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DNA IDs Missouri man after 30+ years | Crime Alert 6AM 09.16.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm John Lemley. We began with a major
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  Speaker 1: cold case solved. After nearly four decades. In Missouri, authorities
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  Speaker 1: have finally identified a man whose body was discovered in
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  Speaker 1: the Mississippi River south of Saint Louis back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four. The man was Benny Leo Olson from Edwardsville, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: a city just across the river. For more than thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: he was known only as John Doe. His remains were
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  Speaker 1: exhumed recently so new DNA samples could be taken. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: say those samples, combined with fingerprints that had been on
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  Speaker 1: file since an earlier incident, enabled officials to make the identification. Olson,
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  Speaker 1: who would now be around seventy six years old, had
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  Speaker 1: struggled with severe mental illness. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia,
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  Speaker 1: and in nineteen eighty was charged in Illinois with trying
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  Speaker 1: to hire someone to burn down his stepmother's house. He
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  Speaker 1: was a found not competent to stand trial and treated
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  Speaker 1: at a mental health facility. Importantly, though his identity has
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  Speaker 1: been confirmed, investigators say there is no indication of foul
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  Speaker 1: play in his death. Family members say the resolution brings
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  Speaker 1: some closure. One of his half sisters Katherine Heston, reflected
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  Speaker 1: that while they'd always suspected something had happened, they quote
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  Speaker 1: never really knew.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news.
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  Speaker 3: Go to crime online dot com and please join us
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  Speaker 3: for our daily podcast Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 3: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online John Lemley.
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  Speaker 1: In suburban Chicago, a fatal confrontation involving immigration and customs
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  Speaker 1: enforcement is during controversy and political debate in Franklin Park, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: just west of Chicago. Ice officers say they fatally shot
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  Speaker 1: Silverio Vaugis Gonzales after he allegedly tried to evade arrest
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  Speaker 1: by driving his car at officers, dragging one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Both the suspect and the dragged officer were taken to
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  Speaker 1: a hospital. The suspect was pronounced dead. This incident comes
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  Speaker 1: as part of a broader enforcement campaign known as Operation
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  Speaker 1: Midway Blitz, a federal effort to crack down in states
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  Speaker 1: with sanctuary policies. Supporters say it's about enforcing immigration law.
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  Speaker 1: Critics say it risks overreach and undermining trust in communities.
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker has called for a full investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Local immigrant rights groups are demanding transparency and to crying
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  Speaker 1: what they view as excessive force. In New York City,
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  Speaker 1: authorities have apprehended a suspect in a brutal double homicide
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  Speaker 1: involving an elderly couple whose home was set on fire.
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  Speaker 1: The victims, seventy six year old Frank Olton and seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven years old Maureene Olton, were found dead in their
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  Speaker 1: queen's home earlier this week. Mister Olton was tied to
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  Speaker 1: a pole and stabbed. Missus Olton died in the fire,
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  Speaker 1: severely burned. The suspect, forty two year old Jammel McGriff,
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  Speaker 1: was arrested in Midtown Manhattan. Police were able to track
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  Speaker 1: him through surveillance footage and reports that the couples stolen
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  Speaker 1: credit cards had been used. McGriff is a parolee with
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  Speaker 1: a long criminal record, including robbery convictions, and he failed
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  Speaker 1: to register as a sex offender last year. Authorities also
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  Speaker 1: report that McGriff entered the home under false pretense, asking
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  Speaker 1: if he could charge his phone, and remained inside for
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  Speaker 1: several hours before the deadly events. Our final story This Hour,
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  Speaker 1: a decade's long mystery in New Hampshire has taken a
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  Speaker 1: significant turn. Nearly twenty five years after four bodies were
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  Speaker 1: discovered in Bearbrook State Park. One of the young girls
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  Speaker 1: has now been identif as Rhea Rasmussen. The case is
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  Speaker 1: tied to serial killer Terry Rasmussen, who died in prison
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  Speaker 1: in twenty ten after conviction in a separate murder. He
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  Speaker 1: used many aliases and targeted vulnerable women. Rhea's biological mother
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  Speaker 1: has been identified as Pepper Red, who disappeared in the
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  Speaker 1: late nineteen seventies and remains missing. Another woman, Denise Bodin,
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  Speaker 1: also had long been connected to the case, but her
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  Speaker 1: fate remains unclear. Investigators say this identification underscores the power
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  Speaker 1: of genetic genealogy in solving cold cases, and they continue
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  Speaker 1: to urge the public to come forward with any information
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  Speaker 1: that might help resolve remaining questions.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice needs.
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  Speaker 3: Go to crime online dot com and please join us
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  Speaker 3: for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our
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  Speaker 3: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 2: With this crime, I'm alerd, I'm Nitty Grace,