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Sean Combs Celebrates Birthday Behind Bars | Crime Alert Weekend Recap Sunday 11.10.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard, Hourly Update, Breaking Crime News.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson, Sean Ditty, Combs, music mogul and cultural icons.
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  Speaker 3: Turning fifty five, spending his birthday behind bars instead of
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  Speaker 3: a grand celebration. Did he receive calls from his children,
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  Speaker 3: including a spirited rendition of Happy Birthday sung over the phone.
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  Speaker 3: But his birthday comes amid a storm of legal troubles,
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  Speaker 3: more damaging allegations or surfacing from his past acquaintances, while
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  Speaker 3: Comb's legal team battles a swirl of claims in court.
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  Speaker 3: In a full family moment, Comb's children cheerfully wished him
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  Speaker 3: a happy birthday from afar. They sang and joked with
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  Speaker 3: their father. Christian Combs open with quote, all right, sing
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  Speaker 3: happy birthday to daddy. I meant the laughter. Did he
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  Speaker 3: express gratitude, telling his children quote, I'd love y'all so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank y'all for being strong. I got the best family
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  Speaker 3: in the world. But beneath this familial bond, legal battles
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  Speaker 3: are intensifying. Reporter Dave max Shed's Light on Ditty's stark
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  Speaker 3: birthday scene, describing the restrained celebrations Combs had at the MDC.
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  Speaker 3: Describing the restrained celebration Combs had at the MDC.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to a call from his children. Combs enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: a breakfast cake for his first meal of the day
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  Speaker 1: and had a choice of pizza, salad or pasta for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: The disgraced mogul turned a year older amidst a desperate
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  Speaker 1: battle of in state a gag order. As more damaging
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  Speaker 1: claims emerged from complainants and witnesses, the latest allegation that
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  Speaker 1: a grand jury witness is in possession of at least
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  Speaker 1: eight of Ditty sex tapes with a list celebrities, some
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  Speaker 1: of them miners.
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  Speaker 3: The mounting accusations paint an increasingly troubling picture. Courtney Burgess,
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  Speaker 3: a longtime friend of the late Kim Porter, has emerged
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  Speaker 3: as a crucial figure in the unfolding narrative. He claims
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  Speaker 3: that Porter, before her death, entrusted him with flash drives
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  Speaker 3: containing sensitive content. Burgess also reported to investigators that some
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  Speaker 3: of these tapes allegedly involved high profile celebrities having sex,
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  Speaker 3: including individuals he considers victims appearing to be miners. Crime
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  Speaker 3: Onlines holding its Apple has more.
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  Speaker 4: Two days after Courtney Burgess publicly discusses his testimony. Shawn
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  Speaker 4: Combs's legal team submits a letter to Subramanian demanding with
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  Speaker 4: renewed urgency that he established a gag order. The defense
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  Speaker 4: attorneys specifically cite Courtney Burgess's eagerness to speak with the
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  Speaker 4: media and a New York Post article using a federal
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  Speaker 4: agent as a source as improper pre trial publicity that
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  Speaker 4: is making it impossible for Combs to have a fair trial.
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  Speaker 3: Comb's attorneys say the complainants are motivated to tarnish his image,
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  Speaker 3: especially as civil cases loom. Judge Subramanian has not yet
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  Speaker 3: ruled on a gag order. The judge is acknowledging concerns
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  Speaker 3: of her pre trial publicity. He reminded everyone to uphold confidentiality,
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  Speaker 3: but did not find sufficient evidence of intentional misconduct.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Nicole Parton. Karen Reid is challenging a decision made
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  Speaker 5: by a lower court that rejected her request to dismiss
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  Speaker 5: two charges as she prepares for retrial. Her legal team
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  Speaker 5: is appealing to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, arguing that retrying
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  Speaker 5: her for these charges related to the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 5: death of her Boston Police officer boyfriend, constitutes double jeopardy.
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  Speaker 5: On Wednesday, Reed and her attorneys presented their case before
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  Speaker 5: the Massachusetts Supreme Court in Boston, contesting the ruling made
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  Speaker 5: by a superior court judge.
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  Speaker 4: How do we factor in that you've got to know
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  Speaker 4: that that's going to be on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a mistrial?
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  Speaker 1: And what obligation is there on council to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: before you declare a mistrial, let's talk about alternatives to that.
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  Speaker 5: The appeal is timely, as Reid's retrial is scheduled to
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  Speaker 5: commence in January, following a previous trial that concluded in
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  Speaker 5: July with a hung jury. Prosecutors alleged that Red ran
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  Speaker 5: over John O'Keefe with her SUV after a night of
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  Speaker 5: drinking on January twenty nine, twenty twenty two, and left
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  Speaker 5: him behind. Oh Key forty six was discovered hours later,
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  Speaker 5: severely injured and covered in snow in the front yard
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  Speaker 5: of a retired police officer, Brian Albert, where Reed had
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  Speaker 5: dropped him off after a late night gathering. The medical
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  Speaker 5: examiner attributed O'Keefe's death to blunt impact injuries of the
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  Speaker 5: head and hypothermia, but could not definitely determine if his
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  Speaker 5: death was accidental or homicide. Reid faced charges including second
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  Speaker 5: degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence,
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  Speaker 5: and leaving the scene of a fatal crash. She pleaded
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  Speaker 5: not guilty during her three month trial. Her defense argued
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  Speaker 5: that she did not run over her boyfriend, that she
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  Speaker 5: did not realize that he was left alone to die.
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  Speaker 5: After five days of deliberation, the jury could not reach
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  Speaker 5: a verdict, leading the judge to declare a mistrial. Following
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  Speaker 5: that trial, some jurors reportedly expressed the Reed's attorneys that
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  Speaker 5: they had unanimously agreed in private to acquit her of
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  Speaker 5: the second degree murder charges, but struggled to communicate this
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  Speaker 5: to the judge. In light of that information, and Reed's
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  Speaker 5: attorneys filed a motion to have these two charges dismissed
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  Speaker 5: to prevent double jeopardy. However, in August, a judge denied
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  Speaker 5: this motion, stating that since Reid had not been acquitted
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  Speaker 5: of all charges and consented to a mistrial, the double
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  Speaker 5: jeopardy clause did not apply.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jennifer Goold, a parole in Kentucky who was recently
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  Speaker 2: released from prison, is back behind bars. Dustin Coddle, a
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  Speaker 2: man who served twenty seven years for murdering his mother
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  Speaker 2: and brother when he was a teen has been arrested
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  Speaker 2: for allegedly committing another horrific act of violence just four
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  Speaker 2: months after his release from prison. Caudle, now forty three,
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  Speaker 2: stands accused of a double homicide and arson. The violent
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  Speaker 2: crimes of cadd Ill's past echoed throughout the courtroom at
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  Speaker 2: his recent hearing. Take a listen, considering his history.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking for at least in the indag jag.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's appropriate, and I'm going to say ter
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  Speaker 2: bond at one million dollars cash. It was just before
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  Speaker 2: five am when Elizabethtown Fire Department responded to the five
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  Speaker 2: hundred block of Hennon Lane for a residential fire. However,
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  Speaker 2: when firefighters entered the home, they made a gruesome discovery.
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  Speaker 2: The bodies of Blake France, forty one and Anthony Garrett,
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  Speaker 2: forty three, were found shot to death inside the home.
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  Speaker 2: Witnesses reported seeing a gold pickup truck fleeing the scene
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  Speaker 2: before the flame started, leading investigators straight to caddel. He
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  Speaker 2: was taken into custody at a nearby motel, where police
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  Speaker 2: discovered incriminating evidence on him, including the victim's belongings. According
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  Speaker 2: to authorities, cald Ill readily confessed to the crimes. He
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  Speaker 2: admitted to fatally shooting both France and Garrett, then setting
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  Speaker 2: the house on fire to cover up the crime. The
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  Speaker 2: motive for this brutal act remains unclear. Back in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety four, at the tender age of fifteen, Coddle committed
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  Speaker 2: a similar act of violence, taking the lives of his
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  Speaker 2: own mother and brother. He claimed his actions were fueled
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  Speaker 2: by arguments and a tumultuous family environment. Codd Ill now
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  Speaker 2: faces a multitude of charges, including two counts of murder
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  Speaker 2: first degree, arson, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of
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  Speaker 2: a firearm by a convicted felon. He was released on
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  Speaker 2: parole in April of twenty twenty. He reportedly violated his
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  Speaker 2: parole and was sent back to prison in May of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three until July of twenty twenty four. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: a classic case of pizza induced rage unfolded in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: where a woman's discontent over a less than ideal pizza
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  Speaker 2: delivery leads to a bizarre and destructive outburst. Ricky Holly
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, found herself on the wrong side of the
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  Speaker 2: law after a late night altercation at a local Domino's
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  Speaker 2: pizza joint. The incident, which occurred around one thirty in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, was marked by Holly's dissatisfaction with her pizza order,
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  Speaker 2: which she reportedly found to be booth cold and uncut.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of calmly addressing the issue with the delivery driver
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  Speaker 2: or even contacting the store directly, Holly took matters into
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  Speaker 2: her own hands. She stormed into the Dominoes, confronted a
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  Speaker 2: bewildered employee, and started unleashing a tirade of verbal abuse.
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  Speaker 2: The heated argument escalated quickly culminated in Holly hurling the
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  Speaker 2: offending pizza and damaging the stor's telephone. Local authorities responded
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  Speaker 2: to the disturbance and arrested Holly on charges of criminal mischief.
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  Speaker 2: After a brief stint in jail, she was released on
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  Speaker 2: her own recognissance, bought with a strict order to stay
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  Speaker 2: away from the Domino's location. HMM want a pizza Me
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