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Crime Alert 08.24.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. Totate
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  Speaker 1: of Carly Travis with Middleton, Connecticut PD, first on the
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  Speaker 1: scene to a neighborhood complain about noise and breaking glass.
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  Speaker 1: She asked Wilson Tate to come out of his house
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  Speaker 1: and immediately notices he's carrying a claw hammer. Travis asks
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  Speaker 1: Tate to drop the hammer, but Tate charges the detective,
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  Speaker 1: beating her with the hammer until Travis fires a warning
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  Speaker 1: shot and Tate goes back in the home.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Travis calls for backup and cops surround Tate's home,
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  Speaker 2: eventually getting him to surrender. Tate, an Army veteran who
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  Speaker 2: was honorably discharged after serving in Iraq, has a history
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  Speaker 2: of manic argumentative behavior that resulted in many run ins
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  Speaker 2: with police. Tate also carries a previous assault on an
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  Speaker 2: officer charge from twenty eighteen. Detective Travis was in stable
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  Speaker 2: condition after the attack and returned to work shortly after.
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  Speaker 1: Tate, fifty two old enough to know better, now charged
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  Speaker 1: with assault on a cop. Miami Day, cop Andre Pettes
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  Speaker 1: and his wife pick up McDonald's then get into an
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  Speaker 1: argument over money. The argument escalates pushes his wife then
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  Speaker 1: pulls a fresh cheeseburger out of the bag and throws
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  Speaker 1: it at her. Cops are called Perez thirty four cuffed
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  Speaker 1: for a misdemeanor battery. I guess he's not loving it
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  Speaker 1: being on the wrong side of the bars. 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 Neees crime on lines. John Lemley as
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  Speaker 1: a wealthy dentist convicted of killing his wife during an
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  Speaker 1: African safari, listened in court this week. Her brother swore
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  Speaker 1: to relocate her remains to a location that Larry Rudolph
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  Speaker 1: would never discover. For more, we turned to Sidney Sumner
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  Speaker 1: with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Shortly before a judge condemned Larry Rudolph to life in
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  Speaker 2: prison for Beyonca Rudolph's killing in twenty sixteen, Vincent Finizio
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  Speaker 2: prophesized Larry Rudolph would die alone and unmarned, and that
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  Speaker 2: his future grandkids would never know he existed. US District
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  Speaker 2: Judge William Martinez also assessed financial penalties totally more than
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  Speaker 2: fifteen million dollars on Rudolph, who was also convicted of
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  Speaker 2: male fraud for cashing in roughly five million dollars in
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  Speaker 2: insurance plans for his wife as he established a new
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  Speaker 2: life with his longtime girlfriend. Rudolph has maintained throughout the
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  Speaker 2: case that his wife's death in Zambia, a southern African country,
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  Speaker 2: was an accident. His lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, said he
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  Speaker 2: and his colleague Margo Moss, were hopeful of winning an appeal.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutor say Rudolph, the owner of a Pittsburgh area dentistry firm,
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  Speaker 2: shot his thirty four year old wife in the heart
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  Speaker 2: with a shotgun on her final morning in Zambia, then
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  Speaker 2: placed the gun in its protective case to make it
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  Speaker 2: appear as if she had shot herself while packing. During
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  Speaker 2: their trip, the couple had a hunted game. Rudolph faces
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  Speaker 2: a combination of restitution, fines and property seizure as punishment.
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  Speaker 2: Rudolph also received a twenty year jail sentence for mail fraud,
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  Speaker 2: to be served concurrently with his life sentence for murder.
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  Speaker 3: Because of his undisclosed cardiac problems, Martinez ordered Rudolph to
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  Speaker 3: serve his term in a prison with medical facilities. In
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  Speaker 3: a newly released video, the ninety eight year old mother
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  Speaker 3: of a Kansas newspaper publisher, confronts police investigators as they
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  Speaker 3: search her home in a raid that gained national attention.
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  Speaker 3: The woman yelling at one point, get out of my house.
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  Speaker 3: Joan Meyer is seen on video shouting at the six
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  Speaker 3: cops inside the Mary and Kansas home she shared with
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  Speaker 3: her son, Marion County Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer.
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  Speaker 3: She appears to be agitated as she stands with the
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  Speaker 3: assistance of a walker, clad in a long robe or
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  Speaker 3: gown and slippers. It was on August eleventh that the newspaper,
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  Speaker 3: along with the homes of Myers and a city council
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  Speaker 3: member's house, were raided after a local restaurant owner accused
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  Speaker 3: the newspaper of illegally collecting information about her Joan Meyer
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  Speaker 3: died the next day. Her son believes that stress caused
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  Speaker 3: by the raid played a role in her death. The
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  Speaker 3: lawyers for FTX founder Sam Bankman Breed have told a
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  Speaker 3: judge that their client can't fully prepare for trial in
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  Speaker 3: six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers,
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  Speaker 3: necessary medication to help him concentrate, and vegan food options
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  Speaker 3: once again crime online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The lawyers filed their concerns at a federal court hearing
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  Speaker 2: in Manhattan after Bankman Freed pleaded not guilty to seven charges,
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  Speaker 2: including wirefraud in various conspiracy counts. In advance of his
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  Speaker 2: October three trial, The attorneys sold the judge that Bankman
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  Speaker 2: Freed needs a better diet than bread, water, and peanut butter.
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  Speaker 2: Bankman Freed was extradited from the Bahamas in December after
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors claim he sold billions of dollars in FTX customer
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  Speaker 2: deposits and spent tens of millions on his businesses, speculative
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  Speaker 2: venture investments, charitable donations, and illegal campaign contributions aimed at
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  Speaker 2: influencing cryptocurrency regulation in Washington. This was the thirty one
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  Speaker 2: year old California man's first court appearance since Judge Lewis
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  Speaker 2: Kaplan revoked his two hundred and fifty million dollar bond
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  Speaker 2: almost two weeks ago. After agreeing that the fallen bitcoin
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  Speaker 2: whiz had repeatedly attempted to sway witnesses against him, the
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  Speaker 2: judge accepted prosecutor's plea to arrest him. Magistrate Judge Sarah Nepburn,
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  Speaker 2: who presided over the hearing, told Bankman Freed's attorneys that
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  Speaker 2: she would not overturn Kaplan's rulings on computer access, but
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  Speaker 2: that she would investigate whether the Metropolitan Detention Center in
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn might provide medications in a diet more closely aligned
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  Speaker 2: with the defendants vegan preferences.
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  Speaker 3: Bankman. Freed's attorney, Mark Cohen told Netburn that he hasn't
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  Speaker 3: received the medications he needs to focus since he was
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  Speaker 3: arrested August twelve.
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  Speaker 1: But Peta Redhair's boyfriend gets violent after drinking too much,
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  Speaker 1: so Redhair spends a few nights with her mom. Mom
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  Speaker 1: Anita King, please with her daughter not to go back home,
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  Speaker 1: but she assists everything will be fine. Three days later,
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  Speaker 1: mom Anita King texts Red Hair to ask how things
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  Speaker 1: are going, and she never responds. A few days after that,
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  Speaker 1: King text again. Someone responds that a man had sold
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  Speaker 1: Redhair's phone to him, Nicholas Kay. The boyfriend says he
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  Speaker 1: has not seen Pepeta since her first night back home,
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  Speaker 1: that they went out for a drink, got in an argument,
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  Speaker 1: she left with another man, Peter Redhair now missing over
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  Speaker 1: three years. If you have information on Pepita, please contact
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  Speaker 1: Albuquerque PD five zero five seven six eight two zero
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  Speaker 1: two zero for the latest crime injustice News, go to
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  Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Rays.