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Crime Alert 01.06.25 | Uncle Dies Protecting Niece After Offering Stranded Man Ride · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Clime alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes. Now, Rodney Watson's
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  Speaker 1: sixty six and his niece head to Watson's Burton, South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina home. They see a hitchhiker. The niece recognizes him
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  Speaker 1: as Michael Slick Good. Rodney offers him a ride, but
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  Speaker 1: on the way an argument breaks out between Good and
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  Speaker 1: the niece. When they arrive, Good pulls Rodney's niece from
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  Speaker 1: the car and beats her. Rodney Watson tries to break
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  Speaker 1: up the fight, but Good stamps him six times with
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  Speaker 1: a machete.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy cops arrived to Good still swinging the machete and
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  Speaker 2: Watson on the ground bleeding. Good flees the scene and
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  Speaker 2: Watson is rushed to the hospital, but dies of his injuries,
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  Speaker 2: the fetal wound a severed artery in Watson's left arm.
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  Speaker 2: Good eventually returns to the scene, where he's arrested on
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  Speaker 2: suspicion of first degree murder. In court, Good tries to
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  Speaker 2: provide an alibi, but when that falls through, admits to
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  Speaker 2: the stabbing, claiming he acted out of fear.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Good fifty, convicted of Rodney Watson's murder and sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to life in prison.
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  Speaker 3: A Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Lyft driver picks up his riter with no issues. Just
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes in, he hears an odd noise from
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  Speaker 1: the back seat. Adjusting his rear view mira, he looks
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  Speaker 1: to see what's happening in is shocking to see the
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  Speaker 1: forty eight year old passenger taking off his clothes. The
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  Speaker 1: driver tells him to stop, but he doesn't. The driver
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  Speaker 1: pulls over, cancels the right, and calls police. The writer
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  Speaker 1: tells police he quote got a little naked after he
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  Speaker 1: was overcome with a quote feeling. The unnamed lyft passenger
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  Speaker 1: now charged with public indecency. Ew more Crime and Justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: breaking news Crime on Lines, John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: New details this hour on the devastating trunk attack in
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  Speaker 3: New Orleans that claim multiple lives and leftist city in
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  Speaker 3: mourning authority say Shamshu Den Jabbar, a forty two year
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  Speaker 3: old US citizen from Texas, drove a rented pick up
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  Speaker 3: onto a crowded sidewalk bypassing police barriers. The truck struck
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  Speaker 3: pedestrians and left bodies scattered along the street, described by
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  Speaker 3: witnesses as a scene from a nightmare. Police Superintendent A.
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  Speaker 3: Kirkpatrick called the act evil, stating the driver intentionally bypassed
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  Speaker 3: safety measures. Jabbar was killed after opening fire on officers,
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  Speaker 3: wounding two who are now in stable condition. Weapons including
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  Speaker 3: an AR style rifle and improvised explosive devices were recovered.
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  Speaker 3: The fbis investigating Jabbar's potential links to terror groups, noting
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  Speaker 3: a flag associated with the Islamic State found on the truck.
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  Speaker 3: Surveillance footage suggests other individuals may have been involved, but
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  Speaker 3: their connection remains unclear. The attack coincides with explosions in
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  Speaker 3: Honolulu and Las Vegas. While federal officials are investigating possible links,
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  Speaker 3: no conclusions have been Drawnds of survivors of physical and
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  Speaker 3: sexual abuse at two state run reform schools in Florida
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  Speaker 3: are set to receive compensation after decades of silence about
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  Speaker 3: the atrocities they endured as children. We turned to Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner of Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: The abuse, which occurred more than fifty years ago at
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  Speaker 2: the Dosor School for Boys in Marianna and its sister
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  Speaker 2: school in Okechobee, came to light following years of survivor
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  Speaker 2: testimonies and investigations. At its peak in the nineteen sixties,
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  Speaker 2: the Donor School housed about five hundred boys, many committed
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  Speaker 2: for minor offenses or as orphans. Allegations of brutal beating,
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  Speaker 2: sexual assaults, and mysterious deaths plagued the institution throughout its
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  Speaker 2: century long operation. Researchers uncovered unmarked graves of the school,
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  Speaker 2: where nearly one hundred boys died between nineteen hundred and
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  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three, some from gunshot wounds or blunt force trauma.
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  Speaker 2: Ahead of a December thirty first deadline, over eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: individuals submitted claims for restitution to scriving severe abuse by
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  Speaker 2: school staff. Florida lawmakers allocated twenty million dollars last year
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  Speaker 2: to be shared among the survivors. This follows the state's
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen formal apology, where survivors like Bryant Middleton recounted
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  Speaker 2: their experiences, including brutal punishments for minor infractions, during their
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  Speaker 2: time at Dozer. The school was closed in twenty eleven
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  Speaker 2: after state and federal investigations revealed appalling conditions and documented
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  Speaker 2: decades of abuse. Now, the resilience of survivors is being
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  Speaker 2: recognized in the new film Nickel Boys, based on Coulson
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  Speaker 2: Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winning novel inspired by The Doser School.
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  Speaker 3: Whitehead says he hopes the story ensures the victims and
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  Speaker 3: their suffering are never forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Friends and family realize they haven't heard from
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  Speaker 1: Gena Joe Ratler for days. Last person to see her
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  Speaker 1: close friend Jessica Fraser. Gena tells Fraser the person she's
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  Speaker 1: with is quote very upset and taking it out on her.
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  Speaker 1: Gena previously said she was in Making Georgia with Tim Crow.
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  Speaker 1: A week after Gina is reported missing, a woman named
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  Speaker 1: Callie Goolsby is found shot dead on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road southwest Macon. The GBI suspects Tim Crow is
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  Speaker 1: responsible for Goolsby's death. Crow runs from cops when they
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  Speaker 1: try to arrest him and ends the chase by shooting
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  Speaker 1: himself in the head. There are no other leads on
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  Speaker 1: Gina's whereabouts. Gina Joe Ratliffe five to one, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty pounds, reddish brown hair, blue eyes. If you
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  Speaker 1: have info on Gina Joe Ratliffe, please call bib County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriffs for seven eight seven five one seventy five one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime insice news, go to crime online
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories, where we do our best to find missing people,
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this, I'm Missy Grace.