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Crime Alert 12.04.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. A
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  Speaker 1: prominent Washington State chiropractor and her husband have not been
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  Speaker 1: seen since November thirteen. Police perform a welfare check at
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  Speaker 1: the home of Karen Copp and her husband de Vito,
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  Speaker 1: and allegedly find two large pools of blood, big enough
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  Speaker 1: to make cops believe someone was killed. Cops say there
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  Speaker 1: was also a strong smell of bleach in the residence.
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  Speaker 1: Deputies allegedly find evidence suggesting the bodies had been dragged
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  Speaker 1: into the garage. Police have a suspect in custody, tenant
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  Speaker 1: Timothy Burke.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Burke ranted an apartment from the copes and was
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  Speaker 2: set to be evicted. A partially completed eviction notice was
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  Speaker 2: found in the cops' home. Their car was missing from
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  Speaker 2: the garage, and police believed the killer loaded their bodies
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  Speaker 2: in the trunk and left the scene in it. Burke
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  Speaker 2: was initially arrested on identity theft charges after he was
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  Speaker 2: discovered using de vito CoP's debit card. Washington police found
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  Speaker 2: a loaded gun on Burke at the time of his arrest.
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  Speaker 2: The bullets belonging to the gun shellcasings found at the
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  Speaker 2: coops home. Their bodies have not yet been located.
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  Speaker 1: Burke has not officially been charged with murder yet, but
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors saying murder charge is appropriate. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: needs after this now the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: needs Crime Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: According to US prosecutors, a foiled conspiracy to assassinate a
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  Speaker 3: senior Sekh separatist leader in New York, just days after
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  Speaker 3: another activist was killed, was designed to set off a
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  Speaker 3: wave of other politically motivated murders in the US and
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  Speaker 3: Canada with Moore. Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: An indictment unsealed in recent days details how the organizers
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  Speaker 2: of the plot discussed plans to kill a person in
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  Speaker 2: California and at least three others in Canada along with
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  Speaker 2: the victim in New York. The charges are aimed at
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  Speaker 2: fifty two year old Nikhil Gutta, a citizen of India,
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  Speaker 2: accused of murder for hire and conspiracy to commit murder
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  Speaker 2: for hire. The information regarding the murder plot was there
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  Speaker 2: secured through electronic communications along with audio and video calls
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  Speaker 2: that were secretly recorded or obtained by US law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: last spring. Prosecutors claimed that the plan was to murder
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  Speaker 2: at least four individuals in each of the two countries
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  Speaker 2: by June twenty ninth, with more killings to follow. After
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  Speaker 2: Hardeep seeing Najar, an exiled seek activist from India, was
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  Speaker 2: shot and killed outside a cultural center in Surrey, British Columbia,
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  Speaker 2: on June eighteenth, one of the men charged with arranging
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  Speaker 2: for the planned assassinations told a hitman he had hired
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  Speaker 2: that he needed to act quickly to kill another activist.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors say that the hit man was actually an undercover
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  Speaker 2: American agent, which is why the attack plans were foiled.
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  Speaker 3: The charges against Gupta carry a potential penalty of up
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  Speaker 3: to twenty years in prison. A national sporting goods company
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  Speaker 3: has been ordered to pay two point five million dollars
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  Speaker 3: to the families of three victims murdered by a serial
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  Speaker 3: killer in South Carolina. This after one of its locations
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  Speaker 3: sold firearms to a straw buyer, who then supplied them
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  Speaker 3: to the culprit, an victed felon who could not legally
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  Speaker 3: own a gun. According to the family's lawsuit that resulted
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  Speaker 3: in the settlement, Todd colthep would occasionally stand close to
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  Speaker 3: the buyer selecting firearms at Academy Sports Outdoors for him
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  Speaker 3: to purchase. Academy Sports had requested that the amount of
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  Speaker 3: the settlement be kept secret in order to discourage additional lawsuits. However,
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  Speaker 3: a judge determined that it didn't make much difference because
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  Speaker 3: the case had already received so much attention and that
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  Speaker 3: the public had a right to know the outcome. The
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  Speaker 3: victim's estates will split the settlement after forty nine years.
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  Speaker 3: An Iowa teen believed to be one of the first
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  Speaker 3: victims of an infamous California serial killer, has been identified
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  Speaker 3: once again crime online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: For almost five decades, the teenager was known as simply
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  Speaker 2: John Doe, but now, thanks to the results of DNA testing,
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  Speaker 2: his real name has been revealed as Michael Ray Schlitched
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  Speaker 2: of Cedar Rapids. According to a news release by the
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  Speaker 2: Orange County Sheriff's Department in California. The teenager was long
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  Speaker 2: believed to be a victim of a man known as
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  Speaker 2: the Scorecard killer Randy Craft, after being found guilty of
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  Speaker 2: torturing and murdering sixteen men over almost three decades, a
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  Speaker 2: crimes free that culminated with his nineteen eighty three arrest,
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  Speaker 2: Craft was handed a death sentence to be served at
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  Speaker 2: San Quentin State Prison. Authorities have stated that, in addition
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  Speaker 2: to the Orange County killings, for Witchcraft was found guilty
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine. The seventy eight year old is
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  Speaker 2: also accused of killing other victims in California, Oregon, and Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: On September fourteenth, nineteen seventy four, two people were off
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  Speaker 2: roading on a fire road northeast of Laguna Beach, California,
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  Speaker 2: when the body of the teen, now known as Schlitched
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  Speaker 2: was discovered. The seventeen year old's death was initially ruled
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  Speaker 2: to be accidental when an autopsy revealed high levels of
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  Speaker 2: alcohol and diazepam in his system. However, detectives began to
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  Speaker 2: connect other similar deaths that occurred in the years that
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  Speaker 2: followed and categorized those as homicides. Several of the deaths
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  Speaker 2: occurred just a few miles from the location of where
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  Speaker 2: the teen's remains were found. The string of murders came
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  Speaker 2: to an end in nineteen eighty three when a California
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  Speaker 2: Highway Patrol trooper saw Craft weaving and driving on the
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  Speaker 2: shoulder of a freeway and pulled him over. In the
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  Speaker 2: passenger seat of the vehicle was the body of a
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  Speaker 2: strangled US marine.
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  Speaker 3: According to the prosecution, Kraft, a former computer programmer who
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  Speaker 3: was a fetishist, stored some of his victim's severed body
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  Speaker 3: parts in his freezer.
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  Speaker 1: Angela Fagan helps a friend move six point thirty am.
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  Speaker 1: She's captured on surveillance video at a local easy mart,
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  Speaker 1: but no one hears from the forty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: after that. A few days later, her car is found abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: Her personal items like her per cell phone, car keys,
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  Speaker 1: driver's license, and social Security card all left in the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Angela Fagan has shoulder length blonde hair, blue eyes, five
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  Speaker 1: feet six inches tall and weighs one hundred and forty pounds.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info regarding the disappearance of Angela June Fagan,
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  Speaker 1: contact Mina Police four seven nine three nine four one
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  Speaker 1: two one two for the latest criming justice news. He's
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  Speaker 1: got to crime online dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace