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Crime Alert 10.25.24 | Elderly Man Tied Up During Home Burglary · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime news Now. A
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  Speaker 1: California caretaker calls nine one one when she finds her
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  Speaker 1: elderly patient tied to a chair in his house. He
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  Speaker 1: says two men broke in beat him until he passed out.
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  Speaker 1: When he awoke, he was tied up. The man's valuables, handguns,
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  Speaker 1: two cars stolen. Cops put out bolos for the vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: When cops find one car that same day, the driver
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  Speaker 1: takes off on a high speed chase, ending in a
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  Speaker 1: crash into a fence. The driver identified as Louise Talavera Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The victim was treated for minor injuries on the scene
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  Speaker 2: and did not require hospitalization. When Talavera crashed the stolen car,
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  Speaker 2: it burst into flames seconds after he escaped the driver's seat.
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  Speaker 2: Talavera continued fleeing police, but was captured with the help
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  Speaker 2: of a canine unit. Investigators are still searching for the
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  Speaker 2: second suspect and have not said whether any of the
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  Speaker 2: stolen firearms have been recovered.
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  Speaker 1: Talavera, thirty one, now charged with home invasion, rob kidnap,
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  Speaker 1: false imprisonment, and elder abuse. A woman forks over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars to her hairstylist, Michelle Ray for
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  Speaker 1: a haircut. Ray then claims the client still owes her
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  Speaker 1: thirty dollars more for a haircut four years before. Confused,
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  Speaker 1: the client argues with Ray, but Ray's insistent, shouting you
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  Speaker 1: need to pay me now, and keep in mind, I've
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  Speaker 1: got these scissors next to your face. Ray demands more
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  Speaker 1: money and becomes so aggressive the victim runs out of
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  Speaker 1: the salon, still wearing her smock, and calls nine to
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  Speaker 1: one one. Michelle Ray thirty one now charged with agassault.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe she'll work in the prison beauty salon. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice breaking news Crime Onlines john Linlay.
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  Speaker 3: In Indiana, justice has finally been served in a case
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  Speaker 3: that remained cold for nearly five decades. For more, we
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  Speaker 3: turned to Sydney Sumner of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Sixty nine year old Fred Bandy Junior of Goshen, Indiana
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  Speaker 2: a sentence to life in prison for the nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 2: five murder of seventeen year old Laurel Jean Mitchell. Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: vanished after leaving her job at a local church camp,
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  Speaker 2: and her body was discovered in the Elkhart River. The
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  Speaker 2: following day, the long awaited sentencing was handed down by
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  Speaker 2: a Noble County judge. Bandy, convicted of first degree murder
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  Speaker 2: earlier this month in a bench trial, while now face
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  Speaker 2: life behind bars with the possibility of parole. His attorney
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  Speaker 2: has yet to comment on the ruling. This case dates
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  Speaker 2: back to August nineteen seventy five, when Mitchell's disappearance shook
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  Speaker 2: the small community of North Webster, located about one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty miles northeast of Indianapolis. After years without answers,
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  Speaker 2: a major breakthrough came last year when Bandy, along with
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  Speaker 2: sixty nine year old John Wayne Lamam of Auburn, Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: was charged in connection with her death. Lamam, who pleaded
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  Speaker 2: guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, was sentenced to eight
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  Speaker 2: years in prison earlier this month. In a deposition this
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  Speaker 2: passed August, Laymam claimed that Bandy raped and drowned Mitchell.
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  Speaker 2: While he denied taking part in the killing, he admitted
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  Speaker 2: his fear of Bandy prevented him from intervening. The case
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  Speaker 2: was revived through advancements in DNA technology, Investigators were able
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  Speaker 2: to test evidence that had been preserved since nineteen seventy five,
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  Speaker 2: including Mitchell's clothing. A DNA profile linked Bandy to the crime,
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  Speaker 2: with testing determining it was thirteen billion times more likely
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  Speaker 2: that his DNA was present on the clothing than that
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  Speaker 2: of any other unknown person. Prosecutors were also armed with
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  Speaker 2: witness testimony. Three individuals, teenagers at the time of the murder,
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  Speaker 2: came forward decades later with information implicating both Bandy and Leimam.
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  Speaker 3: Investigators say these witness statements, combined with the DNA evidence,
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  Speaker 3: were key in solving this nearly fifty year old mystery.
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  Speaker 3: The Karen Reid murder case continues to stir a vision
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  Speaker 3: in a Massachusetts town, drawing crowds of supporters and inspiring
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  Speaker 3: true crime discussions. Now, yellow ducks have entered the controversy.
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  Speaker 3: Richard Schifford Junior, a vocal supporter of Reed, pleaded not
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  Speaker 3: guilty to charges of witness and imitation, harassment, and littering.
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  Speaker 3: Shiffer admitted to placing rubber ducks and fake one hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars bills around town, but claims it's a First Amendment
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  Speaker 3: right to support the defense's argument that Reed was framed Reid,
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  Speaker 3: who's awaiting a retrial in January. Is accused of hitting
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  Speaker 3: her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe with her SUV
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  Speaker 3: and leaving him to die in a snowstorm. Her attorneys
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  Speaker 3: alleged that law enforcement officers were responsible for O'Keefe's death.
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  Speaker 3: A mistrial was declared in June when the jury couldn't
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  Speaker 3: reach a verdict. Schiffer's rubber Duck campaign reportedly references a
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  Speaker 3: defense attorney's closing argument stating that quote if it walks
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  Speaker 3: like a duck, it's a duck, suggesting Reed was wrongly accused.
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  Speaker 3: His attorney plans to seek a dismissal of charges on
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  Speaker 3: free speech grounds before their next court date in November.
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  Speaker 3: This case has spart heated debates and confrontations in Canton,
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  Speaker 3: where O'Keefe's death occurred, as supporters of Reed clash with
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  Speaker 3: those who believe she's guilty.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Charrell Brown fifty two, having trouble managing diabetes
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  Speaker 1: and has two seizures in just two weeks. She takes
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  Speaker 1: a Friday off to rest at her Petersburg, Virginia home
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  Speaker 1: and babysits her eleven year old granddaughter that evening when
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  Speaker 1: her husband Phil arrives home around eleven pm. She and
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  Speaker 1: the granddaughter are sitting on the porch. He goes inside
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  Speaker 1: to change and when he comes back out, Charrell's gone,
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  Speaker 1: the granddaughter says. Charelle says she was going to get
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  Speaker 1: help and will be right back. Before she walked away,
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  Speaker 1: Charrell left her keys and cell phone behind. She hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been seen or heard from in over a year. Charrell
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  Speaker 1: Brown African American, five feet, one hundred and fifty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: pixie cut, black hair, brown eyes. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Charrell Brown, please call Petersburg, Virginia, PD eight and
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