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Crime Alert 12.14.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. A
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  Speaker 1: group of middle school students in class compleating the drawing assignment.
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  Speaker 1: I'll except one fourteen year old who's not following directions.
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  Speaker 1: That's when the teacher's assistant, Ute Galloway slaps the child
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  Speaker 1: across the face. The Eustace Middle School principle notified parents,
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  Speaker 1: who call police.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Galloway reportedly attempted to apologize to the boy immediately
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  Speaker 2: after hitting him, but the boy and his parents insisted
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  Speaker 2: the incident solicited more than an apology. Police reviewed surveillance
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  Speaker 2: footage from the classroom and relied on witness statements from
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  Speaker 2: two other students to confirm what was alleged. Galloway is
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  Speaker 2: reportedly still employed by Lake County Schools, but will move
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  Speaker 2: to a role that does not involve working with students.
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  Speaker 1: Ute Galloway, sixty one, faces one count of child abuse.
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  Speaker 1: It's Barbie's catchphrase, you can be anything, even a thief.
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  Speaker 1: Eminy Tompson, twenty six, tills eight hundred bucks of Barbie
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  Speaker 1: toys from a Walmart in Buffalo, then leaves cops on
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  Speaker 1: high speed chase, worried about other drivers. Cops had stop
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  Speaker 1: the chase and cash up with Thompson. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: she's charged with larceny, fleeing an officer, and traffic offenses.
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  Speaker 1: Barbie would be so disappointed. More crime in Justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: Neees Crime Onlines John.
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  Speaker 3: Lemley, prosecutors and Texas have withdrawn murder charges against two
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  Speaker 3: individuals involved in the stabbing death of a twenty three
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  Speaker 3: year old Seattle resident. This while the third suspect is
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  Speaker 3: still on trial for more here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, two of the people arrested in Marcella Buttello
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  Speaker 2: Valadeza's twenty twenty murder removed their ankle monitors and fled
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  Speaker 2: the nation while free on bond, garnering international attention. Lisa
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  Speaker 2: Diykes is still accused of murder. Her trial started last
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  Speaker 2: week and continues. However, according to recently made public court documents,
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  Speaker 2: a judge granted the prosecution's Friday request to drop the
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  Speaker 2: murder charges against the other woman and man who are
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  Speaker 2: also accused of killing Botella Valades in the interest of justice.
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  Speaker 2: A representative for the Dallas County District Attorney's office has
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  Speaker 2: not yet stated why the murder charges against Nina Moreno
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  Speaker 2: and Charles Anthony Beltran were dropped. The two are still
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  Speaker 2: facing charges of tampering with evidence in connection with Boateella
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  Speaker 2: Valades's death, whose remains were discovered in the woods months
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  Speaker 2: after she was reported missing in Dallas. In testimony on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: thirty four year old bell Tran said he shared a
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  Speaker 2: home with Dykes in Moreno. He claimed that after meeting
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  Speaker 2: Botello Valades at a nightclub, they proceeded to his place
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  Speaker 2: and engaged in sexual activity. He claimed that while Dikes
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  Speaker 2: stowed Botello Valades, he went to sleep and woke up
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  Speaker 2: to shouting. When Dyke's attorney questioned bell Tran, he admitted
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  Speaker 2: to lying to investigators at first about what had happened.
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  Speaker 2: According to court records, the three were apprehended six months
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  Speaker 2: after Botello Valades went missing. In October twenty twenty. Moreno
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  Speaker 2: and Dykes were released on five hundred thousand dollars bonds,
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  Speaker 2: but they simultaneously removed their GPS trackers and departed the
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  Speaker 2: country Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: The trio were finally apprehended in Cambodia by Cambodian police,
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  Speaker 3: who were assisted by the FBI. The man suspected of
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  Speaker 3: killing seven people at a suburban Chicago July fourth parade
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  Speaker 3: last year, has now dismissed his public defenders and declared
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  Speaker 3: his intention to represent himself during the trial, which is
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  Speaker 3: scheduled to begin in February, for carrying out the incident
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  Speaker 3: in Highland Park, Illinois. Robert Kremo, the third is accused
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  Speaker 3: of twenty one first degree murder counts, forty eight attempted
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  Speaker 3: murder counts, and forty eight counts of aggravated violence. Numerous people,
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  Speaker 3: including children, suffered injuries. Judge Victoria Rossetti repeatedly questioned Cremo
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  Speaker 3: about the potential consequences of a guilty verdict, which might
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  Speaker 3: include multiple life terms. She advised him to think again
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  Speaker 3: before choosing to represent himself. Three Chilean nationals have been
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  Speaker 3: apprehended in connection to a string of burglaries of mansions
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  Speaker 3: and other high end homes located in suburban Detroit and
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  Speaker 3: across the state of Michigan. Once again Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the accusations, saying the
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  Speaker 2: three are suspected in eight break ins. After arriving in
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  Speaker 2: the Detroit region on a flight from Los Angeles on
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  Speaker 2: February first. Nessell described them as being part of an
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  Speaker 2: international crime ring that targeted the lavish homes of affluent
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  Speaker 2: Michigan residents. The burglaries, according to Nessel, are thought to
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  Speaker 2: be carried out by quote non citizen temporary residents from
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  Speaker 2: countries in South America who travel to the United States
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  Speaker 2: and the state of Michigan specifically in order to conduct
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  Speaker 2: these burglaries, and that there may be more out there.
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  Speaker 3: The three suspects are accused of committing both home invasion
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  Speaker 3: and conducting a criminal enterprise due to similar burglaries. They
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  Speaker 3: are presently being held in Indiana thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: Miranda Connor, a state home mom of two, calls her
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  Speaker 1: own mom asking for our help. Her mom sends rent money,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the last contact they have. February three, this year,
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  Speaker 1: Connor's picked up by an uber and she to a
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  Speaker 1: location in Federal Heights, Colorado to meet someone She was
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  Speaker 1: seen in the early morning hours that day, but never
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  Speaker 1: goes home. Her roommate files the missing persons report with
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  Speaker 1: Denver cops. Connor's phone pings in the area around four
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  Speaker 1: am the next day. The phones later found abandoned near
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  Speaker 1: the complex where she's last seen. Foul play suspected a
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  Speaker 1: two thousand dollar reward offered. Connor last sing wearing a
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  Speaker 1: purple sweater and a gray puffer jacket. She has an
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  Speaker 1: Okay hand symbol on her right forearm and a Winnie
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  Speaker 1: the Pooh on her left shoulder a tiger on her
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  Speaker 1: left fore arm. If you have info on Miranda Connor,
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  Speaker 1: please contact Denver PD seven two zero nine to one
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  Speaker 1: three two thousand or Federal Heights PD three zero three
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  Speaker 1: four two eight eight eight three three. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crime online dot com
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.