
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  Speaker 2: County and twenty years for a sexual assault charge from
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  Speaker 2: Denton County. W FAA is reporting that wheat sentences are
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  Speaker 2: to be served concurrently. Technology limitations during the two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and three investigation resulted in the case being suspended. However,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors in Tarrant County say that years later, DNA testing
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  Speaker 2: connected the case to three others from twenty eleven. Colin
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  Speaker 2: County prosecutors stated that after that detectives worked for two
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  Speaker 2: years with genetic genealogy labs and performed genealogical research in
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  Speaker 2: an effort to find a person of interest. The prosecution
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  Speaker 2: said that all of the victims in the twenty eleven
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  Speaker 2: cases were members of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta.
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  Speaker 3: Colin County prosecutors also said that Plano police discovered that
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  Speaker 3: Wheat's employment with a credit card processing company used by
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  Speaker 3: the sorority gave him access to personal and information about
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  Speaker 3: the victims.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, The disappearance of Christine Marie Easton haunts investigators
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  Speaker 1: over half a century. Christine nineteen vanishes January nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: one after a trip to the car wash. Her sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine Ford Maverick found abandon locked with her purse inside.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators release an AIDS progressed photo in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: It pulls no leads at all, but in twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: a breakthrough a witness report seeing two men abduct Christine
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  Speaker 1: and drive off in a white van. Still no suspects named.
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  Speaker 1: There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for info leading to
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  Speaker 1: the conviction of those responsible for Christine Marie Easton's disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Christine, please contact Hayward, California
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  Speaker 1: PD five one zero two ninety three seven one seven six.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice news, go to crime
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  Speaker 1: online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.