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Crime Alert 12.19.24 | Man Walks Free on Plea Deal After Killing Pedestrian in Distracted Driving Crash · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Climb Alert by Nancy Grace, Breaking crime news Now. Brent
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  Speaker 1: karen And spends a late night drinking with friends after work.
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  Speaker 1: He should not be behind the wheel. Driving through Moose Lake, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: he falls asleep and bumps into a State Troopers car.
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  Speaker 1: Cited but allowed to continue driving. He has a five
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  Speaker 1: hour energy drink to pep him up. As he says
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  Speaker 1: to the cruise control at fifty two in a forty
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  Speaker 1: he plays air guitar along with the song on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: He is looking down and jamming out when his car
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  Speaker 1: veers off the road and hits the man Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The two pm crash killed that pedestrian, sixty one year
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  Speaker 2: old Justin McNeil. Kierenan did not initially realize he hit
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  Speaker 2: anything and was confused when his airbags deployed. Karenan actually
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  Speaker 2: tested below the legal blood alcohol limit, coming up at
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  Speaker 2: only point zero six. Karenan blamed his long working hours
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  Speaker 2: for the crash, not his drinking. Karenan was initially charged
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  Speaker 2: with four counts of criminal beha paricular homicide, but when
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  Speaker 2: he accepted a plea deal, three of those churches were dropped.
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  Speaker 1: Despite admitting to distract a driving and impaired driving. He
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  Speaker 1: avoids jail time for the crash. I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: A man arrives at John E. Smith Intermediate School in
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  Speaker 1: Butler Township, Ohio carrying what appears to be a box
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  Speaker 1: from a donut shop. He asks for a tour of
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  Speaker 1: the school. He's denied entry, but before going on his way,
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  Speaker 1: he leaves the box outside the building, following safety protocol.
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  Speaker 1: Staff reports the incident and describes the man's car to police.
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  Speaker 1: Students sheltering in place under lockdown, and what the superintendent
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  Speaker 1: calls an over abundance of caution. Officers call in the
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  Speaker 1: Dayton Bomb Squad to scan the package. After careful examination,
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  Speaker 1: they confirmed the box only contains donuts. Police later identify
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  Speaker 1: the man as a family member serving as a tutor
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  Speaker 1: for a student at the school, simply trying to bring
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad they called in the Dayton Donuts Squad,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the Dayton bomb Squad. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this now the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: these crime on lines.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, Indiana has carried out its first execution in
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  Speaker 3: fifteen years, putting to death Joseph Corcoran, convicted of killing
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  Speaker 3: four people in nineteen ninety seven, including his brother and
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  Speaker 3: sister's fiancee. The forty nine year old Corcoran was executed
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  Speaker 3: just after midnight Wednesday at the Indiana State Prison. Convicted
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  Speaker 3: of a nineteen ninety seven quadruple murder in Fort Wayne,
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  Speaker 3: Corcoran declined final remarks, saying, quote, not really, let's get.
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  Speaker 4: It over with. His attorneys argued he suffered from severe
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  Speaker 4: mental illness, but multiple appeals, including a last minute request
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  Speaker 4: to the US Supreme Court, were denied. Governor Eric Holcombe
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  Speaker 4: also declined to intervene. Indiana prohibits media witnesses at executions,
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  Speaker 4: but a reporter selected by Corker and observed part of
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  Speaker 4: the process, which lasted eight minutes. This marked the state's
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  Speaker 4: first execution since two thousand and nine, and the twenty
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  Speaker 4: fourth in the US this year. The Pentagon has announced
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  Speaker 4: the transfer of two Malaysian detainees from Guantanamo Bay Military
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  Speaker 4: Prison back to their home country. For the latest returned
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  Speaker 4: to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed Farig ben Amin and Mohammed Nazir ben Lepp, both
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  Speaker 2: accused of roles in the two thousand and two Bali
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  Speaker 2: bombings that killed two hundred and two people recently pleaded
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  Speaker 2: guilty to charges of conspiracy and other offenses. In exchange,
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  Speaker 2: they agreed to testify against the alleged mastermind of the attack,
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  Speaker 2: known as Hambali. Prosecutors alleged that Hambali, an Indonesian leader
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  Speaker 2: of an al Qaida linked group, orchestrated the deadly bombings
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  Speaker 2: and other attacks in Southeast Asia. Farik and Nazir reportedly
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  Speaker 2: assisted Hombali in evading capture following the Bali attacks. Their
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  Speaker 2: testimony will be pivotal in future legal proceedings against him.
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  Speaker 2: Hambali remains in Guantanamo, with pre trial hearing scheduled to
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  Speaker 2: resume in January. The transfer of these two men reduces
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  Speaker 2: the number of detainees at Guantanamo to twenty seven, a
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  Speaker 2: far cry from the facility's peak, when it held hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of prisoners following the September eleventh, two thousand and one attacks.
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  Speaker 2: Among those still detained, only two are serving sentences, while
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  Speaker 2: seven face ongoing prosecutions, delayed by legal and logistical challenges,
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  Speaker 2: many stemming from their treatment in CIA custody.
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  Speaker 4: This week, another detainee, Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu of Kenya,
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  Speaker 4: was repatriated after seventeen years in Guantanamo without being charged.
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  Speaker 4: Fifteen other detainees also remain held without charges as US
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  Speaker 4: officials worked to find stable countries willing to accept them.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Tom. June two, twenty seventeen, police respond to reports
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  Speaker 1: of a naked man shouting in downtown Laredo, Texas. It's
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  Speaker 1: Duane Brian Murphy, the thirty nine year old Georgia man
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  Speaker 1: traveling there on a routine trip with work colleagues. At
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, doctors conduct a psychiatric evol and find he's
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  Speaker 1: not a danger to himself or others. The next morning
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  Speaker 1: he's released, he vanishes. His coworkers find his phone, wallet,
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  Speaker 1: and keys in his hotel room. Authorities say he may
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  Speaker 1: have crossed into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, but the circumstances of
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  Speaker 1: his disappearance are a mystery. His family insists he has
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  Speaker 1: no history of bizarre behavior. Murphy African American six y two,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty pounds. He's forty six today. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: with information on this seemingly mild mannered, regularly employed man,
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  Speaker 1: please please call Laredo PD nine five six seven nine
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