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Crime Alert 04.19.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert IMC Grays Breaking Crime News now Letitian Martinez
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  Speaker 1: Cosman last scene with a date at a Seattle Mariners game.
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  Speaker 1: The date, Brett glitch Old tails martinez disabled adult son
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Cosmon that mom was in an accident, but he's
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  Speaker 1: happy to take Cosmon to her. Glitchell, driving martinez car,
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  Speaker 1: instead takes Cosmon to a remote area and tries to
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  Speaker 1: suffocate him. Cosmon escapes. Prim alligned John Limley.
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  Speaker 2: After the attempted kidnapping, Martinez's car is found burning. Martinez
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  Speaker 2: sent a selfie with Glitchell to her family. The couple
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  Speaker 2: had met at a local costco. Glitchell later robbed ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars in jewelry from the store while wearing the
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  Speaker 2: same clothes he had on in Martinez's photo. Glitchell was
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  Speaker 2: arrested there and connected to Cosmon's kidnapping by scratches and
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  Speaker 2: bike marks on his hands.
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  Speaker 1: Washington cops recover the mom Leticia Martinez body in the
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  Speaker 1: same area where Cosmon is found. Glitchell now facing murder
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  Speaker 1: her attempted murder and kidnapping charges. Deurienza Whitehead lets her
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  Speaker 1: eleven year old son sleep with her after a rough
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  Speaker 1: day The next morning, her husband finds the door locked.
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  Speaker 1: When he goes in, he finds their son, eleven years old,
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  Speaker 1: strangled dead, his wife gone.
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  Speaker 2: Di Rienzo Whitehead used a belt to strangle the little
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  Speaker 2: boy to death, then left home in her car. Di
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  Speaker 2: Rianza Whitehead drove to a New Jersey beach and into
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  Speaker 2: the ocean until the car was inoperable, then walked to
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  Speaker 2: a nearby property the family owned, where she was arrested.
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  Speaker 1: Derienza Whitehead found one hundred miles away, now awaiting extradition,
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  Speaker 1: charged with murder. More crime and Justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime allized.
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  Speaker 1: John Limley, an.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty four year old white man in Kansas City, Missouri,
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  Speaker 2: has been charged with first degree assault for shooting a
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  Speaker 2: black teen who mistakenly went to the man's home to
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  Speaker 2: pick up his younger brothers. Prosecuting attorney Zachary to Humpson
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  Speaker 2: says there was a quote racial component when Andrew Lester
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  Speaker 2: twice shot sixteen year old Ralph Yarl, who is recovering
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  Speaker 2: at home after being released from the hospital, but nothing
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  Speaker 2: in the charging documents says the shooting was racially motivated.
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  Speaker 2: The shooting outraged many in Kansas City and across the country.
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  Speaker 2: Civic and political leaders, including President Joe Biden, demanded justice. Some,
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  Speaker 2: including lawyers for Yarl, pressed the racial dimensions of the case. Yarrel,
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  Speaker 2: an honor student and All State band member, was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to pick up his two younger brothers when he approached
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  Speaker 2: the wrong house at roughly ten pm April thirteenth. Lester
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  Speaker 2: came to the door and shot Yarrel in the forehead,
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  Speaker 2: then shot him again in the right arm. The probable
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  Speaker 2: cause statement says no words were exchanged before the shooting,
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  Speaker 2: but afterward, as Yarls stood up to run, he heard
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  Speaker 2: lester yell quote, don't come around here. The Minnesota Court
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  Speaker 2: of Appeals has upheld former Minneapolis Police Office off Sir
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  Speaker 2: Derek Chauvin's second degree murder conviction in the killing of
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  Speaker 2: George Floyd and let his twenty two and a half
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  Speaker 2: years sentence remain in place. For more, we turned to
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 3: Chauvin's attorney has asked the appeals court to throw out
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  Speaker 3: the ex officer's convictions for a long list of reasons,
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  Speaker 3: including the massive pre trial publicity. He also argued that
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  Speaker 3: legal and procedural errors deprived Chauvin of a fair trial,
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  Speaker 3: but the three judge panels sided with prosecutors, who said
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  Speaker 3: Chauvin got a fair trial and just sentence. Floyd died
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  Speaker 3: on May twenty fifth, twenty twenty, after Chauvin, who was white,
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  Speaker 3: used his knee to pin the black man's neck to
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  Speaker 3: the ground for nine and a half minutes. A bystander
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  Speaker 3: video captured Floyd's fading cries of I can't breathe. Floyd's
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  Speaker 3: death touched off protests around the world, some of which
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  Speaker 3: turned violent, enforced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism.
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  Speaker 3: Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to twenty two
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  Speaker 3: and a half years after jurors found him guilty of
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  Speaker 3: second degree murder, third degree murder, and second manslaughter.
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  Speaker 2: Chauvin later pleaded guilty to a separate federal civil rights
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  Speaker 2: charge and was sentenced to twenty one years in federal prison,
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  Speaker 2: which he is now serving in Arizona concurrent with his
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  Speaker 2: state sentence. A Mississippi sheriff says in a new court
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  Speaker 2: filing that there's no point in serving an arrest warrant
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  Speaker 2: on a white woman in the nineteen fifty five kidnapping
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  Speaker 2: that led to the lynching of black teenager EMTT Till
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  Speaker 2: because last year, a grand jury decided not to indict
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  Speaker 2: the woman. Till's kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for
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  Speaker 2: the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an
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  Speaker 2: open casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago. After his
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  Speaker 2: brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi, Jet
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  Speaker 2: magazine published photos. The Mississippi arrest warrant for missus Roy
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  Speaker 2: Bryant was issued shortly after Till's death, but was never
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  Speaker 2: served on the white woman, who has since remarried and
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  Speaker 2: is now known as Carolyn Bryant Donnham. Last June, a
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  Speaker 2: team doing research at the cour court House in Laflora County, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 2: found the unserved warrant. In July, the office of Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Lenn Fitch said there was no new evidence
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  Speaker 2: to pursue a criminal case against Donham. In August, a
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  Speaker 2: district attorney said a Laflora County grand jury declined to
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  Speaker 2: indict Donham. A second teenager has been charged with kidnapping
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  Speaker 2: several migrants and allegedly holding them captive for several days
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  Speaker 2: at a Houston hotel before they were rescued by FBI
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  Speaker 2: agents during a confrontation that ended with the fatal shooting
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  Speaker 2: of another suspect. Once again crime onlines Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 3: Seventeen year old de Marcus Celestine was charged with three
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  Speaker 3: counts of aggravated kidnapping, according to court records. His arrest
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  Speaker 3: was made public on Monday by a tweet from the
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  Speaker 3: FBI's Houston office, which said Celestine had been arrested by
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  Speaker 3: FBI agents and the Harris County Sheriff's Office in Houston. Celestine,
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  Speaker 3: who appeared in court Monday, remained jailed on bonds totaling
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  Speaker 3: three hundred thousand dollars. Authorities alleged the kidnapping began on
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  Speaker 3: March eighteenth in neighboring Waller County, when three migrants who
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  Speaker 3: had been traveling on Interstate ten were stopped and forced
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  Speaker 3: from a vehicle. Authorities also say that the migrants driver
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  Speaker 3: might have called nine one one and informed the Waller
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  Speaker 3: County Sheriff's office about the kidnapping.
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  Speaker 2: The sheriff's office later worked with the FBI to find
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  Speaker 2: the migrants.
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  Speaker 1: Canine units perform a routine drug search had an Alabama
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  Speaker 1: high school, checking students, lockers, and cars, but the only
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  Speaker 1: alert is on a van owned by the school board
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  Speaker 1: teacher Rodney Waddell uses the car to drive students to
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  Speaker 1: school in the morning. Waddell fails the sobriety task and
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  Speaker 1: cops find drugs in his personal car, while he's now
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  Speaker 1: charged with public intoxication and reckless endangerment. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime justice needs, go to crimeonline dot com for this
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  Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.